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Bury Bolton Street, and I'e been meaning to scan and post this for ages. The engine you can see fully is 71000 Duke of Gloucester, a green engine, but with backlighting, you can't see the colour at all. Every March, there is a big engines weekend at the East Lancashire Railway, this particular year there were nine locos visiting. I had to lean well out over the railway in order to get other people out of the picture.

WOW  Wonderful.  Those days are long past.

I like this picture. The person walking along the side really adds to the affect of the image. Good one.

Sorry to disappoint you Judy, but there are several hundred preserved steam locomotives in Britain that are in steam, many of which are doing main line work now, and there are one or two new engines being built, and maybe there are going to be new classes of steam engines that have higher pressure boilers that burn coal much more efficiently, being built for freight work.

We don't have any working steam trains here in North America, that I know of.  I remember as a teen going on steam train trips with Dad and thoroughly enjoying those times.  They ended while I was still a teen and I haven't seen any since then except on display.