37418 arrives at Bury on March 9, but sadly the loco was not able to take part in the line's diesel gala the following weekend, but should be ready for traffic soon. Paul Morris.

47245 waits time on the rear of the 1Z84 1309 Folkestone Harbour-Canterbury West on March 14, billed as the last ever passenger departure from the station and hauled by 70013 Oliver Cromwell. Kurt Goulder.

In conjunction with the Stratford Class 47 Group, the Mid Norfolk Railway held a Stratford Class 47- running day on February 28 using visiting 47580 County of Essex and home-based 47596 Aldeburgh Festival (masquerading as 47584 County of Suffolk for the day on one side only). The immaculate pair of Brush Type 4s pass the beautifully-preserved, privately-owned Hardingham station hauling the 1300 Dereham-Wymondham Abbey. Aubrey Evans.

Steam monopoly ended at Bluebell
The first diesel-hauled passenger train on the Bluebell Railway ran on March 7 when 73136 Perseverance worked a return trip from Sheffield Park to Kingscote. The ED leaves Sharpthorne Tunnel and passes the site of West Hoathley Station on the 1230 Sheffield Park-Kingscote. Paul Winter.

West Coast Railways' 47851 Traction Magazine passes Eldroth, between Settle Junction and Carnforth, with a returning ECS from a Harrogate-Edinburgh charter the day before. 47760 is on the rear. Anthony Hicks.

Class 25 D5217 has left the Weardale Railway and returned to Shackerstone. Some of its last duties were in December when it worked Santa specials, its steam heat boiler being used to good effect. The 'rat' stands at Stanhope in February. Brendan Kilgallon.

60163 Tornado was unveiled in apple-green British Railways livery just before the at the National railway Museum on December 13. David Elliott/A1 Steam Locomotive Trust Library

Typical of the sort of train that will transfer is the summer-only service from Ustka on the Baltic coast to Krakow in southern Poland. Co-Co electric ET22 969 stands at Ustka on August 2 2008 with R83504, the 1822 to Krakow Plasow. Keith Fender.

234 passenger swansong
234467 hauls EC46 Warszawa-Berlin through Berlin Friedrichstraße on March 27 2008. The remaining of 234s face an uncertain future with all locos due overhaul next year and following the end of diversions of Berlin-Poland trains in December, these locos now have no booked passenger turns. Rob Hartley.