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Arbroath West Links: Kerr's Miniature Railway in the mid 1960s.

Kerr's Miniature Railway
Aitken Scott [//]


Crystal Palace Bus Station: Is it a bus or a tram? Twenty new Irizar vehicles entered service on TfL route 358 from Crystal Palace to Orpington Station three days before this photo was taken on 23rd November 2024. The bus is being charged at Crystal Palace bus station. They are powered up through the pantograph but charging is only necessary at both ends of the journey, so they can run without overhead cables. They are the first of their kind in the UK and the use of pantograph technology was through a collaboration between TfL, operator Go-Ahead London and Spanish provider Irizar.

Transport for London
David Bosher [23/11/2024]


Craigendoran: A £3.2m programme to renew track, refurbish structures and improve drainage on the West Highland Line was completed on time on the morning of Wednesday, 13th November 2024. [The West Highland is off to the right in this view, at a higher level.]

Craigendoran Pier Deviation
Network Rail [/10/2024]


Warrington Central: 1B77 Cleethorpes to Liverpool Lime Street with 185109 & 185129 a departing few minutes late. Taken from the top of the car park opposite.

Manchester to Cressington Junction Line (Cheshire Lines Committee)
Duncan Ross [16/11/2024]


Loch Katrine: Sir Walter Scott steamer at Loch Katrine pier in August 1994. Picture taken whilst employed as a sub contractor to Scottish Water, for road maintenance and surface dressing, in the most beautiful place I have worked in the UK.

Lochs, and lakes, water
Gordon Steel [20/08/1994]


Hyde North: 150131 pauses at Hyde North, before continuing towards Manchester Piccadilly, with a service from Rose Hill (Marple) on 30th October 2024. The three stations between Romiley and Guide Bridge, Woodley, Hyde Central and Hyde North, have been adopted by the 'Friends of the Hyde Loop' community group who have tidied the stations and maintain them in good order.

Hyde Branch (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway)
Mark Bartlett [30/10/2024]


Canterbury West: Canterbury West, down platform, at 11.58 on Monday, 11th November 2024. Opened by the South Eastern Railway as Canterbury on 6th February 1846, with trains extended to Ramsgate Town (replaced by the present Ramsgate station in 1926) on 13th April 1846. The first railway in the south of England, the Canterbury & Whitstable (affectionately known as the Crab & Winkle), opened on 3rd May 1830 to a station at North Lane, Canterbury which was closed when trains were diverted into the 1846 station on 13th April that year. Renamed Canterbury West on 1st July 1889, passenger services to Whitstable, despite the line's historic significance, ceased on 1st January 1931 after 100 years but freight continued until 1st December 1952.

Ashford to Ramsgate Branch (South Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [11/11/2024]


Comrie: A view from the road bridge at the site of Comrie station, looking east.

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


Barbican: Rather a dull gloomy October day in London as a Hammersmith and City Line service waits to depart from Barbican.

South Kensington Extension, Minories Extension (Metropolitan Railway)
Roger Geach [25/10/2024]