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This is the absolute limit of how close mainline trains get to the Garw and Ogmore valleys these days.
The OVE (Ogmore Valley Extension) line stretches from Tondu station to Margam Knuckle yard and is a diversionary freight line used only very occasionally when there is work being carried out on the mainline between Port Talbot and Bridgend. When trains use this diversion they have to reverse direction at Tondu in order to Proceed through Bridgend and this is achieved by using the double tracked Garw loop to perform a "run round" where the locomotive is detached from one end of the train and moved to the opposite end and reattached.
The Garw loop is the last active portion of the line that once split at Brynmenyn station and connected the Garw and Ogmore Valleys to the mainline. The line to the Garw is relatively intact all the way to Pontycymer but is currently overgrown and derelict after the loop. The line to the Ogmore valley has been lifted but the route still exists as a cycle path that follows the original track bed all the way to Nantymoel.
The future of the OVE line looks uncertain as there is talk of the bridge which carries it over the mainline in Margam being demolished when the mainline is electrified thus rendering the OVE line useless.
A few more of Union Pacific's astounding 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" locomotive on the "Great Race Across the Southwest"...or, as I call it, the "Charge Across Kansas" for the portion I'll be seeing.
When the train left Topeka on 11/20 it had a nice surprise...freight! Sure, it's just a handful of grain cars; but the "King of Steam" hauling freight in 2019 is still very cool. Here we are out on the plains as the train approaches Silver Lake, KS.
This is the shot I went to the Avon Valley Railway's end of season gala to get last Sunday; Fowler 7F number 53809 on the Avon bridge hauling a freight train, it's sombre BR black livery contrasting with the bright colours of Autumn. I'd had to stand here on this exposed river bank for over an hour in the pouring rain to get this. The canal boat picturesquely moored on the river had left just 10 minutes earlier and the very occasional glimpses of blue sky in the background had needless to say disappeared.
48155 48151 48159 and 48161 present one of the earliest appearances of four 48s on unit coal train working to have the all blue line up, at the time many units were still sporting a wide arrangement of liveries from previous administrations.
BR Class 25 25007 on what appears to be a very short freight train, at Larbert station in the late-70s..
The loco was withdrawn in 1981, and scrapped in September 1982. No less than 20 Class 25s have survived into preservation..
Larbert station has since been completely rebuilt, and the platforms shortened at this location....
Restored from a severely under-exposed grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
A UP freight from the CPKC interchange at Laredo climbs a short grade at Wilhelm Jct. on the south side of San Antonio. April 2024.
Class 044 'Jumbo' 2-10-0 No.044 188-1 of Hof shed heads a mixed freight through Michelau towards Lichtenfels at 19:06 hrs on 2nd June 1972. I had been waiting for a Hof-Bamberg Pacific-hauled service, which as it turned out was running late. This freight was presumably pushed out in front of it and was a reasonable substitute I suppose, although I wasn't too impressed at the time! I was anxious to move on in order to secure on-spec accommodation for the night in Neuenmarkt Wirsberg and my car, the red Austin Mini 1000 MkII, can be seen parked in the freight depot. I saw the Pacific across the fields heading south just after setting off on the final part of my journey that day, which had started out on the Dutch border near Roermond with a visit to Aschaffenburg shed and Lichtenfels station on the way.
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80104 departs Swanage with the demonstration freight train during the Swanage Railway Autumn "The Exchanges" gala.
Colas Rail Freight 70805 leads a rake of ten autoballasters, with 70816 on the rear towards Ashfield, just north of Dunblane with an early running 6K03 Keith Loop to Millerhill Yard on 6th September 2020 after weekend engineering work between Keith and Inverurie.
Collett Class 2251 preserved GWR steam locomotive 3205 was recorded passing through Arley station on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) with a demonstration freight.
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