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.
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A photo of a cattle train leaving the Trumpington, Cambridge ML, “up goods independent” line hauled by Class J15 886E with GER “Class Y14" still on the buffer beam, on 24 October 1924. This train of GWR cattle wagons, freshly limewashed, likely returning empty to Fishguard.
Photo of j15: H.G.W Household.
Ivatt 2MT LMS 6404 (BR 46404) at Cambridge Station on the 11:25 to Kettering, April 1947
Photograph by H C Casserley
Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive 'Everton' with down 3.25pm semi-fast passenger train from London Liverpool Street, passing Potters Bar signal box, September 1950.
Photograph by E D Bruton.
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One of the last of Johnson’s useful ‘No. 1 Class’, a class of 2-4-0s built for mixed-traffic duties. No. 28 is being coaled at Norwich shed on 15/4/1911; at this point, it had a year before withdrawal. The brick-built coal stage was to the south of the engine shed, which was fed by an incline from the opposite side. Coal was unloaded from wagons by hand into small iron tubs with end doors; the wheels were of unflanged iron. Several tubs here are ready, and one is being manhandled so that coal can be dumped into the tender. The loading stage was always available, with light supplied by a double row of gas lamps.
Ex-LMS 3P 2-6-2T No M49 is seen leaving Monument Lane station, Birmingham with a Wolverhampton to New Street local passenger service on 21st May 1948.
LMS No 49 became British Railways No 40049.
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On 17 June 1949 an Up goods passes St Fagans signal box west led by Modified Hall class 4-6-0 No 6948 Holbrooke Hall. Well into the second year of nationalisation, the loco retains GWR livery, with its number on the buffer beam and has yet to receive a BR smoke box numberplate.
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LNER 2859 B-17/5 on the then-new 70 ft turntable at Norwich Thorpe adjacent to the station. The loco had just been rebuilt; it had been streamlined for the new East Anglian service. Apart from the streamlining, which added 3.25 tons, 2859 and 2870 differed from the standard B-17s, having chime whistles, longer buffers, an extra lubricator, group standard tenders fitted with streamlined fairings, and an additional ventilator fitted to the cab roof.
British Railways built Ivatt 2-6-2T 2MT No 41228 stands at Leamington Avenue Station at the rear of a Push-Pull service to Nuneaton via Coventry in November 1948.
Photo by LNWR Society
North British Railway (NBR) J36 class 0-6-0 steam locomotive, no. 65288 (fitted with a snowplough), hauling a morning goods train from South Queensferry to Dalmeny, Scotland in February 1962.
British Railways Class 3MT 2-6-2 T steam locomotive number 82029 on the Penrith to Darlington line, 1957.
Photo SSPL
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#OnThisDay 86 years ago the West London Line lost passenger services closing Battersea, Chelsea & Fulham, West Brompton (pictured: John Alsop), Kensington Addison Road and Uxbridge Road. St Quintin Park & Wormwood Scrubs station had been destroyed in an air raid 3rd October 🧵1/3
ALT A southbound Southern Railway steam service at West Brompton station around 1925
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A photo looking northwest from Temple Mills Central signal box, circa 1913. With permanent way staff engaged in some maintenance in the foreground. This is the 17 'Cambridge Yard' sorting sidings portion of the very large Temple Mills Yard, Stratford. The unidentified Y14 0-6-0 locomotive is standing on No.5 road, whilst the 0-6-0T shunt pilot is on a rake of wagons in No.9 road.
On the far left can be seen the brake van of a train standing on the Down Goods. In the foreground there is a predominance of railway company-owned wagons, principally Midland and GER high-sided opens with a selection of GER covered goods centre.
The Up and Down Mains are out of sight to the right.
With a heavy rake of wagons loaded with iron ore behind, GWR ‘Mogul’ 4329 passes Southam Road & Harbury in 1932.
Photo by P W Robinson
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On 22 June 1963, ex-GWR 2-6-0 No 7337 leaves Dulverton with a train from Barnstaple to Taunton. In the bay platform is an Autotrain which will form an Exe Valley service, headed by 0-4-2T No 1421.
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Staff at the unusually named Hundred End station on the now long gone #Preston to #Southport line in West #Lancashire; photographer and date unknown. Little used, it closed on April 1962. @blogpreston @railnigel
Adams ‘T3’ 4-4-0 557 passes Dean signalbox with a Salisbury to Eastleigh goods train in September 1935.
Photo O.J. Morris
N7 BR 69632 with L1 BR 67767, N2 BR 69529 and L1 BR 67792 at Kings Cross MPD in April 1961
Photo by Steve Healey
1930: The new 'Hush Hush' London and North-Eastern Railway engine, pulls out of Kings Cross, hauling the famous 'Flying Scotsman' express on it's historic non stop journey to Edinburgh.
ALT The LNER class W1 No. 10000 “Hush-Hush” was an experimental steam locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley in 1929 and fitted with a high-pressure water-tube boiler.