7 Images released on Friday 09/05/2025

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Armathwaite: On a less than perfect day LNER V2 4771 'Green Arrow', (now incarcerated in the National Railway Museum) passes through Baron Wood near Armathwaite with a 'Cumbrian Mountain Express'. Black and White film used due to the weather conditions and the ETHEL behind the loco! Taken with a Mamiya 645 1000s sometime in the 1980s.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Stephen Willetts [//1985]


Carstairs: 303043 has arrived at Carstairs, on an unrecorded date in 1990, with the evening rush hour working which from memory originated at Anderston.

Caledonian Railway
John Clark [//1990]


Doublebois: 45015 has the 0650 Swindon to Penzance service at Dobwalls, east of Doublebois, in August 1984. Peaks were regular performers in Cornwall from January 1970 to October 1985.

Cornwall Railway
Roger Geach [28/08/1984]


Esslemont: Esslemont station looking towards Ellon in April 2025. This view from the old trackbed, now the Formartine and Buchan cycleway. The Aberdeen platform has disappeared. The station closed in 1952, thirteen years before passenger services to Fraserburgh and Peterhead finished.

Formartine and Buchan Railway
Mark Bartlett [13/04/2025]


Haymarket: Power car 43133 is on the rear of the 11.01 from Aberdeen to Edinburgh as it enters Haymarket Tunnel. Multi-storey office blocks dominate the local scene with more to come.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Bill Roberton [25/04/2025]


Glenfarg Viaduct: A recess in the high parapet of Glenfarg Viaduct.

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


Eastfield MPD: Tony Gale went to Glasgow Eastfield for a shed visit on 6th March 1976. Here are three local class 20s 20083/109/112. Just what you came to see, unless you lived in Glasgow!

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Tony Gale [06/03/1976]