Donington Road

Nah, it was cheaper to go abroad to Lincolnshire.😁

The Midland got to the sea at Sheringham, Cromer and Great Yarmouth with a little help from the Great Northern via the M&GN.😁

For most of the Derbyshire and Nottinhamgshire miners plus a lot of factory workers, Skegness was the easiest coastal resort to get to by train. Not that many had their own cars back in the 50/60's, South Yorkshire people favoured Cleethorpes as their destination. For us living in South Lincolnshire, Skegness was the nearest but we much preferred the more gentile Sutton-on-Sea, or occasionally Hunstanton on the Norfolk coast. Skegness was always a bit of a dirty place, not helped in the early sixties with invations of Mods and Rockers looking for a Sunday afternoon chat.🙄

Just be careful you don't end up at that white building with the blue sign.🤕

That's wheeltappers's mate, four eyes Frank, he's the one ready to straighten the tension lock couplings after a hard shunt.

Just an update view from Cock Lane 11th Feb 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENx6FXThX0w Edit: The above link I have shared only to this thread so there is no embedded picture this time.

It must have taken a few bags of post fix to secure that. Never seen such a high gate post as that before.

From the Peterborough Telegraph website yesterday.

Every rail enthusiasts must have, the ubiquitous duffle bag, with strings that cut through your shoulders should it contain more than a Combined Volume and a Lyon's pie.😀

What an interesting set of photos which leads to more of the Manchester Ship Canal Railways. https://www.flickr.com/photos/50559291@N03/albums/72157717287093953/

A rather ornate lamp on the side of the building and another one just showing on the opposite side. I wonder what those two contraptions are on the platform?

Agree with that Matryn. Infrastructure can be very interesting and a lot of Davids photos show this very well such as the latest Swayfield batch. I always like the train in the landscape views rather than those three-quarter shots of just locos that almost everyone takes.

Like Ian said David, no-one is going to be bothered about duplicates. This thread is no different to thumbing through your favourite photo book time after time.😀 We all know it is quite a commitment to post something every day and we really appreciate the effort you put into this.

St. Peters Road Huntingdon. https://www.google.com/maps/@52.3369207,-0.1894147,3a,75y,228.63h,90.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sSmHEs9tRPqT4dmlIRnCN4w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&entry=ttu

Also featuring the Harringworth Viaduct in the background of photos 1 and 4 in the lovely Welland Valley. So sad to see the destruction at Seaton.