2c.'s photos

RPSI No 461 2-6-0 passes MP12 on the midday Santa special return working from Maynooth to Dublin Connolly, (1st Dec 12)

RPSI no 461 heads home to Dublin across the curragh, co Kildare with a test train.

BR "Oliver Cromwell" speeds by, Valley, Anglesey, Wales.

Two design giants of British steam power sit side by side on shed at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Yorkshire. 9f 92214 "Cock o the North" (left) is part of the BR Standard 9F Class that was the last design development in British Steam during the 1950's. A4 60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley" (right) which is named after it's designer was a member of the streamlined A4 class designed in 1935 that holds the world steam record of 126mph set by 'Mallard' in 1938. "60007" holds the British Post war steam record of 112mph set in 1959.

Stanier Black 5 45305 heads northwards towards Ais Gill with the "Mersey Moorlander" on the Settle & Carlisle railway on the 8th August 2011.

Abandoned Signal Cabin and crossing, Castletown, Co Westmeath, Ireland.

RPSI, Preserved No 461 storms up the bank tender first on the Dublin side of Portdarlington, Co Laois, Ireland.

A Northern Rail 158 evening service passes over the 24 arches of this spectacular viaduct which makes a dramatic statement across this remote wild spot across the moors, in which up to a 100 Navvies died during it's 4 year construction in 1874 in Midland railway's quest for access to Scotland.

The ever present dramatic skies dance their shadows over the dales. At the top of the pass stood the Newby Head drovers Inn which is now a farm on this high windswept spot 1,425 ft above sea level, it was the fourth highest inn in England. There was plenty of custom from the drovers bringing sheep and cattle to and from Scotland. There drovers, packmen and other travellers called in for a drink and to stay the night at this lonely spot high in the dales. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newby_Head

Closed 1959.

Closed 1959

No 461 steams by on a Sunday afternoon excursion...

Wild & wonderful, Wicklow.