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The raised-lettering nameboard at what is effectively the preserved Victorian museum piece that is Hebden Bridge railway station, is deliberately shown off here. Completing the frame is Northern's departing 11.23am York - Blackpool North service (1B25), in the hands of CAF class 195 unit 195108.
A shot that didn't make the cut at the time but which I think maybe has some merit. Anyhow, a change from the Southern Region at least.
Comments off, thanks.
12.40pm, 1st December 2022
37 424 or 558, if you prefer, stands at St Bees awaiting the arrival of 37 401 heading south. The station nameboard, or part of it, came in handy for this shot.
BR Class 58 No 58025 arrives at Welbeck Colliery Junction on the old LD & ECR main line and passes the 1915 Great Central Railway Signal Box (sadly without the box nameboard!) with V06 MGR HAA Empties from Didcot Power Station to Welbeck Colliery for loading with coal on 29th July 1992
All the semaphore signalling, the signal box, the siding and the Welbeck Colliery Branch are long gone!
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Class25 D7676 arrives at Barnstaple Junction with a china clay train from Meeth in August 1973.
Renumbered February 4th 1974. It was a westcountry [LA] loco from December 1972 until August 1975 when it moved to Crewe.
25326 was the 232nd Class 25 withdrawn on January 23rd 1985. With thanks to Derbysulzers for the above information.
The Ilfracombe line had closed in 1970. 25063 with an inspection saloon was the last working to Ilfracombe on Wednesday 26 February 1975.
There had been consideration to reopen the line as a 'preserved' line but it ws not to be and track lifting commenced in June 1975.
Part of the Tom Derrington Collection with original photographer not known.
Views of Leamington Spa, 6 August 2021. Traditional station lamp standards and a 'heritage' nameboard are seen against a blue sky and fluffy summer clouds that belie the heavy shower of twenty minutes earlier.
Past Present and Future by Al Stewart was released in October 1973 in the UK. 1974 in the USA!
This view shows the past, the bay is still there today, will it become the terminus for the Cambrian Railway Society based at Oswestry.
An unidentified LMS 2-6-0 2MT sits in the bay at Gobowen in September 1962 with a trip to Oswestry and beyond to take place soon.
The photo is part of the Tom Derrington Collection and the original photographer is J.M.Strange. Any details gratefully received.
The transparency is quite deteriorated but has scrubbed up okay. The depth of field seems a little restricted.
Gresley A4 Pacific 60009 'Union of South Africa' looking as fresh as a daisy after a romp up Shap with the Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express. It felt pretty easy from where I was sat, but no doubt the fireman had a damp shirt :-)
The nameboard was changed from CME and I wonder if that is Dennis himself laying his hand on the loco?
5K10 Tutbury to Tutbury formed by 155310 has been brought to a stand prior to the road crossing to wait time before its departure for Crewe. A bit of an unusual one this as the Derby blockade meant the usual Crewe to Derby service terminated here prior to running back to Crewe. As the crossover was removed at Tutbury many years ago along with the one at Scropton the unit had to run Eggington Junction to cross from the Up to the Down. Aside from all the railway shennaingans going on Tutbury Crossing box with its delightful LMS enameled nameboard stands proud with a touch of industry in the form of the Nestle plant complete the scene.
An up West Country express for Paddington passes through the disused station and reaches the summit of the climb from Pewsey. Although the infrastructure looks complete little details will hint that all this will shortly be swept away. The station for the Marlborough (Low Level GWR station) branch which once enjoyed the luxury of slip coaches off expresses from Paddington had closed to passengers three years earlier and had closed to freight a couple of months or so earlier in May. The lack of station lighting, station signs or nameboards and rusty rails in the bay platform and on the branch provide the clues, although for the moment full signalling still exists for the remaining freight traffic to Marlborough High Level which would cease altogether in September.
The route of the former Midland & South Western Junction Railway (M &SWJR) is just hinted at in the background by the glimpse of a chalk cutting on the hillside. The Cheltenham - Andover cross country route had closed in 1961 and the only remaining open section today on Network Rail is the Lugershall branch from Andover for intermittent MOD traffic.
Savernake LL station must have the unique distinction of being built atop a canal tunnel - unless anyone knows of another?
Unknown photographer.
150276 clatters over the Parkside Emergency Frame just a few chains east of Parkside Junction working a Lime Street to Scarborough service, just a couple of years earlier this would have been a loco hauled diagram usually with seven passenger vehicles. The frame ws installed after the opening of the Warrington power box and the closure of Parkside No1 box on 17th September 1972, an open 3 lever SK80 frame located to the right of the nameboard complete with a telephone and commodious accomodation. It was taken out of use on 19th April 2009 and abolished on 5th May 2009
37424 "AVRO Vulcan XH558" & 402 "Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013" (DRS on hire to Abellio Greater Anglia).
5E37 : 0710 VSTP Norwich Crown Point T&RSMD - Bounds Green T&RSMD.
Hertford North - 0933 (8 early) - 27/12/19.
With the VSTP schedule requiring a "Christmas miracle", it was difficult to decide where to go, as 5E37 was due to pass SVG 8 minutes ahead of 2J51, but pass HFN 1 minute after it arrived & whilst still in platform 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the end due to the dire weather conditions, I choose Hertford North & would have got my first choice shot (with the station nameboard visible), but due to an un-scheduled stop outside the station at Molewood (previous train had passed 15 minutes earlier - prehaps ARS was going to hold it until the correct time?), I had to move down the platform, as the 0937 to Watton-at-Stone was arriving behind me & that prevented a "going away" shot, but it was a nice post-Christmas bonus!!!!
The 8F northbound with the odd nameboard "Settle Carlisle Thunderer" on 24/5/2008.
Copyright David Price
No unauthorised use
May 1973. The gas lighting, wooden platform and faded paint don't do much to attract custom. Though all any customers could do anyway was board a wheezing and infrequent DMU which didn't go very far....
The industry in the background is mostly Tate & Lyle's sugar refinery. Amazingly this still functions today.
Until not long before I took this picture there was a signal box perched above the station building, above the blue 'Silvertown' nameboard.
Skoda 61012 arrives at Pirdop with PV30116 Karlovo-Sofia local stopping service. Over the course of its roughly 150km journey, this train makes 34 stops, some of which are little more than a nameboard in a field.
Despite not looking like it, a fleet of these unique looking mixed traffic machines were actually built for BDZ in the late 1980s/early 1990s and initially numbered 20 examples. They gained the nickname of "the duck" and their relative rarity (compared to the long distance Skoda electric fleet) made them something of a novelty.
Over the last few years, despite less than half of the 20 being in traffic they have seen an increase in passenger work - assisted by the poor state of the BDZ loco and unit fleet - and regularly visit Blagoevgrad/Dupnica/Pernik along with occasional forays to Karlovo/Plovdiv/Lakatnik.
(Photoshop note: signal removed from top of the front bonnet)
AQL288 buffet car from Albany, still carrying its "Princess Royal Express" nameboard at the Rail Transport Museum, Bassendean for return to operational service on 12 January 1986. Photo: Phil Melling.
Delivered as D6784 from EE Robert Stephenson & Hawthorns in December 1962 and allocated to Gateshead, the TOPS renumbered 37084 spent over 20 years working on Eastern Region lines before it was allocated to Cardiff Canton in May 1988. In this view taken at Welshpool on Saturday 30th July 1988, the former Stratford machine was returning from Aberystwyth at the head of the 1A31 07:14 'Cambrian Coast Express' service to London Euston that it would work as far as Shrewsbury.
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31271 passes Corwen East Signal Box complete with an original nameboard, whilst running round its train on 17 June 2023.
The Japanese research vessel (also classified as a fishing vessel) Umitaka Maru [IMO 9231078/MMSI 432187000] is photographed here as she comes into Fremantle Port to berth alongside the common user berth, E Berth at Fremantle Port, Western Australia on January 10, 2016.
D1033 Western Trooper will shortly be leaving Paignton. phot taken in the summer of 1976. It had technically lost it's D prefix by this time.
Despite the shadows on part of the locomotve the cab and nameplate stand out, the semaphore and gaslight add to the scene.
I wonder who the inquisitive child is? Does anyone recognise themselves? They would probably be around 52 now an appropriate age for a Western fan maybe]! I spent 2 weeks of that summer in Torbay and had a bedroom which overlooked Torquay station.
Back in 1973 Trooper was the first Western I saw on the seawall at Teignmouth!
This is part of the Tom Derrington Collection but the photographer is not known. Ihis is a scan of a deteriorating Perutz tranparency.
The train is the 15.33 from Stratford (Low Level) to North Woolwich.
The road has changed little since the removal of the trolleybuses a few years earlier. On the right can be seen the tracks of the Silvertown Tramway, which still saw some use, and one of the Tate & Lyle company's vans, in the characteristic dark blue livery that company used to use for its road transport.
Looking at a photo of Silvertown taken in 1965, I now realise that the brick building with the faded blue nameboard is in fact the base of the former signalbox, and the cutaway in the end of the platform canopy was to enable drivers of up trains to see the lower repeater arms of a tall junction signal which stood roughly where the short wooden fence is in this vview. This indicated to drivers whether they were to continue straight on under the subway beneath the dock, or bear left over the swing bridge. The bridge was sometimes preferred for freight trains as the gradients were not so steep.
For a 1980s view see
LNER/Great Northern Railway Nottingham London Road Low Level Station Goods Yard Signal Box - dereliction looms on 14th June 1986
Sadly the box had just ’lost’ its nameboard - the end was near…..
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
Still in FGW blue, 166211 calls at Freshford Station while working 2C13, 1053 Worcester Foregate Street to Westbury on 26 February, 2022. Note that the 'running-in' board on the 'up' platform is missing. This genuine GWR blue enamel nameboard was deteriorating and has been taken away for restoration prior to being placed on public display in the village. A replacement, to the same pattern, is being fabricated, funded by GWR and the parish council. The attractive wooden board on the 'down' platform remains in place.
A Cambridge - Liverpool Street service passes the 1898 GER 24 lever box under dramatic skies. Located mid-way between Sawbridgeworth and Bishops Stortford the box only controlled the Spellbrook Lane East level crossing and oddly had only a single 'L' on the nameboard when all the maps spell the village with two!
158863 passes Three Horse Shoes (between March and Whittlesea), working 1R74 12.56 Norwich - Liverpool Lime Street.
Much of the time when I'm photographing in the Fens, I use the pole because having significant elevation allows much more of the landscape to be seen - plus there are few places where the lineside is clear of vegetation. This is one exception to the latter, so I decided to take some telephoto shots stood at ground level, with the train between the signalbox and the derelict good shed. The lens I used has a focal length of 135mm, which is equivalent to 200mm on a full frame digital camera.
I also took some shots with the camera on the pole extended by just one section, meaning I wasn't looking up at the train. Unfortunately, the light levels had begun to drop meaning that the nameboard on the signalbox wasn't quite in focus as I needed a smaller aperture than I was using - but I didn't realise until I looked at the pictures on a computer screen.
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Remarkably the undergrowth that was once concealing the decaying buildings and concrete station nameboard at Gedney station in Lincolnshire, on the former Midland and Great Northern (M&GN) line between Spalding and Sutton Bridge, has during the last year been cleared. This station closed to passengers in February 1959, along with almost all the other stations on the M&GN system, although the line remained in use for freight traffic until April 1965 serving Sutton Bridge. The station buildings survived as a private residence for some years after closure and were on the market for sale in 2004. Has a buyer been found at long last, although the station building is a total wreck, with decaying timbers, but still an amazing survivor.
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BR Wadsley Bridge Station (Great Central Railway) view north with the station looking reasonably intact on 18th May 1985 - though 'running-in' station nameboards are missing. However Wadsley Bridge Signal Box retains its nameboard!!
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Absolute 1 (IMO: 9869447) is an oil products tanker registered and sailing under the flag of Singapore. Her gross tonnage is 6,087, and deadweight is 8,646. She was built in 2019. Her overall length (loa) is number 114.99 m, beam is 19 m and maximum draught is number 7.5 m. Her container capacity is 0 teu. The ship is operated by BP Australia Pty Ltd.
I photographed the Absolute I on her departure from her berth at Fremantle Port on April 25, 2020. Absolute I’s last port of call was Batam and her next port of call is Kwinana.
Whilst in Fremantle she was attended to by ASP Ship Management Pty Ltd.
One for a certain signalman at Gainsborough! 58038 stands next to Ollerton Colliery box having propelled a loaded rake of MGRs from the colliery for High Marnham Power Station on 16th May 1986. The photographer notes that the 'Ollerton Colliery' box nameboard was being used as a draft excluder at this end of the box and the driver and photographer removed it and hid it behind the box. The driver went back for it but it was too big to put in the cab so they left it there! I wonder if it survived? Photo: Dave Ware (Ivan Stewart Collection).
A traditional Great Western Railway style station nameboard on the Down platform at High Wycombe railway station, 19th August 2025.
Dmu car E56100 is reversing at Cromer (formerly the M&GNR station of Cromer Beach, as is still shown on the nameboard) on its journey with the 13.52 from Norwich to Sheringham. Behind the train is the tower of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul.
485044 arrivies at Brading with a Ryde Pier Head – Shanklin service on Thursday 11th September 1986. Brading station was still gas lit at this time.
The 'Westerns South Western' railtour with 1023 & 1009 is held at the home signal on the Barnstaple branch as usurper 50 027 rushes by shortly before braking for the Exeter stop. The chance meeting was only by virtue of the tour running 5 minutes early at this point and will follow the Hoover into Exeter St. Davids where an 80 minute break will take place before tackling the hill to Exeter Central and the Mule en route back to Paddington. Note the very obvious extension to the signal box - particularly with the nameboard no longer central.
Unknown photographer.
Part of the streetside brick elevation still standing at about 12.15hrs, the demolition crews swarm over the proud shell of Network Rail's Farncombe 1897-build signalbox, marked by nuisance-value only rain showers.
The box had been decommissioned at the end of the final shift in the early hours just before.
It is reported that the nameboard, the backing plate still extant here, will be displayed at the station along with the section track diagram. The stone windowcill teeters on the edge!
It appears that the whole demolition operation had been road accessed with tracked excavators and large volume skips. A debris pile including roof parts is seen between the machines.
Recent normal operations are loaded here too.
25th October 2025
British Railways Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Limited Type 3 Bo-Bo class 33/0 diesel-electric locomotive numbers 33051 and 33062 of Stewarts Lane Traction Maintenance Depot pass Canning Street North signal box in Birkenhead on the Down Goods line with the additional Hertfordshire Rail Tours’ 07:58 London Victoria to Bidston ‘Wirral Withershins’ charter (1Z25). Saturday 18th January 1986
(1/250, F2.8/4)
Note, 33051 was built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company Limited (works number DEL173) at Smethwick in 1961 for British Railways as number D6569, being renumbered 33051 in December 1973
Canning Street North signal box was a London & North Western Railway Company type 4 design fitted with a 18 lever LNWR Tumbler that opened in 1900 for the London and North Western & Great Western Joint Railways. The line from Rock Ferry was taken out of use on 17th May 1993 and from 27th October 2008 the signal box was referred to by Network Rail as the former signal box. It was damaged by fire circa 2009 and by July 2013 was severely fire damaged and derelict
The signal box carried a London Midland & Scottish Railway Company post-1935 design nameboard
Ref no IU/06656
Locos 27 101, 27 025, 27 044 and 27 036 in evidence.
This is the depot for 'The Jacobite' steam operation, using primarily the 'coal road' (where the 16-ton mineral wagons are standing - this siding now ends just beyond where they are), the one next to it on the other side of the loading dock, the 'dock road' (where the open wagon with cover is) and the one next to that.
The shed at the end of the nearest road has a pit used for preparing and disposing the steam locos but it no longer has any doors and the roof blew off in a gale a few years back.
The two-roof warehouse building looks smart in this view but is now far from it. The open section has been walled in but the whole thing is now disused and looking very sorry for itself.
The compound and buildings in the foreground are very much the same... but the collection of station nameboards disappeared a long time ago.
The depot is owned, I believe by DB Cargo, although the firm no longer has any work on the West Highland line. Network Rail has a single-storey office block (off to the right, out of view) and, aside from steam workings, the site is used just occasionally for stabling engineering vehicles.
Photo by and courtesy of Peter James.
In my adjacent photograph entitled "Bapaume and forgotten", I told the story of the Pikedale Soldiers Settlements and Amiens railway branch line on the Granite Belt in Queensland. This included the naming of localities along the railway after battles in France during WWI.
The nearby Stanthorpe Museum has the railway station (really sidings) name boards from along the line which closed in 1974. It also has a number of other railway relics from the area. Quite appropriately, red poppies are "planted" at the base of these signs. Except for Amiens at the end of the line, all of the other names define general localities, no towns as such. When you drive to Amiens today, these localities are still identified with green tourist signs beside the road, usually in front of a forest!
If you are interested, here is a small Wiki article on the history of the old railway.
DAISY K [now known as GOLD DUST] (IMO: 9615078 ) is a bulk carrier registered and sailing under the flag of Panama. Her gross tonnage is 17,019 and deadweight is 28,420. DAISY K was built in 2012 by IMABARI SHIPBUILDING. DAISY K length overall (LOA) is 169.37 m, beam is 27.2 m and maximum draught is 13.6 m. Her container capacity is 0 TEU. The ship is operated by K LINE.
I photographed the DAISY K in 2016 when she was alongside the privately owned Alcoa berth, No.1 being loaded with refined alumina.
LMS Madeley Signal Box on the West Coast Main Line (LMSR - REC 40 lever frame - 1930) on 25th February 1987
The box was located south of Crewe on the West Coast Main Line. It retained its original LMS nameboard with cast letters.
The box finally closed on 26th June 2004.
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
MOL Emissary (IMO: 9407158) is a container ship registered and sailing under the flag of Hong Kong. Her gross tonnage is 54,940 and deadweight is 67,170. MOL Emissary was built in 2009 by Hyundai Heavy Industries. MOL Emissary length overall (LOA) is 291.13m, beam is 32.2m and maximum draught is 13.67m . Her container capacity is 5,041 TEU. The ship is operated by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines.
I photographed the MOL Emissary on her approach to berth at Fremantle Port on August 8, 2016.
Northern Trains Class 153 No 153363 approaches Barrow Road Crossing Signal Box (Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway / Railway Signalling Company 1885) adjacent to New Holland Station on the Barton-on-Humber Branch with the 1352 Barton-on-Humber to Cleethorpes service on 9th January 2013
Since this photo was taken the gates have been replaced with barriers and the box has lost its nameboard + lineside 'clutter' has increased.....
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
Built in 2015, the Panama flagged, 70,048gt 199.99 m NYK Line vehicles carrier, the CASTOR LEADER [IMO 9713894 ] departing the common user berth, H Berth at Fremantle Port, Fremantle Port on May 6, 2016. Her last port of call was Melbourne, Victoria and she was departing for Singapore having arrived earlier in the day.
The CASTOR LEADER was one of the larger vehicles carriers I have photographed at Fremantle Port. She has a car carrying capacity of 7,124 vehicles. Apparently whilst Western Australia was in the midst of an economy downturn in 2016, we where still are buying a significant numbers vehicles with our new car registrations one of the highest in the country.
Tracks heading into Roman Bridge railway station, a request stop station in the Lledr Valley, Wales.
It is on the Conwy Valley Line from Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog and is operated by Arriva Trains Wales. The station building is these days a private house and the single platform station is unstaffed. The station nameboards incorrectly display the Welsh station name as Pont Rufenig instead of Rufeing.
The station serves no village and instead used by walkers. It takes its name from a nearby ancient bridge over the River Lledr, it carries a minor road from the A470 leading to scattered hill farms at Blaenau Dolwyddelan. In 2006/7, it was the second least used railway station in Wales.
Early Baedeker guidebooks to Great Britain state that there is no explanation for the name, though the Roman road Sarn Helen is known to have passed down the valley on its way from Canovium (in the Conwy Valley) to Tomen y Mur, at Trawsfynydd, and a crossing at this point would seem feasible.
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