Travel

The 08.55 train from Wernigerode HSB to the Brocken pulled by metre gauge 2-10-2T 99 7234-0 leaves a smokescreen as it curves away from the main line and approaches Wernigerode Westerntor station off left. The former East German Brocken listening station & towers are on the mountain summit above the train. The Brocken station is adjacent and lies at 1125m, so the train faces a climb of 890m from this point to arrive at the top at 10.36.

Passing narrow gauge trains at Drei Annen Hohne station on the Harzer Schmalspurbahnen. On the left HSB Class 99-23 2-10-2T 99 7243-1 arrives from the Brocken while 99 7247-2 is taking water after arriving from Wernigerode. A third 2-10-2T was behind the camera, 99 7245-6, and this engine replaced 7247-2 before taking our train onward to Eisfelder Talmuelde.

Rivers of gold in Compiègne.

The view from behind the wheel of my 1978 Triumph Spitfire 1500 on the entrance ramp to Rothley station - the platform buildings are far left.

The view northwestwards from Keighley Road at Denholme north of Halifax. The skyline is dominated by Ilkley Moor of bart 'at fame. Bingley & Keighley lie in the Aire valley in front of the moors Centre foreground is dominated by the disused Hewenden Viaduct on the former Great Northern/ LNER line from Bradford to Thornton & Keighley via Queensbury.

In conditions fitting for an English summer, Stanier Jubilee 4-6-0 45690 Leander races away from Settle junction onto the 1 in 100 gradient of the S&C with the Fellsman railtour from Lancaster to Carlisle.

A group of little sunbeams catch the sunbeams on a bridge by the railway track in Myanmar. And yes, there is a steam engine in view...

Jon lights up British Railways Standard 9F 2-10-0 92214 on shed at Loughborough.

The fireman of Burma Railways YD 2-8-2 967 has turned up the oil burner producing a tower of black smoke as the train moves off the river bridge to the east of Hnin Pale. This was on our way back northwards from Moulmein and was our second visit to the area around Hnin Pale.