14 Images released on Thursday 18/12/2025

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Bidston: A packed 777026, full of home-going commuters, with a delayed Merseyrail Wirral Line service, due to an earlier failed train, from Liverpool Central to West Kirby, at Bidston station at 17.40 on Monday, 28th April 2025. The train departed almost immediately to free the platform for an also delayed Transport for Wales Borderlands Line service from Wrexham, which had been waiting just outside the station, and for which Bidston is that line's northern terminus.

Dee and Birkenhead Committee
David Bosher [28/04/2025]


Stockton [2nd]: A sunny March morning in 2012 sees 156479 depart Stockton working to Middlesbrough. As is to be expected there has been a fair amount of rationalisation over the years around Stockton and for a similar view in 1970 see image [[33919]]. According to what I have read, the overall roof was removed in 1979.

Stockton and Darlington Railway
John Clark [26/03/2012]


Culgaith: This N-gauge layout, displayed at the 2025 Manchester show, is known as Culthwaite, an amalgamation of Culgaith and Armathwaite, and depicts the Settle and Carlisle in the present day with log trains, gypsum etc. The passenger station is very clearly modelled on Culgaith but I believe with an Armathwaite goods yard and shed. It certainly captured the atmosphere of the S&C.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
Mark Bartlett [13/12/2025]


Culgaith: Crowdundle Viaduct lies between Newbiggin and Culgaith and crosses a beck of the same name. Tree growth, certainly at that time, restricted any meaningful view of the four arch structure so this shot from February 2010 looks down from the surrounding higher ground with a Freightliner 66 heading north on a train of empty coal hoppers.

Settle and Carlisle Line (Midland Railway)
John Clark [17/02/2010]


Speymouth Viaduct: Speymouth Viaduct looking east after the December 2025 bridge pier collapse, with the second and third spans down.

Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
John Gray [17/12/2025]


Speymouth Viaduct: River level view, from the north side of the Speymouth viaduct, in December 2025. The remaining pier has been pulled off line by the weight of the girders and decking.

Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
John Gray [17/12/2025]


Speymouth Viaduct: A view from beneath the Speymouth Viaduct, showing the angle of the remaining pier, in December 2025.

Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
John Gray [17/12/2025]


Speymouth Viaduct: Aerial view looking east over the Speymouth Viaduct on 17th December 2025. The collapsed spans are in the foreground.

Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
John Gray [17/12/2025]


Wigan Wallgate: Just eight Class 769 hybrid 'Flex' units are in service with Northern in 2025, last surviving conversions from a considerably larger fleet of Class 319 EMUs that were withdrawn at the end of 2023. The 769s are mainly used on Southport services and 769450 is seen at Wigan Wallgate on its way to the resort from Stalybridge on 26th November 2025.

Liverpool and Bury Railway (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
Mark Bartlett [26/11/2025]


Speymouth Viaduct: A complete aerial view of the Speymouth Viaduct, showing the location of the collapsed section, on 17th December 2025. The pier that caused the collapse seems to have disappeared into the river bed.

Moray Coast Railway (Great North of Scotland Railway)
John Gray [17/12/2025]


Maiden Newton: Maiden Newton station, Dorset, until 1975 the junction for the Bridport branch, seen from the Railway Touring Company's 'The End of Southern Steam' excursion to Weymouth, departing after a signal stop only on Sunday, 9th July 2023. This was mostly a steam-hauled tour from Victoria to Yeovil Junction and back from Weymouth to Waterloo but after reversing at Yeovil Junction and again at Yeovil Pen Mill, was briefly in the hands of 47802.

Yeovil to Weymouth (Wiltshire, Somerset and Weymouth Railway)
David Bosher [09/07/2023]


Llanbradach Colliery: When extra stock with locomotives were provided on the Valleys for rugby at Cardiff. 47296 is seen at LLanbradach on the rear of a rugby train on 18th March 1995. 47296 was once a Knottingley coal engine, and thus not very common on passenger services, so there were a number of people out enjoying the loco haulage as well as rugby fans that day.

Rhymney Valley Branch (Barry Dock and Railways)
Roger Geach [18/03/1995]


Incline Foot [Craigmore]: A photograph taken looking downhill from above the closed whinstone quarry's access road showing the former incline's trackbed.

Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Tramway
Ewan Crawford [26/02/2024]


Galgate: This Network Rail High Speed Management Train, 43014 and 43062, has just passed through the site of Galgate station (closed 1939) and is approaching the bridge under the M6 Junction 33 link road. The HST was working from Slateford to Crewe on 3rd December 2025.

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [03/12/2025]