IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Station Road, CHESTER, CH1 3NS
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Station Road, CH1 3NS by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (773 Images Found)
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Between Duties
A Class 31 waits in the bay platform at Chester, ready for the next duty.
Image: © Clive Warneford
Taken: 12 Jun 1999
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Chester: postbox № CH1 480
This modern postbox stands by the entrance to the platforms of the railway station, facing the concourse.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 9 Aug 2013
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Chester Station
No station in Britain has a finer frontage than Chester - this photograph only shows about half of it. Until a few years ago, this station had the suffix (General) to distinguish it from the ex-Cheshire Lines Committee's station at Chester (Northgate), now closed.
Image: © Dr Neil Clifton
Taken: 7 Jul 2010
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Contrasts in locomotives at Chester General
View eastward from Platform 4 at the west end of the Station, on a Summer Saturday. The Type 4 Diesel (No. D373) is working the 11.55 Manchester Exchange to Holyhead - and while it waited there for 25 minutes three Up and one Down expresses passed or called, while LMS 4F 0-6-0 No. 44389 and Great Western 4-6-0 No. 4962 'Ragley Hall' were passing light engine, the 'Hall' to work the 13.50 semi-fast to Shrewsbury. Those were the days!
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 29 Aug 1964
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Stopping train for Rhyl at Chester General
View eastward along Platform 5, the 12.40 Class B local train is headed by BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 No. 78056 (built 8/56, withdrawn hardly 10 years later in 7/66).
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 22 Jul 1961
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Mileage marker, Chester railway station
London - 179 miles 85 miles - Holyhead
A reminder of the historical importance of both the A5 road and the railway in linking London and Dublin, as Holyhead gives the shortest sea crossing. See also Image by Richard Hoare.
Image: © Jim Barton
Taken: 14 Feb 2019
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Chester General Station, with Up holiday express
View NW, towards North Wales and Birkenhead (also the ex-GWR main line to Shrewsbury). The Summer Saturday 13.20 Llandudno to Derby is passing on the Through lines - one of a constant flow of Holiday expresses on a Summer Saturday 50+ years ago. The locomotive is a Stanier 5P4F 2-6-0, No. 42957.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 4 Aug 1962
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Arriva service, Chester Railway Station
Arriva Trains Wales multiple unit 175104 waits, beneath the footbridge, at platform 3.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 8 Jun 2012
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