Eastfield Shed: The days are numbered for these two K1s (62052 nearest the camera) as they brave a snow storm at Eastfield MPD on 22 February 1964.

Kelso Junction: A northbound D6850 with a Waverley route freight on 22 February 1968 passes D3885 held at Kelso Junction.

Hythe: A rare sight away from the Thorpe-le-Soken to Walton line by February 1977, a two car Class 309 unit photographed shortly after passing through Hythe, running ecs from Ilford carriage sidings towards Clacton.

Oxford: Now what's the term, Bicycle Park? One or two bikes outside Oxford station.

Chalmerston Loading Pad: View south east over the Chalmerston Loading Pad loop, which occupies a site similar to the former Burnton Loop see image [[55783]]. The original Laight Brae route to Watersite was to the left, now completely obliterated for the first mile. In the right background is the site of the Minnivey Nos 4&5 mine (opened in 1955 and closed in 1975) and the Burnton Washery. The site became the Scottish Industrial Railway Centre before relocation to Waterside. Pennyvenie 2,3&7 survived Minnivey, closing in 1978.

Pennyvenie Colliery Nos 2, 3, 7: The closed, but retained, line west of Pennyvenie Colliery in 2004. Not surprisingly there's been some tree growth on the trackbed.

Edrom: Looking east over the still remarkably preserved station and goods shed at Edrom in February 2006. 1 mile and 23 chains nearer Chirnside the Berwickshire line served a Trotters siding.

Glasgow Central: 37406 Saltire Society at Glasgow Central in the rain collecting the empty stock of the Caledonian Sleeper.

Glasgow Central: 37406 Saltire Society on the approach to Glasgow Central to collect the Caledonian Sleeper.

Alloa [1st]: Alloa update - view west on 22 February 2007.

Alloa: Looking north across the A907 at work on the entrance to the station car park and the old Wagonway Bridge at Alloa on 22 Feb. The sign reads Wagon Road Path Closed Ahead.

Alloa [1st]: General view looking east towards Alloa station (visible through the bridge) on 22 February showing various works in progress.

Paisley Gilmour Street: 66192 passing through Paisley Gilmour Street on 22 February with a loaded coal train bound for Longannet.

Paisley Gilmour Street: EWS 66163 approaching Paisley Gilmour Street on 22nd February with an empty coal train bound for Hunterston

Turku: VR 3231 and a sister locomotive in the process of running round their train at Turku station, Finland, in February 2008. The pair had recently arrived with a service from Tampere.

Leyland: A Class 156 calls at Leyland in February 2008 with a service to Liverpool Lime Street. The rather empty looking platforms contrasts with the new footbridge and platform shelters that are now present. See [[59582]] for a similar view in 2017.

Paisley Gilmour Street: 318268 departing Platform 3 of Paisley Gilmour Street with a service for Glasgow Central on 22nd February

Paisley Gilmour Street: 66192 after passing through Paisley Gilmour Street with a coal train on 22nd February

Paisley Gilmour Street: 314212 crossing Wallneuk Junction as it departs Paisley Gilmour Street for Glasgow Central on 22nd February 2008.

Paisley Gilmour Street: EWS 66163 brings coal empties west through Gilmour Street on 22 February on their way back to Hunterston.

Deepdale: View southwest along the remains of the Preston & Longridge Railway from St Pauls Road bridge on 22 February 2008 towards Miley Tunnel and Preston station. The remaining single track was still visible in places at this time. See image [[49302]] for the same location seven years later.

Deepdale: The former Deepdale station (closed 31st May 1930) on the Preston and Longridge Railway looking northeast from Deepdale Road bridge on 22 February 2008. Platform remains can still be seen amongst the undergrowth, which is more than can be said for the track.

Deepdale: Unusual old footbridge at the northeast end of Deepdale station on the Preston and Longridge Railway, photographed on 22 February 2008.

Limpetness Loop: Scene on the Rosyth Dockyard branch, alongside Caldwells paper mill on 22 February 2009. View is south towards Limpetness loop, which is located just around the curve.

Inverkeithing: Information overload ... Inverkeithing 22 February.

Inverkeithing South Junction: The approach to Inverkeithing South Junction from the Rosyth Dockyard branch on 22 February 2009, clearly once a double track route.

Sinclairtown [1st]: Redundant industrial tank engines rusting away quietly at a previously rail-connected works just south of the former Sinclairtown station in Den Road, Kirkcaldy, on 22 Feb 2009.

Eskbridge: View west along the trackbed of the Penicuik Railway about a mile short of the terminus in February 2009. The line has just entered the town at this point and, on the right beyond the second gate, where the information board is now located, stood the wooden platform of Eskbridge station, closed in 1930. The branch lost its passenger service completely in 1951 but remained operational until 1967, thanks to the freight traffic generated by the remaining paper mills along this part of the Esk. Part of the bridge over the river from which the station took its name can just be seen on the right of the picture, recently reduced to single lane traffic controlled by lights.

Leadburn: Old station house at Leadburn (station closed 1955), the former junction on the Peebles Railway for the Dolphinton branch. The house faces the A6094 with the main platforms still surviving at the rear. The line arrived from Pomathorn via a level crossing running in diagonally over the road from the left.

Kirkcaldy: 156 433, the only 156 so far to be repainted with the saltire logo, leaves Kirkcaldy with an Inner Circle service on 22 Feb 2009. [156s only appear on the Fife Circle on Sundays, being released from Edinburgh - Glasgow via Shotts services which do not operate on that day.]

Naval Base Junction: The line serving North Queensferry's first station and pier gained a junction when the Rosyth Naval Base opened in Edwardian times and this is the location where the lines parted.  The line from here to North Queensferry closed in the 1950s, but the relative newcomer survives.  The branch leaves the main line at Inverkeithing South Junction a mile in the distance, but the main line rises so quickly (for the Forth Bridge) that it is already high above on the Jamestown viaduct.  This seldom-used line retains a loop controlled though the ground frames at either end called Naval Base North and Naval Base South (in middle distance).

Brisbane Roma Street: Train approaching Roma Street from the west. Roma Street was the first station in Brisbane. It was the terminus of the 1876 Brisbane extension of the 1865 line which originally ran from Ipswitch to Grandchester (Bigges Camp). It is now a through station with platforms 1 and 2 used by the Inner Northern Busway and 3 to 10 by trains.

Kirkcaldy: A class 158 forms a 5 coach train with a Class 170 on a Sunday service to Dundee, seen at Kirkcaldy on 22 February. This mixed-stock configuration is quite common on trains from Edinburgh up the East Coast (more common that 2 x 170s) and is the usual arrangement for the two sets needed for the Edinburgh to Dundee stopping services on Sunday. The building on the left houses the newly commissioned lift to street level and booking office and was many months in construction. The building on the Down platform (right) dates from 1962 and is in the boxy style later used in the Glasgow suburban station rebuilding.

Leadburn: The approach to Leadburn in February 2009, heading south towards Peebles. The main through platforms are directly ahead, while amongst the trees in the right background is the filled in bay platform that handled passenger trains on the former Dolphinton branch (until 1933). A lengthy siding ran beyond the platforms to the left, terminating at buffer stops behind the camera. Part of the A6094 is just visible on the right, while the refurbished former station house stands behind the wooden fence.

Forth Bridge: No apologies for another picture of what is already Britain's most photographed (and famous) railway structure. From a distance the use of plastic sheeting to enclose the ever-moving scaffolding adds a touch of Lego to the original Meccano. Photographed looking south across the Forth on 22 February 2009.

Hilton Junction: The 1230 Grangemouth to Aberdeen container service picks up from Hilton Junction home signal on 22 February following a stop. The double line extension being installed over the Earn Bridge on the Ladybank Line can be seen in the background.

Ansdell and Fairhaven: There is little trace these days of the four tracks that used to pass through Ansdell and Fairhaven, the houses on the right of this picture having been built on the old trackbed. This view looks west from a modern footbridge and the remaining face of the island platform can be seen beyond the road bridge. Unfortunately the scheduled service to Blackpool South did not appear for the picture.

Brockenhurst: Heritage 'slam door' class 421 EMU no 1498 prepares to depart Brockenhurst on 22 February 2010 with the 14.29 service to Lymington Pier. See image [[30470]]

Kemble: A First Great Western HST southbound, one mile out of Kemble Station heading towards Swindon on 22 February 2011. Note the repairs to the previously collapsed embankment so vividly shown in the image. Neither a classic nor a traditional repair, but very effective.

Hayes Knoll: Swindon and Cricklade Railway's two Fowler shunters on PW work on 22 February 2011.

Helsinki: A Bombardier 'Variotram' operating in Helsinki on 22 February 2012.

Exhibition Centre: The train now standing on platform 1 is ... Barry the Barrel!.

Wakefield Westgate: Northern Rail former First ScotRail North Berwick route EMU 322484 calls at Wakefield Westgate on 22 February forming the 08.32 Leeds - Doncaster stopping service.

Princes Street [Tram]: Extensive Edinburgh Tram utilities diversion works taking place on the short section of Princes Street from South St Andrew Street to Waverley Bridge seen looking west on 22 February.

Helsinki: Two double-deck sets side by side at Helsinki on 22 February 2012. The nearer one is in the process of being propelled out of the station.

Wakefield Westgate: Northern Rail 2-car Pacer 144007 runs into platform 2 at Wakefield Westgate, to form the 08.39 service to Leeds via Wakefield Kirkgate, Huddersfield, Halifax and Bradford. This 'roundabout' journey will take 1 hour 48 minutes, whereas the direct service to Leeds takes 20 minutes or less.

Helsinki: A high - speed 'Allegro' at Helsinki Central forming the 14.00 for St. Petersburg - a joint venture between Finnish and Russian railways, journey time three and a half hours. Twenty years ago I think it was nearer 8 hours in coaches heated by a coal stove see image [[22503]].

Exhibition Centre: Photocall at Exhibition Centre on 22 February 2012 with (left to right) John Papworth and Bob Holmes of the Rotary Club of Charing Cross, John Yellowlees of ScotRail, Trevor Graham, Gordon Fairbrother and Cameron Shirra, all of Rotary, with 'Barry the Barrel'.

Helsinki: An EMU enters Helsinki station on 22 February 2012.

East Kilbride: Ongoing work in February 2013 involving the upgrading of the cycle track which nowadays replaces the the siding that once ran from East Kilbride Station to Mavor and Couson's engineering works at Nerston. The line which was just under a mile in length closed in 1966. The boundary wall of East Kilbride Juniors football club is on the right, while garden walls of houses in the East Mains area of the town are on the left. See image [[19670]]

Lambeth North: Exterior of the LUL Bakerloo Line station at Lambeth North, on 22nd February 2014. This station was designed by Leslie W. Green, the Underground's Chief Architect of the Edwardian period who died in 1908 aged only 34. It opened as Kennington Road, the temporary southern terminus of the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, on 10th March 1906. It was renamed Westminster Bridge Road on 5th August 1906, when the line was extended one stop to its current south-east London terminus at Elephant & Castle, and yet again to Lambeth North on 15th April 1917. The name 'Bakerloo' is a corruption of BAKER Street & WaterLOO Railway and a belated extension to Lewisham is now being studied and open to public consultation.

Nunhead: 465151 to Blackfriars arriving at Nunhead on 22nd February 2014. The line here was originally opened by the LC&DR, from a junction with its main line at Brixton to Crystal Palace High Level on 1st August 1865. On 1st February 1871, Nunhead opened and became the junction for the branch to Greenwich Park, that closed in 1917, and in 1892 the Catford Loop made Nunhead a three-way junction. The present station opened on a new site slightly to the north-west on 3rd May 1925 with part of the Greenwich Park branch reopening on 7th July 1929 together with a new connection into Lewisham. The line to Crystal Palace High Level had long been relegated to a branch from Nunhead but trains to that elaborate terminus ceased in 1954.

Sheriffhall City Bypass Overbridge: Work in progress on the bridge that would carry the Edinburgh City Bypass over the Borders Railway, seen here looking north on 22 February 2014. At this stage construction of the 'concrete box' is essentially complete, with infilling of the breach underway on both sides. Meantime road traffic continues to run past the works site on the temporary diversion route just beyond. The first tracklaying train passed below the bridge in October that year, with ScotRail crew training trips getting underway in June 2015. The first fare paying passenger services commenced 3 months later (see image [[52489]])..

Glenesk Viaduct: The Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway's Glenesk Viaduct, viewed from the west in February 2014. The 1830 single arch spanning the North Esk was in the process of being prepared to carry the Borders Railway, which opened the following year. The structure in the right background is part of a former water tower dating from 1879. The octagonal tower, which stands on Dalkeith's Cemetery Road, was converted to a dwelling house in the 1980s and later adapted to incorporate a restaurant.

Sheriffhall [1st]: View west from the A6106 at Melville Gate on 22 February 2014 showing the original tunnel used by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. The replacement tunnel on the realigned route is off picture to the right. For a photograph showing both tunnels, taken by the eejit in the foreground, see image [[46447]].

Burntisland [1st]: The East of Scotland 4mm Group's model of Burntisland (Old) at Model Rail Scotland, Glasgow, on 22 February 2014.

Gorebridge: Trackbed preparation work for the Borders Railway underway at Gorebridge on 22 February 2014. View is north from Station Road. A long up loop left the Waverley route here and ran as far as the Gore Pit sidings (just around the bend) before rejoining the main line. In addition a short stub (capable of holding approximately 4 mineral wagons) terminated alongside a loading bank to the right, beyond which stood a local gas works.

Gore Glen Bridge: Looking south along the A7 towards the under construction Gore Glen bridge on Saturday 22 February 2014.

Christmas: Some eejit photographing the tunnel on the original Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway formation at Melville Gate, just south of Sheriffhall, in February 2014. For the unaltered version see image [[59434]]. [Ref query of 20 December 2017] …..Merry Christmas!

Glenesk Viaduct: The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's 1830 Glenesk Viaduct looking east towards Dalkeith from the banks of the North Esk on 22 February 2014. Sheriffhall is off to the left and Glenesk Junction to the right. The route is now closed off to walkers & cylists with preliminary work underway in preparation for the Borders Railway.

Sheriffhall City Bypass Overbridge: View south from the temporarily diverted Edinburgh City Bypass approaching Sheriffhall roundabout on 22 February, showing the concrete box through which the Borders Railway will pass located in the breached section of the original road.

Bathgate Central Junction: 334025 approaching Bathgate on 22 February with the 10.57 from Milngavie to Edinburgh Waverley.

Glenesk Viaduct: The view south over Glenesk Viaduct from the hillside on 22 February. The Dalkeith branch left the Waverley route at Glenesk Junction on the far side of the viaduct.

Partick: 318259 enters Partick with an eastbound service on 22 February. The platforms of the earlier station survive in the background beyond the Dumbarton Road bridge.

Gorebridge: A quiet Saturday afternoon at Gorebridge on 22 February 2014. The old station building looks on as the surroundings undergo still further change. Note the (extensive) new housing development taking place beyond the B6372 Lady Brae road bridge in the left background.

Gorebridge: The Waverley trackbed looking north from Station Road, Gorebridge, on 22 February 2014. In the background the route starts to veer right towards the Gore Glen bridge.

Stockton: A fully accessible footbridge at Stockton Station helps fill the void left by the loss of the station's overall roof in 1979. See image [[26891]]

Glenesk: The Waverley trackbed looking north towards Glenesk Junction on 22 February. The deck of Glenesk Viaduct can be seen in the background just beyond the junction see image [[46409]].

King's Gate Junction: Excavation works on the Borders Railway just to the south of the Edinburgh city bypass on Saturday 22 February 2014. View north towards the bypass.

Exhibition Centre: 334021 departs Exhibition Centre with an eastbound train on 22 February 2014 passing errr.... see image [[4786]]

NRM Shildon: A4 60009 Union of South Africa providing brakevan rides for visitors to the NRM site at Shildon on 22 February, while her sister locomotives look on.

Bathgate LMD: Class 334s in the sidings on the south side of Bathgate station on 22 February.

Lady Victoria Pit Signal Box: The trackbed running past Lady Victoria towards Newtongrange on 22 February. The bridge carrying the A7 Murderdean Road stands in the background with the houses of Station Road beyond. The new station site is on this side of the bridge.

Lady Victoria Pit Signal Box: The end. The old platelayer's hut that stood just south of Lady Victoria Pit reduced to flat-pack form on 22 February 2014. View south towards Gorebridge. See image [[42708]]

NRM Shildon: A4 60008 Dwight D Eisenhower on display in the yard at NRM Shildon on 22 February as part of The Great Goodbye.

Sheriffhall [1st]: View north towards the A6106 at Melville Gate on 22 February showing the tunnels used by the original E&D route towards Sheriffhall (left) and the later improved alignment, on which work is currently progressing on behalf of the Borders Railway.

Redbridge Viaduct: Looking north from Winston Road towards Galashiels on 22 February 2014, with the site of the old filled-in bridge now opened up. The footbridge spanning the trackbed between Galafoot Lane and Woodstock Avenue is visible in the right background.

Alloway: Former railway workers' housing beside the site of the goods yard at Alloway in 2015. The 1909 OS map shows this building and another smaller one - this would originally be two semi detached and the other detached - a pattern repeated at other stations. The original road access ran round the south of the yard, but now a new road has been built across the area it once occupied. The postal address remains 'Railway Cottages'.

Lamington Viaduct: A Monday morning Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street Virgin Voyager crawls south over Lamington Viaduct on 22 February 2016. The viaduct had reopened that morning after being closed for more than 7 weeks following damage caused by storm Frank on New Years Eve. Severe speed restrictions are in place with close monitoring being undertaken by Network Rail engineers, one of whom is standing on the temporary access bridge holding a measurement device of some kind. See image [[53760]]

Langholm: 'Discovered' on the NW retaining wall of Broomholm Bridge (RLB17 according to the relatively new painted work), a flush bracket.

The Trespass sign to the left of the goods yard's reversing sput buffer was carefully secured in the undergrowth. On return, months later, the bridge was gone and earth was piled over where the sign was - or maybe still is!

Lamington Viaduct: The 0725 First TransPennine Manchester Airport - Edinburgh Waverley passes slowly over Lamington Viaduct on the morning of 22 February 2016. The viaduct has reopened after extensive repair work following major structural damage caused by storm Frank at the beginning of January. The Network Rail staff are standing on the specially constructed secondary bridge which enabled plant and equipment to be moved to areas requiring attention. See image [[53760]]

Lenzie: EGIP progress: 170432 on the 11:17 service from Glasgow Queen Street to Edinburgh speeds through the recently planted avenue of OHLE masts east of Lenzie whose station footbridge can be seen in the background.

Cowlairs South Junction: After an effortless climb, 170408 on a Glasgow - Edinburgh service reaches the top of the Cowlairs incline and into the sunlight on 22nd February 2016.

Geilston Farm Level Crossing: Empties returning from the Lochaber smelter hauled by 66736 approach Geilston Farm Level Crossing. The 'W' to the left is for Brooks Level Crossing, one of the numerous crossings in the area. From Cardross to Craigendoran trains have to contend with Bainfield foot crossing, Cardross station crossing, Geilston crossing, Geilston Farm crossing, Brooks Road crossing, Ardmore (East) crossing and Moss Road crossing.

Woodilee Hospital: Looking east from Woodilee Village (built on the site of the former Woodilee Hospital) OHLE mast bases are already in place but so far only a solitary steel mast as an Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street DMU approaches on 22nd February 2016 see image [[8661]].

St Pancras: Shadows of St Pancras, February 2016

Lamington: Running north along the banks of the River Clyde at Lamington on 22 February 2016 is the 0725 First TransPennine Manchester Airport - Edinburgh Waverley. The train is accelerating after a slow-speed crossing of Lamington Viaduct, reopened that morning following a seven week closure to repair major damage caused by storm Frank. See image [[54263]]

Ordsall Chord: With the arches dropped into place recently, here is the view from the NE side of the new bridge over the River Irwell on 22 February 2017.

Ordsall Chord: A view of the new bridge on the Ordsall Chord on 22 February 2017, taken from a passing Manchester Victoria to Liverpool Lime Street service.

Edinburgh Park: A six-car 334 from the west nears journey's end at Edinburgh Park. On this part of the line at least 6 cars is a little generous and there is a move to reduce this in the future. In the background of the picture is a hotel catering for those who prefer a featureless, windswept location on the edge of town to the attractions of the city centre.

Maryfield Tram Depot: Maryfield tram depot in Dundee.

Salford Central: DB 66087 passes Salford Central with a loaded stone train heading to Hope Street, a short distance to the west, on 22 February 2017.

Maryfield Tram Depot: The interior of Maryfield tram depot in Dundee. The former depot is to now to be the new home of the Dundee Transport Museum.

Lochee: The former Lochee station building is now a Burns Club.

Lochee: 'The Miley' (the Miley Urban Wildlife Reserve Dundee) occupies a portion of the former railway running north east from the former station at Lochee.

Bromley Cross: A Manchester Victoria to Clitheroe service departs Bromley Cross and is about to rejoin the single line to Darwen on 22 February 2017.

Lochee: Lochee station's former Newtyle bound platform building seen between the billboards.

Bromley Cross: A service to Clitheroe departs from Bromley Cross on 22 February 2017. Two things caught my eye about this location, first the low height platform on the right and steps up to the building and second that Network Rail feel the need to cage the signaller. Are they that ferocious?

Shettleston PW Depot: Taking a rest from the nightly grind, a Strabag SF02 road-rail milling unit waits at Network Rail's Shettleston depot on 22 February 2017.

Edinburgh Waverley: 158710 waits at Edinburgh Waverley with the 10.24 service to Tweedbank on 22nd February 2017.

Manchester Victoria: In one of the two east facing bay platforms at Manchester Victoria a 3 car Class 158 DMU waits to head to Leeds. On the left are the Manchester Metrolink platforms, with a tram heading to Rochdale

Neidpath Viaduct: The former Neidpath Viaduct across the River Tweed, and a solitary fisherman, on 22nd February 2018.

Baillieston: Assorted plant sits on the rather rusty overbridge at Baillieston in February 2018. The bridge is now closed for demolition and the replacement is due to open to traffic in September 2018.

Donibristle Platform: ScotRail HST power car 43033, in the new livery, at Donibristle with the morning Haymarket - Dundee training run on 22nd February 2018.

Gypsy Lane LC: This is the former LC at the end of Gypsy Lane between Wisbech and Ferry on the M&GN line to Sutton Bridge. The view is looking south and the River Nene is out of site behind the banking on the left. The railway was between the banking and the gate. The old wicket gate and the 'Beware of Trains' sign were quite a surprise during the walk along the trackbed on 22 February 2018.

Baillieston: The 1007 to Dalmuir passes under the temporary pedestrian bridge on its approach to Baillieston on 22nd February 2018. The Muirhead Road overbridge which is being replaced had been reduced to a single carriageway with a weight restriction some years before.

Morecambe South Junction: Training of Barrow drivers on the Class 158s has continued in February ahead of their introduction on Furness line trains from May 2018. Former Scotrail 158870 passes Morecambe South Junction on a return working from Barrow Carriage Sidings to Preston on 22nd February.

Baillieston: Baillieston station in the distance (centre right) with its rusting road bridge in the foreground seen on 22nd February, shortly before it was due to be demolished. The parapet extensions were fitted when the line was electrified in 2014.

Morningside Road: Site of Morningside Road station platforms, Edinburgh South Suburban Line, closed 1962, looking west on 22nd February 2018.

Morningside Road: Former Morningside Road station entrance, Edinburgh South Suburban Line, closed 1962, now a newsagents, on 22nd February 2018.

Sutton Bridge [2nd]: The Cross Keys bridge at Sutton Bridge, looking east towards Kings Lynn on 22 February 2018. The former M&GN station was a short distance to the right and the railway used to occupy the right hand part of the bridge. Today both sides are now used by the busy A17 road and much of the former trackbed towards Kings Lynn is now covered by the A17.

Sutton Bridge [2nd]: The second swing bridge at Sutton Bridge on the former M&GN route from Spalding to Kings Lynn now exclusively used by road traffic on the busy A17. The first bridge here was used by rail traffic only however it was replaced by this structure with rail using the left hand section and road the right. After the closure of the M&GN both sections of the bridge are used for road traffic. The bridge does still open to maritime traffic on the River Nene from the quayside at Wisbech.

Ferry: The remote station of Ferry on the M&GN railway between Wisbech and Sutton Bridge seen looking north on 22 February 2018. The photo is taken from the top of the embankment along the River Nene. The railway was to the left of the station building.

Perth: Former Guards compartment in HST Power car 43034 in February 2019. Note the filled in windows, blanked off switches etc. The buzzers above the van doors are disconnected but the light switches work! The manual override for the parking brake is on the right with the GWML ATP equipment on the extreme right. This will be removed progressively by Angel Trains / ScotRail as it is problematic.

Perth: HST 43034's luggage van, otherwise known as the torpedo room/ The fire bottles are obvious, straight ahead is the MTU panel with the diagnostic stuff. However I am told that this will be removed, replaced by the wee box on top which uses magic moonbeams to send live information directly to MTU. 22nd February 2019.

Longridge (Lancashire): End of the line. One of two spurs of the Tootle Height branch in Longridge ran to Lord's Quarry. This closed around the time of WWI and is now almost completely filled in, as seen here from the trackbed footpath in February 2019, but the remains of a stone structure can be seen on the right of this picture.

Longridge (Lancashire): For a structure built to carry the horse tramway to Lord's Quarry over a minor track this is a very substantial and well built bridge. However, the Preston and Longridge Railway was built to get stone from the Longridge quarries that was used to build fine civic buildings in Preston (Harris Museum, Law Courts) so this may have something to do with it. A century after it carried its last stone train the bridge still stands in the public park that now occupies part of the quarry site.

Pyle: The Royal Train, running as 1Z60, passing through Pyle heading towards Port Talbot. 67005 was leading and 67006 trailing.

Woodacre Crossing: 92006 usually passes Woodacre during the night with the sleeper services, but on 22nd February 2020 it ran light engine in a special path from Carlisle to Garston Car Terminal.

Euxton Balshaw Lane: GBRF 92006, in 'sleeper' livery heads south towards Euxton Balshaw Lane on 22 February 2020 on a light engine move from Carlisle to Garston Car Terminal

Chivers Jam Factory: This photograph, displayed in the Pye room at the Cambridge Museum of Technology, clearly shows rails in the floor of the Chivers jam factory at Histon. There is also a human-powered wheeled trolley shown. Presumably the system was not immune to traffic jams.

Bispham [Tram]: Blackpool Balloon No.723 gets some temporary respite from the strong winds while reversing at Bispham on 22nd February 2020. This was half term week, hence the heritage tram running between Pleasure Beach and Bispham, alongside the usual Flexity services to Fleetwood.

Kemble: GWR 800-029 southbound to Paddington through Kemble, on the GWR Swindon to Gloucester line, at 0945 on 22nd February 2020.

Burlington Road: Burlington Road station? Blackpool Pleasure Beach surely? Burlington Road was a railmotor halt, between Squires Gate and Blackpool South, that opened in 1913 and closed in 1949. This view, taken from Burlington Road itself in February 2020, shows the Pleasure Beach station that was built on the site of the halt nearly forty years later in 1987.

Haymarket: 350402, in London Northwestern Railway livery, calls at Haymarket with the 06.07 from Manchester Airport to Edinburgh on 22 February 2020.

Golborne South: The goods shed at Golborne South, seen here in February 2021, is the only building to survive at the station site. Goods services finished in 1967, six years after the last passengers, but the building must have seen further alternative use as it is still in pretty good condition.

Golborne Junction: A pair of Voyagers head from Waverley to Euston at Golborne Junction on 22nd February 2021. On this short stretch of open line the four tracks from Wigan reduce to two, and then almost immediately diverge into two pairs of tracks. Those going left lead to the Parkside triangle while the WCML continues on the right down to Winwick Junction and Warrington.

Golborne South: 390050 heads south passing the site of Golborne (South) station, which closed to passengers in 1961, on 22nd February 2021. The tracks diverge where the platform once stood but the only surviving building is the goods shed, just visible on the left.

Blackford: Daily exercise on 22nd February 2021 interrupted by Azuma train from Perth to London at the level crossing. Still no track laid in the Highland Spring siding.

Haydock Branch Junction: The Great Central branch to St. Helens Central meandered across south Lancashire from Lowton St. Marys on the Wigan Central branch but in 1968, long after closure to regular passenger trains, a connection was put in from the WCML at Haydock Branch Junction allowing much of the line from Glazebrook to close. The connection is still in use today allowing stone trains from Shap, which are tripped from Tuebrook Sidings in Liverpool, to access the Edge Green terminal. This view looks east in February 2021, past the stone terminal entrance, towards the main line as the old branch climbs towards Golborne North but then curves left to the junction.

Culcheth: A view of the site of Culcheth station, closed with the Wigan Central branch from Glazebrook in 1964. In the early 1970s the council purchased a one mile stretch of the branch for £22,500 to create the Culcheth Linear Park. I am sure the many locals who use the facility will agree this was a worthwhile investment. The bridge is the only surviving railway feature. See image [[67583]] for the view from the other side.

Haydock Branch Junction: This remnant of the St. Helens Central branch survives in 2021 as a headshunt for trains to reverse into Edge Green stone terminal. This view looks towards Haydock and St. Helens with the terminal entrance and link to the WCML behind the camera. Although regular passenger services ceased in 1952 the nearby Haydock Park Racecourse station continued to receive special trains until 1963. Goods services ran through to St Helens Central until 1965 when they were cut back to Ashton-in-Makerfield. That section continued in use until as late as 1989 before closure. The last trains to use it carried bitumen, traffic that now runs to Preston Dock, and just this stub now remains.

Newchurch Halt: Culcheth Linear Park runs along the old GCR Wigan Central branch from the point where it crossed the L&MR near Kenyon Junction, down through Culcheth and on towards Newchurch Halt. The trackbed right of way runs out however just by this bridge, which carries the A574 over the old railway. Newchurch Halt, which opened as late as 1943, was just a little further on. It closed with the line in November 1964.

Boar's Head: The Mountsorrel to Carlisle New Yard loaded ballast train heads north at Boars Head Junction on the WCML, with Colas 70815 working hard on the climb to the summit near Coppull, on 22nd February 2022. The junction, near the back of the train, was a south facing connection to the WCML from White Bear and Red Rock.

Rotherham Central: Rotherham Central, largely dried off following the flooding seen in image [[80039]].

Lancaster: There wasn't going to be another opportunity for this! Lancaster station at 22.22 and 22 seconds on 22.2.22.