David Cheadle

Photography

Railway 200

The Stockton and Darlington railway was officially opened in September 1825. It was the first public railway in the world. Two hundred years later in 2025 I decided to spend a year doing as much railway related stuff as I could to celebrate this anniversary.

New content will be added to this page throughout 2025.

Photographs

A Selection of photographs taken by me in 2025.

D2271 and 1369 meet at Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway.
Sunset over the old water tower at Sellafield railway station.
A class 484 unit arrives at Lake station on the Island Line of the Isle of Wight. This train was converted from a retired London Underground D78 unit.
A rainy gala day at Havenstreet station on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway. O2 Class locomotive ‘Calbourne’ departs with a train to Smallbrook Junction.
The view from the footbridge at Workington station on the Cumbrian Coast line.
An engineering trains waits at Carlisle station.
The 149 year old ‘Terrier’ class locomotive Freshwater viewed from an observation coach on a train between and Wootton and Havenstreet on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
Steam locomotive ‘Northen Rock’ couples to it train before departing from Dalegarth station on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway.
A service operated by CrossCountry runs along the sea wall at Dawlish in Devon.
Restoration work underway in the workshop at Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway.
A photograph taken at Meldon Quarry of the now closed Dartmoor Railway which previously operated heritage services.
159101 arrives at Yeovil Junction station on route to Exeter St Davids.
A pair of south western railway class 450 multiple units at Portsmouth Harbour station on a January evening.

Stations

So far in 2025 I’ve visited these stations. Either changing trains, or starting or ending journeys there:

Aberdovey, Abergavenny, Barrow-in-Furness, Basingstoke, Blackpool South, Brockenhurt, Carlisle, Chessington North, Clapham Junction, Criccieth, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren, Didcot Parkway, Ebbw Vale Town, Euston, Exeter Central, Exeter St Davids, Feltham, Fulwell, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Lake, Lancaster, Ludlow, New Malden, Newport, Okehampton, Porthmadog, Portsmouth & Southsea, Portsmouth Harbour, Preston, Ravenglass, Raynes Park, Reading, Ryde Esplanade, Sandown, Sellafield, Sherborne, Shrewsbury, Slough, Smallbrook Junction, Southampton Central, St Annes-on-the-sea, St Bees, Strawberry Hill, Teddington, Tisbury, Totnes, Twickenham, Tywyn, Vauxhall, Welshpool, Weybridge, Whitehaven, Whitton, Wimbledon, Windsor & Eton Central, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Woking, Workington, Wraysbury and Yeovil Junction