Brock: 2024 Leaf Busters. 66031 and 66430 head north at Brock with an RHTT train on 11th October. This diagram operates MWF and the train runs Kingmoor (dep 1130hrs) to Whitehaven and return, then Settle Junction, Lancaster Preston, retrace to Settle Jcn, then Blackburn and then back over the S&C to Carlisle. The train then runs over Shap to Carnforth reversing to Barrow. It retraces back to Carnforth and Carlisle but includes a trip to Windermere on this last leg. The RHTT is due back at Kingmoor at 0737hrs after over twenty hours out and about.
Boat of Garten: 0-6-0ST No. 60 running round its train at Boat of Garten, before returning to Aviemore, on 24th September 1985. This engine was built in 1948 by Hunslet for Dewdon Mine near Seaham on the Lambton system and operated there until 1976 when it was sold to the Strathspey Railway.
Hindley: The 'Friends of Hindley Station' have worked wonders on the station gardens. It once had four platforms and the area once occupied by the lifted tracks has been landscaped and planted as has the operational Manchester bound platform. Hybrid Flex unit 769450, working from Oxford Road to Southport, calls on 18th September 2024. By the distant bridge, which is presently being lifted for electrification, the signal for Crow Nest Junction can be seen [[76587]].
Cowcaddens [Subway]: Unit 312 calls at Cowcaddens on 3 October 2024.
Chingford: Chingford station at 14.18 on Saturday, 5th October 2024. This station opened in 1878, replacing the original 1873 terminus that was half a mile to the south. It was on a projected extension to High Beech, a popular recreational area in Epping Forest near Loughton but only a few yards beyond the station were built and until the line was electrified in 1960, this served as an engine dock. Its remains were swept away in 1968 to make a new bus station to replace the one half a mile away up a steep hill by the Royal Forest Hotel and, ever since, people wanting to get from the station to the hotel, which is also a pub-restaurant, have had to walk.
Buchanan Street Tunnel West Signal Box: A Swindon DMU leaves Buchanan Street on the day of closure of the station, 6th November 1966.
Beattock: It’s a warm 26 May 1964 as Austerity 2-8-0 No 90199 is about to set off from Beattock with a mixed freight train. Assistance is being provided by Fairburn 2-6-4 tank No 42214.
Earn Viaduct [Strageath]: The small bridge on the left crosses over a small stream and in the background right is the bridge which carries the Drummond Castle to Strageath Mill road over the former Crieff branch.
Clydebank Engineering and Shipbuilding Works: The future QE2 under construction at John Brown's Clydebank yard. At that stage she was known only as the 'Q4' or 'Job number 736'. The photograph is not dated but the liner looks not far from being ready for launch, so one would think the shot must date from the summer of 1967.