11 Images released on Wednesday 05/08/2020

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Haymarket: A new feature of the current (2020) timetable is trains permanently booked to terminate and start at Haymarket Platform 0. Here is the 1709hrs Haymarket-Kirkcaldy on 27th July 2020.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Yellowlees [27/07/2020]


Gorebridge: ScotRail DMU 170401, forming the 0847 Tweedbank - Edinburgh, restarts from Gorebridge on Sunday 12 July 2020. The train is about to pass below the bridge carrying Station Road.

Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
John Furnevel [12/07/2020]


Spalding: At the east side of Cowbit Road, across from the end of the extant twin track railway bridge over the River Welland at Spalding, that formerly served the line running from March to Spalding, is the former Gatehouse for the level crossing on Cowbit Road. The trackbed at either end of the bridge in now obliterated for a distance by road or building works. 25th July 2020.

Lynn and Sutton Bridge Railway
David Pesterfield [25/07/2020]


Stirling: Stirling-Alloa is the only route in the country to enjoy a better service than before the pandemic. These are the times of the additional Alloa trains :
Arriving Alloa 09.06, 10.06, 11.06, 13.06, 16.07, 19.05, 20.06, 23.07
Departing Alloa 09.12, 10.13, 11.13, 13.13, 16.13, 19.13, 20.11, 23.17

Scottish Central Railway
John Yellowlees [05/08/2020]


Benfleet: 357035, with a C2C service from Fenchurch Street to Southend Central via Ockendon, departing from Benfleet on 13th October 2019. Benfleet opened in 1855, with the extension of the LTSR from Tilbury to Leigh-on-Sea, and is the station for Canvey Island.

Eastern Counties and London and Blackwall Railway
David Bosher [13/10/2019]


Germiston Junction High: Black Fives were always well in evidence around St Rollox, as seen here on 2nd October 1963. Perth's 45472 has just passed Balornock depot with the 4.40pm arrival from Inverness at Glasgow Buchanan St, and is about to meet 44925 coming vigorously up the hill with the 4.25pm departure in the opposite direction. Meanwhile Stirling's 45214 is waiting to descend to Buchanan St for a later departure. Germiston Junction High (goods) is on the left with the Low junction and passenger lines to the right.

Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
Robin McGregor [02/10/1963]


Salwick: Extract from the 1961 One-inch OS map showing Salwick station and the adjoining nuclear fuels plant. Salwick station closed briefly in 1938, along with nearby Lea Road, but when a wartime munitions factory was established Salwick re-opened and has continued to this day, albeit with a limited service. Conversion to nuclear fuel production came just after the war and, although no longer rail served, the plant is still engaged in this. It is not widely known that the Lancaster Canal runs west from Preston for five miles before eventually turning north at Salwick. This was to ensure that the only locks between Preston and Kendal were concentrated at Tewitfield, north of Canforth, the present limit of navigation. Added by Mark Bartlett. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Preston and Wyre Railway, Dock and Harbour
National Library of Scotland [//1961]


Barton and Broughton: 195127 passes under the M55 motorway, as it hurries towards Preston, with a Barrow to Manchester Airport service on 22nd July 2020. The wide spacing here is a reminder that, prior to the 1974 electrification, this was a four track stretch of railway line.

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [22/07/2020]


Hurlford: Class 2P 4-4-0 no 40570 brings a Dumfries - Glasgow stopping train through Hurlford on 6 May 1954.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [06/05/1954]


Hassendean: Entrance to the former Hassendean station on the Waverley Route, seen from the south in February 2008, almost 40 years after official closure. The extensively restored site, located just over 4 miles north east of Hawick, is now privately owned and includes self catering holiday accommodation.

Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
John Furnevel [08/02/2008]


Hoveton and Wroxham: 156409 from Norwich to Sheringham heading away from the camera departing from Hoveton & Wroxham on 30th May 2016. It will reverse at the former M&GNJR Cromer Beach station which, along with West Runton, are the only two MGNJR stations still in use following the sad closure of almost the entire system in 1959. On the left is the Wroxham terminus of the 15' gauge Bure Valley Railway.

East Norfolk Railway
David Bosher [30/05/2016]