Caledonian pair reunited at spa valley scottish gala

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

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

In the Black Isle Bar in Inverness last year after D213 Andania had arrived in the city on a charter from Crewe, I collared Nick Gibbons, of Locomotive Services, and asked him about the chances of tak

H I STORY WAS recreated at the Spa ...

12099 – Kidderminster: The Class 11 was taken out of service in 2019 for overhaul. Since then it has received a thorough internal and external makeover from bufferbeam to bufferbeam by the dedicated t

Overhauls, restorations and running notes