For many years, rail enthusiasts have been chartering special trains across Britain's network, sometimes using historic locomotives that have been retired from active service but retained for such use or as museum exhibits, but subsequently put back into working condition. One of the earliest such occasions was the RCTS in September 1938 using Stirling Single(4-2-2) No. 1 on a Kings Cross - Peterborough Peterborough - Kings Cross trip.
This gallery shows such workings by preserved locos n the years before the end of steam working on British Railways and before the total steam ban on main lines was imposed between 1969 and 1972.
