14 Images released on Tuesday 13/09/2022

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Bristol Harbour: Stodart and Pit. steam powered, 35T dock crane at Bristol, seen from a boat trip around the harbour on 1st September 2022. It is reported to be still in working order.

Bristol Harbour Railway
Peter Todd [01/09/2022]


Leyland: ELR Gala movement 40145 passes Leyland on 13 September 2022 whilst working light engine from Carnforth Steamtown to the East Lancashire Railway. This was a positioning move to get the loco to the ELR Autumn Diesel Gala on 16 & 17 September.

North Union Railway
John McIntyre [13/09/2022]


Clyde Place Quay: Looking down river from Bridge Wharf in 1967, with 'PS Waverley' about to depart.

Piers on the Firth of Clyde
Colin Miller [//1967]


Maudland Bridge: A view east under the bridge that carries Maudland Bank road over the railway. Under the left hand part was the chord line that connected the Longridge branch via a flat crossing over the Lancaster line direct to the Fleetwood/Blackpool line. Under the right hand bridge was the Preston to Longridge line and which survived until the late 1980s, latterly to serve the Deepdale coal concentration depot.

Fleetwood, Preston and West Riding Junction Railway
John McIntyre [24/03/2008]


Dunfermline Queen Margaret: Dunfermline Queen Margaret station under construction in 1999.

West of Fife Railway and Harbour
Ewan Crawford [//1999]


Southend Pier [Shore]: One of the new, 2021 delivered, Pier Railway trains, unfortunately not in service on this day, on left and the surviving 1986 train, 'Sir William Heygate' that provided the service on this day, seen here at Shore station looking towards Pier Head, on 29th August 2022.

Southend Pier Railway
David Bosher [29/08/2022]


Whifflet Upper: The Rail Society of Scotland Tour of 18 October 1969 has reached Whifflet Upper on the Caley line to Airdrie. The station platform spanned both the line from Motherwell to Coatbridge Central and Whifflet to Sunnyside line. DMU is SC51467. The R. B. Tennent & Sons Ltd works is in the background right.

Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Colin Kirkwood [18/10/1969]


Queens Park: 380106 nears Queens Park, with the 15.53 from Central to Neilston on 4 September 2022, passing under the Larkfield Curve, formerly the main line into St Enoch.

Cathcart District Railway
Bill Roberton [04/09/2022]


Kirkby-in-Furness: 156486 leaves Kirkby-in-Furness heading down the east side of the Duddon Estuary on 25th August 2022, with one more stop (at Askam) before its destination at Barrow. These coastal 156s take around two and a half hours for the journey between Barrow and Carlisle, but it is certainly scenic.

Furness Railway
Mark Bartlett [25/08/2022]


Wemyss Bay: DEPV 'Talisman' at Wemyss Bay on 15th May 1965, dressed overall to mark the centenary of the opening of the original station and pier.

Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
Brian Haslehust [15/05/1965]


Murhill Quarry Quay: In theory, the prominent weed in the foreground should ruin this picture. But I think it just adds to the atmosphere of no rush, no fuss. View looks towards Bath, in a round about way, in September 2021. (The quarry quay was on the opposite bank.)

Kennet and Avon Canal
Ken Strachan [05/09/2021]


Newcomen Junction: A class 005 nears Newcomen Junction with a fuel train from Dublin docks to Sligo. Beyond are the derelict remains of the Royal Canal, since refurbished and reopened.

Midland Great Western Railway
Bill Roberton [//1973]


Yeovil Hendford: They do seem to have rather large dragonflies in Yeovil [see also image 47850]. Otherwise, this wood carving fastened to the underside of a skew bridge on the foot and cyclepath from Pen Mill station to Lysander Road is quite a work of art.

Yeovil Branch (Bristol and Exeter Railway)
Ken Strachan [27/08/2022]


Birmingham International: A Euston to Wolverhampton Pendolino calls at Birmingham International in November 2006. To the left of the station is the airport and on the right the NEC.

London and Birmingham Railway
John McIntyre [29/11/2006]