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Above: Photographed from Hollinknoll, Northern Rail Class 150/1 unit No. 150140 rounds the curve past the flat-roofed signal box at Chapel-en-le-Frith station on Saturday 26 July 2014, with the 13.49 (2H94) Manchester Piccadilly to Buxton service. The station was the site of a fatal collision on 9 February 1957, when Driver John Axon was killed while trying to stop a runaway freight train. Guard John Creamer was also killed in the accident. John Axon was posthumously awarded the George Cross, and to commemorate this British Rail Class 86/2 AC electric locomotive No. 86261 was named John Axon G.C. on On 19 February 1981, and more recently in February 2007, Northern Class 156 unit No. 156460 has received the same name.
John Binch Visit Picture of the Day Archive
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 Dawlish Storm |
Dawlish The Great Storm February 2014
The Railway Centre have produced a special A3 laminated poster print of The Great Dawlish Storm, showing the destruction, aftermath and restoration of this great railway icon. Available now, by ordering on line at just £7.99 including post and packing or over the bar from the Marine Tavern public house in Dawlish for just £5.99. The A3 poster is heat sealed/laminated and suitable for wall hanging of using as a table mat. |
Following the recent serious damage to the Dawlish Sea Wall, a section dealing with the damage and recovery operations can be found on the DawlishTrains website - Click Here
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The new Direct Rail Services Class 68
Visit our special Class 68 section, with illustrations and a full technical description of this new class now arriving in the UK and set to enter service this summer. Class 68 |
Our YouTube channel
TRC.Com in conjunction with DawlishTrains have now launched a YouTube channel where an expanding number of UK and Overseas video clips can be viewed. Click the link right to connect with Dawlish Trains You Tube Channel.
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Welcome to the updated Railway Centre.Com website. Following transfer from our old servers to our new site earlier in the year, retaining a number of the original features, including our highly popular 'Picture of the Day', we are now getting over 10,000 hits per day, with the most popular pages being our Picture of the Day. By popular demand, and to provide as much information free of charge to fellow enthusiasts as possible. Our site changes now allow us to upload news items from a handheld smartphone or iPad and is thus less time consuming to maintain, it also allows us to upload last minute changes and follow important news stories - This service will be back soon.
Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free. In the future, we will be producing a limited number of e-books - these will of course be chargeable on a one-off basis and be viewable on all modern computer and iPad equipment. Watch here for details.
Feedback from visitors is important to us, so if you have any comments or suggestions please drop us an e-mail. Much further expansion to this site is in the pipeline, much of which follows reader comment. We have no intention whatsoever to introduce any form of charges, log in or password system, allowing users easy site access at all times. All our main services are free. In the future, we will be producing a limited number of e-books - these will of course be chargeable on a one-off basis and be viewable on all modern computer and iPad equipment. Watch here for details.
Submitting your material for consideration for use as Picture of the Day
The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to railwaycentre@gmail.com Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
The Railway Centre.Com are always looking for quality digital images for use as Picture of the Day. If you have any suitable item, preferably with a news content, please submit as an e-mail attachment in a jpg format to railwaycentre@gmail.com Please do not reduce your image to less than 1600 pixals in width and please do not add text or graphics to the image. Remember to include as much information about the picture as possible, including the loco/unit number, train, date and location, plus your name. We are also willing to include personal website details at the end of the picture credit.
