9 Images released on Saturday 08/06/2024

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Baildon: Repairs to the landslip that occurred at Baildon in February 2024 are still not complete but significant progress had been made by 8th June 2024 when this image was taken. Initially it was thought the line could be cleared within a month but it has proved to be a complex situation necessitating the compulsory purchase of two substantial houses, which were then demolished so the cutting could be regraded with drainage installed. This view looks towards Baildon No.1 Tunnel and Guiseley, with Baildon station a short distance behind the camera. Note the catenary wire has been swung back.

Shipley to Esholt Junction Line (Midland Railway)
Mark Bartlett [08/06/2024]


Loch Dochart [Private]: Looking east over Loch Dochart. On the left on a small isle is the ruined Loch Dochart Castle, with its huge chimney. The Callander and Oban Railway ran along the southern side of the loch, on the right in this view between the loch and the road.

Callander and Oban Railway
Ewan Crawford [23/10/2023]


Dalwhinnie: Black Five 5025 waits at Dalwhinnie for a class 25-hauled cement train to pass. This was on the delivery run from Andrew Barclay's works in Kilmarnock to the Strathspey Railway in 1975.

Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
Bill Roberton [//1975]


Crewe: Early days of the West Coast line electrification sees AL5 electric loco No E3059 awaiting its next turn of duty at Crewe on 23 May 1962.

Grand Junction Railway
Colin Kirkwood [23/05/62]


Edinburgh Waverley: Refurbishment of the platform canopies underway at Waverley in January 2008. View looking back towards the main station from the west end of the partially stripped down canopy serving platforms 18 (right) and 19.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Furnevel [08/01/2008]


Dover Western Docks: Dover Western Docks station in November 1988. Known as Dover Marine until May 1979, passenger traffic officially ended on 25th September 1994, although some unadvertised services continued to use the station over the next couple of months. The 47 in the picture was waiting to work the 13.xx to Liverpool, which I used to travel to Crewe that afternoon.

Dover Harbour Board
John Clark [/11/1988]


Hayle Viaduct: Hayle Viaduct, with an IET approaching on the Up line on a Penzance to Plymouth service on 21st May 2024. Prior to the building on the right it was far more open here .

West Cornwall Railway
Roger Geach [21/05/2024]


Leytonstone High Road: Leytonstone High Road, London Overground GOBLIN, looking towards Gospel Oak on 2nd May 2024. This station opened with the Tottenham & Forest Gate Railway on 9th July 1894 as Leytonstone, renamed Leytonstone (High Road) by BR in 1949. The brackets around High Road were gradually dropped. It has been rebuilt twice, with brick-built platform buildings in the 1950s and again in the 1970s after the line, which then ran between Barking and Kentish Town, was spared the Beeching axe. Trains were diverted from Kentish Town to Gospel Oak in 1981, along a line that had been freight-only since 1925.

Tottenham and Forest Gate Railway
David Bosher [02/05/2024]


Furnace Sidings: Hudswell-Clarke 0-6-0T 1857/1952, formerly at Gawber Colliery, and Hunslet 0-6-0ST 'Jesse' No 18, formerly at East Moors, Cardiff, steel works, double heading a passenger service on the Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway on 27th May 2024.

Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway
Peter Todd [27/05/2024]