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Carnforth Midland Shed: The back wall of the old Midland Railway engine shed at Carnforth on 25th September 2024. Until the previous year this looked out on to fields but a housing development has now grown around it. See image [[21529]] for the front face of the building, where the locomotives accessed the roundhouse.

Furness and Midland Joint Railway
Mark Bartlett [25/09/2024]


Highams Park: Delightful mural on the Liverpool Street bound platform at Highams Park on the Chingford branch, opened in 1873 and part of London Overground since 2015. Seen here at 14.29 on Saturday, 5th October 2024. I have known this station all my life, indeed my 21st birthday party (and I shan't say how long ago that was) took place in a restaurant just across the road from here, but which alas is no longer there.

Chingford Branch (Great Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [05/10/2024]


St Rollox Works: 26044, ex-works at Glasgow St Rollox on 2nd October 1982. Smell the paint - lovely.

Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
Roger Geach [02/10/1982]


Gleniffer Depot: Gleniffer Depot with CR 0.6.0T 56350 shunting the yard in 1949. This yard was the terminus of a short branch from the Glasgow and South Western's Potterhill to Barrhead branch. It was alongside Thornley Dam and just east of the Glenfield Scouting Works.

Barrhead Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
G. H. Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow. [24/11/1949]


Winchburgh Junction: In June 2005, 66056 comes off the line from Dalmeny at Winchburgh Junction with a train of empty HAAs from Longannet PS to Hunterston.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Clark [09/06/2005]


Earn Viaduct [Strageath]: This is the west side of the viaduct which carried the Crieff branch over the River Earn at Strageath. The painted words read 'Private visitor permits stop here'. Downstream is to the right, note the cutwaters fitted on the upstream side. Drovers used to drive cattle from the Crieff Tryst over the Earn in this area with several crossing points such as the Dalpatrick Ford nearby (it is further downstream). The name of Highlandman station recalls this, it was the next station to the north. Unfortunately the missing bridge is a barrier to the railway walker, however a footpath along the south bank of the river can be used to reach Crieff. This is not a disaster as the railway is ploughed out for quite some length on the north bank.

Crieff Junction Railway
Ewan Crawford [17/11/2023]


Eastfield MPD: 37026 on shed at Eastfield on 2nd October 1982. 37026 had been transferred from East Anglia to Motherwell early in 1979, then to Eastfield in February 1980 and became a regular on the West Highland line

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Roger Geach [02/10/1982]