Steam Picture of the Week

Picture of the Week: Portugal

Alan Ledger August 27, 2015

This is one of my favourite pictures I took in Portugal. Although I have a colour photo as well this one in black and white is perfect for the scene, the light was just right, taken in the early evening with long shadows the train is almost silhouetted against the river after the hot day time glare had gone, perfect! Here is Henschel oil burning 4-6-0 number 282 heading for Regua working the afternoon postal train from Barca de Alva

35005 AT BOURNEMOUTH

Alan Ledger August 13, 2015

A great black and white shot of Merchant Navy 4-6-2 35005 “Canadian Pacific” with that fantastic signal gantry at the platform end, and the road is clear for it to leave Bournemouth Central with an up express for Waterloo. The Weymouth portion will have been attached at the rear. We were drawn here right up to the last days of steam on the Southern Region to see it all end. 35023 “Holland Africa Line” was the very last Pacific to

Picture of the week: 043-574 Lathen, West Germany

Alan Ledger July 23, 2015

A West German class 43 2-10-0 3 cylinder oil burner 043-574 with that deep distinctive 3 cylinder beat they had heads north for Emden docks with a train of loaded coal hoppers, these were big heavy trains and this one is seen between Haren and Lathen on the busy Munster, Rheine, Emden, Norddiech main line. Double heading was quite frequent on these trains. It was relatively flat in this area with very sandy soil, fir trees along with Oak and

Picture of the Week: RH&DR

Alan Ledger July 16, 2015

I took these 2 pictures on a group visit to the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch Railway in 2010 and some of you were there. The first is of number 8 Hurricane on a train from Hythe approaching Dungeness with it’s typical wooden houses and wonderful landscape which includes of all things a nuclear power station, 2 light houses, shingle beaches and if your interested in such things the diverse wild flowers and plants that can only be seen here, oh

Picture of the Week: 5043 AT WHITACRE

Alan Ledger June 19, 2015

5043 with the 17.30 Tyseley, Leicester, Loughborough,Trent, Buton , Tyseley 18.20 this evening at Whitacre Junction. Light not very good.

Picture of the Week: 45593

Alan Ledger May 28, 2015

I took these 3 picture some years ago when steam began to return to the mainline after years of banishment after the end of steam in 1968. I think I must have been working at the carriage sidings at Tyseley that day. Here is Stanier 5X 4-6-0 Jubilee 5593 Kolhapur which had just arrived at Tyseley station having working up from Stratford Upon Avon with The Shakespeare Express. For those in the know, the crew on the footplate are Saltley

YESTERDAYS PICTURES

Alan Ledger May 25, 2015

Bank holiday steam visitors to the Gloucester and Warwickshire Railway taken yesterday at Gotherington and Cheltenham race course. West Country’s 34007 Wadebridge and 34092 City of Wells. Not many times 2 were double headed in BR days except out of Ilfracombe. Regards Ledg.

Picture of the Week: West Country’s 34007 and 34092

Alan Ledger May 25, 2015

Picture of the Week: 01-2137 Bautzen

Alan Ledger May 21, 2015

East German 2 cylinder 4-6-2 pacific 01 2137 gets underway from Bautzen east of Dresden on this glorious sunny morning with train D451, the overnight express from Frankfurt Main to Warsaw. You really had to be there to appreciate the noise it made departing with this heavy train made up of 12 coaches plus a dead class 132 diesel on the back climbing up the rising gradient towards Gorlitz and the Polish border, it was unbelievable and completely unexpected as

Picture of the Week: 34007 Kidderminster

Alan Ledger May 7, 2015

I stayed on late in the evening at Kidderminster after a long sunny day photographing on the SVR to see 34007 Wadebridge come in on the last train from Bridgnorth and shunt the stock. 34007 was soon to go back home after a spell on lone to the Severn Valley Railway in April 2013. By this time everyone else had gone but as luck has it 5 hot air balloons passed over the area at the time and I managed

Picture of the Week: 99-1789 East Germany

Alan Ledger April 20, 2015

Way down in the southern part East Germany narrow gauge 2-10-2T 99-1789 has just left Neudorf station working to 14.52 to Cranzal. Neudorf is a small hamlet on the line to the ski resort of Kurort Oberwiesental on what was then the Czechoslovakian border at the time. Fortunately the sun has just come out. I stood there anxiously watching the sunlight pass over the landscape towards the railway hoping for it to reach and light up the subject in time,

Picture of the Week: 052-399

Alan Ledger March 19, 2015

Thought you might like another winter shot as this years season is drawing to a close although we could still yet have snow! Here is West German 2-10-0 052-399 working the 11.34 local train from Hof to Lichtenfels, west of Munchberg, high up in the eastern hills near to East Germany. This was taken on our cold weeks expedition to West Germany in 1973 mentioned before. Here we are plodding around in the deep snow getting more and more colder.

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