Welcome to my gallery. I hope that you enjoy browsing through my train pictures. I will gradually add to the gallery as time permits. Please do make comments and observations to me by pressing the 'click here to get in touch' button or, alternatively, by dropping me an 'e-mail'. I would love to know who looks at my pictures and what they think of them! Michael J. Collins, Coggeshall, Essex
Michael's Train Pix
2009
 
Glinting in the low evening desert sunshine at Dagget Junction, CA, BNSF Nos. 4041 and 7248 head west with a long bare train on 21 September 2009.
Fri 25th Sep 2009
Arizona and California, September 2009 		The driver of DBS Class 66 No.66047 is just about to run over the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! The working is 6S00 Clitheroe-Mossend cements recorded at Selside on 22June09.
Tue 5th May 2009
Digital Images (Anglia Excepted) Part 2 		Now owned by Hull Trains, former First Great Western 'Adalente' unit heads across the Fens near Little Downham with 1A92 08.09 Hull-Cambridge service - diverted away from the ECML because of engineering work at Welwyn.
Fri 6th Mar 2009
Part 4 Essex & East Anglia (Digital Images)
 
First things first! The gripper checks our tickets!
Sun 1st Feb 2009
A Last Breakfast on NXEA
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2008
 
Not many 'Western' Class diesels have worked on Bethnal Green Bank! On 20 December 2008 No.D1015 made a fine sight at the helm of a 'Pathfinder' special from Swindon to Great Yarmouth via Liverpool Street. The sound of the twin Maybach engines working hard was a pleasure to hear. Memories!
Mon 22nd Dec 2008
London Trains(Digital) 		Class 170 No.170116. Clacton Depot 12 December 2008.
Mon 15th Dec 2008
Transys Clacton Depot 		'Fastline' Class 66 No. 66305 heads the 6D06 Daw Mill-Ratcliff Power Station load of coal past Cossington on 19 September 2008.
Mon 22nd Sep 2008
A Lazy Day at Cossington
 
Centre of attention on the down through road. Class 60 No. 60029 takes the 6H28 Llanwern-Margam freight through Newport on 6 August 2008.
Fri 8th Aug 2008
Variety at Newport 		Framed in the station name board Class 37 No.37611 prepares to leave Cambridge with 1Q18 test coach 'Mentor' to Ilford via the GN on 29 January 2009.
Sat 2nd Aug 2008
Part 3 Essex and East Anglia (Digital Images) 		Although it was nearly dark I couldn't resist climbing down to get this rare shot at Berney Arms when the locos inexplicably stopped in the correct position. Class 20s Nos 20310 plus 311 at the head of a special 1Z69 RHTT from Great Yarmouth to Norwich on 24 November 2006.
Tue 29th Jul 2008
Part 3 Anglia Scanned Slides
 
RENFE Class 354 No.354.001-0 in charge of Altaria 227 Cartagena-Madrid passes north of Canteras on 9 April 2008.
Thu 24th Apr 2008
Spanish Railways 		Class 56 No 56114 is providing all the braking power for these vacuum braked hoppers. Loading is taking place at the Alcan Terminal in Blyth and the product is Alluminium Ore which will be transported to Lynemouth for smelting later in the day. August 1991.
Sat 1st Mar 2008
Part 3 Scanned Slides (Anglia Excepted) 		A cliche location, indeed, millions of train pictures must have been taken here. It's still an attractive spot, though, and at least you can watch the parade of birds between the trains. Class 90 No. 90011 crosses the Suffolk Stour estuary at Manningtree with the 10.30 Norwich-Liverpool Street on 4 February 2008.
Sat 9th Feb 2008
Essex and East Anglia Part 2 (Digital Images)
 
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2007
 
Class 37 No.37422 stands at Crewe station waiting to proceed forward with a Holyhead-Birmingham via Stoke service. 30 December 1997
Sun 2nd Sep 2007
Scanned Slides (Anglia Excepted) Part 2 		Me, looking much younger than I do now, at the controls of Class 31 No.31165 during September 1991. Is this really seventeen years ago? It seems like yesterday! Photo yaken by my good friend John Day.
Fri 31st Aug 2007
Scanned Slides (Anglia) Part 2 		On hire to the Great Central Railway from the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway, Fairburn 2-6-4 tank No.42085 hauls a demonstration TPO past Woodthorp on 25 July 2009.
Thu 30th Aug 2007
British Steam (Digital Pictures)
 
Wuppertal Schwebebahn. This railway is quite unique and this particular location is great. I was sitting at a table outside a bar enjoying a glass of fine German wheat beer.
Fri 13th Jul 2007
Trams and other transport Stuff (Digital and Scanned) 		47150 approaches South Tottenham with the Dagenham-Crewe car train on 15 September 1999
Fri 13th Jul 2007
London Railways (Scanned Slides) 		Class 73 No.73003 heads the daily Ramsgate-New Cross Gate vans through Archcliffe Junction, Dover on 13 February 1988. Snow is quite rare on the coast at Dover.
Wed 4th Jul 2007
Trains in the Garden of England
 
SNCB No.1901 ( a prototype dual-voltage locomotive). Arrival from Mons via Tournai. Lille Flandres, March 1997. This was one of its regular workings.
Mon 18th Jun 2007
Benelux Railways (Scanned Slides) 		92240 Freshfield
Thu 31st May 2007
British Steam (Scanned Slides) 		Delhi express, Dehradun
Sat 26th May 2007
Indian Railways (Scanned Slides)
 
47014 on the Aberdeen-Tees 'Speedlink' at Carmont.
Sat 26th May 2007
Scanned Slides (Anglia Excepted) 		This Leyland railbus, a precursor of the present day Class 142s, had been on a sales tour of various Scandinavian countries. It was repatriated at Harwich and promptly developed a wheel fault. It was put on a 'skate' and towed to Colchester Depot for attention where I photographed it on 29 June 1985.
Sat 26th May 2007
Scanned Slides (Anglia) 		73109 Gospel Oak
Sat 26th May 2007
Monochrome Images ( Anglia Excepted)
 
31417 Whitlingham Junction
Sat 26th May 2007
Monochrome Images (Anglia) 		67015 plus 67022 t&t on a Victoria- Folkestone VSOE special on 17 May 2007 at Wandsworth Road
Thu 24th May 2007
UK Modern Traction (Anglia Excepted) Digital Images 		SNCF tends to avoid using diesel traction for long hauls under the wires so I was very surprised when Class 67 diesel No.67467 turned up at L'Ardoise with this Berre-Marseille haul of oil tanks. The port of Marseille was suffering from industrial unrest at the time and road exits from the port were being blockaded by militants protesting at the surging price of oil. Photo taken on a thundery 10 June 2008.
Mon 7th May 2007
European Railways (Digital Images)
 
Carrying no 'ONE' branding Class 170 No. 170201 crosses Stanway Viaduct with a Lowestoft-Liverpool Street service just as the Coatbridge-Felixstowe Freightliner passes in the care of a pair of Class 86s on 8 February 2008. The local sheep seem to be singularly unimpressed. Photo taken with the permission of the farmer.
Wed 25th Apr 2007
Essex and East Anglia(Digital Images)
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2006
 
Pont Leccia, engineers train
Tue 6th Jun 2006 to Tue 13th Jun 2006
Corsica
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2000
 
'The Empire Builder', Seattle-Chicago, passes near to the Hood River Bridge in the Columbia River Gorge during an August evening in 2000. I had waited for over an hour for this train. What a pity I didn't bother to wait for a couple more minutes after it passed - a freight was right on its tail! Such are the tribulations of railroad photography in the USA.
Tue 18th Jul 2000
American Railways (Scanned Slides)
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1985
 
25170+17047 Oiry-s-Marne 8 April 1999
Tue 2nd Jul 1985
French Railways (scanned slides)
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1980
 
141 299-8 Karlsruhe
Sat 2nd Aug 1980
German Railways (Scanned Slides)
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