Leaderfoot Viaduct: The powers that be certainly do not want you to access the Leaderfoot Viaduct. In addition to the substantial palisade gate and fence there is razor wire and anti-climb paint. However it has been the scene of several tragedies so it is perhaps understandable. I was on a £17 ticket to Tweedbank and had a nice nine mile walk in a loop back to the station.

Barnhill [P&DR]: This rural looking scene is in fact only a few hundred yards from Perth city centre. It is also just a mile from Perth Signalling Centre, which opened in 1962. When you think of the cost of all those Barnhill signallers' shifts over 59 years you wonder why Perth SC has never reached out just a bit.

Kirkland Yard: This base and stumps are all that remain of the long footbridge that used to span the tracks at Kirkland Yard, as seen in June 2021. Beyond is the Fife Heritage Railway's demonstration line. See image [[53242]] of the structure in 2008, prior to demolition.

Bay Horse: On the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to break the Euston to Glasgow speed record, 390044 'Royal Scot' hurries through Bay Horse on 17th June 2021. This charity fund raising event was a joint event between Avanti, Network Rail and Railway Magazine and created lots of national media interest but the Pendolino was twenty one seconds slower than the prototype APT in 1984.

Edinburgh Waverley: 385110 waits at platform 12 at Waverley for the next run to Glasgow on 19 March 2019

Farington Curve Junction: Viewed from Bee Lane bridge, 156441 negotiates the pointwork at Farington Curve Junction as it swings across to join the Ormskirk line on 17th May 2021. A 153 single unit used to be allocated to this route for the day and shuttled up and down the branch but, when the service frequency was increased to hourly, the diagrams were incorporated with those on the Blackpool South and Colne services and five different units (150/156/158) now go to Ormskirk each day.

Niddrie South Junction: An early Sunday morning PW train returning to Millerhill South Sidings in October 2017 carrying residual spoil. The train is approaching the bridge carrying the A1 over the sub between Niddrie West and Niddrie South Junctions, with the signal protecting the latter visible just beyond.

Greenock Container Port: Greenock container port in 1988. At the time the port was closed. The cranes were idle and the straddle carriers, which had carried the containers to the Freightliner sidings, were parked up and rusting (just out of shot). Freightliner closed their depot officially two years before in 1986. This had been the site of Greenock Princes Pier and the Albert Harbour. The Freightliner terminal was located at a higher level off to the right beyond Brougham Street, the former railway bridge being retained for access.

Saughton Junction: A Helensburgh Central to Edinburgh service nears journey's end on 5 June 2021. Who knows, one day there may be overhead wires on the Fife Lines side of the gantry too.

Witham: Immediately east of Witham, the single-track branch to Braintree diverges to the north. This opened on 2nd October 1848 and was extended a lengthy distance via Dunmow to a junction with the Cambridge main line north of Bishops Stortford in 1869 when a new through station replaced the original terminus. This was renamed Braintree & Bocking in 1910 but reverted to simply Braintree c1948. The line to Bishops Stortford was closed to passengers in 1952 and to freight in 1971. However, trains from Witham still serve the 1869 station at Braintree where only one platform is now used but which retains all its original buildings. Although listed for closure in the Beeching Report, Witham to Braintree was reprieved and eventually electrified with through services to Liverpool Street. A second branch from Witham that ran south to Maldon East was not so lucky and succumbed to the Beeching cuts in September 1964. This view is from a Greater Anglia service from Liverpool Street to Clacton-on-Sea just restarting after its call at Witham station, on the morning of 1st June 2021.

Constitution Street [Tram]: Looking south along Constitution Street, over the under-construction The Shore stop, on 5th June 2021.

Oxford: Low-geared Freightliner 66601, southbound through Oxford, with a Banbury to Bristol Freightliner Terminal service on 27th April 2021.