Spiralling

UK Railways


46441

03 Jul 2026 5 2 30
Called at Haverthwaite whilst on the way to Barrow and found 46441 ready to depart with an early afternoon train to Lakeside. This line likes to paint its locos in maroon but I think that many of them looked better in black.

To Corkickle

06 Jul 2026 6 3 19
156 414 departs St Bees with a service to Corkickle. The line is currently severed at Corkickle tunnel due to collapse of mineworkings under the line in the tunnel.

Tank

12 Jul 2026 1 2 21
A few Furness Railway water tanks have survived along the Cumbrian Coast line. This one is alongside the crossing at Foxfield Station.

Leaving Embsay

21 Feb 2024 2 1 12
Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway class 27 ('A' Class) locomotive 52322 with a permanent way train heads towards Bolton Abbey on the Yorkshire Dales Railway.

Last days

23 Apr 2016 2 10
Rugeley 'B' power station was still generating for a few more weeks when I took this, but was finally switched off on June 9th, 2016. It was commissioned in 1970 and could generate around 1000 megawatts of electricity. The passing Pendelino is the icing on the cake.

No.3

10 Oct 2022 4 2 10
Harry Needle Railway Company class 20 No.3 (formerly 20906) gently clagging in silo area at the Breedon Cement works at Hope.

Biomass

11 Sep 2024 1 10
66 190 with a train of biomass hoppers passing the W H Davis facility at Ferrybridge where the wagons are maintained.

Mytholmes Ironclad

03 Mar 2026 3 1 11
'Ironclad' 52044 is about to take its train onto the viaduct at Mytholmes on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Milk tanks

27 Sep 2024 2 7
A weathered 46447 heads away from Cranmore on the East Somerset Railway with the milk tanks.

Vents

10 Aug 2026 1 6
Railway tunnel vents in the car park at Merton Street, Huddersfield. These serve the Manchester and Penistone lines feeding into Huddersfield station from the west.

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