8 Images released on Thursday 01/05/2025

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Winchester: 450077 arrives at Winchester with a London Waterloo service on 8th April 2025. Much of the station is in a cutting and thus in shadow - not the best location for photographs.

London and Southampton Railway
Roger Geach [08/04/2025]


Arbroath: 47430 arrives at Arbroath, on a dull 8th March 1976, with the 1245 Aberdeen Edinburgh service. No doubt Tony was hoping for a 40 on this train as it often was rather than a 47. Later, around 1979, this was the service that often had a Deltic on it, worked by Haymarket drivers.

Junction Line (Dundee and Arbroath Railway)
Tony Gale [08/03/1976]


Darlington [Bank Top]: Robel Mobile Maintenance Train DR 97801, sitting in the sidings at Darlington station, on 12th April 2025.

Stockton and Darlington Railway
Duncan Ross [12/04/2025]


Weymouth: BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 76008 on Weymouth Shed on 18th March 1967.

Yeovil to Weymouth (Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway)
Roger Geach Collection [18/03/1967]


Shrewsbury: A grab shot of 'Tornado' in light steam at Shrewsbury on 14th April 2025. Believed to be undergoing trials between there and Newtown of its newly fitted ERTMS (with nocturnal stops at Welshpool). I was assisted in this caption by that august journal, the Montgomeryshire County Times and Express (Powys edition)

Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway and Shropshire Union and Canal Railway Joint
Ken Strachan [14/04/2025]


Par: 37057 arrives at Par with clay empties from Fowey Docks, bound for Goonbarrow Junction for the Rocks driers. By 2001 most clay services were in the hands of Class 66s. One 37 was kept at St Blazey for the Moorswater branch and Parkandillack line. That would soon change when Class 66s were passed on both lines.

Cornwall Railway
Roger Geach [10/09/2001]


Glenfarg: View looking to Glenfarg south of Glenfarg Viaduct showing a nicely preserved section of former double track mainline.

Glenfarg Line (North British Railway)
Ewan Crawford [19/12/2023]


Colyford: The branch from Seaton Junction to Seaton (Devon) closed in March 1966 but in 1970 the Seaton Tramway opened from Riverside to Bobsworth Bridge and in 1971 this was extended northwards to Colyford. This shot of Colyford was taken in March 1968, shortly before the track was lifted by BR, but the main feature of the station, the cast iron urinal, still exists today as far as I know.

Seaton Railway
John Clark [/03/1968]