12 Images released on Sunday 14/12/2025

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Derby Works: West Coast Railways' 57008 on display at The Greatest Gathering Rail 200 event at Derby Litchurch Lane, at 11.05 on Saturday, 2nd August 2025. 33 of these were rebuilt from class 47s by Brush Traction at British Rail Crewe Works between 1998 and 2004.

Derby Works (Midland Railway)
David Bosher [02/08/2025]


East Anstey: East Anstey station, on the Taunton and Barnstaple line, seen from a DMU on 29th September 1966, two days before the line closed. East Anstey opened as a single platform facility in 1873 but a second platform and passing loop were added three years later.

Devon and Somerset Railway
Doug Nicholls [29/09/1966]


Sunnyside Junction: Looking south over Sunnyside Junction in 1993. Below is the Gunnie branch, latterly serving a cement depot. Curving off to the right is the freight-only line to Whifflet South Junction. The preserved locos in the Summerlee Museum yard are Hudswell Clarke No.9 (works no. 895 of 1909), Gibb & Hogg No.11 of 1898 (since moved to the main exhibition hall), Sentinel 'Robin' (9628 of 1957) and Barclay diesel 472 of 1966. All have strong local connections.

Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [//1993]


Killin [2nd]: There was a touch of West Perthshire at the Centenary Manchester Model Railway Exhibition in 2025. The fictional location of Bred Albin was the setting for a micro-layout celebrating 'when diesel locomotives hauled single coach branch line trains'. What caught my eye was the station building, modelled on that at Killin, but the stone signal box and attached cottage is based on that at Drumvaich on the Callander and Oban line.

Killin Railway
Mark Bartlett [13/12/2025]


Accrington: Thanks, central Lancs! - as the industrial relocation ad went in the 1980s. I was travelling to Preston, having had very helpful directions to the (rather run down) Accrington station. The train approaching the station was the 12.12 to Blackpool North.

Accrington, Burnley and Colne Branch (East Lancashire Railway)
Ken Strachan [03/12/2025]


Twyford: Freightliner 66557 eastbound, from the Merehead Quarries to Hanwell Loop Bridge, passing Twyford on 5th November 2025 running as 6A40. The curving platform accommodates the link onto the Henley-on-Thames branch, the bay for which is behind the platform building. While here I decided on a coffee, but to my dismay a Class 60 passed heading east with a stone train for Quainton and HS2.

Great Western Railway
Peter Todd [05/11/2025]


Ince: Sprinter 150150 pulls away from Ince with a Southport to Stalybridge service on 19th November 2025. This would normally be a Class 769 working, and reminder notices for drivers of these units have recently appeared at Ince with the overhead wires. The Sprinter is just passing under the new road bridge, to the left of which is the arch for the long closed Ince Hall branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Liverpool and Bury Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Mark Bartlett [19/11/2025]


Newcastle Central: An HST north of Newcastle Central station in 1988, before electrification

Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Crinan Dunbar [//1988]


Muchalls Viaduct: McPhersons Bridge, just south of the Muchalls Viaduct, in December 2025. I noticed bridge works a good while back and I thought it had been replaced but it was only the parapets.

Aberdeen Railway
Duncan Ross [11/12/2025]


Camden Road: The partially abandoned westbound platform at Camden Road, seen from 378212 arriving with a London Overground service from Gospel Oak to Stratford, at 14.40 on Saturday, 17th February 2024. Services west of Gospel Oak were suspended on this day due to engineering works.

East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
David Bosher [17/02/2024]


Incline Foot [Craigmore]: Above the cutting north of the incline foot the route of the former incline is a little less well defined. This view looks uphill.

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


Settle Junction: With the Settle & Carlisle line in the foreground, a Class 144 has just cleared Settle Junction and is heading towards Carnforth with a Leeds to Morecambe working in September 2004.

North Western Railway
John Clark [03/09/2004]