Gallowgate: Ex NBR 0.6.2T 69195 passing Gallowgate with brake van in 1957. Looking to High Street Junction.

Hawick [2nd]: One of the Carlisle Canal A3 Pacifics, no 60093 Coronach, about to restart the up Waverley from Hawick on 11 June 1958.

Fareham: Unit 1118, from the aptly named 'Thumper' DEMU class, is taking the left hand (Southampton) route as it leaves Fareham on 11 June 1962. The middle route was the direct line to Eastleigh, and the right hand route was the Meon Valley line. A landslide occurred on the Eastleigh line later in the 1960s, the solution to which was to close it and use the Meon Valley line as far as Knowle Halt, where it was possible to make an onward connection with the original line to Eastleigh.

Eastleigh Works: Eastleigh's double chimney 9F No 92231 stands in front of Eastleigh Works awaiting its next call of duty on 11 June 1963.

Southampton Docks Sidings: 11th of June 1963, and rebuilt West Country 34101 'Hartland' wins the contest with a Morris Oxford (Series V - big fins) at a level crossing in the Southampton Docks area. In all probability the Pacific is heading a boat train destined for London Waterloo. After withdrawal, and time in Barry scrapyard, 34101 was restored and is presently on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

Hawkhead [1st]: A lost way of life - the coal yard at Hawkhead in June 1964, just prior to closure.

Hawkhead [1st]: A stroll through the old coal yard at Hawkhead in June 1964, just prior to closure. The yard hosted two coal businesses, run by Messrs Murray and Lyon (notice the lion in front of the grounded goods van). The yard also operated a variation on the state-of-the-art local area communications network of the day - see the set of bells attached to the end of the van. The bells were linked to the firm's telephone - when it rang, whoever happened to be working in the yard at the time ran to the office to answer it.... see image [[21903]]

Pollokshaws Viaduct: Standard tank 80009 crosses Pollokshaws viaduct in June 1964 with train for East Kilbride.

Thornton Shed [2nd]: Withdrawn from 62B, Dundee Tay Bridge, two months earlier, no 61180 is seen here in the sidings at Thornton on 11 June 1967. The B1 was presumably on its way to Wishaw where it was cut up at the Motherwell Machinery and Scrap Co at the end of July.

Thornton Shed [2nd]: WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90020 on shed at Thornton Junction on 11 June 1967.

Dunfermline MPD: J38 no 65929 photographed on shed at Dunfermline in June 1967.

Thornton Shed [2nd]: J36 no 65345 stands under the maintenance canopy at Thornton Junction on 11 June 1967, around 2 months after the shed had been officially closed to steam. Railscot note: This surviving wartime structure, known as a light tunnel was introduced by the LNER to facilitate locomotive maintenance during the blackout. It was 80 ft long and had whitened walls, which were fitted with fluorescent lighting, as was the white glazed brick inspection pit. All lighting was cut off automatically whenever the doors fitted to each end of the tunnel were opened. Thornton men referred to it as The snake pit. See Living with Locos by Charlie Meacher.

Thornton Shed [2nd]: Gresley V2 no 60836 stands in the sidings at Thornton in June 1967 awaiting disposal. The locomotive had been withdrawn from 62B Dundee, Tay Bridge, at the end of 1966, although it was observed at St Margarets the following March, having been put to use on steam heating duties at Craigentinny CS. The V2 was used during the first quarter of 1967, alternating with Black 5 45483. B1 61180 seems to have taken over in April and was in turn replaced by Black 5 44997 in May, with the operation ceasing in June 1967. 60836 was eventually cut up at MMS, Wishaw, in July of 1967

Beccles: The summer of 1976 is remembered as a time of prolonged sunshine and drought, but this June Saturday afternoon in Beccles on the East Suffolk line was pretty dismal. The photo shows a class 47 restarting its train from London Liverpool Street, heading towards Lowestoft. Strangely, the train arrived, paused for several minutes, and then went on its way, without anyone getting on or off.

Buxworth: BR Sulzer Type 2 No. 25139 brings a train of empty ICI bogie limestone hoppers bound for the quarry at Tunstead up through the deep cutting at Buxworth, between New Mills South Junction and Chinley station. There had originally been a tunnel here but this was opened out in 1901/02 to permit the provision of quadruple track between New Mills South and Chinley North Junctions. The former slow lines to the right had survived into the 1970s and appear to have been been only recently lifted by June 1977.

Buxworth: EE Type 4 No. 40 090 brings a train of empties up through the deep cutting at Buxworth in June 1977 bound for the Blue Circle cement works at Hope.

Buxworth: BR Sulzer Type 2 No. 25 100 brings a load of limestone from Tunstead to Northwich downhill through Buxworth cutting, early on the afternoon of June 11th 1977. The ICI owned bogie hoppers were already about forty years old at this time but were to soldier on for a further twenty or so.

Buxworth: The Harwich Parkeston Quay - Manchester Piccadilly boat train, hauled by 47047, is nearing the end of its journey as it passes through Buxworth cutting, about a mile and a half to the west of Chinley station, in June 1977. The train is formed of early Mk II stock and no doubt a Mk I buffet (in the early seventies it had been one of the last services to employ a Gresley buffet car).

Liverpool Street: One of Stratford sheds 'Silverback' Brush Type 4 diesels awaiting departure time at Liverpool Street in the summer of 1981 with an early afternoon express service to Norwich.

Liverpool Street: 47567 awaits its departure time at Liverpool Street in June 1981 with a train for Norwich.

Bedford: One of the last of the BR diesel-hydraulics, a class 127 DMU, at Bedford on 11 June 1983 about to leave with a service for St Pancras. These 4-car units, built at Derby in 1959, were used almost exclusively on the Bedford - St Pancras services and, perhaps inevitably, became known as Bed-Pan units.

Riccarton Junction: Looking west over the site of Riccarton Junction station from near the site of the south signalbox.

Riccarton Junction: The platforms at Riccarton Junction. Note the bay platform to the right for the former service over the Border Counties Railway to Hexham.

Riccarton Junction: The platform and once neat tree at Riccarton Junction. The bricks of the demolished buildings lie in the bay platform and beyond the tree.

Riccarton Junction: Looking west over the island platform of Riccarton Junction station.

Helensburgh Central: An evening service for Airdrie, formed by 314 205, awaits its departure time at Helensburgh Central in June 1986.

Blairhill: View west at Blairhill showing the original station building (left).

Glasgow Central: 101690 at Glasgow Central in June 1996 waiting to depart with a service to Paisley Canal.

Kirkconnel: In June 1998 the station buildings at Kirkconnel were looking in a bad way. Restoration or demolition? You got it. The miners' rows behind did however avoid the usual fate of such houses. The local pit (just across the line) closed in 1968.

Kirkconnel: Kirkconnel in June 1999 - view south.

Maxwelltown: The overgrown remains of Maxwelltown station looking west from Terregles Road bridge in the summer of 2000. The fuel distribution depot built on the site of the old goods yard is visible just beyond the station building. In the middle distance is the former ICI plant at Cargenbridge, rail served until closure of the line from Dumfries in 1994.

Dumfries: Standing under the canopy in the north west corner of Dumfries station on a quiet Sunday morning in June 2000. The outline of the recently infilled former bay platforms is clearly visible just beyond the parked cars. Dumfries signal box stands in the right background at the north end of what is now platform 2.

Dalreoch Tunnels: 67008 takes the first 67 hauled Fort William - London sleeper south.

Airdrie: A Drumgelloch - Helensburgh Central train approaching Airdrie station out of the sun on 11 June 2006. The train is crossing the bridge over the B802 Broomknoll Street that once carried the former double track route to Bathgate.

Airdrie: Looking west along the through platform at Airdrie station in June 2006 with a Drumgelloch - Helensburgh service about to leave.

Airdrie: The abandoned signal box standing on the old eastbound through platform at Airdrie station in June 2006.

Ratho: Sunday PW work on the E&G main line alongside the M8 east of Ratho on 11 June 2006.

Airdrie: Airdrie looking east into the sun on 11 June 2006. L to R the abandoned through platform and SB, then the through line to the current terminus at Drumgelloch, then the bay platform, then the emu stabling siding (3 former sidings have given way to a car park) see image [[4124]].

Airdrie: Emus stabled in the siding and bay platform at Airdrie on Sunday 11 June 2006.

Edinburgh Waverley: The 1010 Virgin Pendolino service to London Euston finds a way out of Waverley on 11 June 2007. The Pendolino arrived as the 0841 local from Carstairs, having run there empty from Glasgow Central to pick up Edinburgh passengers off the 0510 Manchester Piccadilly - Glasgow Central service.

Dalgety Bay: 47854 brings The Royal Scotsman through Dalgety Bay on 11 June.

Edinburgh Waverley: West end view over Waverley on 11 June showing the current cordoned off area around platforms 12-14... not to mention that which arrived earlier as the lightest loaded Pendolino in the country... see image [[15040]]

Drumchapel: 334003 calls at Drumchapel eastbound on 11 June.

Dalmeny: 66084 with coal for Longannet runs north past the loops at Dalmeny on 11 June.

Dalgety Bay: GBRf 66726 with Aberdeen - Harwich tanks passing through Dalgety Bay on 11 June 2008. This can best be described as an occasional service.

Dalmeny: 09.50 Aberdeen-Kings Cross with white-stripe power car leading NXEC stock runs off The Forth Bridge and through Dalmeny on 11 June.

Leuchars: Northbound HST, with Leuchars in the background, heads north past St Michaels golf course en route to Aberdeen in June 2008.

Newport-on-Tay East: The former station at Newport-on-Tay East, (opened as East Newport in 1879) seen in June 2008 looking towards Tayport. The eastbound platform ran along the line of the hedge and the station clock was located above the nearest bay window. This became the terminus of the line from Dundee in 1965 when Tayport station was closed to facilitate the building of the Tay Road Bridge. Newport-on-Tay East station was finally closed in May 1969.

Inchture: The ruinous Inchture station is passed by a First ScotRail 170 forming the 1240 Glasgow - Dundee. The station closed to passengers in 1956.

Nateby: One of the few substantial structures on the line to Knott End was the girder bridge over the Lancaster Canal but all that remains following final trains in 1963 is the crumbling west side abutment. View towards Lancaster. Map Reference SD 478457.

Glasgow Central: 318256 at Platform 12 of Glasgow Central on 11 June 2009 awaiting its next tour of duty.

Grimsargh: Before Grimsargh's station See image [[24597]] was built tickets for trains were sold from the Plough Inn, which stood by the level crossing. The footpath seen here follows the line of the old railway towards Longridge and, while the main station was behind the camera, the bungalows have been built over the platform that was used by the Whittingham Hospital trains. Map Reference SD 585344.

Mouldon Hill Extension: 5542 with Autocoach 178 on the Mouldon Hill Extension during the Swindon and Cricklade Railway Gala day on 11 June 2010.

Armadale: Armadale station on 11 June 2010. Just around the corner where the lines to the Etna brickworks once diverged, the New trac construction train stands, minus its sleeper wagons. CWR awaits its proceeding.

Boghead Junction: Looking west towards Armadale on 11 June 2010 with the down line now installed.

Boghead Junction: Looking East towards Bathgate on 11 June 2010 with the down line now in place.

Tiverton Parkway: Located 7 miles east of the town of Tiverton, near the Junction of the M5 and the North Devon Link Road, is Tiverton Parkway station. The station opened on 12 May 1986, the day after closure of Tiverton Junction see image [[35388]] and is built on the site of the former Sampford Peverell Halt [closed in October 1964]. A westbound service calls at the station in June 2010.

Tay Viaduct [Perth]: The Tay railway bridge at Perth. Photographed on 11 June 2010 from the west bank looking towards Dundee.

Blunsdon: In the shed yard at Blunsdon on the Swindon & Cricklade Railway on 11 June 2010 is GWR 2-6-0 no 5322, in wartime ROD khaki livery. [5322 was completed in October 1917 and sent new to France to haul supply trains between Calais and various railheads serving the front line.]

Cwm Bargoed: Coal train awaits departure from Cwm Bargoed. The line runs south through a (today) surprisingly rural valley until Bedlinog. The Cwm Bargoed loading pad is the only use of the line the whole way from Ystrad Mynach. View looks west.

Buchanan Street [Subway]: Security bollards in place around the Buchanan Street Subway entrance on 11 June 2010.

Ruspidge Halt: Ruspidge Halt, on the Cinderford branch, closed to passengers in 1958 although goods and coal trains continued to pass through for a few more years. The station site is now a picnic and parking area in the Forest of Dean with this restored tank wagon on display. A number of old railway lines can be followed as trails in this area.

Mouldon Hill Extension: First movements down the new southern extension to the Swindon and Cricklade Railway on 11 June 2010. The locomotive is ex-GWR 2-6-2T no 5542 working with GWR Autocoach 178. After twenty five years, a very pleasing experience!

Gloucester Docks: The old warehouses at Gloucester Docks are now used by businesses, retail outlets and the local authority. Behind the North Warehouse is a short length of the old dock railway and this preserved Joseph Booth rail mounted steam crane, built at Leeds in 1944, and with a seven and a half ton lifting capacity.

Stirling: Freightliner 66604 rumbles through Stirling on 11 June with coal empties from Longannet power station heading back to Hunterston import terminal for a refill.

Riverside Museum: Interior of the soon to open Riverside Museum of Transport and Travel seen during a preview visit on 11 June 2011 - see news item.

Bristol Parkway: 6024 'King Edward I' with support coach stands at Bristol Parkway on 11 June waiting to take over from a Class 47 on the Paddington to Shrewsbury 'Catherdrals Express' railtour.

Musselburgh: Old meets new at Musselburgh on Saturday 11 June 2011. One of the new units earmarked for the North Berwick route, no 380104, stands at platform 1 with the 08.40 service from Waverley, while no 322485, one of the units which will be displaced, pulls away from platform 2 with the 07.56 North Berwick - Glasgow Central via Edinburgh and Carstairs.

Musselburgh: One of the new units on the North Berwick route, no 380104, calls at Musselburgh's platform 1 on 11 June with the 08.40 ex-Waverley.

Dalgety Bay: Rear view of the SRPS excursion from Glenrothes with Thornton on 11 June 2011, photographed near Dalgety Bay heading for Leeds, Keighley and Skipton see image [[34458]].

Hoylake: Hoylake's Art Deco station building dates from the 1938 electrification and the building has been Grade II listed since 1988. The circular clerestory over the booking hall is a notable feature and to the right the level crossing can be seen.

Hoylake: A West Kirby to Liverpool service slows for its first call at Hoylake. 508141 approaches the art-deco station See image [[34460]] over the level crossing and under the concrete footbridge.

Musselburgh: The up Highland Chieftain, 07.55 ex-Inverness, runs through Musselburgh at speed on 11 June 2011.

West Kirby: Merseyrail EMU 507030 passes through the station throat as it leaves the terminus at West Kirby heading for Liverpool. The unit is passing the point where tracks once diverged for the line to Hooton (via Hadlow Road) and the goods yard.

Dalgety Bay: SRPS excursion from Glenrothes with Thornton, bound for Leeds/Keighley/Skipton, top'n'tailed by WCRC 47826 and 47804, coasts downhill towards Dalgety Bay on 11 June.

Eridge: Small Prairie 5521 waits to leave Eridge for Tunbridge Wells West on 11 June 2011 with a service on the Spa Valley Railway.

Inverkeithing East Junction: SRPS excursion bound for Yorkshire see image [[34458]] passes Inverkeithing East Junction on 11 June behind WCRC 47826. Sister locomotive 47804 was on the rear of the train.

Tunbridge Wells West: Scene at Tunbridge Wells West on 11 June 2011. Ex-GWR 2-6-2T no 5521 has recently arrived with a train from Eridge on the Spa Valley Railway. See image [[41284]]

Musselburgh: The first of the new 380 units to enter revenue earning service on the North Berwick line, ScotRail 380104, doesn't seem to make much of an impression on passengers waiting at Musselburgh on 11 June 2011. Unit 380104 was forming the 0846 (Saturday) service to North Berwick. Those waiting were more concerned at the whereabouts of the next train into town - which arrived shortly afterwards (formed by a class 322 EMU). See [[34450]].

Riverside Museum: Front entrance of the new Riverside Museum on 11 June 2011 - see news item.

Hoylake: Hoylake, penultimate stop on the West Kirby branch, has notable Art Deco station buildings. The line enjoys a fifteen minute service frequency and Merseyrail EMU 508141 is seen here calling on 11 June 2011 with a Liverpool bound service.

Eridge: 33063 R J Mitchell waits at Eridge on 11 June 2011 before commencing the return journey to Tunbridge Wells West.

West Kirby: This striking canopy at West Kirby was built for the 1938 Wirral lines electrification but behind the original Victorian station building is still used. The two platforms both see regular trains and alongside each are electrified stabling sidings. The goods yard was originally to the left of the picture, the site now covered by council offices. Merseyrail EMU 507030 awaits departure for Liverpool Central on 11 June.

Musselburgh: Face to face. A class 322, long associated with the North Berwick line, meets one of the new class 380 replacements at Musselburgh. Photographed looking west over the platforms towards Queen Margaret University Campus on 11 June 2011. The plate girder bridge beyond the stairway once spanned the former goods lines on their climb from Monktonhall Junction to Wanton Walls. See image [[29553]]

Possil: Looking north along Glasgow's Balmore Road in June 2012, showing the once grand building that gave access to the lower level platforms of Possil station. Since closure in 1964 the building has been put to various other uses including a solicitors office and a betting shop, but by this stage had been unoccupied for several years. The former goods yard to the south continues in use as a thriving scrapyard (see image [[14981]]).

Cowdenbeath: 47237 climbs away from Cowdenbeath with The Royal Scotsman on 11 June 2012.

Fishergate Tunnel: 66127 accelerates the 14 bitumen empties away from Strand Road level crossing towards the 1:29 incline to the main line. The thrice weekly train from Preston Dock to Lindsey was photographed from above the Fishergate Hill tunnel portal see image [[20278]] at the start of its coast to coast journey.

Dingwall: A plaque commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Inverness - Dingwall lines presented by David Simpson, Network Rail Managing Director in Scotland, to Richard Ardern of the Friends of the Far North Line before their AGM in Dingwall on 11 June 2012.

Beamish Open Air Museum: Former NER 6-wheel tool van 92189 (BR no 901612) on display at Beamish Museum in June 2013. The vehicle was built at York in 1899 and became part of the the breakdown train based at Percy Main, North Tyneside. It was latterly used by the C&W dept at Cambois.

Lockerbie: The 14.00 Virgin Trains Glasgow Central - Birmingham New Street passing south through Lockerbie on a misty 11 June 2013.

Lockerbie: The 14.30 TransPennine service to Edinburgh (12.00 ex-Manchester Airport) about to leave Lockerbie on 11 June 2013.

Beamish Open Air Museum: Cosmetically restored Siemens electric shunting locomotive E2 (Works no 455 of 1909), in National Coal Board livery, on a length of track at Beamish Museum in June 2013. No E2 was formerly part of the Harton Coal Company fleet and ended its working life at Westoe Colliery, South Shields, in the 1980s. See image [[18190]]

Lockerbie: The 12.00 Manchester Airport - Edinburgh Waverley calls at Lockerbie on 11 June 2013.

Newcastle Central: 156443 approaching Newcastle Central from the east in June 2013.

Rowley [Beamish Open Air Museum]: View over the station at Beamish in June 2013.

Beamish Open Air Museum: Former BR operated Grimsby and Immingham tram no 26 photographed at Beamish open air museum on 11 June 2013 see image [[43519]]

Lockerbie: The 13.40 Glasgow Central - London Euston Pendolino runs through Lockerbie's platform 2 at speed on 11 June 2013.

Beamish Open Air Museum: Originally Gateshead & District Tramways no 10, later BR Grimsby & Immingham Tramway no 26, seen in operation at the North of England Open Air Museum, Beamish, on 11 June 2013.

Beamish Open Air Museum: BR Tram no 26 in operation at Beamish on 11 June 2013. One of 19 redundant cars purchased by British Railways from Gateshead & District Tramways when that system closed in 1951. What had originally been Gateshead no 10 became BR no 26 on the Grimsby & Immingham Tramway, which continued to operate until the summer of 1961.

Lockerbie: Road approach to the 1847 station at Lockerbie in June 2013. View is north east from Station Road. The roofless section in the left background once formed the eastern terminus of the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway (closed 1966). The roof was removed and the bays infilled during a major station refurbishment the 1970s see image [[2704]].

Lamington: Coal empties returning to Hunterston heading north through Lamington on 11 June 2013.

Beamish Open Air Museum: Pair of preservation candidates at Beamish Museum in June 2013. On the right is an 0-4-0ST industrial locomotive believed to date from around 1900 and to have once worked in Stockton Ironworks. It carries the number 5 and the name Malleable. On the left is Manning Wardle 0-6-0ST 1532 of 1901, named Newcastle.

Lockerbie: The 1407 Edinburgh Waverley - Manchester Airport arriving at Lockerbie on 11 June. The footbridge with integral lifts was commissioned in February 2008, prior to which passengers arriving from the north with impaired mobility and requiring assistance were advised to travel to Carlisle and change to a northbound stopping train.

Lockerbie: Overcast and misty conditions at Lockerbie on 11 June 2013 as a Pendolino heads north on its way to Glasgow. On the right is the section of the station that once served the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie route, now with its bay platforms infilled and overall roof removed. The original entrance survives as a short cut to the station car park. See image [[2704]]

Gyle Centre [Tram]: An Edinburgh Tram on its way to the airport photographed running between Edinburgh Park Central and Gyle Centre on 11 June 2014.

Edinburgh Park: A wide view of the train / tram interchange at Edinburgh Park in June 2014 looking east towards Edinburgh city centre. Photograph taken from a tram crossing the flyover on its way from the airport to York Place. The next scheduled stop is on the far right of the picture alongside the south entrance to the station from Hermiston Gait.

Edinburgh Park: View east from a city bound Edinburgh tram on the flyover crossing the E&G at Edinburgh Park on 11 June 2014. The train at the platform is the 10.58 Dunblane - Edinburgh.

Tannochside Junction: The trackbed of the former Tannochside Branch of the Caledonian Railway, looking east from near the site of the Cutty Sark bridge in June 2014. Vegetation has been cleared and the solum is in use as an access route for the M8 Baillieston extension advance works.

Lostock Hall: 11 June 2014 was the first Wednesday of the 2014 season for the weekly Fellsman railtour from Lancaster to Carlisle via the S&C. Doing the honours on the first outing was Stanier 8F 2-8-0 no. 48151, seen here on the return trip passing through Lostock Hall station.

Hamburg Hauptbahnhof: The imposing train shed of Hamburg Hauptbahnhof shelters three very different trains on 11th June. To the right is a Deutsche Bahn IC (Intercity) service, while in the middle is a Metronom double-decker on regional duties - superficially the latter looks like a private operation, but the company is actually owned by the three German Laender (states) of Bremen, Hamburg and Niedersachsen. On the left Deutsche Bahn's 17.28 ICE (Intercity-Express) to Copenhagen is formed by a Class 605 high-speed tilting DMU.

Bargeddie Bridge: Currently supporting the Commonwealth Games as well as the passing coal traffic - the Cutty Sark bridge pictured on 11th June 2014.

Gyle Centre [Tram]: An airport bound Edinburgh tram comes off the level crossing over South Gyle Broadway on 11 June 2014 as it slows for the stop at Gyle Centre.

Edinburgh Airport [Tram]: A city bound tram leaving Edinburgh Airport on 11 June 2014 during the second week of revenue earning operations. The towers of the Forth Road Bridge stand in the centre background.

Edinburgh Park: An early afternoon service from Helensburgh Central approaching the Edinburgh Park stop on 11 June 2014 en route to Waverley. ScotRail 334035 is passing below the tramway bridge just west of the station.

Didcot Parkway: Freightliner 70014 makes its presence felt (and heard) as it accelerates an eastbound container train through the platforms of Didcot station on 11 June 2015.

Didcot Parkway: 97302 (37170) in Network Rail colours, stabled in the sidings alongside Didcot station on 11 June 2015 at the head of Track Measurement Train.

Didcot Parkway: Royal Train behind 67005 Queen's Messenger eastbound through Didcot on 11 June. No Royals on board on this occasion but their luggage and security detail (by all accounts).

Newbattle Viaduct: Heading for Tweedbank, a 158 on a route familiarisation trip crosses Newbattle Viaduct on 11 June 2015.

Didcot Parkway: DB Schenker 60063 heading the Theale Sidings to Robeston Murco Tanks west through Didcot on 11 June 2015.

Hardengreen Viaduct: The 1052 Tweedbank - Newcraighall 2Z51 ScotRail 158 driver training trip crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 11 June 2015 approximately 3 miles from its destination see image [[45688]].

Didcot Railway Centre: BR (GWR) 2-6-2T 4144, photographed on 11 June 2015 newly restored at the Didcot Railway Centre.

Euxton: A London bound Pendolino passes Euxton on 11 June 2016. Euxton Jct is behind the train to the left as it crosses a minor road on structure 89. The footbridge behind is structure 90.

Lausanne: View of the stylish interior of TGV Lyria bar car working a Paris to Lausanne service.

Yarm: UK Railtours' excursion returning south past Yarm station in North Yorkshire, on 11th June 2016. This station opened in 1996 on a new site south of the original, which had closed in 1960.

Balloch Pier: Image taken inside the 1902 winch engine house at Balloch Pier during a 2016 Open Day when the slipway winch engine was in steam and operating.

Cantley: A blooming boat! Cantley station up side, June 2016.

Balloch Pier: The winch engine and cable drum at Balloch Pier, used for hauling lake steamers onto the slipway for maintenance. Seen during an Open Day in 2016 with the winch engine in steam and operating. This view looks towards the door leading to the slipway.

Arisaig: Barrow crossing no more - the Mallaig-bound Royal Scotsman blocks authorised egress by ScotRail passengers from the eastbound platform at Arisaig on 11th June 2016.

Arisaig: Bus-rail integration at Arisaig on 11th June 2016 - but only for particularly well-off rail passengers.

Gainsborough Lea Road: UK Railtours' return excursion behind 60017, making its 'round-the-world' way back from the north-east to London King's Cross, passing Gainsborough Lea Road station on the one-time Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Railway, on the evening of Saturday, 11th June 2016.

Leyland: 'Only mad dogs and Scotsmen go out in the mid-day rain...' (with apologies to Mr N Coward). At shortly after half past 12 an SRPS railtour from Glenrothes with Thornton to Liverpool approaches Leyland in a torrential downpour on 11 June 2016. The wipers on the WCRC Class 47 looked like they were working overtime. On returning to my car I found that it was surrounded by water in the car park!

Monkwearmouth: The disused Monkwearmouth station near Sunderland, closed in January 1967, seen from UK Railtours out-and-back excursion from Kings Cross to the north-east, behind 60017 since York, now heading back south on 11th June 2016.

Dalgety Bay: 47832 leads an SRPS excursion returning from Liverpool to Glenrothes with Thornton into Dalgety Bay on 11 June.

Cantley: Station adopters at Cantley, Norfolk, in June 2016. See image [[58319]]

Sigmaringen: A traditional signal box survives at Sigmaringen, seen on 11th June 2017.

Sigmaringen: The photographer got rather over-excited when he heard the roar of a Class 218 diesel hydraulic at Sigmaringen on 11th June. The 218s were the backbone of DB's main-line diesel locomotive traction from the 1970s up to the reunification of Germany, but conversion of services to DMU operation and electrification have severely depleted their passenger operations. A pocket of 218-hauled services survives in this part of Germany, centred on Ulm. The service being hauled here is a Sundays Stuttgart-Aulendorf IRE train, with a van for bikes.

Sigmaringen: 4445: The bike van on a westbound Hohenzollerische Landesbahn Naturpark-Express service, seen at Sigmaringen on 11th June 2017.

Beuron: A flurry of activity on the platform at Beuron station on 11th June, as cyclists load and offload bikes from a westbound Naturpark-Express service.

Edinburgh Waverley: A rogue class 92 among the DMUs at Waverley on Sunday 11th of June at about 17:45. This is what I used to call the Dundee platforms when the services were loco hauled. I don't think 92044 is a regular sleeper loco but am happy to be corrected.

Rosyth: 67016 nears Rosyth with the SRPS empty stock from Thornton Yard to Bo'ness, having formed the previous day's excursion to Scarborough. 11 June.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: A modest piece of scaffolding has been erected near the Dundas Street entrance. According to Network Rail, this is part of phase one – a 'soft strip' of Consort House ahead of the main project works involving the demolition and redevelopment of Queen Street Station.

Ueberlingen Mitte: A DB Friedrichshafen-Radoffzell RE service calls at the single-platform Ueberlingen Mitte station serving the centre of Ueberlingen on the Bodensee on 11th June 2017. As one would expect in Germany, the local bus station is immediately beside the railway station (to the right).

Millerhill Yard: A view showing the nearly completed work to install the second point and piece the signalling back together.

Krauechenwies: June 2017 grab shot (from a bus) of a diesel shunter at an industrial plant in Krauechenwies on the freight-only line from Mengen on the Sigmaringen-Aulendorf cross-country route in southern Baden-Wuerttemberg. Throughout Germany one of the most striking contrasts with Britain is the widespread extent of modern industry (large, medium and small) – and private rail sidings continue to serve industrial plants much smaller than have justified retention in Britain.

 

Lytham: A service to Blackpool South departs from Lytham on 11 June 2018. The station building on the right (now a restaurant and bar) was well patronised as was the Class 142 unit.

Cowlairs Incline: Future eastbound drivers eye view of the new roadbridge being constructed over Cowlairs Incline as part of the Sighthill Regeneration Scheme.

Scarborough Road Junction: A view looking along the south side of Scarborough Road Bridge in Norton, North Yorks, which has not been infilled despite development on the trackbed on both sides. Scarborough Road Junction was adjacent to the bridge, to link the Pilmoor to Driffield Line to the York to Scarborough line via a south to west spur.

Interiors: This is the interior of 156507 on 11th June 2018. I changed trains at Kirkcaldy for a connection to Aberdour. The green seats look awful!

Scarborough Road Junction: A view along the north side of Scarborough Road rail underbridge in Norton North Yorks showing the still accessible trackbed through the bridge. Scarborough Road Junction lay adjacent to the bridge, with a spur turning to the west immediately north of the bridge to connect the Pilmoor to Driffield line to the York to Scarborough line.

Scarborough Road Junction: The road overbridge on Scarborough Road in Norton North Yorkshire, seen in a view looking west towards the town centre, sat above Scarborough Road Junction. The junction was at the south end of a south to west spur linking the line running from Pilmoor on the ECML, that continued towards Driffield, to the York to Scarborough line. Through holiday specials from the North East or Scotland to Scarborough would stop south of the junction and then be pulled back over the spur towards Malton Station to then continue forward to the east coast resort. The spur has been built over, as is the land to the immediate south of the bridge, but a little further on much of the trackbed is extant to Settrington & North Grimston.

Scarborough Road Junction: A view in a north westerly direction, from Scarborough Road rail underbridge in Norton North Yorks, to the road built along part of the spur that linked the Pilmoor to Driffield line with the York to Scarborough line to the east of Malton Station. The line to Pilmoor ran straight ahead north where the trees are now to right of view.

Gleneagles: 800202/1 approach Gleneagles with a Doncaster - Edinburgh - Inverness training run on 11 June.

Ansdell and Fairhaven: Whilst there is no track in the photo, this view looking east showing the northern part of the road bridge at Ansdell and Fairhaven shows that there was once a much more extensive track layout at this location. Today there is only one platform face, just off picture to the right, on the 'long siding' that is the Blackpool South line from Kirkham. See image [[64517]]

Squires Gate: A Northern service to Blackpool South departs from Squires Gate on the afternoon of 11 June 2018.

Ansdell and Fairhaven: The Blackpool South to Colne service gets ready to depart from Ansdell & Fairhaven on 11 June 2018.

Squires Gate: 142028 arrives at Squires Gate on 11th June 2018 with a service from Colne to Blackpool South. After withdrawal this unit went to the Wensleydale Railway.

Moss Side: A Blackpool South to Colne service calls at Moss Side on 11 June 2018. The guard checks the doors (no one got off and no one got on) but then sets the level crossing sequence running before the train is able to proceed towards Kirkham & Wesham. The former 'down' platform is still in existence in the long grass on the right.

Edinburgh Waverley: North British Railway window at Waverley, one of a pair in the station's conference room.

Edinburgh Waverley: The North British Railway crest, one of a pair of windows in the Edinburgh Waverley conference room.

Edinburgh Waverley: East Coast Trains is a future operator (from October 2021) between Edinburgh and London. Owned by FirstGroup (who also own Hull Trains) they are operating empty trial runs several times a day. Hull Trains-liveried 802304 eases past 380103 with a trial run from Waverley to Kings Cross on 11 June 2021.

Edinburgh Waverley: 801221, at Waverley's platform 6, with the 12.00 to Kings Cross on 11th June 2021.

Prestonpans Loop: LNER Azuma 801219 passes Prestonpans Up Loop, with the 14.30 from Edinburgh to Kings Cross, on 11th June 2021. The disused connection to the demolished Cockenzie Power Station can be seen on the right.

Prestonpans: Hull Trains-liveried 802304 nears Prestonpans with the 10.45 East Coast Trains trial run from Kings Cross on 11 June 2021.

Öregrund: The summer service of two ferries take road traffic across to Gräsö, a distance of 1km, in five minutes. These are powered ferries rather than the cable-hauled boats found elsewhere in Sweden. The ferries are part of the road network and in this case there is no charge for using them. Öregrund (pronounced uh-ray-grund) Harbour has changed a lot since the days when its main business was exporting iron in the 18th Century; now it sees mainly fishing boats and pleasure craft. The early British steel industry relied on exports of the so-called Oreground iron from this port. The ore was mined at Dannemora (see image [[70243]]) and forged at numerous charcoal-fired forges (Vallonbruk) established by knowledgeable people from Wallonia (now part of Belgium) across the area north of Uppsala (Norduppland).

Manchester Victoria: BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 75049 with a passenger train leaving Manchester Victoria and about to take the Cheetham Hill line on 29th September 1959. The L&YR box seen here was later replaced by a huge structure controlling colour light signalling [[24898]] but that has also been more recently replaced by the Manchester Operations Centre.

East Linton: Work has commenced on the new station at East Linton, as seen in this high speed grab shot from a passing train on 11th June 2022. Presumably the crane lifts the platform segments into place but the signal will have to be moved before the platform can extend much further on this side.

Shrivenham: 7029 'Clun Castle' was on a Special from Tyseley to Cardiff and return on 11th June 2022. On the westbound outward journey it was 40 minutes late due to a signalling fault in the Birmingham area. Seen here at Shrivenham on the GWML with a GUV van directly behind the loco and then an LMS coach.

Shrivenham: GWR 800013 passing Shrivenham at speed on 11th June 2022.