10 Images released on Thursday 26/11/2020

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Buchanan Street: Caprotti Standard 5MT 73150 leaves Buchanan St with the 11.35 to Thornton on 28th October 1966. B1 61407 is giving a helpful shove, having previously brought in the stock on the 10.50am arrival from Leven.

Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
Robin McGregor [28/10/1966]


Stanley Road [Tram]: Flexity trams 015 and 013 pass outside Fleetwood fire station, immediately to the south of the Stanley Road stop, on 13th November 2020. See image [[44155]] from this location in 2013.

Blackpool Tramroad and Blackpool and Fleetwood Tramroad
Mark Bartlett [13/11/2020]


Ealing Broadway: A Heathrow Express service with 332002 passes Ealing Broadway at speed heading to Paddington on the afternoon of 4 June 2011.

Great Western Railway
John McIntyre [04/06/2011]


Loth: Another outing for 73968 as a driver route learner from Inverness to Georgemas Junction, in preparation for engineering work. Pictured just south of the former Loth station on the east coast between Helmsdale and Brora on the way back to Inverness on 13th November 2020.

Duke of Sutherland's Railway
John Gray [13/11/2020]


Leaderfoot Viaduct: The abandoned deck of Leaderfoot Viaduct in December 2016 looking north across the valley of the Tweed towards Earlston. The western section of the Berwickshire Railway, between Ravenswood Junction and Greenlaw, finally closed in 1965. The viaduct is not accessible to the public and is fitted with serious metal safety barriers at both ends.

Berwickshire Railway
John Furnevel [27/12/2016]


Aberdeen: Some final farewells being said at the south end of Aberdeen on 19 April 1954 as one of Ferryhill shed's V2 2-6-2s no 60970 prepares to depart with a train for Edinburgh Waverley.

Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [19/04/1954]


Carham: The view east from the eastbound platform of the former Carham station. The goods yard was to the right, a loading bank remaining. The station building had stood to the left. The westbound platform was behind the camera, beyond a level crossing.

Kelso Branch (York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway)
Ewan Crawford [//1998]


Edinburgh Waverley: A CrossCountry service for Plymouth poised to depart Waverley's Platform 9 on 7 November 2020. This track is known as the Up Suburban nearly 60 years after the last suburban train departed. Ever since, official calls for the reopening of the suburban circle have become an Edinburgh tradition like the one o'clock gun - and just as regular.

North British Railway
David Panton [07/11/2020]


Undersåker: The station in Undersåker has a long island platform. The track on the north side which is used constantly by stopping and passing trains has stone top ballast. The track on the south side is shown in this view; here, by contrast, the ballast consists of sand and gravel which was used on this line and is still in use on Inlandsbanan. This track does not have much use as trains tend to pass at other stations. This is how many tracks in the north of Scotland would have looked before the introduction of stone ballast in the early to mid twentieth century. This material persisted in use at some stations into the late 1950s; see for example image [[63418]] where the track under the BMU is ballasted with gravel while two other tracks are stone ballasted. One disadvantage of this type of ballast is that it makes quite a good growing medium for unwanted vegetation.

Mittbanan
Charlie Niven [15/11/2020]


Knutsford: 142009, from Manchester Piccadilly to Chester, departing from Knutsford station on 6th April 2016. This Pacer was later scrapped at EMR Kingsbury in the West Midlands.

Cheshire Midland Railway
David Bosher [06/04/2016]