8 Images released on Tuesday 14/01/2025

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Jordanhill: 320315 at Jordanhill in March 2024 with 2S15, the 09.04 Whifflet - Drumuir.

Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
John Clark [18/03/2024]


Perth New Yard: Railfair at Perth New Yard, Saturday 13th April 1985. Deltic (D)9000 'Royal Scots Grey' stands in the yard as an accessible static exhibit.

Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Gordon Steel [13/04/1985]


Foxlow Junction: Passing Slitting Mill Crossing near Foxlow on 11th January 2025 are 66744 and 66789 with 4O33, the 1247hrs Doncaster I Port to Southampton service in the wintry countryside.

North Midland Railway
Roger Geach [11/01/2025]


Chadderton Junction: The Chadderton Goods line was a short branch built by the L&YR in 1914. It left the Middleton Junction to Oldham line at Chadderton Junction, about 400 yards from Middleton Junction. Chadderton Junction and its signal box closed with the line to Oldham in 1963 leaving just a plain single track to Chadderton until complete closure in 1988. In this 2024 view at Chadderton Junction the group of walkers are following the trackbed bridleway towards Chadderton. All trace of the line to Oldham has disappeared beneath a business park.

Oldham Branch (Manchester and Leeds Railway)
Mark Bartlett [27/12/2024]


Middleton Junction: Looking east along what was by then just the Chadderton Coal Concentration Depot line, from the Rochdale Canal bridge, on 22nd June 1985. Ahead, the line curves left at the old Chadderton Junction, where the lifted line to Oldham Werneth originally carried straight on. By this time the coal trains only had another three years to run and the tracks had been lifted by 1991. The canal bridge has since been demolished but the old line can be walked from there to Chadderton on a public greenway. Photo by Alan Hampson.

Oldham Branch (Manchester and Leeds Railway)
Mark Bartlett Collection [22/06/1985]


All Saints: DLR unit no. 13, Canary Wharf to Stratford, arriving at All Saints (or All Saints for Chrisp Street Market to give it its full title), at 11.14 on Saturday, 4th January 2025. This station opened with the first two stages of the DLR from Stratford and Tower Gateway to Island Gardens (on the Stratford branch) in 1987 and stands on the site of the former North London Railway's Poplar station, closed in 1944 after it was almost completely pulverised by WWII bombing, London's East End suffering particularly badly during that terrible conflict.

East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway
David Bosher [04/01/2025]


St Fillans: St Fillans looking west with Loch Earn, the village on the left and site of the former station (now holiday lodges) on the right. The westbound platform station building survives (just beyond the modern house) as does the signal box (amongst the cabins). St Fillans was was the terminus of the line, briefly, between 1901 and extension of the line west to Lochearnhead in 1904. Unfortunately there was no turntable, which was not not just for that short period it was a terminus, but also afterwards as St Fillans was often the destination of special trains.

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


Richmond [Yorkshire]: Richmond station on a cold but bright wintry day in February 1969, a month or so before closure came on 3rd March. The station itself is still with us as a community enterprise with retail outlets, a restaurant/bar, heritage centre and a cinema.

Richmond Branch (Great North of England Railway)
John Clark [08/02/1969]