Haymarket: A peek through the bars at the fairly intact-looking buffer end of the 1842 station building at Haymarket. This is underneath the current station concourse. It has road access (as you can see) and is used as a service entrance to the M&S Simply Food upstairs.

Frinton-on-Sea: View from a Walton-on-the-Naze to Colchester service, on Frinton-on-Sea level crossing, on the evening of 1st June 2021. The hugely iconic and controversial former level crossing gates by the station here, dating from Victorian times and hand-operated, became the subject of a bitter preservation campaign, including lobbying in Parliament, when it was decided to replace them with automatic barriers. The campaign was unsuccessful and Greater Anglia went ahead with their removal in 2009. See image [[23386]].

Besses o' th' Barn [Tram]: High above the M60 motorway, and also crossing Bury Old Road, Metrolink 3077 brings up the rear of a double set heading for Manchester on 30th April 2021. The huge rail bridge was completed in 1969, three years before the (then) M62 motorway was constructed through this point. The eastbound entrance slip road at Junction 17 can be seen under the rail bridge deck.

Eastleigh: DB Cargo 66044 with a northbound departure after a driver change at Eastleigh on 6th May 2021.

Silverstripe Siding: The 1863-64 OS 25 map shows the probable original layout of the sawmill and its siding and loading bank. The original name of this location was Silverwell. The sawmill was established in 1855 by A&G Paterson of Glasgow three years after the railway arrived. The name changed soon after to Silverstripe/Silverstrype which name persisted until the early twentieth century when it became Silverbank as it remains today. The blue area was probably a reservoir for supplying water to the sawmill 'engine house' which by some mechanical means possibly a belt or band supplied a rotary motion to the vertically mounted saw blade in its pit. So-called manufactured wood i.e. cut timber would have been carted downhill to be loaded onto wagons for onward movement to Aberdeen; the route down the slope to the loading bank from the mill is clearly shown. Uncut timber was also loaded here and at Banchory Station. Added by Charlie Niven. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. See https://maps.nls.uk/copyright.html

Glasgow Central: The Glasgow Airport Rail Link, approved by the Scottish Parliament in November 2006, included the provision of 2 new dedicated platforms at Glasgow Central utilising land occupied by a car park (see image [[18812]]) with the platform lines entering through the station arch. Although the planned airport link was shelved in 2009, the new platforms 12 & 13 were completed and brought into use the following year. The photograph shows a DMU for Paisley Canal at platform 13 in 2012 with the opened up station arch in the background.

Wanton Walls Junction [2nd]: The far bridge carries the ECML while the nearer one is for the eastern end of the elegant 'S' which carries the 1960s Monktonhall to Millerhill connection. What's that Sooty? It looks older? Yes, it was built for the line to Niddrie via the original Wanton Walls Junction. This bit was shared until the older line closed in 1984.

Thorpe-le-Soken: 321309 from Colchester via Colchester Town (reverse) to Walton-on-the Naze, at Thorpe-le-Soken on 1st June 2021. On the right, the ex-11.18 service from Liverpool Street to Clacton-on-Sea has just arrived, providing convenient interchange. On the left is the disused former down main platform, part of which is still used for passengers to access the station from the surrounding area. One of the lamp-posts with the station name on the lamp can be seen on the disused platform, these were nearly all from the 1950s on BR Eastern Region but not many survive now. Another is still in situ at Cleethorpes station in Lincolnshire. That's my friend also called David in the black on the right and we met three other friends of ours at Walton station who had driven down from Norwich. Note that the destination of this train is shown as Walton-on-Naze which is how the branch terminus was known until May 2007 when it was renamed Walton-on-the-Naze to properly reflect the name of the seaside resort.

Leith North: The former Lindsay Road bridge, over the throat of Leith North station and yard approaches, looking north on 14 May 2021.

Askam: Now the standard traction for Cumbrian Coast scheduled services, two Class 156 Sprinters pass on 18th May 2021. 156463 approaching the camera is heading south towards Barrow while a classmate, heading for Carlisle, is about to call at Askam, the first of twenty four possible intermediate stops.

Southport: 25kV EMUs at Southport? Well yes but these units are two of the Class 319s fitted with diesel engines and alternators so that they can operate away from the wires. 769448 on the left formed the 1517 hrs service to Alderley Edge while 769434 formed the 1531 hrs to Stalybridge on 8 June 2021.