Steam Engine Collection (page 4)

The London North East Railway Class A4 4-6-2 steam locomotive 60032 Gannet heads the Elizabethan Express train service run from Kings Cross Station in London to Edinburgh. January 1956

Steam billows around the London Midland & Scottish Railway Class 2F Ivatt locomotive 46522 at New Street Station, Birmingham as passengers along with onlookers prepare for a sentimental last journey

The LNER Class A3 Pacific steam locomotive No. 4472, The Flying Scotsman, pictured at Birmingham New Street cheered by an eager crowd of train enthusiasts, 1964

Relief porter Peter Kelly at work at Tutbury Station, October 1957

No industrial structures enhanced the British landscape like the graceful railway viaducts with their stone or brick arches

King George V steam engine leaving Moor Street Railway Station, Birmingham, bound for London

What started as just a routine August day at Middlesbrough station in 1942 ended in terror. A German dayliht raid scored a direct hit on the overall roof, causing it to partially collapse

Foreman james Gregory, yard inspector William Edwards and head shunter Dick Thomas who have a combined total of more than 100 years service with the railways. 1959

Dedicated special holiday trains ran throughout the 1950s. With an ex-LMS Stanier Black Five loco sporting a ludicrously large headboard proclaiming this as the " Nuneaton Co-op Sports Club Aged

Train-bound passengers, roaring through Bescot on the main line, see only a tangle of tracks cluttered with trucks. 1959

There was a brisk sale in platform tickets when the Flying Scotsman pulled into Newcastle Central Station to take on Water 5 June 1967

Although British Railways officially finished with steam power on August 11, 1968, Alan Peglers contract still allowed him to run Flying Scotsman on the mainline

Driver and Stoker of the 4. 45 express Steam Engine Reg Deacon
Driver and Stoker of the 4.45 express Steam Engine Reg Deacon and Fred Phillipson on loco 7001 1950 023135/1

The Manchester winter wonderland in December 1950. The railways could keep going when snow closed roads. Railwaymen salted Manchester VictoriaOs pointwork so trains could access all platforms

Traction-Engine Derby race. June 1952 C2871

The Hythe Dymchurch miniature Railway crash. August 1952 C4012-001

Children on the Model Steam Railway Canford Park, Bristol 1957

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