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Coloured in another bit of the Baker Atlas today, the branch from Princes Risborough to Aylesbury that had intrigued me for years as I flew past on the main line. Saturday trains run through to Marylebone so we missed departure from the bay but still it’s a remarkable survivor.

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On this day. West Silkstone Junction signal-box 20/3/1969. The box was at the top of the Worsbrough incline between Wath and Penistone, the class 76 bankers were detached here and assisting locomotives for extra braking were attached to descending trains. © Keith Long

Former GWR 2-6-2T No 4524 is seen at Yelverton with a train for the Princetown branch in July 1955. The line, which was just over 10 miles in length opened in 1883 and closed in March 1956. Princetown at 1,373 feet above sea level, was the highest station in England.

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#OnThisDay 58 years ago the northern bay platform at Mansion House was abolished leaving just the central bay (also since gone), vestiges of the station's history as a terminus. 1980s redevelopment of the station hid the trackless bay from view. Roger Cox buff.ly/40SZvNM

Dukedog 9017 seen at Ruabon after working a Festiniog Railway Society special. Just out of the picture is sister classmate 9014. 9017 would be saved for #preservation 📆 March 1958 📷 Photo by P.J Hughes. #steamlocomotive #1950s #Wales

A view at Hemyock where No 1451 has just arrived on 26 June 1959. Passenger services ended in September 1963 but goods trains continued to serve a diary there until 1975. The ex Barry Railway coach was gaslit, the trains ran too slowly to recharge conventional coach batteries.

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It's a while since we had a delve into the Crecy Archive. A long northbound goods hauled by G2 class 0-8-0 No 49430 was seen between Brinklow and Shilton, near Rugby, on 5 July 1952. The G2s were a development of a 1912 Bowen Cooke design for the LNWR and were introduced in 1921.

Work to extend the platforms at @svrofficialsite Kidderminster Town station is well underway. The new starting signals are on a large bracket rescued from Radyr in south Wales many years ago.

An associate of his crouching in the foliage, Patrick B. Whitehouse photographs 3200 9024 coming away from Fairbourne with a local, bedecked in carmine & cream, in 1954. 9024 had been one of the later Earls - lacking an allocated name - built from 3328 Severn & 3409 Queensland.

This snowy scene at Rowfant from 24 February 1963 shows Class M7 0-4-4T No 30133 entering the station on its way from Three Bridges to Tunbridge Wells West. crecy.co.uk/product/railwa…

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Now preserved and based on @bluebellrailway unrebuilt ‘West Country’ No 34023 Blackmoor Vale, was the motive power for the 11.10am service from Plymouth to Okehampton on 27 May 1964, one of the few SR lines in Devon and Cornwall still with us. crecy.co.uk/product/southe…

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Brand new and ready for its running in period: Hymek D7000 is outside the Beyer Peacock works at Gorton 28th May 1961. It entered service the same month after being allocated to Bristol MPD. 📸 Frank Hornby

76046 ‘Archimedes’ runs light loco through the dereliction of Sheffield Victoria on Monday 7th July 1980, 10 years after the station had closed. Today, this location is a car park for the Royal Victoria Hotel. © Colin Whitbread

9F 92071 passes Kirkby Stephen West signal box, as it works hard with a southbound freight of steel ingots. 📆 23rd September 1966 📷 Photo by Ivo Peters. #steamlocomotive #1960s #Cumbria #BritishRailways

Quite a modern look to this working, recorded over 60 years ago in April 1965. V2 No 60846 heads a southbound cement train near Thornton Junction in Fife, a block train of uniform, perhaps relatively new wagons, though without continuous brakes, as a Brake Van makes up the rear.