Steam Picture of the Week

Hi all, 52 221 2-10-0 ex krieg loco Working the 14.34 Linz to Summerau near Lastberg St Oswald, Austria, climbing through some of the most beautiful countryside you could wish to see, teaming with wildlife. You could walk for miles and not find any fences to impede your progress, as you can see even the railway is unfenced. This was a very busy line, mainly freight and all steam hauled. Some trains were so heavy they needed two engines 29/04/1974.

Hi all, I ventured out on my trusty wheel chair early last Saturday to take a picture of 7029 “Clun Castle” climbing out of Birmingham New Street and passing through Five Ways station with 1Z40 the 08.00 Birmingham New Street to Bishops Lydeyard, near Taunton for a trip down the West Somerset Railway onward to Minehead. Here are two pictures, one of it leaving the last of 4 tunnels,(at one time I could remember their names but time has caught

Hi all, Here are a couple of really nice shots taken on my fifth visit to Austria. Almost all of the standard gauge steam had now finished in the country and so I was now concentrating here on the Garsten narrow gauge line which would almost certainly be closed by the OBB Austrian state railway, which it eventually was. But the section between Styer and Grunburg has now become a 17 km steam operated museum railway. 298-53 by the river

Hi all, An atmospheric view of the north end of Sydenham Road shed Port Elizabeth South Africa. The last rays of the evening sun try to penetrate the smoke from the building as five workers are silhouetted taking a break. Two 15ARs and a 24 stand outside. Almost a hundred engines on shed that evening. Sunday 9th September 1973. Regards Ledg.

Hi all, 45699 “Galatea” in disguise as 45627 “Sierra Leone” leaving Bewdley this year during the Spring Gala on the Severn Valley Railway. The dreadful yellow stripe on the cab side indicated that the engine was banned from working south of Crewe once the electric was turned on for the overhead wires in the 1960s. (The powers that be just didn’t want passenger engines getting their new wires dirtied up!) because they go up and down willy nilly south thereof