#OnThisDay 19 years ago the DLR terminus platform 4 at Stratford closed, replaced by today's 4a (4b followed on 9 December), allowing longer and more frequent trains. Platform 4 was originally built for a BR shuttle to Fenchurch Street that never happened. buff.ly/MtErVgZ
A ‘today’ image by Adam Lucas flic.kr/p/2odEayY
#OnThisDay 139 years ago Sheringham was opened by the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway on its extension from Holt to Cromer. The station survives on the North Norfolk Railway (pictured: Tour Norfolk buff.ly/oVGt9Tv), with the National Rail station over the road.
#OnThisDay 59 years ago saw the last 'Tyneside electric'. Since 1904 the Newcastle suburban system was 3rd rail DC but it was de-electrified in 1967, the newish 2EPB units like these sent south. 13 years later much was converted to Tyne & Wear Metro. buff.ly/5ttdvn5
#OnThisDay 163 years ago Silvertown station opened to serve this rapidly industrialising area by the Royal Docks. Captured in its twilight years, a Silverlink branded Class 313 to Richmond pauses; today Elizabeth Line trains whizz through here at speed. buff.ly/Vp122cY
#OnThisDay 185 years ago the Bristol & Exeter Railway opened from Bristol to Bridgwater, it was engineered by IK Brunel with 7ft broad gauge and leased to the GWR from the outset. Bridgwater's fine station building dates back to the line's opening: Google buff.ly/rKKsRp9
#OnThisDay Earl's Court Control Room signals its last train. In its heyday the room controlled most of the District & Piccadilly Lines; a hive of activity. Latterly it has only controlled Fulham Broadway to Putney Bridge, I was lucky to return last month on a @BLSfixtures tour
EDIT: this was originally written expecting Earl's Court Control Room to have signalled its last train early this morning but this doesn’t appear to now be the case (short notice cancellation of engineering works!). I think the room may have had a reprieve therefore?
#OnThisDay 163 years ago the LNWR opened its station in Buxton, alongside the Midland terminus that opened a fortnight beforehand. This is the surviving station in the town, although it lost its roof leaving just this lovely listed fan window. Alan Padley buff.ly/ZMyiUvm
#OnThisDay 162 years ago the Hammersmith & City Railway - a Metropolitan and Great Western Railways joint venture - opened between Paddington and Hammersmith with two intermediate stations at Notting Hill (now Ladbroke Grove) and Shepherd's Bush. @ltmuseum buff.ly/AcM285U
