37419 ‘Agamemnon’ heads out over Scarborough Bridge with another days RHTT duties ahead. Always nice to see a 37/4 turn up on these duties; not too keen on this livery though, or the name! I’m really just a grumpy old man! 🤣 #Class37 #Tractor #RHTT #York

A locomotive class synonymous with various lines over the years, one which was the Trans Pennine route. That distinctive Sulzer sound filling the air, as 45103 sits idling to itself in Leeds in the 80s. I really miss sights and sounds like this! #Class45 #Peak #LeedsCityStation

67015 Awaits departure from Manchester Piccadilly with 1V42, destined for Cardiff Central. What a way to travel! Transport for Wales, like Chiltern Trains, know the value of running loco-hauled services. #Class67 #TfW #ManchesterPiccadilly #DB #Trainspotting

The start of another week; I hope it’s a good one for you all. 37406 ‘The Saltire Society’ heads north on the West Highland Line making its way to Fort William. Seen here on the approach to Crianlarich. #Class37 #WestHighlandLine #BritishRail #Trainspotting

Network Rail 153311 takes shelter from the wintery weather in the maintenance road at York. Someone must have taken pity on the dogbox as it would usually be parked outside! #NetworkRail #Class153 #DogBox #York

Large logo, revised blue, call it what you will, in my opinion the greatest livery of the British Rail era. These two giants of their time prove the point! 47593 ‘Galloway Princess’ and 37401 ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ at York a couple of years ago. #Class47 #Class37 #BritishRail

Almost sparkling, if that’s possible in all over Departmental grey, gronk 08911 does its job at Carlisle. It was always nice to see these veterans employed around the station, you could even ride behind one if you were on the Sleeper! #Class08 #Gronk #Departmental #Carlisle

Mass transit as it should be! It’s all go at the junction of Corporation and Balloon Street just outside Victoria; Manchester shows how it’s done. Yellow everywhere, and the cutest little ‘toot’ horns! #Tram #Manchester #Metrolinj #BeeNetwork #TfGM

Looking fine in its Network South East colours, 47583 ‘County of Hertfordshire’ stands at the turntable at Old Oak Common. If you’re going to put red, white, and blue on rail vehicles, this is how you do it! #Class47 #Duff #Brush #OldOakCommon #NSE

60096 ‘Skiddaw’ draws into Leeds Station with 6D51, Hunslet to Rylstone. The late autumn light coupled with the towering buildings around the station causing havoc! #Class60 #Tug #LeedsCityStation #Skiddaw

Sprinter 150109 pauses at Manchester Victoria with a service bound for Stalybridge. An interested passenger grabs a quick shot of the unit whilst the Conductors complete their handover. #Class150 #Sprinter #Northern #ManchesterVictoria #RailwayLife

Morning all. A bitterly cold morning as I recall, as 37408 ‘Loch Rannoch’ traversed the Oban line with the Grangemouth to Connell Ferry oil train. Another service that was lost to road transport shortly after. Hope you all have a great day. #Class37 #Tractor #LargeLogo

Well before hybrids became popular, we had the class 73. These unassuming locos were obviously way ahead of their time! 73123 ‘Gatwick Express’ stands at the buffer stops at London Waterloo. #Class73 #Shoebox #ElectroDiesel #LondonWaterloo #BritishRail

Old Oak Common, and 59103 General Motors type 5 in the original ARC yellow livery in the days before it was named. A location transformed beyond all recognition these days! #Class59 #GM #ARC #OldOakCommon #Trainspotting

TPE 185140 awaits departure from York with a service for Wakefield Kirkgate. The service being cut short due to engineering work in the Ravensthorpe area. #Class185 #Desiro #TPE #York

Some new signage has appeared on the platforms at Leeds, and I do dearly hope it’s not as a result of an incident! Though it does make me wince when people get off trains with huge foil balloons blowing in the wind! Know the dangers!😬 #Class801 #LNER #LeedsCityStation #OLE

No.1 of the fleet of 96 class 142s built for the Provincial sector. 142001 Adorned in its rather fetching GMPTE livery stands at Crewe awaiting its next turn of duty. #Class142 #Pacer #GMPTE

There is something oddly satisfying about consecutive numbered units being coupled! Siemens Desiro class 185s, 129 & 130 prepare to depart from Leeds with service to Manchester Airport. #Class185 #SiemensDesiro #LeedsCityStation #TPE

Morning all, hope we are doing okay. Brush type 4 today, D1755 captured at York on the rear of the Christmas White Rose rail tour. Whilst the loco does look good, I’ll always remember it a lot more fondly as 47541, ‘The Queen Mother’. #Class47 #Duff #VintageTrains #York

The coalfield workhorse, and the locomotive that was the absolute definition of red stripe Railfreight livery. Built in Yorkshire at the mighty Doncaster Works, with 3300hp on tap from that Ruston Paxman power unit! Hugely missed! #Class58 #Bone #RedStripeRailfreight

NOVA 2.5! I can definitely get with this! 37501 ‘Teeside Steelmaster’ couples up to 397011 as it prepares for a move to Wabtec in Doncaster. I have to get my loco fix somewhere since the loss of the 68s, and this will do nicely! Perks of the job and all that! #Class37 #Tractor

GB Railfreight liveried 66745 draws into platform 16 in Leeds with 6G96, Micklefield to Doncaster Decoy on 30/12/25. One of the many trains utilised for the remodelling at Church Fenton as part of the TransPennine Route Upgrade work. #Class66 #Shed #GBRf #Leeds #TRU

25309 Stands in the holding sidings at Carlisle with a GUV for company. The Rat was later renumbered as 25909 for the industrial mineral traffic in the North West; it survives today in preservation. #Class25 #Rat #Carlisle #BritishRail

91106 ‘Swallow’ prepares for departure from Leeds on the final day of 2025. The remainder of the class tick off another year of operation…and long may it continue! 🫡 #Class91 #Electra #LeedsCityStation #LNER

I make no bones about my personal dislike for these units, though each to their own. They have graced, or blighted (depending on your opinion) the railway for over 25 years now. Refurbishment beckons, and not before time. I imagine a major purchase order for glitter is going in!

Two tone Railfreight Metals liveried 37250 stands at Perth station awaiting fuelling. Thankfully a locomotive that is still with us in preservation on the Wensleydale Railway, albeit now in EWS colours. #Class37 #Tractor #RailfreightMetals #Perth #BritishRail

London St.Pancras of old! It wasn’t perfect by any means, but I loved it. The station was my home for years, from MML through to the EMT days. Watching the transformation of this mighty structure was nothing short of amazing! Not many 31s there these days though! #StPancras

First photo of 2026, and it’s one of my favourite classes! DRS 68004 ‘Rapid’ stands in the sidings at York where it celebrated the new year on its own! It could do with a bit of TLC on those vinyls. #Class68 #Cat #DRS #York

Happy new year everyone! I hope you’ve all had a great Christmas; let’s make 2026 a good one! 37409 ‘Loch Awe’ leads classmate 37423 ‘Sir Murray Morrison’ on the weekday freight from Fort William. #Class37 #WestHighlandLine #Tractor #Trainspotting #WHL

Merry Christmas all! 🎅🎄 A huge thank you for your support, likes, and engagement this year. Special thanks also to everyone who keeps our railways moving every day. Wishing everyone joy, peace, and good health this holiday season. Look out for each other. See you in 2026!

91106 ‘Swallow’ sits in Leeds awaiting departure for London Kings Cross. These shortened 225 sets now create different stopping positions along the platform. #Class91 #Electra #LNER #LeedsCityStation

50011 ‘Centurion’ occupies the load bank road at Crewe Works. A very sad sight for all Hoover fans, as the loco, if I rightly recall, becomes the first of the class to be officially withdrawn. #Class50 #Hoover #CreweWorks #ZC

The Christmas White Rose rail tour stands in platform 5 at York. 60163 ‘Tornado’ draws the crowds, and simultaneously gives the platform staff raised blood pressure! Get behind that yellow line!!! 😡 #Peppercorn #A1 #Tornado #York #A1SteamLocomotiveTrust

GBRf 66316 pauses in platform 5 at York with 1Z50, Pathfinder’s Railtour from Potters Bar to Newcastle, via many loops and sidings! 57306 Attached at the rear with bagged up nameplates… #Class66 #Shed #GBRf #PathfinderRailtours #York

Still sporting its Crewe Works applied large logo livery, with associated painted numbers. 37402 ‘Oor Wullie’ stands outside Eastfield TMD in the Sunday sun in the late 80s. #Class37 #Tractor #EastfieldTMD #BritishRail #LargeLogo

90021 Provides the propulsion from Manchester Piccadilly on what was undoubtedly a comfortable journey to London Euston. It’s almost mythical how good the MkIII coaches were! Quiet, comfortable, and a ride that puts modern stock to shame. #Class90 #Mk3Coach #ManchesterPiccadilly

Railfreight Coal liveried 58046 powers away from Clay Cross junction heading north with rake of empty MGRs. #Class58 #Bone #RailfreightCoal

The early evening sun sets over the city, as GBRf 66311 and 60021 head through Leeds with 0D55, Hunslet to Doncaster Decoy. #Class66 #Class60 #GBRf #LeedsCityStation

An enthusiast checks his camera, making sure all is well with his image. DB Schenker 66050 ‘Yorkshire Rose’ passes through Castleford station with 6M16, Wilton to Knowsley on 12/11/25. #Class66 #Shed #DB #Castleford

Good morning everyone. A big day for the railway today, new timetable and all! Hope it goes well! Stained with the grime of weeks of rail head treatment, 66553 pictured in Leeds. (66551 Sits at the rear) #Freightliner #Class66 #Shed

91111 ‘For the fallen’ arrives at York with 1N81, London Kings Cross to York. All change next week with the introduction of the new timetable! What could possibly go wrong? (Really, please don’t answer that question!) #Class91 #LNER #NewTimetable #York

93004 Hauls a rake of Mk4 coaches through Leeds with 5Q26, Neville Hill to Worksop. (93005 Attached at the rear) Great to finally see one of these Stadler built machines up close, hugely impressive. #Class93 #Stadler #ROG #LeedsCityStation #IC225

Maybe my final capture of the RHTT this year. 37219 ‘Jonty Jarvis’ and 37099 ‘Merl Evans’ work 3J51 through York. Nice to see that 099 has had a bit of a clean, and looks all the better for it. Same again next year please! #Class37 #Tractor #RHTT #ColasRailfreight #York

It’s sad to see the demise of the class 455, a unit that has served well over the years. A BR built unit, functional, no fuss, did the job it was built for, and now slowly and quietly disappearing. #Class455 #LondonWaterloo #BREL

87020 ‘North Briton’ stands against the wall at Edinburgh Waverley taking a well earned breather. They always looked a bit wrong at Edinburgh to me, more at home at Glasgow. #Class87 #InterCity #BritishRail #EdinburghWaverley

40028 ‘Samaria’ stands on the Crewe Works scrap line. A lifetime of work completed, and now only the cutters torch awaits. A sad end for this English Electric giant. #Class40 #Whistler #EnglishElectric #CreweWorks #ZC

One of my favourite 50s, looking stunning in the best livery they ever carried (in my opinion)! 50020 ‘Revenge’ awaits departure from Exeter St. David’s with a service for London Waterloo. #Class50 #Hoover #BritishRail #LargeLogo #Exeter

I remember this being the first class 60 that I had seen on a BR depot; prior to this I’d only seen them at Brush in Loughborough. 60008 ‘Moel Fammau’ resplendent in its Railfreight Metals livery stands outside the shed at Thornaby. #Class60 #Tug #TE #Thornaby

The view at London Waterloo has changed so much over the years. My first visit was years before the International platforms were built, and the London Eye was a figment of the imagination. The view on the platforms has changed accordingly, gone are locos and vehicles of old. #SWR

A station that brings back very fond memories of old. Amazing just how much it brings back from those heady days of the 80s! CAF built 397012 pauses at Preston with 1S38, Manchester Airport to Edinburgh Waverley. #Class397 #TPE #CAF #Preston