Elgin: 47120+25009 with a southbound freight for Aberdeen passing through Elgin station in February 1979

Burghead Maltings: 47120 stands alongside the grain silos at the Burghead maltings in February 1979.

Elgin East: 25009 backs onto a freight in Elgin goods yard in February 1979

Elgin East: 27002 preparing to take a freight out of Elgin East goods yard amidst a light covering of snow in February 1979.

Plates, signs, notices etc: LNER 21T wagon plate from Darlington wagon 302419 at Arnott Young, Dalmuir for breaking.

Scotstoun West No 3 GF: No trespass sign located on south side of track at Yoker opposite Lady Anne Street. Note the LNER sign despite being a joint LNER/LMSR line.

Plates, signs, notices etc: Metal enamelled sign, red and white quartered, legend Warning - Limited clearance. On road bridge carrying New Bridge Street over disused Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.

Plates, signs, notices etc: LNER 20T Wagon plate from 1942 Darlington wagon no. 251315.

Thirsk: An East Coast Main Line HST approaches Thirsk station on the fast lines in February 1982.

Larbert Junction: A relaxed signalman watches a Glasgow - Inverness train accelerating past Larbert Junction in 1989.

Dalguise: The closed station at Dalguise viewed from a northbound train on 8 February 1989. The train had just been flagged to safely cross the Dalguise Viaduct by the linesmen seen to the side of the locomotive. This was the day of the Ness Viaduct collapse.

Ness Viaduct: Looking west at the fallen Ness Viaduct on the day of its collapse. The photograph was taken around lunchtime, the banks of the river lined with silent onlookers. Rails had been cut at the west end, allowing the track to drop. Cables were still strung across between the ends, splashing around in the floodwaters.

Perth: Parcels (newspapers?) being unloaded from a Glasgow-Inverness train at Perth's platform 4 in 1989.

Alloa: Tree lined pedestrian entrance to Alloa station taking shape on 8 February 2007.

Portobello: 57302 Virgil Tracy passes Craigentinny wheel lathe heading for the sub in February 2007. At that time there were daily workings of Thunderbirds to Craigentinny.

Alloa: The under construction Alloa station on 8 February 2007 with much work currently in progress on the car park and approach roads.

Alloa: Finishing off sleeper laying at Alloa on 8 February at what will be the location of the buffer stops.

Kincardine: Looking east over a chilly Kincardine station on 8 February 2007 from the level crossing.

Porto Campanha: Two 2550 Class 25kv AC electric locos double head a cement train south through a wet but warm Porto Campanha station. 272-568-5 and 272-553-7 were built by Soreframe-Henschel from 1963. This class of locos is still in front line freight service with CP Rail.

Menstrie and Glenochil: Remains of loading facilities and sidings at Menstrie in February 2007 looking east along the Ochils towards Alva.

Menstrie and Glenochil: Looking west from the site of the former Menstrie station along the line back to Cambus Junction in February 2007.

Menstrie and Glenochil: Railway remains at Menstrie in February 2007. Looking back from the sidings towards the site of the former station.

Halbeath: Trackbed of the former Halbeath Railway running past an old lime kiln in Calais Muir Wood, east of Dunfermline.

Hassendean: Entrance to the former Hassendean station on the Waverley Route, seen from the south in February 2008, almost 40 years after official closure. The extensively restored site, located just over 4 miles north east of Hawick, is now privately owned and includes self catering holiday accommodation.

Drem Junction: Pathfinder Forth McFreighter railtour approaching Drem Junction off the North Berwick branch on 8 February 2009. EWS 66039 leading the Way, with 66201 bringing up the rear.

St Germains Level Crossing: Pathfinder Forth McFreighter railtour approaching St Germains level crossing on 8 February with EWS 66201 leading on the leg to North Berwick.

Johnstone: Looking south west over Johnstone station from the Thorn Brae road bridge on 8th February

Easter Road: The Pathfinder Forth McFreighter railtour passes below Easter Road on 8 February 2009 and runs through the remains of the station on what is now the Powderhall branch, with EWS 66201 heading the train back towards the ECML.

County March Summit [West Highland]: Scene approximately two miles north of Tyndrum Upper station on the West Highland Line on Sunday 8 February 2009. View is north towards Ben Dorain.

Lea Road: The staircase locks of the Lancaster Canal's Ribble Link, opened in 2002 and therefore one of the newest stretches of canal in the country, are passed by a Blackpool North to Manchester Airport TPE 185 unit. At the foot of the locks, boats join the Savick Brook and turn sharp right to pass under the railway. See image [[27564]]

Ribbleton (Red Scar): The former Longridge line trackbed is still available for use as a footpath and cycle track out to the old Red Scar sidings area but then peters out. This view looks towards Longridge near the end of the cycleway and is at the point where David Hindle photographed LMS 8F 48546 shunting the Courtaulds sidings in 1968. See image [[27599]].

Ribbleton (Red Scar): Looking towards Preston on the trackbed of the Longridge branch at the site of Red Scar exchange sidings near Ribbleton. This is the spot where David Hindle took his photo from the cab of LMS 8F 2-8-0 48546 while it shunted there in 1968. See image [[25682]]. The trackbed can be cycled or walked from here down past the old Ribbleton station and on towards Deepdale.

Haymarket: 185 109 at Haymarket platform 3 on 8 February with a service from Manchester Airport.

Haymarket: A Helensburgh - Waverley service makes its penultimate stop at Haymarket on 8 February.

Dunure: Although the station closed to passengers in 1930, the entry to the long-gone stairway to Dunure's island platform remains in 2011. The cutting below is very overgrown but the platform edging can still be seen in some places.

Lawrence Hill: First Great Western 143612 calls at Bristol's Lawrence Hill station on 8 February 2011 with the 11.16 Bristol Temple Meads - Severn Beach service.

Lawrence Hill: First Great Western 150 130 on a Gloucester - Weymouth service (ignore the destination panel), makes a stop at Lawrence Hill, in the Bristol suburbs, on 8 February 2011.

Dunure: A surviving truss girder bridge spanning a burn south of Dunure on the former Maidens and Dunure Light Railway. Photographed on 8 February 2011.

Inverkeithing: The wide concourse at Inverkeithing station on 8 February 2011 with a Fife inner circle train at the platform.

Newcastle Central: Northern Rail 156479, a CrossCountry Voyager, and First TransPennine Express 185143 rest between services at Newcastle Central during the late morning on 8 February 2012.

Kilmaurs: The former goods shed at Kilmaurs showing the former vehicular entrance on 8 February 2012. The buildings had a variety of uses following closure by BR around 1985 including a coal merchant and a civil engineering contractor.
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Newcastle Central: A dirty looking 67027 Rising Star stabled at the south end of Newcastle Central station on 8 February 2012 awaiting the call for 'Thunderbird' rescue duties. It was still as dirty on morning of 22 Feb, but by early evening it had been replaced by 67024 which had run down from Edinburgh south bay during the day.

Kilmaurs: The former goods shed at Kilmaurs in February 2012 with the station platforms to the left.

Kilmaurs: The surviving goods shed at Kilmaurs in February 2012. The station is to the left.

Newcastle Central: Consecutively numbered TransPennine Express DMU's 185111 & 185112 stand in adjacent bays 9 & 10 at Newcastle Central station on 8 February with a large number of passengers awaiting access to the 16.15 service to Manchester Airport.

Bamber Bridge: LMS 2-8-0 no. 48151 heading west approaching Bamber Bridge station over the level crossing on 8 February 2013 with The Lancastrian railtour.

Milton Keynes Central: Passengers familiar with operations at MKC will know that many Pendolinos and Voyagers pass through platform 6 - plus the occasional mail train see image [[35686]]. But now that London Midland have tuned up their 350's for 110mph running, they are mixing it with Virgin trains. This unit got me to Nuneaton in 35 minutes.

Conon Bridge: Platform scene at Conon Bridge station on 8 February 2013, first day of the new train services.

Conon Bridge: Closed 13 June 1960, reopened 8 February 2013.

Newtongrange [1st]: View north from the A7 on 8 February 2014 over the site of the original Newtongrange station (closed 1969). Work on its Borders Railway successor is currently proceeding behind the camera on the south side of the recently modified road bridge.

Eskbank and Dalkeith: The old Eskbank station looking south on 8 February 2014. Still relatively undisturbed by the construction activities taking place to the north and south of the site.

Gore Glen Bridge: The recently constructed Borders Railway bridge spanning the A7 at Gore Glen. Photographed on Saturday morning 8 February 2014, looking north towards Newtongrange.

Glenesk: Progress at Glenesk an 8 February 2014. View is north along the trackbed towards Glenesk Junction in the background, with the site of Glenesk Colliery on the left of the picture.

Hardengreen Viaduct: Almost ready for the deck - three bridge supports - Hardengreen Roundabout. Approaching on the A7 from the south on 8 February 2014 see image [[43044]].

Gorebridge: Progress at Gorebridge. Looking north towards the station site on 8 February 2014.

Gorebridge: The Waverley trackbed looking south from Gorebridge on Saturday 8 February 2014.

Selkirk Junction: With less than half a mile to go before joining the Tweed, the Gala Water flows past the surviving northern abutment of the railway bridge that once carried the Selkirk branch across the river. Looking north west towards Galashiels station on 8 February 2015 from the footbridge off Galafoot Lane. The recently laid tracks of the Borders Railway run between the mesh fences.

North Leith: One of the NB's 3 termini in Leith this one on Commercial Street closed in 1947. A writer of 1884 regarded this is a shabby building though it may have had claim at some time to be ornamental. There's just no pleasing some people as it looks good enough to me 131 years on though it could maybe do with a full clean. Happily in permanent use as a youth centre in 2015, with a modern entrance at the platform end.

Tweedbank: Still plenty to do. Sunday morning at Tweedbank terminus on 8 February 2015, with track now running into platforms 1 and 2. Work continues on various items around the site.

Redbridge Viaduct: The Red Bridge over the Tweed at Galashiels, looking south from Winston Road towards Tweedbank on 8 February 2015, with track now laid and the pedestrian/cycling route moved to the west side of the line. See image [[45093]]

Selkirk Junction: One mile south of the original Galashiels station a branch left the Waverley route and turned south west, crossing the Gala Water and running towards Selkirk. The surviving northern abutment of the railway bridge is seen here in February 2015, with the recently laid rails of what is now the Borders Railway running behind the metal fence. The Selkirk branch lost its passenger service in 1951, closing completely in 1964. See image [[48180]]

Tweedbank: Looking north towards Galashiels from the terminus at Tweedbank on 8 February 2015.

Selkirk Junction: The underside of the refurbished footbridge over the line near Selkirk Junction, Galashiels, looking north towards Woodstock Avenue on 8 February 2015. Note the old steam exhaust deflectors have now been removed see image [[46729]].

Selkirk Junction: Looking north over the site of Selkirk Junction, a mile south of Galashiels station, in February 2015, during the latter stages of construction work on the Borders Railway. The abutment of the bridge that once carried the Selkirk branch over the Gala Water survives centre left. Trains would start running through here some 4 months later on crew training trips between Newcraighall and Tweedbank.

Barnetby: Before the cull - Sunday engineers possession at Barnetby looking towards Wrawby Junction. 8th February 2015.

Girvan: The driver of the 13.57 from Stranraer (for Kilmarnock) hands over the token to the signalman while the 13.59 to Stranraer waits for it to be handed over to its driver. A bit of the past with the bells sounding in the box.

Shirebrook: Looking towards the entrance into the former Shirebrook diesel maintenance depot in February 2017, with some of the numerous stored shipping containers that occupy the area around the building lining the access road. Other than the containers nothing else seems to have changed on site since closure.

Shirebrook: A view south over the now re-opened Shirebrook station, from a near identical position to one taken nearly 37 years earlier in 1980 see image [[4783]]. As can be seen the former down side stone built building has given way to a minimalist shelter, but the main up side station building is still intact, although now in use as a business centre.

Shirebrook : Looking south along the former Warsop Main Colliery branch, where a number of Class 56 & 58 loco's were once stabled at weekends, towards the still extant former Shirebrook diesel maintenance depot see image [[1241]]. The entire yard is now almost filled with double stacked shipping containers.

Edinburgh Waverley: Going down! Entering Waverley station from Princes Street on 8 February 2018. The 'down' escalator was out of action on this occasion. Still a great improvement on days gone by... see image [[6957]].

Waterloo: Work in progress at the end of the former Eurostar platforms 23 and 24 at Waterloo on 8 February 2018. Platforms 21 and 22 are temporarily back in use during the current station upgrade works.

Edinburgh Waverley: View from the station walkway at Waverley on 8 February 2018, with traincrew, passengers, catering staff and British Transport Police all going about their business. At the recently extended platform 12 is the 1027 to Glasgow Central, while the train at 11 is the 1030 to Glasgow Queen Street. Although it will leave 3 minutes later, the latter service will reach its destination 28 minutes earlier than the former.

Baileyfield Switch and Crossing Works: The Voestalpine VAE works was fomerly known as Baileyfield S&C (switch and crossing) and is still making points and the like as it has been doing for over 100 years. Ironically, it is no longer rail-served although there is still a vegetation choked physical connection with the rusting Leith South branch. The gates in the middle distance show where the siding entered with the branch beyond it. Looking towards Leith on 8th February 2018.

Baker Street: An S8 stock train enters Baker Street Platform 3 on 8th February 2018. The curved windscreens of the S stock don't seem to cause signal sighting problems on the London Underground.

Lockerbie: At Lockerbie the 1139 TPE to Glasgow Central pauses.

Edinburgh Waverley: The platforms 5 & 6 works site at Waverley seen looking east from the cross-station walkway on 8 February 2018. The eerily quiet and deserted site on this particular Thursday morning was a result of the failure of construction and facilities management company Carillion 4 weeks earlier.

Waterloo: On view at Waterloo station concourse - an enlarged replica of the Waterloo Campaign Medal, given to all the Allied soldiers. The plaque was installed on behalf of the Waterloo 200 Charity by the London Mint Office Limited, on the 10th June 2015.

Edinburgh Waverley: Going up! The one operational 'up' escalator alongside Waverley Steps carries a steady stream of customers from the station up to Princes Street on 8 February 2018. The steps themselves were fully operational in both directions. The shot gives a wide view of the wall of Princes Mall decked out in what appears to have become the official 'Waverley cladding' see image [[62530]].

Lockerbie: The 1139hrs TPE service from Manchester Airport to Glasgow Central pulls away from Lockerbie on Thursday 8th February 2018.

Edinburgh Waverley: ScotRail 156510 at the buffer stops of Waverleys recently extended platform 12 on 8 February 2018. The train is the 1027 service to Glasgow Central via Shotts. The hoarding around the works is still to be removed and meantime continues to provide a useful location for the Network Rail recruitment poster.

Edinburgh Waverley: The Waverley 'sub' platforms looking east towards the cross-station walkway on 8 February 2018, with the 1023 to Helensburgh Central awaiting departure time at platform 8. The passenger at platform 9 is an early arrival for the 1052 VT service to Euston (scheduled to work in at 1017 as the 0616 from Birmingham New Street.). Although still limited in the amount of natural light received, due to being 'hemmed in' on all sides, this end of the sub platforms benefitted considerably from the new canopies and lighting installed in 2014 see image [[12512]].

Shildon: The 12.25 Bishop Auckland to Saltburn departs from Shildon on 8 February 2018, with the 'Locomotion' out-base of the National Railway Museum in the distant right.

London Euston: The Lowland Caledonian Sleeper, hauled by 92043, photographed soon after arrival at Euston in February 2018. The new Mark 5 Sleeper coaches will not now be introduced until October 2018. [See recent news item]

Edinburgh Waverley: No signs of activity in or around the platform 5 & 6 works compound at Waverley, seen looking east from the cross-station walkway on the morning of 8 February 2018. Just visible on the right is the rear of the 1030 to Glasgow Queen Street at platform 11, while the sleeper locomotive stabled alongside the south wall is 92018.

Morecambe: 68017 'Hornet' arrives in Morecambe with a single flask for Heysham Power Station (and 68016) in tow on 8th February 2019. The train will reverse here to access the Heysham branch, which curves away to the right.

Craigendoran Junction: With Storm Erik's arrival, waves break over the sea wall at Craigendoran Junction.

Chisnall Hall Colliery: The dirt track heading eastwards is the former trackbed of the Chisnall Hall Colliery railway. The colliery was about a further half mile behind the camera. In the middle distance at the end of the green field on the right is a Pendolino heading south on the WCML. The colliery line joined the mainline in the middle distance on the left at Coppull Hall Sidings. The old OS Maps show that there had also been a brick works in this area. Photo taken on Hic-bibi Lane at NGR SD555125 while the background is dominated by Winter Hill.

Craigendoran Junction: Storm waters strike the sea wall at Craigendoran Junction in February 2019.

Craigendoran Upper: Blocked off steps which formerly ran up to the island platform of Craigendoran.

Morecambe Euston Road: Station Road in Morecambe is one of those modern day anomalies where the present day station is nowhere near it. This street led to the LNWR's Morecambe Euston Road, which was sited where the flats and sheltered accommodation have since been built. The open area was once the station forecourt. After several years of only opening for summer excursion trains Euston Road finally closed completely in 1962 with all services then operating from Morecambe Promenade.

Morecambe Junction: The points at Morecambe Junction are still manually operated by the traincrew from a ground frame, as seen here on 8th February 2019. 68016 'Fearless' is waiting to access the Heysham branch with an empty flask for the nuclear power station.

Woodacre Crossing: The daily train of box wagons from Hardendale to Tunstead is almost invariably entrusted to one of the low geared Freightliner 66s. 66601 crosses the Grizedale Brook at Woodacre heading south on 24th January 2020.

Kenyon Junction: 319369, working from Lime Street to Manchester Airport, has just passed through the tunnel like bridge at Kenyon Lane and is approaching the site of Kenyon Junction on 8th February 2021.

Lowton: 195123 slowly negotiates the tight curve at Lowton as it approaches Golborne Junction and the WCML heading to Windermere from Manchester Airport on 8th February 2021. This is the site of Lowton station, which closed in 1949, and the remains of a platform can be seen on the right. The old ramp to the other platform is now used for engineer access. The signal above the train controls Lowton Junction, providing links to the east and west facing junctions with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.

Newton-le-Willows Junction: TfW 175003 has just passed under the M6 and through Newton-le-Willows Junction, once known as Parkside Liverpool Junction, where the chord to Lowton and Golborne Junctions diverges. This is a Llandudno to Manchester Airport service now taking the L&M route eastwards on 8th February 2021.

Kenyon Junction: Over fifty years after the last train ran on the Leigh Loop, between Kenyon Junction and Patricroft, the trackbed running north east from Kenyon Junction is still easily spotted. This view is from the B5207 overbridge in February 2021, with the old station site behind the camera. A short distance to the north of here the trackbed meets the East Lancashire Road and beyond that the A579 Atherleigh Way road, to Leigh and Atherton, has been built on the alignment, also obliterating several closed station sites.

Lowton: Lowton Junction, at the north end of the Parkside triangle, seen from half way along the curve from Newton-le-Willows Junction in February 2021. Lowton station was just beyond the junction and served both lines before closure in 1949. This chord, the short stretch of L&M to Earlestown and the link back to the WCML from Earlestown were all electrified around 1972 but it was nearly fifty years later that the other sides of the triangle and the Liverpool and Manchester route caught up.

Kenyon Junction: TPE 802211, from Lime Street to Newcastle, is running between Parkside Junction and Kenyon Junction on 8th February 2021. The train is approaching the tunnel like bridge under Kenyon Lane that spans the deep cutting. These bi-mode trains can operate from the overhead wires between Liverpool and Manchester but then it is diesel power over the Pennines.

Slochd Summit: 66304 and 66426 double head the southbound container train from Inverness to Mossend, away from Slochd Summit down towards Slochd Viaduct, on 8th February 2021. 66304 broke down the previous week, hence the double header on this day.

Newton-le-Willows Junction: A view towards Newton-le-Willows Junction (by the M6 bridge), from about half way along the curve from Lowton Junction, on 8th February 2021. The less than shiny rails confirm this curve sees only limited trains, although a single Glasgow to Liverpool TPE EMU runs this way in the 2020 timetable, rather than through St. Helens, and the Seaforth - Mossend container trains also take this route.

Slochd Viaduct: A wintry scene at Slochd Viaduct on 8th February 2021. It is -4C with the snow round half a metre deep. 4D47 container train is hauled south over Slochd Viaduct, double headed by 66304 and 66246.

Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: A mathematical puzzle: If 66004 picks up 4 Cargowaggons from the siding nearest to the Eddie Stobart warehouse, backs them onto the rake in the other siding, pulls a total of 12 wagons out, then deposits 6 in the siding outside the warehouse; then puts the rest of the waggons back in the siding adjacent to the Northampton loop; how many waggons are now in the siding next to the main line?

Parkside [1st]: Despite palisade fences, raised parapets, gantries and vegetation it is still just possible to get some pictures around the Parkside triangle. 802212 is passing the Huskisson Memorial on the last leg of a Newcastle to Liverpool journey on 8th February 2021. (Photo incidental to an essential permitted journey).

Parkside [1st]: 323236 at Parkside with a Manchester Airport to Lime Street service on 8th February 2020. The train is actually passing through the site of the first Parkside station, which was only open from 1830 to 1839 when a replacement opened just beyond the junction to the rear of the train. Parkside [1st] was of course the spot where William Huskisson was fatally injured by 'Rocket' on the opening day of the L&M and his memorial can be seen in the right foreground. It has been pretty inaccessible for the 170 plus years since the station closed.

Kenyon Junction: Kenyon Junction had four platforms and occupied a large site but it closed in 1961 and little remains. This February 2021 view shows part of the station site looking along the curving trackbed of the line from Leigh. The platforms and buildings, which would have been beyond the parked car, have all been cleared. The loop through Leigh to Patricroft finally closed in 1969.

Bowling [CR]: Substantial stonework still in place at the old CR/LMS station at Bowling, and a small nameplate, as seen on 8th February 2022.

Bowling [CR]: Display board at the community garden project at Bowling, showing the history of the old Caledonian/LMS railway station which the project has been based around.