9 Images released on Sunday 16/01/2022

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Chivers Jam Factory: This photograph, displayed in the Pye room at the Cambridge Museum of Technology, clearly shows rails in the floor of the Chivers jam factory at Histon. There is also a human-powered wheeled trolley shown. Presumably the system was not immune to traffic jams.

Chivers and Sons
Ken Strachan [22/02/2020]


Daisy Hill: 158870 and 150105 arrive at Daisy Hill with a Kirkby to Blackburn service on 8 January 2022.

Windsor Bridge to Hindley Line (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway)
John McIntyre [08/01/2022]


Bay Horse: One of the new refrigerated containers on the last wagon of a lightly loaded Tilbury to Coatbridge intermodal passing through Lancashire on 15th January 2022. Tesco has heavily publicised its new partnership with DRS to move refrigerated containers by rail (See recent news item).

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [15/01/2022]


Sligo Folk Park: This ex CIE Park Royal coach of 1955 vintage, with Commonwealth bogies, on display at Sligo Folk Park has been repainted into the early CIE green livery with no obvious identification. The inset shows an enlargement of the notice fitted below the window on the right hand end door and the accompanying commentary on the handsets issued to visitors claims that this particular coach was used on the last train to run on the remaining section of the Sligo Limerick line to close. The closure to passengers occurred on 5th April 1976. [Collooney to Claremorris was officially closed in 1975.]

Sligo Folk Park
Douglas Blades [30/07/2021]


Nine Elms [Northern Line]: View from the escalator at the new Nine Elms Northern Line station, that opened on 20th September 2021, looking across the lower concourse with a train of LU 1995 stock about to depart to Battersea Power Station, on the afternoon of New Year's Day, Saturday, 1st January 2022.

Northern Line Extension [TfL]
David Bosher [01/01/2022]


Princes Pier Shed: 17 April 1965, and the Jones Goods has just left Greenock Princes Pier and is charging the 1 in 70 gradient up to Lynedoch Street station. The train is the Easter Rambler No 4, and it is heading for Paisley West.

Greenock and Ayrshire Railway
Colin Kirkwood [17/04/1965]


Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box: Looking north east from Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box along the former Cronberry Moor Mine branch in 2004. On the right can be seen the former near parallel alignment to Cronberry Tileworks.

Muirkirk Branch (Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway)
Bill Roberton [//2004]


Carstairs: Britannia Pacific 70010 'Owen Glendower' runs into Carstairs with the 9.25 am Crewe to Perth in July 1965. The very faded sign at the end of the platform somehow seems of its time: 'Railway employees must not trespass on the line between Carstairs No 3 box and Strawfrank junction. The route being by the main road between station entrance and the workshops. Anyone found on the line will be severely dealt with.'

Caledonian Railway
Robin McGregor [03/07/1965]


Ferguslie Viaduct: 46236 'City of Bradford' crosses the Ferguslie Viaduct on a crisp winter's morning on 22 February 1963, while heading a train of empty mail and parcel vans. The petrol station in the foreground looks like a bomb has hit it!

Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway
Colin Kirkwood [22/02/1963]