7 Images released on Saturday 10/02/2024

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Avon Aqueduct: View west of the north side of the Avon Aqueduct. It is an A listed 12 arch structure designed by Hugh Baird which carries the Union Canal in an iron trough within the stone structure. It is the longest (810ft) and tallest (86ft) aqueduct in Scotland.

Union Canal
Duncan Ross [22/04/2023]


Millport Pier: A 1964 photograph of PS ‘Caledonia’ arriving at Millport.

Piers, Slips and Staiths
Brian Haslehust [2/9/1964]


Shawfair: Tracklaying taking place on the Borders Railway between Newcraighall and Shawfair on 8 October 2014.

Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail)
John Furnevel [08/10/2014]


Grangemouth: A railbus awaits departure from Grangemouth with a working for Larbert & Alloa on the afternoon of 30/12/1967. The passenger station itself was a terminus with the goods lines to the docks passing to the right of this shot and under the road bridge in the background. Passenger services were withdrawn from the branch on 29/01/1968 and the station was subsequently demolished and the site cleared.

Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)
John Clark [30/12/1967]


Leeds: London North Eastern Railway, retro Inter City liveried class 91 electric, 91109 'Sir Bobby Robson', attached to an identically liveried rake of Mark 4 coaches and DVT, lays over in dead end platform 6 at Leeds on 16 November 2023, prior to propelling the 11.15 1A26 working back to Kings Cross.

Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds Railway
David Pesterfield [16/11/2023]


Swanwick Junction: 111 year old 0-4-0ST locomotive 'Whitehead', at the Midland Railway Centre's Swanwick Junction station, with a train from Riddings to Hammersmith on 4th May 2019.

Ambergate to Pye Bridge and Codnor Park (Midland Railway)
David Bosher [04/05/2019]


De Trafford Junction: A January 2024 view looking north along the Whelley Loop at the point where the still active Wigan to Hindley line crosses the loop. Just beyond the bridge was De Trafford Junction where a chord from Hindley Junction came in from the right until 1973. The bridge was originally two tracks but widened when the Atherton line was quadrupled and the Wigan avoiding line to Pemberton was built allowing fast L&YR trains to run from Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Exchange.

Lancashire Union Railway
Mark Bartlett [10/01/2024]