• Home
  • Browse
  • Search
  • Railway images
  • Church Fenton, North Yorkshire

PeterD-2009

  2. Recent Photos

New Landscape uploads

I shall top this gallery up with photos uploaded in the last month. Some images will be transferred to the Landscapes Gallery at the end of this period depending partly on popularity. You can all help to influence me on what I keep on the site so thank you in advance.
Read More
03 June 2012 Pre-dawn on Portsdown Hill
1 / 534

03 June 2012 Pre-dawn on Portsdown Hill

LandscapePortsdown hillPredawn

From Portsdown Hill

  • 03 June 2012 Pre-dawn on Portsdown Hill
  • Freightliner 66 545 passes through platform 1, light engine, heading in the Sherburn-in-Elmet direction.
  • Trans Pennine 185 145 arrives at platform 4 with a Newcastle service.
  • The ladder crossings to the north of the station.
  • 185 131 on a Manchester Airport train, passing the station on the through line from York.
  • Untitled photo
  • Class 66, 66 434, hauling a container train northbound and passing through platform 2.
  • Class 66, 66 434, hauling a container train northbound approaching the station from Sherburn-in-Elmet direction.
  • Trans Pennine 158 758 on a Blackpool train, passing the station on the through line from York.
  • The rear of the station building. The upper floor is level with the bridge approach road and gives access to the footbridge. The station building now houses both a restaurant and tacket office.
  • This is the north end of plaforms 1 & 2 showing the overgrown and abandoned length of platform.
  • Taken from Platform 3 looking south. The three tracks sweeping right lead to Leeds. The spur from the nearest track leads to the Sherburn-in-Elmet lines,
  • Taken from the top of the footbridge looking north towards York. The three tracks on the left are Platform 4 (Leeds - York). through track (no platform face), Platform 3 (York - Leeds and Sherburn-in-Elmet). The two tracks to the right are platform 2 (Sherburn-in Elmet - York) and platform 1 (York - Sherburn-in Elmet).
  • Taken from the top of the footbridge at the top of the stairs leading to the island platforms 2 and 3.
  • Taken from platform 1. A loaded coal train, hauled by a Class 66 diesel locomotive, heads north towards York. It probably originated from Gascoigne Wood on the Leeds Selby line. This train will have joined this route at Sherburn-in-Elmet, having taken the spur line at Gascoigne Wood.
  • Taken from the south end of Platform 1. The pair of tracks in the foreground lead to Sherburn-in-Elmet. The three tracks sweeping to the right lead to Leeds.
  • The rail bridge over the River Thames.
  • The rail bridge over the River Thames.
  • Flats on the river bank at Staines
  • The rail bridge over the River Thames.
  • No Comments
  • Photo Sharing
  • About SmugMug
  • Browse Photos
  • Prints & Gifts
  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Owner Log In
© 2022 SmugMug, Inc.