Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: mainline

British Railways Britannia Class 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell scatters the seagulls as it speeds southwards on the East Coast Main Line near Scrooby, just south of Bawtry. HFF and have great (if a bit hot) weekend!

Martin carefully applies the vacuum brake on Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 as we roll into Birmingham Moor Street station with the returning 20.15 Vintage Trains Polar Express. The blue light is from TPWS unit alongside the reverser and the strange balls seen through the cab window are on the cladding of the Bull Ring Centre!

The skyline of Birmingham (including the remains of Curzon Street station just to the right of the diesel's cab) as we ran into Moorgate Station on Black 5 4-6-0 45305 with empty stock for the Polar Express. A Chiltern Railways Class 82 passes at speed with a Snow Hill to Marylebone train. Class 68 diesel 68014 was powering the train from the rear.

At Tyseley to dispose/prep Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 on shed. It was getting light when I started work although the sun wasn't yet above the horizon. The following day the loco ran on Vintage Trains' Polar Express out of Birmingham Moor Street.

Black 5 4-6-0 45305 prepares to come off Tyseley shed to work the empty stock for the Polar Express to Birmingham Moor Street. Fireman Phil heads back to the cab while 5305LA support crew member Mark looks on.

Roger places a round in the back corners of British Railways Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell while working the Cathedrals Express on the GER main line to Cambridge.

In the loop with British Railways Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell at Newbury Racecourse station.

Prepping British Railways Pacific 70013 Oliver Cromwell for the Cathedrals Express on shed at Southall.

French steam SNCF 141-TD-740 on a special passenger train at Meymac station. 141-TD-740 was built in 1932 by la Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est for suburban services in Paris. It was later transferred to the Western Region & worked out of Gare Saint-Lazare until electrification in 1967. Withdrawn from SNCF in 1968 it was chosen for preservation at the Mulhouse Railway Museum but after languishing for 14 years out in the open it was deemed irreparable and was sold. C.F.T.L.P., Chemin de Fer Touristique Limousin - Périgord, purchased the engine in 1982 and it was restored to working order. It was classified as a "monuments historiques au titre de la préservation du patrimoine industriel" by ministerial decree in 1987. The CFTLP still run special trains in SW France the next being 23rd/24th June - see: www.trainvapeur.com/programmes/programme.htm for details.