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.

A collection of trams stand under the decaying roof at the original depot, now called “Tramtown”, in Blackpool.
An engineering trains waits at Carlisle station.
Locomotive no 4 “Edward Thomas” about to couple back onto the train after running around at Nant Gwernol station on the Talyllyn Railway.
A Northern trains class 150, number 150104, arrives at Blackpool south during some light rain.
1340 “Trojan”, GWR 6100 class number 6106, and LNER class A3 number 4472 “Flying Scotsman” stand outside the shed at the Didcot railway centre towards the end of the day.
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.
Number 822 “Countess” waits at Welshpool on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway with her crew, unable to start the return journey until the fire brigade have extinguished a lineside fire that it caused.
153258 stands at Newport station waiting to depart for Ebbw Vale Town.
Various locomotives stand preserved, or awaiting their next duties, inside the engine shed at the Didcot railway centre.
D2271 and 1369 meet at Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway.
Ffestiniog Railway number 10 “Merddin Emrys” a Fairlie locomotive built in 1879, stands at Porthmadog station.
An Avanti West Coast service arrives at Crewe on route to London Euston.
A South Western Railway class 455 arrives at Feltham station.
Transport for Wales class 197 number 197014 emerges from a tunnel as it arrives at Ludlow.
The view from the footbridge at Workington station on the Cumbrian Coast line.
The view inside and outside of a London Overground Class 378 as it crosses the Thames at Kew.
Class 66, number 66060 waits at Newport.
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.
Sunset over the old water tower at Sellafield railway station.
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.
Transport of Wales Mark 4 driving van trailer number 82229 on the back of a train leaving Abergavenny on 18th May 2025. Four days later this unit was involved in a crash with a agricultural trailer near Leominster.
A photograph taken at Meldon Quarry of the now closed Dartmoor Railway which previously operated heritage services.
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.
The railway line heading north from Tywyn in Wales.
Sunset at Reading station.
London underground S-stock at Kew Gardens station.
Restoration work underway in the workshop at Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway.
A train departs Summit station on the Snowdon Mountain Railway.
Steam locomotive ‘Northen Rock’ couples to it train before departing from Dalegarth station on the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway.
A view from the window of a Great Western Railway service heading toward Wales.
Welsh Highland Railway Beyer-Garratt locomotive NG/G16 number 130 at Porthmadog station about to depart with a train to Caernarfon.
A service operated by CrossCountry runs along the sea wall at Dawlish in Devon.
A South Western Railway class 450 after arriving at Windsor & Eton Riverside station.

Railways

In 2025 I have visited

The Welsh Highland Railway
The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
The Talyllyn Railway
The South Devon Railway
The Isle of Wight Steam Railway
The Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway
The Didcot Railway Centre
The North Norfolk Railway
The Bure Valley Railway

Stations

I’ve also been traveling the country by train, so far in 2025 I’ve visited these stations. Either changing trains, or starting or ending journeys there:

Aberdovey, Abergavenny, Bank, Barrow-in-Furness, Basingstoke, Berney Arms, Blackpool South, Brockenhurt, Bushey, Carlisle, Chessington North, Clapham Junction, Colchester, Crewe, Criccieth, Cromer, Dawlish, Dawlish Warren, Didcot Parkway, Ebbw Vale Town, Elstree & Borehamwood, Euston, Exeter Central, Exeter St Davids, Feltham, Fulwell, Great Yarmouth, Hampton, Hampton Court, Hampton Wick, Hoverton and Wroxham, Kensal Rise, Kew Gardens, Lake, Lancaster, Liverpool street, Ludlow, Manningtree, New Malden, Newport, Norwich, Okehampton, Oxford Circus, Porthmadog, Portsmouth & Southsea, Portsmouth Harbour, Preston, Ravenglass, Raynes Park, Reading, Richmond, Ryde Esplanade, Sandown, Sellafield, Sherborne, Sheringham, Shrewsbury, Slough, Smallbrook Junction, Southampton Central, St Annes-on-the-sea, St Bees, Strawberry Hill, Teddington, Tisbury, Totnes, Twickenham, Tywyn, Vauxhall, Waterloo, Welshpool, West Hampstead, West Hampstead (Jubilee line), West Hampstead Thameslink, Weybridge, Whitehaven, Whitton, Willesden Junction, Wimbledon, Windsor & Eton Central, Windsor & Eton Riverside, Woking, Workington, Wraysbury and Yeovil Junction.