10 Images released on Saturday 20/03/2021

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Cairneyhill: Caledonian Sleeper locos 73971 and 73968, near Cairneyhill with the 6K10 Dalmeny - Millerhill engineers train giving the rusty rails a bit of a polish on 7 March 2021.

Kincardine and Dunfermline Railway (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [07/03/2021]


Arbroath: I was waiting for an early morning Aberdeen train at Arbroath when this class 158 pulled into the station and I boarded it, only to hear an announcement that the train terminated here. The following Aberdeen HST service arrived a few minutes later. This was the 21st March 2020, the day before National lockdown.

Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway)
Alan Cormack [21/03/2020]


Thornton Shed [2nd]: In sidings alongside the depot at Thornton, B1 61140 shunts some DMU vehicles as J38 0-6-0 65925 passes light engine on the main line. 20th September 1966.

Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)
Robin McGregor [20/09/1966]


Ropley: LNER A1 60163 'Tornado' at the Mid-Hants Railway, running tender first back to Ropley and Alresford during a Gala weekend. 6 March 2010.

Mid-Hants Railway
Peter Todd [06/03/2010]


Lancaster: 88006 'Juno' drops down Lancaster bank, with a late running northbound 'Tesco' service, on a grey and damp 9th March 2021.

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Mark Bartlett [09/03/2021]


Croston: 158816 departs from Croston with the 1501 hrs from Ormskirk to Preston on 19 February 2021. The original station house remains in private ownership although other platform buildings have been replaced with a modern shelter.

Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)
John McIntyre [19/02/2021]


Ladybank: The classic lines of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway's 1847 station at Ladybank, Fife. Photograph taken in September 2007 looking south east across Victoria Street.

Edinburgh and Northern Railway
John Furnevel [20/09/2007]


Walkinshaw Branch Junction: BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73075 photographed half a mile west of Paisley St James with the 9.30am Glasgow - Gourock on 16 May 1964. The train is about to pass the site of Walkinshaw Branch Junction, which once provided a direct link between the Greenock line and the former Paisley and Barrhead District Railway. The gasometer on the horizon is part of Paisley Gasworks.

Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [16/05/1964]


Motherwell Shed: Holmes North British J36 0-6-0 65331, seen in the yard of Motherwell Shed on 25 August 1963.

Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)
David Pesterfield [25/08/1963]


Eastcote: LUL S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service from Uxbridge to Aldgate arriving at Eastcote on 13th February 2013. This station, also served by the Piccadilly Line, was originally a tin hut halt opened in 1906, two years after the line opened in 1904 and was rebuilt as a station in 1939 to the designs of Dr. Charles Holden (1875-1960), the London Underground's Chief Architect between the two world wars.

Harrow and Uxbridge Railway
David Bosher [13/02/2013]