Images Dated 2013

Brent Station, Devon, c.1950s

A view of Brent station, Devon, c.1950s, showing a locomotive at the station and members of station staff on the platform. Brent station opened on the South Devon Railway in 1848 and became a junction in 1893. The station closed in October 1964

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1950s, Brent, Brent Station, Devon, South Devon, Station

Swindon Town Station

Swindon Town Station was on the Midland and South Western Junction Railway in Swindon's Old Town area. The impressive main offices of the railway company can be seen in the centre of this image. The station was in operation for only 85 years after facing increasing competition from the town's GWR station and as the focus of the town moved away from the Old Town area to Swindon's ?new town which had developed around the GWR station and railway works

Chipping Campden Station, Cotswolds

A view of Chipping Campden station looking towards Evesham, with Auto trailer No. 69 waiting to depart from the platform. Although the town of Chipping Campden has been known as such since the 13th Century, it was only in 1952 that Chipping was added to the name of the town station, it having previously been known as just Campden Station, as the station nameplate in this photograph shows

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