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1886Halls Tramway: Penar Junction, with the Taff Extension Railway, to Manmoel Colliery re-opened as standard gauge line.
1940Glasgow Bothwell Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway: Maryville signalbox closed.
1960London Extension (Great Central Railway): Sunday trains withdrawn.
1974Nettleford Branch (South Wales Railway): Branch in Newport closed.
Some Deeside trains ran through to Schoolhill, where schoolboys at Robert Gordon^s College arrived by day; and theatre goers by night. The platforms can be seen in this 1976 view. Some Deeside trains ran through to Schoolhill, where schoolboys at Robert Gordon^s College arrived by day; and theatre goers by night. The platforms can be seen in this 1976 view.

Ken Strachan [1976] 		More images
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There aren^t many bays with a platform at both sides, but Platform 18 at Waverley is one such.  It is largely academic now as the doors are activated  on only one side (the right, as seen here) in order to ensure customers are channelled through the ticket barriers.  However with old DMUs there was of course no ^centralised locking^ and you had the small privilege of getting out either side.  Photographed on 20 May 1995 when I perceived these 117s to be a doomed hangover, though in fact they lasted for another 5 years.
Edinburgh Waverley
David Panton
Ex-GWR 2-8-0T no 5227 photographed on the Mid Hants Railway^s Spring Gala Day on 6 May 2010.
Alresford
Peter Todd
Looking north west along the trackbed of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway at Glenboig on 9 March 2010.
Glenboig
John Robin
In the early hours of Saturday 17 March 1979 a large section of the roof of Penmanshiel Tunnel collapsed during work being carried out on lowering the trackbed in order to increase clearances. Of the 15 men on site at the time, two were tragically killed. It was deemed too dangerous to attempt to re-excavate the tunnel or even to try to recover the bodies and it was eventually decided to seal off the structure and divert the ECML via a new cutting to the west. This also necessitated realignment of the A1 trunk road. A memorial to the two men killed in the tunnel collapse, Peter Fowler and Gordon Turnbull, is seen here on 8 March 2010 looking south west from the hillside above the abandoned tunnel.
Penmanshiel Tunnel
John Furnevel
Glorious weather to watch freight trains passing through Denver, Colorado, in the summer of 1994.
Denver
David Spaven
The north side of Grangemouth shed on Sunday 15th February  1970, with only the shed foreman^s Austin A40 Farina betraying that  there^s any life on the premises.
Grangemouth
Bill Jamieson
A panoramic shot looking east over the town of Horwich on a chilly 2 March 2010, with the appropriately named Winter Hill in the background. The former railway works stretches across the centre of the frame as the top of a First TransPennine train is seen running past in the foreground on the line from Bolton to Chorley and Preston. Opened by the L&Y in 1886 the works employed over 5,000 people at it^s peak. Horwich produced its last new locomotive in 1957 and completed its last overhaul in 1964. The works continued to be used for general rolling stock into the 1980s but was eventually sold by BREL in 1988. The former works is now part of a large industrial estate named ^Horwich Loco^ with most of the buildings still being put to good use.
Horwich Works
John McIntyre
An old NBR whistle, a gift from an enthusiast in 1969, last used to referee rugby matches during games periods at Peebles High School and before that....allegedly... used by the station master at Kielder on the Border Counties Line.
Kielder
Bruce McCartney
43121 approaches Longtown station with a northbound freight shortly after crossing the River Esk in the mid 1960s. The train is about to pass over the junction with the line to Gretna which turns off to the west behind the locomotive. [With thanks to Bill Jamieson]
Longtown
Robin Barbour Collection
A railbus approaching Lochgreen Junction near Troon, in August 1959, most likely on a Kilmarnock to Ayr working. The Troon avoiding line can been seen coming in on the left in the background. [With thanks to Messrs Hillier, Watson, Blane and White].
Lochgreen Junction
A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce
Scorch marks high on Beinn Odhar far above the West Highland Railway. Apparently James Bond had been up the mountain with explosives by helicopter the night before to see if he could make the hillside safe.
County March Summit
Ewan Crawford
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February 2010 Major recovery/repair operations completed at Carrbridge
RMT union calls strike over use of guards on new A-B-E services
January 2010 Container train in major derailment at Carrbridge
Weather worsens across Britain - all transport badly hit
December 2009 Festive season travel disrupted by worst weather for many years

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Token exchange - summer 1965 - where? [Added 040310]

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