IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Johnson Drive, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, LU7 4RT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Johnson Drive, LU7 4RT by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (30 Images Found)
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Details
Distance
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Site of old railway crossing
This roundabout at the junction of Chartmoor Way and Billington Road marks the spot where the old L&NWR Leighton Buzzard to Dunstable branch line once crossed the road. The white painted house behind the roundabout is the much modified level crossing keeper's cottage, now surrounded by a modern housing estate.
Image: © Bob Walters
Taken: 20 Apr 2022
0.16 miles
3
Page's Park trackwork, Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
The tracks from the locomotive and carriage shed converge to a headshunt. At the start of a running day, locomotive and train leave the shed and reverse onto the second furthest track back to the station. The far track is the running line.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 25 May 2014
0.21 miles
4
Leighton Buzzard Railway - Page's Park yard
The main access to the railway is at Page's Park station and this is a view in the yard as the engines were being gathered for the parade of engines at 17:00 to celebrate 50 years of preservation following the closure of the 2' gauge quarry railway in 1967. The locomotive on the left is Chaloner - a De Winton vertical boiler Welsh quarry locomotive built in 1877, so now 140 years young.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Sep 2017
0.22 miles
5
Diesel and vintage steam locomotives at Page's Park
The diesel is the emergency back-up loco, in case of the operating steam locomotive failing. The other is "Chaloner", a vertical boiler loco, dating from 1877 and in working order up and down a section of track at Page's Park.
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 17 Jun 2018
0.22 miles
6
Leighton Buzzard Railway - goods train
A train of wagons is seen in front of a passenger train. The locomotive is 778 - a 4-6-0T by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia, USA, No. 44656 of 1917. This was one of 495 built for the British War Department for use in France in WWI. It was then sent to India and finished its working life on a sugar mill railway. It was withdrawn in 1983. The design is recognisably American and it was nice to see it at work in the UK.
Image: © Chris Allen
Taken: 30 Sep 2017
0.22 miles
7
The Indian Train
This loco on the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway spent most of its life in India. Some of the brass plates on the side are in Indian writing.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 6 May 2013
0.22 miles
9
Platform 2 and the loco shed at Page's Park station
Image: © Robert Eva
Taken: 17 Jun 2018
0.22 miles
10
Locomotive shed, Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
'Elf' gets up steam for the second train of the day. It is an Orenstein & Koppel product of 1936, works number 12740. It was built for plantation work in West Africa.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 25 May 2014
0.22 miles