9 Images released on Saturday 19/09/2020

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Edinburgh Park: A Bathgate train about to run below the city by-pass shortly after restarting from Edinburgh Park station on 2 April 2009. The works are in connection with the construction of the tram flyover.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Furnevel [02/04/2009]


Hairmyres: Black 5 4-6-0 no 45320 shunting at Hairmyres in the summer of 1961.

Busby Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [04/07/1961]


Harome Siding: A moderate distance north of Harome Sidings there were two bridges in close proximity to each other, one a narrow humped farm access road overbridge and the next an accommodation/ footpath rail overbridge. The humped bridge has been demolished as it was unsuitable for larger farm equipment, but the other bridge is still fully extant. View is looking south from bridge HMY8 along the embankment running towards site of bridge HMY 7 and Harome Siding. See images [[74126]] and [[74246]]

Gilling to Pickering Line (North Eastern Railway)
David Pesterfield [08/04/2020]


Markinch: An Edinburgh to Arbroath service pulls into Markinch on 2 September 2020. Markinch boasts crossovers north and south of the station, both facing the same way. One was needed for the (suspended) daily terminating service from Glasgow but two seems a bit generous.

Edinburgh and Northern Railway
David Panton [02/09/2020]


Glasgow Queen Street Low Level: The mystery of the whereabouts of three plaques commemorating the Glasgow Suburban electrification and its 25th and 40th anniversaries should not cause railway historians any further anxiety as they are indeed in safe keeping. It is to be hoped that at least the original from 1960 will be put back on display somewhere in the refurbished Queen Street station. (It was until recently located in the Low Level vestibule).

Glasgow City and District Railway
Colin McDonald [11/02/2020]


Clifden: Former Clifden engine shed, now the Clifden Station House Museum, on 7th March 2020. The tracks are a nice addition, although not original, and were added as part of the comprehensive redevelopment of the station site (See image [[21217]] of the shed in 1988.

Clifden Branch (Midland Great Western Railway)
Mark Poustie [06/09/2020]


Pollokshaws West Goods: Standard 2-6-4T 80004, piloting Black 5 44995, on the summer Saturday 11.05 Glasgow - Blackpool. They are approaching Pollokshaws West on 2nd July 1966.

Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway
Robin McGregor [02/07/1966]


Nantybwch: A gnome can only have so much patience, you know. After 59 years of waiting for more trains to pass from his viewpoint atop the pole in the right distance, he finally turned his back on the railway and looked up the garden instead. This view looks towards Nantybwch station (see image [[63260]]) from the direction of the viaduct.

Sirhowy Tramroad
Ken Strachan [19/08/2017]


Romford: 321303, in the single bay platform at Romford, awaiting departure for Upminster on 24th October 2019. This was previously a separate station, opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1893, to the Eastern Counties (later GER) station that is on the opposite side of the road bridge but the two are now linked by a footbridge and treated as one station. Conversion of this line into a guided busway in the 1970s happily never occurred and it is now an isolated section of the London Overground.

Upminster to Romford Line (London, Tilbury and Southend Railway)
David Bosher [24/10/2009]