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St Leonards Bridge Junction: BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73007 leaves Perth for the south with the up 'Postal' on 16 April 1955. After arriving at Perth South shed new from Derby Works in July 1951, the locomotive remained a Perth resident for the next 13 years. For a portrait of 73007 on shed in 1961 see image [[26390]].

Scottish Central Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [16/04/1955]


Pinwherry: The site of Pinwherry station seen from the signal box steps in 1989. The station building had survived in use as a house. The box later closed and loop was taken up, reducing the capacity of the line. But with the unfortunate loss of freight traffic this is not a huge problem.

Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway
Ewan Crawford [//1989]


Robin Hood Collieries: An early 1960s view of a 4 wheel petrol powered chain driven loco at Robin Hood Colliery, appropriately in Robin Hood village on the A61 trunk road between Wakefield and Leeds. I have no idea of the builder but there is a possible builders plate and what looks like a plaque on the cabside. The far buffer on the left is drooping, no doubt from a heavy shunt.

East and West Yorkshire Union Railway
David Pesterfield [//1961]


Manors North: UK Railtours' excursion, behind 66003 from Kings Cross to Tweedbank on the new Borders Line, passing the shabby one-time junction station at Manors, just north of Newcastle, on 30th December 2015. Still open, despite appearances to the contrary.

Newbridge to Manors Link (North Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [30/12/2015]


Prestwick: Some odd bedfellows at a railwayana auction at Sheffield in 1996. Bishop's Stortford seems to have lost its apostrophe. The blue colour shows that Charing Cross was the Glasgow one; the London totem (coincidentally one was also present) was identical but green. Prestwick was to become Prestwick Town after the airport station opened.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
David Panton [07/09/1996]


Abbeyhill: Approaching the closed Abbeyhill station with a Commonwealth Games shuttle in July 1986.

Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [/07/1986]


Brocken: Tank wagon on transporter truck, in the elevated station at The Brocken, on 10th September 2020.

Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Eisenbahn
John Yellowlees [10/09/2020]


Upper Greenock: BR standard 2-6-4T no 80110 approaching Upper Greenock on 13 August 1964 with the 5.30pm ex-Wemyss Bay.

Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [13/08/1964]


Preston: Northern 158757 crosses the River Ribble on the southern approach to Preston whilst on a York to Blackpool service in April 2011.

North Union Railway
John McIntyre [27/04/2011]