Appleby: Colas Rail 43303 leads the NMT through Appleby, during a brief period of sunlight on 13th January 2025 working 1Q13, the 1423hrs Carlisle to York. If you look closely you can see the central section of the bridge is still awaiting its new coat of paint more than 12 months after the sections either side received their makeover.

Paisley West: Preserved Highland Railway 4-6-0 No 103 is backing out of Paisley West on the Potterhill branch on 17 April 1965. The occasion is the 'Easter Rambler No 4' tour of Renfrewshire. The line from Paisley West to Elderslie is in the foreground.

Alderley Edge: Northern are making good progress applying their own vinyls to the units cascaded from the West Midlands and this gold livery will not be seen around the North West for much longer. These are stopping services passing at Alderley Edge on 6th January 2025. 323206 has just departed with a Crewe to Piccadilly service as 323219 arrives from Piccadilly with a terminating service.

Preston: CAF unit 195126 in platform 2 at Preston on a service to York on 26th April 2022.

Middleton Junction: Middleton Junction opened as Oldham Junction when the Manchester and Leeds Railway opened their branch to that town, via the Werneth Incline, in 1842. It later changed to Middleton and from 1852 Middleton Junction. This staircase marks the station entrance, which was in the 'V' of the junction, and the low bridge that still carries the line to Rochdale was once wider supporting the curving branch line tracks. After the Oldham route closed in 1963, the Chadderton Goods line that ran off it continued to receive trains until 1988 but all is now lifted.

Nelson Bog Spoil Tip: On a miserable cold day in January 1991 I managed to get to this location to photograph the spoil trip. 37696 has emptied the train and will head back to Trelewis. I belive this area has since been completly landscaped. The line was still open in early 2024 for coal trains to Cwmbargoed but has since closed, like so many of the mineral lines in South Wales.

Stobs: The station office at Stobs, on the occasion of a visit by the North British Railway Study Group in 2015.

Newcastle Central: Exterior of Newcastle Central station, at 11.56 on Tuesday, 17th December 2024. This station was originally opened on 29th August 1850 with the portico added in 1860 and then enlarged in the 1890s. Station running-in boards simply say "Newcastle" while the Tyne & Wear Metro station, in deep-level tube tunnels below, is christened "Central Station". I think it would be nice to see the running-in boards displaying Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the full name of this vibrant north-eastern city, or at least Newcastle Central.

St Fillans: This is the west view from the girder bridge immediately east of the former St Fillans station. In 1921 a livestock train from Oban to Perth over-ran the station and crashed here killing many of the animals and resulted in the locomotive falling over onto its side (the crew survived).

Aberdeen: Ex-Devon Belle observation car at Aberdeen's north-end.