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On this day in 1781, George Stephenson was born. His story is well known and he is quite rightly known as "The father of the Railways" Most of his work was evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, but that was the measure of the man.
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This is the story of the historic 'locomotives graveyard' in Wales where hundreds of old engines were saved from the scrapheap - and explains why there wouldn't be a heritage railway business in the UK if it wasn't for Dai Woodham's remarkable scrapyard
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Ex-LMS Black 5, 45407 'The Lancashire Fusilier' waits at Fort William station as the rain clouds start to roll in before heading a morning Jacobite service to Mallaig 29/06/2022.
Just experimenting in Adobe Lightroom with the edit
@westcoastrail @FWHLines @RileyandSonLtd
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Morning all , a quick #Steamfix video of 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley at speed with @LocoServicesGrp on the returning Dalesman service from Carlisle . Have a great day all
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The Cumbrian Mountain Express on 13th July 2024 ⛰️
An opportunity for passengers from Merseyside and Lancashire to travel by steam train over scenic railway routes. Our train travels north via West Coast Main Line and returns by the spectacular Settle & Carlisle Railway line.
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ON THIS DAY: 18 years ago, Shoreditch station was served for the last time. Shoreditch High Street opened on the Overground on a different site 4 years later. Images from the final day by Mike Knell (note the black bunting outside the station!) flickr.com/photos/mpk/albums…
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Dornoch
A top up for regular branch engine 55051 before returning to The Mound in July 1955.
The 50 year old ex-HR 0.4.4T would be withdrawn the following year, to leave sister 55053 to carry on for a few months more.
The seven and three-quarter mile branch closed in 1960. Apart from the pile of wood, the whole station area looks neat and tidy.
Photo courtesy of Kevin Lane
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This one is so annoying. We cannot read the running in board, the name is also picked out in stones on the embankment opposite: the print shows BO or BU. Single track, ?LSW signal post, unusual footbridge, lobster pot extreme right. Can anyone put a name to this place, please?
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A train from Accrington to Caernarfon passes thro' a closed White Bear Station on the long gone line from #Chorley to Wigan, 15.7.1967 [pic @njvphotographee]. In 1915, the famous #WW1 @Accringtonpals Battalion and the @ChorleyPals Company made the same trip. @InChorley @railnigel
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#whatstation 814 is a very large L&YR shed, no station at all unless the square building in the centre with the little pointed tower is a station building. This must be late 1940s or early 1950s - one engine still has its pre-BR number. Can anyone locate this shed for us, please?
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LMS Royal Scot Class 6100 No: 46100 ‘Royal Scot’ with 47237 on the rear are seen on the Dartmouth Steam Railway at Goodrington working the1Z40 10.23 Bristol Temple Meads to Kingswear ‘The Dartmouth Express’ tour on the 24th June 2021. railwayphotography.co.uk
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Britannia Pacific 70010 'Owen Glendower' exerts maximum effort as it passes through Kirkby Stephen with a Rugby Union special for Cardiff.
Date: 5th February 1967
📷 Photo by Peter Fitton.
#steamlocomotive #1960s #BritishRailways
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40155 rests whilst it’s empty hoppers are reloaded with limestone at Tunstead quarry for a return to Northwich. 25176 there to offer banking assistance out of Peak Forest, 25th March 1984 #FortiesOnFriday
📸 Adrian Hancock
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With the bunker of Wainwright H s1544 in frame, G. W. Powell photographs M7 30038 at Nine Elms in March 1950. While s1544 wouldn't be renumbered until April 1951, 30038 had lost SR regalia in August 1948. Stored for a time at 70B Feltham Shed, 30038 was withdrawn 1st March 1958.
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Flashback Friday: A B&W for a change.
A Class 31 rolls past Leicester North signal box in January 1982 with a coal train to Rugby cement works.
This pic was achieved from a B&W neg using a digital camera and macro lens. More will be digitised as a winter project.
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Delighted to be at the official opening of @dhbtrust #WingfieldStation, restored for the community, supported by a grant by @HeritageFundM_E – at East Midlands, England
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A real pleasure today to attend the reopening of Wingfield Station, Derbyshire, loving restored by @dhbtrust. Rated the most perfect of Francis Thompson’s North Midland stations. Thompson was by profession a tailor but saw an opportunity during the railway boom of the 1840s.
