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A Gloucester RCW single car in Suckley station on the Bromyard branch. With set number 108 in the cab window, this is probably W55010. Image taken by Harry Hodgkinson. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 100/105 set 74, presumably E51124 closest, at Saxmundham Junction, Suffolk, with a Lowestoft service sometime in 1979. Stuart Mackay Collection.
C317, presumably 53911 closest, approaching Barry station with the 17:06 Cathays - Barry Island service on 29 May 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
No details were on this print, showing an eight-car formation, possibly a full six-car Trans-Pennine with a twin on the rear. The labels in the centre cab window suggests an excursion, the headcode is 1X28. Circa mid-1960s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A BRC&W triple set seen in the Buxton area circa mid-1960s, possibly on the Millers Dale line. Taken by Harry Hodgkinson. Image 35104 is probably the same set looking the other direction. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Blue Square Derby Lightweight DMU forms the 10.27am New Brighton to Chester Northgate service seen at Upton on Wednesday 20 July 1966. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Met-Camm twin at Newport-on-Tay East on 1 February 1969. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Withdrawn Class 122 vehicle W55018 on Swindon Works on 12 February 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two Class 114s, E56007 leading, and maybe a Class 120, working the 08:46 Nottingham - Skegness service at Heckington on 5 September 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 116s in Ayr depot, with set 388 on the right, 53876 and presumably 59354 + 53823. The slide process date was September 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Keswick Railway station was situated on the Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway. As a result of the Beeching plan the line beyond Keswick closed on 18th April 1966. The single track branch line from Penrith lingered for another 6 years until British Rail decided to close it on 6th March 1972. The main station building is a grade II listed building and has been re-used, the island platform complete with infrastructure was demolished to make way for a car park. This picture is undated but would have been circa 1971, it shows a class 108 dmu waiting to return to Penrith. Geoff Dowling.
Rowley Regis in the mid-1960s presented a trim and tidy appearance. We still have those large canopies today but in this period picture they had proper buildings with waiting rooms and 'facilities', today we have a bus shelter under them, cunningly designed to collect the maximum wind. The station lad has just been cleaning the interior and windows on the far platform. The Birmingham platform has a chap in uniform with his bike. The shiny Derby class 116 is bound for Bewdley, it has green livery with small yellow warning panels, the rear destination blind says Birmingham (Snow Hill) ready for the return journey, just in front of the unit the signal is off for the descent of the line into Old Hill Tunnel, the cutting sides are perfectly trimmed. How neat the platforms look without 'Mind The Gap' stencilled every 10 feet! Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
A class 116 Derby built Birmingham bound DMU grumbles into Rowley Regis station. Today some aspects of the scene are unchanged, the large flat canopies are there as is the tunnel under the booking office and Station Road. In the distance things have changed, whereas today we have sylvan woodland here there are sidings serving a large oil depot and factories, a signal box controls the movements and mechanical signalling is unchallenged. Circa 1976. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
Exciting though top and tailed loco haulage is on the Cumbrian Coast, this is how I remember it and, to be honest, prefer. Approaching Sellafield station on 15 August 1982 a class 108 (M56227 closest) picks its way along the undulating trackwork as the signaller watches the arrival. The train was the 17.55 Carlisle to Barrow service for which no passengers were waiting. Geoff Dowling.
Today Water Orton station has a large featureless platform, it is known as a freight hotspot and that platform has served railway enthusiasts well, either photographing or taking numbers. This picture shows Water Orton when it had its full complement of platform buildings and semaphore signals. Where the car park is today was a goods yard mainly used by local coal merchants who would have a wagon of coal delivered the contents of which they would bag up into those familiar 1 cwt sacks and deliver by lorry to local houses. The picture is undated but we suspect around 1963, it features a Birmingham bound BRCW 3 car unit which may have run from Burton-on Trent. *I have not corrected the lean because I wanted to preserve as much of the gas lamp and the totem as possible. Geoff Dowling.
On a very dreary 7 April 1958 Peter photographed one of the new 3 car Derby suburban units (later class 116) working a service to Henley-in-Arden. These trains terminated at either Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-upon-Avon or Honeybourne. The station is name Earlswood Lakes here, this was later changed to plain "Earlswood" because the next station is "The Lakes". The station was large by country standards and had a signal box beyond the footbridge and a goods yard, the gates of which are seen to the left, cut by the station building. The embankment, far right, has a very large GWR water tank to feed the water crane in the foreground, this crane was vital as this station was the point where an assisting engine added at Stratford-upon-Avon, would be taken off, watered and returned light engine to await another duty. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
Standing on the elegant wooden platform at Cosford, two girls enjoy the sight of a departing Swindon built class 120 on 26 June 1982. The train was the 10.24 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton service with 50739 leading and likely 50695 nearest the camera. On these shuttle trains nobody bothered to change the destination blinds, one end said Shrewsbury when leading and the other end said Wolverhampton, most people could work out where it went! Geoff Dowling.
Wolverhampton Low Level on 10th April 1964, the clock says it is 5.43pm and all that is present for Peter to photograph is W51086 in a Gloucester Cross Country unit, the future class 119. The front blind is set for Didcot so if Peter is smart he can nip over the footbridge for a quick return to Snow Hill. Not unusual in those carefree days some parcels have been dumped on the platform either from a train or waiting for collection by one. "Tripped over them? should 'a watched where you were walking then!" In the distance through the smoky haze the line curves away towards Dunstall Park and the magic of Stafford Road engine shed, in that haze the signal box and a water crane can be seen. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
Cravens class 105 set no. 70 on arrival at Harwich Town station in early April 1980. John Clark.
101 676 is heading for Buxton in June 1994 when photographed between Blackrod and Lostock Junction. John Clark.
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