Tower Bridge. This was one of two steam engines used to raise the bascules of the bridge before it was converted to electric power. It is now preserved in its original location in the Tower Bridge exhibition and open to the public.

Epingle et breloque / Pin and trinket

Amberley Museum - Emergency Services Day 2024

Steam swirls around the engine house as Nevada Northern 93 starts to creep out into the yard.

Diver's controls, Denver &Rio Grande class K-28 no 473. I don't know that most of the valves do but I can identify the regulator (with ratchet), the reverser, maybe the sanders valve (bottom right), the train air brake (above and to the left of that), and maybe the loco air brake (to the left of the reverser lever). Whistle lanyard top right.

Caledonian Railway No.828 climbs Eardington Bank with the 1210 Kidderminster to Bridgnorth at the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn Gala on September 24 2011. The loco was on loan from the Strathspey Railway.

813 - Great Western Railway saddle tank

(Střední Jáva/Jawa Tengah)

„№ 5” ; Berliner Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft vormals Louis Schwartzkopff, Berlin, Deutschland [9316/1928]

SHOT AT BUCKFASTLEIGH 1994-96

Fixing the spindle holes in the beam.

Heritage Railway Located in Sheffield Tasmania.

Thanks for the views, please check my other photos and albums out.

Caught this puppy in Stoford as i came round a corner.

GWR 64XX Class 0-6-0PT No. 6430 departs Minehead station 14.40 on 25th March 2011 to Dunster. Photograph taken with a Pentax A3 using a Sigma 28-70mm zoom lens.

Old steam chest and cover (top).

Some previously unprocessed shots from North Norfolk Railway's 2012 Autumn Steam Gala.

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One of the working exhibits touring the grounds.

Spent 2 nights in Eastbourne and 2 nights at Hastings away with Clare.

Fixing the spindle holes in the beam.

Kingscote Station.

Coupling-up for the return journey to sheffield Park. 2

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These photos are from archive of National Rail Museum were displayed in an exhibition held in Delhi recently

This scene depicts a woman working to clean off the headlight on the steam engine. This was a common sight in the 40s, back when men were leaving the US to go to war.

August 13th, 2016

Taken on an early visit to the GWSR, for a Santa Special. Little did I know 6 years later I'd be volunteering on the same railway. :-)

Doubleheaded coal train.

Steam engine working hard (and spinning really fast).

The old crank and crankshaft are at the top; new shaft and collar used to drill the pin hole at the bottom.

Trip to Chicago History Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo with dad, armed with cameras. Absolutely beautiful day.

Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society open house.

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A bit of the machinery, pumping house and some Steampunks.

At the stream plant at Hagley Museum.

Sunday 29th June 2014 on the Brecon Mountain Railway. At Pontsticill is a small but interesting museum. On display was “Redstone” a 1’11¾” gauge 0-4-0 Vertical Boiler Tank Engine. It was built by a Mr Redstone at Penmaenmawr, North Wales in 1905.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, 20th April, 2013.

A small uniflow steam engine I built.

Engine is not finished in this picture, shows detail of eccentric linkage.

You can see the finished engine running at www.youtube.com/watch?v=en4HviIioXU