6 Images released on Thursday 22/02/2024

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Blairenbathie Mine: The cat carved into this old bridge abutment is more obvious in this photograph, turned looking to the left. This mineral line was carried over a minor road just east of Blairenbathie Mine's exchange sidings.

Blairenbathie and Blairadam Collieries Branch (North British Railway)
Ewan Crawford [11/10/2023]


West Hampstead: The new entrance to the London Overground station at West Hampstead, on the afternoon of Saturday, 3rd February 2024. Along with the line, this was closed for engineering works on this day. This is on the former Hampstead Junction Railway of 1860 and was added to the line in 1888 with the name West End Lane, the thoroughfare on which it stands, and renamed West Hampstead in 1975 in conjunction with the other two stations, now on the Thameslink and LU Jubilee Lines, that are all within a stone's throw of each other but entirely separate.

Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)
David Bosher [04/02/2024]


Luton Airport Parkway: 377214 arriving at Luton Airport Parkway in December 2015.

London Extension (Midland Railway)
Roger Geach [09/12/2015]


Heaton Norris Junction: Approaches to Manchester's runway 23R pass directly over Heaton Norris Junction, seen at the bottom of this picture with its surviving signal box between the main running lines. The line diverging right runs through Denton to Guide Bridge. The four track main line runs directly northwards towards Piccadilly with the platforms at Heaton Chapel station visible this side of the big white buildings.

Manchester and Birmingham Railway
Mark Bartlett [13/02/2024]


Blairenbathie Mine: This parapet is all that remains of a bridge which carried the Blairenbathie branch over a track east of the Blairenbathie Mine exchange sidings. 'Touch not the cat' refers to sightings of a large cat in the woodlands in the early 2000s, a shortened version of the Clan Chattan's motto 'Touch not the cat bot a glove'.

Blairenbathie and Blairadam Collieries Branch (North British Railway)
Ewan Crawford [11/10/2023]


Eastfield Shed: Deltic 9021 ‘Argyll and Sutherland Highlander’ on display at the Eastfield open day in 1972.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Brian Haslehust [16/09/1972]