I love heritage steam railways. There is nothing like them. In particular there is nothing like heritage steam locomotives with their sights, sounds and smells of yesteryear. Somehow living machines, fiery dragons when they are in steam with a life of their own.

80151 emerging mysteriously from a cloud of smoke and steam of its own making as if it were materialising from the mists of past times, chuffing and puffing, from the golden age of steam.

80151 and 76017 in a push-me pull-you arrangement or double headed on themselves maybe? Unusual to see two locomotives in this arrangement anyway off down the line to the next station.

53808 taking off with its passenger train set attached on its way to Ropley. Formerly known as number 88 and built by Robert Stephensen and Co. in.July 1925 for The Midland Railway, she was withdrawn by BR in March 1964. As can be seen she is now in preservation.

Gotta love heritage steam and photographing it on MFT format cameras 😀.