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The British Railways Totem logo used by BR for Railway Stations etc from 1948 through to the early 60s. The perfect gift for a Railways Enthusiast!

A black and white image of British Railways standard class 9F railway engine 92134, photographed light engine (without a train) on a rainy day on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The 9F was designed for use on fast, heavy freight trains over long distances. It was one of the most powerful steam locomotive types ever constructed in Great Britain.

A take on the British Railways Totem logo used by BR for Railway Stations etc from 1948 through to the early 60s. The perfect gift for a Railways Enthusiast!

Southern Railways Schools Class Repton in a design incorporating its nameplate. Photographed here on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, England.

A design incorporating A cut out of one of my photographs of Flying Scotsman and its nameplate. the Flying Scotsman on the Cathedrals Express rail tour along the Severn Estuary. Flying Scotsman is the most famous locomotive in the world and this tour had crowds on every bridge waiting for a glimpse of this Icon.

The London and North Eastern Railways Totem as used up to the creation of British Railways in 1948.

Flying Scotsman on the Cathedrals Express rail tour along the Severn Estuary. Flying Scotsman is the most famous locomotive in the world and this tour had crowds on every bridge waiting for a glimpse of this Icon.

Great Western Railway (GWR) locomotive Bradley Manor in a design incorporating the nameplate.

The Seam Engine Tornado with a photograph of its nameplate too.

The famous British Rail Double Arrow was launched in 1965 as part of a major rebranding exercise. I have used the arrow to create a pattern in blue and white, repeating the logo to make the print design.

London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) A4 Class locomotive Mallard, in a design incorporating the nameplate.

A digital drawing depicting the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman with number 60103 as it would have been seen between 1961 and 1963. In 1954 it was converted to left hand drive with the vacuum exhaust ejector pipe and the reversing rod moved to the left-hand side from the right and painted in BR green. In 1959 the chimney was replaced with a double chimney and in 1961 the smoke deflectors were added. Flying Scotsman ended service with its last scheduled run on 14 January 1963.

*Steam Up at Devil's Bridge, February 2020* One for the rivet counters! Locomotive number 1213 lets off steam at the end of the line on the Vale of Rheidol railway, Ceredigion (Cardiganshire), Wales. The railway runs from Aberystwyth up to Devil's Bridge, climbing 700 feet in 12 miles. Date: 21st February 2020.

A digital drawing depicting the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman as it would have been seen Circa 1930. This is the classic image of Flying Scotsman with the letters LNER on the tender and 4472 on the cab. From 1928 to 1936 Flying Scotsman had a corridor tender giving the crew access to the locomotive from the train. This enabled it to travel the 392 miles from London to Edinburgh in eight hours changing the crew without stopping. By 1936 the non-stop service was being carried out by the streamlined A4s and Flying Scotsman reverted to a non-corridor tender.

A black and white image of Modified Hall Class 4-6-0 No. 7903 Foremarke Hall, built in March 1949 and withdrawn from British Rail service in 1964. Although this engine could be considered a GWR engine, it was built after nationalisation, hence was always a BR engine. Photographed here on a sunny autumn day on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway.

Post War, steam locomotives were aging and poorly maintained, hence the pre-war speeds were never attained. On the 23rd May 1959 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley set a post-war steam speed record of 112mph on Stoke Bank hauling a full passenger train. By the late 1950s, the age of steam traction was over and steam was being replaced by diesel power. Sir Nigel Gresley was withdrawn from service on 1st February 1966 and survives to this day in preservation.

A black and white image of Hall class locomotive 6990 Witherslack Hall on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway near Gothland, home of the TV series Heartbeat. Witherslack Hall was built by British Railways to a GWR design in 1948 and withdrawn in 1966.

A digital drawing depicting the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman as it would have been seen Circa 1925. The locomotive was built in 1923, numbered 1472 and had no name. It was renumbered 4472 and given the name "Flying Scotsman" just before it represented LNER as its flagship locomotive at the British Empire Exhibition, at Wembley Park in 1924. It represented LNER again at the 1925 exhibition and this artwork depicts Flying Scotsman as it would have appeared, with its number on the low sided tender and the LNER crest on the cab.

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Flying Scotsman LNER number 4472 became the first steam locomotive to be officially authenticated at a speed of 100 MPH on the 30th November 1934 on a special test run. Unofficially the GWR locomotive 3440 City of Truro was timed at running in excess of 100 mph during a run from Plymouth to London in 1904.

Here we have a photograph of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class B1 number 1264 photographed in the autumn on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with a rake of Crimson Lake & Cream coaches.

London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) locomotive Sir Nigel Gresley, in a design incorporating her nameplate. Sir Nigel Gresley is photographed here, preserved in British Railways express blue Livery.

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The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway Company by Motormaniac

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Here we have a photograph of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class B1 number 1264 photographed in the autumn on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with a rake of Crimson Lake & Cream coaches.

Two Great Western Railway Class 4575 small prairies working together in the Royal Forest of Dean. Engine 5541 is a resident engine on the Dean Forest Railway with Engine 5521 as a visiting locomotive. 5521 is painted in London Transport colours and carries the number L150 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan line.

A poster produced for Southern Railway to promote rail travel to the countryside, to 'Make the Most of the Autumn Days', 1939. - Please Note: These are old posters which means they were not always printed straight and level so please don't be surprised to see some slight angle differences around the edges of the adverts or some slight imperfections in the images. –

Class 4F entered service in 1920 and this, coming up to 100 year old engine is operating at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway between Keighley and Oxenhope. Yorkshire Sony DSC HX400 !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.299257686.6922/flat,300x300,075,f.u6.jpg! !https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.308245539.8992/flat,300x300,075,f.jpg!

Steam Dreams rail tour from Cardiff to London Paddington on 1st August 2019, pulled by B1 Mayflower and 44871 LMS Stanier Black Five. It’s not often a steam tour is a double header. Mayflower, an LNER Thompson Class B1 as captured here at sunset as she passes through Gloucestershire.

A digital drawing depicting the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman as it went through changes in its appearance between 1925-1962. Starting life in 1923 as a Class A1 number 1472 in with a low sided tender, right-hand drive, rounded steam collector and single chimney. Finishing its service in January 1963 as a left-hand drive Class A3 with the elongated "banjo" dome, double chimney, smoke deflectors, streamlined tender and number 60103.

60103 Flying Scotsman British Railways Steam Locomotive

On the 27th September 1935, a trial run of the new LNER streamlined express "The Silver Jubilee" was hauled by LNER number 2509 Silver Link, setting at the time, a new speed record of 112 MPH. Silver Link was one of four A4s built to work the Silver Jubilee between London King's Cross and Newcastle. The other 3 being 2510 Quicksilver, 2511 Silver King and 2512 Silver Fox all painted in a Silver and Grey Livery.

A digital drawing depicting the steam locomotive Flying Scotsman as it would have been seen between 1949 and 1954 in British Railways Express Blue with the number 60103. In 1947 it had been converted from Class A1 to A3 with a replacement boiler and the rounded steam collector replaced with the elongated "banjo" dome, it was also renumbered from 103 to 60103 in 1948. At this time it was allocated to Leicester Central shed running the Nottingham Victoria to London Marylebone services.

A black and white image of Flying Scotsman on the Cathedrals Express rail tour from Bristol on 23rd May 2017. Flying Scotsman is the most famous locomotive in the world and this tour had crowds on every bridge waiting for a glimpse of this Icon. This photograph was taken at Severn Tunnel Junction.

A black and white image of a damp misty autumn day on the North Yorkshire Moors as LMS Black 5 "Eric Treacy" leaves Goathland with a full head of steam! The Black Fives were a mixed traffic locomotive, a "do-anything go-anywhere" type, designed by William Stanier and several members of the class survived to the last day of steam on British Railways in 1968, with eighteen of the type making it into preservation.