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Myself handing over the matt black painted Mitsubishi L200 single cab pickup to the medics of the 93rd Brigade, standing next to it holding a signed flag. The Nissan Xtrail donated to them in 2024 stands alongside
A first class table seat on a Czech Railways train, with laptop open showing a vintage loco photo being edited and a cup of real coffee beside it
A long line of trams stuck behind the one that hit a van
A transit van tried to cut across in front of a tram and failed. Photo shows the crumpled front of the van where a Prague tram has hit the moronic drivers front door and wing
Front cover of the "Railway Times" 1955 showing on top of a pile of ten author copies of the book, with packaging in the background, freshly unwrapped
Front cover of RAIL Magazine showing a line of brand new Class 701 South Western Trains in storage at Long Marston Rail Centre
A view through the cab window of a Hibberd narrow gauge diesel loco, with a view of the track ahead and two vintage standard gauge carriages
Image capture of two pages of RAIL Magazine, of a feature on Ridgmont Station, Bedfordshire and its volunteers, who run a shop, tearoom and community garden at the restored station building.
Front cover of my new book, with a photo of a pair of Class 20 diesel locos, 20013 & 20087 climbing out of the Ironbridge Gorge at Coalbrookdale hauling a rake of empty MGR coal wagons from Ironbridge power station in July 1989
A person in orange hi vis adjusting the ornate station clock in the roof of Kings Cross Station, London
Class 37 loco on a low loader arriving at Kidderminster Station
An LNER Azuma train passing under the Grade II listed Hexam signal box, built on a steel gantry spanning the tracks
Ex National Coal Board steam Loco No 49 being filled with water at Bridgnorth Motive Power Depot as the sun is rising behind it. A man sits on top of the water tank and is about to remove the 'bag' (rubber pipe) used to fill the water tank, which is overflowing, water running down the sides of the loco. Steam and smoke mingle in the air in front of orange clouds
GB Railfreight class 66, number 66721 with a train of woodchip hoppers used for imported woodchip to fuel Drax power station, claimed to be green renewable energy when the woodchip is imported from Canada
Steam loco 73082 Camelot being winched slowly off a low loader trailer onto the rails at Kidderminster yard
A flowchart describing different type of public transport vehicles. It explains that anything running on rubber tyres on a road is a bus and not a tram
A burnt out car with no tyres on, dumped on a railway track
A drone photo of the Severn Valley Railway landslip, with the track removed over the affected area, showing the slip into the Mor Brook which runs under the railway at Bridge 25
News photo of a traffic cone placed on a self driving car that disables it from moving, a group in San Francisco have been disabling Waymo taxis by doing this as most people object to the unsafe technology.
GWR steam locos 7802 Bradley Manor and 7812 Erlestoke Manor in steam at Kidderminster Station, standing alongside each other. Bradley has just been overhauled and is on test and running in.
Class 108 DMU driving car with a fresh coat of deep bronze green paint and coachlining in yellow, including the traditional curving stripes on the front end, known as speed whiskers
GWR steam loco 7802 Bradley Manor sits in the doorway of the loco works at Bridgnorth with a "Not To Be Moved" sign on the front
Gareth Dennis's book How The Railways Will Fix The Future in a cardboard box over 4 times bigger than it needs to be
Photo of the original first edition of the Harry Beck 1933 Tube Map
Steam train on the Bluebell Railway entering a tunnel, standing in for an Italian WW2 train about to be blown up
A view looking down from Bewdley Station footbridge into the cab of LMS steam loco 13268, dusk is falling, it's cold, raining and foggy. The loco firebox doors are open casting an orange glow across the cab illuminating the loco fireman who is stood in front of it in a cloud of steam
Double headed GWR steam loco, pannier tank 7714 and 0-4-2 1450 heading to Bridgnorth in a frosty landscape
GWR steam locos 1450 & 7714 running along the Severn Valley Railway, the landscape is covered in frost
Heritage diesel loco 40106 approaching Hampton Loade with a passenger train, low winter sun giving long shadows of trees on the field behind
An ugly, dumpy, ill-proportioned narrow gauge diesel loco in an awful shade of light pink on the Praeter Park Railway, Vienna
Front cover of the book "Shunter Memories"
A crowd gathered around the new class 99 loco at Innotrans for the launch event
A large pile of donated gym equipment being handed over for a rehabilitation centre for injured Ukrainian soldiers