8 Images released on Tuesday 16/07/2024

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Cameron Bridge [1st]: On a sunny summer day in 1991, 26006 arrives at Cameron Bridge with a couple of tanks for the Distillers Company plant adjacent to the line. Two industrial diesels are also visible in the shot and the remains of the station platform, closed in 1969, can be seen on the right.

Leven Railway
John Clark [//1991]


Dalgety Bay: GBRf 66746 climbs away from Dalgety Bay with the 'Royal Scotsman' from Edinburgh to Boat of Garten, passing over the formation of the Fordell Railway. The bridge here was removed forty years ago. See image [[44453]].

Aberdour Line (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [15/07/2024]


Bletchley [High Level]: The 'flyover platforms' for East West Rail appear to be complete; albeit with no passenger access due to padlocked steel gates on the footbridge. This scene reminds me of Worcestershire Parkway.

Bletchley Flyover (British Railways)
Ken Strachan [10/07/2024]


Woody Bay: Replica 2-4-2T No. 762 'Lyn' departs from Woody Bay for Killington Lane. Not so much of a preserved railway, more like a resurrected railway! Opened 1898, closed 1935. The station building is original, the loco is a replica, the coach bodies were put to various uses over the years but were probably not well kept, their underframes were scrapped. Revival began in the late 1970s.

Lynton and Barnstaple Railway
Stephen Willetts [27/06/2024]


Castleton South Junction: On 8th June 2024, Network Rail commenced a £20m project at Castleton to replace this life expired bridge over the M62. Work, involving lane closures and full overnight closures, will continue until September. Two Sprinters cross the old bridge with a Blackburn to Headbolt Lane service on 17th April 2024.

Manchester and Leeds Railway
Mark Bartlett [17/04/2024]


West Kensington: Zoom lens view from North End Road bridge at West Kensington, looking west at 15.15 on Saturday, 6th July 2024. The District Line tracks were opened in 1874 and the Piccadilly Line tracks, here coming to the surface in the centre, in 1906.

Hammersmith Extension (Metropolitan District Railway)
David Bosher [07/07/2024]


Sowerby Bridge: This bridge carries the railway over Holmes Road in Sowerby Bridge. It actually appears to be two, joined together when tracks were multiplied, as part way through the narrow passage the road turns. Thankfully the road does not seem too heavily used and the vehicles and pedestrians muddle through. On the far side is the entrance to the station approach

Manchester and Leeds Railway
Mark Bartlett [29/06/2024]


Killin Junction: Killin Junction showing the island platform from above with dirt roads showing the course of the lifted tracks. The curve of the C&O's eastbound platform face can be clearly seen, the Killin branch platform was above (in the photograph) and the westbound C&O platform below. Killin Junction, the junction rather than station, was off to the right. A railway cottage, rebuilt in recent years, is off the top of the photograph.

Callander and Oban Railway
Ewan Crawford [07/11/2023]