10 pictures

9 min read

In each issue of Railways Illustrated, we ask a photographer to select their 10 fa

This article is from...

Railways Illustrated Magazine

03 October, 2023

Read this article and 8000+ more magazines and newspapers on Readly

Railways Illustrated

10 pictures

This issue’s Ten Pictures are from the various cameras of Dave McAlone, who’s been recording the railway scene since 1979. His first camera was a Zorki, manufactured in the USSR and an inferior copy o

Railways Illustrated

Living life in the past lane

Being too young to go to Shildon in 1975, my railway hobby started with the Liverpool and Manchester Rocket 150 celebrations in May 1980. I have lasting memories of visiting Rainhill for the cavalcade

Railways Illustrated

The swinging sixties

1M86, the 09.35 Glasgow Central-St Pancras, was the famous Up Thames Clyde Express and ran via the Glasgow Sou’ Western route, then the Settle and Carlisle line to Leeds, and then took the Midland Mai

Railways Illustrated

The preservation files: main line locos

The growth in the ‘fleet’ of preserved ex-main line loco seems to have slowed down in recent years due to a number of factors: fewer locos becoming available, a possible saturation of the fleet, and d