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British Railways 1974

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Huddersfield station

29 March 1974



Huddersfield

29 March 1974



Huddersfield

29 March 1974



Approaching Penistone from Huddersfield

29 March 1974



Sheffield train leaving Penistone

29 March 1974



76030 leads a pair of EM1 locos on an eastbound empty MGR train at Penistone

29 March 1974



76011 heads a westbound MGR train at Penistone

29 March 1974



76040 with an eastbound unfitted freight at Penistone

29 March 1974



Clayton West Jn

29 March 1974



Clayton West; this is now one end of the Kirklees Light Railway

29 March 1974



Clayton West

29 March 1974



Awaiting to return from Clayton West

29 March 1974



Huddersfield train at Clayton West

29 March 1974



Eastbound empty MGR passing Torside

30 March 1974



Westbound loaded MGR crossing Dinting Viaduct

30 March 1974



Class 506 DC EMU for Hadfield entering the station

30 March 1974



Train from Glossop to Hadfield passing Dinting

30 March 1974



Train from Glossop to Hadfield passing the entrance to Dinting steam centre

30 March 1974



The west portal of Woodhead tunnel

30 March 1974



The west portal of Woodhead tunnel

30 March 1974



The eastern end of Woodhead tunnel at Dunford Bridge

30 March 1974



Dunford Bridge

30 March 1974



Westbury looking south from the station

27 April 1974



A 3H passes Upton Scudamore with a Bristol - Portsmouth train

27 April 1974



16.00 Bristol - Weymouth approaches St Anne's Park

11 May 1974



A Paddington - Bristol train at St Anne#s Park

11 May 1974



A 10-car dmu on a special working approaches Fox's Wood No 3 Tunnel at Conham

11 May 1974



17.05 Bristol - Portsmouth at Conham

11 May 1974



A Weston-super-Mare - Paddington train passes Malago Vale Carriage Sidings

18 May 1974



50030 with an ecs from Bristol TM at Malago Vale CS

18 May 1974



A Paddington - Swansea train diverted away from the Badminton line calls at Filton Jn

18 May 1974



The departures board at Filton Junction, showing the diverted South Wales trains

18 May 1974



An up South Wales train enters Patchway New Tunnel

18 May 1974



A Down South Wales express between the two Old Tunnels at Patchway.

18 May 1974



A coal train from South Wales passes Pilning

18 May 1974



A Bristol TM - Severn Beach train at Hallen Marsh Jn

25 May 1974



A Bristol TM - Severn Beach train at Hallen Marsh Jn

25 May 1974



A Bristol TM - Severn Beach train arrives at Avonmouth

25 May 1974



A Severn Beach - Bristol TM train at Avonmouth

25 May 1974



A train for Severn Beach at Clifton Down

25 May 1974



A train from Severn Beach arrives at Clifton Down to cross with a train from Bristol TM

25 May 1974



Looking towards Redland as a train for Bristol TM departs from Clifton Down

25 May 1974



08 891 shunts the coal depot at Wapping Wharf. This is now the site of the Bristol Industrial Museum

05 June 1974



A class 25 passes the closed station at Borwick east of Carnforth

21 September 1974



A class 25 on the Leven Viaduct approaching Plumpton

21 September 1974



A class 108 dmu leaves Sellafield southbound

21 September 1974



The site of Leicester Central

23 November 1974



A Sunday train for Manchester shunts from the Goods Lines to call at Loughborough

28 November 1974



Approaching Sheffield Victoria on a London - Manchester train diverted off the Hope Valley line

28 November 1974



Sheffield Victoria

28 November 1974



Thurgoland Tunnels

28 November 1974



Barnsley Jn at Penistone - just look at those massive OLE structures! The ECML could do with some of those!

28 November 1974



Longdendale

28 November 1974



Crowden Moor

28 November 1974

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I was born in 1953 and educated at Tonbridge and Bristol University. Since then I have been employed on the Railways, most of the time in the West Midlands. From 1980 I lived in Wolverhampton, and for the last 20 years in Bridgnorth