Steam Picture of the Week

Hi all, Three pictures this week of the same engine, a Chinese QJ class 2-10-2. We had moved on overnight by train from Xian to Zenghzang and a visit to the depot there where they had done us proud, their pride and joy was on view. There were about 40 odd engines including this beautifully kept engine. Even the engines in-service were really well kept and clean. It transpired that we were to go out into the countryside to do

Hi all, Chinese class RM Pacific 1251 backs off the turntable at the depot in Xian. This was one of 40 of this class allocated here, engines were being changed in the station opposite to the depot all day long including the use of other depots engines working in and out. It was indeed a Mecca for RM Pacific’s. We saw and traveled on trains of 15 50 ton coaches by these engines, they weren’t built for speed just pulling

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