Full steam ahead for new season
Volunteers Alex Bateman, Brian Winstanley and Brian Hall have a tea break as the world's oldest working railway, the Middleton Railway in Hunslet, Leeds, reopens for the 2010 season.
A charitable organisation and run solely by volunteers, it offers visitors the opportunity to ride on one of its fully operational trains and discover the 250-year-old heritage of the Middleton Railway.
Andrew Gill, chairman at the Middleton Railway Trust, said: "A considerable amount of maintenance work has taken place during the winter closure of the railway and we think visitors will be extremely impressed with the renovations that have taken place, particularly one of the steam engines 'Matthew Murray' built by Manning, Wardle in 1903."
Picture: Graham Lindley.