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Finally got a copy of Great British Model Railways featuring my layout ‘Eastern Dock’ with some stunning photos by Chris Nevard.

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A cyclist takes advantage of free propulsion along the Weymouth Harbour streets holding onto a class 117 as it (tightly) threads its way along to the Quay station. 📸 Adrian Pink

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Weymouth harbour 1961, what’s not to like about this photograph. #SaturdaySteam 📸 Unknown

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Prototype Deltic DP1 at Kings Cross, September 1959. 📸 N/A

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BRCW class 104 is held at Rufford with the Ormskirk to Preston as a herd of cows heading eastbound use the crossing 5th September 1988. #DMUofTheWeek 📸 Jeremy Madden

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A class 03 works the boat train along Custom House Quay on the Weymouth Harbour tramway July 1970 #ShunterSunday 📸 Roger Shepherd

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APT 370 006 leans into the curve through Lancaster with a southbound test train, August 1984 📷 Rail Photoprints Collection

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55021 & 55015 at the stops at Kings Cross 22nd July 1981 #FiftyFivesOnFriday 📸 Darren Harris

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A tight squeeze for a Class 108 & 101 forming a hybrid 4 car unit at Custom House Quay, Weymouth with ‘The Wessex Wanderer’ Railtour, 3rd April 1988 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Paul Russell

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55016 ‘Gordon Highlander’ at Kings Cross having arrived with a service from York 22nd March 1980. 📸 Kevin Connolly

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D1015 ‘Western Champion’ at Plymouth with a crew change, 1975. 📸 Steve Ash

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33112 at Custom House Quay with the 15:30 Weymouth Quay boat train to Waterloo, 16th August 1982 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Clive Smith

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The Kings Cross diesel transition period 📸 N/A

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Probably no other photo displays the sheer financial neglect of the railway infrastructure in the 80’s than this one of dilapidated Felixstowe station, August 1985 #class101 #DMUofTheDay 📸 David Christie

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Colour photos of Vulcan Foundry built gas turbine experimental 4-6-0 are rare. He it is at Aylesbury, 1961. Broken up in 1966. 📷 N/A

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Brute force! 37301, 37304 and 37308 move an iron ore working towards British Steel Corporation Llanwern through Cardiff Central, 15th April 1978 #ThirtySevensOnThursday 📸 David Hayes

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A sudden gust of wind has caused this long boat to run aground just before a lock, it’s been stuck for 2 days, luckily it’s below a bridge and BR has offered to help with their crane from the nearby shed. But will they free the boat to allow other traffic through.

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55015 at Huddersfield with the 08:50 York to Liverpool 23rd December 1981 #FiftyFivesOnFriday 📸 Chris Walker

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37191 gently threads it’s way through the streets of Weymouth for a trip to Yeovil on a wet Wednesday in August 📸 Trevor Plackett

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D9004 at Kings Cross, 1962 📸 unknown

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33107 passes the Sea Cow Bistro as it threads it’s way through the streets of Weymouth with a boat train July 1982. 📸 Andy Sutton

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37191 carefully negotiates the Weymouth Tramway #ThirtySevensOnThursday 📸 Clive Reville

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Great line up of blue traction at Toton starting with 44004 #MidWeekPeak date unrecorded 📸 PR Collection

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Fast forward to 30th May 1986 and things look quite different at Weymouth Harbour; 33107 heads along Commercial Road with the boat train from London Waterloo to the Harbour station. 📸 Martyn Hilbert

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A railtour in the pouring rain along the streets of Weymouth, April 1993. By this period there was no regular traffic using the line which was living on borrowed time anyway #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 David Flett

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A class 33 threads it’s way from Quay station with empty fuel tankers, 1980 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Brian Flack

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In mid 1984 BR re-introduced the APT-P on a limited relief Euston to Glasgow service, seen here at Berkhampstead station on 1M25 the 08:02 Glasgow to Euston. 📸 Frank Struben

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Edinburgh Waverley, August 1975 #DMUofTheWeek #Class101 📸 William Rose

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What a truly atmospheric photograph of 76046 as it passes a bleak Torside crossing signal box, 4th December 1976 #WoodheadRoute 📸 David Hills

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45139 at St. Pancras 28th December 1982 #MidWeekPeak 📸 Roger Gibson

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Here’s something you don’t see everyday; 37191 rumbling through the street at Weymouth quayside, summer 1980 Photo Trevor Plackett.

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40057 at Horton in Ribblesdale under full power to tackle numerous snow drifts with the late running 1E23 the 10:40 Carlisle to Leeds, 24th January 1981 #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Peter Smith

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33116 misses parked cars by inches as it threads it’s way along the tramway with the 09:40 Waterloo to Weymouth Quay, 7th July 1985. 📸 Terry Eyres

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D9004 with the 11:00 Edinburgh to Kings Cross at Gateshead 21st March 1965. 📸 Jim Boyes

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HST’s at Newcastle (north end), 17th July 1983 📸 Gordon Woods

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The white window surrounds of 55012 'Crepello' stand out clearly in this line up at Finsbury Park in May 1980. Photo by Peter Zabek.

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40002 and friends at March Old Hundred Sidings #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Andy Hoare

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Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2 no. 41298 near Weymouth Harbour with the LCGB ‘Green Arrow’ Railtour, July 1966 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Alf Lovell

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55012 ‘Crepello’ stands at York at the head of a Kings Cross to Inverness sleeper 4th February 1978 #FiftyFivesOnFriday 📸 David Hayes

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A typical day in and around Amberfield, summer 1967 #TwitterModelTrainShow #NGauge

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A good selection of blue diesel traction at Tinsley depot 15th September 1979 #MotivePowerMonday 📸 John Whiteley

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Todays #MGRMonday photo serves as a reminder that winter is almost here. 56012 passes Mirfield with a Healey Mills to Fiddlers Ferry P. S. 25th January 1984. 📸 John Whiteley

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Class 105 Cravens unit at Aldersgate & Barbican station June 1960 #DMUofTheWeek 📸 Trevor Philips

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40152 at Manchester Victoria with the 01:10 Newspaper train to Bradford 20th January 1985 #ManchesterMonday 📸 Mark Slater

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EM1 no. E26026 working empties through Sheffield Victoria 12th May 1960 #TommyTuesday 📸 Bernard Collier

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Gloucester Horton Road MPD. What’s not to like about this photo. Answer = 0 📸 Derek J. Jones

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Weymouth harbour, saddle tank 0-6-0 light engine movement, 1961. #SaturdaySteam 📸 Unknown

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You can almost smell the atmosphere in this photo taken at Edinburgh Waverley as 3 class 101’s smokily idle away awaiting their turn of duty, August 1975. 📷 Rossendalian

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Class 101 at Alston with a service to Haltwhistle May 1974 #DMUofTheWeek 📸 John Vaughan

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Deltic prototype DP1 stands in the bay platform at the south end of Doncaster station awaiting the arrival of the train it will work south to Kings Cross, 19th September 1959. 📸 Peter Brumby

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40086 is brought to a halt at Tay Bridge south ‘box with a rake of empty coal hoppers 11th July 1983 #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Pete Robbins

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55003 ‘Meld’ arrives at Newcastle summer 1980 #MeldMonday 📸 Ian Beattie

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Blue Pullman at St Pancras. Date unknown. 📷 Unknown.

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55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ at Doncaster 30th December 1981. This was the last northbound working for this loco. #FiftyFivesOnFriday 📸 Alan Walker

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33111 in charge of 4TC units no. 421 & 403 ambling through the street, 19th June 1986 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Trevor Maxted

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08113 in the woods of the Camel Valley with a China clay working leaving Wenford Bridge 19th November 1980 #ShunterSunday 📸 Peter Hallgarth

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Birmingham New Street was a very different place in 1958, 10202 awaits departure to London Euston whilst a class 101 ‘speed whiskered’ Metro-Cammell unit leaves for Lichfield 📸 Geoff Dowling/John Whitehouse

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Demolition of the original Birmingham New Street station, 26th May 1964 📸 John Wiltshire

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40052 at Chester General, March 1982 #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Tom Derrington

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Possibly one of the best photographs of Sheffield Midland station and Sheaf House, 12th August 1977. 📸 David Ford

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Unidentified class 46 along the sea wall near Teignmouth with the Newcastle to Plymouth August 1974 #MidWeekPeak 📸 David Rodger’s

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Corporation Street at the junction of Westham Road, 1980 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Richard Neville

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Two flag men walk ahead of 33107 with the London Waterloo to Weymouth Quay service on Commercial Road, 30th May 1986 📸 Martyn Hilbert

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55019 ‘Royal Highland Fusilier’ erupts at Kings Cross with 1L43 the 16:05 to York, Sunday 22nd March 1981 📸 Michael Hart

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Leeds Holbeck shed (55A) with 9F 2-10-0 no. 92086 but just look at that line up of cars, 29th June 1967. A fantastic period photo by: 📸 Terry Campbell

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40079 crosses Arten Gill viaduct with a Carlisle to Bescot nuclear flask 27th April 1982 #FortiesOnFriday Both 📸 John Whiteley

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Had a tip off that 37219 would be passing by my neck of woods this morning on the 08:00 Derby RTC - Sheffield - Derby RTC so headed to Dronfield. Thanks for the acknowledgment mate with a toot and some clag!

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E26046 approaches Sheffield Victoria #WoodheadWednesday 📸 Derek Philips

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A very rare photo of 45111 ‘Grenadier Guardsman’ at Holman Bros. Works in Camborne, 16th April 1974 #MidWeekPeak 📸 Andy Kirkgate

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A mixed bag of blue traction at Leeds Holbeck, date unknown 📸 Kevin Robinson

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40039 was the only one of its class to avoid the BR blue livery acquiring just full yellow nose ends in April 1970 rather than a full repaint. Seen here at Wakefield Kirkgate with 6M41 the 12:05 Dewsbury - Earles Sidings Cemex 2nd July 1975 #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Gary Hurst

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Class 31 heaven at Finsbury Park! 20th March 1977 #ThirtyOnesOnThursday 📸 Vincent Clough

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Nottingham Victoria 8th October 1966. 📸 Bryan Jeyes

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Under the ornate roof at St Pancras, 15th May 1964, stands a six car Midland Pullman with the 18:10 service to Manchester Central. 📷 C.R.I. Coles

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One of 4 steeple-cab electrics that worked on the short but very steeply graded branch line from the exchange sidings adjacent to the Manchester - Bolton line to Kearsley power station. In the background a 25 scuttles past with a brake van #Raturday 📸 Bob Avery

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Classic green diesel traction at Saltley Roundhouse, 24th March 1967. 📷 N/A

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A fine line up of blue diesels at March Old Hundred Foot Sidings; 31207, 37203, 20157 and 37110. 📸 Andy Hoare

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A strike over flexible rostering on 6th July 1982 resulted in an impressive line up at Preston (stabled for safekeeping under the overall roof) - 40094, 40095, 40080, a pair of 25’s then 40001, 40009 and at the far end another 25. #FortiesOnFriday 📸 Martyn Hilbert

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Prototype HST 252001 passes Wormwood Scrubs, West London, westbound, 11th October 1975 📸 Keith Wilde

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40044 with vans for Sheffield whilst 55003 ‘Meld’ leaves Doncaster with the 08:20 Newcastle to Kings Cross 30th May 1978 #FortiesOnFriday #FiftyFivesOnFriday 📸 John Whiteley

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37211 crosses Strand Road, Preston with the Immingham tank train #ThirtySevensOnThursday 17th August 1976 #TheLongHotSummer 📸 Mike Rhodes

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08500 involved in a mishap outside Leeds station 30th September 1981 #ShunterSunday 📸 John Cook

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Locomotive breath; 55021 and 55014 alongside each other at Newcastle 18th July 1978. 📸 Brian Daniels

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APT-E emerges from Saxelby Tunnel at around 100mph on the Old Dalby test track en route to Asfordby from Edwalton, Summer 1974. 📷 N/A

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A class 33 makes it’s way past an Esso petrol station in Weymouth with a price we can only dream of nowadays at 79p per gallon (that’s 17.4p a litre for the younger readers) ten times less than it is today. #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Michael Lawson

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13001 & 13003 at Tinsley Yard 3rd January 1978 #ShunterSunday 📸 Martyn Hilbert

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A sight you’ll never see again at Birmingham New Street; 55022 ‘Royal Scots Grey’ with 1Z38 the 08:12 York to Paddington “The Deltic Venturer” Saturday 28th November 1981. Look at the crowds! 📸 Thomas Harper

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03063 acting as station pilot at Newcastle Central 24th May 1985 #ShunterSunday 📸 Pete Harrison

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370007 at maximum speed at Tring summit. 📸 Frank Struben

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Torside level crossing ‘box on the Woodhead route #SignalBoxSunday 📸 Craig Donald

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Birmingham New Street 1959, Metro Cammell class 101 DMU leaves for Lichfield passing Bullied EE no. 10202. Built in Ashford in 1951, 10202 was withdrawn in 1963 📸 Peter Shoesmith

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25173 sits in the bay platform at Stoke on Trent 26th August 1986. The loco was sent to Vic Berry’s for scrapping on a number of occasions but kept returning to Crewe Works until it was placed in preservation at the Epping & Ongar railway. #Raturday 📸 David Bennet

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D70 at the north end of St Pancras (later 45048) with a departure to Manchester Central, interestingly it has a yellow head code box “lid” a replacement intended for one with full yellow ends presumably, June 1967. #MidWeekPeak 📸 Derek Gorman

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Warship class D832 ‘Onslaught’ at London Waterloo, 1967. 📸 Colin R. Seaton

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A wonderful period photo, August 1979, a class 207 at Reading and how many of those cars do you recognise?

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Under a threatening sky 56008 enters Manchester Victoria East Junction 18th July 1986 #MGRMonday 📸 Mick Page

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56019 at Markham colliery 1981 #MGRMonday 📸 Chris Ford

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33111 winds it’s way through the streets of Weymouth with 4TC units from Weymouth Town sidings to form the 14:32 to London Waterloo 19th June 1986 #WeymouthTramwayWednesday 📸 Trevor Maxted