Today's banner by Mark Bartlett: After a 30 year closure period Brighouse was rebuilt and reopened in 2000. Since then additional services have been added and it now sees hourly trains between Manchester and Leeds, hourly trains between Huddersfield and Bradford, and several Grand Central daily services to and from Kings Cross. 180106 calls on 16th March 2024 heading for Bradford Interchange.

News in pictures


Latest photographs






On this day

1840  Great Western Railway
Twyford to Reading opened. Stations on this section at: Reading.
1849  General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
West Street Junction (Govan and Polloc Railway) to Shields Junction No 1 (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway) and General Terminus opened. Curve to Strathbungo Junction (Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) opened.
1880  Dingwall and Skye Railway
PS Carham grounds off the island of Raasay.
1901  West Highland Railway
Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Banavie Junction [2nd], Banavie Canal Bridge, Tomonie Signal Box, Glenfinnan, Lochailort, Arisaig, Mallaig signal boxes opened. Banavie Junction [1st] signal box and junction renamed Mallaig Junction.
1953  Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway
Eglinton Slag Processing to Kilwinning East to Giffen (excluded) closed to freight.
1962  West Highland Railway
Fire destroys the station building at Crianlarich [WHR]. The tearoom building and Crianlarich Shed survive.
1970  Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company
Fremington Quay closed.
1998  ScotRail
£125M orders placed to lease 40 Class 334 'Juniper' trains (to be built by GEC Alsthom, former Metro-Cammell Birmingham) from Forward Trust Rail and 9 Class 170s (Adtranz, Derby) from Porterbrook placed.
1998  Eddie Stobart Direct Rail Services
First Rail freight service for Eddie Stobart run by Direct Rail Services from DIRFT to Hunterston.
2010  North British Railway
Two landslips at Grantshouse close the East Coast Main Line. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis orders an independent review of transport's response to severe winter weather (in England).

More

This day in history

Horwich Mogul 42910 photographed near Failford, South Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959 with a Kirkconnel - Ayr Harbour coal train. [Ref query 5738]

Horwich Mogul 42910 photographed near Failford, South Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959 with a Kirkconnel - Ayr Harbour coal train. [Ref query 5738]

G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (1959)

More

Notes and Queries

A Class 47 loco stabled near a junction in summer 1989 but where and what are those gantries for?
[Added 01 March 2023.]

Responses so far

Miscellany

Related to Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny].


More

Key events

February 2024Dunblane resignalling to allow southbound trains to depart from Platform 3
Highland networks closed by storm on 5 February
East Kilbride carpark reduced for new station construction
Addiewell temporarily closed for reconstruction
Brodick ferries diverted to Troon by Ardrossan pier damage
Seawall damage near Helmsdale
January 2024'The Hatch' café opens at Singer
'Reboot your Commute' advertising campaign
Four loops taken out of use during snow on HML
Storms Isha and Jocelyn led to network closures from 1900 on 21 and 23 January
Storm Ingunn on 31 January closed West and North Highland routes
December 2023Further strikes and other action by ASLEF at DfT train operators in first week of December
Glasgow-Barrhead electric services begin
Cathcart Circle and Shotts expresses restored all day
East Linton station opens
'Polar Express' trains on the Edinburgh South Suburban
First Boxing Day trains to Edinburgh since 1981
Storms Pia and Gerritt affect services
November 2023RMT members vote to accept pay offer, but ASLEF announce a rolling programme of strikes in December at DfT operators. Waverley brought to a standstill for rest of day after power-surge fried signals on 2 November. Calls suspended at Altnabreac. New Sleeper lounge at Euston. New coffee-shop at Shettleston.
October 2023Strikes at Anglo-Scottish operators by RMT on 1 October, ALEF on 4 October with ASLEF overtime ban on 2-6 October.
Three weekends of train services suspended to north-east Scotland as a result of heavy rain, with Storm Babet bringing the heaviest to Scotland since 1891.
HS2's Birmingham-Manchester leg cancelled.
Start of six-month trial abolition of ScotRail peak fares.

More

Slideshows

Grand Scottish Tour No 1[[images]]0 photos
Work at Cowlairs 10 photos
Class 318 Scotrail units 2017-2022[[images]]0 photos
Largs to Ardeer and back 34 photos
Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway 15 photos
The Great Britain Railtour 10 photos

More


Books

Selected from Amazon's New Releases.


The Railways of Stirling

ASIN 1915069297
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-09-20
Author(s) Peddie, Donald

View on Amazon

Class 08 Locomotives in Scotland (Class Locomotives)

ASIN 1398105600
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-10-15
Author(s) Howat, Colin J.

View on Amazon

The Dundee & Arbroath Railway

ASIN 1915069173
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-02-24
Author(s) Ferguson, Niall

View on Amazon

Edinburgh, Granton and Leith Railways

ASIN 1398108561
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-04-15
Author(s) Williamson, Kenneth G.

View on Amazon

More new books

Articles

More

Book Reviews

More
Footer image