Gallery
On this page we would like to feature interesting pictures of anything railway or transport related. Have you got any pictures that you'd like to share? Please send them to wealdenrailwaygroup [at] googlemail [dot] com.
Detail shot of No. 64305, a DB 2-6-2T on the Nene Valley Railway. (By Giles Barnabe)
Special train on the Nene Valley being used for publicity purposes. This was in the middle of the miners’ strike and the fireman was off the footplate scrounging for fallen wood and old fence posts every time we stopped. (By Giles Barnabe)
A view of the engine sheds on the Tharsis Railway, a formerly British-owned mining line in Southern Spain. Gauge is 4ft and the diesels were, I think, by Alsthom. (By Giles Barnabe)
In the Tharsis scrap siding there were several of these little 0-4-0Ts by Dubs. Amazingly this one had been operating as late as the 1970s, according to the repair plate fixed to the firebox. (By Giles Barnabe)
Some Spanish broad gauge diesels built by Alco seen at Gibraleon. The train was a freight made up largely of acid tankers, sulphuric acid being manufactured locally. (by Giles Barnabe)
Our school got a day’s holiday for Corpus Christi in 1961 and the Model Railway Society spent the day on the Hawkhurst branch, which was about to close a few days later. We travelled from Charing Cross on a dmu to Tonbridge, then by this local train to Paddock Wood, hauled by H class no. 31308. The electrtic units in the platform beyond are not yet in service as the Canterbury line was in its final steam days. Hawkhurst train departed from a bay platform on the UP side of the station and then ran beneath the signal box on their way out of the station. (By Giles Barnabe)
Ex SE&CR H class no. 31177 at Hawhurst, and about to return to Paddock Wood at the tail of the train, hence the rear lamp. (By Giles Barnabe)