8 Images released on Saturday 21/12/2024

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Kittybrewster [2nd]: Kittybrewster station looking north with Class B1 61308 on the 1555 Inverness-Aberdeen during the last week of steam in 1961.

Great North of Scotland Railway
David Murray-Smith [09/09/1961]


Whitley Bay: Whitley Bay, Tyne & Wear Metro, currently undergoing some much-needed cosmetic surgery, looking from the St. James bound platform towards that for trains to South Shields or South Hylton, at 16.11 on Monday, 16th December 2024. (See my 2018 photo, [[84587]], for brief historical details of this station).

Tynemouth Deviation (North Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [16/12/2024]


Kittybrewster [2nd]: A shot thought to date from 1974 of the remains of Kittybrewster station looking towards Inverurie. Passenger services were withdrawn as from 06/05/1968.

Great North of Scotland Railway
John Clark [//1974]


Rayleigh: A view of Rayleigh station and footbridge, looking towards Wickford, on 2nd December 2024.

Shenfield to Southend Line (Great Eastern Railway)
Roger Geach [02/12/2024]


Canonbury: Class 378 London Overground from Stratford to either Clapham Junction or Richmond arriving at rebuilt Canonbury, seen from a class 378 London Overground to West Croydon departing, at 10.32 on Saturday, 30th November 2024. This station originally opened in 1870, replacing an earlier station slightly to the east known as Newington Road & Balls Pond that had opened in 1858.

East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
David Bosher [30/11/2024]


Edinburgh Waverley: Looking over the part-demolished roof of the Waverley Market to the North British Hotel, now the Balmoral, in 1973. The market was provided to house fruit traders displaced by development of the adjacent railway station and opened in 1869. A shopping mall has taken its place.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Bill Roberton [//1973]


Dundurn Viaduct: This is the west side of the three arch viaduct at Dundurn, which crosses over the Allt Athnailteach a tributary to the River Earn.

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


Ribblehead: With the highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, Whernside, towering in the background 70810 brings the 1252 Carlisle Yard to Chirk Kronospan through Ribblehead on the 25th June 2024. Having not long conquered the 1/100 gradient to Ais Gill summit there is little rest for the GE PowerHaul P616 engine which still has Wilpshire Bank near Blackburn and Gresford Bank near Chester to negotiate before arriving in Wales.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Oliver Wilkinson [25/06/2024]