11 Images released on Thursday 18/11/2021

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Balnacra Level Crossing: New half barrier system installed at Balnacra in Scotland - a previously open level crossing. The Royal Scotsman crosses over the road.

Dingwall and Skye Railway
Network Rail [16/01/2014]


Croy: Design, by IDP Architects, of a new footbridge for Croy station.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Network Rail [/11/2021]


Rhyl: Rhyl No.1 signalbox, seen from a westbound train in May 2013.

Chester and Holyhead Railway
John McIntyre [29/05/2013]


Goathland: The road to Goathland, some two miles south of the village in 2012. Directly ahead is the abandoned bridge that carried the original Whitby and Pickering Railway prior to its rerouting in 1865. The photograph is taken from a point below the bridge that now carries the line. For the view from above showing the two bridges see image [[28461]].

Goathland Deviation (North Eastern Railway)
John Furnevel [10/07/2012]


South Tottenham West Junction: View from 172001, just departed from South Tottenham station, with a GOBLIN service to Gospel Oak and showing the now-singled spur to the Enfield Town line at Seven Sisters, on 17th January 2019. This spur was used by the former North Woolwich to Palace Gates (Wood Green) service that ceased on 7th January 1963. On 16th October 1967, it was traversed by a RCTS railtour that I was a passenger on. This same tour also visited the eastern section of the former North London Railway between Dalston Western Junction and Poplar, then freight only and long before the section through Hackney was reopened to passengers and the Docklands Light Railway was even thought of.

Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway
David Bosher [17/01/2019]


Leek Brook Junction: The disused signalbox at Leekbrook Junction, looking north, in 1991. The line to Cheddleton is behind the camera while that to Cauldon Lowe branches off to the right, that to Leek was straight ahead. Now part of the Churnet Valley Railway, although not presently operational, the box featured in a 2021 episode of 'The Architecture the Railways Built' which covered various locations on the old NSR system.

North Staffordshire Railway
Bill Roberton [//1991]


Winston: Winston station site is now base for a heavy haul road haulage company. Whilst the station building has been rebuilt, the goods shed, crossing keepers' cottages and the station house are still in use, as seen in October 2021. View is of the former crossing keepers' cottages that sit to the north east of the crossing.

Darlington and Barnard Castle Railway
David Pesterfield [10/10/2021]


Blackpool North Pier: There was a station at the seaward end of North Pier Tramway in Blackpool (See image [[57206]] from 2001.) The rails still run to the site, albeit now covered by plywood sheets, but the station itself has disappeared since it closed in 2004.

Blackpool North Pier Tramway
Mark Bartlett [02/11/2021]


Romford: 315835, from Shenfield to Liverpool Street, arriving at Romford on 10th September 2013. These units on what is now a TfL Rail service have now been replaced by class 345 units and will, we hope, one day run all the way from Shenfield to Reading via the Crossrail tunnels, if it ever does open. Should have done in December 2018.

London to Colchester (Eastern Counties Railway)
David Bosher [10/09/2013]


Townhill Power Station: The last train to Townhill Power Station, near Dunfermline, ran in 1973 and the main line track was lifted shortly afterwards. Remarkably, the connecting siding remains in place almost fifty years later. Several hundred feet of bullhead track hide in the bushes, seen here on 7th October 2021.

West of Fife Mineral Railway
Bill Roberton [07/10/2021]


Lancaster: CAF 195110 arriving at Lancaster with the late running 11.49 Northern service to Manchester Airport on 21st October 2021.

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
Gordon Steel [21/10/2021]