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Finsbury Park: Class B1 4-6-0 61306 'Mayflower', dating from 1948, at the head of a Steam Dreams excursion from Ealing Broadway to Lincoln for the Christmas markets, calling at Finsbury Park on the drab and cold morning of Sunday, 5th December 2021.

London to Peterborough (Great Northern Railway)
David Bosher [05/12/2021]


Johnstone: A mixed freight train, behind Clayton D8504, approaches Johnstone (High until 1962) from the Elderslie direction on 27 August 1963. In the formation is Wemyss Private Railway No.16, which is doubtless heading for Andrew Barclay's in Kilmarnock for overhaul.

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Colin Kirkwood [27/08/1963]


East Kilbride: 156511 and 156495 at East Kilbride, about to form the 12.57 to Glasgow Central, on 22nd November 2021.

Busby Railway
Bill Roberton [22/11/2021]


Brayton Junction: The last freight train to use the old Solway Junction line from Abbeytown to Brayton, near Aspatria, ran in 1933 (the last passengers had been carried twelve years earlier). This view from a surviving but infilled road overbridge looks south west towards the junction with the operational Cumbrian Coast line (which runs in the cutting to the left of this picture) along a well defined section of trackbed.

Solway Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [03/12/2021]


Ben Cruachan Quarry: This is the trackbed of the former Ben Cruachan Quarries branch looking to Drishaig Junction in 2012. This portion of the branch has been reused. The trackbed closer to the Oban line, where the route has not been reused, is much harder to see today.

Ben Cruachan Quarries Branch (Callander and Oban Railway)
Ewan Crawford [08/11/2012]


Frodsham: ATW 175109 heads east through the red sandstone cutting towards Helsby having just called at Frodsham (behind the camera) with a service to Manchester in April 2014.

Birkenhead, Lancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway
John McIntyre [28/04/2014]


Waunfawr: Welsh Highland Railway train returning from Caernarfon to Porthmadog Harbour, seen in typical Snowdonia scenery, to the south of Waunfawr on 22nd May 2016.

North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway
David Bosher [22/05/2016]


Shawfair: Platform construction work at Shawfair well advanced on 20 July 2014. The station site was used to host a Borders Railway media event complete with track-laying demonstration in October that year (see image [[48984]]).

Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail)
John Furnevel [20/07/2014]


Snowdon Ranger: Welsh Highland Railway train from Porthmadog Harbour to Caernarfon seen north of Snowdon Ranger, on 22nd May 2016.

North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway
David Bosher [22/05/2016]


Clyde Navigation Works [Renfrew]: The Clyde Navigation Works in Renfrew seen from the north bank (taken from the site of the Yoker Power Station). The shipyard was rail served by a siding which approached, via Braehead Transit, from the short lived Deanside station. The site has since been redeveloped as riverside flats. The lovely crane is now gone.

Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway
Ewan Crawford [15/08/2004]


Northwick Park: LU S8 stock on a Metropolitan Line service to Uxbridge, arriving at Northwick Park on 26th September 2015. The line here opened in 1880 but this station was not opened until 1923 as Northwick Park & Kenton and became simply Northwick Park in 1937.

Kingsbury and Harrow Railway (Metropolitan Railway and Metropolitan and St John's Wood Railway Joint)
David Bosher [26/09/2015]