#SteamSaturday 68846 at Mendip Vale on the East Somerset Railway 5.10.96
#SteamSaturday 0-6-0 Swiftsure on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway 1.10.96
#SteamSaturday 78018 prepares to depart Loughborough Central 6.2.26
#SteamSaturday 78018 on the oil tank rake , departing Rothley Brook for Loughborough Central. @GcrGreat Winter Steam Gala 24.1.26
#SteamSaturday Observation car @GcrGreat Winter Steam Gala.
78018 on the rear of a Rothley to Loughborough Central is passed by 92134 on mineral wagons (and brake van). 23.1.25
#SteamSaturday Great Northern Railway 85 ‘Merlin’ , Inchicore Works open day 15.6.96
Welcome to the run up to Christmas, and thus the return of the return of regular-ish steam to my patch...
LMS Black 5 №44871 accelerates through Doncaster after pulling off a miracle clawing back of time from over an hour down to 6 late at Arksey. #SteamSaturday
Trainspotting or spot the train? A descending service on Snowdon from an ascending one. 13.6.96 #SteamSaturday
5541 @LlangollenRail 12.6.96
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Landscape sketch of ploughed field with hay ricks and steam train, mountains in the distance.
Signature, possibly Francis Rayner 6/11/52
Odd colourwashed pen and ink sketch (upper V3) by Francis Rayner(?) 6/11/52, bought because it had something of the Ravilious about it…
#WatercolourWednesday
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#SteamSaturday Double Fairlie running round at Blaenau Ffestiniog 14.6.96
#SteamSaturday 5541 at Llangollen @LlangollenRail 12.6.96
#SteamSaturday @festrail Blanche at Blaenau Ffestiniog 10.6.96
#SteamSaturday 45596 Bahamas & 13268 on 1615 Loughborough Central to Leicester North @GcrGreat 11.10.25
#SteamSaturday A 2-6-0 in the company of 147 at Dublin Connolly 9.3.96
#steamsaturday. The A4s in their glorious indian summmer prime. Taken from the bridge where my Mum used to hold me tight and watch them roar through. Sandy station in all its flower bed glory. The cottages in the background originally housed the railway workers who built the LNER.
#SteamSaturday Irish Rail 158 at Ennis with the 1415 to Limerick 7.3.96
#SteamSaturday Steam leaks from the generator coach 5.3.96 .
@IrishRail 168 at Ballina on the 1615 from Manulla Junction.
January 1996 , Winter Steam Gala @GcrGreat 46229 Duchess of Hamilton between Loughborough Central and Quorn & Woodhouse.
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#SteamSaturday N2 69523 & 4F 4422 , January 1996 , Winter Steam Gala @GcrGreat . Heading for Loughborough Central.
January 1996 , Winter Steam Gala @GcrGreat 46229 Duchess of Hamilton arrives at Rothley. Smoke lingering from under the road bridge and taken into the sun. #SteamSaturday
#SteamSaturday No6 runs round at Walshingham on the Wells & Walshingham Railway 8.8.25
Station staff dressed in LBSCR uniform, arm raised and blowing whistle for the train departure from Sheffield Park station
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekHforHats
Sheffield Park
#BluebellRailway #SteamTrain #SteamSaturday #photography
#SteamSaturday 71000 Duke of Gloucester at Carlisle after a Shap Time Trial from Crewe 2.10.95
And notebook scribblings.
Duchess of Hamilton & Sir Nigel Gresley also had a run on other days.
Does this record still stand?
No10 GH Wood running Port Erin to Douglas , IoMSR 25.8.95 #SteamSaturday
#SteamSaturday No11 with No4 on the Isle of Man Steam Railway , shortly after departing Douglas. 24.8.95
#SteamSaturday IoMSR 10 GH Wood arrives into Castletown 24.8.95
#SteamSaturday As part of the August 1995 centenary celebrations for the Snaefell Mountain Railway No4 Caledonia visited. Seen here departing Bungallow for Summit with Manx Electric Railway car 57.