Ayr: They're back! The 10.35 EMU from Ayr to Glasgow Central on Monday 17th June 2024, first day of the resumed through electric services.

Ayr Station Hotel: The northern section of the Station Hotel has been boarded up and work has started on the track and in the former ticket office.

Bigton [Shetland]: 4-2-0 M525 with a mixed train in the playground at Bigton. In the neighhhhbouring field are a pair of small one-horsepower units.

Blackpool North [Tram]: Flexity 018 is at the buffers in the new two platform tram terminus at Blackpool North on 17th June 2024. This tram was on the new T2 route between here and Starr Gate. This new link will provide a very useful and easy connection to main line rail services, but the bold TRAIN STATION lettering over the subway jars a little. Perhaps they couldn't fit RAILWAY STATION in?

Blackpool North: The view from Blackpool North railway station forecourt, through the new pedestrian tunnel, to the tram terminus beyond. 17th June 2024 was the second day of public operations and a Flexity tram can be seen in one of the two platforms, waiting to form a service to Cleveleys and Fleetwood.

Loch Dochart [Private]: East of Loch Iuchair the A85 passed under the C&O to go round a channel of the River Dochart while the line ran straight over it on an embankment, a view which featured in postcards. Both the original route of the road and the railway are abandoned today, the road being realigned a little to the south on a new very straight alignment of which about half a mile is along the former line. This view shows the old road where railway crossed over.

Blackpool North [Tram]: Although it is now fully open for public trams, Blackpool North still had something of an unfinished air about it on the second day of operations, 17th June 2024. This was the view from the entrance to the subway to the railway station. Having changed from a plain line between Starr Gate and Fleetwood, route numbers have been introduced. T3 is Blackpool North to Fleetwood Ferry (Tram 008 on the right) T2 Blackpool North to Starr Gate (018 on the left). T1 is the original route, bypassing the new branch.

Blackpool North [Tram]: The new Blackpool North tram line opened to public services on Sunday 16th June 2024. One day later, Flexity 008 is seen in the new terminus waiting to depart for Fleetwood.

Westenhanger: From the picnic area of the Stop 24 Motorway Services near Folkestone, through the lineside fencing, is this view of the HS1 lines in the foreground with the Network Rail Ashford to Folkestone tracks beyond. The fence of Westenhanger station platform can be seen on the right. Although Eurostar services were operating normally on 8th April 2024, it was an ASLEF national strike day and there were no local passenger trains so I was fortunate to see this train of new Toyota vehicles from Toton, heading to nearby Dollands Moor Yard, behind 66006.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 156425, shuttling between Preston and Blackpool South, has just left the Pleasure Beach station and is nearing the terminus on 1st May 2024. The Grand National and Big One roller coasters form the back drop.

Tower Hill [LSWR]: Tower Hill station site in 2012, but would you know it? On the old North Cornwall Railway between Launceston and Halwill Junction, a very rural area, the line closed in October 1966.

Polmont Junction: A dull April day in 2006 at Polmont Junction with the telephoto lens highlighting the variances in gradients at this location. 66175 heads 7G17, the 11.25 Hunterston HL - Longannet PS.

Oxford: 15th May 2024 was a fine day, so off to Oxford I went. It was very busy and thankfully a fair amount of freight traffic. For a change, quite a lot of Class 70s were in service including Freightliner 70011 and 70005 northbound, double heading the Southampton Docks to Lawley Street, Birmingham. Rep. No 4M55.

Foot of the Walk [Tram]: Edinburgh Trams no. 270 to Airport arriving at Foot of the Walk, at 15.50 on Tuesday, 4th June 2024.