Locomotives

8763. British Railways Lined black livery, with Early Emblem This locomotive was built at Swindon in 1933 and allocated to Old Oak Common where it ...

9741. British Railways Green Livery With the introduction of what became the “8750” variations, this 1935 built locomotive emerged from Swindon wor...

5741. GWR Livery From the initial order of 50 locomotives from the North British Locomotive Works, 5741 emerged from Queens Park works, Glasgow in ...

7755. GWR Shirt button Livery. 7755 was a loco from the “Work Creation” orders. This engine was built in 1930 by North British Locomotive Co. at Qu...

6743. Great Western livery The 67xx was a sub class of panniers built without steam heat or vacuum brakes. The first 25 were built by Bagnall’s of ...

5754. Great Western livery: 5754 was the 4th member of the 57xx class to be built at Swindon. Outshopped in 1929, the locomotive represents a stand...

The second batch of Hill’s ‘improved’ 0-6-0T locomotives, GER Nos.21-30 to Order G75, differed from the initial C72 order by being designated for ...

The highlight of the Direct Rail Services' annual open day in 2022 - the first such event since 2019 - was the official unveiling of 37218 in a 'he...

 BR J69 68535 was from the same 1892 batch as No. 359, being originally numbered as 358 under the GER and 7358 under the LNER and was also rebuilt...

BR J69 68619 was the ‘celebrity’ Buckjumper and undoubtedly the most photographed member of the class, due to being the Liverpool Street Passenger...

BR J68 68646 was built in September 1912, part of the first batch of A.J Hill’s improved C72 Class, the final development of Holden’s 0-6-0T class...

LNER J69 No. 359 came from an earlier batch of ten locomotives built at Stratford in 1892 and was rebuilt in 1904 into the R24r Class, gaining new...

S56 Class No. 84 was one of the last batch of ten locomotives built for the Great Eastern Railway, to Order P57, at Stratford in 1904 and incorpor...

No. 31105 was the third of Network Rail’s Class 31s to return to traffic and the only former disc headcode-fitted locomotive in the fleet, althoug...

31407 - Mainline Blue - ExclusiveDCC Sound Fitted Revealed in February 1996 at an event at Toton TMD, 31407 was possibly the most surprising locom...

BR Class 50 - Railfreight General - 50149 'Defiance' - Exclusive DCC Sound Fitted The second half of the 1980s saw a potential new direction for th...