0-4-0ST No. 1 Bonnie Prince Charlie rests inside the Great Western Society's shed at Didcot Railway Centre on 5 May 2013, in the company of GWR 0-4-0ST 1340 Trojan. Despite its name, Bonnie Prince Charlie has no Scottish connections, and was built in 1951 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns for use in a gas works at Poole.

Stockton Ironworks 0-4-0ST 5 Malleable is a typical example of a small industrial steam locomotive from the Edwardian years. This loco is of slightly dubious ancestry, but was presumably constructed around 1900. Still awaiting restoration (which may be a long time coming), it is seen here at Beamish on 5 September 2004.

0-4-0ST No. 8 does a spot of shunting at Murton, on the Derwent Valley Railway on 29 June 2008. This locomotive was built by Barclays of Kilmarnock in 1955 for the National Coal Board. It worked in Scotland until being bought for preservation in 1982 by the Hull Locomotive Preservation Group.

1943 built Hunslet 0-6-0ST 15 heads south past Hailes on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 12:52 Toddington to Winchcombe freight on 24 May 2009, during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's 25th anniversary 'Cotswold Festival of Steam'. The loco is wearing the livery of the Wemyss Private Railway, where it worked the extensive colliery lines between 1964 and 1971. Previous to that it had belonged to the Ministry of Defence. It is pictured here on its penultimate working before being named Earl David at Toddington later in the afternoon.

With snow still lying on the ground, and a clear blue sky, Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 makes a fine start to the photographic year as it approaches Hailes on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 11:00 Toddington to Winchcombe 'Mince Pie Special' on 2 January 1995.

Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 rounds the curve past the village of Didbrook on 2 January 1995 with the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's 12:00 Toddington to Winchcombe 'Mince Pie Special'.

Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 emerges from the underneath the road bridge at Hailes, and passes the newly erected Toddington fixed distant signal on 2 January 1995 as it works the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's 13:00 Toddington to Winchcombe 'Mince Pie Special' on 2 January 1995.

With snow visible on the Cotswold Hills in the background, Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 passes Hailes on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 14:00 Toddington to Winchcombe 'Mince Pie Special' on 2 January 1995.

With the very last rays of the setting sun tingeing the exhaust pink, and a little Christmas snow still lying on the ground, Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 approaches Hailes on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 15:30 Toddington to Winchcombe 'Mince Pie Special' on 2 January 1995. The use of a 200mm lens was not only to compress the perspective and make the exhaust look more impressive, but it was necessary, as the track in the immediate foreground was in shade due to the low angle of the sun.

In a lucky burst of sunshine, under a stormy sky, 1936 built Hunslet 0-6-0ST 1800 Robert Nelson No.4 passes Didbrook on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 11:50 Toddington to Far Stanley service on 6 May 1996. This loco originally worked in the Hilton Main & Holly Bank Collieries, in the Black Country.

To celebrate the centenary of Cholsey station, the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway used Peckett 0-4-0ST No.1976 on a series of shuttles along their line on 29 February 1992. With an appropriate headboard the loco is seen approach Cholsey, viewed from the preserved line's single overbridge.

In sparkling condition after just having emerged from an extensive overhaul, Hunslet 0-6-0ST 2409 King George makes a spirited departure from Toddington and approaches Didbrook on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway with the 15:45 Toddington to Gotherington service on 12 March 2000. For once the smoke is blowing in exactly the right direction! A DMU took over this service at Winchcombe.

Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST WD192 Waggoner arrives at Havenstreet on 29 May 2013 with the 12:17 Smallbrook Junction to Wootton Isle of Wight Steam Railway service. Waggoner was built in 1953 for the army, and remained with them until 1984, when it moved to the (now closed) Museum of Army Transport at Beverley.

Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST WD198 Royal Engineer rounds the curve near Ashey, on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, with the 11:02 Smallbrook Junction to Wootton service on 31 May 2013. Unlike a lot of preserved railways, the Isle of Wight line exclusively uses vintage coaches, although some of the locos are not quite so old, as in this case!

War Department Austerity 2-10-0 90775 passes Darnholm, on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 6 May 1995 with the 09:50 Grosmont to Pickering service. Although pictured here in the early British Railways livery, this is not historically correct, as this loco never saw BR service. It was exported to Greece after the war, and was later repatriated for preservation, taking the number 90775 - one higher than the last genuine BR locomotive.