Railway Magnets

Sometimes life moves on and leaves us behind still waiting for our train to arrive

illustration of Ikoma cable train in nara, japan

Cog railway train at the station platform.

Railfan Wooden Train Black and Gray Pattern

For little people about to embark on a new adventure -- (in other words, every single day.) Design by Francie

Vintage Class 20 British Rail locos at the Severn Valley Railway

The Union Pacific Railroad is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF. Union Pacific and BNSF have a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western United States.

A design of the London Underground Subway Elizabeth Line

Glenfinnan Viaduct

station by Loui Jover

Journey around the Milky Way

East India Dock Docklands Light Railway Station and Canary Wharf at Night London Docklands England United Kingdom photography by Andy Evans Photos

The Trans-Australian was an Australian passenger train that crossed the Nullarbor Plain from South Australia to Western Australia from 1917 to June 1991. This poster c 1960. Image has been digitally enhanced.

Ex LMS/BR Steam Locomotive 46233 The Duchess of Sutherland on a rail tour just South of Durham City in the late Autumn sunshine

The distinctive modern structure of the new light rail concourse contrasts with original vintage Union Station facade under a colorful early morning sky at sunrise in downtown Denver, Colorado.

An original illustration featuring the Welsh coastline of Aberdovey, Gwynedd.

British Railways No Smoking sign

Class 37 at berney arms

Class 37 at remote station Berney arms

HDR image of the South Hylton terminus of the Tyne & Wear Metro (UK)

HDR image of Peckett & Sons' #1370 locomotive engine, at Beamish Open Air Museum, Co. Durham (UK)

HDR image of Millfield Metro Station, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear Metro (UK)

Aviemore Train Station

Illustration of a diesel locomotive train coming out of a tunnel with sun in the background done in retro style.

Restoration Shed at The East Anglian Railway Museum at Chappel and Wakes Colne station in Essex. HDR created from one RAW file processed as three DNG files in Photomatix, adjustments in CS6 with some help from Topaz filters. Nikon D7200 with Sigma 10-20 zoom.

This is a cute kawaii love train valentine.

Ease The Strain, Go By Train Number of views as of 23rd December 2017 = 980. Capture of a vintage British Railways advertising poster from the 1950s, encouraging people to travel by rail rather than by road. The poster depicts passengers inside a railway carriage, looking out of the window onto a traffic jam. Original artist unknown. Date: 30th December 2014.

Trojan, Didcot, August 2021 "Trojan" is an 0-4-0 ST (Saddle Tank) locomotive, built in 1897 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol. She was originally operated by Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock and later by the Alexandra Docks Railway, also in Newport (South Wales). In 1923, the Alexandra Docks Railway was absorbed into the Great Western Railway and Trojan was allocated the number 1340. Withdrawn from service by the GWR in 1932, that certainly wasn't the end of the line for Trojan. She moved to the Netherseal colliery in Burton-on-Trent and then onto Alders of Tamworth in 1947, before arriving at Didcot in 1968. Several years of restoration followed, and the engine re-entered service in 2002 after a major boiler refit. Date:...

7822 Foxcote Manor An ex Great Western Railway 4-6-0 Manor Class locomotive, number 7822 'Foxcote Manor' runs around its rake of coaches to head up the 12:15 service from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway, the UK's longest heritage railway route. The locomotive was built in the Great Western Railway's Swindon works in 1950. After being withdrawn from service in 1965, it was rescued from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in 1974 and subsequently restored to its former glory. Foxcote Manor is currently resplendent in all black British Railways livery. Date: 26th August 2018

I Choo.. Choo.. Choose You!

How happy people with something

Railroad Crossing Sign

Digital image of locomotive processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

K1 62005 was designed by the London and North Eastern Railway, built by the North British Locomotive Company in their Queen’s Park Works, Glasgow as NBL no 26609 and delivered to the fledgling British Railways in June 1949. It was condemned on 30 December 1967 and eventually sold to a consortium of Viscount Garnock, Geoff Drury, Brian Hollingsworth and George Nissen on 30 May 1969 for the boiler to be saved as a spare for the K4 61994 (LNER 3442) The Great Marquess, which they had bought. No 62005 had only survived until then because it had been used for a brief period as a temporary stationary boiler on the ICI North Tees Works. The boiler was not needed for the K4 so the loco was kindly donated to the infant but ambitious NELPG in 1972...

The locomotive was restored in LMS Crimson Lake livery with gold leaf lining, letters and numerals, and is seen above as she was in 1946 -fitted with a double chimney and smoke deflectors.

Cat Wanting To Be A Train