9 Images released on Wednesday 20/11/2024

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Flowery Field: Flowery Field, on the Glossop and Hadfield line, opened in 1985 serving a residential area of Hyde. It enjoys a 30 minute interval service, but the facilities are very basic. Viewed from the Glossop platform entrance, 323234 calls with a Manchester bound service on 30th October 2024.

Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway
Mark Bartlett [30/10/2024]


Dumfries: The two new lift shafts, attached to the accessible footbridge at Dumfries, tower above the traditional platform canopies, as seen on 16th November 2024.

Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
Oliver Wilkinson [16/11/2024]


Barrhead: 380105 stands at the buffer stops in the bay platform at Barrhead, having just arrived on a stopping train from Glasgow Central on 11th November 2024. Of the three trains in an hour to arrive from Glasgow this is the only one to be an EMU. The other two would be 156 DMUs heading to Kilmarnock and beyond, with the prospect of electrification beyond Barrhead sometime in the future but no date set.

Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Malcolm Chattwood [11/11/2024]


Polnish No 107 Tunnel: 47237, at the head of the 'Royal Scotsman', passing Our Lady of the Braes Church on its way back South on a very dreich day in September 2012. It is a pity that the Church is in a run down condition.

Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Gordon Steel [02/09/2012]


Polmadie Shed: Stanier Princess Coronation Pacific No 46255 'City of Hereford', complete with yellow stripe, is moving through Polmadie Shed on 23 August 1964. Regrettably, she would be gone by the end of that year.

Polloc and Govan Railway
Colin Kirkwood [23/08/1964]


Milford Junction [Yorkshire]: 66538 has a Wilton to Leeds freightliner, taking the Castleford route at Milford Junction, on 13th August 2003.

York and North Midland Railway
Roger Geach [13/08/2003]


Brixton: View from the Railway Touring Company's Armistice Day excursion from London Victoria to Canterbury West, behind Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 no. 44871, passing Brixton station at 08.56 on Monday, 11th November 2024. The train is diverging onto the line towards Peckham Rye and Nunhead on which the platforms were closed in 1916. It then continued via the Catford Loop, rejoining the main line at Shortlands.

Metropolitan Extensions: Penge Junction to Stewarts Lane (London, Chatham and Dover Railway)
David Bosher [11/11/2024]


Comrie: This bridge over a minor burn has received a new deck since the trackbed became a core path.

Crieff and Comrie Railway
Ewan Crawford [21/11/2023]


Gateacre: A shot, thought to date from early 1972, of a train awaiting departure from Gateacre to Liverpool Central High Level. At this time the service to Gateacre was the only route still using Central HL, which closed along with the branch on 15th April 1972.

Hunts Cross and Halewood to Aintree and Huskisson Line (Cheshire Lines Committee)
John Clark [//1972]