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href='/companies/I/Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)'>Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Murray-Smith'>David Murray-Smith</a> 1961</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/845/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58845.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Strathyre'>Strathyre</a>: <font size=-1>This is a BR Publicity photographs designed to be handed out and used for promotional purposes. The wording on the back says roughly PR&PO British Railways Please Acknowledge. This shows the TV train at Strathyre on 18th March 1962 with two passengers photographing the stork/heron or is the chap photographing the young lady photographing the stork? There's a third person lurking behind the fountain! In the The Frank Spaven photograph see image [[31991]], it has already disappeared, presumably to its new home see image [[53168]]?</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Callander and Oban Railway'>Callander and Oban Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=PR&PO British Railways (Douglas Blades Collection)'>PR&PO British Railways (Douglas Blades Collection)</a> 1962</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/81/350/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81350.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/E/Elderslie'>Elderslie</a>: <font size=-1>18 March 1964 and Class 45 D26 is arriving at Elderslie with the 5.07pm train from Glasgow St Enoch to Kilmacolm. Even in the diesel era, Corkerhill shed was still showing its propensity to borrow English locos on a layover and put them to good use. This proved to be a regular feature, with most of Holbeck's 'Peaks' having a go on this train. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway'>Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Colin Kirkwood'>Colin Kirkwood</a> 1964</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/108/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73108.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Milton_Junction_Glasgow'>Milton Junction [Glasgow]</a>: <font size=-1>45084 on the 13.00 Glasgow-Stirling, passing Milton Junction. 18/3/66. The line from Balornock Junction was in a deep cutting behind the box.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)'>Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Robin McGregor'>Robin McGregor</a> 1966</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/884/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73884.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Balornock_Shed'>Balornock Shed</a>: <font size=-1>Inside St Rollox (Balornock) shed on 18th March 1966. Black Fives 45461 and 44698, together with A4 Pacific 60019 'Bittern', await their next duties. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)'>Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Robin McGregor'>Robin McGregor</a> 1966</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/6/453/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/6000/6453.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Risping_Cleuch_Viaduct'>Risping Cleuch Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>The gracefully curved Risping Cleugh Viaduct near Leadhills on the Wanlockhead branch, built in 1891 by Sir Robert McAlpine & Co. The eight arch viaduct was of concrete construction clad with terracotta bricks to improve its appearance. It was demolished using explosives in December 1991. Some of the terracotta bricks were later used to clad the signal box at Leadhills station. See image [[11099]] </font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch (Caledonian Railway)'>Leadhills and Wanlockhead Branch (Caledonian Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Robin'>John Robin</a> 1967</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/6/454/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/6000/6454.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Risping_Cleuch_Viaduct'>Risping Cleuch Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>View east from Risping Cleugh viaduct (now demolished) on the Wanlockhead branch. See image [[6453]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway'>Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Robin'>John Robin</a> 1967</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/156/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38156.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Acton_Main_Line'>Acton Main Line</a>: <font size=-1>A maroon 'Western' diesel hydraulic locomotive photographed shortly after passing through Ealing Broadway and approaching Acton Main Line in March 1969 with a service from Plymouth. The train has approximately four and a half miles to run to its ultimate destination at Paddington.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Great Western Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 1969</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="2"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/60/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38060.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Acton_Wells_Junction'>Acton Wells Junction</a>: <font size=-1>EE Type 1 no D8005 heads south past Acton Wells Junction in March 1969 with a cross-London freight.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 1969</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/37/629/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37629.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Acton_Wells_Junction'>Acton Wells Junction</a>: <font size=-1>BR Nottingham Division 'Peak' D20 with a freight on the North London Line on 18 March 1969. The train is about to pass through Acton Wells Junction heading for 'Southern' territory. D20 was later renumbered 45013 before being withdrawn by BR in 1987. The locomotive was eventually cut up at MC Metals, Glasgow, in February 1994, see image [[37230]].</font></p><center><a href='/companies/H/Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)'>Hampstead Junction Railway (London and North Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 1969</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/37/523/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37523.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Mitre_Bridge_Junction'>Mitre Bridge Junction</a>: <font size=-1>BRCW 'Crompton' Type 3 no D6575 of Hither Green shed threads the back streets of NW10 between Mitre Bridge Junction and Willesden Junction High Level station in March 1969. The train of Presflos is on the spur linking the West London and North London lines. (Note: D6575 {later class 33 no 33057} was withdrawn in August 2005 and subsequently purchased for preservation. The locomotive is currently undergoing refurbishment on the West Somerset Railway.) See image [[40259]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/W/West London Railway'>West London Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 1969</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/4/498/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/4000/4498.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Stirling_Forth_Viaduct_SCR'>Stirling Forth Viaduct [SCR]</a>: <font size=-1>Type 2s 5338 + 5331 heading an Edinburgh - Inverness train photographed crossing the Forth shortly after leaving Stirling station in March 1971.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Scottish Central Railway'>Scottish Central Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 1971</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/27/393/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/27000/27393.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Swindon_Works'>Swindon Works</a>: <font size=-1>Two Hymek Class 35s and a North British Class 22 await the inevitable in Swindon Works yard in 1972. The NBL Class 22 is in early rail blue with a half yellow panel and engineless although the flat wagon next to it appears to be carrying a power unit under the tarpaulin. The green Hymek has already lost its engine and the roofless early blue specimen behind is in an equally sorry state. My records from the time indicate that the Class 22 was D6322 and the green Hymek is D7024. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Great Western Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 1972</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/20/74/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/20000/20074.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Swindon_Works'>Swindon Works</a>: <font size=-1>North British Class 22 D6330, with nose doors open, stands at the head of a line of sister NBL locos at Swindon. A handful of the class had just made it into 1972 but all the survivors had been withdrawn by the time this picture was taken and D6330 was cut up three months later in June 1972. See image [[19448]] for a picture of D6319, the last survivor just before it was also cut up. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Great Western Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 1972</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/20/83/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/20000/20083.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Swindon_Works'>Swindon Works</a>: <font size=-1>North British Class 43 D851 <I>Temeraire</I> stands in a scrap line at Swindon with other withdrawn Warships. 1971 had seen a purge of the NBL Warships with all the surviving 30, from the original 33 built, being withdrawn. Swindon Works yard was full of locos waiting cutting at this time and other withdrawn hydraulics were stored at various WR depots awaiting the final call home See image [[31029]]. D851 was cut up in June 1972, three months after this picture was taken. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Great Western Railway'>Great Western Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 1972</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/23/877/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/23000/23877.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/O/Oxton'>Oxton</a>: <font size=-1>The former station building and platform at Oxton, photographed during a visit on 18 March 1987.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Lauder Light Railway'>Lauder Light Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1987</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="3"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/52/424/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/52000/52424.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Millerhill'>Millerhill</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north over Millerhill Yard from Old Craighall Road bridge on 18 March 1987, with the former Waverley Route main line running through the centre.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1987</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/52/440/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/52000/52440.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Millerhill_Yard_Junction'>Millerhill Yard Junction</a>: <font size=-1>Looking south towards Millerhill Depot in March 1987, with the lifted Down Yard in the foreground.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway'>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1987</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/52/465/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/52000/52465.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Millerhill_Junction'>Millerhill Junction</a>: <font size=-1>View south at Millerhill in March 1987 with the main yard behind the camera. The Bilston Glen branch bears right and the new ECML Electrification Depot is taking shape on the left. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway'>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1987</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/615/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50615.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/P/Penshaw'>Penshaw</a>: <font size=-1>A southbound InterCity 125 HST approaching Penshaw, County Durham, on 18 March 1989, having been diverted from the ECML because of electrification work.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Durham Junction Railway'>Durham Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1989</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/634/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50634.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/F/Fencehouses'>Fencehouses</a>: <font size=-1>An unidentified class 47 nears Fencehouses with a train of chemical tanks on Saturday 18 March 1989, thought to be the SAI train from Leith South to Haverton Hill see image [[32436]]. Trains were being diverted via the Leamside route due to electrification work on the ECML. [Ref query 3307]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Durham Junction Railway'>Durham Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1989</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/43/700/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/43000/43700.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/F/Fencehouses'>Fencehouses</a>: <font size=-1>A southbound BR InterCity 125 HST passing Fencehouses 'box on the Leamside line on 18 March 1989, having been diverted due to ECML electrification works. The train is the 07.35 Aberdeen - Kings Cross.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Durham Junction Railway'>Durham Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1989</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/594/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50594.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/F/Fencehouses'>Fencehouses</a>: <font size=-1>The signal box at Fencehouses on the Leamside line in March 1989.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Durham Junction Railway'>Durham Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1989</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/41/259/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/41000/41259.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/E/Eggesford'>Eggesford</a>: <font size=-1>An HST en route to Barnstaple passes a local DMU at Eggesford on 18 March 1990.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/North Devon Railway and Dock'>North Devon Railway and Dock</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ian Dinmore'>Ian Dinmore</a> 1990</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="4"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/36/83/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/36000/36083.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Thornton_Yard'>Thornton Yard</a>: <font size=-1>A Class 08 diesel shunter is framed by two Tullis Russell hopper wagons at Thornton Yard on 18 March 1992. All will head for the Auchmuty branch in due course. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)'>Dunfermline Branch (Edinburgh and Northern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 1992</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/26/805/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/26000/26805.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/W/Wakefield_Kirkgate'>Wakefield Kirkgate</a>: <font size=-1>44767 <I>George Stephenson</I> with <I>The Norseman</I> special, westbound through Wakefield Kirkgate on 18 March 1995.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Pesterfield'>David Pesterfield</a> 1995</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/30/907/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/30000/30907.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/W/Wakefield_Kirkgate'>Wakefield Kirkgate</a>: <font size=-1>Black 5 4-6-0 no 44767 <I>George Stephenson</I> running westbound into Wakefield Kirkgate with <I>The Norseman</I> special on 18 March 1995.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Pesterfield'>David Pesterfield</a> 1995</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/65/131/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/65000/65131.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Shettleston_Junction'>Shettleston Junction</a>: <font size=-1>The point where the former railway solum at Shettleston Junction has been built over (top centre) as seen in March 2006. The surviving disused railway bridge over Gartocher Road is off to the left see image [[58684]]. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway'>Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Colin McDonald'>Colin McDonald</a> 2006</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/28/141/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/28000/28141.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/High_Street_Goods'>High Street Goods</a>: <font size=-1>Duke Street, looking towards Glasgow City Centre on Sunday 18 March 2007. Running along the south side of the road is the remaining north wall of what was once Glasgow's enormous High Street goods depot. See image [[50153]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)'>Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2007</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/48/900/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/48000/48900.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/High_Street_Goods'>High Street Goods</a>: <font size=-1>Detail of part of the surviving north wall of the former High Street goods depot on Duke Street in 2007. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)'>Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2007</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/15/155/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/15000/15155.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/High_Street_Goods'>High Street Goods</a>: <font size=-1>Gates at the main entrance to the former High Street goods depot in March 2007. View east towards Bellgrove with the current High Street passenger station just off to the right.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)'>Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2007</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/14/203/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/14000/14203.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/High_Street_Goods'>High Street Goods</a>: <font size=-1>View east along Duke Street on 18 March 2007 showing the surviving north wall of the former High Street goods depot. See image [[50168]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)'>Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2007</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="5"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/37/824/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37824.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Mirandela'>Mirandela</a>: <font size=-1>Two ex-Yugoslavian metre gauge railbuses wait at the new Mirandela interchange station, which replaced the old station situated behind the camera See image [[38021]]. The nearer vehicle is on the twice daily service for Tua, two hours away, which was withdrawn later in the year. Behind, a further railbus will go in the opposite direction, to Carvalhais on the old Braganca line. This isolated section survived until 2018 but was only a very short suburban line. The nine minute journey to Carvalhais included four intermediate stops and services were operated by just two railbuses.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/439/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18439.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Grimsargh'>Grimsargh</a>: <font size=-1>View north over the site of the former level crossing at Grimsargh on 18 March. The line would have run through the bungalow now built on the far side of the road. Note the sign on the fence (left) which provides one of the few remaining clues that a railway once passed through here.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/440/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18440.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Grimsargh'>Grimsargh</a>: <font size=-1>Standing on the north side of Grimsargh on 18 March looking along the trackbed of the Preston and Longridge Railway towards Longridge itself.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/82/467/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82467.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Ribbleton_2nd'>Ribbleton [2nd]</a>: <font size=-1>A view along the old trackbed towards Longridge at the former Ribbleton station, the building on the left in March 2008. The over bridge in the background carries Gamull Lane over the trackbed, although it has been filled in.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/641/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18641.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tua'>Tua</a>: <font size=-1>Drivers eye view as the railbus from Mirandela descends towards Tua station to connect with the main line trains that will cross here. The broad gauge Douro Valley line from Porto can be seen on the right. The narrow gauge line has since been closed.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/642/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18642.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tua'>Tua</a>: <font size=-1>Drivers eye view of the last stretch of the Tua Gorge as the twice daily metre gauge railbus from Mirandela approaches the Douro Valley. The spectacular journey from Mirandela, a must do for anyone in the area, took just under 2 hours. A return ticket price of just under 9 Euros was excellent value but sadly the line has since closed apart from a short isolated section used by commuters in the Mirandela suburbs.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/647/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18647.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tua'>Tua</a>: <font size=-1>The railbus waits to return to Mirandela having connected with the main line trains on the other side of the island platform. By this time the metre gauge freight trains no longer ran and the loco hauled stock seen in the background was only used for occasional special trains. The railbuses kept the line alive and provided panoramic views of the River Tua all the way to Mirandela but sadly, shortly after my visit, the line closed and the trackbed may be flooded by a hydro-electric scheme. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/466/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18466.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Longridge_Lancashire'>Longridge (Lancashire)</a>: <font size=-1>The former passenger terminus of the Preston and Longridge Railway, looking back towards Preston, with Longridge station building located behind the Towneley Arms Hotel and the Town War Memorial now standing on the former trackbed. A level crossing was also located here carrying a mineral line beyond the station and on to Tootle Heights Quarry. On the far side of the station building a block of flats has now been built across the trackbed. Photographed on 18 March 2008.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="6"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/82/510/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82510.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bamber_Bridge'>Bamber Bridge</a>: <font size=-1>150275 re-starts from Bamber Bridge in March 2008 with a Colne to Blackpool South service.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Blackburn and Preston Railway'>Blackburn and Preston Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/603/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38603.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tralhariz'>Tralhariz</a>: <font size=-1><I>A remote curiosity</I>. Not only was Tralhariz station bricked up in March 2008, but there was no visible access - with its back to the steep hillside, the front facing the river gorge and not a sign of habitation anywhere. Needless to say the narrow gauge railbus for Tua rumbled through without stopping. The station and line both closed later that same year.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/875/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72875.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tua'>Tua</a>: <font size=-1>Dropping down towards Tua station, on a metre gauge railbus that has just travelled down the Tua Gorge from Mirandela in March 2008. The old loco hauled stock was stored in the sidings here. By this time the railbus was only making two trips a day to connect into the broad gauge trains from Porto and, following a derailment, the line closed the following year.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/37/680/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/37000/37680.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tralhariz'>Tralhariz</a>: <font size=-1>Drivers view from the twice daily metre gauge railcar as it threads the scenic Tua River gorge on its way down from Mirandela to Tua in the Douro Valley. Sadly, in August of that same year, a fatal accident occurred when a railbus derailed on this stretch and this caused the early closure of the line. Now a planned hydro-electric scheme will flood the trackbed. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/527/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18527.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Longridge_Lancashire'>Longridge (Lancashire)</a>: <font size=-1>The station building at Longridge with a short length of platform canopy still in place on 18 March 2008. The station closed to passengers in June 1930 and is now used by Longridge Town Council and St Johns Ambulance Service. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/528/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18528.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Longridge_Lancashire'>Longridge (Lancashire)</a>: <font size=-1>Western Portal of Tootle Heights tunnel, beyond Longridge station, looking towards the quarry on 18 March 2008.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Preston and Longridge Railway'>Preston and Longridge Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/21/356/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/21000/21356.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Abreiro'>Abreiro</a>: <font size=-1>Railbus driver's view of the approach to Abreiro in the Tua gorge in 2008. Abreiro was about half way along the two hour journey from Mirandela to Tua and the point where the valley became steep sided and the ride on this metre gauge line spectacular. Sadly this stretch has since closed.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/21/357/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/21000/21357.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Abreiro'>Abreiro</a>: <font size=-1>Before continuing from Abreiro the railbus driver connects a telephone handset to the lineside pole to confirm with control he has cleared the previous section and to obtain permission to proceed towards Tua. This stretch of line has since closed.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="7"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/19/321/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/19000/19321.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bamber_Bridge'>Bamber Bridge</a>: <font size=-1>158753 rushes west through Bamber Bridge station towards Preston on 18 March 2008 as restoration work continues on the former station building.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Blackburn and Preston Railway'>Blackburn and Preston Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/21/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38021.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Mirandela'>Mirandela</a>: <font size=-1>The narrow gauge Tua line followed the river of that name for some 84 miles to Braganca. Mirandela was the main intermediate point where engines were changed and the station had restaurant facilities, The old station is seen here, after its replacement by a transport interchange See image [[37824]], from a railbus standing in the new platforms waiting to depart for Tua, 34 miles and two hours away, on the now closed line.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/370/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18370.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Slateford_Junction'>Slateford Junction</a>: <font size=-1>After leaving the <I>sub</I> at Craiglockhart Jct on 18 March, DRS 66423 comes off the spur to join the Edinburgh - Carstairs line at Slateford Jct and is about to run through the station with a train of EWS ballast trucks.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/41/41/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/41000/41041.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Ribeirinha'>Ribeirinha</a>: <font size=-1>Railbus driver's view of the since closed station at Ribeirinha on the narrow gauge Tua Valley line from Mirandela in March 2008. At this time two trains a day made the full length journey down to the Douro Valley junction station at Tua but there were a couple of additional ones serving the small stations in the upper reaches of the valley around Mirandela. However, 2009 saw the line close after one of the railbuses derailed on poor track and it has never reopened.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)'>Douro Valley Portugal (CP Rail)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2008</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/18/374/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/18000/18374.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/E/Edinburgh_Waverley'>Edinburgh Waverley</a>: <font size=-1>West end of Waverley on 18 March 2008 with refurbished canopies now in place over platforms 13 - 19 and a leftover from the Hogmanay street party in the tree. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway'>Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=F Furnevel'>F Furnevel</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/19/593/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/19000/19593.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lostock_Hall'>Lostock Hall</a>: <font size=-1>150 269 arrives at Lostock Hall on 18 March with a Colne - Blackpool South service. The site of Lostock Hall shed is on the right.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)'>Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/19/373/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/19000/19373.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bamber_Bridge'>Bamber Bridge</a>: <font size=-1>The level crossing and signal box at Bamber Bridge looking East along the platforms on 18 March 2008. Although the signals in the area are now controlled from Preston Signalling Centre, the box remains here to operate the busy level crossing.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Blackburn and Preston Railway'>Blackburn and Preston Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/19/388/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/19000/19388.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lostock_Hall'>Lostock Hall</a>: <font size=-1>View west from Watkin Lane Road Bridge towards Farington Curve Junction and the West Coast Main Line on 18 March 2008. On the left is the abandoned site of Lostock Hall shed, one of the last depots to house steam locomotives in 1968.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)'>Liverpool, Ormskirk and Preston Railway (East Lancashire Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="8"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/19/624/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/19000/19624.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bamber_Bridge_Junction'>Bamber Bridge Junction</a>: <font size=-1>View west from the platform at Bamber Bridge station towards the former Bamber Bridge Junction on 18 March 2008 as 158 758 approaches on a Blackpool North - York service. The junction once provided a direct route to the East Lancs side of Preston station. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Blackburn and Preston Railway'>Blackburn and Preston Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2008</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/23/195/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/23000/23195.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/P/Paisley_Gilmour_Street'>Paisley Gilmour Street</a>: <font size=-1>37612 passes through Paisley Gilmour Street at the rear the overhead line test coach <I>Mentor</I> on 18th March</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway'>Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Graham Morgan'>Graham Morgan</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/23/30/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/23000/23030.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/P/Paisley_Gilmour_Street'>Paisley Gilmour Street</a>: <font size=-1>37069 at Paisley Gilmour Street with the overhead line test coach <I>Mentor</I> on 18th March</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway'>Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Graham Morgan'>Graham Morgan</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/23/723/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/23000/23723.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bangour_Junction'>Bangour Junction</a>: <font size=-1>With redoubling and bridge alterations complete, a Bathgate - Waverley service approaches the site of Bangour Jct on 18 March 2009. Electrification is due to arrive soon, marking an end to regular diesel traffic on the line.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway'>Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=James Young'>James Young</a> 2009</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/26/812/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/26000/26812.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birch_Coppice'>Birch Coppice</a>: <font size=-1>Not as it seems, part 2 - at first glance, one would not appear to be near a major road junction, nor to any railways past or present. But the suspiciously flat-topped hill in the left background is the 'landscaped' waste heaps of Birch Coppice colliery, and the frame of a container lift in the freight terminal is visible to the right. Out of sight are the M42 (left) and the A5 (left to right) - and finally, the 'farm road' on which we are walking is the former Birch Coppice #4 pit line (see images 25983 and 25985).</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Baddesley and Brich Coppice Collieries Branch (Midland Railway)'>Baddesley and Brich Coppice Collieries Branch (Midland Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/26/813/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/26000/26813.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birch_Coppice'>Birch Coppice</a>: <font size=-1>Not as it seems, part 1 - a tall and secure gate and fence like this are not what the dedicated railway walker wants to see - in this case, on Birch Coppice #4 pit line (see images 25983 and 25985). However, the former 'main line' from the MR at Kingsbury to Baxterley passes overhead. By scrambling up the embankment and down again, one can rejoin the trackbed on the far side of the fence. Our exploration of this line was fitted in after buying a plumbing fitting in the industrial estate adjacent to the freight terminal built on the site of Birch Coppice (#1) pit. We were quizzed by Security, but allowed to continue!</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Baddesley and Brich Coppice Collieries Branch (Midland Railway)'>Baddesley and Brich Coppice Collieries Branch (Midland Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/26/831/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/26000/26831.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birch_Coppice_Exchange_Sidings'>Birch Coppice Exchange Sidings</a>: <font size=-1>I thought the practice of stabling engines at rural locations overnight faded out with branch lines, but look what I found in March 2009 - on a branch line! Nine months later, Fastline Freight have lost this contract, and the Volkswagen Group car parts warehouse in the background is no longer supplied by rail. But on a recent visit, I found this terminal busier than ever. Two FL 66's with headlights on looked great through the viewfinder, but awful on screen. Must go back!</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal'>Birmingham Intermodal Freight Terminal</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/22/894/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/22000/22894.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Camden'>Camden</a>: <font size=-1>A Euston - Watford local service ascends Camden bank on a sunny 18th March 2009.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/London and Birmingham Railway'>London and Birmingham Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Michael Gibb'>Michael Gibb</a> 2009</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="9"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/22/896/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/22000/22896.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Stewarton'>Stewarton</a>: <font size=-1>The new rail bridge carrying the Glasgow - Kilmarnock line over the A735 road near Stewarton now in position, photographed on 18 March 2009. Clean up activity and structural work continues in the vicinity following the oil train derailment and ensuing major fire that occurred here in late January.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway'>Glasgow and Kilmarnock Joint Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Browne'>Ken Browne</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/22/911/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/22000/22911.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Torrisholme_Junctions'>Torrisholme Junctions</a>: <font size=-1><I>Not the same place without a 9F</I>. Until 1967 a triangle at Torrisholme allowed freight trains from Heysham to run through to Lancaster and beyond without the reversal at Morecambe that later became necessary. The most famous trains were the oil tanks for Yorkshire from Heysham terminal, hauled by BR 9F 2-10-0s and often piloted by Class 25 diesels. This once electrified line is now a cycle track and this view of Torrisholme East Junction looks towards Morecambe with the curve to the West Junction passing through the trees on the left and then continuing as another cycle track as far as the surviving Heysham line. Map Ref SD 444636</font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/North Western Railway'>North Western Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2009</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/505/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72505.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Rauceby'>Rauceby</a>: <font size=-1>A view north over the level crossing at Rauceby, Lincolnshire, on 18 March 2011 with the SB on the left and the platforms to the right. The station house is now in private ownership.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2255</a></font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/79/131/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79131.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford_West_Junction'>Sleaford West Junction</a>: <font size=-1>East Midlands Trains 153310 passes Sleaford West Jct on the approach to Sleaford with a service to Peterborough on 18 March 2011.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/79/164/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79164.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Barkston'>Barkston</a>: <font size=-1>A Class 91 on the rear of a southbound ECML service passes the site of Barkston station (closed to passengers 1955 and goods in 1964) but there is no trace of it today.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)'>Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/34/291/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/34000/34291.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brackmills_Level_Crossing'>Brackmills Level Crossing</a>: <font size=-1>The crossing over the industrial estate road at Brackmills on the stub of the Bedford line near the Geismar works see image [[33285]]. Notice the zigzag weld lines for audible warning, and the sleepers laid across the road.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Bedford and Northampton Railway'>Bedford and Northampton Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/67/51/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/67000/67051.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford_West_Junction'>Sleaford West Junction</a>: <font size=-1>An EMT Class 158 passes Sleaford West Junction and heads west towards Grantham on 18 March 2011. The line diverging to the right (north) leads to Lincoln.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/385/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33385.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Rauceby'>Rauceby</a>: <font size=-1>Rauceby station to the west of Sleaford in Lincolnshire (seen on 18 March 2011) is not blessed with platform facilities, with the one information board containing a timetable located on the eastbound platform. The only platform access is via the wicket gates at the level crossing. Unfortunately the signaller had not released them after the passage of the earlier train. With the only info about the next train to Sleaford out of my reach and my mobile phone battery flat I ended up travelling by alternative means!</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="10"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/612/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72612.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Ancaster'>Ancaster</a>: <font size=-1>158813 runs non stop through Ancaster on 18th March 2011 with a service to Skegness.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/241/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33241.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lochwinnoch_2nd'>Lochwinnoch [2nd]</a>: <font size=-1>The triple bridges at the north end of the former Lochwinnoch station, seen from the east on 18 March 2011. Bridges are a single then two doubles, with the walled-up entry to the ramp to the island platform on the left. See image [[33255]] </font></p><center><a href='/companies/K/Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)'>Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Colin Miller'>Colin Miller</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/830/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68830.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Ancaster'>Ancaster</a>: <font size=-1>An EMT Class 156 DMU passes Ancaster with a service to Nottingham on 18 March 2011. On the right in a siding, disconnected from the mainline, is a ex LNER brake van.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/625/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72625.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Grantham'>Grantham</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north at Grantham as dusk falls on 18th March 2011.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)'>Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/253/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33253.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>First TransPennine 185 139 leaves Carlisle on 18 March with the 14.07 Edinburgh Waverley - Manchester Airport service. Standing at platform 3 is Freightliner 70006 waiting to follow it south.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/628/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72628.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford'>Sleaford</a>: <font size=-1>EMT 153310 calls at Sleaford on 18th March 2011 with a service to Peterborough. Traffic continues to cross the level crossing in front of the unit but a minute later the barriers were lowered, the signal cleared and 153310 was on it is way.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/255/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33255.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lochwinnoch_2nd'>Lochwinnoch [2nd]</a>: <font size=-1>The former northern entrance to Lochwinnoch (old) station on 18 March 2011. See image [[33241]] At the south end of the station site the old twin girder bridges and abutments have vanished andï¿½ a road called 'Station Rise' now leads into a housing estate. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/K/Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)'>Kilbarchan Loop (Glasgow and South Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Colin Miller'>Colin Miller</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/261/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33261.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>Freightliner locomotives 86614+86612 about to enter Carlisle Station on 18 March 2011 with the 4M74 Coatbridge - Crewe Basford Hall containers.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2011</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="11"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/647/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72647.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford_East_Junction'>Sleaford East Junction</a>: <font size=-1>EMT 156414 crosses Sleaford East Jct with a train from Skegness to Nottingham in the evening of 18th March 2011. The line to the right here heads to Sleaford South Jct for trains heading to Peterborough.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Spalding to Lincoln Line (Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway Joint)'>Spalding to Lincoln Line (Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway Joint)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/269/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33269.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>Freightliner 70006 approaches Carlisle Station from the south with a departmental train on 18 March.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Lancaster and Carlisle Railway'>Lancaster and Carlisle Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/274/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33274.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>92009 <I>Elgar</I> enters Carlisle station on 18 March with the 4M67 Mossend - Hams Hall intermodal service.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/79/37/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/79000/79037.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford_South_Junction'>Sleaford South Junction</a>: <font size=-1>East Midlands Trains service to Peterborough comes across Sleaford South Jct (from Sleaford to the left) on a sunny afternoon in March 2011.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Spalding to Lincoln Line (Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway Joint)'>Spalding to Lincoln Line (Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway Joint)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/283/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33283.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford'>Sleaford</a>: <font size=-1>An East Midlands service from Nottingham to Skegness arrives at Sleaford station on 18 March 2011. This south Lincolnshire junction station has three platforms and two signalboxes (East and West), with a further two (North and South) in the immediate vicinity. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/284/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33284.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>Freightliner Heavy Haul 66551 pauses at Carlisle platform 3 for a crew change on 18 March with the 4S70 Drax PS - Ayr empties, as a Euston-bound Pendolino arrives at platform 4.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/285/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33285.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brackmills_Geismar_UK'>Brackmills Geismar UK</a>: <font size=-1>The Geismar rail trolley factory still has its small yard connected to the Bedford-Northampton line. Picture taken over security fence, looking towards Bedford in March 2011.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Bedford and Northampton Railway'>Bedford and Northampton Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/288/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33288.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Grantham'>Grantham</a>: <font size=-1>A Kings Cross - Leeds 'East Coast' service calls at Grantham during the early evening of 18 March 2011 with 91108 at the head of the formation.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)'>Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="12"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/297/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33297.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford_West_Junction'>Sleaford West Junction</a>: <font size=-1>Sleaford West signalbox stands guard over the level crossing on 18 March 2011 as a westbound service heads towards Grantham and Nottingham. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/53/359/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/53000/53359.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford'>Sleaford</a>: <font size=-1>Colas 47739 approaches Sleaford on 18 March 2011 with a train of steel from Boston Docks. On the left EMT 158785 waits with a service to Skegness.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/301/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33301.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/W/Williton'>Williton</a>: <font size=-1>Scene on the West Somerset Railway on 18 March 2011 with ex-GWR 2-8-0 no 2807 en route from Williton to Crowcombe.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/W/West Somerset Railway'>West Somerset Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Peter Todd'>Peter Todd</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/311/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33311.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sleaford'>Sleaford</a>: <font size=-1>Having left Sleaford eastbound on 18 March, East Midlands railcar 153357 has turned south-east at Sleaford South Junction a few hundred yards behind the photographer and is now heading for Spalding and Peterborough. This is contrary to the destination panel display which is showing <I>Lincoln Central</I>, the starting point of the service. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/53/644/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/53000/53644.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Barkston_South_Junction'>Barkston South Junction</a>: <font size=-1>DVT 82213 leads an up ECML service through Barkston South Jct on 18 March 2011.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)'>Peterborough to Doncaster Line (Great Northern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/33/327/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/33000/33327.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Ancaster'>Ancaster</a>: <font size=-1>An East Midlands Skegness - Nottingham service seen running through Ancaster station, west of Sleaford, on 18 March 2011. 156401 has just passed over a minor road crossing alongside Ancaster signalbox. The former goods shed on the right is now in use as a furniture and kitchen workshop. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway'>Boston, Sleaford and Midland Counties Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2011</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/236/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38236.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/A/Achanalt'>Achanalt</a>: <font size=-1>Sunday 18 March was a pleasant early Spring day and, with the sun lighting up the landscape, 158708 is pictured near Achanalt on its way to Kyle of Lochalsh.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Dingwall and Skye Railway'>Dingwall and Skye Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2012</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/147/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38147.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Toddington'>Toddington</a>: <font size=-1>This DMU stabled at Toddington in March 2012 is so nicely restored that it could almost be mistaken for the maker's publicity picture. The cars on the left look a bit too modern though....</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)'>Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2012</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="13"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/153/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38153.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Toddington'>Toddington</a>: <font size=-1>Looking over the driver's shoulder as a single car diesel unit approaches Toddington from the South on 18 March 2012. The steam service from Winchcombe was much more popular that day.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)'>Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2012</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/65/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38065.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Toddington'>Toddington</a>: <font size=-1>Yes Sir, we are fully equipped to transfer larger purchases from the bookshop in the Parcels Van to your car - why do you ask? Full facilities on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway at Toddington in March 2012.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)'>Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2012</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/67/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38067.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Ripple'>Ripple</a>: <font size=-1>Since 1959, there has been a most unusual bridge across the M50 motorway near Ripple, Worcestershire. Four identical channel sections cover both sides of the motorway, supporting at first a single-track road (L) and a single-track railway running between Tewkesbury and Malvern. Sadly, the bridge is currently being demolished. Following a 32-week closure, the road link between the throbbing metropoli of Puckrup and Ripple will be re-opened. See image [[39127]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/T/Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway'>Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2012</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/38/74/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/38000/38074.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Toddington'>Toddington</a>: <font size=-1>Three gauges at Toddington: <I>Iron Duke</I> rests on broad gauge rails in the car park on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on 18 March 2012. The station for the narrow gauge line can be seen in the background, while the standard gauge line is behind the photographer.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)'>Cheltenham and Honeybourne Line (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2012</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/42/521/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42521.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brighouse'>Brighouse</a>: <font size=-1>A Grand Central train for Kings Cross (Adelante 180105) calls at Brighouse on Sunday 18th March 2013. Brighouse re-opened in 2000 (after being closed for 30 years) and services were initially only on the Huddersfield to Halifax route. Direct services from Manchester to Leeds via Dewsbury followed and the through services to London complete this amazing change in the station's fortunes. The people on the platform shown here had just watched the <I>Tin Bath</I> steam special depart after a water stop. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2013</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/42/575/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42575.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brighouse'>Brighouse</a>: <font size=-1>The results of being second loco of the double headed <I>Tin Bath</I> charter are evident on the smokebox of Black 5 45407. Together with 44871 they had already tackled several gradients when the train called at Brighouse for water. No doubt after Copy Pit and Sough inclines on the next stage there would be a lot of work for the cleaners back at Bury. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2013</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/42/635/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42635.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brighouse'>Brighouse</a>: <font size=-1>A diverted Sunday Trans-Pennine service (185105 heading for Middlesbrough) passing through Brighouse rather than taking the usual Standedge route from Manchester. Whilst waiting for the <I>Tin Bath</I> steam special to arrive three of these diverted TPE trains passed in quick succession making this route far busier than usual. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2013</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/75/495/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/75000/75495.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brighouse'>Brighouse</a>: <font size=-1>Water stop for the 'Tin Bath' at Brighouse on 18th March 2013. All eyes are on Black 5s 44871 and 45407, well all except the <I>photographer</I> to the right of 44871. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2013</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="14"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/42/494/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/42000/42494.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brighouse'>Brighouse</a>: <font size=-1>The <I>Tin Bath</I> is approaching its watering stop at Brighouse station in March 2013 but the regulators are still open on Ian Riley's Black 5s, 44871 and 45407. This circular tour from Manchester Victoria involved a number of challenging climbs around Lancashire and Yorkshire with lots of <I>chimney music</I> for those on board to enjoy.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester and Leeds Railway'>Manchester and Leeds Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2013</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/400/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80400.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/W/Wolverhampton_St_George^s_Tram'>Wolverhampton St George's [Tram]</a>: <font size=-1>Midland Metro tram 09 at the northern terminus at Wolverhampton St. Georges, waiting to depart for Birmingham Snow Hill, the then southern terminus of the line, on 18th March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Midland Metro'>Midland Metro</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/746/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46746.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/Y/York'>York</a>: <font size=-1>The 12.53 Kings Cross - Sunderland Grand Central service calls at York on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/Y/York and North Midland Railway'>York and North Midland Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bruce McCartney'>Bruce McCartney</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/67/242/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/67000/67242.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/J/Jewellery_Quarter'>Jewellery Quarter</a>: <font size=-1>172333, on a service to Kidderminster, arriving at Jewellery Quarter station, Birmingham, on 18th March 2014. This station is an interchange with Midland Metro tram services which platforms are on the left behind the fence.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/756/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71756.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birmingham_Snow_Hill'>Birmingham Snow Hill</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram no. 16 just arrived at Birmingham Snow Hill, at dusk on 18th March 2014. Trams no longer serve this station, having been diverted through the city centre, the first section of which opened to Bull Street in 2016 with a new street level replacement stop, at first called Snow Hill but soon renamed St. Chad's.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/74/55/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/74000/74055.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bilston_Central_Tram'>Bilston Central [Tram]</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram 07 to Birmingham Snow Hill arriving at Bilston Central on 18th March 2014. This tram stop is just north of the former Bilston Central railway station that closed with the line in 1972. Until 1967, London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside expresses ran this way, Woodside station closing concurrently with the withdrawl of that service.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/702/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46702.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Redbridge_Viaduct'>Redbridge Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>Looking east from Winston Road to the Red Bridge on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/512/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68512.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/The_Hawthorns'>The Hawthorns</a>: <font size=-1>170634 to Whitlock's End arriving at The Hawthorns station on 18th March 2014. This is an interchange with Midland Metro trams whose platforms are out of view on the right.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="15"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/691/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46691.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Ladhope_Tunnel'>Ladhope Tunnel</a>: <font size=-1>View south towards Ladhope Tunnel, Galashiels, on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/331/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71331.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/D/Dorridge'>Dorridge</a>: <font size=-1>Dorridge station after dark, seen from 168 218 with a National Rail Chiltern Line service from Birmingham Snow Hill to London Marylebone, on 18th March 2014. This station, opened by the GWR in 1852, was known as Knowle & Dorridge until 6th May 1974. When BR started their mania for shortening station names with an '&' in them in the 70s, it was usually the first name that was retained, i.e. Cholsey & Moulsford became simply Cholsey but here it was the second name that was retained, while other stations like Highbury & Islington escaped this unnecessary name shortening completely. When this station was still called Knowle & Dorridge, the express service from London Paddington to Birkenhead Woodside, that finished in 1967 and saw the closure of Birkenhead Woodside station, came this way but did not stop here.<br>See <a target=query href=/queries/closed.html>query 2209</a></font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham and Oxford Railway'>Birmingham and Oxford Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/739/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46739.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Hexham'>Hexham</a>: <font size=-1>The Northern Rail 10.45 service to Middlesbrough about to get underway from Hexham on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/Newcastle and Carlisle Railway'>Newcastle and Carlisle Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bruce McCartney'>Bruce McCartney</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/857/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73857.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/The_Crescent_Tram'>The Crescent [Tram]</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram No.10 to Wolverhampton St. George's at The Crescent, on 18th March 2014. This is on the alignment of the former heavy rail GWR route but there was never a station here prior to the closure of the line in 1972. This stop was newly provided for Midland Metro trams when the first stage opened in 1999.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/84/354/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/84000/84354.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/P/Priestfield'>Priestfield</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram no.09 to Wolverhampton St. George's at Priestfield, on 18th March 2014. This tram stop is just north of the former heavy rail station of that name, which is where the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton line met the GWR main line from Birmingham Snow Hill and which had platforms on both sets of lines. The Oxford line used to continue straightahead with the Birmingham line curving sharply to the left and the curve can be discerned in the background in this scene.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/O/Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway'>Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/732/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46732.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Hexham'>Hexham</a>: <font size=-1>The 07.08 Glasgow Central - Newcastle Central, shortly after arrival at Hexham on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/Newcastle and Carlisle Railway'>Newcastle and Carlisle Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bruce McCartney'>Bruce McCartney</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/581/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68581.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birmingham_Moor_Street'>Birmingham Moor Street</a>: <font size=-1>172344, heading for Whitlock's End, departing from Birmingham Moor Street station in heavy rain on 18th March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Snow Hill and Moor Street (Great Western Railway)'>Snow Hill and Moor Street (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/912/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72912.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/J/Jewellery_Quarter'>Jewellery Quarter</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram no. 07 to Birmingham Snow Hill at Jewellery Quarter, an interchange with National Rail services whose platforms are behind the building on the right, on 18th March 2014. There was never a station here prior to the closure of the GWR route between Birmingham Snow Hill and Wolverhampton Low Level in 1972.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="16"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/905/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71905.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birmingham_Snow_Hill'>Birmingham Snow Hill</a>: <font size=-1>Midland Metro tram no. 05 arriving at the then end of the line in Birmingham Snow Hill station, on 18th March 2014. This was in use from the opening of the Metro in 1999 until the first stage of the extension into the city centre to a temporary terminus at Bull Street opened in 2016. The extension diverged north of the station and a replacement stop for Snow Hill was provided but this was soon renamed St. Chad's.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/675/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73675.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lodge_Road_West_Bromwich_Town_Hall_Tram'>Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall [Tram]</a>: <font size=-1>Midland Metro No.09 to Birmingham Snow Hill at Lodge Road West Bromwich Town Hall, on 18th March 2014. This initial stage of the Metro, opened in 1999, runs along the course of the former GWR main line that closed in 1972 but this stop did not exist prior to the closure, being provided purely for the new tram service.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/718/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46718.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bridge_No_95'>Bridge No 95</a>: <font size=-1>Looking west towards the site of Kilnknowe Junction on 18 March with work currently underway to raise the Gala Water bridge deck.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/935/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73935.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bull_Street_Tram'>Bull Street [Tram]</a>: <font size=-1>Track laying in Birmingham city centre, for the extension of the West Midlands Metro, at dusk on 18th March 2014. This section opened to traffic in 2016 after which trams no longer ran into and out of Birmingham Snow Hill station.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Midland Metro'>Midland Metro</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/945/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73945.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/W/Winson_Green'>Winson Green</a>: <font size=-1>Now withdrawn Midland Metro tram 14 to Wolverhampton St. George's arriving at Winson Green, on 18th March 2014. This is one of the few stops on the Metro with an island platform, Bradley Lane is another. This stop is not on the site of the former GWR station at Winson Green which is now occupied by the Metro's Soho Benson Road stop. On the far right is the National Rail line from Birmingham Snow Hill to Stourbridge Junction.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/747/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46747.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/N/Newington_NBR'>Newington [NBR]</a>: <font size=-1>DBS 66115 passes through the site of Newington Station on 18 March with the 6E30 Dalzell - Tees Yard steel empties.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway'>Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/731/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46731.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Stow'>Stow</a>: <font size=-1>Looking south over Stow station site on 18 March 2014. Note the shelter on the down side which seems to have been hermetically sealed! See image [[23820]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/684/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46684.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Stow'>Stow</a>: <font size=-1>View north at Stow on 18 March 2014.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="17"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/455/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73455.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Marylebone'>Marylebone</a>: <font size=-1>Exterior of Marylebone station, opened to coal traffic on 27th July 1898 and to passengers on 15th March 1899 by the Great Central Railway, and seen here just after 8am on 18th March 2014. Now the London terminus of Chiltern Railways, after surviving two earlier closure attempts. The station is also served by the LUL Bakerloo Line.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway)'>Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/942/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71942.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Birmingham_Snow_Hill'>Birmingham Snow Hill</a>: <font size=-1>The former Midland Metro tram platforms at Birmingham Snow Hill station, on 18th March 2014. These platforms were closed in 2016 when the first stage of the city extension to Bull Street was opened, which diverged north of Snow Hill and brought trams back to the streets of Britain's second city for the first time since 1953.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)'>Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley Railway (Great Western Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/46/738/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/46000/46738.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Galabank_Bridge'>Galabank Bridge</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north from Stow on 18 March towards the Galabank bridge, which is being prepared for painting.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/82/411/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/82000/82411.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Marylebone'>Marylebone</a>: <font size=-1>DVTs 82305 and 82301, at Marylebone, the Capital's youngest main line terminus on 18th March 2014. It was opened by the Great Central Railway in 1899.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway)'>Marylebone Station (Great Central Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/495/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73495.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Southend_Central'>Southend Central</a>: <font size=-1>South side exterior of Southend Central station, on the C2C line between London Fenchurch Street and Shoeburyness, on 18th March 2014. This station opened in 1856 with the extension of the line from Leigh On Sea that had been reached from Tilbury in 1855, the direct route via Upminster did not open until the 1880s. This station was the eastern terminus of the LTSR until the extension to Shoeburyness opened in 1884.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)'>Barking, Upminster and Pitsea Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2014</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/873/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50873.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sheep_Pasture_Incline_Top_Engine_House'>Sheep Pasture Incline Top Engine House</a>: <font size=-1>The engine house at the top of Sheep Pasture Incline allows the severity of the 1 in 8 gradient to be appreciated. The rope hauled incline transported wagons (and locomotives!) from High Peak Junction on the Midland Railway up on to the main Cromford and High Peak Railway northwards towards Buxton and Whaley Bridge. Nearby, at Middleton Top a similar building still contains the winding engine which is occasionally operated in summer.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cromford and High Peak Railway'>Cromford and High Peak Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Malcolm Chattwood'>Malcolm Chattwood</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/898/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50898.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Heighington'>Heighington</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north over the level crossing at Heighington on 18 March 2015. This station is on the route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway and opened for passengers on the same day that line was opened in September 1825. The building on the right is named 'The Locomotion No.1'.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Stockton and Darlington Railway'>Stockton and Darlington Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/904/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50904.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sheep_Pasture_Incline_Foot'>Sheep Pasture Incline Foot</a>: <font size=-1>The catch-pit near the bottom of the 1 in 8 Sheep Pasture Incline on the Cromford and High Peak Railway was designed to protect Cromford Goods Yard below the bridge from <I>runners</I> that became detached from the rope whilst ascending or descending the incline. Tracks went either side of the entrance with catch points set to direct runaways into the pit.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cromford and High Peak Railway'>Cromford and High Peak Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Malcolm Chattwood'>Malcolm Chattwood</a> 2015</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="18"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/912/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50912.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Heighington'>Heighington</a>: <font size=-1>Looking south over the level crossing at Heighington towards Darlington on 18 March 2015. A new REB has appeared on the right next to the signalbox and new LED signals protect the crossing.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Stockton and Darlington Railway'>Stockton and Darlington Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/931/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50931.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Coundon'>Coundon</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north along the trackbed at Coundon station on 18 March 2015. The station building is in residential use and the Auckland Way footpath skirts around the property to the west.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Bishop Auckland to Byers Green (North Eastern Railway)'>Bishop Auckland to Byers Green (North Eastern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/934/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50934.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Sheep_Pasture_Incline_Foot'>Sheep Pasture Incline Foot</a>: <font size=-1>The inside of the catch pit at the bottom of Sheep Pasture Incline in March 2015, showing the remains of a wagon that demonstrates the value of the system. The catch pit was installed in 1888 after two loaded wagons ran away almost from the top and were travelling at such speed they jumped the Cromford Canal and Midland Railway just beyond. This particular wagon was safely arrested after its unrestrained journey down the bank in 1946. see Image [[50904]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Cromford and High Peak Railway'>Cromford and High Peak Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Malcolm Chattwood'>Malcolm Chattwood</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/687/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50687.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Beattock_Summit'>Beattock Summit</a>: <font size=-1>TransPennine emu 350405 approaching Beattock summit on 18 March 2015 with the 1100 Manchester Airport - Glasgow Central. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/692/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50692.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/F/Fountainhall_Bridge'>Fountainhall Bridge</a>: <font size=-1>The surviving base of the former Fountainhall distant signal, looking north along the trackbed of the Lauder Light Railway on 18 March 2015.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Lauder Light Railway'>Lauder Light Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/693/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50693.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Beattock_Summit'>Beattock Summit</a>: <font size=-1>The late running 0616 Daventry - Mossend containers speed past a network Rail access point just south of Beattock summit on 18 March 2015. The lengthy train is double headed by DRS 68002+68004 </font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/950/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50950.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Beattock_Summit'>Beattock Summit</a>: <font size=-1>The 14.18 FTPE Edinburgh Waverley - Manchester Airport passing the late running 0616 Daventry - Mossend containers ascending Beattock Bank behind DRS 68002+68004 on 18 March 2015. Travelling at a much more leisurely pace over on the right is the Elvan Water. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/52/212/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/52000/52212.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Greskine_Signal_Box'>Greskine Signal Box</a>: <font size=-1>The 1400 Glasgow Central - London Euston Pendolino photographed near Greskine on 18 March 2015.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="19"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/698/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50698.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Galashiels'>Galashiels</a>: <font size=-1>Progress on the new platform at Galashiels. View north on 18 March 2015.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/705/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50705.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Greskine_Signal_Box'>Greskine Signal Box</a>: <font size=-1>The 0843 London Euston - Edinburgh Waverley on Beattock bank north of Greskine on 18 March 2015.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/713/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50713.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bridge_No_95'>Bridge No 95</a>: <font size=-1>The rail route north out of Galashiels on 18 March 2015. View is from the new footbridge on Plumtreehall Brae towards the former Kilnknowe Junction. After crossing the Gala Water the line then passes over Wheatlands Road before running below the bridge at Kilnknowe Place in the background. See image [[41622]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/720/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50720.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Galashiels'>Galashiels</a>: <font size=-1>Looking across Stirling Street, Galashiels, on 18 March 2015 towards the main entrance of the currently under construction Transport Interchange. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/740/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50740.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/N/Newton_Aycliffe'>Newton Aycliffe</a>: <font size=-1>Leaving Newton Aycliffe for Heighington on 18 March 2015. What is not so obvious nowadays is the trackbed of the line that once ran towards Stockton, which now disappears into the vegetation beyond the GSMR tower.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Stockton and Darlington Railway'>Stockton and Darlington Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/746/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50746.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Threeburnford'>Threeburnford</a>: <font size=-1>A platelayers hut still survives at Threeburnford on the Lauder Light Railway in March 2015. The line closed in 1958. [Ref query 8855]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Lauder Light Railway'>Lauder Light Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/749/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50749.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/K/Kilnknowe_Junction'>Kilnknowe Junction</a>: <font size=-1>The new footbridge over the Borders Railway on Plumtreehall Brae, Galashiels, replacing the road bridge that previously crossed the line here. View north on 18 March 2015, at which time the bridge was not officially open, with finishing touches being applied. See image [[49909]]</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/787/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50787.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Coundon'>Coundon</a>: <font size=-1>Looking north on 18 March 2015 along the trackbed of the former Bishop Auckland to Spennymoor and Ferryhill line under a bridge that leads to Auckland Castle some distance away to the left. The location is north of the former Coundon station and the footpath is known as the Auckland Way.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/B/Bishop Auckland to Byers Green (North Eastern Railway)'>Bishop Auckland to Byers Green (North Eastern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="20"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/50/816/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/50000/50816.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/N/Newton_Aycliffe'>Newton Aycliffe</a>: <font size=-1>A Bishop Auckland to Saltburn train calls at Newton Aycliffe on 18 March 2015.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Stockton and Darlington Railway'>Stockton and Darlington Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2015</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/515/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54515.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Glasgow_Queen_Street_High_Level'>Glasgow Queen Street High Level</a>: <font size=-1>The temporary queuing arrangements include this covered queuing area in the Queen Street carpark, now ready for use.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway'>Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Yellowlees'>John Yellowlees</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/523/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54523.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Glasgow_Queen_Street_Low_Level'>Glasgow Queen Street Low Level</a>: <font size=-1>334030 enters Queen Street Low Level heading west, seen from North Hanover Street. Soon to be much busier!</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow City and District Railway'>Glasgow City and District Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/524/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54524.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Glasgow_Queen_Street_High_Level'>Glasgow Queen Street High Level</a>: <font size=-1>170401 leaves Queen Street High Level. Not much room for expansion here!</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway'>Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/56/86/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/56000/56086.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/K/Kilmarnock_Junction'>Kilmarnock Junction</a>: <font size=-1>73969 reverses with two refurbished coaches for attachment to the consist in the long lyes.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway'>Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Browne'>Ken Browne</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/581/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54581.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Geilston_Level_Crossing'>Geilston Level Crossing</a>: <font size=-1>Northbound service from Queen Street to Oban, Fort William and Mallaig passes Geilston Level Crossing and its ample warning signage.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway'>Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ewan Crawford'>Ewan Crawford</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/55/610/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/55000/55610.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/K/Kilmarnock'>Kilmarnock</a>: <font size=-1>73969 showing off the Caledonian Sleeper logo during shunting moves at Kilmarnock</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway'>Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Browne'>Ken Browne</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/55/626/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/55000/55626.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/K/Kilmarnock'>Kilmarnock</a>: <font size=-1>73969 exits Brodie yard with two refurbished coaches for attachment to the consist in the long lyes.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway'>Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Browne'>Ken Browne</a> 2016</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="21"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/617/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54617.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Cowlairs_Incline'>Cowlairs Incline</a>: <font size=-1>156458 descends Cowlairs incline, seen from Pinkston Road bridge.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway'>Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/628/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54628.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Cardonald'>Cardonald</a>: <font size=-1>380 020 takes the bi-directional centre road through Cardonald with a fast Ayr - Glasgow service.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway'>Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/653/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54653.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Cardonald'>Cardonald</a>: <font size=-1>DB 66037 approaches with Longannet - Hunterston High Level empties.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway'>Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/660/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54660.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/G/Glasgow_Central'>Glasgow Central</a>: <font size=-1>380 008 at Glasgow Central platform 12 with a stopping service to Gourock.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)'>Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2016</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/54/675/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/54000/54675.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Maxwelltown_Goods_Junction'>Maxwelltown Goods Junction</a>: <font size=-1>Novel little sign in Dumfries in the shadow of the closed Maxwelltown branch (formerly the Port Road) off the Nith Line. Tom Train refers to a certain tank engine.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway'>Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Brian Smith'>Brian Smith</a> 2016</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/976/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58976.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Hampton_Loade'>Hampton Loade</a>: <font size=-1>Who are you calling a small engine? If you're going to be rude, you can all stay on the platform, and I'll go and join that train over there. I'd rather go to Bridgnorth, anyway. 1450 goes off in a huff at an SVR steam gala.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Severn Valley Railway'>Severn Valley Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/983/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58983.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bewdley'>Bewdley</a>: <font size=-1>Bradley Manor prepares to go gently into the night, in the general direction of Kidderminster.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Severn Valley Railway'>Severn Valley Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/505/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58505.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Slochd_Viaduct'>Slochd Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>66099 with the southbound Lairg tank empties for Mossend crossing Slochd Viaduct on 18/03/17. Taken between the sleet showers at the Slochd.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)'>Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2017</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="22"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/519/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58519.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle_Station_Hotel'>Carlisle Station Hotel</a>: <font size=-1>LMS sign at Carlisle, still there, on the hotel by the station. This is on the passageway, Collier Lane, which runs under the hotel frontage and to the south east to Crown Street. The hotel, currently the Hallmark Hotel, has been known by various names such as the Cumbrian, the County, Lakes Court and the Station Hotel. The original part of the building dates from 1852.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Carlisle Station Hotel'>Carlisle Station Hotel</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Yellowlees'>John Yellowlees</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/547/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58547.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/L/Lady_Victoria_Pit_Signal_Box'>Lady Victoria Pit Signal Box</a>: <font size=-1>The 0945 (Sunday) ex-Tweedbank slows for the Newtongrange stop during a wet and blustery morning on 19 March 2017. The building on the right once served as the NCB Lady Victoria Colliery locomotive shed see image [[6114]].</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/802/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58802.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bewdley'>Bewdley</a>: <font size=-1>Sunset at Bewdley, looking North West across platform 1 from the footbridge during the Spring Steam Gala.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Severn Valley Railway'>Severn Valley Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/612/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71612.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Morecambe'>Morecambe</a>: <font size=-1>67022 with a UK Railtours' excursion from London Euston at Morecambe station, in the late afternoon of Saturday, 18th March 2017. This station opened on 29th March 1994, replacing the 1907 Morecambe Promenade terminus that closed in 1993, buses replacing trains until the present excuse for a station opened and effectively shortening the line by about a quarter mile. (I am indebted to Cliff Kilshaw for the details of the two Morecambe stations, thank you.)</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Morecambe Bay Railway'>Morecambe Bay Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2017</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/58/561/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/58000/58561.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Strines'>Strines</a>: <font size=-1>Looking south eastwards along the platform at Strines, towards New Mills Central and with Marple behind the camera. Facilities are sparse as are the trains that call here but a fair bit of new housing did seem to be appearing across the valley in the village. Perhaps some more passengers will make use of the platforms which can each accommodate a 6 coach train.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Marple, New Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway)'>Marple, New Mills and Hayfield Junction Railway (Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/71/660/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/71000/71660.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/M/Morecambe_Promenade'>Morecambe Promenade</a>: <font size=-1>Exterior of the former Morecambe Promenade station, seen here on 18th March 2017. This station opened on 24th March 1907 and closed in 1993, buses replacing trains until the present apology for a station opened on 28th May 1994, called simply Morecambe and situated a quarter mile east of the seafront and former terminus. The old Promenade station has become a council run entertainment venue and visitor information centre.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Morecambe Bay Railway'>Morecambe Bay Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/195/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73195.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bridgnorth'>Bridgnorth</a>: <font size=-1>7802 Bradley Manor with load 6 is about to take its train to Kidderminster from Bridgnorth in March 2017.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Severn Valley Railway'>Severn Valley Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2017</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/73/206/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/73000/73206.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bridgnorth'>Bridgnorth</a>: <font size=-1>7802 'Bradley Manor' champing at the bit on the SVR in 2017. Notice the admirer in the boiler suit on the left.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Severn Valley Railway'>Severn Valley Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Ken Strachan'>Ken Strachan</a> 2017</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="23"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/63/424/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/63000/63424.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/C/Carlisle'>Carlisle</a>: <font size=-1>Colas Rail General Electric Class 70, 70814, at Carlisle. Rather a dumpy?</font></p><center><a href='/companies/C/Caledonian Railway'>Caledonian Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Yellowlees'>John Yellowlees</a> 2018</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/63/430/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/63000/63430.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/D/Dalgety_Bay'>Dalgety Bay</a>: <font size=-1>DRS 66303 leads a Ladybank - Millerhill engineers train through Dalgety Bay on 18 March.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/A/Aberdour Line (North British Railway)'>Aberdour Line (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2018</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/65/494/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/65000/65494.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Hope'>Hope</a>: <font size=-1>Looking east over the very snow bound station at Hope in the Peak District in March 2018. Youngest son & family approach the footbridge challenge for getting over to the uncleared Sheffield bound platform to await the train to start the return journey to York. On our arrival in Sheffield early PM we were fortunate that the first train able to run west through the valley was just about to leave. The walk into and back from Hope village was difficult due to waist deep snow mounded on the footpaths. It was very much a day in hope of getting there, and back. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/D/Dore and Chinley Railway (Midland Railway)'>Dore and Chinley Railway (Midland Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Pesterfield'>David Pesterfield</a> 2018</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/81/968/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/81000/81968.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/H/Heaton_TMD'>Heaton TMD</a>: <font size=-1>Heaton Train Maintenance Depot, just north of Newcastle, seen from the ex-14.30 service from Edinburgh Waverley to London King's Cross passing on 18th March 2019.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/H/Heaton Depot (North Eastern Railway)'>Heaton Depot (North Eastern Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Bosher'>David Bosher</a> 2019</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/90/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68090.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/E/Elgin'>Elgin</a>: <font size=-1>Dawn at Elgin station on 18th March 2019. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway'>Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Crinan Dunbar'>Crinan Dunbar</a> 2019</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/118/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68118.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Salford_Crescent'>Salford Crescent</a>: <font size=-1>A Manchester Victoria to Buckshaw Parkway service with EMU 319385 calls at Salford Crescent on 18 March 2019. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway'>Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2019</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/134/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68134.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Salford_Central'>Salford Central</a>: <font size=-1>Pre-requisites for passengers planning to board services at platform 2, Salford Central doesn't actually include mountaineering skills but the height difference between train and platform is significant as can be seen by the person boarding. The train is a service to Clitheroe (ignore the destination on the rear Class 153) on 18 March 2019.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/M/Manchester Victoria West Approach (Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway)'>Manchester Victoria West Approach (Manchester, Bolton and Bury Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John McIntyre'>John McIntyre</a> 2019</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/68/411/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/68000/68411.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Skipton'>Skipton</a>: <font size=-1>GBRf 66732 runs through Skipton with an empty stone train from Wrenthorpe sidings, Wakefield to Arcow Quarry on 18 March. See image [[68262]].</font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway'>Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bill Roberton'>Bill Roberton</a> 2019</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="24"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/779/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72779.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Straiton_Sidings'>Straiton Sidings</a>: <font size=-1>The Rosslyn Chapel Way (Loanhead branch to you and me) has just crossed the boundary between Edinburgh and Midlothian here at the point where Straiton sidings went off to the right. The course of the siding is a path through a nature reserve. The path is almost unmuddy for about three days in midsummer. You can reward yourself with a McDonald's at the end of it, if that's your bag. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway'>Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Panton'>David Panton</a> 2020</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/571/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72571.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/T/Tweedbank'>Tweedbank</a>: <font size=-1>I had to take a relative to Tweedbank for the 1201 train to Waverley on 18th March 2020. Obviously the advice to work at home has been taken to heart. Not making light of it, but it was almost like â€œold timesâ€ when I could nearly have a carriage to myself from Hawick. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)'>Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Bruce McCartney'>Bruce McCartney</a> 2020</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/600/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72600.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/V/Vallsta'>Vallsta</a>: <font size=-1>A reserve EMU of type X11 stops at Vallsta on its way south to GÃ¤vle; this route is normally served by X52 Regina EMUs. X Trafik is the brand name for the local transport services run by the public transport authority of GÃ¤vleborg County. These passenger trains ply between GÃ¤vle and Ljusdal. Rail traffic on this route is, however, dominated by freight as it is the link between southern Sweden and the northern rail network; the mainline is partly double and partly single track with long passing loops as here. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/Norra Stambanan'>Norra Stambanan</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Charlie Niven'>Charlie Niven</a> 2020</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/72/649/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/72000/72649.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/Straiton_Sidings'>Straiton Sidings</a>: <font size=-1>The (by then) Bilston Glen Colliery branch survived long-enough to require bridging by the Edinburgh City Bypass. This view looks towards Loanhead and the siding was the other side of the bridge, though it had long gone by the time the bridge was built. I left my tag, 'NERD'.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/E/Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway'>Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=David Panton'>David Panton</a> 2020</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/76/442/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76442.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Rosewell_and_Hawthornden'>Rosewell and Hawthornden</a>: <font size=-1>Recent clearance of vegetation at Rosewell, along part of what is now the Penicuik & Dalkeith Railway Walk, has resulted in the reappearance of the old platform faces. This is a view from the north east corner of the site on 18 March 2021 looking back towards the junction with the Penicuik branch. The passing truck is westbound along the A6094 which now bypasses the village.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peebles Railway'>Peebles Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2021</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/76/192/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76192.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/F/Farington_Junction'>Farington Junction</a>: <font size=-1>Colas 66846 joins the West Coast main line at Farington Junction having travelled over the S&C with logs for Chirk from Carlisle on 16th March 2021. The train will cross to run on the Up Slow (see image [[37061]]) through Leyland to Balshaw Lane Junction. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/N/North Union Railway'>North Union Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2021</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/76/202/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76202.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Bo^ness_TMD'>Bo'ness TMD</a>: <font size=-1>DMS 64600 from 314209 on the jacks at Boness for removal of redundant equipment in preparation for the installation of the new hydrogen fuel cell package.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/S/Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway'>Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Douglas McPherson'>Douglas McPherson</a> 2021</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/76/287/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/76000/76287.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/Rosewell_and_Hawthornden'>Rosewell and Hawthornden</a>: <font size=-1>A bright spring morning at Rosewell and Hawthornden on 18 March 2021. Photograph taken from steps alongside the picnic area that now occupies part of the old up platform. View is north east along the route of the Peebles Loop towards Bonnyrigg, with the junction for the Penicuik branch behind the camera.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/P/Peebles Railway'>Peebles Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Furnevel'>John Furnevel</a> 2021</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="25"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/684/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80684.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Boat_of_Garten'>Boat of Garten</a>: <font size=-1>BRC&W Class 27 D5394 arrives at Boat of Garten from Broomhill on 18th March 2022. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/472/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/x80472.jpg.pagespeed.ic.j0Oq8mXNeh.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/River_Dulnain_Viaduct'>River Dulnain Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>At the Strathspey Railway Diesel Gala in March 2022, the first train of the day went to the end of the line at Dulnain Bridge to the north of Broomhill station. Class 31 D5862 poses on the bridge, the end of the line for now.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/508/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/x80508.jpg.pagespeed.ic.661s4iOp1x.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/R/River_Dulnain_Viaduct'>River Dulnain Viaduct</a>: <font size=-1>Strathspey Railway Diesel Gala 18th March 2022. 37674 leads the way back to Broomhill from Dulnain Bridge with Class 31 D5862 on the rear. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/526/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80526.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Boat_of_Garten'>Boat of Garten</a>: <font size=-1>Strathspey Railway Diesel Gala 2022. 37674 heads away from Boat of Garten with a train for Broomhill on 18th March.</font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div></div><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/574/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/x80574.jpg.pagespeed.ic.4MUbKwqyGC.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Broomhill'>Broomhill</a>: <font size=-1>37674 lifts six maroon coaches away from Broomhill, on the way back to Aviemore, during the Strathspey Railway Diesel Gala on 18th March 2022 . </font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/336/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80336.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Brock_Water_Troughs'>Brock Water Troughs</a>: <font size=-1>Special MOD working from Longtown to Kineton passing Brock on 18th March 2022. Barrier wagons were in position at each end of the short train, which was hauled by GBRf 66781 (formerly EWS 66016). </font></p><center><a href='/companies/L/Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway'>Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=Mark Bartlett'>Mark Bartlett</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/599/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80599.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Boat_of_Garten'>Boat of Garten</a>: <font size=-1>37674 heads away from Boat of Garten with a train for Broomhill during the Strathspey diesel gala on 18th March 2022. </font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/621/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80621.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/B/Boat_of_Garten'>Boat of Garten</a>: <font size=-1>Changing Engines at Boat of Garten on 18th March 2022. 37674 with D5862 (31327)</font></p><center><a href='/companies/I/Inverness and Perth Junction Railway'>Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Gray'>John Gray</a> 2022</center><br></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="26"><div class='row'><div class='col-md-3'><center><a target='img' href='/img/80/389/'><img src='/__cache/thumbnails/80000/80389.jpg'></a></center><br><p class='text-justify'><a target='location' href='/locations/S/St_Enoch_Subway'>St Enoch [Subway]</a>: <font size=-1>John Cameron at the unveiling of the latest Transport Heritage Red Wheel, on the east side of the James Miller building, now a Caffe Nero, at St Enoch, on 18th March 2022. Also present at the ceremony was retiring SPT chair Martin Bartos. This is Scotland's twentieth Red Wheel, Glasgow's second and the third after Baker Street, and London's Mail Rail network to commemorate an underground railway. The inscription reads 'Former ticket office of the GLASGOW SUBWAY. Opened 1896 and the third oldest metro in the world. A 6 1/2 mile circuit, cabled hauled until electrified in 1935.' </font></p><center><a href='/companies/G/Glasgow District Subway'>Glasgow District Subway</a></center><center><a href='/imageenlarge/photographer.php?loc=John Yellowlees'>John Yellowlees</a> 2022</center><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="events"><br><center><h3>Events</h3></center><br><div class='container'><p>Events from the chronology which occured on this day. This generally lists events before 1995, the creation of the website.</p><table class='table table-striped table-hover'><tr><th>Year</th><th>Companies</th><th>Description</th></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1839</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Hartlepool_Dock_and_Railwa>Hartlepool Dock and Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Cassop branch partly opened although rest of line partly prepared.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1839</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Great_North_of_England,_Clarence_and_Hartlepool_Junction_Railwa>Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Wingate to Kelloe Bank opened. Bank was originally a rope worked incline.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1856</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Forth_and_Clyde_Junction_Railwa>Forth and Clyde Junction Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Railway opened from <a target=_top href=/locations/Stirling>Stirling</a> to <a target=_top href=/locations/Buchlyvie>Buchlyvie</a> for goods and minerals.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1935</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Aberystwyth_and_Welch_Coast_Railwa>Aberystwyth and Welch Coast Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/Abertafol_Halt>Abertafol Halt</a> opened.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1960</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Glasgow,_Barrhead_and_Neilston_Direct_Railwa>Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/Kennishead>Kennishead</a> closed to goods.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>1984</font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/[Lanarkshire_and_Dumbartonshire_Railwa>Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway</a></font></td><td><font size=-1><a target=_top href=/locations/Dumbarton_East>Dumbarton East</a> platform level building demolished.</font></td></tr></table></div></div><div role="tabpanel" class="tab-pane" id="news"><br><center><h3>News</h3></center><br><div class='container'><p>These are old news items which which occured on this day. This generally lists events after 1995, the creation of the website.</p><table class='table table-striped table-hover'><tr><th>Year</th><th>Companies</th><th>Description</th></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2003</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/0/189>Edinburgh Park Contracts Completed</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Contracts have been completed for the new Edinburgh Park station. Work can commence on the new station. Work has not yet started on the station itself (31/03/2003).</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2004</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/0/775>City braced for shops^ tram rebate claims [Scotsman]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>TRANSPORT chiefs are preparing for a flood of compensation claims from shops and businesses which face months of disruption when the city^s trams system is built.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2004</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/0/341>Terror patrols at city stations [Scotsman]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>POLICE patrols have been stepped up at Edinburgh^s main railway stations to reassure the public over the threat of terrorist attacks.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2004</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/0/342>Extra police for railway stations [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Hundreds more police officers will be seen at Scottish stations to reassure passengers and improve security.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2008</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/7/811>£8m improvement programme for the West Highland Line [Network Rail Article]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>An £8m improvement programme will be kicking off on the West Highland line in a few weeks as Network Rail seeks to improve the reliability of the services on this important rail artery. The programme includes the refurbishment of three key viaducts, laying new track, clearing vegetation and major earthworks. </font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2008</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/7/813>Tram-Trains</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Northern Rail are to trial a "new" concept of trams running on a heavy rail system. [From John McIntyre]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2009</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/8/523>A single to Paris please [Lochaber News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>A RAILWAY pressure group is calling for a new tourism drive that could lead to a one-ticket link from Fort William to Paris.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2009</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/8/524>Royal train driver dies [The Visitor]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>A FIREMAN on the steam locomotive used in the film ^Brief Encounter^ has died at the age of 85. Alfred William Bergus, from Halton, was also chosen to drive the Royal train in 1977 when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to Barrow [From Mark Bartlett]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2010</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/9/220>Subway cutbacks spell more woe for SPT [The Herald]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Amid the scandal that has hit the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) in recent weeks, a running theme has been its perceived inability to operate core services effectively.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2010</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/9/221>Competition hots up for Borders Railway contract [Scotsman]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>FIVE groups are to compete to build the Borders railway, with the number of initial bids appearing to confirm ministers^ confidence of strong interest in the uniquely-funded project. [From David Spaven]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2010</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/9/222>MSPs oppose new Hunterston plans [BBC News Article]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>MSPs back calls for the Scottish Parliament to reject plans for a coal-fired power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2012</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/10/599>Rail compensation model should be shunted aside [Herald]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>IN principle, it is right that Network Rail should have to pay compensation for train delays it has caused. But, as the most recent figures published by The Herald today demonstrate, the payouts have become part of a compensation merry-go-round that is no longer serving passengers, or the industry, as well as it should.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2012</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/10/600>Transformation plans unveiled for railway station in Burnley [Lancashire Telegraph]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>A RAILWAY station is to be transformed, paving the way for much faster transport links from Burnley to Manchester. The improvements, which could cost up to £2M, anticipate an a “significant increase” in passengers at the Manchester Road station, already the busiest in the town. It will get a manned ticket office, new canopies and passenger shelters, an improved entrance and an additional 49 car parking spaces. [From Mark Bartlett]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2012</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/10/603>London King^s Cross concourse – review [Guardian]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>The big metal roof is as deeply ingrained in British architectural tradition as thatched cottages and stone churches. The idea was invented for greenhouses, then applied to the great Victorian railway stations and to the Crystal Palace, that wondrous achievement of scale and ingenuity, whose mythic power is made all the greater by the fact that it no longer exists. Big metal roofs speak of confidence and boldness and of the time of this country^s greatest industrial might.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2013</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/11/120>Steam railway museum in £2.5m boost [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Millions of pounds is to be spent turning a steam engine depot at Whitehead, County Antrim, into a tourist attraction. The depot is currently used by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RSPI) to carry out work on their 10 locomotives. RSPI plan to create an interactive museum and said it will become an essential stop on the tourist trail. The money has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the EU-backed Northern Ireland Rural Development Programme.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2014</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/11/709>Dutch Rail to modernise double-decker trains [DutchNews]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Dutch rail is to begin modernising some 400 double-decker trains, creating a more ‘informal’ lower level with ‘lounge seating’ and an upper level for people who wish to work. [From Richard Buckby] </font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2015</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/12/154>^World^s oldest railway tunnel^ awarded protected status [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>What is believed to be the world^s oldest railway tunnel - dating from 1793 - has been given protected status. Fritchley Tunnel was built as part of the Butterley Gangroad, a horse-operated railway linking the Cromford Canal with quarries at Crich. The Derbyshire tunnel has been scheduled as an ancient monument. [From Richard Buckby]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2016</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/12/692>Rail passengers should get more help with compensation, says regulator [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Millions of rail passengers should be given more help to claim money back when their train is delayed, the industry regulator has recommended. The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) said that 80% of passengers do not claim compensation. It wants clearer forms, a national publicity campaign, and better staff training, to encourage claims. The train operating companies promised to take action to improve the compensation process.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2016</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/12/693>Borders Railway: Future goals for new route drawn up [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>A list of proposals has been drawn up to enhance the long-term future of the Borders Railway - including extending the line to Carlisle. Scottish Borders Council is being asked to endorse the response to a consultation by Network Rail. The Scotland Route Study will inform future infrastructure provision around the country between 2019 and 2029. The council has drawn up a string of suggestions on how rail routes in the region could be improved. They fall into a number of ^key elements^.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2016</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/12/694>Edinburgh to London train journey time to be cut to four hours [BBC News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>New trains with faster acceleration will cut journey times on the East Coast Main Line by up to 22 minutes. The Virgin Azuma Trains, which will be launched in 2018, will enable passengers to travel between Edinburgh and London in four hours. They will accelerate from 0-125mph almost a minute faster than the current fleet. Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, unveiled the first of the new trains at London King^s Cross. The 65 trains will be built by Japanese firm Hitachi at its manufacturing plant in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. Azuma is the Japanese translation for ^east^.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2016</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/12/695>Arriva lands Overground concession [Rail News]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Arriva has been awarded a seven-and-a-half year operating concession for the London Overground suburban rail network. The Â£1.5 billion contract, which Arriva has operated alongside MTR since 2007, will begin on November 13. Throughout the course of the new concession, Arriva will work alongside Transport for London to deliver a number of major infrastructure and rolling stock projects, including the electrification of the Gospel Oak to Barking line. [From Richard Buckby]</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2018</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/13/762>Work begins on 10 year programme to modernise the famous Snowdon Mountain Railway [Telegraph]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>On Easter Monday 1896 the ribbon was cut on the Snowdon Mountain Railway^s inaugural ride but all did not run smoothly. On the way back down the mountain (at 3,560ft the highest in England and Wales) the steam locomotive LADAS derailed and plunged off the edge of a cliff. The driver and fireman leapt to safety. Even though the carriage being pulled behind ground safely to a halt, two passengers also jumped out. One, Ellis Griffith Roberts, sustained fatal injuries in the fall. The railway which runs five miles up the side of the mountain from the village of Llanberis to within 60ft of the summit was mothballed while a safety review ensued.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2020</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/15/769>Motherwell station redevelopment to create gateway to Glasgow [ScotRail]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>ScotRail, North Lanarkshire Council, Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), and Transport Scotland have teamed up to create a gateway to the Glasgow City Region at Motherwell station. Work on a new regional transport integration hub at Motherwell station is set to begin this year, following the appointment of contractors, Balfour Beatty.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2020</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/15/770>ScotRail and First bus services to be reduced as demand plummets [Scotsman]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>ScotRail and bus operators are planning to cut services because of a ^dramatic^ drop in demand, perhaps to Sunday levels. </font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2020</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/15/771>Harry Potter line steam train to launch despite coronavirus [Scotsman]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>The Jacobite steam train made famous by Harry Potter is to begin its summer trips to Mallaig next month despite the Covid-19 outbreak.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=-1>2020</font></td><td><font size=-1><a href=/news/15/772>Scotland faces dramatic cuts to rail, air, bus and ferry services as the coronavirus virus spreads, Transport Secretary warns [Press and Journal]</a></font></td><td><font size=-1>Rail, bus, air and ferry timetables will be dramatically reduced over the coming weeks as the coronavirus spreads, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson has warned.</font></td></tr></table></div></div></div></div> </div> <img style="width: 100%;" src="/xfooter-bw.jpg.pagespeed.ic.eSSsw8dlsI.jpg"> <div class="row footer" style="background-color: #000; color: #FFF !important; font-size: 90%; padding: 30px;"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Quick links</h4> <a href="/">Home</a><br> <a href="/news/">News</a><br> <a href="/contributorlista.html">Contributors</a><br> <a href="/onthisday.php">On this day</a><br> <a href="/latest.php">Latest</a><br> <a href="/articles">Articles</a><br> <a href="/slideshow/">Slideshows</a><br> <a href="/_maps/">Maps</a><br> <a href="/railways.php">Companies</a><br> <a href="/a2z.php">Sitemap</a><br> <a href="/pano/">Panoramic views</a><br> <a href="/tags/">Image tags</a><br> <a href="/privacy.html">Privacy</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>The Big Five</h4> <a href="/companies/C/Caledonian_Railway/">Caledonian Railway</a><br> <a href="/Glasgow_and_South_Western_Railway/">Glasgow and South Western Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Great_North_of_Scotland_Railway/">Great North of Scotland Railway</a><br> <a href="/Highland_Railway/">Highland Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/N/North_British_Railway/">North British Railway</a><br> <h4>The Big Four</h4> <a href="/companies/G/Great_Western_Railway/">Great Western Railway</a><br> <a href="/London_and_North_Eastern_Railway/">London and North Eastern Railway</a><br> <a href="/London_Midland_and_Scottish_Railway/">London, Midland and Scottish Railway</a><br> <a href="/Southern_Railway/">Southern Railway</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Photographs</h4> <a href="/search/">Search</a><br> <a href="/latest.php">Latest</a><br> <a href="/onthisdayimg.php">On this day</a><br> <a href="/queries/">Notes and Queries</a><br> <a href="/newsinpictures.php">News in pictures</a><br> <h4>Share</h4> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php" target="external">Facebook</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/share" target="external">Twitter</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-6 col-md-3"> <h4>Scenic Lines</h4> <a href="/companies/W/West_Highland_Railway/">West Highland Railway</a><br> <a href="/Mallaig_Extension_Railway/">Mallaig Extension Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/C/Callander_and_Oban_Railway/">Callander and Oban Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/D/Dingwall_and_Skye_Railway/">Dingwall and Skye Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/I/Inverness_and_Perth_Junction_Railway/">Inverness and Perth Junction Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/G/Girvan_and_Portpatrick_Junction_Railway/">Girvan and Portpatrick Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/S/Strathspey_Railway/">Strathspey Railway</a><br> <a href="/companies/E/Edinburgh_and_Hawick_Railway_North_British_Railway/">Edinburgh and Hawick Railway</a><br> <a href="/routes/F/Far_North_Line/">Far North Line</a><br> <h4>Contact</h4> <a href="/pm/?img=&whoto=Ewan%20Crawford" target="editor">News and picture editor</a><br> <a href="/pm/?img=&whoto=Ewan%20Crawford" target="editor">Technical issues</a><br> </div> <div class="col-xs-12"><br></div> <p style="color: #555 !important">Content © Copyright 1995 to present</p> </div> </body> </html>