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Superheated ‘I3’ No.25 with a Victoria–Brighton semi-fast train at an unidentified location, c1910. (📸 H. Gordon Tidey/John Scott-Morgan Collection)

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🚂 1460, still in GNR livery, heads a down Pullman train past Belle Isle Box, King’s Cross Goods Yard in the background, while GC 4-6-0 1167 Lloyd George waits to back down to King’s Cross for another Pullman working, c1923. (📸 H. Gordon Tidey/MLS Collection)

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📸 A two-car Class 101 DMU in BR blue livery departs from Ruswarp station with a train from Darlington and Middlesbrough to Whitby on the afternoon of a pleasant day in March 1969. 🚆

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Even the ubiquitous ‘uniform’ MGR train had visual variations. Seen here approaching the site of the former Stanton gate station, 58013 and 56108 haul MGR trains away from Toton in 1985.(📸 Dave Peachey)

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Visiting GWR 0-4-2T No. 1466 with the Pullman set in 1984. (📸 Brian Stephenson)

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🚆 In the 1970s is this view at Leeds taken on 5 July 1977 that sees Class 47/4 No 47461 arriving from the west as Class 45 No 45003 awaits the road to depart light engine towards Holbeck. (📸 Peter Waller)

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🚂 D49/1 62701 Derbyshire at York with a Scarborough–Leeds train, c1954. (📸 Colour Rail)

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🚆 Pictured in the platforms of the new Bradford Forster Square station in 2001 are two of the Class 333 EMUs for use on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines. (📸 Geoffrey Tribe/Online Transport Archive)

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🚂 No.2276 curves round the Mawddach River arriving at Dolgellau from Barmouth with a stopping train for Bala Junction and Ruabon, c1960. (📸 Andrew Dyke colourisation) #Train #SteamTrain #TrainSpotting