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The glorious sunshine belies the fact that it was a bitterly cold day.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/203'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92203.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92203.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92203.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92203.jpg 200w' width='24.278692340985%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Roger Geach 15/01/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='The Cross City line, Birmingham. 730019 calls at Erdington with a service for Bromsgrove on 15th January 2025.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/202'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92202.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92202.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92202.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92202.jpg 200w' width='24.278692340985%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Ewan Crawford 14/12/2023' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='bottom' data-content='On the curve where the Methven line turned from going south west to south east the line re-crossed the Methven Burn. It re-crossed it again shortly afterwards at Tippermallo as it approached Methven Junction.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/201'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92201.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92201.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92201.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92201.jpg 200w' width='23.929024554071%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 05/02/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='185127 re-joins the original CLC alignment and hurries through Flixton with a Lime Street to Cleethorpes TPE service on 5th February 2025. The low Manchester platform has been raised on part of its length but on this Liverpool side there is just a 'Harrington Hump' by the shelter and a big step up into the train at other doors. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/200'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92200.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92200.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92200.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92200.jpg 200w' width='24.815284722741%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Clark //2001' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='A busy moment at Whisker Hill Junction in 2001. 66055 has passed through Retford Low Level and is heading west with a train of oil tanks, thought to have originated at West Burton Power Station, whilst 66179 waits to follow it to Worksop with a train of sand from Middleton Towers to Barnby Dun.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/199'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92199.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92199.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92199.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92199.jpg 200w' width='21.440406000448%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Oliver Wilkinson 17/02/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Stockport is a hive of freight and on Monday 17th February 2025 GB Railfreight 66754 'Northampton Saints' passes through platform 3 working 4H61 1035hrs Small Heath Lafarge to Hindlow.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/198'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92198.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92198.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92198.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92198.jpg 200w' width='24.815284722741%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Robin McGregor //1979' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='MV ‘Saturn’ crossing the Firth towards Wemyss Bay on a fine summer evening in 1979. The photograph was taken from the ‘Glen Sannox’, heading for Gourock after a cruise to Tarbert, Loch Fyne (see image 92028).'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/197'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92197.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92197.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92197.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92197.jpg 200w' width='11.860226727641%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Bill Roberton 04/03/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='LSL's 37409 passes the site of Valleyfield Colliery, closed in 1978, with a route learning trip on 4th March 2025.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/196'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92196.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92196.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92196.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92196.jpg 200w' width='24.81218980678%' style='margin: 1px;' title='David Bosher 11/02/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='710105, London Overground, Romford to Upminster, approaching Emerson Park, the only intermediate stop on the short ex-LTSR single track branch line, dating from 1893 (Emerson Park did not open until 1909 as Emerson Park Halt), where one train just shuttles back and forth, at 14.44 on Tuesday, 18th February 2025. This line became a completely detached part of the London Overground on 31st May 2015, several miles east of the rest of the LO network.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/195'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92195.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92195.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92195.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92195.jpg 200w' width='26.672174050167%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Roger Geach 06/03/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='35028 'Clan Line' with the Dover to Victoria 'Belmont Pullman' at Tonbridge, now just on the move and looking great in the spring sunshine of 6th March 2025.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/194'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92194.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92194.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92194.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92194.jpg 200w' width='31.655409415412%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Ewan Crawford 14/12/2023' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='On approach to the terminus at Methven the Perth, Almond Valley and Methven Railway followed the twisting defile of the Methven Burn. This view looks south showing the portion of line between Burnside and Tippermallo. The former Crieff and Methven line would have been in the distance.'></a><br><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/193'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92193.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92193.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92193.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92193.jpg 200w' width='23.368916662766%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Mark Bartlett 05/02/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='A view towards Liverpool at Mossley Hill as a 4-car Sprinter calls at Platform 1 (of 4) with a Lime Street to Manchester Oxford Rd via Warrington service on 5th February 2025. Between Mossley Hill and Edge Hill were two further stations, Sefton Park, which closed in 1960, and Wavertree, which closed in 1958. Both have been cleared away at track level but there are proposals to reopen Sefton Park. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/192'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92192.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92192.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92192.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92192.jpg 200w' width='26.212134856735%' style='margin: 1px;' title='John Clark //1975' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='In the summer of 1975, the 10.35 Glasgow Queen Street - Oban calls at Dalmally. The train is formed of 2 x 3-car Metro-Cammell sets and carried headcode 1B11 on a small board, just visible at the bottom of the left side cab window.'></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/191'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92191.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92191.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92191.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92191.jpg 200w' width='20.997704825155%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Oliver Wilkinson 17/02/2025' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='Platform 1 at Crewe station is hidden away and people probably wouldn't realise it was even there if they weren't looking for it. On Monday 17th February 2025 323224 sneaks in working 2A98 1236hrs Manchester Piccadilly to Crewe. This EMU has spent its entire 31-year career working out of Manchester and it will have seen a lot of change in the northern city over that time. '></a><a target='enlarge' href='/img/92/190'><img class='lazy' src='/images/92000/92190.jpg' srcset='/images/92000/92190.jpg 800w,/images400/92000/92190.jpg 500w,/__cache/thumbnails/92000/92190.jpg 200w' width='24.421243655344%' style='margin: 1px;' title='Tony Gale 26/08/1979' data-toggle='popover' data-placement='top' data-content='40006 with 31298 at Scarborough. Scan of a slide by my friend the late Tony Gale from Devon who sadly died quite recently. 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