Tarbolton: Ayr based 'Crab' 2-6-0 no 42910 photographed near Tarbolton on 30 March 1959 with a coal train from Kirkconnel bound for Ayr Harbour.

Ayr: Hurlford based BR Standard 3MT Mogul no 77017 waits for the road at the south end of Ayr station on 30 March 1959 with a train for Dalmellington.

Belston Junction: Ex-Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 no 57644 heading south from Belston Junction on 30 March 1959. The train is about to cross the bridge over the B7046 at Sinclairston, East Ayrshire. The empty mineral working is trip K37 to Littlemill Colliery. [Ref query 20 January 2019]

Tarbolton: Caley 'Jumbo' 0-6-0 57364 passing through Tarbolton station on 30 March 1959 with a coal train from Bank Junction destined for Ayr Harbour.

Belston Junction: Ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 57644 passing Belston Jct on 30 March 1959 with trip K37 to Littlemill.

Failford Viaduct: Horwich Mogul 42910 photographed near Failford, South Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959 with a Kirkconnel - Ayr Harbour coal train. [Ref query 5738]

Ayr: Ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 44330 takes over a Glasgow - Girvan semi-fast at Ayr in March 1959.

Ayr: A train from Dalmellington arrives at Ayr on 30 March 1959 behind class 2P 4-4-0 40665. From here the train will continue on to Kilmarnock see image [[62305]].

Belston Junction: An Ayr bound freight stands in the loop at at Belston Junction on 30 March 1959. Fowler 4F 0-6-0 44329 is at the head of trip working K45 from Littlemill Colliery.

Dykes Junction: An ex-Caledonian 0-6-0 approaching Dykes Junction, Ayrshire, propelling a brake van on 30 March 1959. The guard appears to be making advance preparations for the next manoeuvre. [Ref query 1650]

Ayr: Diesel shunter D3563 about to pass south through Ayr station on 30 March 1959 with the Glengall goods trip.

Drongan: The Twins - ex-Caledonian 0-6-0s 57628 and 57615 - approaching Drongan from Belston Junction on 30 March 1959 with combined trips K28 and K29 from Littlemill Colliery heading for Ayr. [Ref query 25068]

Ayr: A train from Kilmarnock runs into Ayr station's platform 1 on 30 March 1959 behind BR Standard tank 80030.

Ayr: Class 2P 4-4-0 40665 departing from Ayr on 30 March 1959 with a Dalmellington - Kilmarnock train.

Drongan: Ex-LMS 4F 0-6-0 44329 at Drongan on 30 March 1959 with trip K45 to Littlemill Colliery.

Tarbolton: Scene at Tarbolton, Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959, some 16 years after the station had closed to passengers. View is east towards Mauchline. For the same view approximately 38 years later see image [[53908]].

Carlisle: Jubilees in the rain. 45697 Achilles stands at platform 1 of Carlisle station on a thoroughly miserable looking March day in 1961. The locomotive has just taken over the late-running 9.10pm Euston - St Enoch from classmate 45639 Raleigh standing alongside. The train, due away from Carlisle at 5.18am, was photographed on this particulay day with the time approaching 11.9am.

Eden Viaduct [Etterby]: A train on the WCML about to cross the Eden at Etterby heading north from Carlisle in March 1961.

Uplawmoor [1st]: The 4.14pm from Glasgow Central arrives at Uplawmoor for the last time on 30 March 1962.

Uplawmoor [1st]: An empty DMU set leaves Uplawmoor station to run to Lugton where it will reverse. The photograph was taken on 30 March 1962, the penultimate day of passenger services to Uplawmoor.

Shilford Summit: In the hills above Shilford on a spring afternoon in late March 1962. The train is the 5.12pm Glasgow Central - Uplawmoor and the locomotive is Fairburn 2-6-4 tank 42056.

Neilston High: A DMU approaching Neilston High from Uplawmoor on 30 March 1962 with the last passenger service of the day. [Ref query 6566]

West Kilbride: The daily pick-up goods on the Largs branch returning south on 30 March 1963. Photographed between Fairlie and West Kilbride behind one of Ardrossan shed's black 5s. See image [[36998]] [With thanks to Colin Miller]

Polmadie Shed: The end of the road for four of Polmadie's Clans, pictured at 66A on 30 March 1963. Nearest the camera is 72003 (72000 was the missing one). The Britannias had taken over their long distance duties, and the Standard 5MTs were perfectly capable of their other ones.

Nottingham Victoria: Bulleid West Country Pacific no 34102 Lapford seen shortly after arrival at a murky Nottingham Victoria with a football special from Southampton on Saturday 30 March 1963.

Largs: The signal box and locomotive facilities at Largs in March 1963, complete with turntable.

Wemyss Bay: Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42060 with a train at Wemyss Bay in March 1963.

Wemyss Bay: Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42245, sporting a 66D (Greenock Ladyburn) shedplate, brings a train into Wemyss Bay on a murky March afternoon in 1963.

Balornock Shed: Caprotti Standard 5MT 4-6-0 73146 is looking very presentable at its home shed of St Rollox on 30 March 1963. Not sure where its destination might be - the only clue is the headboard of '123'. Black 5 45396 looks on with interest.

Largs: View over Largs goods yard on Saturday 30 March 1963, with the station on the far left.

Largs: General view over Largs station on Saturday 30 March 1963. Platforms 2 and 4 are occupied, as are the two sidings, with ECS in the first and coal wagons (hidden) beyond. Part of the large goods yard stands on the far right of the picture see image [[36931]].

Nottingham Victoria: Never an easy location for a photograph, even on a bright and sunny day, Nottingham Victoria in rain and mist presented something of a challenge. Saturday 30 March 1963 was such a day, with unrebuilt Battle of Britain Pacific 34054 Lord Beaverbrook adding to the atmosphere as it arrives through the murk with one of several inter-regional football excursions bringing fans from Southampton via the Great Central line.

Balornock Shed: The Polmadie Clans may have hung up their boots, but their sisters based at Carlisle Kingmoor were still regular visitors in Glasgow in 1963. Here is 72009 'Clan Stewart' at St Rollox MPD on 30 March awaiting its next turn of duty.

Nottingham Victoria: A special from Southampton at Nottingham Victoria on a dismal Saturday 30 March 1963, having brought fans north for the FA Cup quarter final against Forest. West Country Pacific no 34102 Lapford was one of a number of specials to arrive in Nottingham that day. [The result was a 1-1 draw, with Southampton eventually going through 5-0 following a second replay.] See image [[30764]]

Nottingham Victoria: Invasion of the Spam-cans II - Nottingham, March 1963. Another of the football specials carrying Southampton fans arrives through the mist and rain at Nottingham Victoria on 30 March 1963, this one hauled by Battle of Britain Pacific no 34054 Lord Beaverbrook. No doubt the floodlights were in use throughout the match at The City Ground that particular Saturday afternoon. See image [[30756]]

Nottingham Victoria: Unrebuilt Battle of Britain Pacific no 34054 Lord Beaverbrook stands at Nottingham Victoria on a grey and misty Saturday 30 March 1963 with a football special from Southampton. [FA Cup quarter final : Nottingham Forest 1 Southampton 1. Southampton eventually went through 5-0 after a second replay]

Largs: The goods shed and yard at Largs in March 1963 see image [[33992]].

Balornock Shed: 30 March 1963 and Ex-NBR J36 No 65287 is at St Rollox shed awaiting its next turn of duty. This loco and sister 65285 had cut down chimneys and boiler mountings for operating on the Gartsherrie branch.

Glasgow St Enoch: View of St Enoch station in the spring of 1963. The predominant advertisement on this occasion concerns the Grand National at Aintree, with a return excursion fare available at £4. [Editor's note: Reasonable as that might sound, anyone thinking of buying a ticket would have been better off putting the money on Ayala, the outsider who romped home in that year's race at a starting price of 66-1.]

Glasgow St Enoch: A sunny morning at St Enoch station on 30 March 1964 sees the SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour awaiting its departure time behind NB 256 Glen Douglas.

Airth: Ex-NBR No 256 Glen Douglas stands at the platform at Airth with Scottish Rambler No 3 on 30 March 1964.

Drumshoreland: NBR 256 Glen Douglas with Scottish Rambler no 3 during a photostop at Drumshoreland station on 30 March 1964. Originally opened as Broxburn in 1849 the name change occurred in 1870. The station, which closed to passengers in 1951, was located in the shale mining centre of West Lothian, signs of which can be seen on both sides of the picture.

Dunfermline MPD: J37 0-6-0 no 64585 on Dunfermline shed in March 1964. NBL Class D2 diesel hydraulic 0-4-0 no D2707 (11707) stands in the background.

Elderslie: Ayr shed acquired some B1s in 1963 and here is No 61197, the following year, indulging in some shunting in the Elderslie goods yard on 30 March.

Glasgow St Enoch: Ex-NBR D34 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas in the process of backing onto the SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour at a sunny St Enoch station on 30 March 1964.

Dalmeny: Ex-NBR 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas about to cross the Forth Bridge northbound on 30 March 1964 with the SLS 'Scottish Rambler No 3'. The special was heading for its next photostop at Dunfermline see image [[6929]].

Kincardine: Scottish Rambler No 3 on the level crossing at Kincardine station on 30 March 1964 behind ex-NBR no 256 Glen Douglas on its way from Dunfermline Upper to Alloa. The northern approach to the Kincardine Bridge can be seen in the right background.

Dunfermline MPD: Snowplough-fitted J36 0-6-0 no 65288 seems to be over a barrel on its home depot at 62C Dunfermline on 30 March 1964. 65288 was one of the last two steam locomotives to be (officially) withdrawn by BR Scottish Region in June 1967.

Kincardine: Ex-NBR no 256 Glen Douglas with Scottish Rambler No 3 on the level crossing at Kincardine station on 30 March 1964 during the leg from Dunfermline to Alloa. See image [[6479]]

Alloa Junction: View from 'Scottish Rambler No 3' on 30 March 1964, on the leg from Dunfermline Lower to Denny via Alloa Swing Bridge. The special is about to pass A4 60031 Golden Plover with a Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen train just south of Alloa Junction.

Clackmannan and Kennet: Photostop at Clackmannan for the SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour on 30 March 1964 behind ex-NBR 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas. See image [[6477]]

Airth: An impressive looking 256 Glen Douglas during a photostop at Airth with Scottish Rambler No 3 on 30 March 1964.

Bonnybridge [CR]: NB 256 with the 'Scottish Rambler' at Bonnybridge in March 1964.

Dunfermline Lower: NBR 256 Glen Douglas after arrival at Dunfermline (Lower) from Waverley on 30 March 1964 with Scottish Rambler No 3. From here, the train will travel back to Charlestown Junction, then along the north shore of the Forth via Kincardine to Alloa.

Greenhill Lower: Preserved NB 256 with the SLS/BLS Scottish Rambler No 3 from Bonnybridge waits at Greenhill Lower station on 30 March 1964 for V2 60835 to pass with the 3.10pm Aberdeen to Glasgow 'Postal'.

Denny: NB256 with Scottish Rambler.

Airth: 'Scottish Rambler No 3' stands at Airth on 30 March 1964 behind preserved NB 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas. See image [[24901]].

Airth: NB 256 en route from Alloa to Bonnybridge Canal.

Niddrie West Junction: NB 256 Glen Douglas stopped alongside Niddrie West Junction signal box on 30 March 1964 with Scottish Rambler no 3 during the leg from Bathgate to Dunfermline.

Dunfermline MPD: WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90386 stands on Dunfermline shed on 30 March 1964. The S&D line via Dunfermline Upper ran past at a higher level on the north side of the depot. See image [[23038]]

Alloa [1st]: Glen Douglas at Alloa. Note upper and lower quadrant signals and absence of Health & Safety

Airth: Airth signalbox Looking towards Alloa Junction.

Clackmannan and Kennet: The SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour makes a photostop at Clackmannan station on 30 March 1964. The locomotive is NB 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas.

Alloa [1st]: D34 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas taking water at the west end of Alloa on 30 March 1964 with Scottish Rambler No 3. The train will leave shortly for the next leg of the railtour, heading for Larbert via Alloa Swing Bridge.

Kincardine: Kincardine station looking east.

Kincardine: NB 256 at Kincardine station on 30 March 1964, with the bridge in the background. See image [[39356]]

Torryburn: 'Glen Douglas' with Scottish Rambler No 3 at Torryburn on 30 March 1964.

Airth: Scottish Rambler no 3 seen shortly after leaving Airth station on 30 March 1964. Airth signal box is on the left and ahead lies Alloa Junction.

Alloa Bridge: NB 256 approaching Alloa swing bridge from the north in March 1964.

Bathgate Junction: One of Eastfield shed's snowplough-fitted BR Standard class 5 4-6-0s, no 73108, about to run east through Bathgate Junction with an Edinburgh bound train on 30 March 1964. The background is provided courtesy of the West Lothian shale industry. Note the ex-LNER articulated coaches. (The wandering photographers had made a temporary escape from Scottish Rambler No 3 during a photostop.)

Glasgow St Enoch: No 256 Glen Douglas stands in the sunshine at St Enoch station on 30 March 1964 preparing to take out the first leg of the SLS Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour. The station clock is showing 9.20, with departure taking place three minutes later at precisely 9.23 (according to John Robin's notes on the SBJ wesite).

Bathgate Upper: NBR 256 Glen Douglas at Bathgate Upper on 30 March 1964. The locomotive was on its way from St Enoch to Dunfermline on what was the final day of the SLS Scottish Rambler no 3 railtour.

Greenhill Lower Junction: 60010 passes Greenhill with Aberdeen train.

Greenhill Lower Junction: 45016 with northbound train at Greenhill as seen from Bonnybridge line.

Culross [1st]: Glen Douglas approaches Culross en route to Alloa

Dunfermline Lower: Ex WD No 90071 leaves Dunfermline Lower with northbound freight.

Culross [1st]: The much travelled <I>Scottish Rambler No 3</I> railtour, with ex-NBR no 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> in charge, makes a photostop at Culross station on 30 March 1964.

Bathgate Upper: NB 256 Glen Douglas photographed at Bathgate on 30 March 1964 with the SLS Scottish Rambler no 3 during a water stop on its way to Edinburgh.

Throsk: On an overcast March day in 1964, with snow on the Ochil Hills, ex-NBR 256 Glen Douglas brings the Scottish Rambler No 3 railtour south over Alloa swing bridge into Throsk. In the foreground is the line to the former Royal Naval Armament Depot at Bandeath, now an industrial estate and general storage complex.

Elderslie: Standard 4 2-6-4T 80112 pulls out from Elderslie with the 5.55pm from Glasgow St Enoch to Kilmacolm on 30 March 1965. A Class 25/3 diesel lurks in the background, waiting for the road.

Balornock Shed: A4 60006 'Sir Ralph Wedgwood' in the coaling line at Balornock (St Rollox) engine shed, after a morning run from Aberdeen on the three-hour 'Bon Accord' express. Also in the queue, on 30th March 1965, is Standard 9F 2-10-0 92015.

Polmadie Shed: A Carlisle bound parcels train about to run past Polmadie on 30 March 1965 behind Britannia Pacific 70007 Coeur-de-Lion.

Kelso: Solitary, stark pronouncement pasted to the British Railways notice board at Kelso in March 1968.

Dumfries: An unidentified 'Peak' with the 'Thames - Clyde Express' photographed during a lengthy delay at Dumfries station following a thunderstorm in the Spring of 1972.

Dundee West MPD: Clayton D8616 stands at Dundee West on 30 March 1975, more than 3 years after its official withdrawal from Polmadie. The locomotive had been used on this occasion for rerailing practice. D8616 made its final trip, to J McWilliams yard Shettleston for disposal, some 4 months later in August 1975.

Dundee West MPD: Looking southwest over Dundee West MPD and yard on 30 March 1975. The shed had closed in 1958 but was reopened in 1960 and used as a DMU depot until 1987.

Orton Junction: A DMU westbound past the site of Orton station on a March afternoon in 1979. The River Spey bridge stands in the background, with the trackbed of the long gone line from Orton to Rothes to the right see image [[25801]].

Inverkeithing: Looking north to the down platform building and station house at Inverkeithing on 30 March 1985. All would soon be swept away.

Tynehead: These two items of ex-BR hardware were photographed shortly before they went on loan to the now long defunct museum on Melrose station - the Eskbank & Dalkeith totem has since been retrieved but I haven't seen the Tynehead running-in board for many years. (If anyone happens to know of its whereabouts...)

Settle: 4472 'Flying Scotsman' working The Cumbrian Mountain Express on 30 March 1991, climbing from Settle Jct, over the A65 road towards Settle station. The tour had started at Kings Cross but 4472 only came on at Blackburn to work the final leg of the outward journey to Carlisle. The return trip that day was hauled by 60009 then running as 'Osprey'.

Embsay: Ex NCB 0-6-0ST S.121 brings a train back to Embsay on 30 March 1991. On the right is an ex CEGB Barclay shunter and next to that is ex BR Class 14 D9513, preserved as NCB No 38 See image [[48205]].

Gorgie Tram Depot: Part of the former Gorgie tram depot in Westfield Road, Edinburgh, in March 1992. The structure had been adapted for use by the adjoining bonded warehouse in the late 1950's. All now demolished.

Milngavie: 320 314 stands at Milngavie in March 1993 with a Springburn service, then the usual destination. Platform 2 track shows light usage.

New Cumnock: A Carlisle - Glasgow train formed by 156 450 enters New Cumnock on 30 March 1998.

Carluke: 303021 forming a Partick - Carstairs (Mon-Fri only) service stops at Carluke on 30 March 1998.

Milngavie: A 6-car 303 arrives at Milngavie on 30 March 1998.

Glenwhilly: A second generation dmu in the form of Strathclyde Passenger Transport liveried 156502 passes through Glenwhilly loop on 30 March 2002 with the 10.00 Stranraer - Newcastle Central working.

Glenwhilly: A class 156 forming the 08.28 ex-Glasgow Central heads for Stranraer at Glenwhilly on a fine early spring day in 2002.

Killin Junction: View from the remains of Killin Junction Station. Trackbed on the right was the Callander Line, on the left to Killin. The remains of the famous signal box at centre.

Rosslynlee: The former station at Rosslynlee on the Peebles Loop, looking west over the site of the level crossing in March 2005. Originally opened as Roslin in 1855, the name was changed to Rosslyn 9 years later, before becoming Rosslynlee in 1872. The station closed along with the line in 1962 and has since become a private residence see image [[48289]].

Killin Junction: The former Killin Junction Station as viewed from the Callander line trackbed. The island platform is in the centre of the photo.

Glenoglehead Crossing: Looking south from Glenoglehead on the old Callander and Oban Line. The gradient from here southwards was 1 in 60 for 6 miles.

Glenoglehead Crossing: Derelict platelayers hut between Glenoglehead and Killin Junction.

Glen Ogle Viaduct: Looking north from Glenoglehead Viaduct.

Killin Junction: Looking towards Crianlarich, all that is left of the former Killin Junction Station.

Glenoglehead Crossing: The former Glenoglehead Station looking towards Killin Junction. The building is now two dwellings.

Crianlarich: A class 67 with the Fort William sleeper from Euston at Crianlarich on 30 March 2007.

Horseshoe Curve: View from the sleeper rounding the Horseshoe Curve on 30 March 2007.

Stirling Forth Viaduct [SandD]: Engineering team carrying out checks on the NB Forth viaduct at Stirling on 30 March as a train passes on the adjacent Caledonian viaduct.

Stirling: A train for Glasgow Queen Street during its lengthy layover in the bay at Stirling on 30 March 2007. The forthcoming extension to Alloa and back has already been factored into the turnaround time on these services.

Markinch: New interchange facility looking good on 30 March although a bit to go yet.

Markinch: Workers discuss the weekend ahead. Here is the SWT 158786 again. Markinch station inprovements on 30 March.

Kincardine Power Station: Loading activity in the sidings at Kincardine on 30 March 2007.

Glenrothes with Thornton: 156 733 calls at Glenrothes on an Inner Circle run.

Muirhead: Express for Edinburgh rounds the curve at Muirhead north of Markinch.

Stirling: A DMU from Glasgow Queen Street photographed during the lengthy wait for its return departure time in bay platform 10 at Stirling on a grey 30 March 2007. These services would be extended to Alloa on reopening of the SAK line the following year. Meantime, the layover period at Stirling had been increased to include an allowance to cover the future Stirling - Alloa return timing.

Horseshoe Curve: Looking back from the sleeper on the Horseshoe Curve on 30 March 2007.

Kyle of Lochalsh: End of the line at Kyle of Lochalsh on the 30th of March 2007.

Stirling North Junction: An early afternoon Perth - Edinburgh service passes Stirling North signal box on 30 March 2007. On the extreme right of the picture part of the route to Alloa can just be seen curving away to the east. The Alloa line officially reopened some 14 months later in May 2008 see image [[19427]].

Levisham: 4771 Green Arrow with a train near Levisham on the NYMR on 30 March.

Leeming Bar: Nighttime view of DMU 101678 at Leeming Bar on the Wensleydale Railway in 2008. The level crossing is behind the camera.

Garsdale: An infrastructure train heads south over Moorcock Viaduct on the approach to Garsdale on the 30th of March, 2008.

Blea Moor Tunnel: This view looks south from above Blea Moor Tunnel showing one of the tunnel vents in the near distance and the line emerging beyond. A southbound coal train, waiting for a northbound passenger train to clear the single track over Ribblehead Viaduct, can be seen in the distance. A large spoil tip is downhill of the vent.

Garsdale: 66528 approaches Garsdale from the south.

Blea Moor Tunnel: View north from above Blea Moor Tunnel showing one of the tunnel vents and Dent Head Viaduct beyond. The metal structure on the left is the original cap for the tunnel shaft.

Blea Moor Tunnel: A tip of material extracted during construction of Blea Moor Tunnel can be found on the west side of the line at the north portal. The tip sidings ran out from the portal. The open railway can be seen in the background with the line running left (from Dent) to right (the tunnel).

Levisham: 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley leaving Levisham on 30 March 2008 with a train on the NYMR.

Garsdale: Easy to forget in these days of Sprinters and coal trains that long distance and very fine trains once graced the S and C. Sunday diversion heads south through Garsdale.

Garstang Town: This deceptively quiet and peaceful cutting is less than 200 yards from the WCML and the M6 motorway. The location, now a private nature reserve, can be reached along a permissive pathway along the old trackbed from Garstang. The Royal Train was stabled here overnight on at least 2 occasions during WWII as a safe place on the way to Scotland. (Map Ref SD 505455).

Beattock: Looking to the main road from the former Beattock station. Stationmaster's house on right? Taken from the site of the station building at right angles to the line.

Beattock: Last remaining building at the closed Beattock station. It is on the former island platform. The cut back northbound platform is just a mound. The freight bypass down the other side of the platform remains in place as a loop often used to move heavy freight trains out of the way of passenger trains before ascending Beattock Bank.

Beattock: Looking north at Beattock. The cut back former southbound platform is to left and the Moffat branch bay platform to right. The platform here is now fenced off and inaccessible.

Peterborough (Nene Valley): Andrew Barclay J94 (ex-Wemyss Private Railway No 15) operating on the Nene Valley Railway on 30 March 2008. See image [[19178]]

Uphall: The current station at Uphall has undergone a number of changes and improvements since opening in 1986. New passenger shelters, a platform extension, CCTV, departure screens, ticket machine...now work is underway on building a second platform, widening the existing platform, increasing the parking facilities.... photograph taken looking east from the car park on 30 March 2008.

Ormskirk: Merseyrail EMU 508134 at Ormskirk on 30 March 2009. Photo looking south towards Liverpool.

Pitlochry: Having called on the way from Inverness to Glasgow, 170414 is ready to depart south from Pitlochry. The station buildings are in good condition as are other pieces of infrastructure such as the signal box. A local charity bookshop occupies the room next to the booking office. View north towards Blair Atholl.

Dalreoch: A large area of land between the line at Dalreoch and the A814 has been cleared of trees. About three feet of tarmac roadway leads to it from the car park and surveyors are at work. Could it be ... a new expanded car park?

Dumbarton Central: Platforms at Dumbarton Central are being re-surfaced. Even the trees in the former platform to the left are being cut back.

Inverness: First ScotRail Class 158 units line up at the buffers inside Inverness station. From left to right they are 158741, 731 and 702.

Ormskirk: Merseyrail EMU 507011 waits at Ormskirk before returning to Liverpool Central on 30 March 2009. Ormskirk station building on the old Up platform (now the only one in use) is undergoing extensive refurbishment at present and basic temporary facilities are currently in place.

Dumbarton Central: The box has seen a lick of paint and the CCE sidings are buried under ballast and equipment.

Pitlochry: A Glasgow to Inverness service, formed by 170403, calls at Pitlochry in this view from the station footbridge looking south towards Dunkeld and Birnam.

Ormskirk: Looking like it hasn't been through the carriage cleaning plant at Kirkdale recently, Merseyrail EMU 507003 waits at Ormskirk with the next service to Liverpool Central on 30 March 2009. The old down platform (now out of use) retains its building, although no longer in railway use and with some alterations.

Ormskirk: 153331 at Ormskirk station waiting to leave on the 1340 hrs service to Preston on 30 March 2009. In the background is a Merseyrail Class 508 emu waiting to head back south to Liverpool Central.

Inverness: Motive power line up under the trainshed at Inverness in March 2009 comprising (L to R) 158702, 158731 and 158741. On the far left 170403 can partly be seen having arrived from Glasgow.

Auchterarder: 66099 climbs towards Auchterarder on 30 March with the 4D47 Inverness - Mossend Intermodal.

Queens Park: Great Gardens volunteers Lee Ewens, Ross Connelly, Iain Borthwick and Angela Christie with ScotRail's external relations manager John Yellowlees (centre) with one of the new raised planters at Queens Park station.

Inverness: Mandi Dees with the award she collected on behalf of her late father Brian Bentham.

Causey Arch [Station]: Armstrong Whitworth D2 of 1933 at Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway on 30 March 2013.

Andrews House: Robert Stephenson 0-6-0T Twizell (2730/1891) stands at the platform at Andrews House station on the Tanfield Railway on 30 March 2013. See image [[29518]]

Marley Hill: A derelict saddle tank in the sidings alongside Marley Hill shed on 30 March 2013.

Cambois Shed: K4 61994 The Great Marquess heads 'The Wansbeck' railtour towards North Blyth on 30 March, passing the North Sea coast at Cambois. In the foreground are some of the scant remains of Cambois Diesel Depot. See image [[23983]]

Preston (Ribble Branch): Another high quality overhaul in the Ribble Steam workshops has seen GWR 0-6-2T 5643 returned to steam. For its first duties the loco was rostered for all RSR services over the four days of Easter 2013 but will then be going to a number of other lines on hire. The 56xx tank is seen here on 30 March with three coaches on the return leg of an RSR service.

Bathampton: A 158 heading for Weymouth approaches the former station and Bathampton Junction past a rather decrepit looking hut on 30 March 2013. The A4 dual carriageway provides competition to the right; but due to the angle of the sun, I had to cut out the hot air balloons taking off from the city of Bath. View looks South-West.

Andrews House: Robert Stephenson 0-6-0T Twizell (2730/1891) in action on the Tanfield Railway on 30 March 2013. The locomotive is seen departing from Andrews House with a train for Sunniside.

Svensta: Norrtåg X52 2-car Regina EMU built by Bombardier.
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Andrews House: Twizell takes a train away from Andrews House on the Tanfield Railway on 30 March 2013. See image [[42597]]

Cambois Shed: On a bright March morning K4 61194 The Great Marquess draws its train into the devastation of Cambois on the Northumberland coast. To the left the lines to the West Staithes have gone. In the foreground the Cambois Diesel Depot has gone. Behind the K4 Cambois Colliery has gone. Only the Grade 2 listed Pithead Baths remain on the right, slowly falling apart. In the distance the multiple chimneys of the Lynemouth smelter remain, although production here ceased in March 2012.

Bathampton Junction: A 158 running south between bath and Weymouth see image [[42584]] approaches Glasses Crossing on 30 March. Does this mean it is about to make a spectacle of itself? View north east, with the GW main line hidden by the hedge on the far side of the Weymouth line.

Marley Hill: Electric centenarian. Ex-NCB Westoe Colliery no 9 (AEG 1565 of 1913) looking dejected in the sidings at Marley Hill on 30 March 2013. The locomotive was last captured by the photographer in happier circumstances 30 years previously see image [[21419]].

Bathampton Junction: Looking East towards London and the site of Bathampton station (the white buildings just to the right of the unit) on 30 March, as the 17.08 to Gloucester comes off the line from Weymouth, heading for Bath.

Causey Arch: The historic Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway in March 2013. Dating from 1725, it is the world's oldest surviving single arch railway bridge. See image [[41776]]

Marley Hill: A former industrial 0-6-0ST standing in the sidings at Marley Hill on 30 March 2013.

Bathampton Junction: A class 150 Sprinter turns off the London bound Great Western main line at Bathampton Junction on 30 March to head for Weymouth. See image [[42821]]

Causey Arch [Station]: Twizell in action at Causey Arch on the Tanfield Railway on Saturday 30 March 2013. See image [[29518]].

Cambois Shed: K4 61994 The Great Marquess brings up the rear of 'The Wansbeck' railtour at Cambois, Northumberland, on 30 March 2013. K1 62005 is leading the train on its return to West Sleekburn. The overbridge in the left background once spanned the tracks running to Blyth West Staithes.

Marley Hill: Great Northern six-wheeled third (TZ in the LNER system) no 836, currently in store at Marley Hill on the Tanfield Railway in County Durham.

Marley Hill: Old coal wagons in the sidings at Marley Hill in March 2013, with NCB and Cowpen Colliery (South Blyth) markings.

Marley Hill: 0-4-0ST no 2 (Hawthorn Leslie 2859 of 1911) photographed on 30 March 2013 inside Marley Hill shed.

The Grain Store: You dont see a dual gauge flat crossing every day see image [[26525]]. This crossing of interesting construction is located in an extension to the main exhibition hall on the Statfold Barn Railway.

The Grain Store: You've heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Well this is the leaning Hunslet of Tamworth. Scene in The Grain Store on the Statfold Barn Railway in March 2014.

Woodacre Crossing: A Northern Belle (Mother's Day Luncheon) excursion heads north through Woodacre on a round trip from Crewe via Manchester to Carnforth and Hellifield. DRS 47841 and 47832 are in charge, the second loco in Pullman livery to match the stock.

The Grain Store: The Grain Store, on the Statfold Barn Railway, may not sound like an exciting location, but it contains a splendid collection of narrow gauge engines, mostly beautifully restored and powered by steam. A BLS special train edges across the turntable on 30th March 2014. Notice that some roads have dual gauge track.

Kirknewton: 156456 calls at Kirknewton with a Glasgow Central - Edinburgh service on a foggy 30 March.

The Grain Store: The impressive collection in the former Statfold grain store see image [[46824]] from the viewing gallery in March 2014. There is quite a variety of machinery, some exquisitely restored, others needing attention.

The Grain Store: A GNSR third class and luggage composite coach body in a small shed outside the main exhibits at Statfold Barn on 30 March 2014 see image [[46824]]. Notice the vintage tractor to the right.

The Grain Store: Another railway collection, another Fordson see image [[43942]]. This one, seen in The Grain Store at Statfold in March 2014, once operated in the Leeds area. Notice the splendid wall decorations in the background.

Droitwich Spa: Six hundredweight of chicken tikka masala, please. The weighbridge office at Droitwich has undergone an unlikely change of use to a tandoori takeaway. The weighing plate can be seen under the black car.

Droitwich: Semaphore signals and manual boxes - enjoy them while you can. A class 170 heads for Bromsgrove at Droitwich on 30 March 2015 see image [[7088]].

Droitwich Spa: A smartly turned out 150109 heads for Hereford at Droitwich Spa on 30th March 2015.

Moreton (Dorset): SWT 450020 Heads East towards Brockenhurst with the 0655 ex Weymouth on 30th March 2015.

Hereford: 60100 idles on the centre road at Hereford on 30 March 2015 with a Margam-bound steel train. 150109 has recently arrived alongside with a service from Birmingham New Street. The HST just visible on the far right will shortly leave for Paddington. Notice the new lift towers at each end of the footbridge see image [[32779]] - these are not in service just yet.

Malvern Link: The elegant waiting room and DDA-compliant ramp are both major improvements at Malvern Link, a station which previously had very basic facilities. Platform view in March 2015.

Hereford: 175003 (heading for Cardiff IIRC) looks very bright and cheerful at Hereford station compared to the steel train on the left and the HST on the right. View looks North.

Stanley Junction: Colas 60087 enters the double track at Stanley with the 6Z31 Inverness - Oxwellmains empty cement on 30 March.

Finneston East Junction: London Midland livery bringing some variety to the Clydeside Expressway.

Cowlairs Incline: A class 66 hauled works train slowly creeps up the newly laid track on the Cowlairs Incline.

Cowlairs Incline: Evening shift clipping new rails onto sleepers set at new lower level to accommodate OHLE.

Edinburgh Waverley: Even idling, 68 007 Valiant was audible over the rush hour traffic on Princes Street traffic so I popped down for a snap. Luckily I managed to get on and off the platform before the Revenue Protection Officers (if that's really what they're called) arrived for duty. The train is the 1707 to Glenrothes via Dunfermline. [Ed - after checking, David confirms that they really are.]

St Leonards Bridge Junction: Seen today on an Oxwellmains-Craginches working carrying cement for construction of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route.

Pitlochry: A main line service passes a loco built for 'Pitlochry in Bloom' by HMP Castle Huntly in 2002.

Bad Cannstatt: Bad Cannstatt is a major junction to the North East of Stuttgart. The train in the picture is a double decker push pull from Stuttgart to Ulm

Seaforth Container Terminal: A quick visit to Seaforth saw 70811 waiting on a trailer and the very interesting sequence of getting 70813, also on a trailer, positioned over the track between 2 cranes followed by a slow lift, trailer removal and then very slowly lowered onto the UK rail network.

Seaforth Container Terminal: Brand new Colas Rail 70813 being slowly lifted by two cranes at Liverpool's Seaforth container terminal on 30 March 2017.

Seaforth Container Terminal: Gently does it. Brand new 70813 being very slowly lowered onto the UK rail network.

Amberley Museum: The footpath from the station to the Museum is laid on the bed of the siding which connected the former quarry with the main line. View looks towards station, just after closing time on a rather damp day.

Colyton: Miniature tram waiting to return to Seaton at Colyton in March 2018.

Amberley Museum: This narrow gauge steam engine at Amberley was originally used in the Guinness brewery, and still has a somewhat pie-eyed look.

Amberley Museum: One of the more unusual exhibits at the Amberley Museum is this monorail, which is described as being used for highway construction. It is not in use, but looks rather sinuous.

Amberley: Amberley station looking somewhat in need of investment in March 2018. Most of the car park here is reserved for museum customers - if you park in the wrong place, you are liable to be locked in until the next day.
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Euxton Balshaw Lane: Freightliner 66618 slowly moves south at Euxton on 30 March 2018 with a freight from Hardendale to Tunstead. The train was waiting for a Preston to Liverpool service to clear Balshaw Lane Jct where the 4 track reduces to 2.

Riverside Loop [Tram]: Spring sleet in Devon, 30th March 2018. Seaton Tram No.16 at the Riverside Loop

Thirsk: Colas Class 70 70814 is seen heading south with a loaded GBRf biomass working from Tyne Dock to Drax Power Station during a loan period for assessing its performance on such workings. The view is taken from alongside the A168 road overbridge with the rear of the stock passing under the road to Sowerby and Thirsk.

Amberley: An up train approaches Amberley at 17.50. I was surprised to find that most of the car park here was for the adjacent museum, not the station; and extremely surprised to find that my car had been locked in. Fortunately, a member of the museum staff was late going home, and let us out.

Amberley Museum: The interior of Billingshurst box, now located in Amberley museum. See image [[65955]].

Amberley Museum: Although there is track just out of frame to the right of this image, the Saxby and Farmer Type 1b box from Billingshurst, relocated to the Amberley Museum in 2014, looks a little out of place. It is, however, immaculately rebuilt.

Amberley Museum: This tunnel mouth was used in the James Bond film A View To A Kill. The character May Day exited the tunnel riding on a narrow gauge wagon carrying a bomb. The Amberley Museum location - which in a long shot, was clearly surrounded by typical British semi-detached houses - was rather jarringly inserted into a sequence showing an airship flying over California. But there was a Ford Mustang and a full-sized General Motors station wagon parked near the tunnel, so it must have been in America.

Amberley Museum: Time for bed, said Zebedee. The Amberley museum Hunslet loco' and open coaches have come off the main line around the museum, and are about to be stored for the night. The white marks in the background are chalk, not snow.

Amberley Museum: A steam shunter Jim - but not as we know it. This contraption is an Irish gauge vehicle which was propelled by putting the narrow gauge Guinness engine see image [[70077]] inside so that one class of locomotives could work on two gauges. They were very successful and shunted both systems at the Dublin brewery for many years but the idea was not perpetuated elsewhere.

Ashton-under-Lyne: On 30 March 2019 a service from Manchester Airport to Newcastle races past the unkempt disused portion of the island platform at Ashton-under-Lyne. [Ref query 4 April 2019]

ROF Rotherwas: The Shell Store is one of the few visible remains of the Rotherwas ROF factory, which once had 27 miles of internal railway. The tarmac path to the right is the bed of the Hereford to Gloucester line. March 2019.

Clayton West Junction: The western terminus of the Kirklees Light Railway, which runs along the trackbed of the former Clayton West branch, is only around 100m short of the former Clayton West Junction on the line between Penistone and Huddersfield. Beyond the station turntable and cafe there is a surfaced track alongside a grassed area for events which then becomes a rough track upto the Network Rail access gate. A grab shot captured a passing Northern Rail 144 3 coach Pacer running across the former junction whilst heading for Huddersfield.

ROF Rotherwas: The Royal Ordnance Factory at Rotherwas, Hereford, covered 250 acres; was open from 1916 to 1967; employed up to 6000 workers; and contained 27 miles of standard gauge railways - including, of course, its own station. I fear the only rails you will find today are the two short panels under this diesel shunter and single wooden wagon, parked by the junction between Fordshill Road and the B4399 (at the east end of the Straight Mile).

Clayton West Junction: The western terminus of the Kirklees Light Railway, which runs along the trackbed of the former Clayton West branch, is only around 100m short of the former Clayton West Junction on the line between Penistone and Huddersfield. Looking towards Shepley station, from the short track leading from the terminus facilities to the NR access gate and the twin track bridge at the top of the former branch, there is a signal box style structure sited to left of the track, and the points at the end of the double track section through the station can be seen between the signal box and the overbridge in the distance. I have since determined that the signal box type structure comprises the upper section of the former junction box, which was mounted onto a new base structure located near to the former box's location,

St Michaels Railway: On reflection - a quiet scene on the private St. Michaels Railway (seen on a BLS visit)

Clayton West Junction: The western terminus of the Kirklees Light Railway, which runs along the trackbed of the former Clayton West branch, is only around 100m short of the former Clayton West Junction on the line between Penistone and Huddersfield. The view taken standing at the western end of the south parapet for the former branch rail overbridge looking east, shows the adjacent overbridge for the Network Rail line and a farm accommodation bridge beyond.

Clayton West Junction: The western terminus of the Kirklees Light Railway, which runs along the trackbed of the former Clayton West branch, is only around 100m short of the former Clayton West Junction on the line between Penistone and Huddersfield. This view is looking over the rail overbridge for the former standard gauge branch towards the junction with the Network Rail line beyond their access gate. The parapet for the Network Rail line overbridge is to extreme left of view. See image [[68603]]. Until the mid 1960's there was a conventional double track spur, off the then double track main line, that became single just behind the viewpoint, with the right hand line then becoming the single line branch. Sidings for the branch were to the north of the main line between the junction and Shepley station to the right, and one line ran into the right hand line just beyond the bridge.

Edinburgh Waverley: Ain't nobody here but us pigeons. The empty walkway, in the almost deserted Waverley, seven days into the coronavirus lockdown. Photographed during my daily permitted exercise exeat.

Edinburgh Waverley: A single passenger on the concourse at Waverley, and even he is about to leave it. Photographed 7 days into the coronavirus lockdown, incidental to my permitted daily exercise.

York Place [Tram]: A casualty of the Edinburgh Trams extension will be the current terminus at York Place, my local stop, in favour of a through stop to the east to be called Picardy Place. Work is already under way (though suspended for the lockdown) to the road realignment. The bus stop once here has been permanently moved round the corner behind me. The new (westbound) track will be where the working traffic lane currently is.

Inverkeithing East Junction: The New Measurement Train, powered by 43062 and LNER-liveried 43299 on the rear, nears Inverkeithing East Junction on its way to Aberdeen on 30 March 2021.

Inverkeithing East Junction: Locomotive Services Ltd 47593 takes the Central - East chord at Inverkeithing on its way from Joppa Straight to Aberdeen on 30 March 2021.

Donibristle Platform: LSL's 47593 passes Donibristle, on its way from Aberdeen to Joppa Straight, on 30 March 2021.

Cardross: 'The Jacobite' approaches Cardross, looking forward to a rest at Craigendoran (a rather longer rest than anticipated as it turned out!), on its way north for another season. It's hard to tell what's steam and what's a cloud.

Rowantree Lineside Cottage: Track panels and lineside containers south of Gorton, north of Bridge of Orchy, where track renewal has taken place.

Gorton [WHR]: A southbound Sprinter passes Gorton as the light begins to fail on the 30th March 2022.