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<I>Signalman at work.</I> Eric Prouse making a log entry at Barnstaple signal box in January 1986. Signalman at work. Eric Prouse making a log entry at Barnstaple signal box in January 1986.

Ian Dinmore [1986] 		More images
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A WD 2-10-0 with a northbound freight at Elvanfoot in 1962.
Elvanfoot
R Sillitto/A Renfrew Coll
A train from the W H Malcolm Grangemouth depot has just left Fouldubs Junction in September 2006 and is heading south west towards Falkirk Grahamston with containers destined for Aberdeen.
Fouldubs Junction
John Furnevel
27003 with an Inverness train in Aberdeen Station on 5 May 1980.
Aberdeen
Peter Todd
Has the cascade of Centro Sprinters to Northern allowed the Ormskirk <I>bubble cars</I> to be replaced or was this appearance of 150269 a one-off? The 150 has just arrived in the Rufford passing loop heading for Ormskirk on one of the twelve return trips that make up its diagram for the day.
Rufford
Mark Bartlett
A 2-car DMU, bound for Corstorphine, is about to run west past Haymaket MPD on 4 July 1959. The roof of Haymarket Central Junction signal box can be seen above the second vehicle of the train.
Haymarket
A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce
Whittingham Hospital Railway CMHW No.2, a Barclay 0-4-2T, stands at Grimsargh with its train of converted LNWR brakevans. This image has the air of a posed photograph as these <I>coaches</I> would normally be in the CMHW platform road in the foreground rather than on the run round loop as seen. It may have been taken at the time when the vehicles replaced the worn out ex NLR and L&YR coaches on this free to ride service. The home signal in the background is on the Longridge <I>main line</I> where the other Grimsargh station, by this time closed, can be seen on the far right.
Grimsargh
David Hindle Collection
View towards Poppleton station from the west side of the level crossing in July 1989, looking towards York.
Poppleton
Ian Dinmore
A class 47 takes empty oil tanks west through Southall station in the 1980s.
Southall
John Furnevel
A northbound freight hammers through Fearn in summer 1974. While working as a ‘Senior Railman’ for the BR Area Manager Invergordon in his student holidays, the photographer spent one day deputizing for the usual BR employee at Fearn. Not a ticket was sold – so no surprise that Fearn is now an unstaffed halt!
Fearn
David Spaven
A well-patronised tram heading out of Gdansk city centre on 10 March 2010.
Gdansk
Colin Miller
This pair of Krieglok 2-10-0s standing on Linz MPD show the difference in appearance brought about by the fitting of a Giesl ejector. 52 3816 on the left is so fitted while 52 4364 on the right has the original exhaust arrangement, albeit its ^face^ has been altered by the fitting of a feedwater heater in the smokebox, the casing for which is visible in front of the chimney. It is also unusual in displaying the then current ÖBB logo on its smokebox door - the only loco so adorned which I photographed on this trip.
Linz
Bill Jamieson
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December 2011 Painting of Forth Bridge completed [for at least 25 years]
November 2011 Last ferry sails from Stranraer Harbour
October 2011 Scottish Government decides to use Network Rail to deliver Borders Rail project.
September 2011 Edinburgh Council agrees to complete tram link between airport and St Andrew Square
August 2011 Edinburgh Council decides to terminate airport tram link at Haymarket

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