East India Harbour: MacBraynes MV 'Lochiel', at Greenock for overhaul, tied up alongside TS 'Duchess of Hamilton' in the East India Harbour. The picture dates from winter 1965-1966.

Didcot Parkway: Freightliner 70007, northbound to Oxford and beyond with 4M55, Southampton Docks to Lawley Street on 9th January 2024. Eastbound as it snuck in the shot on the avoiding line is X-Country 221132.

Canonbury: 90005 leads 90006 on 4L92, the 0210 Trafford Park to Felixstowe, through Canonbury on 11th January 2024. The light is poor, the sun low and lots of shadows this time of year. A busy line, lots of train movements with a heavy pasenger service and thus the freight crawls along this stretch.

Whelley Viaduct: Despite having twelve brick arches and seven steel spans the Whelley Viaduct is known locally as Twenty Bridges. It took the Whelley Loop across the Douglas Valley to link back into the WCML at Standish but closed to diverted passenger trains when electrification was completed around 1973, and to goods in 1976. It is an impressive structure but closed off and crumbling in places.

Prize Length [Arnbog]: View east at Arnbog, which was a Prize Length (complete with sign which continued to declare this right up to closure). The view looks east (towards a large manure pile where today a ploughed out section continues right through to Eassie).

Millport Pier: A very appropriate and fairly frequent visitor to Millport pier in the nineteen sixties, MV 'Maid of Cumbrae'.

Troon: The Ayr to Prestwick Town shuttles have resumed. This is the empty Class 156 unit, which has reversed at Troon loops, and at 15.16 is speeding through Troon on 10th January 2024 in pursuit of the 14.30 Class 380 from Glasgow Central which had departed 7 minutes earlier for Ayr.

Didcot Parkway: Stabled and dead in Didcot station sidings, DBCs 66154 and 66155 at 1045 on 9th January 2024. Later in the morning, 66154 began to carry out shunting duties.