Early LNWR locomotives

The Super D 0 8 0 goods locomotive

Below the diminutive coal tank which covered many suburban passenger services

Two early companies

Two early companies which were to become constituents of the LMS were the LNWR and it's predecessor the London and Birmingham Railway. From this little acorn did the mighty oak grow.

Evening Star at the NRM York

The detail for modellers

A forbearing wife

I am very lucky to have a wife who does not mind trailing around after me photographing locomotives. Thank you Helen.

The jewel in our crown

The National Railway Museum has to be the jewel in our crown. It is the largest and most comprehensive in the world and visisted by millions

A1 Tornado at the NRM York

An incredible achievement the first steam locomotive built in the UK for fifty years. The first of a few as other new builds come off the drawing board and into the workshops. Thanks to the archivist at the NRM and other places we still have all the old drawings from Crewe, Doncaster, Derby, Swindon and many others from which to build classes not saved during the rape of steam in the fifties and sixties. Now the preservationists have turned their attention to these missing locomotives. Our deepest thanks to the A1 society for having the courage and forsight to build Tornado and kick start the new build programme. Tornado should be with us for many many years to come and show comming generations the glory of steam and the revolution which advanced the wold with such speed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

NRM York

A few more from that visit six or so years ago.

A good overview of how the main exhibition hall was and I hope soon will be again