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Toddington: 'Peter Pan', a Kerr Stuart 0-4-0ST from 1922 and previously used as a quarry engine, seen here at Toddington on the North Gloucestershire Narrow Gauge Rly in August 1987. This is normally located today as far as I know at the Leighton Buzzard N.G. Rly.

Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway
Peter Todd [/08/1987]


Dunbar: The attractive station at Dunbar, seen looking west from the car park in May 2007. Located approximately 30 miles from Waverley on the ECML and opened by the NB in 1846, Dunbar station always appears smart and well maintained. The station became a single platform loop off the main line following 'modernisation' in the 1970s. (The canopies were removed for electrification.) [Note: A further 'modernisation' some 40 odd years later saw a second platform reintroduced at the end of 2019 along with a new footbridge, lifts and extended car parking facilities.]

North British Railway
John Furnevel [16/05/2007]


Treales Siding: 150149 passes near to the site of Treales Siding as it heads west towards Kirkham whilst on a Colne to Blackpool South service on 25 May 2017. The ground between the train and the wall on the left (parapet of a road bridge) used to have a further two tracks however rationalisation in BR days saw them removed.

Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour
John McIntyre [25/05/2017]


Dalmeny: A Fife Circle service calls at Dalmeny in March 1999 with what must be a peak-hour service if an aged Class 117 had to be resorted to. The station buildings at each end of the Forth Bridge shared the same colour scheme which doesn't seem to have been used anywhere else.

Forth Bridge Railway
David Panton [17/03/1999]


Edinburgh Waverley: View from Carlton Hill looking down on Edinburgh Waverley, on the glorious spring morning of 14th May 2016.

North British Railway
David Bosher [14/05/2016]


Southampton Docks: On Friday 19 February engineers finished a series of improvements on the lines used by freight trains between Southampton Central and Redbridge, unlocking more capacity at the country's second busiest container port. Freight services between Southampton, the Midlands and the North can now carry up to 20% more goods thanks to track, signals and sidings improvements. Trains once restricted to 520 metres in length can now be extended up to 775 metres in length, or 14 extra containers per train. Six 775 metre long freight trains per day are now set to operate from the Freightliner Maritime Terminal in Redbridge and if each of those trains adds 14 containers, they will combine to move an extra 84 containers of goods per day.

London and Southampton Railway
Network Rail [19/02/2021]


Brighton Goods: A trip freight on the Brighton Lower Goods line, recorded on a hot and hazy 11th July 1978. The brick pillars once supported an extension of the Brighton Locomotive works which closed around 1960. The lower yard closed in October 1980 and the track bed to it was later transformed into the Brighton Greenway.

London and Brighton Railway
Mark Dufton [11/07/1978]


Haydock Branch Junction: The Great Central branch to St. Helens Central meandered across south Lancashire from Lowton St. Marys on the Wigan Central branch but in 1968, long after closure to regular passenger trains, a connection was put in from the WCML at Haydock Branch Junction allowing much of the line from Glazebrook to close. The connection is still in use today allowing stone trains from Shap, which are tripped from Tuebrook Sidings in Liverpool, to access the Edge Green terminal. This view looks east in February 2021, past the stone terminal entrance, towards the main line as the old branch climbs towards Golborne North but then curves left to the junction.

Liverpool, St Helens, and South Lancashire Railway
Mark Bartlett [22/02/2021]


Crianlarich Junction: The 'Mexican Bean' BRC&W 104 325 approaches Crianlarich in 1985 with a service from Oban. The West Highland Railway for Fort William diverges to the right.

West Highland Railway
Bill Roberton [//1985]