Kevin Mottram

Now my own bot retweeting mostly train pictures

[Kevin Mottram @mott_73]

The site of my profile pic, 56 years later #millersdale

[Jimmy Sirrel's Lovechild @jslovechild]

Time for Jimmy's Sunday training session! This is an Eric Robson picture.

[TimeStealer @StealerTime]

Good afternoon, frens.

[The Real 1888 Letter @real1888letter]

Happy 80th Birthday to Jimmy Greenhoff, #BOTD in 1946 – striker at Leeds, Stoke & Man Utd, among others @leedstats_com @topcarpentero @Yorkshire_Tales @BrisbaneStokie @fslconsult @mott_73 @OrbsSCFC @scheritage1863 @mufcinfodotcom @thegaffer1969 @unitedrewind @UtdBeforFergie

[TimeStealer @StealerTime]

Good afternoon, frens.

[Garry G Brookes 🇮🇲 @GarryBrookes56]

CONWY MORFA - Summer 1975
Fifty-one years ago, looking westward from the footbridge, an unidentified Class 40 locomotive coasts towards the curves through the then closed Conwy station with an up parcels train.

[Adrian Pullen @adipullenLNER]

A3 No. 60103 "Flying Scotsman" with the down 'Yorkshire Pullman' on the 14th July 1959. The train has just passed under Hawkshead road bridge in the distance and is heading for Brookmans Park.

Photo : T.B. Owen.

[Adrian Pullen @adipullenLNER]

Machynlleth's 'Manor' 7802 Bradley Manor is at Shrewsbury with The Cambrian Coast Express in August 1962. From slide by T. Baxendale.

[Jeff Albiston @JeffAlbiston]

A busy scene at #Manchester Central station.
From left to right are: Stanier Tanks 42479 & 42560, Fowler Tank 40018 & Britannia Pacific 70017 'Arrow' with The Palatine.
📆 1962
📷 Unknown Photographer.
#steamlocomotives #1960s #BritishRailways

[Jimmy Sirrel's Lovechild @jslovechild]

Time for Jimmy's Sunday training session! Picture via Linesidepix on FB.

[Lost London @Lost___London]

🇬🇧 A London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) steam train chugging its way over the snowy Welwyn Viaduct in Hertfordshire, 1938

[Jeff Albiston @JeffAlbiston]

7029 'Clun Castle' seen at #Nottingham MPD after arriving with the Lickey & Midlands #railtour from Paddington.
📆 27th March 1965
📷 Unknown Photographer.
#steamlocomotive #1960s #Nottinghamshire #BritishRailways

[Greg Morse @GregMorseDPhil]

Morning. I'm off to York for @RailSafetyWeek on Monday, so here's a splendid shot of a Met-Camm in Platform 13 on 11 August 1973. 📷©️ Tom Burnham. Click the link to see his Flickr selections.
https://t.co/JuKDRANyne

[The Woodhead Route @WoodheadRoute]

40 years ago today.

14th June 1986 was the date of the EM2 Farewell Railtour in The Netherlands.

The EM2s had a working life of 15 years on the Woodhead Route, before being sold to the Netherlands

Photo at Boxtel Yard and full details of the tour here: https://t.co/maGSbYbkJl

[Adrian Pullen @adipullenLNER]

Great Northern line between Belgrave Rd station and Humberstone Road Station, Overton Road Leicester, Leicester Bridge over Victoria Road east..
📷 Graham Wilson.

[Jeff Albiston @JeffAlbiston]

9F 92117 at Ais Gill.
📆 Summer 1966
📷 Unknown Photographer.
#steamlocomotive #1960s #BritishRailways

[Adrian Pullen @adipullenLNER]

46245 City of London arrives at Stafford on Whit Saturday 1962 (Rod Steele)

[Rob Baker @robnitm]

Clapham Junction in 1966

[Garry G Brookes 🇮🇲 @GarryBrookes56]

LIVERPOOL EXCHANGE 1975
This photograph is of a train for Wigan Wallgate and Bolton leaving the station, formed of a Class 108 two-car unit.
Was that the old Tate & Lyle factory in the background?

[Zappa's Wisdom Trooth @s_trooth]

Imagine Flo & Eddie singing background harmony to Lou Reed?
It would be a cacophony!

[Jeff Albiston @JeffAlbiston]

D5454 (Class 25 25104) takes the goods avoiding line behind Shipley station with a mixed goods for Bradford Valley Road.
📆 May 1967
📷 Photo by D.J Mitchell.
#diesellocomotive #1960s #Yorkshire #BritishRail