Admiration, just sheer admiration!!!
A photter takes a moment to soak in the glorious sight of 97302 "Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways / Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog ac Eryri" at Derby on Friday after it arrived with a working from Machynlleth
Its not all about the locos!
A shiny new 807 at Crewe heading for Liverpool, a work worn 150118 departing Manchester, 350248 headed for Birmingham & 153323 working the Shrewsbury shuttle
A Class 67 fest draws to a close then. Every service I'd planned for a 67 turned one out and I added mileage to 5 locos, taking a couple more into the 200 mile club & my stalker 017 over 600 miles!
Over 300 miles of loco hauled action for a £30 ranger - not bad value at all 😁
Exterior of Mornington Crescent station, a typical Leslie Green station building with oxblood red tiles, arched first floor windows, and the station name in black capital letters on a white band below the flat roof.
#OnThisDay 150 years ago, Leslie Green was born. Architect of the ubiquitous oxblood-tiled Art Nouveau stations of the Yerkes Tubes from the early 20th Century, Green designed 45 stations including the platform level tile patterns unique to each. edk7 https://buff.ly/3ErOWbK
465908 freshly repainted in Network SouthEast livery is seen peeking out of the shed at Wabtec Doncaster Works.
Class 101 DMU set number T058 formed of vehicles and 53216 and 53193 working a Norwich to Lowestoft service approaching Lowestoft on the 7th January 1993. More of my railway images from the 1990s can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
47705 working the 15:30 Yeovil Junction to London Waterloo ‘Network Express’ Network SouthEast service pauses fir its booked stop at Basingstoke on the 19th January 1992. More of my black and white railway images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
37215 and 33050 ‘Isle of Grain’ pause at Basingstoke with the return leg of the D.C. Tours / Network SouthEast ”Solent & Wessex Wanderer" railtour on the 19th January 1992. More of my black and white railway images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
Morning all. Arriving into Bristol Temple Meads is 45128, with a cross-country service bound for the West. It is the early 80s, so let's say Madness were at no.1 or something. 📷c.Sean Lancastle. Click the image to see his Flickr page.
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Battery powered Class 08e ordered for use at Heidelberg Material's Whatley Quarry
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A lonely semaphore signal gives the all clear to a Class 66 - 66723 “Chinook” - to head over the Ribblehead Viaduct after waiting at the siding at Blea Moor. Ingleborough looms large in the background.
Clear Signal at Blea Moor. 3 August 2022. #photography #railway
GB Railfreight 69004 working 4L66 Goole Glassworks to March Up Yard is seen storming through Whittlesea on a frosty January day. The semaphore - W25 - visible at the end of the other platform is distorted by the heat of the fumes.
Class 69 at Whittlesea. 11 January 2025. #photography #railway
Shanklin train at Ryde Esplanade station on the Isle of Wight. 4.8.1977
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It’s always a pleasure to visit the Isle of Wight though sadly reinstatement of the island’s railways, particularly to Newport, Cowes and Ventnor, seems to be taking a lifetime!
Morning all. We've reached Bathampton Junction, where 47095 is seen working a newspaper train to London. It is 27 July 1984, and Frankie is at no.1. 📷 c. Mike Ware. Click the image to see his Flickr selection.
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First Great Western DMU 165129 departs Greenford on a service along the branch line to West Ealing. The platform-end semaphore signal has already been returned to danger.
Departure from Greenford. 3 March 2011. #photography #railway
Morning. A new journey starts from Swindon. Here, a 37 waits in Platform 3 with a Down freight. It's September 1976 and ABBA is at no. 1. I'd have Presence on the deck. 📷c.Pete Piszczek. Pete really captures this era for me, so his Flickr pages are highly recommended.
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37667 working the 6V62 Fawley to Tavistock Junction oil tanks at Salisbury. 6th May 1993. More fo my Class 37 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
Peak Forest South signal box sits in the centre between sidings and the running lines on a spring day in the Peak District. A series of semaphores complete the scene.
Peak Forest South signal box and semaphores. 24 May 2020. #photography #railway
31130 and 31199 working the return leg of A1A Charters "Brighton Rock" railtour (running as the 1Z36 05:00 Carnforth - Carnforth via Brighton) at Gatwick. 30th May 1992. More fo my Class 31 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
Gloucester Mileage Yard on 30/06/90. The temporary stabling point had been set up in order to clear Horton Road depot for the Open Day that was being held the following day.
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August Highest Mileage Traction:
Another different class to hit top spot in the mileage stakes as 69008 finishes as my highest mileage traction for August having completed 176 miles 48 chains as part of the DCR/Cappagh railtour to Hove
40012 Aureol draws into Ramsbottom on 21/09/24 with a service to Rawtenstall
In 2nd place for July we have 57306 which covered 322 miles 16 chains during the North West Freighter tour and in 3rd place we turn to AC traction as 91127 just edges 91124 by 6 chains having covered 289 miles 29 chains over 4 journeys
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July Highest Mileage Traction:
It was a case of whistle whilst I work in July as 40145 topped the charts with 378 miles 54 chains covered behind it during our tour to Skeggy
(2nd and 3rd are below)
31422 and two vans forms the 6L55 Wembley to Gidea Park trip working at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury on the North London Line. 4th October 1993. More fo my Class 31 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
50007 'Sir Edward Elgar' and 50050 'Fearless' working Pathfinder Tours "The 50 Terminator" (1Z40 08:52 London Waterloo - Exeter St Davids) at Exminster. 26th March 1994. More fo my Class 50 images can be found here www.clickasnap.com/profile/anth...
Direct Rail Services’ 37407 passes the platform-end semaphore as it departs Reedham station. Passengers await a Norwich-bound service on the opposite platform, the cleared semaphore for which is visible over the bridge.
Class 37 at Reedham. 23 June 2018. #photography #railway
40012 at Ramsbottom on 21/09/24
