Contributions of the group Progressive & Artistic Railway Photography

Wide-open spaces

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:44:51 +0000

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A pair of QJ class locomotives head west towards Lindong with a short freight on the Jitong Railway. This sort of open vista is typical of this section of the line.

Parkend Pannier

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:26:43 +0000

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Arrival at Parkend with the ballast hoppers. A great charter with 9681 on the Dean Forest Railway.

Cab sheet

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:40:13 +0000

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The footplate crew are trying to keep the rain off them as ex Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 0-6-0 52322 takes its ballast train through the station at Embsay.

Modaoshi

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:44:14 +0000

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QJ 2879 on passenger duties at Modaoshi horseshoe curve with a train for Suifenhe. The train was visible for around half an hour as it climbed the hill.

Hailar Crossing

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:33:02 +0000

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QJ 2773 heads to the depot at Hailar for servicing after depositing its train at one of the industrial premises a short distance from the town.

Hard work

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:17:04 +0000

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Barton Wright Class 25 'Ironclad' 52044 is working hard as it heads away from Damems Junction towards Oakworth on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

Buxton Spa

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:18:08 +0000

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The going away shot at Middlewood of Black 5, 45407 heading the Buxton Spa Express towards Buxton.

Side-by-side

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:21:54 +0000

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Eisfelder Talmühle is the junction between the Harzquerbahn and the Selketalbahn. This morning double departure saw parallel running with a freight on the left line towards Stiege and the daily through service from Nordhausen to Wernigerode to the right.

Birkenhead North

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:25:49 +0000

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Merseyrail EMUs at Birkenhead North during a visit to travel the whole of the Merseyrail network in a day.

Oakworth Crossing

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:09:15 +0000

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'Ironclad' 52044 crosses the road at Oakworth Station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

Washery steam

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:29:43 +0000

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Kriegslok 33-064 shunts a coal train under the loading bunkers at the Sikulje mine washery.

Piccadilly

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:12:43 +0000

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Northern and TransPennine Express services awaiting departure at Manchester Piccadilly.

Spring steam

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:16:45 +0000

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'Isaac' - Bagnall 3023 of 1952, at the head of two Darjeeling type coaches during the Statfold Barn Railway spring event of 2025.

19D

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:48:39 +0000

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19D 3322 with an audience, north of Het Kruis on the Klawer branch of South African Railways in the Western Cape.

Bike shed

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:09:16 +0000

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Chinese repurposing at its best. The cab of JF class No. 508 outside the maintenance workshops of the Fuxin Mining Administration.

Opencast steam

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:56:59 +0000

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With temperatures hovering around -40C the opencast coal mine at Jalainur was filled with the exhaust steam from the fleet of SY class locomotives that worked there.

Beddgelert bound

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 06:50:23 +0000

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Small England class locomotives Palmerston and Prince amidst the majestic scenery of the Welsh Highland Railway on the long straight after Rhyd Ddu station. These locomotives were built by George England and Co in 1864 and 1863 respectively in the first batch of four steam locomotives to operate on the Festiniog Railway.

Climbing Prince

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:27:19 +0000

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The Ffestiniog Railway's 'Prince' climbing hard at Coed-y-Bleiddiau with a train of vintage stock during a 30742 Charters event.

Early morning empties

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 05:22:55 +0000

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The whole of China runs on Beijing time which means that it is still dark at 9.00am at Sandaoling in the far west of Xinjiang in December. The morning empties on this day were brought to the opencast mine in two trains. The first one ran long before the sun rose and is here crossing the desert as the first light breaks over the horizon.

Colliery steam

nobody@ipernity.com (tarboat) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:28:21 +0000

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JS 8050 brings the empties across the road as it arrives at the Fengshuigou Colliery on the Yuanbaoshan Coal Railway.