[ATTACH] While most overhead electric lines in Britain were 25kV by the 1980s, one holdout was the Woodhead Line in the north of England....
[ATTACH] While most passenger trains originating at Oxford were local or semifast, the 5:30 Oxford-Paddington, known unofficially as the "Oxford...
[ATTACH] The changeover period of the early 1960s is seen as 1019 County of Merioneth pilots "Western" D1003 Western Pioneer with 1V95, the...
[ATTACH] A Class 56 on a passenger train? Well, the Class 47/8s were constantly breaking down, so "Anything Goes" was in effect on summer...
[ATTACH] 60529 "Pearl Diver" calls at York with the "Aberdonian". York at this hour is rarely seen, as the passengers are almost all asleep.
[ATTACH] A Black Five departs Manchester London Road with a semifast service to Chester Northgate, 1959
[ATTACH] Adams "Radial" 3125 departs Compboyne for Lyme Regis, 1947 Route: GAD West of England Line Loco: CW LSWR 415
[ATTACH] A U-Boat on a fish train is seen alongside a "King Arthur" on a Bournemouth-Newcastle service, in 1959.
[ATTACH] In the early 1950s, one of Yeovil's U-Boats arrives at Exeter Central with a stopping train from Yeovil Pen Mill to Ilfracombe.
[ATTACH] It's nearing Christmas as Flying Scotsman hammers through New Barnet with the "Christmas White Rose" railtour for the York Christmas...
[ATTACH] It's the week before Christmas and the Severn Valley Railway are hosting a gala week. Here, 62005, on loan from the North York Moors...
[ATTACH] In the summer of 1961, the Fawley-Bromford Bridge oil train crosses a stream just north of Banbury.
[ATTACH] 46115 Scots Guardsman makes a spirited assault on the "Long Drag" with a Cumbrian Mountain Express railtour.
[ATTACH] On 15th January 1963, Flying Scotsman climbs towards Potters Bar with the 1:15pm Kings Cross-Leeds express, its last run under BR...
[ATTACH] A pair of NSE 4CEPs meet at Bromley South. Route: Chatham Main Line Stock: AP Class 411
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Three examples of Gateshead motive power. In the first picture, D244 works north of Newcastle with the down "Flying...
[ATTACH] Bit quiet in here... 6016 King Edward V is seen speeding away from Exminster with the down "Cornish Riviera Express". Route: Glorious...
Now to go to the other side of Britain: [ATTACH] The climb out of Carlisle up to Plumpton starts immediately, but 46210 Lady Patricia is taking...
[ATTACH] In the summer of 1955, 60048 Doncaster races through Hougham with the down "Northumbrian". Route: Cambridge Branch Lines and the ECML...
[ATTACH] 34069 Hawkinge, an ex-Southern Railway "Battle of Britain" Pacific, would definitely have been considered foreign on the firmly GWR...
[ATTACH] A powerhouse of West of England services, 34004 Yeovil races through Sidmouth Junction while a pick-up goods waits in the sidings....
[ATTACH] Still in Scotland, by 1979 the line from Gretna to Annan had been reduced to a single track. Here, a Class 47 passes the site of the...
[ATTACH] It is May 1965 and the "Port Road" is on its last legs. Palnure station has already closed as Stranraer "Black 5" 45115 races through...
[ATTACH] A 4-CEP on the 16:45 Waterloo-Poole passes Millbrook in November 2003. Route: South Western Main Line Rolling stock: Armstrong...
[ATTACH] Train 51 crosses Devil's Gate Bridge on its way to Silver Plume Route: Clear Creek Narrow Gauge Loco: Baldwin B-4-D
[ATTACH] On a September morning in 2019, a Thameslink Class 700 heads south on a Peterborough-Kings Cross service.
[ATTACH] Preston, 1960. 45586 Mysore, an Aston-based Jubilee, waits at a signal with a Liverpool-Carlisle express freight, while a Black 5...
[ATTACH] Farmland surrounds the line as a Class 150/1 speeds along between Poppleton & Hammerton on a York-Leeds service. Route: OTS Harrogate...
ABSOLUTELY NO OOM errors. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
[ATTACH] It is 1951, and the Korean War has broken out. A workstained 2884 passes through Exeter St Thomas en route to Devonport with a...
[ATTACH] 37042 leans into the curve at Spondon as it passes under the junction of Raynesway and the A52 with trip 6T91 from Chaddesden to...
[ATTACH] The moon is seen rising above the sea from a Mk2 coach hauled by 50038 Formidable on the 21:56 Exeter-Newton Abbot on 6th July 1985....
[ATTACH] 5428 Eric Treacy heads for Goathland on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway Route: BLS/SSS North Yorkshire Moors Railway Train: BMG 5428...
[ATTACH] A pair of New Haven GP9s head out of Hartford, CT, with New Haven Train 62, a passenger train from New Haven, CT, to Springfield, MA....
Not much here, is there? [ATTACH] Going back to the late 1990s and a Class 158 heads out of Nottingham on a Central Trains Norwich-Liverpool...
[ATTACH] On a foggy Monday Morning, a pair of South Western Railway Class 444s head out of Portsmouth with the 06:15 Portsmouth Harbour-London...
[ATTACH] My final entry for this week is once again inspired by a photograph in Michael Welch's Smoke Across The Fells. It's 4th July 1959 and...
[ATTACH] Based (very loosely) on a photograph in the book "Smoke Across the Fells" by Michael Welch, 46210 Lady Patricia powers south near...
[ATTACH] A J27 crosses Belah Viaduct on the Stainmore line with a trip working to Bowes Locomotive: Caledonia Works J26/27 Route: Stainmore, Shap...
Should have kept an eye on last week's thread! Oh well. Here's another 37. With Summer finally showing its face in Britain, we go back to 1996...
Last night I got a what looked like a massive (9.7GB download/25.7GB install) update which messed up a lot of my enhancement packs (SWEP, signals...
[ATTACH] 37406 The Saltire Society arrives at Grangemouth with an oil train from Dalston in the winter of 1998. AP Class 37 Edinburgh to Glasgow
[ATTACH] Ex-Caledonian Railway "Beetle Crusher" 56151 shunts wagons around the docks at Esthwaite. Caledonia Works CR 498 Esthwaite Branch...
It's actually the 58. Shame I can't use it for this week's competition, it would have been perfect!
[ATTACH] Welsh Pony works a service towards Tan-Y-Bwlch.
[ATTACH] On 25th November 1997, 37899 pulls into Ratcliffe Power Station with trip 7G24 from Toton, while a Class 58 departs having just unloaded.
[IMG] A trio of liveries are seen at Talacre as a "Dutch" Class 37 and a Mainline Freight Class 31 await the passage of a Network Northwest...
[ATTACH] A Peppercorn K1 crosses a viaduct on the Weardale and Teesdale Network
[ATTACH] We later see the same train again as it approaches Glenfinnan. It is mid-November, and snow is starting to cover the mountains. Route:...
[ATTACH] It's a cold, dank, wet, late Autumn morning as a Class 37 pulls out of Mallaig station with the early morning train.
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