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Class 508 EMU 508124 using the crossover to gain access to platform 2 at New Brighton station. The stock formed the 12:53 New Brighton to Liverpool Central.
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The station opened in 1882 and was originally named Börse (stock exchange) and then Marx-Engels-Platz during the GDR era. In 1992 it received the name Hackescher Markt from the adjacent square. Following the demolition of the Lehrter Stadtbahnhof (architecturally similar and previously listed), with Bellevue it is now one of only two Stadtbahn stations preserved in their original condition.
Photo taken at the disused Braunton Station, Devon, UK, on a sunny day sometime in the Summer holiday season of 1974.
Taken on a Praktica Super TL camera with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens, Ilford film. Digitised with my DSLR.
Here we see SBB Cargo locomotives 484001, 484008 and 484xxx hauling 484103 and a set of wagons through Gurtnellen on the hot afternoon of the 22/8/23 with a diverted freight train enroute towards Erstfeld and beyond.
*For information, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) was shut on the day in question following a freight train derailment resulting in diversions via the classic route*
Number 7 Owain Glyndŵr at Devils Bridge receives attention from its crew.
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Photo taken at Roydon Station near Harlow on a miserable, wet day sometime in 1975.
Taken on a Praktica Super TL camera with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens, Ilford film. Digitised with my DSLR.
Photo taken at Lower Edmonton Station (North London) on an overcast day sometime in 1975.
Taken on a Praktica Super TL camera with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm f/2.8 lens, Ilford film. Digitised with my DSLR.
This shot was taken from Andermatt station looking up towards the tunnel exit using a Nikon 70-300 telephoto lens as the trains wean there way down into the town The loco is HGe4/4 no.108 working the 13:14 from Disentis to Andermatt on the 13/2/16.
Strangely, NR27-G537-NR84, had worked MB4 from Melbourne to Sydney, but on arrival G537 was detached and these remaining locomotives were switched onto AB6 for the run to Brisbane.
Seen here sweeping around the curves south of Koolewong station on the NSW Central Coast as they race north.
Here we see Rail Adventure HST Powercars 43480 (front) and 43468 (rear) working the late running 13:30 service from Kidderminster to Bewdley on the afternoon of the 17/5/24.
The train was captured crossing the River Stour and the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal in Kidderminster during a brief sunny spell.
For information, 37409 was on the rear of this consist out of shot.
SBB Cargo Re6/6 620 065 & Re4/4 11334 have been captured at Goschenen with a container train heading south towards Italy on the afternoon of the 13/6/15 with Re4/4 11342 on the rear as banker engine.
Over the weekend of the 14th and 15th September 2024, the OeBB railway laid on a special event to celebrate the 125th year of the line, which was combined with the 60th anniversary of the Re4/4ii locomotives. Over 20 visiting locomotives went to the OeBB railway which performed various train movements between Oensingen and Balsthal over the entire weekend, which included a huge locomotive convoy parade.
At a brand new spot for lineside photography, here we see Re4/4 locomotives 420 230 (front), 420 257 (middle), 420 254 (middle) and 420 251 (rear) with a special light engine movement from Oensingen to Balsthal on the cloudy afternoon of the 14/9/24. The loco's were photographed between Oensingen and Klus stations.
*Please note this shot would not have been possible had it not been for the dull cloudy conditions*
After a very early start, here we see locomotives 66315 (front), 50049 (middle) and 69004 (rear) pass through North Stafford Jn in Findern at sunrise with 0M55 from Kidderminster to Derby Litchurch Lane depot on the cold frosty morning of the 30/1/25 (a bit disappointing to see the Class 66 leading the trio).
For information, the locomotives captured in this image were guests in Derby on the day in question as part of the Rail 200 celebrations taking place during 2025. On arrival in Derby, the locomotives were put on display at Litchurch Lane as part of the press launch for the "Great Gathering" which is due to take place in Derby in early August 2025.
This convoy was one of many visiting locomotives to Derby on the day in question.
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
2614/17 crosses the Glashaboy River with the 1945hrs commuter service from Midleton to Cork.
© Finbarr O'Neill
ETR Class 170 unit no.170104 waits to depart from Lienz on the morning of the 28/8/16 with the 10:50 service to Franzensfeste
9315 growls upgrade at the head of a Centennial Coal train from Tahmoor Colliery to Port Kembla. 8228-8243 were pushing in the rear.
Here we see Network Southeast (NSE) liveried locomotive 47715 working the 09:15 service from Norden to Swanage (2N01) on the morning of the 10/5/25. The train was captured passing Corfe Common with the Corfe Castle ruins in the background.
Here we see FS Trenitalia locomotive E464.710 propelling the 11:50 service from Verona Porta Nuova to Brenner on the afternoon of the 11/11/23. The train was captured passing through Borghetto.
UPNOR CASTLE awaits passengers at Porthmadog Harbour Station on the 12:10 to Tan-y-bwlch.
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Here we see faded locomotive 58023 working the late running 17:40 service from Kidderminster to Hampton Loade on the evening of the 16/5/25. The train was captured crossing Victoria Bridge over the River Seven in Arley, which was the last shot of the day before the sun went behind the horizon.
Time for a repaint - Railfreight coal anyone?
An odd working according to the person I was with - here we see 1144 270 lead 3 other OBB loco's DIT near Kirchberg in Tirol heading towards Salzburg on the afternoon of the 31/1/15
SOB 456 locomotives no. 456093 & 456095 pass through Rothenthurm on the morning of the 29/8/15 with the 09:05 from St Gallen to Luzern VAE service
DB class 90s no.90036 & 90026 pass through Wigan North Western station at lunchtime on the 20/4/15 with 4M25 from Mossend to Daventry. This was the first known time that this service had featured a pair of DB90s under the current arrangements.
The NSW Rail Transport Museum's 4-6-0 3642 is seen in and around Goulburn NSW on it's return run to Sydney.
But for the obligatory water gin trailing the loco, it could be a scene taken over
half a century ago.
OBB Taurus locomotive E190 019 (1216 019) arrives into Munich Ost on the afternoon of the 31/7/16 with EC89 to Verona
MAID MARION with a demonstration slate train. For more photographs of the Bala Lake Railway please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...
SSR's 8948 southern/western wheat train on behalf of Graincorp is seen approaching Cooks Cutting, the crest of the seven kilometre straight line from Breadalbane, hauled by twin EMD C class power.
Here we see MAV H-Start diesel locomotive 478 205 waiting to depart from Zirc with the 18:18 regional service to Györ. As you can see the loco is hauling two non-motored cart vehicles, which remind me of the former pacers of the UK albeit with more comfortable seating arrangements.
Due to planned engineering work between Zirc and Veszprem, the regional trains started and terminated at Zirc on the day in question. I happened to drop onto this train after visiting another railway route in the area. I did this train all the way to Györ, which was an interesting slow journey with jointed track in a number of places.
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) took over the operations of the ECML from VTEC on the 24/6/18.
Here we see 90039 in EWS livery on hire from DB Cargo on the first day of LNER operations at Kings Cross after working 1A29 from Leeds.
DB Class 90 no.90034 on hire to DRS, pauses at Birmingham International on the evening of the 24/10/14 with the very last booked loco-hauled working for Virgin Trains using WB64 on the WCML. The train in question was 1G40 from Euston to Birmingham New Street (the 90 returned to London as 1B94).
Photo taken from a distance near Hornsey Depot and Ferme Park Sidings sometime in 1975.
Taken on a Praktica Super TL camera with a 135mm telephoto lens (possibly a Chinon), Ilford film. Digitised with my DSLR.
Another classic shot from the Gotthard Bahn, but taken in 2023.
Here we see SBB Cargo Re6/6 locomotive 11616 passing through Wassen with a short diverted freight train enroute towards Erstfeld and beyond at teatime on the 21/8/23. A few moments after this shot was taken, the sun went below the mountains.
The passing time of this train at Wassen meant that there would be shadows in the shot (unfortunately).
See this locomotive in the video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA8lxRY2bOg
Bearing down a storm of power on Teignmouth station is preserved Class 52 Western number D1015 'Western Champion', working the 1Z48 tour from Solihull to Plymouth via Oxford.
The Class 52 was once the power of the primary expresses on the South Devon Mainline, finding their place most notably in railway memory for killing off the mighty and prestigious Great Western Railway King and Castle Class locomotives, but are also fondly remembered for hauling the Cornish and Devon summer trains from London to Penzance, Plymouth and Paignton. However, their non-standard Diesel Hydraulic nature was to be both the downfall of these classic machines and their other hydraulic cousins the Class 35 Hymeks and Class 42 Warships, and by 1977 all of these locomotives had been withdrawn after less than 20 years of service, their workings augmented by the arrival of Class 50's from the West Coast Mainline, and the newly constructed Class 43 HST sets.
Not very photogenic, but as it was passing, it seemed rude not to photograph it in this stunning winter landscape. Here we see RhB Tm2/2 diesel engineers shunter no.81 pushing an engineers wagon towards Chur on the morning of the 9/2/22. The train was captured in Ilanz, Switzerland.
From the archives: here we see CD locomotive 754 047 passing through Parnik in Ceska Trebova on the hot afternoon of the 9/9/23 enroute towards Ceska Trebova station and beyond.
Here we Rail Adventure HST Power Cars 43468 and 43480 working the late running 11:00 service from Highley to Kidderminster on the morning of the 18/5/25.
The train was captured passing through Foley Park in Bewdley.
Here we see ODOS Cargo diesel locomotive 742 767 working an empty set of wagons towards Kysak and beyond on the hot afternoon of the 25/8/24. The train was captured passing through Velka Lodina.
The introduction of the new corporate identity for British Railways was part of the 'new age' of railway modernisation that as well as the massive closures and withdrawal programme that was given added impetus under the 'Beeching Report' also saw a more targeted investment programme than the earlier and utimately doomed 'Modernisation Programme' of the British Transport Commission. British Railways became British Rail and with it came the loss of the use of the Gill Sans typeface that had been primarily used since 1948 and a new logo designed by Gerry Barney of the Design Research Unit, the agency that oversaw the rebranding in great detail. This included the new Rail Alphabet designed by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir who had also introduced the new Transport typeface to the nation as part of the overhaul of the UK's road signs under the Worboys Report.
As part of the marketing of this new corporate identity an exhibition was held at the Design Centre in London in January 1965. The poster and the accompanying leaflet.
Welsh Highland Heritage Railway RUSSELL tailing the 14:05 Beddgelert to Pont Croesor on the embankment across Cwm Bychan.
For more photographs of the Welsh Highland Railway in 2019 please click here: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...