And the next photo will have...(real railway version)

[bingley hall]

Another mixed bag......of Westerns this time.......

 

An unidentified Western departing Paddington with an express during November 1974. 

 

A bit obvious

 

Metre gauge Western Railway 2-6-2 YL 5132 at Junagadh shed on 28 October 1978. This was one of 151 YL class locos delivered to the Indian Railways by Henschel in 1956.

[Rivercider]

In the West Country

47137 is about to pass under Newton Abbot West Gantry with the 08.15 Birmingham New St to Plymouth service, 5/11/81

 

cheers

[NorthBrit]

Leamington Spa.   Note the GWR in cast iron  forming the support for the seat.

[EddieB]

A pair of DB class 218 diesel hydraulics at Westerland on the island of Sylt with a car transporter train.  The island is only accessible by train across the Hindenburgdamm.

 

 

[petethemole]

4247 running round at Bodmin Road Parkway, 21/08/2009:

 

[The Stationmaster]

A medley from the west - from my collection of postcards and ephemera

 

First in Wales

 

 

Then in London - outside what was a good many years later, my office

 

 

And even in the air

 

 

Ambition to head even further west (note the route!)

 

 

And an interloper heads west

 

 

 

 

[melmerby]

Moor Street Station

 

Looking down platform 5 with a 68 in platform 3 and a 165/166 in the carriage siding at the end (28 Sept 2016)

 

 

Platform 5 was originally Platform 3 and was renumbered when the station was re-opened.

(The new platforms on the main lines were 1 & 2 so the original 1, 2 & 3 became 3, 4 & 5)

 

Keith

 

 

 

 

[big jim]

One from my trip along the west highland line last year

 

 

We actually stopped for a few pics here as we had 90 mins to wait for the passenger train to cross us at glenfinnan! In hindsight I should have stopped on the bridge and walked forward for a picture

[petethemole]

Scanned from a b/w print, Western steam in its last days, 7924 Thornycroft Hall at Shrewsbury, 24/08/65:

 

 

Edited for better quality file.

Edited September 27, 2017 by petethemole

[The Blue Streak]

Western Australian Government Railways, 3'6" gauge 4-6-0 G class # 117

 

Built in 1897 it mainly worked between the Northam to Southern Cross Section of the Perth Kalgoorlie line for many years and is now preserved at the Merredin Rail Museum.

 

(someone really needs to polish that Brass Dome )

 

[phil_sutters]

Fairly far west!

[cal.n]

A few from my West Highland Line adventures 

 

 

45212 approaches Mallaig with the Jacobite

 

 

45407 climbs out of Glenfinnan

 

 

Bench with a view? (Fort William Depot)

 

and a few from Corrour

 

 

 

Edit: Just to note the final image was taken from a crossing after a train had passed.

 

 

Edited September 27, 2017 by cal.n

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Way out West. A pair of UP locos struggle a long container trail through the Cajon Pass - CA July 2016

[phil_sutters]

Weston-super-Mare is fairly far west - any further at that point on the coast and you're in the Bristol Channel.

[newbryford]

And a few points west from me:

 

Current West Coast mainline traction at Carlisle

 

 

First Great Western at Reading

 

First North Western at Clitheroe

 

Tonbridge West Yard.

 

Cheers,

Mick

 

[EddieB]

CD 742 150-6 is seen at Usti nad Labem Západ.  "Západ" is Czech for "West".

 

MAV M43 1124 on station pilot duties at Budapest Nyugati.  "Nyugati" is Hungarian for "West".

 

ÖBB 1142 564-2 approaches Wien Westbahnhof.  "West" is German for "West".

 

 

[bingley hall]

A couple more 'Westerns'..........

 

An unidentified Class 52 (though probably 1027 'Western Lancer') heads through Ealing Broadway with an up freight sometime during 1974.

 

On 5 March 2013, 43192 leads a First Great Western's formation towards Paddington - the westbound Theale-Robeston empty tanks can be seen in the distance. This was only a couple of weeks before the PS at Didcot closed.

 

Edited September 28, 2017 by bingley hall

[leopardml2341]

If we're still 'west' - Birmingham New Street (West Midlands):

 

[melmerby]

I think it's time to go Midland or Central

 

I'll kick off with St Pancras the main London terminus for the Midland railway:

 

 

Keith

 

EDIT Andy's previous post also counts!

Edited September 28, 2017 by melmerby

[leopardml2341]

I think it's time to go Midland or Central

 

.......

 

EDIT Andy's previous post also counts!

The period between 07:57 and 08:30 can now truly be described as the 'transition Era' (sic) then, eh?

Edited September 28, 2017 by leopardml2341

[melmerby]

The period between 07:57 and 08:30 can now truly be described as the 'transition Era' (sic) then, eh?

Nobody changed it after midnight so I thought I'd give it a nudge 

 

Hopefully someone will "Go East" tomorrow

 

Keith

[leopardml2341]

And.......

 

Looking forward a bit further (I think it'll be the weekend and I'll likely be away from RMWeb) when the primary compass points are done - how about a day of 'general' and/or 'odd' suffixes to location names:

 

Ones that spring to mind are e.g. Oldham, with 'Mumps' and 'Werneth'?

 

Just sayin like

 

Derby (Midland):

 

Edited September 28, 2017 by leopardml2341

[Liam]

LMS Ivatt 4MT no. 43106 approaches Highley on a footplate experience train, April 2017.

[wollastonblue]

I do occasionally stray out of Kidderminster. Princess Coronation at Birmingham International on the Saturday of the Warley Exhibition a couple of years ago:

 

 

 

[bingley hall]

A pretty grim scene at Hellifield back in August 1983. What looks like a Morecambe to Leeds DMU pauses for non existent bsuienss while a Class 40 bustles away in the background. You can just make out the initials MR in the ironwork. The station has been spruced up considerably with a now operating Buffet - however the sidings being shunted are these days seriously overgrown.

 

Midland Mainline IC125 power car 43086 at the rear of a recently arrived St Pancras to Manchester Piccadilly service - July 2004