Raskelf: GBRf 66785 is seen running north, just after the site of Raskelf station, on 17 June 2021. It is hauling a rake of twenty two former EWS HHA bogie coal wagons on the 07.54 4Z65 special working from March to Tees Yard.

Haymarket: Rail replacement car service? ScotRail vehicle seen at the lights at Haymarket on 19 June 2021. The strapline will become literally true when nationalisation comes.

Hampstead: Exterior of Hampstead station, LUL Northern Line, originally to have been called Heath Street, seen here on 22nd June 2021, the 114th Anniversary of its opening as part of the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway. The Heath Street side on the left is now used for exit only with passengers entering from the Hampstead High Street side on the right and with its platforms 192 ft. below the ground, reached via lifts, this is the deepest station on the London Underground. It is another of the splendid deep-level 'tube' stations in ox blood red designed by Leslie W. Green, the Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian era who died in 1908, aged only 34.

Dalgety Bay: 170403 leaves Dalgety Bay with the 13.25 from Glenrothes with Thornton to Edinburgh on 25 May 2021..

Glasgow Central: In 1987, 86224 'Caledonian' was repainted (quite badly) in supposed original livery for the 20th anniversary of Radio 1. It hauled a special train that included a live broadcast and is seen here leaving Glasgow Central. I think there was a later attempt at a similar repaint to commemorate the start of electric services out of Euston and this looked much more like the original livery .

Kingsway Tram Subway: The former southern portal of the Kingsway Tram Subway that opened out onto Victoria Embankment below Waterloo Bridge, seen here on 9th July 2013. This opened for single decker trams from Southampton Row in Bloomsbury to Aldwych in 1906 and extended to Victoria Embankment in 1908 to link the tramways north and south of the Thames though not actually passing under the river at all. Trams emerged onto the Embankment and then crossed the river on Westminster Bridge. In 1931 the Subway was reconstructed for double-decker trams but was closed in April 1952 as part of the London Tram Replacement Scheme, completed in July of the same year. The middle part of the Subway is now the Strand road underpass (one way northbound) that climbs up through the site of Aldwych station into Kingsway itself while at the northern end at Southampton Row the ramp down to the Subway remains, complete with tram tracks, a silent memorial to London's long lost original vast tramway network.

Kingsway Tram Subway: View from above the northern portal of the old Kingsway Tram Subway at Southampton Row in central London, on 22nd December 2015. The subway was originally opened for single deck tramcars from Southampton Row to Aldwych on 24th February 1906 and extended to its exit on the Victoria Embankment below Waterloo Bridge on 10th April 1908. From 2nd February 1930 to 14th January 1931, the subway was temporarily closed for rebuilding to take double deck trams and for the next 21 years continued to provide a link between the London Tramways north and south of the Thames, crossing over the river on Westminster Bridge. But between the two world the wars, trams fell from favour and the subway closed after the last tram on 5th April 1952 although they continued to operate on other routes until the final demise of the London Tram System on 5th July 1952. Trams, of course, returned to the London area in 2000 with the opening of the first part of the Croydon Tramlink system which has since been misleadingly renamed as London Tramlink. (I was only 6 months old in April 1952 but I was told I did travel on a tram through the subway but as I was probably asleep in baby clothes on my mum's lap at the time, sadly I have no remembrance of doing so.)

Kingsway Tram Subway: View down the incline from Southampton Row to the northern portal of the Kingsway Tram Subway at Holborn, closed in April 1952 and seen here just over sixty years later on 6th September 2012. The tracks remain as a silent memorial to London's once-vast tramway network.

Glasgow Central: A strange-looking steam-diesel combination for the 16.54 service to Gourock on 23rd February 1967, seen leaving Glasgow Central behind Black 5 44911 and Clayton Type 1 D8531.

Summerseat Viaduct: Pacer 144009 has had an interesting year. After withdrawal from Northern it was presented to Greater Manchester Fire Service, but in the interim went to the East Lancs Railway. It now sports a fictitious Great Midlands Trains livery and there are reports it has been used on a filming contract - one to keep an eye out for. It was also used at the East Lancs summer 2021 Diesel Gala running shuttle services between Bury and Ramsbottom on 3rd July, seen here crossing the River Irwell heading back to Bury, but is likely to become a static training vehicle in the near future.

Houston and Crosslee: View east through Houston and Crosslee station on 22 April 1954. The supplementary running-in board reads 'For Brookfield'.

Dumfries: Standing under the canopy in the north west corner of Dumfries station on a quiet Sunday morning in June 2000. The outline of the recently infilled former bay platforms is clearly visible just beyond the parked cars. Dumfries signal box stands in the right background at the north end of what is now platform 2.

Aintree: 507019 arrives at Aintree on 8 June 2021 with a Liverpool Central to Ormskirk service. Aintree racecourse is across the A59 road to the left of the photo [[58181]].

Oxford: GWR 800-024, creeping into Oxford station at 1240 on 23rd June 2021, eventually bound for Paddington.