Southcoates Lane Bridge Hull 20 July 1943. (WIT @ c. 4m 10ch) Air Raid damage to running lines, road overbridge and signal box (Ref: 030808)

The lines in the foreground are for the King George Dock Branch. The Withernsea Branch runs to the right of the signal box. The collapse of the bridge blocked all running lines.

Southern portal of Headstone Tunnel (AJM2 @ 155m 62ch). 12 March 1986

533 yds long. Otherwise known as Monsal Head Tunnel. Line closed June 1968

St Austell Viaduct (MLN3 @ 286m 60ch - 286m 70ch) . New viaduct built in 1899, showing piers of old timber structure

St Austell Viaduct (MLN3 @ 286m 60ch - 286m 70ch). Also known as Trenance Viaduct. Prior to 1899

Brunel timber viaduct, 115 feet high and 720 feet long on 10 piers. It was built on a curve and crosses the road to Bodmin at an angle. The pier next to this road had to be built to an unusual triangular plan to fit this unusual configuration. The viaduct was replaced by a new stone viaduct in 1899. This sprung from the same point at the St Austell end before taking up an adjacent alignment. This meant that the northern half of the new viaduct was built first, the timber structure dismantled, and then the southern side completed. The viaduct is referred to as Trenance Viaduct on Ordnance Survey maps

St Catherine's Tunnel Guildford. Repairs above tunnel after 1895 collapse. (WPH1 @ 31m 13ch) (Ref: 030844)

St Margaret’s Jcn (near East Grinstead) (HGG1 & EGH @ 29m 42ch). May 1884 (Ref: 030683)

Looking north along the East Grinstead High Level to St Margaret's Junction curve. Footbridge with signalbox behind, and Durkins Road overbridge in the distance. The low level line is out of sight behind the box

St Pancras Station 1940s. (SPC1 @ 0m 0ch) Interior of Train Shed. Damage to trains following air raid. (Ref: 030794)

Stoats Nest Station (later Coulsden North). (VTB2 @ 14m66ch). Clearing up after accident in station 29 January 1910. (Ref: 030838)

Stoats Nest Station (later Coulsden North). (VTB2 @ 14m66ch). Leading bogie wheels that caused the accident on 29 January 1910. (Ref: 030843)

The crash was caused by one of these wheels moving on the axle and coming in contact with a check rail causing 3rd class carriage No.1325 to derail

Stoke on Trent. Mersey Weaver’s "Merver" above Lock No 37 (Cockshute's)

A woman and boy pose on the tiller of the Mersey Weaver & Ship Canal Carrying Co. Ltd.'s coal-laden butty "Merver". The photo was taken just above Lock 37 (Cockshute's Lock) on the Stoke flight looking north-north-west toward the MAN waterless gasholder at Etruria Gasworks. Twyford's Cliffe Vale works is in the middle background, with "Twyfords Sanitary Ware" emblazoned on the gable end. The boat is actually just leaving the lock and the photographer was standing on the offside above the top gate.

Tay Bridge (New. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). Panorama of bridge from north

The North British Railway line is entering Esplanade Station, and a train of open freight wagons is in the foreground on the low-level tracks of the Caledonian Railway’s Dundee & Perth Branch

Tay Bridge (New. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). Panorama of bridge from south-east

Wormit station and Tay Bridge South Jcn in the foreground

Tay Bridge (New. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). Panorama of the Dundee end of the bridge. 1936

From a train looking north

Tay Bridge (Original. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). Panorama of bridge from north-west. 1878-79

Tay Bridge (Original. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). Panorama of bridge from south-west

Tay Bridge South Jcn in the foreground, and two signalboxes. The first Tay Bridge South signal box was opened on 1 June 1878 with the bridge itself. A second signalbox was provided the following year, presumably with the opening of the branch to Newport on Tay in May 1879. The intention may have been to amalgamate the boxes, but both became somewhat superfluous at the end of 1879 when the bridge fell down. It is interesting to note that there are two consecutively located Up direction signals on the bridge which, presumably, were operated from the separate boxes, the northerly one referring to trains taking the Burntisland line and the southerly to trains for Newport.

Tay Bridge (Original. ECN2 @ 56m 37ch - 58m 55ch). The north-east section of the bridge, possibly showing load testing with goods trains before opening

Showing the section where the lattice girder depths increase. These girders were re-used on new foundations when the bridge was rebuilt

Thames tunnel, Middlesex (north) portal (ELL1 @ approx 3¾mp). Soon after opening as a footway in 1843

The caption under the original engraving reads “THAMES TUNNEL (from the circular staircase). London. Drawn & engraved for Dugdales, England & Wales. Delineated”

Tresulgan Viaduct (MLN3 @ 260m 71ch - 260m 79ch), east of Menheniot

Brunel 9-span timber viaduct. Replaced by a new stone viaduct in 1899

Treviddo Viaduct (MLN3 @ 262m 48ch - 262m 55ch), west of Menhniot

Brunel 8-span timber viaduct

Truro Viaduct (MLN3 @ 300m 09ch - 300m 29ch). Also known as Moresk Viaduct. Prior to 1904

Brunel timber viaduct 92 feet high and 1,329 feet long on 20 piers. 14 of these still stand alongside the replacement stone viaduct which was brought into use on 14 February 1904

Tyne Dock- Bridge 27 (JAW2 @ 5m 50ch) Damage to bridge over South Eldon Street caused by bombing on 2 October 1941. (Ref: 030745)

Tyne Dock- Bridge 27 (JAW2 @ 5m 50ch) Damage to bridge over South Eldon Street caused by bombing on 2 October 1941. (Ref: 030746)

Viaduct on the Croydon Atmospheric Railway, crossing the Dover and Brighton lines, between Norwood and Croydon (LBW @ approx 9mp)

The flyover was built of wood to save money, and at a maximum gradient of 2% in the belief that only lightweight atmospheric trains would cross over it. After abandonment of the atmospheric system, the flyover was too steep and too flimsy for reliable operation by locomotives, so it was removed early on, along with the atmospheric pipe.

Visit of Queen Victoria. At Patricroft station.(1851)

The steam launch 'Fairy' with the Royal Party about to embark. [Engraving accompanying article in the Illustrated London News, 18 October 1851]. The bridge is the original one for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, now extended on this side by a girder bridge. Grid Ref: SJ 7623 9873 [BWl-005-950]

Walkham Viaduct (LAN2 @ 10m 13ch - 10m 30ch), near Horrabridge

Re-decked viaduct on the original piers extended upwards

Walkham Viaduct (LAN2 @ 10m 13ch - 10m 30ch), near Horrabridge

Brunel 16-span timber viaduct on masonry piers, opened in 1859, and redecked in steel in 1910. Demolished in 1965

West Croydon, Spurgeon’s Bridge (formerly Croydon Canal, now NFE @ 10m 15ch. and currently known as St. James’s Bridge). Circa 1923

Spurgeon's Bridge is about ¼ mile north-east of West Croydon station. Another photograph taken from the other side of the bridge, and perhaps on the same day, was published in the Southern Railway Magazine in 1923. It is currently known as St. James’s Bridge, after the road it carries. J T Howard Turner, in his history of the LBSCR (Vol 1 1977), records that the railway was constructed on the alignment of the Croydon Canal, but only Spurgeon’s bridge had sufficient width and clearance to accommodate trains: “ the last bridge at the Croydon end remained unaltered except for being widened in reinforced concrete on the London side. It has for many years now been called Spurgeon’s bridge, and less frequently Tabernacle bridge, as the West Croydon Baptist Church [built in 1873 and known as Spurgeon’s Tabernacle by Croydonians] is immediately adjacent to the bridge; another name for it is the Canal bridge. The brick arch on the station (or country) side of the bridge is original, and dates from about 1808; the London-side widening was done in 1928.” Installation of overhead line electrification equipment had commenced prior to World War 1, nominally as far as Beeches Halt, but was suspended by the War. Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a 19th Century Baptist preacher, theologian and educator. Further information may be found online.

West Croydon, Spurgeon’s Bridge (NFE @ 10m 15ch. currently known as St. James’s Bridge). Circa 1923

Spurgeon's Bridge is about ¼ mile north-east of West Croydon station. Another photograph taken from the other side of the bridge, and perhaps on the same day, was published in the Southern Railway Magazine in 1923. It is currently known as St. James’s Bridge, after the road it carries.
J T Howard Turner, in his history of the LBSCR (Vol 1 1977), records that the railway was constructed on the alignment of the Croydon Canal, but only Spurgeon’s bridge had sufficient width and clearance to accommodate trains: “ the last bridge at the Croydon end remained unaltered except for being widened in reinforced concrete on the London side. It has for many years now been called Spurgeon’s bridge, and less frequently Tabernacle bridge, as the West Croydon Baptist Church [built in 1873 and known as Spurgeon’s Tabernacle by Croydonians] is immediately adjacent to the bridge; another name for it is the Canal bridge. The brick arch on the station (or country) side of the bridge is original, and dates from about 1808; the London-side widening was done in 1928.”
Installation of overhead line electrification equipment had commenced prior to World War 1, nominally as far as Beeches Halt, but was suspended by the War.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was a 19th Century Baptist preacher, theologian and educator. Further information may be found online.

West Grinstead station, Adur Valley line (BVS2 @ 45m 23ch). 09 April 1986

Station frontage. Line opened 1861, closed 1966

Weston Mill Viaducts (MLN2 @ 249m 45ch). New viaduct of 1903, replacing earlier timber structure - in background

Four steel truss spans and six brick arches

Weston Mill Viaducts (MLN2 @ 249m 45ch). New viaduct of 1903, replacing earlier timber structure - in background

Four steel truss spans and six brick arches

Worsley - Lord Ellesmere's Barge and liveried postillions

Location not identified but there were rural straights to the west and east of Worsley

Worsley. Packet House and Steps.July 1978

York station .(ECM4 @ 188m 40ch). Aftermath of bombing raid on 29 April 1942. View from footbridge looking South. Burnt out 10:15pm ex Kings Cross Edingburgh. (Ref: 030751)

York station (ECM4 @ 188m 40ch). 27 May 1942. (Ref: 030755)

The station is back functioning although the bomb damage is apparent

York station (ECM4 @ 188m 40ch). Bomb damage to train shed. 29 April 1942. (Ref: 030759)