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I do not usually share digitally manipulated images created for my own 'consumption' but I feel that this one deserves an 'airing' and quite possibly could be the only opportunity that I will ever get in perfect winter conditions to recreate a scene as close as possible to that witnessed over half a century ago and more, thanks to the wonders of modern technology. Standing on the 'hallowed ground' of the 'mound' at Shap Wells, only made possible by recent tree-felling, 45690 'Leander' is seen tackling the relentless 1 in 75 climb to Shap summit heading the 1Z45 07:14 Manchester Victoria to Carlisle 'Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express' on Saturday 21st January 2017.
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Eastwood Training Estate, Chesterton Rd, Rotherham
South Yorkshire Transport Trust Open Day on July 20, 2025
Leyland Atlantean AN68A/1R Roe
4th September 1997. On 8X50 Didcot to Neasden, conveying a London Underground A60 stock after overhaul at Derby.
Recorded at Castleton in late June 1993, BR Mainline liveried 37431 had charge of the Table 231 1B36 16:28 Inverness to Edinburgh Scotrail service.
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locomotive services crew training run from crewe to shrewsbury --outward via Stafford , return via chester, surprisingly top and tailed by class 5 45231 and diesel d6851--seen near crewe
thanks due to Andrew for reminding me of this
it should run again Wednesday --but outward via chester and return via stafford
It's cold, windy, and severe clear on a gorgeous December morning in the Boston area. Pan Am local BO-1 with the mysterious and popular Guilford repainted GP40-2LW 507 is shoving 10 cars east on the Draw 7 bridge crossing the Mystic River from Somerville into Everett. This is MP 2.22 on the former Boston and Maine now MBTA/Keolis Eastern Route mainline.
Everett, Massachusetts
Wednesday December 23, 2020
The outer two carriages are being used as 'barrier coaches' and will not be scrapped yet. The inner seven carriages were formerly HST Trailers and buffet cars, used by Virgin / East Coast, before serving their final working days on the Midland Mainline. The two barriers are ex Greater Anglia.
45118 is seen emerging from Knighton tunnel, Leicester working 1Z48 1643 London St Pancras International - Leeds railtour 26/5/25.
Stored/retired classic GMD power sits in the deadline adjacent to CSX's Kanawha Subdivision in Huntington. In our short 15 minutes here, we saw 4 loaded coal trains sail past the deadline. In this exposure the headlight of an E/B can be seen as a W/B lights up the deadline on their way towards Russell.
Train: Unknown
CSX Kanawha Subdivision
Huntington, WV
a first sight of 45231 shortly after leaving crewe with the north wales coast express--photo by my wife
Eastwood Training Estate, Chesterton Rd, Rotherham
South Yorkshire Transport Trust Open Day on October 3, 2021
Leyland Atlantean AN68A/1R Roe
class 5 4-6-0 45231 sherwood forester leaves a trail of smoke approaching winsford heading to carnforth on a test run
in the past large parts of cheshire were designated royal hunting forest and in early medieval times maintained their own harsh forest laws which forbade locals to hunt anything there , sometimes on pain of death
from the 17th century , the important title of master forester was held by members of the Done family from nearby utkinton hall--so the forester name is quite appropriate for the location
Former Canada Atlantic Railway roadbed sit, under unused 130lbs jointed rails, at the interchange point between CN and CSX at Cecile. The former Valleyfield subdivision was torn down in stage, starting a couple of mile west of Cantic, toward a point about a mile behind 538's power in this picture. The westernmost 10 miles were kept in use in order to access the CIL and CEZ Spurs along with Valleyfield wharf who guaranteed two daily local jobs out of Coteau in order to serve them.
With the abandonment of the Ste-Martine Spur, branching off the Massena subdivision at Ste-Martine and extending for about five miles toward Beauharnois, the decision was made to change the interchange point between Conrail-now CSX- and to use the dormant eastern dead-end section where once the Valleyfield subdivision stand.
L538 was the assigned job who's spot and pull the Cecile interchange on a daily basis. Illinois Central GP38-2 9628, assigned to Eastern Canada since a while, help breaking the monotony of CN's fleet of four-axels low-power units.
Where once thru freight from New-England and Central Vermont Railway along with passenger trains going to Canada's capital once passed at 50 miles-per-hour, there's about a mile of rusty rails left before only ballast on the ground could tell there's once a railway standing there.
L53821-23
IC 9628 CN 4794
Milepost 37.2 Valleyfield subdivision
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield,QC
November 23rd, 2023
Mainline-liveried 37798 positively stands out in the grim and wet conditions at South Bank on 26th April 2001 on a trip-working transferring empty steel flats from Lackenby to Tees Yard. The pigeons on the pipe-run clearly appreciate the classic traction, an unusual Teesside visitor by this time. The public right of way on the right is part of the Teesdale Way long distance walking route. A fresh load of quenched and steaming coke can be seen on the left, the works now sadly having fallen silent with the closure of Redcar steelworks.
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NJT F40PH-2CAT #4120 whisks Mainline train 1729 through the Hackensack Meadowlands at Valley Brook Road in Lyndhurst in some crisp evening sun. While the F40s have had a return to the limelight since late 2020, its hard to know how much longer they have left.
standard tanks 80079 and 80098 pass a variety of narrowboats at cholmondeston marina with an excursion for north wales ---from a scanned slide 1990's
A Cross Country Class 220 Voyager crosses the BCN Old Mainline (Wednesbury Oak Loop), Coseley. The service is 1M34 1037 Oxford to Manchester Piccadilly.
With the camera on the rail, we're looking west down the Santa Fe mainline toward to the San Joaquin River. We're about midway through the Figarden siding and it's a bit strange that there are intermediate signals here for the siding, but then it was a long siding and could accommodate two trains. Surrounding the siding on both sides are fig orchards, hence the name. This site is north of Fresno between the city and the San Joaquin River. Today houses surround this location.
This cool double track coaling tower was still standing over the CSX mainline near Sullivan, Indiana on my visit back in the summer of 2018.
48151 heads the first WCRC Santa special of the year past Starricks farm in some gorgeous winter light.
Pictured in Kirkby for the NWVRT Open Day is this preserved Mainline Volvo B10M with Alexander PS bodywork. It is registered N767 CKY with the fleet number of 767. It was new back in 1996.
I strangely have very little coverage along the 15 mile stretch of CSXT's ex Boston and Albany main between Palmer and Springfield, so finally decided to try out a few new (for me) spots on this gray Friday.
CSXT West Springfield based local L038 is a Mon-Fri local on duty at 1030 that handles work on the mainline as well as the Athol Industrial Track and other chores in the Springfield area. I'd never made the effort to photograph it before despite spending time hunting down nearly every other local freight job CSXT operates in New England. After running east with a healthy train, they dropped their cars on Main 1 and then made a 'big runaround' west via Main 2 between CP 92 and CP96 on the Berkshire Sub. Having pulled and spotted the Sulco Warehouse to the east they have now moved west on Main 1 and dropped their train and cut away to head into the other Sulco Warehouse just east of the Roosevelt Ave. overpass at about MP 95.1 from where this was captured.
The pair of 6200 series GP40-2s of Chessie System heritage are the standard power on all New England locals these days, but in my youth these jobs that prowled industries, yards, and branchlines were exclusively the domain of Conrail blue B23-7s.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Friday March 15, 2024
170515 2-car unit at Stoke Edith in Herefordshire on 29-4-15.
The working is the 1V26 Birmingham New Street to Hereford London Midland Trains service
8f 2-8-0 48151 climbs easily past dunham on the hill with a welsh mountaineer excursion from preston to blaunau ffestiniog
A view recorded at Mold Junction, Saltney in late July 1994, where InterCity Mainline liveried 37420 'The Scottish Hosteller' had charge of the SO 6F39 Holyhead to Stanlow empty fuel tanks.
All images on this site are exclusive property and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, transmitted, manipulated or used in any way without expressed written permission of the photographer. All rights reserved – Copyright Don Gatehouse
class 5 4-6-0 45231 leaves a trail of steam across the Cheshire plain with a test run from crewe to telford
photo by my wife
In the foreground is the former mainline of the Alaska RR before the built the bypass around the yard. Neat little curved trestle over Ship Creek. This is now a pedestrian bridge and in the height of King Salmon season is a great place to watch trains and fisherman
66753 seen at South Wigston between South Wigston junction and Kilby bridge with the 6M79 1201 Angerstein - Bardon Hill 14/5/20. (Taken using a pole)