12 Images released on Monday 25/07/2022

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Carstairs South Junction: Fiddlers Ferry - Hunterston coal empties approaching Carstairs from the south on 10 August 2006. EWS 66200 is passing the former Strawfrank Junction PW depot, closed in the 1960s, with the site subsequently taken over by a local road transport company (see image [[51942]]).

Caledonian Railway
John Furnevel [10/08/2006]


Didcot Railway Centre: Hunslet 0-6-0DM DL26 on Display in the Didcot yard, with a CWS small tank wagon, in July 2022. Fitted with a 264hp National engine the 1955 built loco worked for the National Coal Board at a variety of pits before purchase by the GWS in 1978 for use at Didcot. After many years service, the arrival of 08604 means it is now the reserve engine.

Great Western Railway
Don Chattwood [09/07/2022]


Springfield Yard: NBR J36 0-6-0 'Maude' and LNER D49 4-4-0 'Morayshire' in steam at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society depot at Springfield, Falkirk in 1978.

Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [//1978]


Kingswear: 159020, with 159004, just arrived at the Torbay & Dartmouth Railway terminus at Kingswear For Dartmouth with UK Railtours' through excursion from Waterloo, reversing at Exeter St. Davids, on Saturday, 28th June 2014.

Dartmouth and Torbay Railway
David Bosher [28/06/2014]


Horrocksford Limestone Quarry: There are two resident diesel shunters at the Hanson Cement plant near Clitheroe but train locos seem to be used to draw their cement tankers through the loading facility. As the shunters stand idle GBRf 66702 Blue Lightning can just be seen manoeuvring its train on 13th November 2019.

Blackburn, Clitheroe and North Western Junction Railway (Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe and West Yorkshire Railway)
Mark Bartlett [13/11/2019]


Wetheral: I made sure I was behind the yellow line for this shot at Wetherall, as the Carlisle bound 158 was a non-stopper.

Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Ken Strachan [16/04/2022]


Eddleston: The old station at Eddleston, 4 miles north of Peebles, seen on the afternoon of 16 July 2022. View is north towards Leadburn, in bright sunshine, under a cloudless sky, with the temperature in the village climbing in the heatwave.

Peebles Railway
John Furnevel [16/07/2022]


Didcot Railway Centre: 08604 (ex D3771) 'Phantom' with GWR numberplate 604, in the yard at Didcot Railway Centre in July 2022. This 08 worked out of Longsight, Manchester in the 1970s and certainly didn't sport cast plates in those days.

Great Western Railway
Don Chattwood [09/07/2022]


Kingscote: Bluebell Railway train from Sheffield Park to East Grinstead, behind BR Standard Class 9F 92212, approaching Kingscote on 6th May 2013. The original LBSCR line south from East Grinstead as far as Horsted Keynes was constructed to double track but only a single track has been provided for Bluebell trains with a loop here at Kingscote.

East Grinstead to Culver Junction (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway)
David Bosher [06/05/2013]


Gilmerton: A class 26 drifts down the gradient towards Gilmerton, with a train from Bilston Glen Colliery, in 1978. The conical washer at the closed (in December 1965) Ramsey Colliery can be seen on the skyline.

Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway
Bill Roberton [//1978]


Preston: Preston station Main entrance seemed to be in need of a wee bit of TLC in April 2022.

North Union Railway
Gordon Steel [26/04/2022]


Springfield Yard: A former LMS brake van and a 7-plank RCH coal wagon are part of a shunting demonstration at the SRPS depot at Springfield Yard during an open day in 1978. A Class 20 is parked in the still-active BR yard.

Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway)
Bill Roberton [//1978]