A very wet and soggy Smethwick Galton Bridge this morning. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcombe with plenty of clag heading south west to Taunton I think, 08.23 off Snow Hill. Hope it’s dryer down there for them. Regards Ledg.
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.
This is really remote and wild Portugal along the River Duro. It took 3 days by train to get here from Britain, no cheap flights then. Oil burning German built Henschel 4-6-0 number 282 slowly crosses the river Duro at Ferradosa with the daily postal train from Oporto to Barca De Alva on the Spanish border one of only 4 trains in this direction for the day. It was a long wait between photographs. Snake country beckons among the rocks
Thought you might like to see some photographs I have taken in the past of foreign steam. Seems a shame for them to hide away. So here’s the first, enjoy the scene, save them if you want. 99-7244 Leaving Wenigerode, (East Germany after unification) with the 15.30 to Benneckenstien. Wednesday 27th February 1991. Trabi’s (3) are still in evidence. Regards Ledg.
46115 At Greyrigg today. 07.08 Euston to Carlisle. Regards Ledg.
Here is a biggy in Spain seen on our first visit to Spain. What a learning curve that was, General Franco was still in charge and the only thing I can say about it is, it was in a bad state! This is one of their 10 engines of this class number 242 2004, a 4-8-4 engine built to pull express trains from San Sebastian on the French border to Madrid. They were now allocated to Miranda de Ebro the