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68 029 at Marylebone on 4th February.
On this day.
8th March 1983.
Class 40, number 40044.
Is seen at Gainsborough Central on a Cleethorpes to Manchester Piccadilly via Brigg service, which was part of the newspaper train working.
© John Marshall
A deer just watching the trains go by at the great central railway
Took a little trip across to the great central railway. Snapped the Bullied Pacific. More photos to come :3
A " 6 car " DMU approaches the crossover at Hard Lane Kiveton on the 3rd July 1985, working a Cleethopes to Sheffield Midland via Brigg line service.
© John Dedman.
70000 Britannia, pulls away from Sheffield Victoria in 1956 on Liverpool to Harwich boat train.
The perspective of this shot with the 9F pulling a passenger train on the Great Central Railway near Woodthorpe.
The sign says British Railways so it must be post 1948.
92134 (as 92073) departing Loughborough 1-3-26
Cleethorpe Road level crossing, Grimsby, 1930s.
Colourised Director class locomotive outside locomotive shed.
What an expensive steel framed north-south axis multi destination city centre 67 year young railway station was reduced to.
Glossop bound goods train on Dinting Lane level crossing.
Class 5 not locally based ahead of passenger train at Nottingham Victoria.
Nighttime Chiltern cat. 68032 roars out of London Marylebone hauling 1J55 to Stourbridge Junction. (25/02/26)
No 73156 rest at Loughborough
#steamlocomotive
#realfilm #FilmIsNotDead
#Kentmere200 #MinolatX500
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The morning at Brigg around 45 years ago would often be enlivened with the arrival of the pick up goods from Worksop.
Here we see 20003/061 dropping off a 16T load of coal for Mr. Brocklesby, the local coal merchant. Hucknall or Mansfield were the usual origins of this flow.
© Phillip Hewson.
Four Mk 5A sets will be in use from 24 March, with an increase in that number from late-summer.
www.modernrailways.com/article/chil...
Today's #BRNostalgia features the old railway of semaphore signals, signalboxes and wooden level crossing gates at #Grimsby in March 1990, a few months before it was all swept away. paulbigland.zenfolio.com/p638949268/e... #railways #photography #nostalgia #sempahoresignals
Atmospheric short of the Master Cutler at Nottingham Victoria.
Atmospheric short of The Master Cutler express at Nottingham Victoria heading for Marylebone.
Weekday Cross Junction, #Nottingham, 1966.
37714 arrives into a sunny Rothley with D6700 on the rear of the train on a service from Loughborough Central during the Great Central Railway 2025 Spring Diesel Gala. (25/04/25)
Northorpe station and signal box on the 8th of August 1956.
Situated between Gainsborough and Kirton in Lindsay, the station had close the previous year.
The signal box still survives today along with the station building.
© H.B Priestley.
I've not been to find any confirmation online, but this walkway looks like it's an original approach to one of the platforms at Victoria Station #Sheffield
It absolutely is - there’s also another stairway entrance from the Wicker - the archway on the right here.
Ahh. Thank you. I thought the tiles looked right. I found a picture looking down the Wicker stairs
Taken from a DMU cab, shows the scene at Brigg Level Crossing in the summer of 1983.
This was the last full year of life for the semaphore signals as they were replaced with colour lights as part of the major track rationalisation which took place in 1984.
© Phillip Hewson
Me at Liverpool Central High Level Station Decimal Day 1971.
It will be seen to resemble Manchester Central.
In the ensuing weeks the distant offices and clock disappeared along with the entire facade.
The classy restaurant block survived for a bit.
It closed forever just over a year later.