Here is special Collection number 3. This is for Pacific locos (Wheel arrangement 4-6-2),this includes classes such as: A1,A2,A3,A4,V2,Britannia,BR 8P 'Duke',Coronations,West Country's,Battle of Britains,Merchant Navy's and many others.

Here is the June 2009 Devon Railways gallery:
13th:70013 Oliver Cromwell at Whiteball (slightly Somerset)
13th:70013 Oliver Cromwell at Powderham LC

Here is the Yorkshire Railways gallery for June 2009:
3rd:60040 on Lindsey-Neville Hill Oil at Oakenshaw
3rd:55022 at Oakenshaw on 0Z55 from Barrow Hill-Bury
3rd:66132 working 6E84 sand train to Monk Bretton at Sharlston
3rd:55022 and 33109 at Wakefield Kirkgate with 0Z27
4th:37401+670 on 4Z20 at Wakefield Kirkgate

Here are the photos from the final day of the Western Cheiftain on 21st June. This was hauled by D1015 from Inverness-Birmingham New Street where 66206 took over for the run to Bristol.

Here are some photos from the Second day of the Western Chieftain to Kyle Of Lochalsh

Here are my photos of D1015 'Western Champion' on Pathfinder Tour's 'Western Chieftain' tour from Bristol Temple Meads to Kyle Of Lochalsh and return.

This tour was hauled from Bristol-Bescot by 67005. From Bescot-Kyle-Birmingham New Street by D1015 and from BNS-BTM by DBS Class 66 no.66206.

A huge well done,congratulations and thanks to the DTG Lads,Pathfinder,DB,Scotrail and Network Rail for such an awesome tour,some of the stuff we did,such as the photostop at Stromeferry and Dalwhinnie is simply unrepeatable,the loco performed brilliantly throughout the weekend and is not only a credit to its owners but also a credit to the class in general.

Here are some photos of Tornado on Steam Dreams' Minehead-Victoria Cathedrals Express on 18th June.

This was hauled by 67006 from London-Bishops Lydeard,where 47840/D1661 'North Star' took over with a weight equivalent to 16 loaded coaches. It made light work of the load only using full power a couple of times. The same however can be said of Tornado which once on the mainline with the same load put in an exceptional performance.

Over the weekend of 13/14th June the West Somerset Railway hosted its annual mainly diesel gala.

Locos in action:
60163 'Tornado'
D1661 'North Star'
D832 'Onslaught'
D1062 'Western Courier'
D9520
D7017
D7523 'John F Kennedy'
D5926

Here are some photos from Vintage Trains'/The Welsh Highland Railway's 'Welsh Highlander' tour hauled by 5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe' on the mainline and SAR no's 87 and NG143 on the WHR.


Thanks to Alun Evans and Steve Harris for caption help

Here are my photos from the 2009 K&WVR Diesel gala.
Locos in action:
37025
33109
47643
37682
25059
57007
55022
20031

Here is Special Collection number two.

These are my photos of class 60's in their current state of decline.

Here is the first of many 'Special Collections' i will be doing over the coming weeks involving interesting locos,lines workings etc.

This one shows some of my Class 37 photos in 2009,The beginning of the end?

Here are some photos of Tornado and 4160 working service trains on the WSR on Monday 1st June 2009

Here are some photos taken at the Bodmin and Wenford's gala.
The locos in action were:
Beattie Well Tank-30587
Prarie-5552
Pannier-6435
Class 50 no.50042 'Triumph'

Here is the Devon railways collection for May 2009:
27th:47580,D7612,20110 and 33002 pass Rockstone Bridge Dawlish
27th:47580 LE at Cockwood LC
27th:Various trains at Dawlish and Dawlish Warren including 66624
28th:66080 on 6Z50 at Cockwood LC and at Powderham on 6C43 return
29th:66731 on the Dawlish Sea Wall along with many other services

Here is the Yorkshire gallery for May 2009.
8th-An afternoon at Oakenshaw (Wakefield)
19th-An hour at Doncaster station
19th-60007 at Shipton (near York)

Here are some photos from Pathfinder Tours' 'Severn Coast Express' tour of 30th May 2009. We were on the 2nd of two trips which was a teatime departure from Bristol Temple Meads to Minehead on the WSR. The return working was hauled as far as Bishops Lydeyard by Ex Virgin Cross Country Stalwart 47840 (D1661) 'North Star'. From BL Class 67 no.67002 'Special Delivery' hauled the train back to Bristol.

Here are some photos taken at the Eastleigh Works Centenary open day on Bank Holiday Monday 25th May 2009.

Here are some photos i took at the SDR's 'West Country Branchline Weekend' gala over the Spring Bank Holiday.

The locos in action were:
5542
1369
5786
and
Ex Hull Dairycoates Class 37 D6737


These are some of my first photos taken with my new Canon 40D camera.

This shows the UK Railtours tour to the Eastleigh 100 open day. (Photos in seperate collection).

This tour was hauled by BR 8P 4-6-2 Merchant Navy class locomotive 35028 'Clan Line'. It ran from London Waterloo to Eastleigh and return to London Victoria via:Clapham Junction,Surbiton,Woking,Basingstoke,Andover,Romsey,Southampton Central,Botley,Havant,Haslemere,Herne Hill and London Victoria.

Also shown are 37602 and 069 on Spitfire Tours train from Crewe to Weymouth and return.

These were the first photos i took using my Canon 40D

Here are the photos from the final day of The Coronation.

This ran from Edinburgh to York with 60009 'Union of South Africa' performing well and from there to Kings Cross with 60163 'Tornado' which also put in a fine performance.

A huge thank you to all involved for a fantastic weekend and a special thanks to Mike Notley for arranging a coach for his party meaning we got the best seats for the majority of the trip!

Here are photos from Steam Dreams' fantastic 2009 'Coronation'

On day one the tour ran from London Kings Cross-York with 60163 'Tornado' and from where 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley' took over for the run to Edinburgh. A sterling performance was put in by both locos the highlight of the day been Tornado topping Stoke Summit at 71mph.

60007's best section of running was on the climb to Grantshouse north of Berwick where the sound was truly amazing!

Here are some photos i took on Vintage Trains' 'Scot Over Shap' railtour on Saturday 9th May 2009. 86259 'Les Ross' hauled the train from Birmingham New Street to Preston from where 46115 'Scots Guardsman' took over for the run over Shap to Carlisle and back.

At Carlisle i saw 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' making its return on the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' which it worked from Doncaster to Carlisle, i also saw it at Preston in the evening whilst it was working E+C back to Crewe Heritage Centre.

Here are some photos from NELPG's annual steam railtour. This years tour ran from Newcastle to Hellifield via York and Leeds hauled by 47760. At Hellifield NELPG's K1 62005 took over for the run over the Settle and Carlisle and back. 47760 then returned the train via the outward route.

Here are some photos of the first through hauled steam train from London to Swanage since closure by BR. This was a Past-Time Rail tour hauled by 34067 'Tangmere' from London Victoria-Swanage and 37706 from Swanage-London.

Here is the Yorkshire Railways Gallery for April 09:
17th:47851 and 798 at Hare Park Junction

Here are some photos taken at the Second Steel,Steam and Stars gala run at the Llangollen Railway in aid of the 6880 'Betton Grange' new build project. A fantastic gala is been staged at the railway!

Locos in action:
246 'Morayshire'
1306'Mayflower'
6100'Royal Scot'
5643
9017
3440 'City Of Truro'
5526
44806

Here are some photos of 2 Class 47 hauled railtours which visited Carlisle on 18th April 2009.

The first was a Green Express tour from Spondon-Carlsile using 47798 'Prince William' and 47851 'Traction Magazine'.

The other was Compass Tours' Stafford to Carlisle Charter using 47839 and 843.

Both are seen lined up at Carlisle Citadel Station.

Here are some photos from PMR Railtours 'Citadel Express':

This tour ran from Lincoln to Carlisle via:Newark Castle,Nottingham,Uttoxeter,Stoke-On-Trent,Crewe here 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland' took over for the run to Carlisle and back running via,Preston,Carnforth,Oxenholme,Penrith and Carlisle,it then returned as per outward route with WCRC's Class 47/7 no 47786 'Roy Castle OBE' taking over at Crewe for the return to Lincoln.

Here are some photos from the SDR's 40th Anniversary gala. On Sunday 12th April

Here are some photos of RTC's 'Royal Duchy' railtour.

It ran from London Paddington-Par Via,Didcot,Swindon,Chippenham,Melksham,Westbury,Taunton,
Exeter,Plymouth,Par,Plymouth,Exeter,Taunton,Westbury,Newbury,
Reading,Paddington

It was hauled from London Paddington to Westbury by Class 52 'Western' no D1015 'Western Champion' from where Castle Class no 5029 'Nunney Castle' and Br Std Class 7 'Britannia' no.70013 'Oliver Cromwell' took over for the run to Par,unfortunately they only made it as far as Newton Abbot where Nunney was found to have a Hot box on one of the tender axles. It had to be removed from the train here and D1015 was coupled to the front of 70013 for the run to Par. The return journey was hauled by D1015 'Western Champion'

Here are some photos from PMR Tours 'Yorkshire Coronation' which ran on Saturday 4th April 2009.

This tour was hauled by 6233 'Duchess Of Sutherland' from Leicster-Scarborough and return.

Here are the night photos From Russ Hilliears Brilliant LNER photo Charter!

These photos were taken at Russ Hilliear's Barrow Hill photo charter on Friday 3rd April 2009.


Many thanks to Russ for putting on this fantastic charter and thanks to Merv for hosting it!

These photos were taken on Thursday 2nd April at Manor Farm which is located approximately 3/4 of a mile west of Cholsey station.

Included are many freights,including 47727 'Rebecca' on 6Z48 empty Steel carriers.

Also seen is 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' at Reading station.

Here is Devon's collection for April 2009:
6th:47818 at Powderham LC
6th:57603 at Cockwood LC
7th: D1015 at Powderham
7th: 34067 and 70013 at Liskeard and Dawlish
7th: 66201 working a very heavily loaded 6V62 at Dawlish

Here are some photos from the 'Alan Walker Archive'

Included are various shots taken at Springburn Works in Glasgow including class 27,37,08 and 47!

Here is the March collection of railways in Yorkshire:
16th:60007 Sir Nigel Gresley at Shipton
16th:Freight at Colton Junction
16th:Freight and 47501 at Milford Junction

Here are some photos from 'The Tin Bath' railtour run by Past-Time Rail which took 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' and 76079 on the Barnsley-Huddersfield line,the first steam to do this since 1968.The tour started at Manchester Victoria and ran-Stockport-Hazel Grove-Chinley-Dore and Totley-Sheffield-Barnsley-Penistone-Huddersfield-Brighouse-Manchester Victoria.

Here are some photos from Vintage Trains' 'Bristolian' from Solihull to Bristol Temple Meads hauled by GWR 4-6-0 Castle Class no.5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe' and 47773 (formerly 'The Queen Mother'). Unfortunately 5043 had to be taken off the train at Didcot with a bent Radius Rod, fortunately the Tyseley crew found a spare from the scrapped 5009 'Shrewsbury Castle', the train continued to Bristol with Tyseley's class 47/7 no 47773,this then returned the train to Didcot (Foxhall) where a decision was to be made as to when the Castle could return to the train. Unfortunately,even though Bob Meanley and his crew had worked to fix Edgcumbe succesfully it couldn't work the train back so in the end 47773 carried on to Solihull and ultimately Tyseley.

Here are some night photos i took of 6100 after arriving at the WSR on the undamaged low loader,the other caught fire at Sedgemoor on the M5.

Here are some photos from the WSR's annual Spring Steam gala titled 'Big Four' gala.

Locos in action were:
60019 'Bittern'
6695
88
4936 'Kinlet Hall'
34028 'Eddystone'
34046 'Braunton'
9351
5553
45231 'The Sherwood Forester'

Here are some photos from the Spring diesel gala,locos in action were:
20087
37901
47402
50015
55022
D5054
D6525
D335

Here are some photos from The 'Railway Touring Co's trip which ran from Bridgnorth-Lincoln-Doncaster hauled by A4 4-6-2 no 60007 'Sir Nigel Gresley'. The train returned to Kidderminster behind Ex EWS class 47 no 47760. At Kidderminster Passengers changed to an SVR train hauled by GWR 4-6-0 'Manor' class loco no 7802 'Bradley Manor' for the run back to Bridgnorth

Here are some photos taken by Alan Walker on 12th March of 60163 'Tornado' on Pathfinder Tours 'Tyne Tornado' from Cardiff-Newcastle which it worked from York-Newcastle and return.

Here are some photos of 60163 'Tornado' on Past-Time Rail's 'North Briton' railtour which ran from Leeds-Edinburgh hauled by Royal Class 67 67006 'Royal Sovereign', here A1 Class 4-6-2 no.60163 'Tornado' took over for the return to York where 67006 took the train back to Leeds. Also shown are WCRC's Class 37's nos.37676 'Loch Rannoch' and 37706 working 'The Celtic Growler' Spitfire Tour from Preston-Perth and return,they are pictured in Princes Street Gardens,Edinburgh and at York station in the evening.

Here are some photos of 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' on The St Davids Day Special (Cathedrals Express) which ran from London Paddington-Newport and return steam hauled throughout by Britannia Std Class 7 no 70013 'Oliver Cromwell'

Here are some photos of 60163 'Tornado' on Past-Time Rail's 'Auld Reekie Express' from Peterborough-Edinburgh. Newly named A1 60163 'Tornado' hauled the train between York and Edinburgh with 67021 returning the train (via the Durham Coast due to a one under) to Peterborough.

Here is February's Devon gallery:
16th: 37605 on the sea wall and various others

Here are some photos taken of Tornado on its Valentines day specials. First it is seen at Woking and then at Waterloo and Victoria.