Your pictures on the theme of 'railways'

22 September 2024

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "railways". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world.

Image source, Neil Armstrong

Image caption, Neil Armstrong: "Class A1 Stroudley Terrier 0-6-0T No. 72 'Fenchurch' steams up on a rainy day in June. About to set off from Sheffield Park station to East Grinstead on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex. I was planning a day's lineside photography - but took these of the first service out on the day from the dry shelter of the platform."

Image source, Sally R Kent

Image caption, Sally R Kent: "The red commuter train makes its first crossing of the day over the famous Nine Arch Bridge in Kandy, Sri Lanka."

Image source, Norman Rigby

Image caption, Norman Rigby: "Three Generations on Steam. Taken at West Lancs Light Railway project, Tarleton. Volunteers restore and maintain vintage engines and run them on their own narrow gauge track."

Image source, Mark Norrington

Image caption, Mark Norrington: "The Albula line in the Swiss alps between Chur and St Moritz."

Image source, Rick Woodward

Image caption, Rick Woodward: "A steamy evening at Didcot engine shed."

Image source, Matthew Logan

Image caption, Matthew Logan: "This freight train was a blur as it passed through Patapsco Valley State Park in Ellicott City, Maryland."

Image source, Caroline McIlvenny

Image caption, Caroline McIlvenny: "Trains from abandoned copper mines in Lefke in Northern Cyprus. Once a thriving industry with railway running to the port for transportation, but now just abandoned."

Image source, Mark Cable

Image caption, Mark Cable: "Forgotten Platform. A former railway station between Durham and Bishop Auckland."

Image source, Mervyn Edwards

Image caption, Mervyn Edwards: "The Flying Scotsman on the Watercress Line pulling out of Alresford."

Image source, Colin Whitton

Image caption, Colin Whitton: "Ready for the off at the Strathspey Steam Railway."

Image source, Bryan Ellis

Image caption, Bryan Ellis: "A cross country HST at Bristol Temple Meads."

Image source, Howie Fletcher

Image caption, Howie Fletcher: "Taken on the station at Porthmadog as the train was preparing to leave the station for Blaenau Ffestiniog."

Image source, John Barry

Image caption, John Barry: "On the footplate of the North York Moors Railway, Grosmont Station."

Image source, Martin Price

Image caption, Martin Price: "Sir Nigel Gresley crossing Aisgill viaduct on the Settle to Carlisle railway."

Image source, Allan Stewart

Image caption, Allan Stewart: "Durango to Silverton Railroad carving its way through the Colorado Rockies."

Image source, Jan Shorrock

Image caption, Jan Shorrock: "The Jacobite Steam Train crossing the Glenfinnan Viaduct."

Image source, Chris Parry

Image caption, Chris Parry: "Ffestiniog Railway train arriving back at Porthmadog Harbour underneath a rainbow."

Image source, Doris Enders

Image caption, Doris Enders: "A wooden toy train."

The next theme is "arches" and the deadline for entries is 1 October 2024.

The pictures will be published later that week and you will be able to find them, along with other galleries, on the In Pictures section of the BBC News website.

You can upload your entries directly here or email them to yourpics@bbc.co.uk.

Terms and conditions apply.

Further details and themes are at: We set the theme, you take the pictures.