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Hi All Not posted in a while however, having been up since 5 this morning and only managing one decent shot of the deltic in the sun from todays run to Tweedbank, can safely say that a rerun of the trip may have to be done again in June when the tour runs again. On another note, my one and...

Hi All Having planned to chase the choppers around most of West Yorkshire today, but with them deciding at the last minute to head through to Gainsborough from Worksop instead of doing there booked reversal it meant that when they arrived back at Sheffield to form 3S13 to Wakefield, they...

Hi All Having been given a few days off work I decided to plan a chase around Yorkshire following the RHTT 20's as the head around different parts of mostly west Yorkshire. With a lot of planning and a heavy amount of caffeine inside of me for fuel, I managed to bag a fair few shots from the...

Hi All Having been with work yesterday in the Nottingham area I decided to have a late night photographing trains instead of taking some well over due sleep. I managed to capture 56103 at Derby as it had a Driver change in the early hours of this morning, however whilst awaiting for the grid...

Hi All With working away this week in a variety of locations across the country I have tried my best to get out to capture some shots when Im free or get a quick break. With a little luck I managed to capture 66711 in its fairly new Bardon Livery applied whilst working 6M54 to Bardon Hill...

Hi All Having been down south for most of the week on business, I decided to stay on an extra night in the hope to capture the GWR Riviera Sleepers. Having had a quick scout through and seen where others had done shots of the trains before I decided to head off to St Austell and capture 1A40...

Hi All On hearing through the grape vine that 37057 would work back to Derby via two diagrams spread over 3 days, I decided to look into which working could be captured since they where both during the late and early hours of darkness. After a bit of research I decided to go and capture the...

Hi All With today offering so much to capture over the Settle and Carlisle line, and with heading back from the North having been working up there in the last part of the week, I decided to take a detour home to see if there would be the possibility of capturing any of the charters that where...

Hi All On hearing that today there would be a colas move with a set of RHTT's from the Thrall site at York, I couldn't resist the chance to grab a shot due to the traction the I imagined would be hauling it. I managed to grab my shot of the grids as they passed Old Denaby TnT a set of RHTT...

Hi All Having woken up from a day chasing Tornado up and down the ECML as it headed to Newcastle, and seeing that the weather forecast had again predicted a full sun day up on the moors I decided to head up to the Goathland Area to capture the visiting locos, 34092 City of Wells and 31806, and...

Hi All Whilst out for 60163 Tornado as it headed North to Newcastle from the capital I decided to see what extra bits I could fit into the day along with the charter and since the VTEC brand is now on its way covering more or less the entire ECML fleet of HST's I decided to head to Raskelf to...

Hi All A little later than expected to post but having seen the weather forecast on Friday and it set to be a full sun day I decided to head across the Humber bridge to Barnetby to pick up whatever freights where running, However this was not to be the case due to accidentally messing up the...

Hi All With the original plan being to captured 46115 as it headed North to York via the Midlands instead of the usual ECML route, but with it been cancelled at the last minute due to the loco developing a fault a few days prior whilst working another railtour south to the capital, DMU 1001...

Hi All Haven't managed to get out for a while, however today that all changed and I popped down to one of my local spots to capture 47954 as it headed the 1Z07 from Barrow in Furness to Scarborough via Hull and the wolds coast. With the biggest bit of luck I managed to capture the loco and...

Thanks. Came out better than first thought.

Hi All Having seen the forecast for the following morning and with it being said to be full sun I decided to head out to capture the colas engineers train as it headed back from Huddersfield to Doncaster Down Decoy, however having waited and waited some more for it to turn up it eventually...

Hi All With the weather forecast showing as being very hot and sunny in the south of England I couldn't resist the chance to rearranged my original plans for today so that a shot for 37401 could be had. However with the day been planned at such short notice, the original shot that had been...

Hi All Having planned the day of chasing the GB duffs, but at the last minute changing plans so that a shot of the Vossloh Number 008 could be captured as it hauled the Northern Belle to the North of Scotland, it turned out doing this wasn't such a bad idea, due to the mis timing with clouds...

Hi All Having seen the recent line up for the forth coming diesel gala at the Boness and Kenneil, I decided to head north and see if there was any shots to be had. However having been delayed on the way there I missed the first train of the day with the deltic been the motive power, at this...

Hi All With 60066 now back in traffic and doing what it does best, hauling tank trains through the lincolnshire countryside, a shot had to be found when hearing that it was heading back up north with the 6E41 from Westerleigh. I managed to capture it as it headed through the field at Howsham...