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It may look rather swishy now, but before being subjected to one of the longest running redevelopment schemes known to mankind, Brixton tube station used to be a really tatty affair.
Still to be seen ferrying folks along the short stretch of track from Cardiff Queen Street station down to Cardiff Bay is this 1960 vintage, Class 121 diesel multiple unit, number 121032.
Railway scenes don’t get much more atmospheric than this wintry view of a deserted Ropley station, on the preserved Mid Hants Watercress railway line.
A couple of weeks ago, we took a trip on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex, and enjoyed the view from the window as we puffed past the autumnal English countryside.
Naturally, I bagged some photos from the day, and here they are!
Now stranded in the middle of a car park in the centre of town is the remains of Cirencester Town railway station, a rather fine two-storey building designed by Isambard Kingdon Brunel and R.P. Brereton, his resident assistant.
Located in what was once the bustling area of Tiger Bay in Cardiff docks, Cardiff Bay railway station (Bae Caerdydd) is the southern terminus of the short Butetown Branch Line, which runs one mile (1.5 km) from Cardiff Queen Street station.
Opened in 1840 by the Taff Vale Railway and originally known as “Cardiff Docks,” the station was renamed “Bute Road” by the Great Western Railway in 1924 and given its present name in 1994.
The New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn is a great place to visit if you’re in New York and have a bit of an interest in old trains, mechanical things, old maps and transit memorabilia.
Located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Brooklyn Heights, the museum costs $6 to get in and lets you wander around old station equipment and step onto vintage cars ( ‘cars’ being what us Brits would call ‘carriages’).
Scroll down to see some more pics from our visit.
The High Line offers a fabulous walk through the heart of lower Manhattan, with the park being built on the tracks of a long abandoned elevated railroad route.
Purchased for the princely sum of £1.25 on eBay, this old British rail ticket is for a journey which can no longer be made, as East Brixton station has long since disappeared.
Opening as Loughborough Park in 1866, renamed Loughborough Park & Brixton from 1870, before finally sticking with East Brixton from 1894, the station was on the South London Line from London Victoria to London Bridge.
Pictured above is Brixton Railway Station, photographed on 11th December 1960.
The tracks to the left run to Loughborough Junction, while the tracks nearest the camera are on the London Victoria to Orpington line.
Blasting its way over Borough Market and thrusting its metal loins over Borough High Street is Network Rail’s rail improvement works.
Tasked with improving the old Victorian track layout around the station, the new two track viaduct promises to ease congestion and let more trains travel north-south through London during peak times.
Here’s some photos of the work in progress:
Gleaming in the glorious Brixton sunshine is this excursion train headed up by a BR standard class 7 70000 Britannia locomotive.
Seen earlier today at Farringdon station, central London, was this heavily graffiti’d train carriage on a northbound train.
Only the last carriage had been painted. Scroll down for more.
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We raved about the fantastic service and lovely staff when we took a trip on the line and vexed like an angry rapper when we heard the news what it had swiftly closed at the beginning of the year.
Filmed in the 1950s, this fascinating amateur-shot footage (below) shows a tantalisingly short glimpse of steam trains thundering through a Brixton station still controlled by mechanical signals.
