7H70 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Wolverton Centre Sidings.
37800 heads 156470, 156497 and 37510 away from Leicester.

66136 on 6O42 Halewood (Jaguar Cars) to Derby Litchurch Lane leaving Chaddesden Sidings after running round. 22.4.26

#WagonWednesday HMA 353087 with EWS branding. Worksop 6.3.97
HMA’s had modified brakes.

#TugTuesday Round the York avoider 2.1.97

#TrackMachineTuesday Balfour Beatty DR73503 at Leicester Carriage Sidings early 1997.

D9015 arrives at Quorn & Woodhouse, Great Central Railway, this afternoon.

#ElectricMonday 91027, 91002 & 91004 (GNER) wait to head of Kings Cross early on 2.1.97 .

#MGRMonday 58029 heads east through Worksop 6.3.97

STEAM TRAIN MADNESS 🔥 | Massive Locos at Dampfloktreffen Dresden 2026 YouTube video by HU3RAUM

youtu.be/PDgOz41A7t0

#ShunterSunday 08682 shunts 365527 at Doncaster West Yard, 2.1.97

#SideOnSaturday 37694 at Hull Paragon 2.1.97

D9000 at Hull Paragon on The Deltic Reunion 2.1.97
#FiftyFivesOnFriday

D9000 runs round at Hull Paragon on The Deltic Reunion 2.1.97 #FiftyFivesOnFriday

7Q70 Ely Mlf Papworth Sidings to Wolverton Centre Sidings. 93004 & 93010 with 175109 depart from Leicester South Junction 16.4.26

Rolling through the collection into 1997. After the November disappointment, a few weeks later we were back! This time RSG performed without incident on The Deltic Reunion.
Peterborough 2.1.97 #ThrowbackThursday
www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk

#ThrowbackThursday On a well photographed viaduct, normally it’s a view of it. Knaresborough with a layer of snow 2.1.97

#TugTuesday A chance catch of 60095 shunting Humberstone Road Yard , Leicester yesterday. Arrived on 6M71 from Tunstead Sidings earlier in the day.

Continued….. Was it the waiting at Waverley, the dragging coach brake or a combination? Whatever, D9000 came to grief at Berwick upon Tweed 30.11.96.
1F50 Edinburgh Waverley to London Kings Cross, The Deltic Deliverance. www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk
Roll forward a month though….

#ElectricMonday Not great into the sun. A 77 min late 86424 arrives at Peterborough on the northbound working of The Deltic Deliverance 30.11.96.
A points failure in London had trapped the loco. Theory is this was the start of a small chain that would impact the day…..to be continued.

Well there’s a picture of it - what more proof do you need? 🫢

@andyh616.bsky.social if you get fed up of Newport 😉

#ShunterSunday 08947 at Westbury 4.10.96

#ShunterSunday 09016 parked at one of the Swindon sidings, late 1996.

This is the most important and essential FOI request ever levelled at a local authority.

Well, there was much beer and sausage consumed! 😉🫢

Catching up with some reading on an ICE along the River Main. Frankfurt Apt to Köln later via the high speed route.

Article in @Modern_Railways (Feb pg68-74) sums up the political, institutional &economic failings regarding HS2.

Succinctly and firmly put by John Morris FCILT.

Some other angles from the Dresden Eisenbahnmuseum night shoot 10.4.26 #SteamSaturday

Just a very quick visit this time but noted 👍.

#SteamSaturday Night Photography Session, Dresden Eisenbahnmuseum 10.4.26