British Rail Tapestries

HDR image of locomotive engine wheels , exhibited at Shildon Locomotion National Railway Museum, Co. Durham (UK)

Preserved Deltic D9009 on the East Coast Mainline with a railtour powers through Co Durham

Vintage retro train travel poster with scenic mountain sunset

Vintage British Railways travel poster for Suffolk

Class 66 loco at signal night time

Vintage British Railways travel to Chester Poster

Goathland is a village deep in the North York Moors, off the A169 between Pickering and Whitby. It is surrounded by beautiful scenery and has its own station on the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway line. This picturesque village is the setting for the popular television series Heartbeat, and filming may occasionally be seen throughout the year.

The Flying Scotsman, in Bunswick green near Durham, North East, England on an express train showing her speed

GB Railfreight rebuilt Class 69 loco, 69005, rebuilt from a redundant Class 56 freight loco

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

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.

The Flying Scotsman, in Bunswick green near Durham, North East, England on an express train showing her speed

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 Flying Scotsman, in Bunswick green near Durham, North East, England on an express train showing her speed

LMS steam loco Bahamas

Diesel Locomotives Print

Did you know that the fastest steam locomotive in the world is a British LNER-designed A4 locomotive? It is called 'Mallard' and it can be found in the National Railway Museum in York. The designer was Sir Nigel Gresley, and his favourite bird was a mallard duck, hence the name.

The Flying Scotsman was originally built in Doncaster for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), emerging from the works on 24 February 1923 and initially numbered 1472. It was designed by Sir Nigel Gresley as part of the A1 class – the most powerful locomotives used by the railway. Here she in on the North Yorks Moors railway

Class 68 at red signal

A soon to be withdrawn Class 55 Deltic on a wet night in Stockport

Stanier 8f at Picton, North Yorkshire with a rail tour from Skipton to Whitby

A Great Western Railway (GWR) poster for travel to Somerset, showing a rural scene with an old stone bridge and green rolling hills, 1936. - 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. -

The famous Flying Scotsman steam along the East Coast mainline south of Durham, England

A Southern Railway (SR) poster promoting cheap day tickets to the Surrey Hills, declaring them the 'Londoner's Highlands', 1926. - 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. -

A North Eastern Railway (NER) poster to promote travel to the Yorkshire Moors, showing a view which conveys the 'tranquil solitude' of the region, circa 1910. - 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 68 at red signal night time

Class 68 night time

Black 5's 45407 and 44871 adorned with bicycles to commemorate the first Tour de Yorkshire Cycle Race at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

A London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) poster to advertise the celebration of the centenary of the London and Birmingham railway, 1938. - 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 66 at a red signal

Vintage network map of the Southern Railway Please note that this is a vintage advert and may have some minor imperfections, patina etc

Flying Scotsman Steam Locomotive 60103 LNER A3

60007 Sir Nigel Gresley backs onto it train at Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway

Black 5, 45412 bursts out of the tunnel on the North Yorkshire Moors railway in a cloud of steam and smoke

The Great Marquess leaves Grosmont on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with a train to Pickering

Vintage British Railways travel Poster Northumberland