From before the introduction of the Britannias, to the imminent demise of the Deltics.

My very first photograph. Taken at Liverpool Street in 1951. Included here for historical value only. These 4-6-0s were the mainstay of services from Liverpool Street at this time, shortly to be relegated by the intoduction of the B.R. Standard 'Britannia' Pacifics.

Station Pilot duty for a 'Black Motor Tank.' No.30670 waits at Exeter Central for its next job in January 1961

'Tulyar' waiting for the road to Kings Cross where its train awaits. Taken in 1978 on the same day as the image above of 55009.

'The Royal Horse Guardsman' About to depart from Euston in 1959 with a northbound express.

Class 47 Type Diesel No. 47453 brings an up express through West Hampsted. The diesel equivalent of the 'Stanier Black Five' of steam days, go anywhere, do anything machines, with striking reliability. 

Evidently, the cleaners at Longsite Shed had run out of cotton waste, or perhaps the shed had run out of cleaners? 'Charles Dickens' tries his best to look majestic under the circumstances. Kentish Town 1960.