British railways

High quality photograph of CrossCountry British Rail Class 220 # NA at Dawlish, United Kingdom.

Great Western Railway boasted its upgraded electric Super Express trains would cut journey times by up to 17 minutes by 2018

91025 heads a northbound Anglo-Scottish ECML express from Newcastle Central - c.09/1992. The actual date the image was made is unknown; the indication given is based on the film processing date imprinted on the original slide.

Photo about Closeup on traditional english semaphore railway signals on gantry on white background. Image of closeup, railroad, sign - 23359445

Class 90010 and 90011 head the 4S52 Crewe to Coatbridge F.L.T through Preston. Wednesday 14th September 2022. Photo by Gary Severn.

(first posted 12/5/2014) CC has already heard the story of Mallard, the world’s fastest steam locomotive and pride of the London and North Eastern Railway. But by 1960, Mallard and […]

B1, 61188 at Dinting Crossing, Derbyshire - as posted by Dereck Elvidge on British Railways Un-named Steam Locomotives 1948-68

The history of British diesel locomotives is complex – or messy, if you prefer. We had too many experimental designs that failed; some wonderful albeit flawed exotica but also some […]

THIS PAINTING IS SOLD BUT YOU TOO CAN COMMISSION MIKE TO PAINT YOUR VERY OWN ORIGINAL OF YOUR FAVOURITE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE WHETHER BRITISH OR AMERICAN, A SOUND INVESTMENT FROM WHOM MANY REGARD AS BRITAIN'S LEADING TRANSPORT ARTIST. JUST E-MAIL mike@transportartist.co.uk Painted some years ago for the cover of an excellent book by my friend Brian Jackson this painting depicts the graceful lines of the old LSWR T9 class built in the early years of the century a number of which survived until…

The British Rail logo was designed by Gerry Barney of the Design Research Unit. The famous double-arrow has outlasted British Rail itself.