No. 7029 'Clun Castle' was a memorable visitor at Christmas time in 1998. A tall semaphore distant signal was also still a landmark at Woodthorpe at the time. 28/12/98

A shot of the 9F taken during a photo charter. These events are fun once in a while but it's not proper railway photography - it's too easy. And you end up with the same shots as everyone else much of the time. 27/9/99

60800 'Green Arrow' drifts down into Loughborough in high summer heading the 10.05 from Leicester North. 30/7/00

No other preserved railway in Britain can reproduce scenes like this: A main line train on a main line railway. 45305 passes under Woodthorpe bridge on the Friday of a bank holiday weekend. 29/4/05

Black Five 45305 has charge of the demonstration freight on the climb out of Loughborough to Quorn. The occasion was the 2006 '60s gala'. 26/3/06

A classic view of O4 no. 63601 on the Windcutters near Woodthorpe.