Two photographs to look at. Don’t open the second one yet. The first photograph was not the cab of a steam engine in a museum. I repeat this was not an engine in a museum. Just look at it shine it’s unbelievable. It puts our old Diesel cabs to shame. The next photograph is the engine itself this was an every day working engine and had just been coaled (look at it piled high on the tender) and serviced at
A West German 2-10-0, 052-817 is silhouetted against the late afternoon sunset on a bitter cold winters day, working the 16.43 Neunmarkt Wirsberg to Hof local passenger train. Heavy snow fell later overnight which made it extremely hard going on foot the next day getting out into the country side to take photographs. This is the Schife Ebene the German equivalent to the Lickey incline only with bends and situated in glorious rolling countryside, a walkers paradise. All the heavy
A winter theme. Ex East German metre gauge 2-10-2 tank 99-7244 gets away from Sorge with the 11.02 from Wernigerode to Benneckenstein in the Harz mountains of Germany. This was definitely not a station to get off at when under East German rule as the border with the west was very close by and you were told in no uncertain terms not to do so. The trains ran along side the fence and no mans land for some distance, it
I have always wanted a cherry tree in blossom in a picture with a steam engine. We had been walking the line out in the country side near Kubshutz and there it was, so I had to get it at all costs! The bonus was when the train came two people from the house came out and the lady can be seen waving to the driver. Here we are 38 kilometres 600 meters from Dresden on the line to Gorlitz
Here we are at Prabichl station, Austria, mentioned with last weeks picture and high up in the mountains above Vordernberg. As you can see the snow is deep here and all the points in use are well cleared. Skiers cars are parked in the station car park, the ski run heading off into the trees is right behind the left hand engine out of sight. This engine is rack tank 97-211 and is running round its 2 coach train, one
A wintery scene. In the distance two 97 0-6-2 rack fitted tank engines, 204 and 208 lift a train of empty iron ore wagons up from the steel works at Donauwitz on their way to Erzberg, a mountain of solid iron ore. This is the Vordernberg Rack Railway, Austria. Monday 2nd February 1971. Here they are about to pass the small village of Vordenberg Markt down in the valley. This was the daily task for these robust rack engines allocated
You may not believe it but this is Spain, a very foggy northern Spain . Oil burner 141F 2246 crosses the Rio Ebro, one of the longest rivers in the country, it had just left Miranda de Ebro with a passenger train for Zarragossa on Sunday 18th April 1971. I put the tree in to give the picture some depth in the fog. Luckily I got a reflection of the engine on the the water as it flowed over a
West German 012-055 oil burning 3 cylinder pacific from Rheine taken on a cold winters afternoon with the setting sun silhouetting the train. Here it is not long after passing Lathen, a small rural town in northern Germany, traveling at some speed with the 15.09 Norddeich to Cologne express. It wouldn’t be long before we set off back to our nice warm hotel by Lathen station for the night, having spent a cold winters day walking to different locations out
2 pictures this week, same train. West German 012-055 oil burning 3 cylinder pacific from Rheine taken on a cold winters afternoon with the setting sun silhouetting the train. Here it is not long after passing Lathen, a small rural town in northern Germany, travelling at some speed with the 15.09 Norddeich to Cologne express. It wouldn’t be long before we set off back to our nice warm hotel by Lathen station for the night, having spent a cold winters
This is diamond country, South Africa. Here are the vast plains between Kimberley and Bloemfontain in fact it was like this every where inland in SA. A class 25NC (non condenser) 4-8-4 is working a freight to Bloemfontain on Monday 17th September 1973. It looks flat country but in fact the train was on a long climb along single line to Olienhoutplaat where it would pass a west bound freight to Kimberley. We had left our camper van on the
This is a West German 012 oil burning 3 cylinder 4-6-2 Pacific, these things got thrashed, and they motored. There was no holds barred with these engines. You could here them coming from miles away, I would have loved to have driven one. It must have been full regulator from the very start if the sound was anything to go by. No worries about killing the fireman he just sat there and played with his controls, there was plenty of
70013 this morning at Berkswell working the 06.20 Bridgnorth to Horsted Keynes via Birmingham New Street. Not very good light but it was working hard with a big train.