EAW052879 ENGLAND (1953). A GWR railcar (No. 27) on the Lambourne Valley Railway, near Boxford, 1953

excellent work.

I have been searching Herefordshire!

This Lambourn line wasn't on my 1961 BR map.

Thank you for your kind comments TomRobin as always. I'd been keeping an eye on this pair of images but I had largely discounted them as being too hard because of the lack of reference points. After seeing your posts about Yeovil last night I had another think when the Lambourn branch line came to mind. A lightly used line which might have been suited to diesel railcars. It also ran alongside a river and a valley road. I followed the line using the 6 inch Ordnance Survey maps from the National Library of Scotland and there it was.

The difficulty here was to narrow down the locations. As you can see I was lucky I actually only looked at the Staines West and Lambourn branch railways.

What fantastic images of a "moment in time" when the GWR and British Railways were attempting to come to terms with the loss of traffic to the roads. The railway here is long gone. Happy hunting with more unidentified photos.

I have looked at most of the lines around Yeovil and Wells not found anything yet

I don't think it is the Staines branch.