Your pictures on the theme of ‘railways’

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Your pictures on the theme of ‘railways’

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of “railways”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.

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Neil Armstrong: “Class A1 Stroudley Terrier 0-6-0T No. 72 ‘Fenchurch’ steams up on a rainy day in June. About to set off from Sheffield Park station to East Grinstead on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex. I was planning a day’s lineside photography – but took these of the first service out on the day from the dry shelter of the platform.”

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Sally R Kent: “The red commuter train makes its first crossing of the day over the famous Nine Arch Bridge in Kandy, Sri Lanka.”

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Norman Rigby: “Three Generations on Steam. Taken at West Lancs Light Railway project, Tarleton. Volunteers restore and maintain vintage engines and run them on their own narrow gauge track.”

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Mark Norrington: “The Albula line in the Swiss alps between Chur and St Moritz.”

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Rick Woodward: “A steamy evening at Didcot engine shed.”

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Matthew Logan: “This freight train was a blur as it passed through Patapsco Valley State Park in Ellicott City, Maryland.”

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Caroline McIlvenny: “Trains from abandoned copper mines in Lefke in Northern Cyprus. Once a thriving industry with railway running to the port for transportation, but now just abandoned.”

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Mark Cable: “Forgotten Platform. A former railway station between Durham and Bishop Auckland.”

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Mervyn Edwards: “The Flying Scotsman on the Watercress Line pulling out of Alresford.”

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Colin Whitton: “Ready for the off at the Strathspey Steam Railway.”

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Bryan Ellis: “A cross country HST at Bristol Temple Meads.”

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Howie Fletcher: “Taken on the station at Porthmadog as the train was preparing to leave the station for Blaenau Ffestiniog.”

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John Barry: “On the footplate of the North York Moors Railway, Grosmont Station.”

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Martin Price: “Sir Nigel Gresley crossing Aisgill viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle railway.”

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Allan Stewart: “Durango to Silverton Railroad carving its way through the Colorado Rockies.”

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Jan Shorrock: “The Jacobite Steam Train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct.”

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Chris Parry: “Ffestiniog Railway train arriving back at Porthmadog Harbour underneath a rainbow.”

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Doris Enders: “A wooden toy train.”

The next theme is “arches” and the deadline for entries is 1 October 2024.

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