British railways

91025 heads a northbound Anglo-Scottish ECML express from Newcastle Central - c.09/1992. The actual date the image was made is unknown; the indication given is based on the film processing date imprinted on the original slide.

Best viewed Original size. InterCity 125 High Speed Train power car E43066 at the rear of the diverted 1S30 14:00 Kings Cross to Edinburgh at Lincoln - 04/06/1978.

"Look what you gain when you travel by train" BR Western Region poster circa 1976

BR Class 9F 92019 descending from Whitrope with a southbound train of empty car flats on 8th July 1965. 2-10-0. 📸Gerald T Robinson

The electrification of the London (Euston) - West Midlands - Manchester/Liverpool line in the early 1960s was the biggest single project of the BR "Modernisation" programme - it was part of the move from steam and also was, in some ways, the flip side of the contraction of the extensive BR network that was to occur in that decade - new for old. The brochure cover is very bold in design - a pantograph on one of the new electric AC locomotives (in BR Electric Blue livery) and with an early use…

A view of the Neath and Brecon Railway with the village of Cilfrew in the background, South Wales. An oil painting on canvas, 16" x 12".

British Railways Standard Class 2MT 2-6-0 78019 steams through Swithland Sidings on the Great Central Railway with a pick up goods during a Timeline Events photo charter.

Adorned with the famous 'winged thistle' headboard 55009 sits at Newcastle Central station as 55015 passes by on the Deltic Scotsman Farewell on 2 January 1982.

55022 is seen threading across the trackwork leaving Newcastle on 1st August 1981 with the Plymouth to Edinburgh service. Earlier that day it had hauled the southbound service as far as York where it would take over the balancing northbound working.

BR - Britain's First All-Electric Mainline. #steam #steamengines

For the second edition of this book the artwork shows a BR Southern Region EMU (a Southern Railway one in reality) linked by the flash of electricity to a London Underground surface O-stock car of the mid-late 1930s - the flared sides indicative of the time. The artwork is, this time, signed by A N Wolstenholme - an artist very proficient in scaperboard work and producing transport based illustrations for such publications and BR publicity. It looks, to me, a very stylish and period item.

Feb 6, 2013 - The British Railways 'starved lion' symbol that was adopted for use on tenders and cabs in the 1950s. Lettering in "Gill Sans" as adopted by BR.

Class 377 Electrostars heading north to London.

I was about to do some Austrian scans and realised I'd left these three in the machine, so here they are! Back to 1970's Tyneside, the era of Michael Caine's masterpiece "Get Carter", and a very interesting time railway wise indeed. Taken from the Castle situated at the east end of Newcastle Central, this pair are heading east, possibly to Heaton sidings with an ecs. Discussion below considers this to probably be an SW - NE service, rather than a Liverpool - Newcastle, with the 40 appearing…

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