Steam Picture of the Week

  Hi all, A spectacular view of the River Duero valley at Ferradosa as 282 a Portuguese 4-6-0 oil burner slowly crossing the river with steam to spare working the Porto to Barca De Alva postal. We were to cross the bridge twice whilst here to reach the far side along a truly rotten wooden and very narrow boardwalk. It was a very precarious 10 minutes times 4 and a long way down to the water if you fell

Hi all, Looking every inch a powerful machine, West German 3 cylinder Pacific 012-100, storms up from Lathen with the 11.07 Norddiech to Koln at 70 to 80 MPH. This engine had recently been transferred to Rheine along with a number of others from the Hamburg Alton depot where they were used for work really heavy long distance through trains north from Hamburg to Westerland on the island of Silt, and where kept in magnificent condition for the long hard

 Hi all, What about this one, I have sent it out before but a very long time ago so for those who have never seen it 5XP 45663 “Jervis” is passing the loco at Saltley which is out of sight to the right, with a Newcastle Bristol express. Taken in the early 1950s just after nationalisation. From left to right the large building with the chimney behind it is the railway hostel where transferred men to Saltley lived as

Hi all,West German 2-10-0 class 044-250 leads 2-10-0 class 050-185 that are blackening the sky at Eiler along the Mossel valley just after leaving the Kaiser Wilhelm tunnel, the longest in Germany working a Trier Koblenz freight of heavy hopper wagons. The steep valley slopes were covered in vines where ever possible. Alan Tregenna (1068) and I (1096) were on our two week bash in my old Ford Anglia WON 724 here in West Germany that was nearing its end

Hi all, JS 5575 2-8-2 at Nankow by the Great Wall of China, we had travelled up buy train from Beijing to see the wall and have a walk along it. 5575 was shunting about the station , the shunter calls the driver on with his flag as he rides on the front buffers beam steps. All sorts of junk lies about outside a diss used cabin, plus some ones bicycle. 21st March 1983. Regard Ledg.

Hi all, Taken Yesterday. I was going to Yardley Wood but missed the train at Moor Street by 5 minutes! So went and got the number 4 bus to Tyseley which I had to make do with. Here is Castle class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcombe coming off the Henley in Arden and Stratford Upon Avon line round the 20 MPH speed restriction with 1Z17 the 16.43 from Stratford to Derby. 26th April 2026. Regards Ledg.