10 Images released on Saturday 27/12/2025

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Normanton: Fowler design LMS 2P 4-4-0 40646 is inside loco of the double headed RCTS East Midlander Railtour of 13 May 1962 seen at Normanton station. Former Southern Schools class 4-4-0 30925 'Cheltenham' was lead loco.

North Midland Railway
David Pesterfield [13/05/1962]


Harringay: Harringay on the ECML in north London, shoddily rebuilt in 1976, looking north at 12.40 on Friday, 17th January 2025. The line here was opened by the Great Northern Railway in 1850 to a temporary London terminus at Maiden Lane before King's Cross was ready in 1852. Harringay was not opened until 1st May 1885 with two island platforms, proper buildings and canopies and a rather grand entrance on the footpath overbridge at the north end. It was renamed Harringay West on 18th June 1951 but reverted to simply Harringay on 27th May 1971.

London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)
David Bosher [17/01/2025]


Easter Road Junction: A hazy autumn day in 2002 sees 56118 with the 11.15 from Oxwellmains - Powderhall R.T.S approaching Easter Road Junction with the return empties. The curve to Abbeyhill Junction, which closed in the 1980s, went off to the right and in the background are the Crawford Bridge and the floodlights at Easter Road football stadium.

Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway)
John Clark [//2002]


Bowling Oil Terminal: A new railway bridge being built at a strategic development site in Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, successfully glided into position during the Christmas closure, marking a major moment in the site’s transformation. Work by Network Rail began in the summer with the excavation of more than 80,000 tonnes of material to create space for the new structure. Once the site was cleared, engineers cast the bridge on location using 1,860 tonnes of concrete – the same weight as around 34 million mince pies!

Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway
Network Rail [26/12/2025]


Bowling Oil Terminal: A new railway bridge being built at a strategic development site in Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, successfully glided into position during the Christmas closure marking a major moment in the site’s transformation. Work by Network Rail began in the summer with the excavation of more than 80,000 tonnes of material to create space for the new structure. Once the site was cleared, engineers cast the bridge on location using 1,860 tonnes of concrete – the same weight as around 34 million mince pies!

Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway
Network Rail [26/12/2025]


Sheffield Park: View of BR Standard 9F class 2-10-0 No. 92240 stabled to the south of the yard at the Bluebell Railway's Sheffield Park shed in July 2005. It was withdrawn by BR in late 1965 and spent 13 years in Barry Scrapyard before moving to the Bluebell where after restoration and creation of a new BR1C tender it entered service in 1990. As of 2025, after some 15 years plus in store, mainly on display at Horsted Keynes station, it is once again in the throes of being overhauled, and the various boiler faults repaired.

East Grinstead to Culver Junction (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
David Pesterfield [30/07/2005]


Highgate: Northern Line route diagram facing the southbound platform at Highgate on 8th December 2025. Had the LPTB's 1935 'New Works' plan for incorporating the former GNR's 'Northern Heights' lines been fully completed, this would show trains from Moorgate to Alexandra Palace via Finsbury Park and Highgate, between Mill Hill East and Edgware and on a new extension beyond the latter to Bushey Heath. North of Edgware, remains of a broken viaduct can still be seen, on which Brockley Hill station would have been sited. It was never used but stands today as a memorial to The Railway That Never Was.

Highgate Link (London Passenger Transport Board)
David Bosher [08/12/2025]


Incline Head [Craigmore]: A close view of the telegraph pole at the head of the incline, the only intact pole remaining on the quarry tramway.

Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Tramway
Ewan Crawford [26/02/2024]


Incline Head [Craigmore]: Turning around, just after leaving the incline head, you can see just how built up the line was here. The built up nature of the line is clearly seen here. It ran on a shelf which was built up (and cut out of) the steep hillside.

Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Tramway
Ewan Crawford [26/02/2024]


Tebay: 44767 doesn`t seem to be in top form as it brings its six coach train, a Birmingham - Glasgow relief, to a halt at Tebay requesting banking assistance. As can be seen from the shot taken on 29th July 1967 it wasn`t a great day for photographers either. The locomotive survived until withdrawal from Kingmoor on 30th December 1967 and was subsequently saved for preservation.

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
John Clark [29/07/1967]