Images Dated 2022

Laverton Halt in Gloucestershire, 1955

A view of locomotive number 5514 at Laverton Halt on the Stratford on Avon to Cheltenham line in Gloucestershire in July 1955. The image also shows the wooden platform and the pagoda shelter of this small station that opened in 1905 and closed in 1960

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1955, 5514, Gloucestershire, Halt, Laverton, Laverton Halt, Pagoda, Small Station, Station, Wooden Platform

Female Stationmaster, June 1941

This image features a young lady called Freda Jones. During the Second World War she was made a GWR Stationmaster at Pontdolgoch, a station in mid Wales on the Welshpool to Aberystwyth line. It was a one man station and Freda not only greeted trains in and out of the station but issued tickets, collected parcels and kept all the books. Prior to her employment as the stationmaster she was a girl clerk in a warehouse. She lived in Newtown with her parents

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Reading Station, c.1988

This photograph shows Reading Station in Berkshire, c.1988, prior to the redevelopment of the station in 1989.
An Intercity 125 is at one of the platforms and the Victorian station building, which was later redeveloped as a public house, can also be seen

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125, 1980s, 1988, 1990s, Berkshire, Hst, Inter City, Intercity, Intercity 125, Reading, Station