Some monochrome pictures to identify

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[ellendune]

b Guessing it is somewhere on the line from Three Cocks Junction to Moat Lane Junction.  Probably towards the northern end.  Rhayader?

Right country ... but even with the wide spray of "somewhere on the line", I'm afraid you're not right.  The picture's taken at something of a favourite station of mine, and indeed one that I've used in quite recent years.

That suggests a re-opened line

[patch38]

Is g Ashford?

[grahame]

Is g Ashford?

No, it isn't ... but there are direct trains from one of the Ashfords that run over the line shown in use by the train on this picture.

[rogerw]

I'll have a stab at g.  It is a Hastings unit on a 4 track line and there seems to be a spur entering from the right so it might be Petts Wood

[grahame]

I'll have a stab at g.  It is a Hastings unit on a 4 track line and there seems to be a spur entering from the right so it might be Petts Wood

Yes - spot on. Petts Wood Junction.

The main line from Sevenoaks to London Bridge is 2 tracks to Orpington, where it becomes 4 tracks - fast lines on the West and slow lines on the right.   At Chiselhurst, it crosses the line from Victoria to Rochester and beyond - which had also become a four track line by the time this photo was taken.   Spurs / cutoffs connected the lines, originally built by two different companies - the South Eastern Railway and the London, Chatham and Dover; they merged in 1899 to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway.    Changes to the cutoffs after this picture was taken allowed Eurostar trains from London to reach the fast lines to Orpington without having to cross the slow lines.

The six coach Hastings demus were (are - one is preserved) narrow bodied due to tunnel width south of Tonbridge.  They were replaced by electric trains, and one of the improvements made at that time was the singling of the tunnels to that standard stock could be used.

Edit to add - History and track plans at http://www.kentrail.org.uk/chislehurst_junction.htm

[SandTEngineer]

B = Barmouth Junction (now Morfa Mawddach).  Think its looking along the redundant Platforms towards Llangollen.

[grahame]

B = Barmouth Junction (now Morfa Mawddach).  Think its looking along the redundant Platforms towards Llangollen.

Yes, that's right ... and I thing the final picture (h) was taken at Morfa Mawddach too.

I first came upon this station when it was a grand old abandoned building - track lifted towards Dolgellau and Llangollen, but still a bright and shiny line of metal in the otherwise dulled layout, with one platform in use. These days, it's a single platform to catch the train, every 2 hours each way, to all the big and little places up and down the coach.  Lovely walk across the bridge from Barmouth, plenty of walks in the immediate area - not quite to easy up to Fairbourne.