10 Images released on Sunday 28/03/2021

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Gourock: Infrastructure for the following year’s electrification is already well established at Gourock as Standard 5 73059 reverses out of the station after bringing in an afternoon train from Glasgow. On the left, 2-6-4T 80120 will shortly depart in the opposite direction.

Gourock Extension Railway (Caledonian Railway)
Robin McGregor [17/10/1966]


Swindon: 6V32, with GBRf 66777 'Annette', westbound on the Tilbury to Trostre passing the Stratton footbridge at Swindon on 15th March 2021.

Great Western Railway
Peter Todd [15/03/2021]


Upton and Innishannon: Upton, the intermediate stop between Crossbarry and Bandon looking east back towards Crossbarry. The station building survives as an office along with the platform. The station was open from 1849 to 1961.

Cork and Bandon Railway
Mark Poustie [10/07/2020]


Farington Junction: Colas 66846 joins the West Coast main line at Farington Junction having travelled over the S&C with logs for Chirk from Carlisle on 16th March 2021. The train will cross to run on the Up Slow (see image [[37061]]) through Leyland to Balshaw Lane Junction.

North Union Railway
Mark Bartlett [18/03/2021]


Brockenhurst: BR SR class 2 HAP EMU no.5631 arrives at Brockenhurst in the evening of 20 July 1971 with a service from Lymington.

Southampton and Dorchester Railway
John McIntyre [20/07/1971]


Brunstane: A diverted LNER Azuma runs north through Brunstane on the morning of 28 December 2019. With the E&G route closed at Haymarket East Junction for 3 days due to engineering works various services were being rerouted via the 'sub' in order to access Waverley Station from the east end.

Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
John Furnevel [28/12/2019]


Haverthwaite: Fairburn 4MT 2-6-4T 42085, under the unrealistic guise of Caledonian Railway 2085, sitting dormant at Haverthwaite in 1982. In recent years it has operated in a more accurate BR Black livery.

Windermere Lakeside Branch (Furness Railway)
Gordon Steel [09/09/1982]


Langbank: Part of the rock cutting at Langbank, looking east towards Glasgow on 17 July 1962.

Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [17/07/1962]


Johnshaven: Taken during a walk from Johnshaven on the Bervie branch in March 2021. This view looks north from near Johnshaven to Gourdon, around three miles away. The last passenger services ran in 1951, seventy years earlier, but goods trains continued until 1966.

Montrose and Bervie Railway
Duncan Ross [08/03/2021]


Springs Branch Shed: View from a passing train of Springs Branch, Wigan MPD in February 1986. A pair of Class 20s appear to have made a recent fuel delivery. After closure the depot became an EWS loco component recovery centre, and was later used by Network Rail track machines, but is now an EMU and DMU depot for Northern.

Springs Branch (North Union Railway)
Bill Roberton [15/02/1986]