Phil's photos with the keyword: Railway

The pedestrian footpath which crosses the railway track near the town of Nelson in Pendle district, North-West England. HFF everybody :-) Camera: Sony RX100. Software: Nikon Capture NX2.

Eurostar is a high-speed railway service connecting London with Paris and Brussels. All it's trains traverse the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France. The London terminus is St Pancras International with the other British calling points being Ebbsfleet International and Ashford International in Kent. Calling points in France are Calais-Fréthun and Lille-Europe, with trains to Paris terminating at Gare du Nord. Trains to Belgium terminate at Midi / Zuid station in Brussels. In addition there are limited services from London to Disneyland Paris at Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy, services to southern France as of 1 May 2015 and seasonal services to the Alps in winter. The service is operated by eighteen-coach trains which run at up to 300 kph (186 mph) on a network of high-speed lines. The French and Belgian parts of the network are shared with Paris–Brussels Thalys services and also with TGV trains. In the United Kingdom the two-stage Channel Tunnel Rail Link project was completed on 14 November 2007 and renamed High Speed 1 when the London terminus of Eurostar transferred from Waterloo International to St Pancras International. (Wikipedia).

The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Coronation Class is a class of express passenger steam locomotives designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged version of the LMS Princess Royal Class. They were the most powerful passenger steam locomotives ever to be built for the LMS network, estimated at 3300 horsepower and making them far more powerful than the diesel engines that replaced them. LMS Shop Grey was carried briefly in service on 6229 Duchess of Hamilton from 7 September 1938 until its return to Crewe Works later that year on 9 December to be painted crimson lake as No. 6220 in preparation for the 1939 visit to the New York World's Fair, USA. (Wikipedia).

No. 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. It is historically significant because it is the holder of the world speed record for steam locomotives (126mph / 202.6kph). The A4 class was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley to power high-speed streamlined trains. The wind-tunnel-tested aerodynamic body and high power allowed the class to reach speeds of over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h), although in everyday service it was relatively uncommon for any steam hauled service in the UK to reach even 90 mph, much less 100. Mallard covered almost one and a half million miles before it was retired in 1963. It was restored to working order in the 1980s but has not operated since, apart from hauling some specials between York and Scarborough in July 1986 and a couple of runs between York and Harrogate/Leeds around Easter 1987. Mallard is now part of the National Collection at the United Kingdom's National Railway Museum in York. On the weekend of 5 July 2008, Mallard was taken outside for the first time in years and displayed beside the three other A4s that are resident in the UK, thus reuniting them for the first time since preservation. It departed the museum for "Locomotion", the NRM's outbase at Shildon on the 23 June 2010, where it was a static exhibit until it was hauled back to York on 19 July 2011 and put back on display in its original location in the Great Hall. The locomotive is 70 ft (21 m) long and weighs 165 tons, including the tender. It is painted LNER garter blue with red wheels and steel rims. (Wikipedia).

BR standard class 9F number 92220 Evening Star is a preserved British steam locomotive completed in 1960. It was the last steam locomotive to be built by British Railways. It holds the distinction of being the only British main line steam locomotive earmarked for preservation from the date of construction. It was the 999th locomotive of the whole British Railways Standard range. Evening Star was built at Swindon railway works in 1960. Though the last to be built, it was not the last 9F numerically as Crewe had already completed engines with higher numbers. It was equipped with a BR1G-type tender and given BR Brunswick green livery, normally reserved for passenger locomotives and was completed with a copper-capped double chimney. All other members of the class of heavy freight locomotives were painted unlined black. (Wikipedia). Photographed at the National Railway Museum in York, England.

The colours of Autumn / Fall sunlight on the railway tracks near the town of Burnley in North-West England. Photographed with a Sony RX100 compact camera and processed with Nikon Capture NX2 software.

"Coppernob", a 0-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1846 for use on the Furness railway in North-West England. Photographed at the National Railway Museum in York, UK, a few years ago, this locomotive is currently on loan to the Verkehrsmuseum in Dresden, Germany. Camera: Nikon D90. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2. The Furness Railway was a railway company operating in the Furness area of Lancashire in North West England. The company was established on 23 May 1844 when the Furness Railway Act was passed by Parliament. The line, as originally laid, was intended principally for mineral traffic (slate and iron ore) and extended from Kirkby-in-Furness to Dalton-in-Furness; this was later extended to Rampside and a later line was built from Dalton to Barrow. That portion was opened in August 1846. Passenger traffic began in December 1846. Subsequent extensions took the railway to Ulverston in April 1854; the Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway was taken over in 1865 thus extending the Furness Railway to Whitehaven, Carnforth (where the Furness linked with the London and North Western Railway and thence to Lancaster, Coniston and Lakeside). The line was linked to Lancaster on 27 August 1857 by the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway, which was bought out by the Furness Railway in 1862. (Wikipedia).

This engine was built in 1935 at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire, England and was designed by Colonel Kenneth Cantile (a British railway advisor to the Chinese government) for passenger and freight service on the Chinese railway network. The engine is 28.3 metres (93 feet) long and weighs 195 tonnes. It carries 12.2 tonnes of coal and 24,410 litres (6469 UK gallons) of water and is capable of pulling a load of 609 tonnes at a speed of up to 50 mph on level ground. Each of the 8 main driving wheels is almost 1.8 metres (approx. 6 feet) in diameter. During the Second World War it was captured and used by the Imperial Japanese army. After the war it was used again on the Chinese rail network until 1981 when it was donated to the people of Britain as a gift from the people of China and put on static display at the National Railway Museum in York. Camera: Nikon D90. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

This huge engine was built in 1935 at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire, England and was designed by Colonel Kenneth Cantile (a British railway advisor to the Chinese government) for passenger and freight service on the Chinese railway network. The engine is 28.3 metres (93 feet) long and weighs 195 tonnes. It carries 12.2 tonnes of coal and 24,410 litres (6469 UK gallons) of water and is capable of pulling a load of 609 tonnes at a speed of up to 50 mph on level ground. Each of the 8 main driving wheels is almost 1.8 metres (approx. 6 feet) in diameter. During the Second World War it was captured and used by the Imperial Japanese army. After the war it was used again on the Chinese rail network until 1981, when it was donated to the people of Britain as a gift from the people of China and was put on static display at the National Railway Museum in York. Camera: Nikon D90. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

The Livingston Thompson, a "Double Fairlie" 0-4-4-0T type locomotive (built in 1885 and operated on the Ffestiniog Railway), now restored as a static display at the National Railway Museum in York. The Ffestiniog Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a 23.5 inches wide (597 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway located in Gwynedd, Wales. It is a major tourist attraction located mainly within the Snowdonia National Park. The railway is roughly 13 miles (21 km) long and runs from the harbour at Porthmadog to the slate-mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, travelling through forested and mountainous scenery. The line is single track throughout with four intermediate passing places. The narrow gauge track allows trains to inter-work through to the Welsh Highland Railway of 1922 (operated by the Ffestiniog). The first mile of the line out of Porthmadog runs atop an embankment locally called "the Cob", which is the dyke of the Traeth Mawr "polder". The railway company is properly known as the "Festiniog Railway Company" and this obsolete but contemporary spelling is the official title of the company as defined by the Act (2 William IV cap.xlviii) that created the railway. It is the oldest surviving railway company in the world (although not the oldest still working - a record which goes to the Middleton Railway), having been founded by the Act of Parliament on 23 May 1832 with capital mostly raised in Dublin by Henry Archer, the company's first secretary and managing director. Most British railways were amalgamated into four large groups in 1921 and then into British Railways in 1948 but the Festiniog Railway Company, in common with most narrow gauge railways, remained independent. (Wikipedia). Camera Nikon D90. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2. More information & photos here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffestiniog_Railway_rolling_stock

Stephenson's Rocket was an early steam locomotive of 0-2-2 wheel arrangement, built in 1829 at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson and Company in Newcastle Upon Tyne. It was built for (and won) the Rainhill Trials held by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway in 1829 to choose the best design to power the railway. Though the Rocket was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations to produce the most advanced locomotive of its day. It is the most famous example of an evolving design of locomotives by Stephenson and became the template for most steam engines in the following 150 years. The locomotive was preserved and is now on display in the Science Museum in London. The earliest full-size replica of Rocket seems to have been the one depicted on a London & North Western Railway postcard (therefore pre-1923). A cut-away static replica was built in 1935 and displayed for many years next to the original at London's Science Museum and, in 1979, a further working replica Rocket was built by Locomotion Enterprises for the 150th anniversary celebrations. It has a shorter chimney than the original to the clear the bridge at Rainhill (the trackbed is deeper than in the 19th century, giving less headroom). Both of these replicas are now based at the National Railway Museum, York. (Wikipedia). Camera Nikon D90. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

A Blackpool - Colne "Northern Rail" train leaving Brierfield station. This line used to continue to Skipton where passengers could get connections to almost anywhere in the country via Leeds or Preston. Today the line terminates at Colne, just a few miles short of Skipton. Campaigners have been trying to get the line re-opened for many years, so far without luck. www.ipernity.com/group/sony.rx100

This single-cylinder, steam-powered static winding engine was originally used on the Leicester and Swannington Railway, near the city of Leicester, UK. The low power of contemporary steam engines meant that where the gradient was steepest, locomotive haulage gave way to other means. As was common in those days, there were two inclines on the line: one at Bagworth, rising at 1 in 29 towards Swannington and worked by gravity; and a much steeper though shorter one at the Swannington end, descending at 1 in 17 and worked by a stationary engine . The latter was built by the Horsely Coal and Iron Company, and was equipped with a very early example of a piston valve. The pits at the Swannington end were worked out by as early as 1875, but the incline found a new lease of life lowering wagons of coal to a new pumping station at the foot that kept the old workings clear of water, so preventing flooding in the newer mines nearby. The incline closed in 1948 when electric pumps were installed in the pumping station, but the winding engine was dismantled and is now at the National Railway Museum at York. The site of the incline now belongs to the Swannington Heritage Trust. (Wikipedia).

The Class A3 Pacific steam locomotive No. 4472 Flying Scotsman was built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster Works to a design by H.N. Gresley. It was employed on long-distance express trains on the LNER and its successors, British Railways Eastern and North-Eastern Regions, notably on the 10am London to Edinburgh Flying Scotsman train service after which it was named. The locomotive is notable for having set two world records for steam traction, becoming the first steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at reaching 100 miles per hour (160.9 km/h) on 30 November 1934 and then setting a record for the longest non-stop run by a steam locomotive when it ran 422 miles (679 km) on 8 August 1989. Retired from regular service in 1963 after covering 2,076,000 miles (3,341,000 km), Flying Scotsman gained considerable fame in preservation under the ownership of Alan Pegler, William McAlpine, Tony Marchington and finally the National Railway Museum, York. As well as hauling enthusiast specials in the United Kingdom, the locomotive toured extensively in the United States (from 1969 to 1973) and Australia (from 1988 to 1989). Flying Scotsman has been described as the world's most famous steam locomotive. (Wikipedia). www.ipernity.com/group/england

A Japanese "Bullet train" which also contains an information centre with film-shows. Photographed at the National Railway Museum, York, UK.

Photographed outside Winfields (Outdoor Pursuits) store near Haslingden, UK. This old engine has been parked here for many years...it can be seen on the map in "Satellite View" if you zoom in close.