The Tall Controller

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On a quest to find the quirks and charms that exist on today's railway! Proudly from 〓〓

A Class 156 departs Maybole station in 2025. The sun is setting as it departs.
Me looking at the camera with the sea behind me. It is dusk as the light is low
Stranraer station sign with a Class 156 waiting to depart
A ScotRail Class 156 train departs Stranraer station for Ayr
Class 08 'St Piran' on show at Longrock Depot wearing the flag of St Piran as a livery.
A Northern Class 156 departs Denton station in bright winter sunshine
The once-a-week train from Stockport to Stalybridge arrives at Reddish South station
Bentley station with a South Western Railway train departing
150238 sits at Exeter St Davids wearing FIrst Great Western blue livery with pink doors
St James' Park station showing the two platforms
A GWR Class 150 at Lympstone Billage station
Tondu signal box with the Signaller receiving a token from the driver of a train
Chandlers Ford station with a Class 158 departing direct to Romsey
Langley station taken from the new footbridge. And Elizabeth Line train is pulling into the station next to the main station building
A GWR Class 150 unit waits at Devonport station. The footbridge and platform frames the photograph
Worcester Shrub Hill, clock and semaphore signals in the distance
The inside of Minhead signalbox showing 27 levers all in the same position in the lever frame. A lever duster is hanging from one of the levers, ready to be pulled. A train waits in the background (top left)
9466 departs with her last train from Minhead. 7828 (Odney Manor) sits behind her.
43004 departs Lostwithiel, passing the old signalbox.
Roche station with a GWR Class 150 departing
St Columb Road station with a GWR Class 150 approaching
A blurry shot of Quintrell Downs station taken from the bus I ran to catch. The train can just be seen in the distance
London Paddington station with six empty platforms
A signal going up at Yeovil Pen Mill. The station platforms and a Class 158 are on the left hand side