Drybridge: Hurlford shed's Standard Mogul 77016 passing through Drybridge station on 3 August 1958 with a Sunday Ayr to Kilmarnock train. [Ref query 13886]

Hawick Shed: Class J35 0-6-0 no 64463 in the shed yard at Hawick on 3 August 1959.

Carlisle: One of Kingmoor shed's Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0s no 43103 idles alongside platform 1 at Carlisle in the summer of 1963. Affectionately referred to as 'Flying Pigs' by some enthusiasts, an example of the class is now preserved on the Severn Valley Railway see image [[25291]].

Carlisle: Approaching Carlisle from the south on 3 August 1963 is the 8.50am summer Saturday Blackpool Central - Glasgow Central. Locomotive in charge is Blackpool based Jubilee no 45574 India.

Carlisle: Neville Hill based A1 Pacific 60146 Peregrine ready to restart the 6.35 am Birmingham New Street - Glasgow St Enoch from Carlisle on Saturday 3 August 1963.

Carlisle: Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 no 43000 arrives at Carlisle on Saturday 3 August 1963 with the 6.32pm train from Langholm.

Carlisle: Royal Scot 4-6-0 no 46166 London Rifle Brigade backs onto a northbound train at Carlisle in the summer of 1963.

Carlisle: BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73075 runs into the north end of Carlisle on 3 August 1963 with the summer Saturday 1.57pm Gourock - Birmingham New Street. The Polmadie locomotive will hand over to a Holbeck Jubilee for the next leg of the journey south as far as Leeds see image [[47420]].

Carlisle: Neville Hill A1 60134 Foxhunter comes off the Settle and Carlisle line on 3 August 1963 with the summer Saturday 6.29am Birmingham New Street - Gourock. The Pacific had brought the train north from Leeds City.

Carlisle: A murky summer Saturday morning at Carlisle on 3 August 1963, as Bank Hall based Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45717 Dauntless takes on water alongside platform 1. The train is the 9.15am Liverpool Exchange - Glasgow Central. 45717 was withdrawn from Bank Hall less than three months after this picture was taken.

Carlisle: Rebuilt Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45735 Comet leaves Carlisle on 3 August 1963 with the 1X77 relief Perth - Euston. The locomotive was one of two examples of the class to undergo such rebuilds see image [[29782]].

Carlisle: One of Kingmoor shed's Ivatt 2-6-0s, no 43011, simmers alongside Carlisle platform 4 on a fine summer evening in August 1963 awaiting its departure time with the 7.5pm stopping train to Appleby West.

Carlisle: A1 60134 Foxhunter stands in the west sidings at Carlisle on 3 August 1963 after bringing in the summer Saturday 6.29am Birmingham New Street - Gourock over the Settle & Carlisle route.

Carlisle: Smartly turned out Holbeck Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45562 Alberta waiting to take over the Carlisle - Leeds leg of the Summer Saturday 1.57pm Gourock - Birmingham New Street on 3 August 1963.

Carlisle: Stanier Pacific 46236 City of Bradford stands at Carlisle on 3 August 1963 after taking charge of the 1000 Euston - Perth.

Carlisle: The 9.20am Manchester Victoria - Glasgow Central about to run into Carlisle on 3 August 1963. The train was routed via Hellifield and Kilmarnock and the locomotive on this occasion is rebuilt Patriot 4-6-0 no 45531 Sir Frederick Harrison.

Carlisle: Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45639 Raleigh alongside Carlisle platform 4 on 3 August 1963 awaiting the clear for a run back to Upperby shed. The locomotive had worked in earlier on a service from the south.

Carlisle: An otherwise quiet period at Carlisle station in August 1963 sees Upperby shed's Ivatt 2-6-0 no 46455 shunting a pair of TPO vans on the centre road.

Cumbernauld: The 10am Dundee - Glasgow train photographed near Cumbernauld on 3 August 1965 behind Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73151.

Cumbernauld: Gresley A4 Pacific 60026 Miles Beevor near Cumbernauld on 3 August 1965 with the 1.15pm Aberdeen - Glasgow Buchanan Street express.

Cumbernauld: Class J-37 number 64571 hurries south from Cumbernauld with the breakdown train in August 1965.

Cumbernauld: A4 60024 Kingfisher photographed near Cumbernauld on 3 August 1965 with the 5.30pm Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen express.

Cumbernauld: Black 5 no 45359 with a Dunblane - Buchanan Street train at Cumbernauld in August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Black 5 no 45359 photographed heading towards Cumbernauld on 4 August 1965 with a Glasgow - Dunblane train.

Cumbernauld: One of Grangemouth's Standard class 4 2-6-0s no 76113 runs south through Cumbernauld station on 3 August 1965 at the head of a mixed freight.

Greenfaulds: The 2pm Dundee - Glasgow Buchanan Street about to run over Lenziemill level crossing on 3 August 1965. Locomotive in charge is Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73057.

Greenfaulds: 45236 at Lenziemill level crossing on 3 August 1965 with the 1pm Glasgow - Stirling.

Cumbernauld: A WD Austerity 2-8-0 clatters through Cumbernauld with a rake of mineral wagons in August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 No 90547 brings an up freight through Cumbernauld station in August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Black 5 no 44698 arrives at Cumbernauld station in August 1965 with a train for Glasgow.

Greenfaulds: Ex-WD Austerity No 90199 of 65F Grangemouth shed working hard on the gradient over Lenziemill level crossing approaching Cumbernauld with a freight in August 1965. [The train is about to pass through the location of the present day Greenfaulds station.]

Carlisle: Black 5 45228 takes over the 8.37am Glasgow – Sheffield relief at Carlisle Citadel on Tuesday 3rd August 1965. Britannia 70045 'Lord Rowallan' had brought the train from Glasgow, with 44901 being added as pilot at Dumfries, not that it was needed - it must have been simply to save a southbound path. The two locomotives are reversing through the station on their way to Kingmoor.

Greenfaulds: 72007 Clan McIntosh about to take the morning Crewe - Perth train over Lenziemill level crossing, south west of Cumbernauld, in August 1965.

Eden Viaduct [Etterby]: Maybe the crew of 9F 2-10-0 92161 were keen off-duty fishermen, as they had obviously seen something of interest in the River Eden as their engine slowly crossed the bridge at Etterby, with a freight for Kingmoor yard on 3rd August 1965.

Carlisle: Ivatt 2-6-2 tanks 41264 and 41222 on station pilot duty at Carlisle.

Greenfaulds: Dunfermline based class J37 0-6-0 no 64571 with empty mineral wagons near Greenfaulds heading towards Cumbernauld on 3 August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Stirling based Black 5 no 45214 approaching Cumbernauld with a train on 3 August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Keep well back from the platform edge... as A4 Pacific 60024, Kingfisher, rapidly approaches Cumbernauld with the 07.10 three hour express from Aberdeen in August 1965.

Carlisle Kingmoor MPD: Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 43121 running tender first past Carlisle Kingmoor depot, as it takes a freight towards the nearby Kingmoor yard in August 1965.

Cumbernauld: Grangemouth shed's BR standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73007 and guards van, photographed near Cumbernauld on 3 August 1965.

Glasgow Central: Britannia 70045 'Lord Rowallan,' ready to depart from Glasgow Central with an 8.37am relief to Sheffield, running via the G & S W route in August 1965. In the background, Black 5 44670 waits impatiently to remove the empty stock of an incoming overnight service. *3/8/65*

Intschi: View in 1966 from the northbound 'Metropolitano' express from Milan to Frankfurt, on the descent from the Gotthard tunnel. The train was crossing the spectacular Intschi-Reuss viaduct, which at 77 metres above the Reuss river made it the highest on the Swiss Federal network. Coming up the ramp with a southbound freight was 'Kanton Lok' Ae 6/6 11405 Nidwalden, identifiable as a Canton locomotive by virtue of the stylish chrome stripes below the cab. The train engine of the Metropolitano, which can be glimpsed at the far end of the viaduct, was Ae 6/6 11445 'Frauenfeld'.

Goschenen: In August 1966, a lengthy freight completes the climb of the northern ramp of the Gotthard behind Ae 8/14 'double-locomotive' 11851. This was one of three experimental prototypes built in the nineteen thirties. All became Gotthard classics. 11851 was built in 1932 and handled heavy passenger and freight work on the route over the next forty years. The cab-ends were rebuilt in 1962 to give an external appearance similar to the then modern Ae 6/6s that had recently become the mainstay of Gotthard traction. In fact an Ae 6/6, number 11404 Luzern, can be seen further down the train, having acted as a Zwischenlok ('between' locomotive) to give extra power for the climb.

Arth-Goldau: Viewed from the southbound 'Gotthard Express' as it leaves Arth-Goldau, an early-generation Gotthard electric waits in one of the northbound freight loops. It is an Ae 4/7, number 10957, introduced in the late nineteen twenties. The picture was taken in 1966, by which time passenger and heavy freight traffic over the route was in the ultra-capable hands of the famous Ae 6/6s, but the vintage Ae 4/7s were still active on less strenuous local traffic.

Biasca: In the mid nineteen sixties, the classic Swiss Ae 6/6 locomotives reigned supreme on the Gotthard route. Here 11410 'Basel Stadt' is seen at Biasca along with Ae 4/6 10804 – outrageous power for a short southbound local service and presumably a path-saving exercise for a light engine movement. The first twenty five Ae 6/6s in the class became famous throughout Switzerland and beyond as 'Canton Locomotives', through being named after each of the Swiss Cantons and given rather glamorous raised chrome stripes along the sides and cab ends of the engines. The remaining 95 Ae 6/6s were named after Swiss cities and towns but missed out on the chrome decoration. Number 10804 was from an earlier generation of Swiss electric, introduced during WW II and often referred to as 'half locos', as they were effectively 'half' of one of the experimental 'double-loco' prototypes built in the early nineteen thirties.

Airolo: Swiss Ae 6/6 electric 11460 Lugano completes the climb of the southern ramp of the Gotthard route as it passes through Airolo on 3rd August 1966 with a northbound freight. In view also is Ae 3/5 10223, of much earlier vintage, with one of the car shuttle trains which at that time went back and forth through the Gotthard tunnel, to enable cars (and caravans by the look of it) to avoid the drive over the Gotthard pass.

Alves Junction: 25234 coming off the former Hopeman branch with a freight from Burghead stands at Alves Junction awaiting clearance onto the Aberdeen - Inverness line on 3 August 1979.

Alves Junction: Scene at Alves Junction, photographed from the A96 road bridge on 3 August 1979. 25234 is held with a freight off the Hopeman branch as a passing Inverness - Aberdeen DMU runs through the junction.

Alves Junction: 25234 approaching the junction of the Hopeman branch with the Inverness - Aberdeen line at Alves on 3 August 1979 with a Burghead - Dufftown working.

Rayne: This is a freight wagon label found in the debris of then (August 1980) disused and vandalized Rayne station in Essex. It refers to a consignment of seed potatoes transported from Leysmill (for Friockheim) on the former Arbroath to Forfar line to a farmer in Rayne. Despatched on 22 November 1961, the sacks of potatoes travelled via Berwick and Whitemoor before arriving at Rayne at 10 a.m. a mere 3 days later. Rayne was closed to goods on December 7th 1964 (regular passenger traffic had ceased in 1952).

Rayne: The former station at Rayne on the Bishop's Stortford to Braintree line had reached a low point by 1980, as shown here. Neglected and ransacked, its windows smashed, the empty premises did not appear to have much of a future. The pleasant surprise awaiting the visitor today is the building's reincarnation as a rest point and tea room for cyclists traveling along the Flitch Way. The boys in the scene have a metal detector and are unlikely to have unearthed much more than a rail chair screw.

Stirling: Class 47 hauled Aberdeen - Glasgow train leaving Stirling in August 1981.

Stirling: A pair of type 2s southbound into the sun through Stirling with the 10.18 Perth - Motherwell in August 1981. The train carried through vans destined for Manchester.

Stirling: 47272 pauses at Stirling with an Aberdeen - Glasgow train in August 1981.

Eggesford: A class 50 with a 3-coach train stops at Eggesford, on the Barnstaple line during a DMU shortage in August 1990.

Parkandillack Works: 37674 departs Parkandillack for St Blazey with loaded clay bound for Cliffe Vale, Stoke-on-Trent. This will combine at St Blazey Yard with other wagons loaded at Par Docks and/or Rocks, Goonbarrow Junction. This location is no longer rural as an incinerator has been built in the field on the left. There is currently no clay loaded here but Treviscoe just down the line is still active.

Lostwithiel: The cement is in the yard at Lostwithiel, waiting to head for Moorswater behind ex Loadhaul 37516 in August 2000. Various operators have handled this traffic but now all cement for Devon and Cornwall travels by road. The yard at Lostwithiel has been lifted after not being used for some time.

Levisham: A2 Pacific no 60532 Blue Peter arriving with a southbound train at Levisham on 3 August 2002.

Nethy Bridge: Nethy Bridge station, now a hostel.

Powderhall Loop: After running round its train a class 37 propels the empty Binliner containers into Powderhall depot on 3 August 2006.

Fort William: K1 No. 62005 gets ready to leave Fort William 03/08/06. This train was well patronised.

Glenfinnan: K1 No.62005 brings The Jacobite into Glenfinnan. 03/08/06.

Glenfinnan: K1 No.62005 working hard between Glenfinnan and Lochailort. 03/08/06.

Grantown-on-Spey East: Grantown-on-Spey East viewed from the trackbed. 03/08/06. The area round the station seems to have been recently cleaned up and the place resecured.

Grantown-on-Spey East: Grantown East viewed from the station approach. Fresh gravel has been laid and the area cleaned up. The building is in good condition but the roof is in a poor state of repair. 03/08/06.

Cromdale: Cromdale station nameboard. This station has been well restored by its owner and is one of the highlights of the Speyside Way. A five star attraction. You must seek the owners permission before looking round. 03/08/06.

Cromdale: Cromdale Station on the former Elgin-Aviemore line in August 2006. This is now a private dwelling and has been largely restored by the owner. You must seek his permission before looking round.

Cromdale: View over Cromdale Station, on the former Elgin-Aviemore line, looking north from the bridge in August 2006. The trackbed is now part of the Speyside Way.

Gretna Junction: Looking north from the A6071 road bridge at Gretna on 3 August 2007, with the modern day overhead mish-mash of steel and spaghetti doing its best to prevent a half decent photograph see image [[41108]]. The train is the morning Basford Hall - Coatbridge containers with the usual pair of Freightliner class 86 locomotives in charge. The train is about to cross the border over the River Sark and take the Beattock route north at the junction.

Gretna Green: A Carlisle - Glasgow Central service makes a stop at Gretna Green on 3 August 2007, shortly after joining the single line section to Annan.

Gretna Junction: A mid morning Glasgow Central - Carlisle via Dumfries service comes off the G&SW route at Gretna Junction and crosses onto the up WCML on 3 August 2007. Unit 156403 is in Central Trains livery.

Templehall Level Crossing: 170413 between Longforgan and Templehall level crossings heading to Perth. Longforgan signal box is seen middle right.

Abington: A northbound Voyager approaching Abington on 3 August 2007, with traffic on the M74 motorway in the background.

Eastriggs: Annan - Gretna redoubling. A southbound coal train approaching Dornock on 3 August about to cross the recently replaced junction for the line into Eastriggs munitions sidings.

Gretna Junction: Royal Mail 325002 southbound through Gretna Junction in August 2007. The train is about to pass the old Gretna station building standing on the left.

Gretna [CR]: A container train runs south towards Carlisle on 3 August 2007, having just passed through Gretna Junction. Beyond the wooden fence on the left is the overgrown trackbed of the original NB line that turned east at this point to join up with the Waverley route at Longtown (closed in 1970 beyond Smalmstown) see image [[24154]]. The VGA vans in the left background are standing on the embankment that carries the 1963 link from Mossband Junction, which currently serves MoD Longtown munitions depot.

Crewe: EWS Class 90 no 90035 at Crewe

Preston: DRS class 47 no 47501 creates a bit of a stir at Preston

Glasgow Central: It's a long walk to the concourse from platform 11a at Glasgow Central, where passengers are seen disembarking from a class 334 EMU on 3 August 2007. Plans are currently in hand to realign and extend this short platform back into the station, following which it will handle trains operating on the planned Glasgow Airport Rail Link. Work on the required structural alterations is due to commence by mid 2009.

Gretna Junction: As the rain starts to fall on 3 August a southbound Pendolino is photographed straddling the border as it crosses the River Sark at Gretna.

Gretna [CR]: The former Gretna station...and the spot where, one fateful May morning in 1915, signalman James Tinsley boarded the local to ride up to Quintinshill to start his shift.

Gretna Green: DMU 156403 in Central Trains livery photographed west of Gretna Green in the summer of 2007. The DMU is operating a scheduled ScotRail Carlisle to Glasgow Central service via Dumfries and Kilmarnock. The 8 mile single line section between Gretna and Annan over which the train is running became double track just over a year later.

Gretna Junction: Crossing the border. Most of the 0730 London Euston - Glasgow Central is now in Scotland, with the rear of the train still to complete the crossing of the Sark at Gretna. View north towards Gretna Junction in August 2007, with the GSWR route just visible centre left turning off westward towards Gretna Green.

Greskine Signal Box: An Edinburgh bound Virgin Voyager climbing Beattock Bank in pouring rain near Greskine. Photographed during the early afternoon of 3 August 2007.

Gretna Junction: DRS 66404 takes containers south through Gretna Junction on 3 August 2007.

Gretna [CR]: A southbound Voyager passing the former Gretna station in August 2007.

Eastriggs: A southbound coal train runs south through Dornock on 3 August past the junction for the munitions sidings at Eastriggs with engineering work in progress in connection with the redoubling of the Gretna - Annan section.

Gretna [CR]: With heavy traffic on the M6 in the background, EWS 66076 approaches Gretna Junction from the south in August 2007 with coal empties. The train will take the G&SW route at the junction.

Gretna Green: Carlisle - Glasgow service (in Central Trains livery) being waved through the widening works north of Gretna Green station on 3 August 2007.

Thrapston Midland Road: These vans, just across the road from the now-demolished Midland station, may soon be the largest railway artefacts left in Thrapston - apart from Nine Arches viaduct..

Thrapston Midland Road: A bit of a fuzzy shot from a cheap digital camera, but there's nothing left now (notice the signs of arson on the roof, and the tacky modern extension). The LNW station is also demolished.

Thrapston Midland Road: The steel fence tells you that the business which used this site (clearly visible from the A14) has closed down. The damaged roof tells you someone set fire to the shed. This will soon, sadly, be a housing estate.

Saltburn: Part of the original 1861 Stockton & Darlington Railway station building at Saltburn seen looking west along Dundas Street on a summer afternoon in 2008. Today the historic old station site accommodates a variety of retail operations, with a modern two-platform railway terminus now located on the extreme left of the picture (see [[19900]]).

Lostock Hall: A York - Blackpool service passes the site of the former Lostock Hall station on 3 August 2011. In the wasteland to the left stood Lostock Hall shed. Some clues still remain from the concrete between each road and even the odd bit of rail in the long grass. The photograph was taken from Watkin Lane looking west, with the present day Lostock Hall station behind the camera.

Cranmore: Scene on the East Somerset Railway at Cranmore on 3 August 2011. Former LBSCR class E1 no 32110 is awaiting a new boiler - but the paint job looks good.

Mauchline: Nowadays it's not possible to get to the railway side at Mauchline due to obstructions caused by fencing and vegetation. The station house see image [[6966]] still stands but is now buried amongst the trees. The old goods shed, the north end of which appears in the same shot, is seen here on 3 August 2011 from the south. The north end now has a two-storey extension forming office premises. The trees beyond conceal the house.

Westbury: 08737 is the yard shunter at Westbury on 3 August 2011.

Lockerbie: Forecourt of the 1847 station at Lockerbie, photographed on 3 August 2011.

Westbury: Hanson liveried 59103 Village of Mells drifting through Westbury with an aggregates train on 3 August 2011. A passenger line is to be relaid alongside this platform.

Hoghton: The return Fellsman railtour climbing Hoghton bank as it runs between the drop off points at Blackburn and Bamber Bridge on 3 August 2011. After the problem last week with 'Scots Guardsman' on this tour, Black 5 no 44932 appears to have put in a faultless performance.

Manchester Piccadilly: High above Fairfield Street, Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly sees TPE 185112 call with the 0900 Manchester Airport - Glasgow Central. The lengthy, elevated island platforms 13/14 handle all through trains at Piccadilly and are very busy throughout the day.

Port Carlisle: Platform remains at Port Carlisle station (closed to passengers in June 1932), photographed on 3 August 2011. See image [[22515]]

Westbury: Britannia Pacific no 70000, still carrying no nameplates, passing through Westbury on 3 August 2011 with the 08.05 ex-Poole 'Bath Spa Express' on its way to Bristol Temple Meads.

Westbury: Freightliner 66601 The Hope Valley photographed at Westbury station in August 2011.

Cranmore: East Somerset Railway 0-6-0ST Moorbarrow departing Cranmore with the westbound 1400hrs train on 3 August 2011.

Cranmore: Ex-GWR 0-6-2T no 5637 being steamed for its annual boiler examination in the locomotive shed at Cranmore on the East Somerset Railway on 3 August 2011.

Lockerbie: Elevated view south towards Gretna from the 2008 footbridge at Lockerbie on 3 August 2011. Centre right is the south end of the infilled bay once occupied by the platforms of the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway, with its own entrance and overall roof. The line lost its passenger service in 1952 and closed completely in 1966. The roof was removed and the bay infilled in the 1970s see image [[2704]].

Westbury: Freightliner 66606 with a PW train passing through Westbury station on 3 August heading towards London.

Ardwick: A Rose Hill bound service, formed by Pacer 142005, hurries through Ardwick in East Manchester, as do most trains on this busy line. In the 2011 timetable four Manchester bound trains are scheduled to call here in a morning and two Marple line services in the evening (Mon to Fri only). The station was recently proposed for closure but reprieved as it is in a development area and more traffic is possible in the future.

Lockerbie: Platform view south at Lockerbie on 3 August, with the towers of the station footbridge and associated lifts, installed in 2008, now competing with the Gothic spire of St Cuthberts Church on Bridge Street, built 136 years earlier.

Waverley Viaduct: The grade 2 listed Waverley Viaduct that carried the Border Union Railway over the River Eden at Carlisle (also referred to as Eden Viaduct, Canal Viaduct and Waverley Bridge amongst others) photographed on 3 August 2011.

Lostock Hall: LMS Black 5 no 44932 heads east from Preston on the approach to Lostock Hall with The Fellsman tour to Carlisle on 3 August 2011.

Ardwick: Looking across to the LNWR lines from Ardwick's deserted platforms, situated on the old Great Central route. Northern EMU 323237 is approaching Ardwick junction (where the two companies met) on a suburban service for Manchester Piccadilly.

Ardwick: If you search hard enough around the back streets of East Manchester you may eventually find the entrance to Ardwick station. A main road runs close by but there are no signs to this ghost station and having arrived at this unpretentious entrance there is a long walk and three flights of stairs to reach the island platform. At present it clings to life in the hope that development nearby will bring new traffic - if the potential passengers can find it!

Ardwick: Framed by the footbridge that provides the sole access to Ardwick's island platform, 323229 passes over Ardwick Junction on its way to Stockport. The junction was where the GCR met the LNWR outside Manchester (London Rd) station. The right hand of the two lines in the foreground leads into Ardwick depot, opened in 2006 to maintain the TPE Class 185 fleet.

Princes Street [Tram]: View along the curve of the tram route from St Andrew Square to Princes Street on 3 August, with signs of the 2012 Festival starting to appear.

Haymarket [Tram]: View east along newly laid tram tracks from Haymarket towards Princes Street on 3 August 2012.

Haymarket [Tram]: Looking west over newly laid tram tracks towards Haymarket station on 3 August 2012.

Stoke Newington: Stoke Newington station, serving the north London suburb where I was born, looking towards Liverpool Street, on 3rd August 2013. This station was opened by the GER in 1872 as the temporary terminus of the line from Bethnal Green until extended to Lower Edmonton later the same year and where a connection was made with the ex-Eastern Counties Railway branch of 1849 from Angel Road on the Lea Valley Line to Enfield Town. The Stoke Newington route and the Chingford line, plus a reopened Southbury Loop to Cheshunt and on to Bishop's Stortford were belatedly electrified in November 1960. For several years fast Bishop's Stortford commuter trains passed through here non-stop apart from calling at Lower Edmonton (now Edmonton Green) and Seven Sisters from 1968 when it became an interchange with the LU Victoria Line but on electrification of the Lea Valley Line in May 1969, they were switched to that route. From 31st May 2015, the Enfield Town, Chingford and Southbury Loops were transferred to Transport for London as part of London Overground with trains calling at all stations.
See query 2289

Aviemore: On 3 August 2013 The Strathspey Railway celebrated 150 years since the opening of the line between Aviemore and Forres. The headboard was fitted to a special train at Aviemore marking the event.

Halbeath: 47832 Galloway Princess brings up the rear of the London Kings Cross - Leuchars Northern Belle, as it draws away from Halbeath level crossing on 3 August following a brief lay-over in Townhill Down Loop. DRS 47813 Solent was at the head of the train.

Grantown Museum: Some of the guests involved in the Strathspey Railway celebrations on 3 August 2013 see image [[44056]] posing for photographs outside Grantown Museum in Victorian costume prior to the official opening. An exhibition about the railway is currently running here.

Coborn Road [2nd]: The former entrance to Coborn Road station in east London, on the ex-GER main line into and out of Liverpool Street, seen here on 3rd August 2013. This station was opened on 1st February 1865 as Old Ford and renamed Coborn Road on 1st March 1879 and then re-sited slightly to the west on 2nd December 1883. As part of transport economies during WWI, Coborn Road, Globe Road and Bishopsgate Low Level, along with Cambridge Heath and London Fields stations on the Enfield Town line, were closed on 22nd May 1916. Globe Road and Bishopsgate Low Level never reopened but Coborn Road, Cambridge Heath and London Fields were reopened on 5th May 1919. The latter two are still open today but Coborn Road closed permanently on 8th December 1946, five days after the first stage of the opening of the eastern extension of the LUL Central Line from Liverpool Street to Stratford rendered it redundant. The main line platforms at the ex-GER Bethnal Green station also closed on the same day, superseded by the opening at the same time of the nearby LUL Central Line station.

Boat of Garten: The Cat's Whiskers! The Strathspey Railway DMU played its part in the 150th anniversary celebrations and is seen here nicely turned out at Boat of Garten on 3 August 2013. See image [[44056]]

Halbeath: DRS 47813 Solent draws away from Halbeath level crossing on 3 August with the Kings Cross - Leuchars Northern Belle. 47832 Galloway Princess is on the rear of the train. See image [[44059]]

Junction Road [London]: The site of the eastbound platform of Junction Road station, on what is now the London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking Line, on 3rd August 2013. The Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway had opened on 21st July 1868 but Junction Road was not opened until 1st January 1872 and closed as a WW2 economy on 3rd May 1943. Some years ago there was a proposal to reopen this station, with a pedestrian subway linking it to the nearby Tufnell Park station on the LU Northern Line and although both Islington and Camden Councils were supportive of this scheme, nothing happened. Since there has been substantial housing development in the vicinity of Junction Road in recent years, a new station here would be very useful.

Broomhill: The Strathspey special approaching Broomhill on 3 August 2013 conveying guests involved in the Highland Railway 150 year celebrations. Vintage buses then carried all to the site of Grantown-on-Spey West Station where a parade took place, ending at Grantown museum. See image [[44060]]

Eskbank and Dalkeith: The old Eskbank station looking north east from the A6094 road bridge on 3 August 2014. See image [[48259]]

Eskbank: View south along the Waverley trackbed from the A6094 road bridge at Eskbank on 3 August 2014 see image [[48252]] with the new Eskbank station and footbridge under construction in the background.

King's Gate Junction: Progress on the Borders Railway just to the south of the Edinburgh city bypass on 3 August 2014.

Gare d'Orsay: Looking down into the bookshop at this splendid former terminus station see image [[15901]] in 2014. The station was only ever served by electric trains; so it would be easier to keep clean than a station filled with steam and smoke - if not quite as atmospheric.

Gare d'Orsay: This splendid view of the former Gare d'Orsay roof can be seen from the fifth floor restaurant. Somehow, one expects a resident named Quasimodo. Photographed in August 2014.

Paris, Eglise de Pantin: The BL/Rover Metro was sold as a Rover 100 in France, in case anyone mistook it for an underground railway. Here is an excellent example of the potential confusion, at Eglise de Pantin.

Shawfair: View from the flyover at Shawfair station on 3 August 2014, looking north towards Newcraighall.

Gare d'Orsay: Zooming in see image [[14117]] on the most magnificient station clock I have ever seen.

Shawfair: Progress at Shawfair on Sunday 3 August 2014. View is south towards Sheriffhall. The road entrance and station car park are off to the left. Newton village stands in the right background.

Shawfair: Demolition of the old A6106 road embankment between Shawfair and Sheriffhall well underway on 3 August 2014. View south from the new bridge that will carry the realigned road over the Borders Railway. The rail route under the City Bypass can be seen in the background, just to the left of the truck, which is about to negotiate the Sheriffhall roundabout. See image [[47993]]

Dunaskin Shed: Inside the shed at the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group 40th Anniversary Open Day on 3 August. Seen here is the Ardrossan Shell Refinery Fireless locomotive No. 8 (Barclay 1952/1928) undergoing restoration. This was the last steam locomotive working commercially in Scotland. The Refinery closed in 1986. See image [[38050]]

Dalgety Bay: DRS 57304 leads the Northern Belle towards Dalgety Bay on 3 August while working Aberdeen - Fife Circle - Aberdeen. 47790 is on the rear of the train.

Scottish Industrial Railway Centre: Rust in peace. Lineup at Dunaskin on 3 August 2014.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Kelpies maquettes make an appearance on the concourse at Glasgow Queen Street station. Photographed on 3 August 2015.

Le Pont Reynes, France: A double deck steel bridge still spans Le Tech river at Le Pont Reynes, on the abandoned section, beyond Ceret, of the branch line from Elnes to Arles-sur-Tech. The upper rail deck extensions have been cut back to the bridge parapets, and the lower deck is now part of a long distance cycle track that uses long sections of the trackbed.

Ramsbottom: The display panel in Ramsbottom signal box in August 2016. In addition to the detail of the station area it shows the whole line from Bury to Rawtenstall and track circuits indicate the position of the trains. Photo taken with kind permission of the ELR during a supervised visit.

Ramsbottom: BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80080 approaches Ramsbottom with a train from Rawtenstall to Heywood on 3rd August 2016. The fireman is holding the single line token outside the cab, ready to be collected by the Ramsbottom signal man

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: View over the rebuilt station throat at Glasgow Queen Street High level during signal comissioning work on 3rd August 2016, 4 days before the station is due to reopen after the track replacement in the tunnel. Much of the EGIP electrification work has now been done in the station. Access to Cathedral Street bridge north side by permission.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: 66559 idles at platform 6 during signal commissioning at Queen Street High level on 3rd August 2016, 4 days before the station is due to reopen.

Shepshed: Well, we're six miles from somewhere - probably Loughborough Derby Road see image [[56432]]. This location is about a mile from the former Shepshed station (right); the trackbed footpath runs out to the left, at a location identified by the Ordnance Survey as Ringing Hill. The name rings a bell.

Rawtenstall: Although the Pressed Steel Class 117 suburban DMUs did not operate in the North West the ELR set looks quite at home in Rawtenstall prior to working to Heywood on 3rd August 2016. Rawtenstall was a through station but the new terminus building sits across the trackbed of the line to Bacup, closed in 1966.

Barrow on Soar: Quite a contrast between the arch over the down lines (left) and that over the up lines (right). The bridge carries Grove Lane over the railway, and provides the only access to the station. The brick wall on the South side collapsed on Monday night, 1st August 2016.

Barrow on Soar: EMT were as good as their word, and restored a 'near normal' service from Leicester to Loughborough and beyond some 36 hours after the South side of this road over rail bridge collapsed on 01/08/2016. However, this St.Pancras to Sheffield service was travelling at around 15mph at the danger point. Picture taken at 16.13.

Ramsbottom: Signalman Peter Bendall winds the wheel in Ramsbottom signal box to close the level crossing gates to road traffic on 3rd August 2016. Peter believes these are the only wheel operated gates on a UK heritage railway so they are a cherished asset, if a little heavy to work. The large windows give excellent views of the railway and also the road on both sides of the crossing. Image taken with kind permission of the East Lancashire Railway during a supervised visit.

Loughborough: Something I honestly never thought I would see in my lifetime - work starting on restoration of the bridge carrying the GCR over the MR at Loughborough. This is the North side of the MR.

Ramsbottom: Signalman's view of Ramsbottom level crossing and the station on 3rd August 2016 as the gates are closed across the road to allow a DMU to depart for Rawtenstall. View from the cabin taken during a supervised visit.

Wemyss Bay: Still only Platform 2 in operation - No. 1 has scaffold part way along it over the track. This is the 13.57 ex Central arriving.

Loughborough Central: -and this is what it looks like in daytime see image [[57193]]

Glasgow Central: Wullie the Cowboy at Glasgow Central.

Polnish No 106 Tunnel: Black 5 No.45407 on the climb up from Lochailort approaching the first of the tunnels at Polnish on the way to Mallaig.

Borrodale Tunnel: Black 5 No.44871 powers up the gradient from Beasdale to Borrodale Tunnel with the afternoon steam service for Mallaig.

Polnish No 106 Tunnel: Black 5 No.45407 running through Polnish cutting with the return working of * The Jacobite * to Fort William.

Loughborough Derby Road: I recently combined a business trip with visits to all three former stations in Loughborough. Should you wish to visit Derby Road station, I suggest some haste, as the only remaining building is the goods shed, and it doesn't look good. The tenants have gone out of business and felt is peeling off the wooden roof. Location is in Station Avenue, off Station Road. See image [[48830]] for a happier relic of the same line. [Ref query 44067]

Ramsbottom: A Class 117 Suburban DMU pulls away from Ramsbottom, with a service for Rawtenstall, on 3rd August 2016.

Didcot Parkway: 66508 with a short ballast train bound for Hinksey yard, Oxford.

Didcot Parkway: 165 111 arriving from Oxford, leading a six car DMU set.

Didcot Parkway: 180-103 taking the fast line to Oxford and beyond.

Shawfair: The ScotRail 0828 ex-Tweedbank pulls away from the Shawfair stop and heads for Newcraighall on 3 August 2017. It will soon pass the Biogen food waste recycling plant over on the left beyond the bridge, built on the north west corner of the old Millerhill marshalling yard. Meantime, taking shape on the right of the picture, is the new Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre, under construction on another part of the former yard further to the south. This will replace the current refuse handling depot at Powderhall. Good to see what's left of the old yard isn't going to waste... (sorry about that).

Didcot Parkway: Work on Didcot's Platform 1; building up the platform to accommodate the new electric trains.

Shawfair: ScotRail 158s on the Borders Railway cross at Shawfair station on the morning of 3 August 2017 during a period of light but relentless rain.

Darlington North Road: It may be a railway museum, but from this angle, it has a management training centre look about it.

Wingate: Looking North at Wingate, some nice new gates on the West side of the main road set off the pub see image [[52304]] nicely. The signal looks to be at right angles to where it should be, but that's a nitpick really.

Wingate: On the East side of the main road through the village of Wingate, Co Durham, the gate posts from railway days are now joined by a nice new gate. There used to be fake rail grooves across the road, but they have been tarmacked over. See also image [[60442]].

Blairhill: 320315 approaching Blaihill station with a Balloch to Airdrie train on 3rd August 2017.

Blairhill: 320411 approaching Blairhill station with a Airdrie to Balloch service on 3rd August 2017.

Kelvindale: Kelvindale station, a sanctuary for butterflies and moths ...

Rosehall Junction: 320 417 with the 1158 Whifflet to Dalmuir shortly after Whifflet North Jct. The location has changed quite considerably see image [[60224]] and it was difficult to get a picture as the bridge is now covered in small mesh fencing.

Shotts: Temporarily functioning as a modernist art installation set in the platform 1 garden, this OHLE mast base gives evidence of progress of the engineering work on the Shotts line.

Lugton High: View towards Glasgow at Lugton East. Recent(ish) demolition of the sheds here see image [[60229]] has revealed the platform edging - between the platforms is filled with concrete. Platforms can be, just no more, traced in the rough ground beyond. That's one of the platforms in the right foreground, the Kilwinning bound platform. The northbound platform is to the left.

Shotts: With the temporary services and footbridge now removed and the new Station Road bridge open to pedestrians, approach road resurfacing work is in progress a few days before the bridge is due to be opened to traffic.

NRM Shildon: I quote from the museum placard: In 1840, Queen Adelaide, Princess of Saxe-Meiningen, widow of King William IV of England and aunt to the recently crowned Queen Victoria, made a tour of the northern provinces of England by rail. She was the first monarch of England to use this technology. Nice livery; but a bit of a contrast to the APT on the left.

Lugton High: It comes to something when a gate is all that remains of a station. Still, that's more than some. This gate was on the west side of Lugton High, with a railwayman's cottage beyond, in use as a house.

Ardeer Junction: View south of the Ardeer Branch from the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway bridge over it. On the right a curve from Ardeer Junction connected the L&A to the branch. Behind the camera the line formerly met today's Ardrossan branch. Ahead was where the G&SWR and L&AR lines met.

Hutton Henry Colliery: The Castle Eden Trail is based on the NER line from Stockton to Sunderland. It peters out just South of the nicely named Station Town, but we bumped into two vivacious young ladies with a detailed knowledge of local railway geography - this doesn't happen very often. They directed us along this tarmac footpath, which petered out just beyond the line of trees; where by another fortunate coincidence, we found the East-West trackbed of the NER Ferryhill to Hartlepool line. Wingate station was about a mile to the left of the trees. View looks North. [This on approximately the alignment of the Hutton Henry Colliery line -Ed]

Shotts: A Glasgow - Edinburgh service departs from platform 2 passing under the new Station Road overbridge which is due to open to traffic in a few days time.

Hunterston High Level Sidings: 380 105 passes the sidings at Hunterston High Level with a train for Largs.

Glasgow Central: A forewarning of closures for HS2 preparations seen at Glasgow Central.

Wemyss Bay: A 380 arrives at Wemyss Bay. MV Bute is at the pier.

Leven Shipyard Junction: A Class 320 EMU approaches Dumbarton East along the north bank of the Clyde, as seen from the ramparts of Dumbarton Castle on 3rd August 2017.

Langbank: A Wemyss Bay to Glasgow train, formed by a SPT liveried Class 314, is seen running between Langbank and Bishopton. This view, across the Clyde, taken from the top of Dumbarton Castle on 3rd August 2017.

North Berwick: After lengthening of the platform at North Berwick the station is now able to accommodate a 6 car train, much needed during the rush hour. This appearance of 380013 and 380021 forming the 1728 North Berwick-Edinburgh really is one of 2017's greatest innovations on ScotRail.

Mearns Street Junction: Reverting to nature - overgrown and with a waterfall - the entry to the Ann Street tunnel for Greenock Princes Pier at Mearns Street Junction. View looks west.

NRM Shildon: What do you mean, you've never seen a freight locomotive on the London tube? This was Southern Railway no. 75S, and was used to shunt coal wagons from the 1890's to the 1960's, according to display material at Shildon.

Didcot Parkway: 60020 heading a westbound Theale to Robeston oil tanks @ 1410 hours.

Dumbarton East: Seen across the Dumbarton rooftops, from the ramparts of the Castle, a Class 320 EMU pauses at the East station on its way to Balloch. 3rd August 2017.

Peterborough: This goods crane in the old Permanent Way yard to the West of the station looks a bit lost these days. Hopefully it will be re-used somewhere else.

Nuneaton: Who needs trains to look at, with natural beauty like this? The sun sets on Nuneaton (Trent Valley) station on 3rd August, 2018.

Lostock Hall: To commemorate 50 years to the night that scheduled steam passenger services ended on British Railways, a group of former railwaymen from a number of north-west steam sheds gathered to remember the last days of steam and their colleagues who are no longer around. The event was organised by former Lostock Hall (10D) men and hence the totem in front of the group.

Peterborough: One sunny day, 66777 'Annette', 66778 'Darius Cheskin', and 66745 'Modern Railways (etc.)' got a bit bored with New England yard, and decided to go to Whitemoor together. They are seen passing through Platform 6 at Peterborough on 3rd August 2018.

Nuneaton: I think I will start an album called 'Unexpected class 37s'. 37611 Pegasus took me by surprise at Nuneaton platform 5 on Friday 3rd August 2018. You see nice things when you can escape from the office!

Peterborough: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a man in possession of a half decent camera should be recording the timeless good looks of HSTs at speed, before they are all scrapped. With apologies to Jane Austen, 43295 heads North on the down fast at Peterborough at 16.50 on Friday 3rd August 2018.

Lenzie: An Alloa service calls at the home of Fags Mags and Bags (look it up) on 3 August 2019. Meanwhile PPE seems a little excessive for filling a ticket machine (which is what he was doing) but at least he wasn't wearing a hard hat.

Mount Florida: A Glasgow service pulls into Mount Florida on a fine Saturday 3 August 2019. The white building on the platform is a toilet which you have to ask staff if you want to use, though there is no key. Do they vet you? Ask how desperate you are?

Barrhead: Barrhead: a station with buildings on both sides, a bay platform and a signal box; quite a survivor. A Kilmarnock service calls on 3 August 2019.

Neilston: A Glasgow service pulls back into Neilston station from the turnback siding on 3 August 2019, with the siding's signal reflected in the windows. Both platforms can be occupied simultaneously, but as there is no crossover Platform 2 is for arrivals only; all returning trains have to use the turnback.

Neilston: Having changed ends in the reversing stub the driver has changed the lights and is about to enter Neilston's Platform 1. The train will then return to Glasgow Central. 3rd August 2019.

Cathcart North Junction: An inbound service approaches Mount Florida on 3 August 2019. Meanwhile the road is set for a Neilston train on the toy signal.

Svensta: Heading west towards a worksite somewhere in Western Jämtland is an engineering train. A NOHAB TMZ diesel electric loco of the former Three T company sold to Railcare in 2008 and since 2016 called Railcare T passes with a train of empty flat wagons .

Glasgow Central: Part of a display of images showing the history of Glasgow Central, photographed at the station on 3rd August 2019. Old stoats like me may remember the manual departures board with 13 windows, one for each platform, which survived until 1985. This picture though must be from 1942 at the latest as Overtown is shown on the Lanark board the woman is holding. She is wearing heels: to help when putting up the train times? The two nearest windows show Cathcart Circle workings, the stops unchanged today.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: On 3rd August 2019 a HST for Aberdeen pulls out of Glasgow Queen Street with a hint of the smoke this class used to produce. HSTs served Queen Street for a while in the 1980s but as I remember it was only once a day when a Kings Cross service was extended from Edinburgh.

Croy: A local for Glasgow Queen Street calls at Croy on 3rd August 2019. The morning mist had not yet burned off.

Leyland: After having a problem yesterday when hauling the 'Staycation' ecs from Crewe to Carlisle, D6817 (37521) is seen heading north again on 3rd August 2020 at Leyland, this time with D8107 (20107) in support. Looking rather impressive in BR Green, D8107 brings back memories from the mid 60s when I saw it in the Glasgow area.

Edinburgh Waverley: A Trans Pennine Class 802 leaves Edinburgh Waverley with the 12.33 to Newcastle on 3rd August 2020.

Farington Junction: Not all Pendolinos are the same! Colourful 390119 'Progress' is seen heading north at Farington Junction on 3 August 2021 with the 0832 hrs Euston to Edinburgh service.

Balfour Street [Tram]: Pouring concrete near the new Balfour Street tram stop on 3rd August 2021. Looking south with the North British/Balmoral Hotel clock tower on the skyline. See recent news item regarding concrete shortages potentially affecting completion timescales.

Lostock Hall Junction: MPV DR98905/DR 98955 is seen at Lostock Hall Junction while working from Teeside to Wigan on 3 August 2021. The MPV has left the East Lancs line (in the foreground) and is heading to Farington Junction where it joined the WCML to Wigan.

Foot of the Walk [Tram]: Looking south along Constitution Street towards the Foot of the Walk on 3rd August 2021. The cemetery on the right was the scene of much archaeological excavation as part of the tram works.

Stonehaven: 67016 working light engine through Stonehaven on 3rd August 2021.

The Shore [Tram]: Looking south along Constitution Street from The Shore tram stop on 3 August 2021.

McDonald Road [Tram]: McDonald Road tram stop taking shape on 3rd August 2021. This view looking north.

Foot of the Walk [Tram]: Looking south over the Foot of the Walk stop, under construction on 3rd August 2021. In the background is the clock tower of the former Leith Central Station.

Foot of the Walk [Tram]: Looking north along Constitution Street from the Foot of the Walk stop on 3rd August 2021.

Foot of the Walk [Tram]: Looking north along Leith Walk on 3rd August 2021. Foot of the Walk stop will be beyond the major road junction in the distance. The abutments of the Caledonian Railway's New Leith Lines bridge change seen. Image [[36042]] shows the view in 1978.

Picardy Place [Tram]: Looking south towards the rebuilt St James Centre and Picardy Place tram stop on 3 August 2021.

Double Dykes Level Crossing: I had little evident progress to report on the Levenmouth branch apart from this road railer that was tidying the lineside on 3rd August, as seen in this view to the west of the threatened Double Dykes level crossing. Recent Network Rail photos show much was happening elsewhere on the line.

Double Dykes Level Crossing: Looking east from the threatened Double Dykes level crossing on the Levenmouth branch on 3 August 2022. There is no sign yet of the expected turnout for the second track.