Victoria: One of the stairwell entrances to Victoria Underground station, LU Circle, District and Victoria Lines, on 21st March 2021.
Bedlington: UK Railtours' excursion for North Blyth, passing the disused station at Bedlington, with Bedlington North signal box behind, on 7th April 2018. This line closed to passengers on 2nd November 1964 but is due for reopening after funding was granted in January 2021. The track leading off to the left is the start of the freight line via Choppington to Morpeth which closed to passengers on 3rd April 1950, which the tour had travelled on earlier.
Skibbereen: Skibbereen station building, seen from the rear (Drimoleague north to the left, Baltimore south to the right), in June 2020. The building has been extended towards the north since closure and now forms part of a garage complex. I am standing in what would have been the approach road. The line opened to Skibbereen in 1877 and closed in 1961. The station also served the 3ft gauge Schull and Skibbereen Railway during its life from 1886 to 1947. The Schull and Skibbereen terminated at a platform on this side of the station, but departures to Schull required reversal out of the station towards my position and then a forward move to the far left towards Schull.
Grange-over-Sands: 195105, running between Grange and Arnside with a Barrow to Manchester Airport service, is alongside the Kent Estuary on 10th April 2021. The Kent viaduct at Arnside can be seen top right. Although a Barrow bound train was also due these signals were both off because Grange-over-Sands box is switched out at weekends.
Cardross: The signalbox at Cardross on 28 April 1971, around 36 hours after it had been maliciously set on fire. The relay room to the left survived and remains in place today although with a new roof. The signalbox was demolished and signalling facilities were set up in the Ladies Waiting Room on the Up platform. This remained in place until the Yoker area resignalling in 1984.
Dumfries Shed: The view south from St Marys Street bridge, Dumfries, in May 2002, with the station behind the camera. For more than 90 years the area on the left was occupied by Dumfries shed. Closed by BR in 1966 the site was not finally cleared until 1982 (see [[3408]]) following which the land stood vacant for several more years until eventually becoming part of the new Dumfries & Galloway Police HQ. The low boundary wall is all that remains of the main shed building.
Gourock: Jubilee 45698 Mars takes the 12.10pm to Glasgow Central away from Gourock on 10 August 1964.
Dalgety Bay: Dalgety Bay station under construction in 1998.
Haymarket: The new development at Haymarket (which mercifully, has no made-up name) will change the character of this corner which has never had substantial buildings. It will rather dwarf Ryrie's, a successor to the Railway Inn which opened when the station was new. Early rail travel would have driven even a teetotaller to seek a nerve-restorative
Crouch End: This building, alongside an abandoned section of the Northern Heights line at Crouch End (where I live), was intended to be an electricity substation for the extension of Northern Line tube trains from Finsbury Park to Alexandra Palace but the scheme was never completed and the line closed in 1954. The building is now a community centre, seen here during an afternoon stroll from Stroud Green to Highgate along the trackbed, now the Parkland Walk footpath, on 1st April 2021. (The top storey is a recent addition, as is that piece on the side, see my pic (image 72977) from December 2010.)
Winchcombe: 17th April 2021 was the G&WR's first operating day after lockdown. A lovely sunny day, with virtually no photographers to be seen, strangely, given that it was the first day for many months. Churchward 2-8-0T 4270 departs Winchcombe.