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1587Mary Queen of Scots executed:
1841Stockton and Hartlepool Railway: Opened to passengers.
The imaginatively decorated platform terminus at Helensburgh Central as recorded on February 9th 1985. The poster on the right hand end of the blue cladding warns that playing ^Station Invaders^ is a potentially fatal game. Since then, both the Class 303 units and computer games have moved on…… The imaginatively decorated platform terminus at Helensburgh Central as recorded on February 9th 1985. The poster on the right hand end of the blue cladding warns that playing ^Station Invaders^ is a potentially fatal game. Since then, both the Class 303 units and computer games have moved on……

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60019 <I>Bittern</I> being serviced on shed at Ferryhill in September 1966 after bringing in a special from Glasgow.
Ferryhill MPD
Colin Miller
Dereliction at Crieff in February 1970. View west from Duchlage Road bridge.
Crieff
Bill Jamieson
The power station sidings in Lancaster were on either side of the Lancaster Canal embankment seen in the background and connected via a line under the aqueduct as seen in image 23412. Here, on the north side of the canal amid a pile of ash, are Barclay 0-6-0F <I>Lancaster</I> 1572/1917 and Barclay 0-4-0F 1950/1928. The smaller loco worked here from 1966 until closure in 1981 and then shunted flask wagons at Heysham nuclear power station until replaced by a battery electric locomotive. It is now preserved at the Ribble Steam Railway [See image 27587].
Lancaster Power Station
David Hindle
Barclay 0-4-0F 1950/1928 was built for Liverpool Corporation but worked at Lancaster Power Station from 1966 until closure in 1981 [See image 27588]. It then operated at the Heysham Nuclear Power Stations site under the name <I>Heysham No.2</I> until replaced by a battery electric locomotive. It is now a cosmetically restored static exhibit in the RSR museum.
Ribble Steam Railway Muse
Mark Bartlett
47093 dumped in the coal yard at Elgin, where it lay out-of-use for several days in November 1978.
Elgin
Peter Todd
Fraserburgh from the Links Road bridge looking south, a month after final closure. The two roads on the right latterly formed the loop, but were the St. Combs (middle) and Aberdeen (right) lines when passenger services operated. The foundations of the signal box can be seen at the bottom left. The line remained in this limbo state only for a few months and track lifting commenced in early 1980. This part of the railway is now occupied by the Harbour Access Road, completed in 1987.
Fraserburgh
John Williamson
What do you mean Heath Robinson? This footbridge is a masterpiece!
Workington North
Ewan Crawford
An SLS Railtour stands at the original Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway terminus at South Leith on 25 August 1962 behind Gresley V2 2-6-2T no 67668. This was the first passenger station in Leith, opened in 1832 as plain ^Leith^, with the prefix ^South^ being added in 1859. Date of final closure to passengers varies between 1903 and 1905, dependent on source of information and definition of ^last passenger train^. [See image 11374]
South Leith
Frank Spaven Collection [
A London bound 125 draws to a halt at Ledbury station in January 2010. Ledbury is a passing loop on the single track section from Hereford to Malvern.
Ledbury
Ewan Crawford
The former railway goods shed at Ashbourne in December 2009. Now surrounded by major new developments all around but still in use with a new company sign at the south west corner of the building.
Ashbourne
David Pesterfield
No 9... no, not <I>Union of South Africa</I>, but a working replica of the historic 2-2-0 locomotive <I>Planet</I>, seen between the former warehouses at what is now the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester on 4 February 2010. The locomotive was in steam to coincide with the visit of HRH the Prince of Wales and the Royal Train, hauled into the museum by A1 pacific <I>Tornado</I>.
Manchester Liverpool Road
John McIntyre
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January 2010 Container train derailment at Carrbridge
Weather worsens across Britain - all transport badly hit
December 2009 Festive season travel disrupted by worst weather for many years
Improvements to Kilmarnock line and Edinburgh-Glasgow via Shotts services
November 2009 Nationalised ^East Coast^ operations commence

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