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| 16003 -Cheadle station (Staffs) |
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16051 - Selby passing Olympia Mills |
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| 16076 - No 46437 on an LCGB rail tour of the North-West at Clifton Junction |
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16259 - No 76077 crossing at Widnes Docks Junction |
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| 16270 - No 92058 under the wires on the Runcorn Docks Branch |
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16282 - Greenfield station |
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| 16285 - New Mills South station |
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16287 - Woodhall Spa, Woodhall Junction? or Bardney, Lincs? |
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| 16288 - Halesworth station |
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16289 - Great Yarmouth South Town station |
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| 16290 - Reedham swing bridge |
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16298 - LCGB tour called the Liverpool Docker at Canada Dock, Bootle |
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| 16301 - LCGB tour called the Liverpool Docker at Canada Dock, Bootle |
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16324 - Rainhill |
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| 16330 - Honeybourne station |
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16343 - No 58086 against the stop blocks at Bath Green Park shed |
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| 17302 - Innocent Railway Tunnel, St Leonards , Edinburgh |
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17305 - Type 4 diesel no D1848 at Kensington Olympia station |
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17446 - a 'Warship' diesel at Dainton summit |
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17627 - 0-4-0ST Peckett no 1378? and named B.A. Co Ltd at Burntisland British Aluminium Works |
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17701 - 'Jinty' no 47445 at Crigglestone, near Horbury and Ossett,
Calder Grove near Wakefield |
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11056 - A dmu at Dalmellington |
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| 13394 - The driver of Merchant Navy number 35016 'Elder Fyffes' awaits the tip for departure at Weymouth |
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15288 - Royal Scot number 46129 'The Scottish Horse' under a coal stage at Crewe North shed |
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| 85071 - Ex-LNER (GER) D16/3 class 4-4-0 number 62531 on a local passenger train near Stowmarket. |
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70312 - GWR broad gauge 'Hawthorn' class 2-4-0 named 'Melling' thought to be at Truro with the broad gauge shed in the background (closed by the GWR in May 1900) |
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| 85061 - An ex-LNER (GER) N7 class 0-6-2T on a local eastbound passenger train on the Down Slow lines entering Ilford station, beneath the York Road entrance footbridge. Ilford West Junction Box and a locomotive in number 5 bay platform are visible in this picture taken in 1948? |
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85060 - An ex-LNER (GER) J15 class 0-6-0 on a freight train proceeding through Stratford, on the former Down Slow lines, platform 10. The slightly raised section of canopy in background marks the concourse leading to platforms 11 to 13 |
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| 83562 - Ex-LMSR class 5 4-6-0 number 44930 on an express passenger train north of Grange-over-Sands, perhaps Cart Lane or Kents Bank. |
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85028 - BR "Britannia" class 4-6-2 number 70001 "Lord Hurcomb" heading "The Day Continental" express passenger train near Seven Kings between Ilford and Goodmayes? |
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| 72244 - An ex-LNER B1 class 4-6-0 on an express passenger train passing Loch Leven signal box. |
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79433 - An ex-LNER A2/3 class 4-6-2 on a stopping passenger train at Kelty station |
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| 79432 - An ex-LNER (NBR) D30 class 4-4-0 on a stopping passenger train at Cowdenbeath Junction |
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2063 - 46240 "City of Coventry" at Camden shed |
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| 8823 - K1 2-6-0 no 62046 at York, alongside the sugar beet factory |
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| 13308 - Southall shed |
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13339 - Reading shed |
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| 15587 - Normanton station with Jubilee 45562 'Alberta' on 28th October 1967 leaving for Wakefield, Halifax and Low Moor before returning to Normanton on a MRTS/SVRS preservation special |
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15594 - Preston station and Black Five 45055 |
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| 15742 - Forfar station |
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15885 - Caldon Quarry at the end of the Leek Caldon and Waterhouses branch of the North Staffordshire Railway on 29 October 1966 with locomotive 2MT 2-6-2T 41204 which had earlier worked its RCTS brakevan railtour over the Cheadle branch |
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16007 - This is 60019 taking water at the west end of
Hexham station under bridge no.79. (the A6079 road bridge). It is working the RCTS railtour, The Waverley on 12 November 1966, which ran York - (via ECML), Newcastle - Hexham - Carlisle - Hawick - Edinburgh Waverley - (via ECML) – York. |
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| 16021 - Rose Grove station with 73050 and 73069 and the MRTS/SVRS North West Tour on 27th April 1968 |
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16029 - King Edward bridge, Newcastle with no 7029 'Clun Castle' hauling the Gainsborough Model Railway Society railtour on 9th September 1967 |
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| 16050 - Broadfield station and 8F no 48652 on the leg between Bolton and Stockport of the MRTS/SVRS North West tour on 27th April 1968 |
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16053 - Wigan North Western station |
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| 16054 - Aintree Sefton Arms L &Y looking towards Liverpool, with the Station Jctn Box immediately beyond the road overbridge. |
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16070 - Lowestoft Central station |
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| 16047 - Skelton Junction near Altrincham in south Manchester. Its an ICI hopper train from Tunstead near Buxton to Oakleigh near Northwich and is approaching Deansgate junction prior to joining the line for Manchester to Altrincham. |
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13392 - Exmouth Junction shed with no. 34027 'Taw Valley' |
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| 12521 - Staythorpe Crossing on the Newark to Nottingham line |
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16074 - Shap station, believed to be on November 6th 1965 with Jubilee no 45654 'Hood' on the LCGB Border Counties Railtour |
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| hip09 - Ivatt number 46437 on a special at Bacup on 3rd December 1966, doubleheading with 42644 |
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hip07 - Loads of responses to this being Carlisle Kingmoor, and most people thinking it was the railtour of 1.4.1967 |
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| hip03 - possibly approaching (or leaving) Leiston station |
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hip02 - Saxmundham Junction, passing the divisible staff, and looking towards Saxmundham from an Aldeburgh train |
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| hip01 - possibly Saxmundham station looking towards Ipswich? |
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| 15440 - Hurlford (Kilmarnock) with 67616 awaiting scrapping |
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15297 - 42917 at Ayr shed |
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| 9343 - 46522 at Carlisle Upperby in 1967 prior to going to Glasgow for scrapping |
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15294 - Barry shed |
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| 9360 - Tyne Dock wagon shops |
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13561 - the 'back of shed road' at Lydney shed |
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| 10627 - Kendal station looking towards Windermere |
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13166 - Severn Tunnel Junction station |
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| 13161 - the south portal of Kilsby tunnel |
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85022 - an Up train for King's Cross emerging from Welwyn South tunnel |
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| 5581 - the down home signal; outside Rannoch station |
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79479 - between New Barnet and Greenwood on the GN mainline |
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| 13160 - A huge number of you recognised this as Reading Southern |
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8805 - Stonehaven station |
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| 13199 - Mold Junction shed |
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13571 - Although early thoughts were on Radyr shed, this was eventually identified as Aberbeeg shed - similar but detailed differences led to that conclusion |
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| 13588 - Ferndale shed |
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13191 - Another big postbag on this picture, all of which said it was Wareham station |
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| 13342 - Now positively identified by many as Redhill |
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13509 - Wigan Wallgate |
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| 13311 - South-bound train in the Down platform at Midsummer Norton |
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13562 - Aberdare |
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| 13550 - Perth, engines awaiting scrapping, including pannier tank 1646 |
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13547 - Thornton depot. The building behind is part of Rothes colliery |
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| 13542 - Motherwell |
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13540 - Perhaps the easiest of them all judging from the responses. 'Sun Chariot' about to leave from Perth station |
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| 12518 - Syston North Junction signal box |
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85099 - Beningbrough (and I have seen this spelt three different ways!), north of York |
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| 85096 - Edinburgh St Margarets |
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83526 - Blair Atholl with a train heading south |
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| 79414 - This is now definitely confirmed as Dunfermline shed |
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218 - Now confirmed as Neasden shed |
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| 8895 - London Victoria, eastern side |
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11061 - Falkirk Grahamston, with the train heading in the Edinburgh direction |
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| 11046 - Landore, Swansea |
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12386 - Patricroft shed |
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| 12393 - Carlisle Kingmoor shed, north end |
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12467 - Glasgow Buchanan Street |
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| 12535 - Dunford Bridge |
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12983 - Bath Spa with a down train entering at the eastern end of the station |
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| 13155 -Hafodyrynys colliery, just east of Crumlin |
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13318 - Templecombe with an up train at the eastern end of the station |
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| 13319 -Templecombe with an up train at the western end of the station. The pannier tank is probably station pilot |
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13329 - Reading shed |
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| 13333 - Southall shed |
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13363 - Ashchurch station with the train facing Cheltenham. The Evesham line went off to the right. |
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| 68130 -Whitley Bay station looking towards Monkseaton |
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70369 -Obviously a lot of Cambrian enthusiasts out there judging from the mail bag! This is Barmouth |
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| 70393 - Slough |
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83525 - Tebay with a down train entering the station |
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| 83527 - Sandy. The train is on the former LNWR Oxford - Cambridge line |
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83534 - Binegar station, with a light engine, possibly a banker returning from Masbury |
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| 83577 - Bedford Midland station |
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7252 - Bournemouth shed |
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| 12034 - Stourbridge |
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10675 - St Denys, looking towards Adelaide Road crossing |
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| 10671 - passing Fareham East signal box on the way to Southampton |
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10670 - approaching Netley station |
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| 10208 - Wakefield Kirkgate East heading towards Calder Bridge |
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79472 - Middleton Towers in Norfolk |
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| 79476 - Mouldsworth with the train going towards Manchester |
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79477 - approaching Audley End on the Bartlow branch |
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| 72261 - Patchway |
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76601 - Cambridge shed |
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| 76677 - Obviously a lot of you visited Dundee Tay Bridge and were able to identify this station |
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5662 - the line between Southampton Central and Millbrook |
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| 6382 - Oxley shed on the occasion of an SLS visit on 19th July 1964 |
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7763 - Norwood Junction shed |
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| 9394 - Two opinions here - either Lostock Hall or Crewe South, and a later view that discounts both these in favour of Lower Darwen. Another later view of it being Lostock Hall |
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8820 - York- the building behind is the old NE shed, now the National Railway Museum |
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| 10237 - Bury Knowsley Street |
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6452 - Thought to be West Cannock colliery |
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| 10674 - Southampton Tunnel, train has just rounded
Northam Curve heading for Southampton Central |
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10664 - Fareham station, number 34089 waiting to go on train |
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| 10658 - St. Denys station, looking in the up direction with a Waterloo-Bournemouth train |
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9789 - On the West London line heading for Kensington Olympia, going under the Hammersmith & City line |
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| 9782 - Passing Chelsea Basin yard approaching Battersea bridge, possibly with the Kenny Belle |
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7276 - Birkenhead Central with stock shed the right |
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| 4085 - Llandudno Junction with an SLS special |
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12039 - Swindon works |
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| 10667 - Bitterne station looking towards St Denys |
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10659 - Southampton terminus |
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| 963 - 'Glen Douglas' at Newburgh station in Fife |
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5973 - Feltham |
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| 5980 - Lancaster station |
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| 6541 - Backney bridge on the Hereford, Ross and Gloucester line |
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9769 - Battersea yard looking at former LBSC loco depot, and the line from Victoria to Brixton with the power station behind |
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| 8577 - The up side of Worting Junction, south of Basingstoke |
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7818 - Haverfordwest |
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| 7888 - Millbrook, west of Southampton |
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7249 - Eastleigh |
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| 7812 - Lydney Town signal box |
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9707 - Worting Junction |
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| 9395 - Lostock Hall |
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9397 - Lostock Hall shed |
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| 7979 - Basingstoke |
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6650 - between Coulsdon Junction and Earlswood on the LBSCR Brighton line |
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| 7286 - Hooton station |
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5578 - Jersey Marine Junction South signal box, closed in 1973 as part of the Port Talbot re-signalling scheme |
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| 5977 - Hawkshead Bridge, near Brookmans Park between Hatfield and Potters Bar |
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3954 - Swanage line, between what is now Harmans Cross and Corfe Castle, at Afflington Bridge |
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| 5568 - Wootton Bassett |
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10205 - Lots of response to this one! - Larpool viaduct on the former Whitby to Scarborough line |
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| 4072 - Bromford Bridge |
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6192 - Dunblane |
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| 7225 - Between Penhelig and Aberdyfi on the Cambrian line |
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8725 - Lancaster Caton Road power station. The bridge behind is the Lune aqueduct |
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| Photo 7098 - Push-pull
working from Yeovil Town to Yeovil Junction with the line from Yeovil Town to Pen Mill behind- a very big response! |
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Photo 5972 - Petts Wood Junction, travelling from Victoria to Dover |
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| Photo 068 - Wantage Road station, and the engine is on
the track that ran at the foot of the road embankment rising to take the
road over the line. |
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Photo 9781. Latchmere Junction. The train has come from
the Kensington direction and is taking the first fork, right-handed up to Clapham Junction. |
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| Photo 9767 - this is a Kenny Belle service upon arrival at Clapham Junction platform 17. The loco has uncoupled and is about to run round its train. |
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Photo 10202 - Middlesbrough station, looking west. Jubilee 45562 'Alberta' on the RCTS North East No.3 Railtour on 6th May 1967 |
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| Photo 5574 - St Austell, east end |
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| Photo 1006 - Standard goods number 673 at Bentley Heath in 1913 |  |
Photo 079 - Number 6 at Shepherdswell on one of the engine shed roads |  |
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| Photo 8806 - Aberdeen looking south from the joint station |
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| Photo 9363 - West Hartlepool shed yard, with diesel refuelling tanks, water tower and water softening plant. |
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Photo 8766 - Basingstoke with a Waterloo-Southampton Docks train passing through |
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| Photo 1460 - Newsham (Northumberland) |
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Photo 2577 - One or two recognised
this as being Newburn Junction and West Hartlepool shed |
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| Photo 3585 - Judging from the response,
it was fairly easy! The station is Withington
(Glos) on the occasion of the last train over the MSWJR on 10.9.1961 |
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Photo 1203 - Weymouth |  |
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| Photo 4438 - had a huge response to this one. Filming on the Bedford to Hitchin branch for the film 'Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines'. Between Cardington and Warden tunnel. |  |
Photo 4083 - Halesowen |
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| Photo 35158 - Yarmouth Beach mpd |
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Photo 1436 - Forfar |  |
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| Photo 29873 - Guildford |  |
Photo 35179 - Yarmouth Beach mpd |  |
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| Photo 774 - Barry mpd c 1927-8 |
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Photo 225 - Barry mpd |  |
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| Photo 612 - Churchill Crossing between Kingham East signal box and Sarsden Halt on the Kings Sutton to Kingham line |
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Photo 987 - Cardiff Cathays |  |
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| Photo 1044 - Cleobury Town |  |
Photo 9961 - Swindon |  |
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| Photo 7280 - Glasgow, Eastfield shed |
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Holwell number 30 at Irchester Ironstone quarries (Hawthorn Leslie 3780/32) |
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| Photo 6869 Thought to be Brighton |
Photo G5 Identified by lots of people as St Boswells |
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| Photo 11579 More than one identification as Basseleg |
Photo/11931 Thought to be Taunton |
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| Photo 1483 -Was thought to be Oxford, but this has now been disputed by others. Has been suggested that the signal is the Up Home coming off the Berks and Hants with the engine in the branch engine shed |  |
Photo 15109 One in preservation at Haworth |
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Photo 625 Baldwin loco at Ardsley shed |
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| Photo 3086 Near Ryhader Halt |
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Photo 4219 Norwood Junction shed |
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| Photo 4818 Gloucestershire Railway Society special at Cirencester Watermoor on 9th May 1953 |
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Photo 975 Forres station with 'Jones Goods' 103 |
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| Photo 015 A special train for Lord Kitchener and it has been suggested that this is approaching Raynes Park |
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Photo 34987 - Gorton shed in front of the coaling stage and the loco works in the background |  |
