Station caught on camera before reaching end of line

Buses and trains today courtesy of reader Chris Macarthur.

Theses photos were all taken in the 1960s, pictures I know will please all you transport buffs out there who often ask me to use more.

Newport station, Isle of Wight, 1966placeholder image
Newport station, Isle of Wight, 1966

Chris rediscovered them all while sorting out a cupboard.

The photograph of the station shows the one at Newport, Isle of Wight, before the lines were closed at the end of 1966.

An Atlantean No4 at the South Parade Pier, Southsea, terminusplaceholder image
An Atlantean No4 at the South Parade Pier, Southsea, terminus

Chris says: ‘I remember going there with my father to see the steam trains before they vanished.’

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