12 Images released on Wednesday 24/04/2024

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Eastleigh: GB Railfreight 69009 'Western Consort' dead in the Eastleigh station sidings on 17th April 2024. This loco is the latest conversion from a Class 56 and its maroon livery, in the style of a Western Class hydraulic, has been widely covered in the national railway press. Creeping into the picture is 153376, recently converted into a Network Rail Video Inspection Unit. It is one of three, this being VIU 2.

London and Southampton Railway
Peter Todd [17/04/2024]


South Tottenham: South Tottenham, London Overground Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside line, looking south-west towards Gospel Oak, at 15.10 on Friday, 19th April 2024. This section of the line opened as the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway in 1868 with this station opening in 1871 as South Tottenham & Stamford Hill, its name shortened to simply South Tottenham in 1949. Until 1963, this station was also served by the Palace Gates (Wood Green) to North Woolwich service.

Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway
David Bosher [19/04/2024]


Thornliebank: Major works on Thornliebank Road bridge will begin early next month as part of a project to electrify the East Kilbride to Glasgow railway corridor. The bridge, which crosses the railway near Thornliebank station, is being demolished and reconstructed over a 14-month period, from Tuesday 2 April until June 2025. During this time, vehicles are being diverted via Thornliebank Road, Rouken Glen Road, Fenwick Road, Kilmarnock Road and Nether Auldhouse Road (and vice versa). First Bus is operating a diversion for the 57 and 57A services throughout the works, with full details available at firstbus.co.uk/greater-glasgow. This £5.5m programme of work is being delivered by Network Rail and its contractor Story and is part of a wider £140m investment in the East Kilbride Enhancement project. Engineers will create the required clearance height to allow the new overhead line equipment to run underneath the bridge so electric trains can run on the line, as well as installing a new and improved road surface. Over the coming months until September, the first phase involves diverting a number of service utilities from the existing structure onto a temporary footbridge that is being installed towards the end of April. Following completion of the utilities diversion, the road bridge will be demolished, from 27 to 30 September, and then the reconstruction work will begin.

Busby Railway
Network Rail [19/03/2024]


Stepends Junction: A view looking north east between the bridges over the North Calder (behind the camera) and A89 (foreground) in 2008, just before works to restore the Airdrie to Bathgate line began. The path to the right follows a former siding from which lines and tramways extended to various coal pits.

New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Ewan Crawford [26/12/2008]


Stepends Junction: The site of the sinkhole east of the former Plains station is between a bridge over the North Calder (to the west) and a bridge over the A89 (east). This view looks north east at both bridges in 2008, just before works to re-open the line began. The bridge in the foreground was replaced. A siding came off to the right between the bridges to serve various pits, with the layout changing over the years.

New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Ewan Crawford [26/12/2008]


Stepends Junction: View north east near the former Stepends Junction showing the sinkhole between the former stations at Plains and Caldercruix.

New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Network Rail [/04/2024]


Honeybourne: 37238 has traffic for Long Marston at Honeybourne West sidings, on a rather dull day in July 1978. It was at this time a Cardiff Canton loco, which had a spell as a Lickey banker around then.

Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway
Roger Geach [/08/1978]


Mills Hill: 60047, recently named 'Scafell Pike' with 'Peak' style nameplates, hauls twenty five loaded biomass wagons through Mills Hill, on its way from Liverpool to Drax on 17th April 2024.

Manchester and Leeds Railway
Mark Bartlett [17/04/2024]


Statfold Barn: K1 Beyer-Garratt 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 articulated locomotive. The first ever BG to be built, during 1909, for service in Tasmania but eventually returned to the UK in the 1980s. Now in full working order at Statfold Barn as can be seen on 16th March 2024.

Statfold Barn Railway
Peter Todd [16/03/2024]


Craigendoran Pier: 'Maid of Cumbrae' and 'Maid of Skelmorlie' preparing for morning departures from Craigendoran in 1965.

Craigendoran Pier Deviation
Brian Haslehust [//1965]


Maynooth: Maynooth. GNR(I) 4-4-0 No.131 has completed running round her train, the morning RPSI Midlander excursion from Dublin Connolly and prepares to buffer up before returning to Dublin. The whole run round was completed very smartly within 10 minutes before the arrival of the next service train in the opposite platform from Dublin Connolly. 24 March 2024.

Midland Great Western Railway
Mark Poustie [24/03/2024]


Exhibition Centre: 320318 arrives at Exhibition Centre with a westbound service on 17 April 2024.

Glasgow Central Railway
Bill Roberton [17/04/2024]