This used to pump water for the town of Goulburn, in the days when steam was king and Goulburn had water.

The Appleby Beam Engine is bigger than it looks, about 3 - 4 storeys high, and taking the photo in the confined space therefore tricky. This is a composite (pano) of 3 or 4 shots.

So this is Steam!

South Simcoe Railway.

Totteneham, Ontario, Canada.

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

Visiting from the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, Calbourne is seen arriving at Corfe Castle.

BR 1498

HMA 321 : Scammell Gardner tractor unit : James Wade of Darlington

Whitley Bay September 1981

876 : Worsdell Class C1 0-6-0 : North Eastern Railway

Beamish Museum August 1981

built in 1913 at Atlas Works, Bristol for the Lamport Ironstone Company, Northampton.

Vintage road making demonstration at Horsted Keynes during the Bluebell Railway Road meets Rail event, including watching kids!

4965 "Rood Ashton Hall" runs through Small Heath station on 5Z11 from Tyseley to Moor Street.

Carters Steam Fair celebrated their return to Maidenhead with a procession from the bridge up to Pinkney's Green.

We camped out on Castle Hill waiting for all the steam engines to come by. Hardly any of my shots came out as I'd hoped, but this one had some nice motion blur.

I was stood on small island in the middle of the road.

A wonderfully flattering picture of me. Hotpants and knee socks is a look that will never die.

SHOT AT BURY 1992/93

Festival of Steam and Transport, Historic Dockyard Chatham, 5 April 2015

at Weybourne Station on the North Norfolk Railway. See www.nnrailway.co.uk/weybourne_station.php

Steam Engine

NK 4450

Vordernberg Markt

Merchant Navy Class clan line sitting in the sidings at Oxford

SHOT AT LOUGHBOROUGH 1996-97

Big Kids

Gateshead '10'

Beamish Museum August 1981

Manor class 4-6-0 No. 7808 "Cookham Manor" and Castle class 4-6-0 No. 5051 "Drysllwyn Castle" on shed at Didcot in the 1980s.

Camera: Olympus OM1 35mm SLR.

Film: Agfa-Gevaert B/W Transparency.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II met EF 24-70 f/2.8L USM

28mm, f/3.2, 1/80 sec op 400 ISO

Single RAW shot en Adobe Photoshop CS6

nr 8893

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