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Horton-in-Ribblesdale: Horton-in-Ribblesdale, looking towards Ribblehead on 4th November 2024, as 158845 calls with the 1049hrs Leeds to Carlisle service. There is a large 'Harrington Hump' on the Skipton platform, presumably to accommodate the often used double 158 units. The temporary boarded crossing at the north end of the station, the only access to the northbound platform, can also be seen and is in use until the new footbridge is completed.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Mark Bartlett [04/11/2024]


Great Yarmouth: Referred to as Yarmouth since 1970, the sole remaining station in the town still reminds passengers it formerly carried the suffix Vauxhall. A photograph taken on an Eastern Region Rover in March 1980.

Yarmouth and Norwich Railway (Norfolk Railway)
John Clark [/03/1980]


Tondu: The signalbox at Tondu in April 1987. At this time, before the passenger service returned to Maesteg, there were about two coal trains a day from Maesteg, all very different to how it was before the 1984 miners' strike.

Ogmore Valley Railways
Roger Geach [10/04/1987]


Craigo: Temporary bridge being erected just south of Craigo 'Box for access into Craigo village. I assume the old stone bridge will then be demolished.

Aberdeen Railway
Duncan Ross [03/12/2024]


Crystal Palace: 378209, just arrived at Crystal Palace, alongside the south side wall of the 1854 station, with a London Overground service from Highbury & Islington and waiting to return thereto, at 12.07 on Saturday, 23rd November 2024. The walls of this station, the surviving former Low Level, once supported a magnificent iron and glass trainshed covering the entire station but this was removed as a precaution in 1905, following the collapse of a similar roof at Charing Cross station in central London. The so-called new roof seen in the background was not put up until 2015.

West End of London and Crystal Palace Railway
David Bosher [23/11/2024]


North Pier [Tram]: Blackpool Centenary Car 642 pauses on the old centre road at North Pier before heading back towards the Pleasure Beach in 2010. 642 entered service in 1986, one of seven in the class, which was designed for 'one-man operation'. They were all withdrawn in 2011, when the tramway was closed for modernisation, and have all escaped the scrapman although not all are operational. 642 was one of two retained for heritage operations in Blackpool and ran as recently as 2021. North Pier is now the site of the triangular junction with the Blackpool North branch that opened in 2024.

Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
Bill Roberton [//2010]


Dalchonzie Platform: Dalchonzie looking east towards towards Comrie. Some blurring added for privacy.

Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway
Ewan Crawford [24/11/2023]


Burnmouth: 220006 and 220031 form a Cross Country service from Edinburgh to Penzance, seen passing through the site of Burnmouth station on a sunny 18th November 2024. Burnmouth closed on 5th February 1962, the same day as the Eyemouth branch for which it was the junction station. See image [[81526]] from the same spot just before closure.

North British Railway
Mark Bartlett [18/11/2024]