Parkeston Quay: 86607 leads 86615 on a very early running service from the Container terminal to Ipswich yard at Harwich Parkeston Quay in 1991. At Ipswich the wagons would be shunted and combined with Felixstowe services. Class 86 in pairs were very common at the time here.

Old Harpur Siding: Use of bricks to build an unremarkable overbridge indicates it wasn’t an original construction spanning the trackbed of the C&HPR, LNWR 1875 deviation. The great majority of similar structures on the route are built of locally quarried limestone or sandstone. The area to the south of the bridge was a WWI artillery test area, with subsequent use related to explosives including the RAF, Safety in Mines Research Establishment and latterly the H&SE, whose site is accessed by the modern concrete bridge visible through the arch. The site was served by sidings, accessed by the branch from Hindlow until at least the 1960s.

Chatburn [1st]: Two Avanti 'Evero' units run past the old Chatburn goods yard, on a Carlisle to Preston diversion service, on 14th January 2026. This was also the site of the first passenger station of 1850, a temporary terminus. When the line extended to Hellifield in 1879 a new passenger station slightly to the north opened. Although the goods yard is now fully occupied by industry the L&YR goods shed is used by the business. The colour light by the shed can just be seen, acting as the distant signal for Horrocksford Junction.

Paddington [Met]: View from LU S7 stock, Hammersmith and City Line to Barking, calling at Paddington at 13.53 on Saturday, 10th January, 2026. In the main line terminus in the background, a class 800 GWR unit is waiting to depart for Penzance.

Dalmeny Junction: GBRf 66733 heads north past Dalmeny loops, with 6K20 from Millerhill to Dalmeny via the Fife Circle, on 21st January 2026.

Currock Shed (G and SWR): Carlisle Currock Wagon Maintenance Depot on a dull day in 1994. The site was formerly occupied by the G&SW locomotive shed but this was closed in the 1920s and converted to a wagon repair works. Part of (what I believe to be) the original building is visible on the left of the shot. The EWS depot was closed in 2007.

Murrayshall Siding: View over the site of Murrayshall Siding. The fenced off rectangular area is where the tramway from the Murrayshall Lime Works terminated alongside the Forth and Clyde Junction Railway. The tramway approached from the right. A short siding off the railway and the end of the tramway, reached via a headshunt, ran parallel. The tramway was later replaced by a long railway siding on a similar alignment but with eased curves.

Parkeston Quay: Plenty of snow and ice at Harwich Parkeston yard in February 1991. 86603 and 86636 have arrived with an export container train.