8 Images released on Tuesday 25/02/2025

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Ashington: A trip on the re-opened line to Ashington, seen in the sunshine of 16th January 2025.

Newbiggin Branch (Blyth and Tyne Railway)
Roger Geach [16/01/2025]


Paddington: 20205 with 20007 behind, at Paddington on Saturday, 22nd February 2025, waiting to depart at 07.00 with UK Railtours' "Shakespearean Sonnet" tour, round-the-world to Stratford-Upon-Avon via Oxford, Worcester Shrub Hill, Birmingham Snow Hill and Henley-in-Arden. The tour also included visits to the Honeybourne to Long Marston line in the morning and also the MoD line from Fenny Compton to Kineton on the way home.

Great Western Railway
David Bosher [22/02/2025]


Appleby: SR Battle of Britain class no. 34067 'Tangmere' providing motive power for the return leg of the second 'Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express' of 2025, running as 1Z87 1418hrs Carlisle to London Euston on 22nd February with class 57 no. 57315 on the rear providing the train electricity supply.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Oliver Wilkinson [22/02/2025]


Science Museum: 'Puffing Billy' exhibited at London's Science Museum in February 2025. This is a rather cramped spot for photography, sleeping babies notwithstanding. This locomotive was built in 1814, but 'at least some parts have been replaced'.

Science Museum
Ken Strachan [17/02/2025]


Haymarket: TransPennine 397010 leaves Haymarket, with the 10.11 from Edinburgh Waverley to Manchester Airport, on 21 February 2025.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Bill Roberton [21/02/2025]


Newcastle Central: Newcastle Central station concourse (or just Newcastle according to the running-in boards), looking south at 17.52 on Monday, 16th December 2024.

Newcastle and Berwick Railway
David Bosher [16/12/2024]


Abercairny: View west from a farm track just east of the former station at Abercairny showing the passenger platform and station building to the right and loading bank to the left.

Crieff and Methven Junction Railway
Ewan Crawford [05/12/2023]


Garsdale: LMS liveried Black Five 4767 sets off from Garsdale, heading south with a ‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’ on a snowy winter day in 1981.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Robin McGregor [28/02/1981]