John whiteley remembers…deltics around york

THE DELTIC Preservation Society has altered the plan for its three Class 55s following The Greatest Gathering in Derby on August 1-3. Further remediation work has been identified on D9015 Tulyar as pa

ABOVE: The 1990s were a colourful time with the last of the Trainload liveries, the shadow freight colour schemes and the new privatised company liveries. On January 23, 1996, Loadhaul 37517 leads Tra

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

Shock as Deltic runs without any headbords… in public! The Deltic Preservation Society has launched an investigation after one of its locos was seen hauling a train without a single headboard. The inc

Railway photography for me is about two things: a record for capturing a point in time to preserve a memory and an art form to create a great-looking image. Sometimes for me that is to recreate an ess

A truly wonderful picture of 47593 Galloway Princess working 1Z34, the 12.32 Fort William-Crewe ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ support train, at Lochan a’Chlaidheimh, just north of Rannoch, on June 28. Out o