A Love of Old Trains and Stations
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Looking back at life on the railways in general. There was an incredible variety of workers and each contributed to the running of the railways.
Driver & fireman preoccupied with the well-being of their charge, J. M. Chamney photographs W&LLR 823 at Welshpool in June 1954. The bookkeeping of BR demanded that the W&LLR duo carry shedplates for 89A Oswestry Shed, made possible by Welshpool Shed's becoming its sub-shed.
D15 LNER 8867 (BR 62538) at Marks Tey Station, October 1935 Photo by H.C. Casserley.
#OnThisDay 100 years ago this party of schoolchildren from the impoverished East End wait on the platform at Stepney Green to catch a train towards leafy Eastcote (to Cavendish Country House perhaps?): the highlight of their year I'd imagine @ltmuseum buff.ly/qopppmI
48065 (Burton - Atherton Bag Lane), Ordsell Lane, Manchester, c.1963/4 Photo by Jim Carter
Stockport Edgeley, Royal Scot 46111 'Royal Fusilier' 'The Comet' (17.45 Manchester London Road - London Euston) September 1958. Photo by D W Castle Courtesy of Alan Hart
The opening day of the Invergarry & Fort Augustus Railway on this day in 1903. The line ran from Spean Bridge to Fort Augustus (pictured), via Invergarry but didn't have a long life, closing to passengers in December 1933 and finally to goods traffic in January 1947 [source:…
Monks Hall, LMS Stanier Class 5 'Caprotti' Black 5 44753 May 1965. Photo by E N Belass
B17 'Lincolnshire Regiment' BR 61605 at Doncaster MPD, June 1953 Locomotive 61605 designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, was originally numbered 2805 within the LNER and was later renumbered as 61605 under British Railways. 61605 entered service on December 17th 1928 and was withdrawn…
#OnThisDay 153 years ago the Great Eastern Railway opened between Stoke Newington and Edmonton Green along with Stamford Hill, Seven Sisters (pictured c.1905), Bruce Grove, White Hart Lane and Silver Street: @TfL #Weaver Line today. John Alsop collection buff.ly/B8hNmsT
#OnThisDay 188 years ago the London & Birmingham Railway opened from Euston to Boxmoor (near Hemel Hempstead). The Euston Arch was demolished in 1961 and is a poster-child for the 1960s destruction of railway history in the name of modernisation. @ltmuseum buff.ly/PPZAuJq
At Afon Wen near Pwllheli, the lengthy LNWR branch from Bangor met the Cambrian Coast line. A stone's throw from the sea, it was an idyllic location on fine summer days, but grim in winter when lashed by gales. On 19 September 1953, No 41223 leaves Afon Wen to head back to Bangor
On 12 September 1957, Ivatt Class 2 No 46468 leaves Marks Tey and is starting its journey to Haverhill on the Colne Valley line. Strictly speaking, it was heading to Haverhill North a former GER station, as the Colne Valley South station had closed as early July 1924.
Fixing points at Coldham Lane signal box, Cambridge, 12 March 1963. SSPL
Claverdon Station 1957 Great Western 68xx Class 4-6-0 No 6851 Hurst Grange starts from Claverdon with a five coach passenger train from Worcester to Leamington on 22nd April 1957. J Edgington
Dairymen transporting dairy products to the stations in Wensleydale, 26 April 1927. The dairymen used the 'Cream Special' a four-wheel trolley to transport milk and dairy products on the railway. Wensleydale in North Yorkshire is a major centre for dairy production and the…
GWR 4-6-0 Saint class No 2903 'Lady of Lyons' is seen at the head of an up express service from the West Country, c.1930s Built at Swindon in May 1906, No 2903 was the second member of this pioneering class of locomotives to be built. The locomotive remained in service for more…
#OnThisDay: 86 years ago, the P Stock was introduced; these beautiful art deco trains feature in my earliest memories. Combined with the O Stock and converted (C) from 'metadyne' control system, CO/CP worked the District Line until 1981. bowroaduk buff.ly/3OGIS3l
Class C12 67398 comes off the Louth to Mablethorpe branch at Mablethorpe Junction in 1956, heading towards Louth. Bill Woolhouse collection, LCLR
Nuneaton Abbey Street Station in 1957 Ex-LMS 2-8-0 Stanier class 8F No 48336 passes through the station on a Birmingham bound freight. This photograph was taken to celebrate the station's manicured lawn and landscaped gardens which came first in British Railway's regional…
The Up Hull portion of the Yorkshire Pullman at Anlaby Road in the city on 17 August 1960 hauled by 4-4-0 D49 No 62763 The Fitzwilliam, built 1934, withdrawn in 1961. There was a station at Anlaby Road that closed in 1854, a temporary terminus, I'd guess crecy.co.uk/product/atlas-…