10 Images released on Friday 09/10/2020

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Moy: Winter is coming! DRS 66422 and 66432, both in very clean condition, take the two big Inverness snowploughs to Moy and back on a test run on 29th September 2020.

Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)
John Gray [29/09/2020]


Drumgelloch: A mid-morning Edinburgh Waverley - Helensburgh Central emu picks up a passenger at Drumgelloch on 7 March 2011. This was one of two new stations on the reopened Airdrie - Bathgate route whose completion had been delayed (the other being Caldercruix) with the official opening to the public having taken place the previous day.

New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
John Furnevel [07/03/2011]


Cargill Viaduct: Trespassers take note, there is a £25 penalty for stepping on the Cargill Viaduct, as seen in 1996.

Scottish Midland Junction Railway
Ewan Crawford [//1996]


Insch: 6Z42 China Clay train on its way to Waterloo, hauled by 70816, passing Insch on 23rd September 2020. Soon to be a very rare sight once the line through Carmont is reopened.

Great North of Scotland Railway
Duncan Ross [23/09/2020]


Stanhope: Immediately beyond Stanhope station west end limit and the run round head-shunt is an accommodation vehicle level crossing, giving access to recreational facilities, marking the start of the mothballed section of extant track running to Eastgate. A short distance further west there is the first bridge over the River Wear on this section. This view is looking west from the level crossing along the first significantly overgrown section of mothballed track. The river bridge is located just beyond the tree on the left as the track curves behind it.

Wearhead Extension (North Eastern Railway)
David Pesterfield [11/08/2020]


Glasgow Queen Street High Level: The revamped Glasgow Queen Street looks so starkly new in this image that it appears more like an architect's simulation. The view is from George Square.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
David Panton [19/09/2020]


Cambridge Heath: The Great Eastern Railway viaduct of 1872 crossing the Regents Canal, just to the north of Cambridge Heath station, looking east on 31st August 2020. This viaduct carries London Overground trains from Liverpool Street to Chingford, Enfield Town and Cheshunt as well as Stansted Express and Cambridge services. The Regents Canal is celebrating its bi-centenary in 2020, having opened in 1820 to link the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington with the Thames at Limehouse. Both canals were amalgamated in 1929 to form the Grand Union Canal but the Regents Canal is still known colloquially by its original name.

Bethnal Green to Edmonton and Lea Valley Line (Great Eastern Railway)
David Bosher [31/08/2020]


Kincardine: Looking east from the level crossing to the former Kincardine station on 25 September 2020. The track was relaid in June 2020 in connection with the Talgo development at Longannet and proposed reopening to passengers.

Kincardine Branch (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [25/09/2020]


Minehead: I had a trip to the Somerset coast on 26th September and called into Minehead Station, as one would. There was no rail traffic but judging by the fresh paint and lack of weeds, someone is keeping busy during the Covid shutdown. I am told their next passenger carrying activity will be the Santa Specials. 7828 'Lydney Manor' was seen in store at the station.

Minehead Railway
Peter Todd [26/09/2020]


Saxmundham: 153314, in its last summer of Greater Anglia operations, runs along the East Suffolk line at Benhall Crossing near Saxmundham. With the introduction of new Class 755 trains the single car 153s were transferred to Transport for Wales in December 2019, based at Cardiff Canton.

Halesworth to Woodbridge Extension (East Suffolk Railway)
Mark Bartlett [30/07/2019]