Thorpes Bridge Junction: On 24th August 2009, 142045 joins the Oldham Loop at Thorpes Bridge Junction with a Victoria- Shaw working as another Pacer is held awaiting clearance to proceed from the Calder Valley line to Manchester. Newton Heath TMD is in the fork of the lines. The Oldham Loop closed at the beginning of October that year for conversion into part of the Manchester Metrolink.

South Gyle: New bridge, sitting over the old bridge, on South Gyle Road on 5th December 2025. I assume the old bridge will be demolished over the Festive period to allow the OLE to be installed.

South Gyle: New bridge sitting over the old bridge on South Gyle Road. I assume the old bridge will be demolished over the Festive period to allow the OLE to be installed.

Millerhill Engineers Depot: Sleepers being loaded at Millerhill on 18th November 2025.

Rainford Junction: 1915 6-inch map extract of Rainford Junction, showing the 1848 L&YR main line from Manchester to Liverpool passing through the station. Ten years later it was joined by two branches. The LNWR line from St. Helens came in from the south and curved in to a long platform on the south side at Rainford but services finished in 1951. The East Lancashire Railway opened a branch from Ormskirk, with a bay alongside the Manchester platform and services lasted until 1956. The direct line over the bridge saw very few scheduled passenger services but carried freight and excursions until 1964. Added by Mark Bartlett. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland http://maps.nls.uk/index.html

Rainford: The signaller comes down the steps at Rainford Junction box to hand over the token for the single line section to Headbolt Lane. A token is used rather than just a single line staff because twice a day a 'bin liner' service goes down to Knowsley waste terminal, near the terminus, and has to be locked into the sidings there for loading while the passenger trains continue. 150120 was on service from Blackburn on 19th November 2025.

Leominster: A very quiet Leominster station, looking south in July 2011.

Great Portland Street: Victorian brickwork of the world's first Underground line, the Metropolitan Railway, still in evidence at Great Portland Street, seen from a train of LU S7 stock on a Circle Line working on Saturday, 22nd February 2025. This station was opened as Portland Road on 10th January 1863 but was renamed Great Portland Street on 1st March 1917.

Carmont: An Aberdeen - Kings Cross HST passes Carmont signal box on an unrecorded date in June 1995. The leading power car looks in need of some attention and a good clean, although within a year this service would be in the hands of GNER.

Aberfoyle: View looking east into Aberfoyle with the (former) Bailie Nicol Jarvie Hotel on the left. To the right of the pavement is a narrow ledge above the River forth which carried the Aberfoyle slate quarries tramway.

Hindley: Deep Pit footbridge, a listed structure, has recently been raised to accommodate the overhead wires of the Lostock to Wigan electrification scheme. On 19th November 2025, 769450 passes under the lifted bridge, photographed from Hindley station, on a Southport to Manchester Oxford Road service. See image [[88966]] taken from the same viewpoint in February 2024