Stainton Junction: The stub of the Waverley route in February 1982, just east of the the point at which it crossed over the WCML at the south end of Kingmoor Yard.

Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yard: A redundant Cravens breakdown crane stands in the sidings opposite Kingmoor depot on 20 February 1982.

Carlisle Kingmoor Marshalling Yard: Stored locomotive line at Kingmoor on 20 February 1982 with 25082 awaiting its fate. On a happier note, the locomotive to its immediate left, 40122, was to be removed to subsequently metamorphose into the celebrity D200.

Aviemore Speyside: Taken on the 20 February 1982, Aberdeen Gasworks 0-4-0DM Simplex hauling a consist of a dead NBL shunter, a dead BR Class 44 No 44008 and a coach. Seen here approaching Aviemore engine shed.

Cupar: The goods yard and shed alongside Cupar station, photographed on 20 February 1990, before being swept away to make way for a car park.

Barnstaple: Scene at Barnstaple during the evening of 20 February 1991 as class 37 no 37146 leaves the station hauling a failed DMU.

Llangollen: Looking over the River Dee towards the restored Llangollen Station on 20 February 1991 see image [[32402]].

Crigglestone Junction: 58008 passing the now demolished Crigglestone Junction signal box on Pathfinder's Standedge Stomper on 20 February 1994. See image [[28049]] for a near identical view 20 years earlier.

Crigglestone Junction: 58008 between Crigglestone Junction and former Crigglestone West Station with the Pathfinder Standedge Stomper on 20 February 1994.

Ayr Harbour: The seasale transshipment point in Ayr Harbour. Coal from here is exported to Northern Ireland. This location was originally served by the Ayr Waggonway which ran east from here to serve mines east of the town.

Jing Peng: A pair of QJ 2-10-2 locomotives hauling a heavy freight over Shangdian Summit in the Jing Peng pass, part of the Ji-Tong Railway in North East China. Photographed on 20 February 2002.

Jing Peng: A pair of QJ 2-10-2 locomotives crossing a bridge in the Jing Peng pass, north east China, with a heavy freight. Photographed on 20 February 2002.

Eddleston: The old station building at Eddleston in February 2004.

Lugar: View looking west to Lugar station. This line was to be re-opened to Powharnal (Gaswater). To the left are bings from the Lugar Ironworks.

Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box: A view of the interior of Cronberry No 4 Pit Signal Box in 2005.

Cronberry Junction: View looking east at Cronberry Junction. To the left is the mainline to Auchinleck and to the right the Ayr and Cumnock line. See image [[39529]]

Gass Water Branch Junction: View east at Gass Water Branch Junction in 2005. The Muirkirk line runs straight ahead and the branch was to the right of the remaining structures. Spelling of Gass Water varies with Gaswater, Gas Water, Gasswater and Gass Water all in use.
The rump of the Muirkirk line remained open to this junction to serve Cairnhill (on the Gass Water branch) until 1976. See image [[53735]] for Bill Roberton's view of the exchange sidings two years before closure.
The Wellwood Opencast loading Disposal Centre was more than two miles east of here and on the main line, not the Gass Water branch and not related to Cairnhill.

Stranraer: Aerial view of Stranraer Harbour with the closed Stranraer Town at top centre.

Highhouse Colliery: Highhouse Colliery, Auchinleck, headframe still stands as a memorial.

Auchinleck: Auchinleck looking west to the station from the former junction for Muirkirk. There was originally an engine shed in the v of the junction. The bridge over the road has been altered since closure of the Muirkirk line.

Gilmilnscroft Junction: To the east of the junction at Auchinleck this bridge crosses the trackbed. View looks east.

Gilmilnscroft Junction: To the east of the junction at Auchinleck this bridge crosses the trackbed. Unusual graffiti. View looks north west.

Auchinleck: PW train heads south at Auchinleck. Viewed from the trackbed of the former Muirkirk line.

Commondyke: Looking east towards Cronberry the closed at Commondyke station. The line through here, from Auchinleck to Powharnal, is due for re-opening.

Livingston North: A morning Bathgate - Newcraighall train leaving a cramped Livingston North in February 2006. Little did we know... see image [[25336]]

Tweedbank: Initial plan of Tweedbank station as at 20 February 2007, (subject to change), a double track island platform with central platform access from the buffer end and parking for 280 cars.

Tweedbank: The next train for Edinburgh Waverley will leave in 2011 (current proposal)... Looking back towards Galashiels from alongside the proposed Waverley Line terminus at Tweedbank in February 2007. [See station plan]

Tweedbank: The current access and waiting facilities at Tweedbank in February 2007... these will be upgraded prior to the reopening of the line see image [[62252]].

Bogside Fife: The surviving signal box standing alongside the old Stirling & Dunfermline route at Bogside, looking south in February 2007. What is now a walkway is on the other side of the fence.

Callander (Dreadnought): Name on a bridge: at the east end of the site of Callander station on 20 February 2008. J Cameron Arrol and T Arthur Arrol founded Arrol Brothers in 1882. Their bridges appeared far and wide, with the Cape to Cairo Railway a route that still provides many examples of their work. Another interesting sideline was the construction of giant Ferris wheels - contracts included the building of the Big Wheel for the Earls Court Exhibition and the first Ferris wheel to be erected in Blackpool. However, one of their most famous structures still stands to this day and, at one time, provided the venue for a memorable meeting between a Mr Martins and a Mr Lime high above the Prater Park in Vienna. I swear I can hear a zither playing...

Callander (Dreadnought): A rainy day in Callander on 20 February 2008. Standing on the former station site and looking over what was once the Callander & Oban Railway route west, now part of the main town car park. See image [[6539]]

Callander (Dreadnought): The bridge that once carried Ancaster Road over the Callander and Oban Railway at the east end of Callander station, photographed on 20 February 2008 from what is now part of the town's main car park. For a photograph taken prior to closure of the line see image [[33783]].

Perth New Yard: View north over Perth New Yard on 20 February 2009, with only one track remaining. See image [[37655]]

Glenburnie Junction: 170 418 forms the 1159 Perth-Edinburgh service, just south of Lindores Loch on the Hilton Junction-Ladybank line

Uffington: 4965 Rood Ashton Hall leading 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe eastbound on the GWR mainline on 20 February near the village of Longcot between Swindon and Didcot.

Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 3. February 2010.

Crew Junction: Crew was an old toll cottage on the Ferry Road until the area started to become built up between the wars and the name acquired a final 'e', probably through association with the Cheshire town, as if its more rational spelling had been wrong all along. The junction on the CR Leith branch however retained the old spelling until the end.  The site is pictured here on 20 February 2010.  Left for Granton Goods, right for Leith North.  The red footbridge visible through the mesh fence is on the site of the short-lived bridge photographed by Frank Spaven in 1966 see image [[26659]].

Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 2. February 2010.

Craigleith: The platforms of Craigleith station on the CR Leith branch, looking north on 20 February.  As at Granton Road and Newhaven the ticket office was wooden and crossed the line at street level.  A widened area of the pavement on Queensferry Road shows the location.

East Pilton Halt: East Pilton was a late arrival to the CR Leith branch, opening in 1934 as East Pilton Halt to serve new social housing as well as an engineering works and a hospital. The site of the engineering works is now occupied by the flats seen through the trees, and the land of the old Northern General Hospital to the right now houses a supermarket. The meagre remains of the wooden eastbound platform, which last saw a train in 1962, can be seen here among the leaf and general litter on 20 February 2010.

House o' Hill Halt: The alliterative House o'Hill Halt on the CR Barnton branch was short-lived. Opening in 1937 to serve new housing (the station carried the suffix 'Halt' for its first year) and closing with the line in 1951. I've never seen a picture of it so don't know how substantial it was, but even to an experienced eye not a trace remains. It was situated on this side of the overbridge, seen looking towards Barnton on a frosty 20 February.

Murrayfield: The site of Murrayfield station, looking north, on 20 February.  A fragment of fencing remains on the Down platform (left) which is intact.  The Up platform has been broached to provide access and its southern ramp has been cut off.

Crew Junction: The bridge over the A8 at Murrayfield is the most conspicuous structure of the CR Leith branch to survive, but it's not the only remaining bridge. I would hope that at least some walkers and cyclists crossing Crewe Road North must be aware that this bridge can't have been built for them.  Though similar, this is not the same bridge photographed by Frank Spaven in 1966 see image [[26659]] - that has long gone - but the one slightly nearer Leith.  Photographed on 20 February 2010.

Aberdeen: Aberdeen station - mural 1. February 2010.

Bathgate Upper: Progress at Bathgate looking west towards Airdrie - sleepers laid out on the morning of 20 February 2010.

Bathgate: The new station footbridge under construction at Bathgate on 20 February. [Railscot note: Located 400m east of the current terminus, the new 2-platform station will include a ticket office (staffed during peaks), footbridge, lifts and stairs. Waiting shelters, ticket machines and call points will be located on each platform. A new access footpath will be constructed from the town centre and parking will be provided for 400 cars.]

Starr Gate: Almost ready for business. The new Starr Gate Tram Depot is nearing completion and is seen here from the Promenade sea wall. The two tracks on the left are the running lines with a depot access turnout while that on the right is a headshunt that terminates just behind the camera. See image [[31263]] of the same location four months earlier.

Blackpool (Gynn Square): With several km of tram tracks being replaced over the winter of 2010/2011, scenes like this, looking south at Gynn Square, are being repeated all over Blackpool. The road network is disrupted too with only northbound traffic allowed on the promenade from the North Pier all the way to Cleveleys. Trams should be running again over part of the system for Easter which, probably to the contractors' relief, falls much later this year.

Blackpool (Rigby Road): Where is that wiring diagram?. The entrance to Rigby Road tram depot has some intricate overhead catenary and pointwork. As the tramway is closed for another round of winter refurbishment the depot has been temporarily fenced off as seen here. Although the depot is know as Rigby Road, because that is where the main office is situated, the trams actually enter the depot along Hopton Road from Lytham Road. In this view in Hopton Road the line leading off to the left is the rarely used but still maintained and electrified emergency access route that approaches along Blundell Street and Princess Street.

Preston (Ribble Branch): First day of public service for E79960, on hire to Ribble Steam from the North Norfolk Railway for five years. The railbus was so popular that what should have been a 45 minute interval service became an intensive shuttle on the 3 mile round trip.

Strand Road Level Crossing: Railbuses are fun! Driver Green is the focus of attention for three young passengers as he leaves Strand Rd to return to the Ribble Steam museum on the first day of public operation with the 1958 built Waggon-und-Maschinenbau railbus E79960.

Beasdale: Beasdale Station's rustic waiting shelter located on the up side platform caught on camera during a station call at this request stop on 20 February.

Mallaig: 156492 stands at Mallaig during the 17 min layover following arrival from Fort William before starting out on the 5 hour 20 minute journey back to Glasgow Queen Street.

Beasdale: A tidy shuttered former station building on the south end of the up side platform at Beasdale on 20 February 2013. The building looks to now be in use as holiday accommodation.

Carlisle: 37425 + 37688 6Z40 Doncaster Decoy-Carlisle Yard. An unexpected but very welcome appearance of double headed 37s at Carlisle in February 2013. They stopped briefly in the platform and then raised the roof when setting off.

Glenfinnan Viaduct: Looking back from the 10.10 Mallaig - Glasgow Queen Street service on 20 February 2013, shortly after crossing Glenfinnan Viaduct.

Glenfinnan: Information recess at Glenfinnan Station with curved station 'nameplate' across the arch.

Glenfinnan: The signal box at Glenfinnan, looking east along the down platform on 20 February 2013.

Mallaig: Mallaig Station frontage and platform entrance seen on 20 February 2013

Bolton-le-Sands: DRS 37425 brings up the rear of a Heysham flask working heading south at Bolton-le-Sands on 20 February with 37601 leading. The train will shortly branch right at Hest Bank onto the chord for Morecambe.

Bolton-le-Sands: DRS EE Type 3s 37601 and 37425 trundle slowly southwards on the WCML at Bolton-le-Sands on 20 February. The train, comprising two empty flasks from Sellafield for Heysham Power Station, will take the chord at Hest Bank for the Morecambe Branch.

Bletchley: 66.198 hauls an empty car train North at Bletchley on 20th February 2015. Notice the mothballed flyover in the background, and the platform extension in the foreground.

Bletchley: A shiny 66753 with white lined buffers thunders North through Bletchley with containers on a Friday afternoon in February 2015. Notice the viaduct in the background, waiting for its new platforms as part of the East-West Rail project.

Lasswade: The site of Lasswade station in February 2015, looking towards the bricked up west portal of Broomieknowe Tunnel. Photographed through a gap in the fence, with the area behind the camera now a housing development. The single platform ran up to the left side of the tunnel mouth and the remains now lie beneath the undergrowth. The east portal of the tunnel is in an even more overgrown and inaccessible cutting just short of Bonnyrigg High Street (see image [[72346]]).

Bletchley: 92015 looks distinctly Continental in its DBS livery see image [[20123]] as it heads South through Bletchley with a long rake of Cargowaggons on 20 February. The Bedford line can be seen diverging from the WCML in the right background.

Bletchley: 66198 heads North through Bletchley on 20 February with a train of enclosed car carrying wagons.

March: Grab shot from a Cambridge bound train on 20 February looking towards the former locomotive shed at March, which is now used by GMED and GB Railfreight to service class 66 freight locomotives. I was surrounded at a table seat by three ladies, and at one stage had them all talking about trains...

Cambridge: Nature notes: The class 378 is a shy and retiring beast, which likes to hide behind any passing 170's. More seriously, 170113 - about to form the 1601 from Cambridge to Birmingham New Street - passes over the double crossover from the through lines to platform 4, while the 378 awaits time to head for King's Cross.

Cambridge: Yet more new technology for bikes see image [[40960]]. This steel channel alongside the footbridge steps at Cambridge leading up from platform 4 (view looks North) offers a handy alternative to squeezing your bicycle into a lift.

Cheddleton: USA 5137 in steam on 20th of February 2017, at Cheddleton on the North Staffordshire Railway.

Bridgetown: The Barbados Railway opened in 1873 running from Bridgetown to Bathsheba and Bellplaine on the east coast. It had a gauge of 3ft 6in with four British locomotives. Later converted to 2ft 6in and powered by Baldwin locos it closed in 1937 and little survives. However, in the Screwdock Museum in Bridgetown there is a small display of photos and maps of this little known railway.

Inverurie: The interior of the 'Coco Works' at Inverurie Station.

Calderpark Halt: The substantial Calderpark viaduct carried the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway over the North Calder Water between Broomhouse and Maryville stations. The only part remaining in February 2017 is the north east abutment, now hidden in the trees behind new housing.

Calderpark Viaduct: View south east over the safety parapet built across the solum at the remaining abutment of the Calderpark viaduct. The photograph looks over the North Calder Water, along the line taken by the viaduct and towards Maryville station. Hidden in the trees but just discernible in the gap, slightly left of centre, are the stables since built on the alignment of the railway.

Calderpark Halt: View south east along the solum towards Calderpark viaduct from near the site of Calderpark Halt. This is also close to the entrance to the former Glasgow Zoo. See image [[58364]] for the view in the opposite direction from the same place.

Calderpark Halt: Looking north west at the site of Calderpark Halt in February 2017. The redevelopment of the former Glasgow Zoo has eradicated the remaining traces of the railway at this point. The car park for the flats follows the line of the railway. See image [[58360]] for the view in the opposite direction.

Calderpark Halt: View south to the point where what is now Baillieston Road crossed over the line between the sites of Calderpark Halt and Broomhouse Station. To the right was Broomhouse Colliery, now a housing estate. The flats on the left were recently built partly on the solum, very near the site of Calderpark Halt.

Leith Walk: The welcome construction activity at the Shrubhill gapsite involves use of the former up platform for purposes for which it was never envisaged! Sadly the Powderhall refuse plant is to close next year and the branch with it. The council already has its eye on it for a cycleway. I understand though that NR will still have an option on the Abbeyhill loop trackbed so the junction at Piershill may not be dismantled.

Ferryhill MPD: Ferryhill turntable has been temporarily been removed for restoration by e-blast Ltd of Kintore.

Murrow West: The signalbox at Murrow West built in 1950 to replace the original which was demolished by a train. Running left to right was the GN&GE Joint line between March (left) and Spalding (right). To the left of the box and almost at right angles was the former M&GN line from Peterborough to Sutton Bridge. The two lines crossed on a flat crossing. With all the rails now gone the signalbox has been converted into a house and has a substantial extension built at the rear.

Postland: Postland station on the GN&GE Joint line between March and Spalding seen from the former level crossing over the B1166 road on 20 February 2018.

Murrow West: Looking west along the M&GN at Murrow West towards Peterborough, from a minor road that used to cross the line on a LC to the left. Although the signal appears in old photos the signalbox has been moved to this location from Horsemoor. Behind the camera the M&GN crossed the GN&GE Joint line on a flat crossing.

French Drove and Gedney Hill: French Drove station on the former Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint line between March and Spalding on 20 February 2018. The original brick station building has been supplemented with several single storey wooden structures. On the right the road crossed the railway at a level crossing; the signalbox that controlled it has also found a new use.

Cowbit: Another station on the former March to Spalding line that has found continued use as both residential and business premises is Cowbit. Seen looking south from near the site of the level crossing on 20 February 2018, the property between the SB and station building appears to be an addition after the line closed. However hidden by the SB on the southbound platform, a dog grooming parlour is located in what appears to have been a waiting room.

Musselburgh: 385103 passes Musselburgh on 20th February 2018 with a crew training run to Dunbar.

French Drove and Gedney Hill: The former signalbox at French Drove on the north side of the road, the station was on the south side (right). The structure appears to have been converted into domestic use and the windows in this end have been boarded over in this view on 20 February 2018.

Princes Street Gardens Cutting: 68007 Valiant emerges from Calton Tunnel with empty stock for the 17.08 to Glenrothes with Thornton on 20th February 2018.

Millerhill EGIP Depot: 385103 leaves Millerhill emu depot on 20th February 2018, bound for Waverley and test runs to Dunbar. In the right foreground is the Borders Railway.

Lancaster: Freightliner 90041 & 90045 take the Up Through line at Lancaster with a Coatbridge to Daventry intermodal service on the morning of 18th February 2018. The buffers on the right sit on the formation of the chord to Lancaster Green Ayre, closed in 1966.

Portobello Junction: 385103 passes Portobello Junction with a crew training run from Waverley to Dunbar on 20th February 2018. A CrossCountry Voyager approaches.

Cowbit: The former station building at Cowbit complete with poster display boards with a British Railways totem on one and the station name on a totem on the other.

Lancaster: 156464 pulls away from Platform 5 at Lancaster with a service for Barrow in February 2018.

Niddrie West Junction: 66078 passes Niddrie West Junction with Dalzell - Tees Dock empty steel carriers on 20th February 2018.

Newcraighall North Junction: 385103 passes Newcraighall North Junction heading for Edinburgh Waverley during test runs on 20th February 2018.

Postland: Although the station building has been converted into domestic accommodation, the signal box on the other side of the former level crossing at Postland has not been so fortunate. With slates missing from the roof, most windows broken and ivy taking hold it looks like it may not survive much longer when seen on 20 February 2018. A slight surprise was that the McKenzie & Holland lever frame was still in place.

Lancaster: A Virgin Voyager takes the Up Fast line through Lancaster with a Glasgow to Euston (via Birmingham) service on 20th February 2018.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Shortly before departure for Stirling, four coach EMU 385112 sits at Platform 1 in Queen Street High Level, which was extended in 2018 as part of the EGIP works.

Didcot Parkway: GWR 800-006 showing the coupling setup at Didcot on 20th February 2019.

Kilbarchan: Fifty three years since passenger services ceased, and about fifty since the track was lifted, the twin bridges at the north end of Kilbarchan station still dominate the village. Seen here on 20th February 2019.

Didcot Parkway: GWR 800-319 & 800-006 front ends, with 319 farthest from the camera, at Didcot in February 2019. No HSTs were seen in Didcot on this visit - they all seem to have moved north.

Hornby: The partly blocked off cutting on the right carried the former Wennington to Lancaster Green Ayre line just west of Hornby station. The line crossed the A683 on a bridge but, after the 1966 closure, that was removed and the road realigned. This view looks north along the A683 on 20th February 2019 with Hornby village and its distinctive castle visible in the middle distance.

Scorton [Lancashire] [2nd]: A grubby DB 66170 heads north with a fully loaded Seaforth to Mossend container train approaching the Wyre Viaduct at Scorton on a gloomy 19th February 2019. The hard working locomotive reminded me of another freight passing this same signal nearly forty years earlier See image [[21310]].

Challow: GBRf 66707 stopped in the loop at Challow Station in February 2019. (Pity about the pylon).

Didcot Railway Centre: GWR 2-6-2T 4144 operating the service in the Didcot Rail Centre on 20th February 2019.

Didcot Parkway: DB Schenker 66019 accelerating away from Didcot with train of empty wagons for the Somerset Quarries on 20th February 2019. The first part of the rake were well decorated but the rest of the consist were newly painted in DB red.

Didcot Parkway: GWR 165121 arriving in Platform 5 at Didcot with a train from Oxford on 20th February 2019. Note the newly constructed and massive car park in the background. The access ramp and steps from the station are also impressive.

Gallowhill Junction: New footbridge recently installed, but not yet open, at Gallowhill Junction on 20th February 2019. Viewed from north side of the lines. Another piece of my youth destroyed. I spent happy hours watching the trains from the old bridge See image [[67701]], especially the Jumbos shunting Greenlaw Goods by pulling rakes of wagons out on to the Gourock line and scuttling back in before a passenger train came.

Montfode Fuel Depot Sidings: On a wet and dismal Saturday morning DB 66 206 is stationary at the former Montfode Fuel Depot Sidings with a materials train in connection with weekend track relaying in the Stevenston and Saltcoats area. There are two stop markers on the track just in front of the locomotive. A second train hauled by Freightliner 66 544 appeared at the rear, uncoupled from its own train and moved forward to couple to the first train. These are the first rail movements on the bi-directional electrified line north of Ardrossan since 5th February 2021.

Donibristle Platform: 66305 passes the site of Donibristle Halt, with a Cupar (Leuchars) to Millerhill spoil train, on 20 February 2022.

Donibristle Platform: 66305 nears the site of Donibristle Halt with a train of spoil wagons from Cupar (Leuchars) to Millerhill on 20 February 2022. Much lineside vegetation has been cleared to improve performance and safety. Compare with image [[78661]].