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My father and I have been photographing our travels around Britain's railway system for over 25 years. From our first rail tour (that's me in the cab opposite!) to the present day. I hope you enjoy this view of the three decades of our Railway photography. Marcus Dawson 1-1-00 Back to the rail-net home page UK Railway Photography Webring [ Previous | Random Site | Next ] [ List Previous 5 Sites | All Sites | List Next 5 Sites ]

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		30 Years on 30 Years ago the last class 55 working, in BR service, headed from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh and back. And then they were done.....	Sunday, 02nd January, 2011
		50s to the far north The Orcadian - 50s to the Far North 4 Days of chasing 50049 and 50031 round the far north of Scotland.  Plenty of thrash and chase ....	Saturday, 16th June, 2007
		NVR - Grid and Crompton Charter Back to the Nene Valley Railway for another Photo charter organised by the EMRPS. This time with 56098 and 33065. 33063 was to have been used durin....	Saturday, 24th February, 2007
		The Buffer Puffer 4.0 Pathfinder Tours London branch line bash.....	Saturday, 20th January, 2007
		The Son of Christmas Cracker 40145 heads south to Salisbury with Pathfinder Tours 'Son of Christmas Cracker' tour.....	Saturday, 25th November, 2006
		The Sandblower Pathfinder tours Spin and Win round the Anglia region. We followed the tour on it's Kings Lynn leg and out to Middleton Towers.....	Saturday, 21st October, 2006
		The grid returns The new Jarvis 56 refurb hits the tracks of west London....	Wednesday, 10th May, 2006
		The 2006 North Yorkshire Moors Diesel Gala 3 days of fun, sun and clag in the moors.....	Thursday, 04th May, 2006
		Maratime Moment Was passing so it would be rude not to peak over the bridge parapit!....	Tuesday, 02nd May, 2006
		Another EMRPS Grid Charter grid....	Friday, 28th April, 2006
		The Easter Highlander More Blue Pullman'age... this time about as northerly as you can get.....	Friday, 14th April, 2006
		The Class 56 back on heavy freight With an expansion planned at the western end of the line the Nene Valley Railway got in some Ballast from La Farge Aggregates to assist with the track....	Saturday, 18th March, 2006
		EMRPS NVR Night Shoot More night shoot capers witht the boys from the East Midlands Railway Ph....	Sunday, 26th February, 2006
		Even MORE Blue Pullmans Seemingly the only thing of interest I can get out to at the moment... It's a good job it makes quite a nice photograph! So with a trip into third r....	Saturday, 04th February, 2006
		More Blue Pull-persons! Round 2 with the Nankin train. This time the tour started at Letchworth Garden City and headed for Portsmouth. For more information on the trains ....	Saturday, 28th January, 2006
		A Nanking good show The first offical outing of the new Nanking Blue Pullman train was a circular tour round Cambridgeshire, we caught up with the stock in the Fens....	Thursday, 12th January, 2006
		The 2005 Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Diesel Gala The best way to do cold turkey, go to a Diesel Gala. And the G&WR do the right thing and put on....	Tuesday, 27th December, 2005
		Preparing for the Cab it weekend The National Railway Museum in York held a 'Cab it' event over the weekend of the 12/13th of November. A large numer of old and modern exhibits were ....	Thursday, 10th November, 2005
		The Capital Cursader A brief look at the Pathfinder Capital Crusader tour on the Bedford to Bletchley line.....	Saturday, 05th November, 2005
		Acorp Weekender The Association of Community Rail Partnerships or ACoRP held it's first ever 'Community Railfest Event' between Friday 23rd and Sunday 25th of Septem....	Saturday, 24th September, 2005
		The 2005 Nene Valley Diesel Gala The Nene Valley Railway annual diesel gala was held from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th September 2005. A number of locos from the home fleet were out to....	Saturday, 17th September, 2005
		Rail-net Euro Tour 2005 After and offer I couldn't refuse... 'Wanna come grid bashing in France?' plans were made and hotels booked and warning triangles purchased, maps cons....	Sunday, 21st August, 2005
		MacCookie Tour 2005 - II Missing the rolling scenery of Scotland, oh and a bunch of crank tours in the area a trip to the West Highlands was planned. The usual suspect of Mac....	Saturday, 06th August, 2005
		Last flight of the EDs After many years of sterling service on the Gatwick Express workings from London it was finally time to retire the class 73s from daily duties. Havin....	Thursday, 28th July, 2005
		DRS Mega Mix A loco repositioning move sees the rare use of a DRS 47 in the south of England....	Tuesday, 26th July, 2005
	Duchess at Welwyn	Another Kettle tour on the ECML, though I thinnk this one should have been on the WCML, oh well it's under wires!....	Saturday, 23rd July, 2005
	EMRPS Grid Charter	In order to catch the grid on something other than a rake of continental coaches the and also helping to raise some money for the railway and locomoti....	Friday, 22nd July, 2005
	Chasing the DRS Serco Vol 1 and 2	With a the appearence of proper traction on the Serco test train the opportunity couldn't be missed. Even if it meant a 150 mile round trip in the mid....	Wednesday, 13th July, 2005
	London eve	More summer sun, this time in north west London....	Tuesday, 12th July, 2005
	Another Summer eve on the ECML	A bit of fresh air one summers eve watching the passings on the East Coast Main line at Biggleswade....	Monday, 11th July, 2005
	The Church of Napier heads south	The Deltic Preservation Society's second main line outing. This time to coincide with the 2005 ....	Saturday, 02nd July, 2005
	Off for a sleep	Since the rumours started that the class 37s were due to be replaced with class 67s first surfaced in 2004 I felt it was time to actually ride on the ....	Thursday, 16th June, 2005
	V-O-G Tractors	A visit to Wales to see the Barry Festival of Transport....	Sunday, 12th June, 2005
	Lickey Charters	40 up the Lickey, couldn't really miss that! The Class 40 Preservation Society in association ....	Saturday, 04th June, 2005
	Tractors in the South East	With European Passenger Services running driver training / refresher runs using class 37s hauling Eurostar sets on the cards a trip to Kent was made. ....	Wednesday, 01st June, 2005
	Bank Holiday interest	With a spare day a trip to the Lickey was planned to suss out the location for the next weekends class 40 tour, and whilst I was out why not got the B....	Saturday, 28th May, 2005
	An evening on the ECML	With the first revenue earning service of the new Hull Trains Pioneer unit to Kings Cross a trip to the local line was in order.....	Monday, 23rd May, 2005
	The 2005 North Yorkshire Moors Diesel Gala	With the clash of two very rateable galas over this weekend a toss of the coin chose the destination. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway won. Picture....	Thursday, 12th May, 2005
	Euston	With the Scooby skip on its way south to Euston and a bit of time I thought I'd pop over and get some shots.....	Tuesday, 03rd May, 2005
	Grid bashing on the NVR	With the release back into traffic of 56057 British Fuels I decided to pay a return visit to the Nene....	Monday, 02nd May, 2005
	Spalding	The annual flower festival at Spalding isn't what it used to be. The last time I visited I was hauled to Spalding from Stevenage by a class 46 and th....	Saturday, 30th April, 2005
	Suffolk Ramblings	After the previous days trip to south London the 33 and Saloon visited Norfolk and Suffolk, so I had to get a shot of it on the Anglia branch....	Friday, 29th April, 2005
	Two hours at Wandsworth Road	With a Crompton and former Hastings car doing the rounds on the Southern I couldn't decide where to fot it tho. Never having been there before a trip....	Thursday, 28th April, 2005
	The return of Napier	After many months absence the Deltic Preservation Society's 55019 finally made it back to the ma....	Saturday, 23rd April, 2005
	Fenland Spoonery	Some class 47 hauled tours across the fens of Cambridgshire. One to Norwich, one to York....	Saturday, 16th April, 2005
	The Solent Syphons	A look at the Pathfinder trip to the south!....	Saturday, 09th April, 2005
	The Wedding Belle	The DRS powered wedding special on a Crewe to Crewe circular tour.....	Saturday, 02nd April, 2005
	Crewe Drags	Due to the weekly upgrading of the West Coast Main line to 1980s standards the power gets switched off in various places between Crewe and Preston. A....	Saturday, 02nd April, 2005
	Basford Hall Night Stuffed Tiger Shoot	During our last visit to Basford Hall it was decided that a night shoot would be jol....	Friday, 01st April, 2005
	Hull Trains Drag	One of the new Hull Trains Pioneer units dragged north through Stevenage in the consist of a freight. Big up to Mr Howe for the 06:45 ....	Tuesday, 29th March, 2005
	Another Suffolk jaunt	A bit of a location scout on the Felixstowe Branch and a trip to a new location.....	Friday, 25th March, 2005
	Out for a trip in Wales	Out and about with a 33 and inspection salon in Wales. Sorry about the lack of catptions, I wasn't there and even if I was I probably couldn't spell ....	Tuesday, 15th March, 2005
	The Ped day trip in Suffolk	Off for a bit of road learning in Suffolk. The staff of FM rail toook 31190 on a jaunt to Sizewell, all it needed was a caravan.....	Saturday, 12th March, 2005
	The MacCookie tour to Hooversville	Pathfinder tours little jaunt around the West Highlands, would have been rude to ignore that!....	Friday, 04th March, 2005
	Back the Bid 2012	Following a poll amongst readers of Rail Magazine two class 87 are to be repainted. 87012 was chosen to be repainted into the colours of Network South....	Friday, 25th February, 2005
	Scooby to Euston	The EWS Mystery Tour train arrives at Euston, ready to take some digantaries to Litchfield....	Wednesday, 23rd February, 2005
	The Buffer Puffer Vol III	Chasing another Pathfinder tours crankex - The Buffer Puffer III from London to the sticky out bits of Essex and Hertfordshire....	Saturday, 19th February, 2005
	The East Ender	Chasing Pathfinder tours - East Ender traction fest from Crewe to Southend....	Saturday, 05th February, 2005
	The CFPS Silver Jubilee	Celebrating 25 years the Class 40 Preservation Society ran a 3 day tour from London to London via ....	Friday, 21st January, 2005
	Unit Drags	Whilst waiting for the Class 40 Silver Jubilee tour the Freightliner unit drag appeared at Hornsey....	Friday, 21st January, 2005
	Chasing the Bag o' Spanners	Back on the main line after gearbox troubles D1015 was out for a test run to Stoke Gifford, near Bristol.....	Monday, 17th January, 2005
	Full Dull in Nuneaton	A bit of a disastrously dull day trip to Nuneaton to get some shots of 37s on works trains.....	Saturday, 15th January, 2005
	The Scooby Skip and the Mystery Train	The EWS Mystery tour train is being used around the network to train drivers. On December the 30th it was Temple Mills Bound.....	Thursday, 30th December, 2004
	CTRL 2 Exploration	A cold turkey explore of the area around the Channel Tunnel Rail Link part 2....	Tuesday, 28th December, 2004
	GWR Diesel Gala	A trip over to Cheltenham to catch the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's diesel gala.....	Monday, 27th December, 2004
	Dog	Returning from Ely into London Kings Cross the Duke of Gloucester pauses at Watton at Stone to take on water. This is the departure.......	Tuesday, 21st December, 2004
	Rugby Morning	A early morning visit to Rugby to see what happened....	Saturday, 18th December, 2004
	FGW Farewell	First Great Western will shortly be replacing its last class 47 locomotive. The class has been a mainstay of the region for over thirty years and as a....	Saturday, 11th December, 2004
	A Night Stop at Rugby	With the apparent appearance of the EWS Scooby Skip and Mystery train at Rugby an impromptu trip was made. The train never showed up.. But some shots....	Friday, 10th December, 2004
	Xmas shopping in Lincoln	A short spell in Stevenage Old Town to catch the Christmas shopping specials to Lincoln....	Saturday, 04th December, 2004
	London in the Snow	When the snow comes down the hour long drive turns into a 5-6 hour nightmare, the roads grind to a halt in grid lock....	Tuesday, 30th November, 2004
	Archive video	Some old videos from days gone by....	Tuesday, 30th November, 2004
	Trip to Basford Hall	With a trip to Crewe Basford Hall being organised by James Mayl and a couple ....	Saturday, 06th November, 2004
	The Class 86 farewell	The 'one' organised railtour 'The Anglian Class 86 Farewell' took a top and tail pair of Class 86s on a tour of the region. Although the 86s will con....	Saturday, 30th October, 2004
	More Steam Dreams	Quite a dull and windy morning, to be expected towards the end of October, greated the Standard 5 as it headed towards Cambridge and on to Norwich wit....	Saturday, 23rd October, 2004
	The Alton Observer	Pathfinder Tours Alton Observer making its way south along former Midland r....	Saturday, 09th October, 2004
	The New Measurement Train	Roaming the length and breadth of the country the Chief Engineers New Measurement train has a fortnightly timetable to cover the main lines, with the ....	Monday, 04th October, 2004
	The 2004 Severn Valley Railway Diesel Gala	The Severn Valley Railway held it's annual Diesel Gala from Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd of October. W....	Saturday, 02nd October, 2004
	Camden Freight	90041 Passes Camden Road....	Monday, 27th September, 2004
	Logs to Lynn	A couple of shots of the late running ECS to Kings Lynn top and tailed by 2 Class 50s....	Friday, 24th September, 2004
	The Freight Liner	Freightliner's Class 66, No.66 503 has recently been named `The Railway Magazine' and in conjunction with Britain's longest running railway periodical....	Saturday, 11th September, 2004
	Scrap Ice	With some redundant de-icing units going for scrap at Immingham, an afternoon off work and a bit of sun (shame it was behind us, not a lot of options ....	Thursday, 09th September, 2004
	The Getting Wet Round Britian tour	With a week off I planned to head to the north to catch a railtour taking Class 40s to places they really do go very often. But there were four days ....	Monday, 23rd August, 2004
	Cotswolds on the move	Cotswold Rail 47s 316 and 200 returning back to base.....	Monday, 16th August, 2004
	Thunderbirds are go...	57301 arrives at Euston....	Saturday, 14th August, 2004
	West Coast Anglian	Hired in Anglian MkIIs on the WCML....	Friday, 06th August, 2004
	Early days for the Badger	Testing and entry into service for 89001....	Wednesday, 04th August, 2004
	East Anglian Day Out	With a spare day and some sun a trip to Anglia land was planned. In the company of James Mayl	Thursday, 29th July, 2004
	MML Cromptons	Returning from their Thameslink thunderbird duties 33202 Metor and 33103 Swordfish head back to West Hampstead. Seen here passing East Hyde.....	Tuesday, 27th July, 2004
	East Midlands Ramblings	With a Saturday to spare a trip up to Nuneaton to see the Virgin drags before they finished and then some exploration in the general area.....	Saturday, 24th July, 2004
	Sunset at Biggleswade	Having lived by the ECML for many years I realised how little I had photographed the current scene. So with the nice summer sun setting I thougth I'd....	Friday, 23rd July, 2004
	Kettles and Spoons	A few steam specials all in one place made a weekend that couldn't really be missed. Firstly, a visit to Hampshire to catch some Southern steam and t....	Friday, 09th July, 2004
	Chasing the 38 Tube stock	To celebrate the Uxbridge centenary the restored 1938 tube unit was running a special service. These views show the "Uxbridge Centenarian - Metropoli....	Sunday, 04th July, 2004
	A quicky at St Pancras Interim	A quick trip down to St Pancras to catch the New Measurement Train... That never pitched.....	Friday, 02nd July, 2004
	An evening in West London	Waiting for a top and tail class 47 working from Glastonbury I decided to visit the Grand Union Canal towpath alongside the Great Western Main line an....	Monday, 28th June, 2004
	A few moments at Ingatestone	A 45 minutes stint at Ingatestone waiting for the last class 312 working. Unfortunately the east London traffic prevented me from getting the actual ....	Friday, 25th June, 2004
	The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Diesel Gala - 2004	Over the weekend of the 19th and 20th of June diesels took over the short, but hilly, Keighley and Wor....	Saturday, 19th June, 2004
	A few moments at Knebworth	Waiting for the returning Pendolino form the York Railfest. A small sur....	Wednesday, 09th June, 2004
	The New Look for Midland Main Line	Midland Main Line's new fleet of trains, the Meridians, have begun to enter passenger service on a daily basis. These views show 222011 waiting to dep....	Thursday, 03rd June, 2004
	A few moments at Worting Junction	With a day off, a bit of sun and the launch of South West Trains relivered 4-VEP a trip down to Worting Junction was on the cards. After battling the ....	Wednesday, 02nd June, 2004
	Railfest 2004	York Railfest 2004....	Friday, 28th May, 2004
	West London Ramblings	With a bit of advanced gen in the bag an afternoon trip to Kensington Olympia [Tuesday, 25th May, 2004
	The Mid Hants Diesel Gala - 2004	The annual Trainspotters Ball was held over the three days, 21st-23rd, on the Mid Hants Rail....	Saturday, 22nd May, 2004
	Another Eurostar rescue	The 1X39 17.05 Leeds to Kings Cross, worked by GNER livered Eurostar 373301/2 was declared a failure at Langford, between Biggleswade and Arlesey at ....	Tuesday, 04th May, 2004
	The 2004 North Yorkshire Moors Diesel Gala	Between Friday 23rd and Sunday 25th of April the North Yorkshire Moors Railway between Pickering and Grosmont hosted a gala event running only diesel ....	Friday, 23rd April, 2004
	Peaks back on the Midland	To mark the temporary closure of the Barlow Train shed at St. Pancras Midland Main Line organised a special Peak hauled working from St. Pancras to Le....	Thursday, 08th April, 2004
	The final days of the Class 56	EWS' new chief executive decided on a massive rationalisation of it's locomotive fleet in the beginning of 2003. This has meant the end of many of the....	Saturday, 27th March, 2004
	The Mid Norfolk Railway Diesel Gala	The Mid Norfolk railway held their third annual Diesel Gala on Saturday 20th and Sund....	Sunday, 21st March, 2004
	The Buffer Puffer	Pathfinder Tours "Buffer Puffer" Took 37047 and 37203 on an eccentric tour of some London Branch Lines.....	Saturday, 20th March, 2004
	A few hours at Ely	Having a day off and some advance gen on a stock move I decided to check out some trainspots....	Friday, 27th February, 2004
	The Twilight of the Spoons	EWS Railway is culling its fleet of locomotives. By then end of the financial year (31st March 2004) EWS is expected to have withdrawn its class 47, ....	Wednesday, 11th February, 2004
	The East Lancashire Railways English Electric Gala 2004	The East Lancashire Railway to the north of Manchester hosted on of its regular diesel extravaganzas playing host it a large fleet of English Electric....	Saturday, 17th January, 2004
	Last night of the TPOs	January 10th 2004 saw and end of an era - the runs of the last travelling post office trains. So to capture the moment we visited Rugby on the West C....	Saturday, 10th January, 2004
	GBRf by Night	After receiving a bit of Gen on the Freightmaster interactive ....	Wednesday, 03rd December, 2003
	33s on the ECML	Christmas shopping in York, With Cromptons providing the motive power....	Sunday, 30th November, 2003
	La Farge Stone	The weekly Sundays only Mountsorrel to Langley stone working is normally the reserve of EWS class 66's. Occasionally class 60's deputise for a 66 and....	Sunday, 16th November, 2003
	The Cumbrian Mountains Express	Class 50s up the ECML....	Saturday, 18th October, 2003
	GN Water Canons 2003 vs 2004	The autum leaf fall season starts and the 'wrong kind of leaves' must be removed. Top and tail 37s and some high pressure water jets should do the tr....	Saturday, 18th October, 2003
	Stevenson	87001 was prepared by the staff at Willesden for it's re-dedication to the Stevenson Locomotive society on 14-10-2003 These views show the 0N07 Wil....	Tuesday, 14th October, 2003
	St Austell	A Few moments at St Austell....	Sunday, 05th October, 2003
	West Coast Wind Down	Virgin is putting its class 86s and 87s into storage or terminating their leases at the end of the 2003 summer timetable. Pendolinos will replace the....	Tuesday, 16th September, 2003
	The Spinnin State XIII	Past times Spinnin State XIII....	Saturday, 13th September, 2003
	D9016's last purple voyage	D9016 Gordon Highlanders repaint into Porterbook colours provoked "much debate and conjecture within railway circles. But now it is consigned to ....	Thursday, 11th September, 2003
	The Capital Whistler	40145 heads north through Old Stevenage on Pathfinder Tours Capital Whistl....	Saturday, 06th September, 2003
	Steam Dreams - Banned!	37197 and 33202 take over the Steam Dreams charter from Liverpool Street to Ely during a network rail steam ban....	Monday, 25th August, 2003
	Sleeping down the East Coast	With on going engineering work on the West coast Main line, sleepers have once again become an occasional part of the East Coast main line.....	Saturday, 23rd August, 2003
	The Rail-Net tour 2003	With a week to spare I set off to visit a friend in Scotland. Such a long journey requires breaks for rest and relaxation, so plenty were taken. Als....	Monday, 11th August, 2003
	Doncaster Works 150th Celebrations	2003 is the 150th anniversary of the Great Northern Railway works at Doncaster. People flocked to the site to view the large number of engines old an....	Friday, 25th July, 2003
	Bringing down the wires - Eurostarstyle!	After reading a piece of rail-gen this morning regarding a problem at St....	Thursday, 17th July, 2003
	The Pennine Fellsman	Pathfinder Railtours Class 40 excursion from Birmingham to Carlisle via Cr....	Sunday, 13th July, 2003
	The Scarborough Flyer - A4 Style	The Scarborough Flyer Steam tour from London Kings Cross to Scarborough and back on this day had A4 60009 Union of South Africa at the head. The loco....	Saturday, 12th July, 2003
	CTRL Over Speed Testing	Overspeed testing prior to the launch of services on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link....	Tuesday, 08th July, 2003
	The Medway viaduct	After a visit to the Kent coast for a bit of sun, sea, sand and sunburn on the way home I thought it would be worth a look at the new Medway Viaduct f....	Saturday, 21st June, 2003
	Riveria ECS Move	47853 and 47839 haul the Old Oak-Craigentinny and return ecs movements for Riveria Trains....	Tuesday, 17th June, 2003
	West Coast Mornings	West Coast Mornings....	Saturday, 14th June, 2003
	DPS Charter	On Saturday 7th June the Deltic Preservation Society ran a charter service from Newcastle to Lon....	Saturday, 07th June, 2003
	2003 Crewe Works Photographic Evening	On May 31st and June 1st Bombardier Transportation of Crewe opened its doors to 10's of thousands of enthusiasts, Its Return of the Legends wee....	Friday, 30th May, 2003
	Beauty and the Beast	Which one is the Beast I'll leave up to you!....	Tuesday, 20th May, 2003
	The 2003 North Yorkshire Moors Diesel Gala	Between Friday 11th and Sunday 13th of April the North Yorkshire Moors Railway between Pickering and Grosmont hosted a gala event running only diesel ....	Friday, 11th April, 2003
	The Nene Valley Rambler	The following clips and pictures were taken as I observed the Watercress line "Nene Valley Rambler" rail tour around Hertfordshire.....	Sunday, 06th April, 2003
	GNER Thunderbirds, the next generation	The GM Class 67's re due to take over "Thunderbird" duties from class 47's shortly. This loco was seen a few hours later heading north hauling a MkIV....	Saturday, 15th March, 2003
	The Spinnin State IV	intro....	Saturday, 01st March, 2003
	Ixon and the Badger	intro....	Wednesday, 12th February, 2003
	91 in the snow	91119 blasting through the winters dusting of snow....	Friday, 31st January, 2003
	The Spin Doctor - West Midlands Chase	The following clips and pictures were taken as I chased the Hertfordshire Railtours "Spin Do....	Saturday, 04th January, 2003
	The Pendolinos enter service	The beginning of the end for West Coast Main Line loco hauled traction.....	Monday, 16th December, 2002
	Thunderbirds are go....	The first passenger working of a 57 into Euston.....	Monday, 09th December, 2002
	The Royal Train	Many thanks must go to EWS personnel and British Transport Police without their help these taking pictures would not have been possible.....	Friday, 27th September, 2002
	D9000 on the move	D9000 returns to Hornsey after working a special.....	Monday, 23rd September, 2002
	The Green Welly Specials	Some football special passing through Stevenage.....	Sunday, 22nd September, 2002
	The Bone Idol - Farwell to the Class 58	I was on the first so I had to be on the last.. The last Class 58 railtour form Kings Cross to Skegness and back.....	Sunday, 01st September, 2002
	A few moments at ...... Hitchin	A trip to Hitchin to catch a 67 hauled NENTA railtour booked to stop....	Saturday, 31st August, 2002
	A few moments at ...... Horley	Whilst on an airport run to Gatwick I took the opportunity to spend some time at Horley. Firstly a neat over bridge just to the north of the station t....	Friday, 30th August, 2002
	A few moments at ...... Derby	Don't know why I was in Derby, and why I only had 10 minutes! But still had a few things to see in such a short time.....	Friday, 30th August, 2002
	D9000 visits Ipswich	D9000 hauls an extra Anglia service between London Liverpool Street and Norwich....	Sunday, 11th August, 2002
	The Midlander	Many, many years ago my family and I decided to go out for the day. The railway enthusiasts society organised a day trip from London to the open days....	Wednesday, 31st July, 2002
	Rail-net Yorkshire tour 2002	On Monday 29-07-2002 I decided to do a little whistle stop photographic trip around some bits of the UK....	Tuesday, 30th July, 2002
	Profile of the Class 66s	Some general shed shots.....	Saturday, 27th July, 2002
	Knebworth Station demolition	Many years ago Knebworth station had some beautiful LNER wooden waiting rooms and toilet facilities. These delightful building were ripped down to ma....	Sunday, 07th July, 2002
	Rail Grinders	Rail Grinders....	Sunday, 30th June, 2002
	Beechbrook Farm	Work on the Channel Tunnel Rail link continues apace now. Most of the ballast work is being hauled by Freightliner owned 66/5's working from the hold....	Sunday, 30th June, 2002
	The Potters Bar Rail Disaster	Once again the safety of our railways is brought into disrepute. The 12:45 WAGN Kings Cross to Kings Lynn Service derailed at Potters Bar Station w....	Monday, 13th May, 2002
	Profile of multiple units	Some general shots of multiple units from over the years....	Saturday, 30th March, 2002
	Suffolk Visit	A trip over to Suffolk prompted a visit to a couple of old haunts. Firstly Felixstowe docks and Station....and then Ipswich Station.....	Monday, 25th March, 2002
	Virgin Voyagers at Three Bridges	The changing face of travel sees the demise of the class 47 in favour of more modern and more reliable traction. EWS has been given the job of dail....	Sunday, 19th August, 2001
	Arsenal vs Tottenham	Three charter trains ran from Finsbury Park to Manchester (1Z90, 1Z91, 1Z92) these views show 1Z91 behind 67026 and 1Z92 behind 90026 passing through ....	Sunday, 08th April, 2001
	The Hatfield Rail Disaster	Let us not forget that 4 people lost there lives in this tragic accident. This shot shows one of the many sets of flowers around the crash site.	Saturday, 28th October, 2000
	The Spanish Inqusition	On the 1st of July Hertfordshire Railtours ran the "Spanish Inquisition" railtour from Finsbury Park to Plymouth Friary and Carne Point in Devon. Tra....	Sunday, 02nd July, 2000
	The Deltic Fenmans	Deltics to the Anglian fens.....	Thursday, 22nd June, 2000
	Shunters R Us	Shots of shunters from over the years....	Wednesday, 07th June, 2000
	Class 31 Profile	Some general shots of the Class 31s from over the years....	Wednesday, 07th June, 2000
	Profile of the class 37s	Some general shots of class 37s....	Wednesday, 07th June, 2000
	66 Freight reversal	Whilst working the 6M97 12.42 Wakefield Euro to Wembley yard 66150 had halted at Woolmer Green. Because of Gauge restrictions in the Welwyn North and ....	Monday, 15th May, 2000
	GNER Eurostar	On a very wet Thursday afternoon. I was at Stevenage station hoping to catch the passing 14:30 to York test run of the regional Eurostar. Fortunatel....	Thursday, 20th April, 2000
	The Ayr Restorer	Hertfordhire Railtours Ayr Restorer seen here at Ayr.....	Wednesday, 05th April, 2000
	The Bluebirds are here	The (then) latest order of class 66's have arrived at Willesden TMD in North London. These three views show 66701/3/4/5/6 having moved from Newport ....	Wednesday, 15th March, 2000
	The Royal Scot	The Royal Scott seen here pasing Camden Sidings....	Friday, 04th February, 2000
	Grice Deltics	On the 8th of November 1997 D9019 pulled the Hertfordshire Railtours West Coast Deltic Pione....	Saturday, 08th March, 1997
	The Deltic Deliverance	On the 30th of November 1996 D9000 pulled the Hertfordshire Railtours Deltic Deliverance dep....	Saturday, 30th November, 1996
	The first run of a 91 and MK IVs	At the start of the Winter timetable in October 1989 the first public service run of a 91 + Mk IV set. The 05:40(?) Leeds - Kings Cross service had b....	Monday, 02nd October, 1989
	Does BR stock fit on the underground?? Yes it does!	The London Regional Transport 'Battery Rover' saw two LUL battery locos, usually used for engineering trains, haul a 5 coach Gatwick Express unit on ....	Saturday, 01st October, 1988
	Blackpool Illuminations	Many years ago British rail used to run "Merrymaker" Specials from London to Blackpool to see the illuminations. As can bee seen here the station p....	Wednesday, 05th November, 1980