6 Images released on Thursday 15/02/2024

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Rainham: 66702 passing Rainham with 4M47, the 1218 London Gateway to Hams Hall service, on 11th January 2024. Lots of clutter and ironwork all over but behind this line the LTS as I knew it as is the high speed line from St Pancras to Ashford and onward.

Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway
Roger Geach [11/01/2024]


Kirkless Iron Works: The east bank of part of the Wigan Flight of canal locks was the boundary of the huge Kirkless Iron Works. This was served by the half mile Round House branch from the Whelley Loop. The railway crossed the canal between Locks 68 and 69 and abutments of the bridge survive on either side. The complex was also served by the nearby Springs Branch freight line but the Round House branch closed with the iron and coke plants in 1930.

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


Harworth Main Colliery: 56062 arrives at Harworth, passing the run round loop outside the colliery, with Pathfinders 'Joint Line Jester' tour from Reading on 17th January 2004.

South Yorkshire Joint Railway (Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway)
Roger Geach [17/01/2004]


Harworth Main Colliery: View looking westerly to the remaining unfaced lower south side abutment and east wing wall structure of overbridge FCB3 that ran across Styrrup Lane, that runs between the B6463 at Styrrup village and the A60 Doncaster to Worksop Road. This bridge was on a 5 mile branch off a branch latterly, as it left the Harworth Colliery branch at a triangular junction east of the A60 to connect only to the Firbeck Colliery which closed in 1968. It looped around to then cross under the A60 south of Langold village to reach the colliery.

South Yorkshire Joint Railway (Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Midland Railway and North Eastern Railway)
David Pesterfield [10/02/2022]


Kirkless Iron Works: Kirkless was a huge Iron Works to the east of Wigan that operated from 1859 onwards. In 1908 the site was extended with the addition of a coke works. From 1869 the complex was served by the half mile double track Round House branch from the junction of the same name on the Whelley Loop. The works and railway closed in 1930 but the branch can be followed as far as this old bridge by Kirkless Hall. Beyond here the embankment has gone and there is a commercial yard.

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


Winchburgh Junction: A shot thought to date from circa 1973 of Winchburgh Junction with the evening Glasgow QS - Kirkcaldy service taking the line to Dalmeny Junction. The signal box is recorded as closing at the end of July 1978.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Clark [//]