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🚆 Ongar’s GER signal box takes centre stage in this 1966 picture of an approaching train from Epping. The goods yard closed on 18 April 1966 and the signal box closed on 22 March 1969. It was demolished in the early 1980s. (📸 Marcus Eavis/Online Transport Archive)
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Very thoughtful review of my book, THE CLAPHAM TRAIN ACCIDENT, from a rail industry colleague on LinkedIn this evening. @TransportPS
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📖 British Mixed Traffic Locomotives of the 20th Century: Great Western & L M S Railway Designs by David Maidment
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🚆 Llandudno was the scene of drama in LMS days with several collisions. The BR contrast could not be greater as the crew chat in the sun before boarding this Manchester-bound train in May 1978. (📸 John Hobbs)
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#MeetTheAuthor 👋 Say hello to author David Maidment, with his brand new release!
📖 British Mixed Traffic Locomotives of the 20th Century: Great Western & L M S Railway Designs
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📸 4419, the boosterfitted Atlantic, passing Greenwood Box with a down Pullman train, c1928. 🚂
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Scarbotough’s D49/2 62756 The Brocklesbury at Kirkham Abbey with a York–Scarborough semifast service, April 1954. (📸 Colour Rail)
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🚆 Passing Colton and heading south on the ECML from York on 2 December 2011, D9000/55022 takes the SRPS/ North East Railtours Santa Express, from Linlithgow to Lincoln and return. (📸 David Mather)
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📸 With a train of loaded coal hoppers passing St Mellons, Cardiff on 20 May 1992 is 37894 🚆
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📖 P E P Prototype Trains, Classes 313, 314, 315, 507, 508 by Graeme Gleaves
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🚆 More activity now at Doncaster as the reign of the Deltics approaches its end. Here on 21 February 1981 55012 Crepello is at the head of the 08.05 King’s Cross to Hull service. (📸 David Mather)
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🍂 The leaves are falling… and so are the prices! 📚🍁
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🚆 This view depicts an Uxbridge-bound train near Moorgate. The last Uxbridge train operated by F Stock ran on 15 March 1963. (📸 Geoff Morant/Online Transport Archive)
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🚆 Class 66/7 No. 66740 passes through the countryside between Onibury and Bromfield in Shropshire, working the 6V75 Dee Marsh Margam steel empties. 16 June 2023. (📸 Chris Davies)
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