{"id":12284,"date":"2024-09-24T07:19:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/your-pictures-on-the-theme-of-railways\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T07:19:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T07:19:25","slug":"your-pictures-on-the-theme-of-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/your-pictures-on-the-theme-of-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"Your pictures on the theme of ‘railways’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of “railways”. Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"NeilNeil Armstrong<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Neil Armstrong: “Class A1 Stroudley Terrier 0-6-0T No. 72 ‘Fenchurch’ steams up on a rainy day in June. About to set off from Sheffield Park station to East Grinstead on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex. I was planning a day’s lineside photography – but took these of the first service out on the day from the dry shelter of the platform.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"SallySally R Kent<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Sally R Kent: “The red commuter train makes its first crossing of the day over the famous Nine Arch Bridge in Kandy, Sri Lanka.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"NormanNorman Rigby<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Norman Rigby: “Three Generations on Steam. Taken at West Lancs Light Railway project, Tarleton. Volunteers restore and maintain vintage engines and run them on their own narrow gauge track.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MarkMark Norrington<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mark Norrington: “The Albula line in the Swiss alps between Chur and St Moritz.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"RickRick Woodward<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Rick Woodward: “A steamy evening at Didcot engine shed.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MatthewMatthew Logan<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Matthew Logan: “This freight train was a blur as it passed through Patapsco Valley State Park in Ellicott City, Maryland.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"CarolineCaroline McIlvenny <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Caroline McIlvenny: “Trains from abandoned copper mines in Lefke in Northern Cyprus. Once a thriving industry with railway running to the port for transportation, but now just abandoned.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MarkMark Cable<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mark Cable: “Forgotten Platform. A former railway station between Durham and Bishop Auckland.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MervynMervyn Edwards<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Mervyn Edwards: “The Flying Scotsman on the Watercress Line pulling out of Alresford.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ColinColin Whitton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Colin Whitton: “Ready for the off at the Strathspey Steam Railway.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"BryanBryan Ellis <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Bryan Ellis: “A cross country HST at Bristol Temple Meads.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"HowieHowie Fletcher<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Howie Fletcher: “Taken on the station at Porthmadog as the train was preparing to leave the station for Blaenau Ffestiniog.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JohnJohn Barry<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

John Barry: “On the footplate of the North York Moors Railway, Grosmont Station.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"MartinMartin Price<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Martin Price: “Sir Nigel Gresley crossing Aisgill viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle railway.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"AllanAllan Stewart<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Allan Stewart: “Durango to Silverton Railroad carving its way through the Colorado Rockies.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"JanJan Shorrock<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Jan Shorrock: “The Jacobite Steam Train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"ChrisChris Parry<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Chris Parry: “Ffestiniog Railway train arriving back at Porthmadog Harbour underneath a rainbow.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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\"DorisDoris Enders<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Doris Enders: “A wooden toy train.”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The next theme is “arches” and the deadline for entries is 1 October 2024.<\/p>\n

The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures<\/a> section of the BBC News website.<\/p>\n

You can upload your entries directly here<\/a> or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.<\/p>\n

Terms and conditions apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All photographs subject to copyright.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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