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📸 After strenuous work in Scotland, the ‘B1’ 4-6-0 found its way to the GCR. 61264 is running round its train at Loughborough and still wears its Scottish style front numberplate. An excellent way to round off the year. 30 December 2000. 🚆
📘Explore the railway, local history, and nearby attractions for an inspiring day out in Kent and East Sussex 🚂 #HeritageRailway #RailwayHistory
📖 Kent & East Sussex Railway by Richard Marks
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🚆 Near Ais Gill on the S&C line, 37422 and 37558 (also carrying number 37424) pass with the 16.21 Carlisle Kingmoor to Carlisle Kingmoor Rail Head Treatment Train on 15 October 2018. (📸 Jonathan Allen)
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📖 The Southwold Railway 1879–1929 by David Lee, Rob Shorland-Ball, Alan Taylor
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🚆 Class 67 No. 67008 makes its way north towards Wofferton’s Down starter, W36, with a Cardiff Central Manchester Piccadilly TfW service (1W55). (📸 Chris Davies)
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📖 The History of the London Underground Map by Caroline Roope
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🚆 1967 view depicts a train of former LT Standard Stock entering Ryde St John’s Road station. The last examples of this stock were withdrawn from passenger service in 1991, having been replaced by former LT 1938 stock which started to arrive from July 1989.
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📖 The Clapham Train Accident by Greg Morse
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🚆 At the rear of the stock transfer movement is battery locomotive L44 dating from 1973. As the train crosses the throat of King’s Cross station and enters Gasworks Tunnel it is passed by an arriving Cravens Class 105 DMU while,
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Just received, CLAPHAM's revised paperback edn, which includes all 4 RAIB-investigated incidents with similar causal chains. Still included is the passage in praise of RED FOR DANGER, which I always recommend to rail industry audiences.@TransportPS
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📖 The Southwold Railway 1879–1929 by David Lee, Rob Shorland-Ball, Alan Taylor
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🚆 Following overhaul in 2002 55016 was painted in the purple livery of the Porterbrook Company, with yellow nose and white window surrounds, after the rolling stock company sponsored its return to service as No. 9016. It is seen so adorned at Ramsbottom station (📸 David Mather)
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📖 P E P Prototype Trains, Classes 313, 314, 315, 507, 508 by Graeme Gleaves
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🚆 Leaving Horsted Keynes carrying the Deltic Preservation Society headboard is D9009/55009 Alycidon with its train for Sheffield Park. (📸 David Mather)
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🚆 Deltic 55022 Royal Scots Grey departs Doncaster in September 1978. On the first of that month ‘No. 22’ headed 1S24, the 11.55 King’s Cross to Aberdeen ‘Aberdonian’. (📸 David Mather)
