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Oubeck Loops: 68026 'Enterprise' propels an ecs TPE push-pull set south at Oubeck, working from Carlisle to Crewe on a dull and grey 29th January 2021. Photo incidental to a permitted essential journey.

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [29/01/2021]


Beattock: A pair of class 37s approaching Beattock from the south with a trainload of coal empties in the summer of 1997. The locomotives are in EWS (leading) and BR Metals Sector liveries.

Caledonian Railway
John Furnevel [19/08/1997]


Parklee Signal Box: BR Standard Tank 80086 photographed leaving Langbank with a Gourock - Glasgow train on a misty Saturday morning in September 1963.

Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [21/09/1963]


Glamis: The site of Glamis station looking west to Perth. The platforms had been removed before line closure. The signal box still stood when this was taken in 1996.

Newtyle, Eassie and Glammis Railway
Ewan Crawford [//1996]


Wakefield Westgate: Thompson B1 61385 approaches the barrow crossing at the south end of Wakefield Westgate in pouring rain on what is believed to be 16 November 1963. It is on the down non-platform through line, possibly heading for Wrenthorpe Yard with brake vans either end of a short rake of freight vehicles. The adjacent up through line was removed during the electrification works in order to site overhead support columns along the cleared trackbed.

Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway
David Pesterfield [16/11/1963]


Haymarket: A class 156 calls at Haymarket with a Glasgow Central stopper in February 1999. These were then only trains to be seen in SPT livery around these parts. Things at platform level have changed a fair bit since those days, though not quite so much as they have at street level.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
David Panton [21/02/1999]


Fearn: A very peaceful Fearn station in mid October 2020

Inverness and Ross-shire Railway
Colin McDonald [14/10/2020]


Lammerlaws Yard: Burntisland Dock sidings looking in good shape in 1984.

Edinburgh and Northern Railway
Bill Roberton [//1984]


North Weald: GWR Hall Class 4-6-0 4953 'Pitchford Hall' arriving at North Weald on the Epping Ongar Railway on 2nd June 2012. Built at Swindon in August 1929, it was withdrawn in May 1963, finding its way to Woodham's scrapyard at Barry. It was purchased for preservation by a Dr. John Kennedy in 1984 and moved to Tyseley for restoration, eventually moving under its own steam again for the first time in just over 40 years in February 2004. It was sold to the Epping Ongar Railway in 2011, shortly before the line reopened. This station nowadays looks as if it might well be on a different planet to the days when LUL Central Line trains called here from 1957 to 1994.

Ongar Extension (Great Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [02/06/2012]