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Eastleigh: GBRF 66725 adorned with a 'Sunderland' nameplate at Eastleigh in November 2021. The nameplate looked better on the original B17 'Footballer' 4-6-0.

London and Southampton Railway
Peter Todd [25/11/2021]


Roscobie Lime Works: Roscobie Lime Works operated a quarry, mines and limekilns north of Dunfermline. Ordnance Survey maps indicate that tramways were used in the operations within the site, and in a period between by 1896 and 1947 and active in 1915, there was a tramroad from the kilns, across the B914 to a loading stage at Gask Siding (see image [[37505]]) a distance of about a kilometre as the crow flies. Gauge unknown. The disused limekilns were demolished in 1991 for safety reasons. My photograph from 1993 looks south over the former quarry area showing the 'main line' of the internal tramroad heading for the kilns.

Roscobie Lime Works Tramway
Bill Roberton [//1993 ]


Banbury: Looking south at Banbury in March 2014 with Chiltern Railways 2-car 165003 in the un-numbered north facing bay. Following the resignalling of Banbury in July 2016 the track was lifted from this bay.

Birmingham and Oxford Railway
John McIntyre [06/03/2014]


Carnforth: Lancashire emergency services personnel practising Triage skills in a MkII coach at West Coast Railways' Steamtown during 'Exercise Mallard' in 2014. This simulated a train and bus collision with casualties suffering varying degrees of injury and needing to be safely removed from the rail coaches and the bus.

Carnforth Shed (Furness Railway and London and North Western Railway)
Mark Bartlett Collection [01/03/2014]


Kilnknowe Junction: Beyond Kilnknowe Junction the Peebles Loop and the Waverley route continued northwards in parallel for approximately half a mile before the branch line turned west towards Clovenfords, with the main line veering to the right before making the double crossing of the Gala Water at Torwoodlee. This view, looking north west from Kilnknowe Place on 9 June 2014, shows the old routes beginning to diverge (with work in progress at the time on preparations for the new Borders Railway). For the view in 1963 see image [[58513]]

Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
John Furnevel [09/06/2014]


Edinburgh Waverley: A 1.7m pound project to repair and re-paint two railway bridges in Edinburgh City Centre will get underway in January 2022. Network Rail will begin work on the bridges at Calton Road and New Street on January 10, with grit blasting, steelwork repairs, steel strengthening and painting all scheduled for completion by August next year.

North British Railway
Network Rail [/12/2021]


Interlaken Ost: Two classic BLS electrics at Interlaken Ost station in 1966. On the right is the doyen of the Ae 6/8 class, number 201, dating from 1939. On the left is Ce 4/6 304, dating from the nineteen twenties. The Swiss build to last.

Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon Railway (BLS)
Robin McGregor [29/07/1966]


Ben Cruachan Quarry: This is Cruachan Quarry reached by a branch from Drishaig Junction near Loch Awe and with final approach via a reversing spur. The stone for the heron fountain (at [[Strathyre]] station on the C&O) and stork fountain (still at [[Dalmally]] station) came from this quarry.

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


Ferryhill Shed [2nd]: Aberdeen, at the Ferryhill shed. Class 5MT 44931 being prepared for departure to Glasgow with the 'Granite City' service. Circa 1962.

Aberdeen Railway
David Murray-Smith [//1962]


Archway: Archway station, Northern Line, looking north on 20th November 2021. This opened as Highgate in 1907, the terminus of a branch from Camden Town of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway and was renamed in 1939 when the line was extended to the surface at East Finchley. Tube trains were extended over former LNER lines, replacing steam, to High Barnet in 1940 and from Finchley Central to Mill Hill East in 1941. The rest of the Northern Line 'Northern Heights' extensions were never completed. Until 20th September 2021, the Mill Hill East branch had just a one-stop shuttle service to and from Finchley Central, supplemented by a few through peak hour trains, but when the new Northern Line branch to Battersea Power Station opened on that day, this was abolished and Mill Hill East now has through trains to and from central and south London all day, seven days a week. As can be seen on the indicator board in this view at Archway.

Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway
David Bosher [20/11/2021]


Oban North Pier: Calmac's 'Hebridean Isles' and 'Glen Sannox', at the pier alongside Oban station in October 1987.

Piers, Slips and Staiths
Colin Miller [/10/1987]