Unidentified photographs

Your chance for a little fun and to assist the editor

Last update 14 July 2024

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This is an occasional quiz. Can you help to identify these photographs? The editor is perplexed why his younger self failed to keep proper records!

If you can identify anything here, please contact the editor who will be pleased to hear from you. Unsolved mysteries remain at the top of the page, those solved move down.

Thanks to those who have helped solve some of the mysteries.

unknown station
Unknown photo 6

This February 1997 view shows 465024 in a large urban station. Is this London Bridge?

unknown miniature railway
SOLVED!
Unknown photo 5

Believed taken in May 1985, this miniature railway is the short-lived (1985-1987) Leysdown Coastal Railway.

unknown station
SOLVED!
Unknown photo 3

Bovey Tracey old station taken on 9 August 1984. The van is parked on what is now A382 Monks Way.

unknown station
SOLVED!
Unknown photo 4

Dated August 1986, this view shows DMU vehicle 54195 waiting at Scarborough; in the centre, mail bags are transferred between Royal Mail van and station trolley and a class 08 shunter sits on the right. The shunter could be 08771.

unknown signal box
SOLVED!
Unknown photo 2

This undated image shows Greaves Sidings signal box frame.

unknown station
SOLVED!
Unknown photo 1

This is a 1989 view of a DMU at Aberdare station.