27024 (D5370) and 27056 stand at Leicester North after arriving with the 1200 departure from Loughborough Central during the Great Central Railway Sulzer Running Day.

Been an enjoyable time at the Great Central Railway Sulzer Running Day. 27024 and 27056 are seen standing in the night at Leicester North.

Press launch of Chiltern Railways new trains today, I’m riding this one to Brum: 13 of these excellent Mk5 trains are replacing 5 current Mk3 sets = 12,000 more seats per week (I should even see some from my local station, Haddenham, where a Mk3 set is a very rare treat!)

Coal trains & Regional Railways Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes via Brigg 6 days a week service, sadly on a sporadic timetable. youtu.be/6mlp8dZP210?...

Chiltern Railways has shown off the first of its refurbished Mark 5A trains, which will be introduced between London and the West Midlands from early 2026. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/chi...

Former signal house & listed coal drop arches at Penistone, South Yorks which was on the Woodhead line to be converted to retail, business & hospitality spaces. 👇 BBC News - Former Penistone railway site to house retail and restaurant spaces - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Summertime passenger provision, old style! 46025 leaves Brigg with a return Cleethorpes/Gloucester excursion on 20th. July 1980. © Philip Hewson

The lamp room of Calvert signal box in 1974. The signal box was to the right.

Bucks Advertiser 15th Feb 1963 - Fight to Save Calvert Station. It closed on the 4th of the following month.

Itter's Terrace Calvert from the south shortly before demolition in 1974. I believe the brickworks was known as Itter's Brickworks but was later taken over by London Brick Company. It had 12 chimneys when I first encountered it in Easter 1974 but 2 were demolished soon after. It is now housing.

The track linking Calvert Brickworks to the Great Central main line from the east in 1974. You won't see worse track laying.

Calvert from the west. The navvy mission hut is on the left and Werner Terrace is on the right. At the top Brackley Lane where a couple of semis have succumbed to HS2.

Navvy mission parade during the construction of the line. The location was identified to me by Mrs Hobbs of Great Pond Farm. Mrs Hobbs had been let out of school to witness the 1st passenger train go through on 9th March 1899. The shot was taken on their drive. The farm still had the navvies' stable

Calvert Station Masters House from the south west 8th August 1974. Recently demolished to make way for HS2. Finmere's has suffered the same fate.

Calvert North Junction Signal Box on 10th September 1971 by Brian W Leslie, The box was short lived as the point motors made redundant at Quainton Road Junction were transferred here and worked from Calvert Station signal box.

Calvert Signal Box from the South East. soon after opening SWA Newton. Locals identified the signalman to me as "Darkie" Stevens. This later controlled Calvert North Junction too. At the end it managed the southern end of a 19 mile block section to Culworth Junction.

London Platform Calvert Station soon after opening. SWA Newton

Calvert station on 8th August 1974. DMU returning to service after servicing at Bletchley.

Something different today Ex ScotRail unit 158869, on the unique 0954 Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes via Brigg Line, kindly filmed at Brigg by Kev Genney this morning, Nice friendly guard too 😊

The unique 0954 Northern Railway Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes via Brigg service passing Kirton Lime Sidings signal box this morning. © Agent Cleethorpes

In Regional railways colours, 158760 passes Brigg signal box and level crossing on the morning of 19th April 1997, with a Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes service. The signal box survives today, but the level crossing barriers have recently been replaced. © Phillip Hewson

The station was jointly owned by @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social Midland Railway and Great Northern Railway. The hotel should have been in the facade like at St Pancras but the facade never ever got built. The temporary wooden buildings became permanent up to closure on 3 May 1969.

The view from Hadfield signal box was very different in the summer of 1982. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social

Retford low-level station, December 1965, soon after opening. On the left the 12.54 S.O. Sheffield Victoria to Cleethorpes, and on the right the 12.04 Cleethorpes to Sheffield Victoria. Both routed via the Brigg Line. ©CR

What an irony. If capacity was the issue many mooted reopening @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social as an alternative to HS2.

Brush Type 2 No. D5824 prepares to leave Sheffield Victoria with the 0928 Sheffield Victoria - Cleethorpes via Brigg line train on 16th August 1969 © V. Bamford) Sheffield Victoria closed on the 5th January 1970 and is now a car park for the Royal Victoria Station Hotel.

He only failed because the Admiralty stopped him. A chunnel engineer was so impressed by his work that he wrote his biography & told me it was viable. He also pioneered the Dominion of Canada, housing estates (Metroland), theme parks (Wembley) and @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social main line to London

The Brigg Line was doing its bit for Britains export drive with a daily succesion of coal trains carting coal off to the world via Immingham. 47174 is returning to Worksop passing Brigg signal box on 27th. May 1980 with an empty MGR set. © Philip Hewson.

150006 arriving at Sunny Cleethorpes working the Northern Railway premier line daily service of 2H01, 0954 Sheffield Midland- Cleethorpes via Brigg, with guest appearance from Alf the duck 🦆 30/09/25. © Agent Cleethorpes

The Network Rail grinder awaits patiently at Brigg for the last passenger service of the week, the 1320 Cleethorpes to Sheffield Midland Northern Railway working to come of the single line. Video by Kev Genney.

Where I celebrated after my last paper in the 1984 Law Society Solicitors' Final Exam. Next to the Cheshire Lines Railway. @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social

#MidweekMcRat from the recent autumn diesel gala at the Great Central Railway, D5370 (27024) waits to depart from Loughborough Central with a service to Leicester North. The loco, a long distance guest from Scotland, made it well worth the ticket money to get some mileage locally. #GCR 6/9/25

What do you get if you cross a unique bellfoundry with a unique double-track steam railway?The most exciting day out!! Taylors have teamed up with the GCR in a special offer for anyone wishing to visit both attractions! #Loughborough #OnePlaceStudy lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2025/06/bell...

Latticed steel approach viaducts to Manchester Central. Now an oasis of greenery.

Great Central Railway Reunification, a little bit of a Reunification update. youtu.be/GqBXtGGJQ90?... via @YouTube

You would have travelled through Ashby Magna and passed Dunton Bassett, on 3.5.1969, when you caught the last train north over @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social. You mentioned the driver let you ride in the cab. cc @jembenson.bsky.social

It was a station on @greatcentralrailwy.bsky.social main line. Survived till 3.5.1969 when the last section finally closed.

Southern portal of Victoria Street Tunnel. Even that has disappeared into the local street scene now.

150277 calls at Brigg with the Northern Railway 2H01 0954 Sheffield Midland to Cleethorpes service this morning, and then is photographed passing Brigg signal box and level crossing. © DT Photo

#NetworkSouthEast 50017 'Royal Oak' at Loughborough Central during the recent #GreatCentralRailway diesel gala. Always great to see this beauty on this line. She was hauling the DMU set on this working. Hope you like this one @dieselgeek.bsky.social #GCR #Hoover #NSE 6/9/25

After it's trip to Cleethorpes to take daytripers from stations on the Brigg Line, a 3 car BRCW Company Class 110 is seen at Brigg on the 10th August 1985 on its return trip to Sheffield Midland. © Phillip Hewson.