Glasgow Central: Britannia 70045 'Lord Rowallan,' ready to depart from Glasgow Central with an 8.37am relief to Sheffield, running via the G & S W route in August 1965. In the background, Black 5 44670 waits impatiently to remove the empty stock of an incoming overnight service. *3/8/65*

Longsight: 70002 has just negotiated the busy line from Trafford Park through Manchester and is about to take the Styal Loop with a late afternoon full load of containers for Southampton. The train has just passed the site of Longsight station, closed in 1958, and the headshunt for the nearby depot is behind the locomotive.

Boat of Garten: Barclay 0-4-0ST 'Clyde' is seen at Boat of Garten in 1974, sandwiched between two coaches, having the firebox cleaned out. Tube brush and fire picker are amongst the items on the platform.

Sheriffhall [2nd]: Looking south along the trackbed of the former Waverley route towards the bridge at Kings Gate in the summer of 2012. The North British line continued to curve north east behind the camera towards Millerhill, whereas today's Borders Railway runs north from the bridge along the 2014 deviation to Newcraighall via Shawfair. The original Edinburgh and Dalkeith took yet another alignment off to the right here. For the view north from the bridge at this time see [[39712]].

Glasgow Central: A service from Kirkhill via Maxwell Park approaching Glasgow Central on 5 June 1962.

Gourock: In 1997 Class 318s were taking over from 303s on Inverclyde services and 318269 is seen here at Gourock in July 1997. It is in the delivered SPT orange; the carmine and cream livery had only just been launched.

Luton Bute Street: Bus to Dunstable, soon after departure from Luton Bus Station, ascending the new incline onto the also new Luton & Dunstable Guided Busway, on 2nd October 2013. This runs along the course of the former GNR Dunstable North to Welwyn Garden City branch, closed to passengers in 1965. At this location the line previously continued on an embankment that took the line over the road in the background on a bridge and into the now demolished Luton Bute Street station. The embankment here was bulldozed to allow construction of the rather steep incline to take buses up from the bus station to the level of the remaining embankment along which the busway runs for a short distance on its way towards Dunstable.

Glenfinnan: A Class 37 hauled service train to Mallaig climbs away from Glenfinnan in 1984. Note the distant wisp of steam/smoke at the station.

Polmadie Shed: Black 5 44883, Standard 5 73062 and an unidentified Standard tank contributing suitably to the typical smoky atmosphere of Polmadie engine shed on 9th June 1963.

Leyland: 33207 leads a WCRC light engine move from Southall to Carnforth as it passes Leyland on 5 September 2016 with 33025 on the rear and 37685 as the meat in the sandwich. Whilst very nice to see a BRCW Type 3 at work on the mainline in the 21st Century, it is a shame that there isn't a Type 2 version on the network as well.