Busby: BR Standard tank no 80108 prepares to run round its train at Busby in the summer of 1959.

Hawick [2nd]: Impressive looking A3 Pacific no 60090 Grand Parade waits at Hawick with the 2.36pm Edinburgh - Carlisle service in June 1959, sporting a double chimney but still to receive smoke deflectors. The A3 in its final form ended its days at St Rollox shed from which it was deployed on the Buchanan Street - Aberdeen 3-hour services before official withdrawal by BR in October 1963. See image [[24703]]

Giffnock: A train for St Enoch arrives at Giffnock on 20 June 1959 with a service from East Kilbride. The locomotive is BR Standard tank 80002.

Thorntonhall: A pleasant summer Saturday at Thorntonhall on 20 June 1959, as BR Standard Class 4 2-6-0 no 76070 drifts into the station with a train from East Kilbride bound for St Enoch.

Glasgow St Enoch: Standard 2-6-4T 80046 arriving at St Enoch on 20 June 1961 with a boat train from Winton Pier.

Glasgow St Enoch: BR Standard 2-6-4T 80050 leaving St Enoch in the summer of 1961 with a trainload of vans destined for South Side parcels station.

Clyde Junction [CGU]: Corkerhill Jubilee 4-6-0 no 45707 Valiant takes a southbound freight through Clyde Junction and onto the viaduct in June 1961.

Clyde Junction [CGU]: Corkerhill Black 5 45164 rounds the curve between Saltmarket Junction and Clyde Junction in June 1961 with a freight from College Goods bound for Ardrossan.

Glasgow St Enoch: Jubilee 45677 Beatty pilots Royal Scot 46146 The Rifle Brigade out of St Enoch on 20 June 1961 with the 'Eastbourne Car Sleeper'. [Railscot note: This summer service, introduced in 1958, ran three times a week, with a starting point of Glasgow, Stirling or Newcastle. The destination was switched to Newhaven in 1964 to connect with the cross-channel ferry to Dieppe. Many more changes occurred over the ensuing 25 years, with the 'final version', the Stirling - Kensington Motorail service, being withdrawn in 1989.]

Clyde Junction [CGU]: McIntosh ex-Caledonian 0-4-4T 55225 brings a train of empty stock for St Enoch off the viaduct and north east through Clyde Junction on 20 June 1961. The locomotive will continue beyond Saltmarket Junction following which it will reverse its train into the station.

Cronberry: RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 20th June 1962
42277 approaching Cronberry Junction. Wagons on Gaswater branch can be seen in the distance.

Cronberry: RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 20th June 1962
42277 at Cronberry Junction.

Langside Junction: Looking north from Langside Junction.

Gushetfaulds Goods: Site of former Caledonian South Side station looking south east. [Railscot note: both South Side stations were CR but the Barrhead one was obliterated by the CGU.]

Catrine: RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 20th June 1962
42277 on the Catrine Branch.

Cronberry: RCTS/SLS RAIL TOUR OF SCOTLAND 20th June 1962
42277 heading to Auchinleck. The junction signalbox is behind the train and Ayr and Cumnock line is the track to the right of the locomotive.

Killin Junction: View of Killin Junction in the early afternoon of 20th June 1964. The Standard 2-6-4T and its single coach will take passengers for Killin from the Callander and Oban line service that will arrive shortly.

Gleneagles: The architecture and railway paraphernalia at Gleneagles, photographed on this beautiful June day in 1964, make for a fine period piece. The Park Royal railbus is taking a break between trips along the Crieff branch. See image [[70002]] for a present day view of this spot.

Clarkston and Stamperland: Photograph taken from a carriage window on a train leaving Clarkston station on 20 June 1964 behind BR standard tank 80120. The train is the 8.16am to Glasgow St Enoch, which will shortly pass a DMU, just visible in the background, approaching with a service for East Kilbride.

Killin Junction: The Killin branch train awaiting its next connection at Killin Junction in 1964.

Comrie: A Park Royal railbus ready to leave Comrie for Gleneagles, not long before the branch closed to passenger services in 1964.

Strathyre: View from a southbound train pausing at Strathyre in 1964. Strathyre was one of many Scottish rural stations with a camping coach, probably the vehicle in the siding behind the platform.

Thornliebank: View from a morning commuter train for Glasgow approaching Thornliebank on 20 June 1964 behind BR Standard tank 80120. [Ref query 6894]

Comrie: A Park Royal railbus after arrival at Comrie in June 1964. The station clock has seen better days, as the time is actually late afternoon. And repair was unlikely, as the line closed not much more than a fortnight later.

Bishopton: BR Standard tank 80001 approaching Bishopton from the south on 20 June 1964 with empty coaching stock destined for Wemyss Bay.

Crieff [2nd]: A Park Royal railbus calls at Crieff with a Comrie-Gleneagles service in June 1964, not long before the closure of the line to passenger services.

Liverpool Street: Brush Type 4 no D1705 about to depart from Liverpool Street for Norwich in June 1969. BTH Type 1 no D8229 is the station pilot.

Liverpool Street: D6727 at the buffers in Liverpool Street in June 1969.

Liverpool Street: D6725 about to depart from Liverpool Street station in June 1969 with a through train to Ipswich and Lowestoft.

Tweedmouth: The 10.10 Edinburgh - Kings Cross passes the disused roundhouse at Tweedmouth on Saturday 20 June 1970 with Brush Type 4 no 1501 accelerating after the Berwick stop. Just visible alongside the yard offices above the second coach is the yellow cab end of what is thought to be Blackstone 0-6-0 DE shunter (class 10) No. D3638, which was occupied at that time in lifting the Kelso branch see image [[30192]].

Dumfries: A pair of class 50s with a diverted Glasgow - Euston train passing through Dumfries on Sunday 20 June 1971 during electrification work on the WCML.

Lamington Viaduct: Scene at Lamington in June 1972, with more than two years to go before completion of the Weaver Junction - Glasgow electrification. An afternoon Glasgow Central - Euston train is crossing the Clyde double headed by EE class 50 diesels 418+433.

Norwich: The grand exterior of Norwich (Thorpe) station on 20th June 1976, clearly dated by the range of automobile design on display. There was originally a hipped roof on the left hand side to balance that on the right, but it was damaged during an air raid in the WWII and replaced with a flat roof until a general rebuilding restored the original design some 20 years after the date of this photo. In comparison, the Luftwaffe did a much more comprehensive job on Norwich City station in 1942, putting it well beyond any hope for architectural restoration.

Rannoch: 37145, with a freight from Fort William to Cadder Yard, at Rannoch where it waited to pass another freight service on 20th June 1979. Seeing 37145 was a rather big surprise here that afternoon.

Kings Cross: A 'nearly-new' HST set at Kings Cross in June 1979, having been delivered to Leeds, Neville Hill, the previous year.

Kings Cross: Deltic 55008 The Green Howards standing at Kings Cross with an InterCity service to Edinburgh in 1979.

Kings Cross: Just listen to that! Deltic 55008 The Green Howards preparing to leave Kings Cross in the summer of 1979 with a train for Edinburgh Waverley.

Kings Cross: Old and new at Kings Cross in the summer of 1979. Deltic 55008 The Green Howards is at the head of an Edinburgh train while an InterCity 125 HST has just arrived on a service from Newcastle

Skew Bridge Junction: Lost Railfreight 40009, one of the pilot scheme EE Type 4s, takes nine hoppers of household coal on the Down Slow at Skew Bridge Junction, heading for Deepdale Coal Concentration Depot on 20th June 1980. The depot was accessed from the remaining stub of the Longridge branch (See image [[20964]]) but closed in 1994. The much reduced domestic solid fuel market is all road served now. #COP26

Skew Bridge Junction: English Electric AL3 locomotive 83011 takes a (very) mixed freight north through Skew Bridge Junction near Preston in June 1980. The former E3034 continued in service for a further three years and was cut up by Vic Berry in Leicester in 1984.

Preston (Skew Bridge): Class 40 40044, on an engineering train comprising 32 plate wagons, takes the Up Fast line out of Preston in June 1980 and passes the junction at Skew Bridge, where the four approach lines become six as the goods lines diverge from the slow.

Colchester Town (St Botolphs): The scene at Colchester St Botolphs around 7 a.m. on Friday June 20th 1980. The Class 308 EMU local service to Clacton is drawing out past 37 259, which is waiting to leave with a permanent way train it has turned via the nearby triangular junction. At left is Colchester National Carriers Depot, a once busy rail-road transhipment facility that would close within weeks and be flattened a year later.

Norwich Thorpe: The 1981 Summer Saturday holiday traffic has already started, as witnessed by the class 37 approaching in the background, so there will be plenty of work for 03197, the Norwich Thorpe station pilot.

Newcastle Central: Gateshead Deltic 55011 The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers at Newcastle Central platform 8 on 20 June 1981 with the 1V93, Edinburgh-Plymouth.

Maxwell Park: ScotRail Open Day at Maxwell Park station on Sunday 20 June 1993. On display are 37427 Highland Enterprise, 26001 Eastfield, 90017 and EMU 303048.

Haymarket East Junction: A Bathgate service is captured at the blades of Haymarket East in June 1994. It was a lucky shot (humblebrag) from a train going the other way on the Fife lines. The now largely vanished building in the background was the Caledonian Distillery, once the largest in Scotland. It was built in 1855 on what was then the farmland of Easter Dalry.

Shand Road Occupational Crossing: At Shand Road Crossing the Liverpool Docks branch divides with the line to the bulk load terminal and Alexandra Dock running off to the left and that to the Seaforth Container Terminal to the right.

Seaforth Container Terminal: Seaforth Container Terminal seen in 2003 from the level crossing at the south end.

Bootle Balliol Road: The site of Bootle Balliol Road station, at the mouth of Alexandra Dock Tunnel, seen in 2003 from the corner of Balliol Road and Oriel Road. The platforms continued under Balliol Rd bridge but the station closed in 1948. The Liverpool, Crosby and Southport Railway crosses over the top of this busy double track freight line to the Port of Liverpool.

Arnside: Arnside looking east. The disused platform to the left was for the Hincaster Branch to neat Oxenholme.

Ulverston Canal Rolling Bridge: Ulverston oil depot looking across the Ulverston Canal.

Sandside: Sandside looking to Arnside in June 2003.

Haverthwaite: Simmering away at Haverthwaite.

Roa Island: Looking from Roa Island south to Piel Island. View from the vicinity of the former station

Roa Island: View from the vicinity of the former station.

Liverpool Bulk Terminal: A coal loading point for transhipment of coal from ships to trains in the Liverpool Docks.

Crown Street Tunnel: Western Portal of the Crown Street Tunnel. This once led from Edge Hill to the Crown Street Goods which was behind the camera, but now leads to this buffer stop. The original tunnel to the original Crown Street terminus is off to the left.

Crown Street Tunnel: A 2003 view west over Cavendish Cutting towards the original Liverpool terminus, Crown Street. At the far end of this cutting the approach to the former Crown Street goods through Crown Street Tunnel No 5 is to the left, the portal of the disused Wapping Street tunnel down to the docks is in the middle and original tunnel to the Crown Street terminus to the right. By 2003 the lines here were reduced to a headshunt for the remaining sidings on the south side of Edge Hill station. The electrification has since been removed.

Liverpool Bulk Terminal: Liverpool Bulk Terminal looking north.

Ulverston: The magnficent canopies of Ulverston station.

Roxburgh: Looking west from Teviot Road towards Roxburgh station in June 2005. The station is now a private residence with a large garden, fenced up to the edge of the abutment of the bridge which formerly carried the line to Coldstream and Berwick. The station entrance was just off picture to the right.

Roxburgh Viaduct: Wide view of Roxburgh Viaduct over the River Teviot looking southeast in June 2005. Note the housing developments in the background and the low level footbridge attached to the piers. See image [[45944]]

Roxburgh Viaduct: Roxburgh Viaduct across the River Teviot in 2005.

Gordon: The closed and converted Gordon station in 2005, looking east towards Greenlaw. See image [[54471]]

Gordon: Road approach to the former Gordon station, Berwickshire, photographed in June 2005.

Greenlaw: Looking along the approach to the former Greenlaw station in June 2005. The station, originally opened by the Berwickshire Railway in 1863, lost its passenger service in 1948 and has long been a private residence.

Edrom: Looking west towards Edrom station from the old goods yard in June 2005.

Edrom: The former station building and entrance to the platform at Edrom in June 2005.

Edrom: Platform scene at Edrom, Berwickshire, in June 2005 looking west towards Duns.

Chirnside: The old Chirnside Station in 2005. In use as an agricultural store.

Chirnside: Platform and former station building at Chirnside in 2005.

Chirnside: Road approach to the former Chirnside Station from the south in June 2005.

Roxburgh: The four sentinels standing guard at the western entrance to Roxburgh in June 2005. These old abutments once carried rail routes south and east out of Roxburgh station (top left behind trees) on to Jedburgh (nearest) and Tweedmouth.

South Side [CR]: Looking to Gushetfaulds and Larkfield Junction from the site of the former South Side station.

Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal: One of the disused loading bays in the closed Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot. CGU line for St Enoch was to the left.

Larkfield Junction: A Virgin train passes the site of the Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal by Larkfield Junction.

Larkfield Junction: The Tuesdays only fuel empties from Riccarton, by Kilmarnock. This is the only regular train to use the line to Strathbungo other than ECSs.

Larkfield Junction: Eastbound WH Malcolm train from Elderslie passes Larkfield Junction.

Larkfield Junction: The Tuesdays only fuel empties from Riccarton, by Kilmarnock. This is the only regular train to use the line to Strathbungo other than ECSs.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Longannet - Hunterston empties crossing Jamestown Viaduct in June 2006.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: A northbound train running onto Jamestown Viaduct heading for Inverkeithing on 20 June 2006.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Looking southwest as a Fife Circle train crosses Jamestown Viaduct in June 2006.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Jamestown Viaduct in 2006 looking towards Inverkeithing. Below is the line running down from Inverkeithing South Junction, under the viaduct and on towards Rosyth Dockyard.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Looking north east through Jamestown viaduct towards Inverkeithing in June 2006, with southbound coal empties crossing. The empties are from Longannet power station on their way back to Hunterston import terminal via the Forth Bridge, having reversed at Halbeath sidings. In front of the viaduct to the left is the entrance to Ferry Toll Park and Ride.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Looking west along the Forth in June 2006 as the Zeebrugge Ferry docks at Rosyth and a Waverley bound train heads for the Forth Bridge.

Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal: Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot, now closed. Formerly a coal depot and formerly Glasgow South Side.

South Side [CR]: Looking to the Barrhead lines South Side station from the south. The derelict Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot is on the right.

Larkfield Junction: A coal train approaches Larkfield Junction from the east.

Larkfield Junction: Coal empties pass Larkfield Junction heading west.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: With the last of the scaffolding removed see image [[3448]], the refurbished and repainted Jamestown Viaduct is seen here looking its best on a pleasant June morning in 2006, as a 6-car commuter service crosses southbound heading for Edinburgh.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: A mid morning ScotRail service bound for Cowdenbeath runs through the rock cutting shortly after leaving the Forth Bridge in June 2006. After passing the camera position the train will then cross Jamestown Viaduct see image [[9752]].

Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal: Looking to the mainline at Gushetfaulds, the lifted container depot. This short spur was originally to South Side station built when the Clydesdale Junction Railway opened.

Jamestown Viaduct [Inverkeithing]: Coal train running onto Jamestown Viaduct on the approach to Inverkeithing in June 2006. In the background is the M90 Motorway and cars parked in the Ferry Toll Park and Ride facility can be seen below the viaduct. On the hill above stands part of the former MoD Pitreavie Maritime HQ (the main underground facility having been closed down and sealed in 1995.)

Moss Lane Junction: An Ormskirk to Preston service approaches the site of Moss Lane Junction on 20 June 2007. The picture was taken from where the junction signalbox used to be located. The view is towards Midge Hall and the junction split with lines to Farington Curve Jct (where the line still goes today) and nearer the camera was the trackbed that lead to Engine Shed Jct.

Edinburgh Waverley: Nearing the end of a long nightshift. View over the west end of Waverley shortly before 7am on 20 July 2007 during platform extension and track realignment works. An engineers train, with EWS 66068 on the tail end, is in the process of unloading materials alongside platform 13.

Aberfeldy Distillery: June 2008 view of Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST of 1939, works number 2073, sat on a length of track in the Dewars Distillery complex at Aberfeldy, attached to a flat wagon loaded with Whisky barrels.

Aberfeldy Distillery: June 2008 view of the rail wagon and its load of barrels that are attached to the Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST, 2073/1939, on display at the Dewers Distillery in Aberfeldy. All the barrels are dated 1991, so was this when the loco and wagon were put on display. It is so long since I looked at this set of photos that I had failed to realise that my, now late, wife was also in the view watching my goings on.

Uphall: 158 708 pulls into Uphall with a Waverley - Bathgate service on 20 June 2008 with the new up line in place and construction work in progress.

Llanwrtyd Wells: Single unit No. 153 367 waits for time at Llanwrtyd Wells while forming the early morning working from Shrewsbury to Swansea in June 2008. The current departure time from Shrewsbury for this train is 05.19 and it would have been little different in the summer of 2008 when this photograph was taken.

Llanwrtyd Wells: While Llanwrtyd Wells is an unstaffed halt nowadays, the former station building on the northbound platform, seen here in June 2008, has been restored so that the overall impression when alighting there is quite good - weeds excepted!

Aberfeldy Distillery: Builders plate of Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST of 1939, works number 2073, which sits on a length of track in the Dewars Distillery complex at Aberfeldy, attached to a flat wagon loaded with Whisky barrels.

Bo'ness: Inside one of the Teak coaches. You don't see decor like this nowadays!!

Carlisle: The previous occasion on which I had seen Castle class No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe had been back in the early 1970s at Barry scrapyard so I had never thought it would one day be seen steaming into Carlisle - but here it is on 20th June 2009 entering platform 3 there on the Castle over Shap tour from Tyseley, which it worked from Crewe.

Drem: EMU 322 485 arrives at Drem on 20 June 2009, the first stop on its journey from North Berwick to Edinburgh Waverley.

Birkhill: 47643 cabview

Paisley Canal: View east over the buffer stops at Paisley Canal on 20 June 2009, with 156 436 about to make the return trip to Glasgow Central.

Bo'ness: Morayshire at Bo'ness on 20 June with the LNER teak set.

Brock: Great Western infiltrator on the WCML at Brock, north of Preston, on 20 June 2009. Castle Class no 5043 'Earl of Mount Edgcumbe' hauls the outward leg of the 'Castle over Shap' railtour to Carlisle.

Bo'ness: Coach No. 13803 with route boards at Boness

Corkerhill: 156 449 pulls in to Corkerhill with a Glasgow Central service 20 June 2009

Bo'ness: D5310 (Class26010) Built in 1959 and owned by Waverley Route Heritage Association standing at Boness waiting to pull the 1410 Teak Set to Birkhill

Bo'ness: The weather said Light SHOWERS!!...... National Coal Board engine No.24 through the rain

Bo'ness: Train shed at Boness proudly hosting a rather handsome Class 47. This loco was aquired in 1995, built in 1965 it was based at Inverness and worked on the sleeper service

Bo'ness: Guards compartment

Bo'ness: Inside the Signalbox at Boness. The frame is of the Caledonian Railway.. The same type as that could be found in the old box at Cumbernauld. Kind thanks go to the Signalman for allowing access

Birkhill: 47643 blowing off smoke at Birkhill

Bo'ness: NCB No.1 in Thomas Livery waiting patiently in the bay platform to pull the 1640 service

Birkhill: Cabview from Birkhill. Below the set of gloves lay an electric cooking ring!

Bo'ness: View towards the station from the authorized walking route past Boness Signal box.

Bo'ness: National Coal Board Central West Area No.1 locomotive shunting 2 Caledonian Railway coaches in the yard at Boness on 20 June.

Bo'ness: For such a small loco NCB No.1 certainly smokes!!

Bo'ness: Diesel Shunter P6687. Plate details Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, Engineering, Renfrew Works, Scotland

Bo'ness: Home Signal gantry controlling entrance to Boness. Thanks go to the Driver, Goundframe Operator and Engineer who allowed me the opportunity to ride in the front cab.

Bo'ness: Inside the Signal box at Boness. 20 June 2009.

Bo'ness: Preserved ex-NBR 4-4-0 no 256 Glen Douglas stands at the platform at Boness on 20 June 2009. Behind the loco are two x Highland Railway coaches, a six wheeled first class coach and a four wheel luggage van. Escapees from the Scottish Railway Museum at nearby Bo'ness.

Bo'ness: Impressive steam lineup at Boness on 20 June 2009.

Bo'ness: Steam lineup at Boness station on 20 June 2009.

Corkerhill: Former entrance to the redundant second platform at Corkerhill on 20 June 2009.

Hincaster Junction: The east end of Hincaster tunnel under the WCML (which can just be made out above the portal). Although this looks like a single track railway tunnel, it is in fact part of the abandoned Lancaster Canal, which formerly operated between Preston and Kendal. The tunnel was constructed during 1816 & 1817 and is 378 yards long. Over 4 million bricks were used in construction and in its day was the first major brick structure north of the River Mersey. The path to the left also leads under the WCML, over the hill and to the west side of the tunnel. It was used by the horses that pulled the canal barges as there was no towpath through the tunnel. The last commercial canal traffic passed through here in 1944. See also photos [[21298]] and [[21302]]. This is a key point on yesterday's and today's transport networks as the A590 dual carriageway to the Lake District also passes under the WCML approx 50 yards to the right of the picture.

High Street: 320 311 arrives at High Street on 20 June 2009 with a Springburn to Dalmuir Service.

Springburn: Despite the tail-light evidence 334 020 is pulling out of Springburn on 20 June 2009.

Toronto: Ignore the destination board. This is a reconditioned 1951 Toronto Transit Commission streetcar which was out for a local festival on St Claire West, Toronto on 20 June 2010.

Farington: 40145 with the Compass Tours Fathers day Scotsman to Edinburgh on 20 June 2010, seen here heading north on the WCML near to the site of the former Farington station. The overbridge behind the loco carries the East Lancs line from Farington Curve Junction (behind the photographer to the right) to Lostock Hall Junction (to the left of the photo).

Leyland: At just before midnight on 20 June 2010, after a very long day, no 40145 is almost at the end of its circular trip with the Compass Tours 'Fathers Day Scotsman'. The train, which ran York - Manchester - Preston - Edinburgh - York - Manchester - Preston, is seen paused on the down slow platform at Leyland.

Glasgow Central: ScotRail unit 380113 interior, June 2011.

Brundall: 156419 arrives at Brundall on 20 June 2011 with a Norwich - Lowestoft service.

Saltcoats: The station building on the Glasgow bound platform at Saltcoats on 20 June 2011, seen from the footbridge.

Prestonpans: View east from Prestonpans station as the 10.00 East Coast 'Northern Lights' HST from Kings Cross to Aberdeen approaches on 20 June 2011.

Saltcoats: 380016 about to leave Saltcoats on 20 June with a Glasgow Central - Largs train.

East Loch Tarbert Slip: Caledonian MacBrayne's MV Isle of Cumbrae approaches a busy Tarbert Slipway after crossing Loch Fyne from Portavadie in June 2011.

Glasgow Central: 380012 at Glasgow Central on 20 June with a Largs service.

Glen Ogle Viaduct: A pocket camera view from the A85 of the 12 arch Glen Ogle Viaduct, and a further arched bridge over a burn a short distance beyond its south end, in June 2011. I travelled northbound over the viaduct whilst journeying between Stirling and Oban in 1963 & 1964, but both times overnight, and once south bound in daylight whilst on the return working in 1964 after quickly visiting Oban shed.

Glasgow Central: 380s at Glasgow Central on 20 June. 380106 and 380113 stand at the buffer stops.

Newcraighall South Junction: 158871 nearing Newcraighall with the 08.37 from Tweedbank to Edinburgh on 20 June 2014.... could be a future caption for this one. Meantime you'll have to settle for... 158871 waits in the new (temporary) turnback siding at Millerhill on 20 June 2011 prior to running back to Newcraighall station to form the next train to Waverley.

Dirleton: 380 102 climbs towards Dirleton with the 11.44 from Edinburgh on 20 June 2011.

Sheringham: Waggon & Maschinenbau railbus at Sheringham on 20 June with a service to Holt.

Sheringham: 'Trousers optional?' Notice at Sheringham, June 2011.

Dirleton: 380 103 near Dirleton on 20 June with the 11.26 North Berwick - Edinburgh Waverley.

Glasgow Central: ScotRail services at Glasgow Central on 20 June 2011.

Millerhill Yard: DBS 66025 leaves Millerhill with the 6S58 Lackenby - Dalzell loaded slab train on 20 June.

Saltcoats: 380113 leaving Saltcoats station on 20 June heading for Largs.

Kinbuck: Site of the former Kinbuck station, standing alongside the B8033 north of Dunblane. View towards Perth from the road overbridge in June 2011. Kinbuck station was closed by BR in 1956.

Tyndrum Lower: Looking south at Tyndrum Lower station on 20 June 2011. My only previous visit here was in the summer of 1963 when leaving the 6.15am ex Oban at 7.42 to leg it to Tyndrum Upper for the 8.10am to Fort William & Mallaig. There followed a ferry to Kyle and a train on to Inverness to end an intensive two days of shed visits which had started at Perth the previous day. See image [[76992]]

Upper Tyndrum: Tyndrum Upper station building north end and signage to greet travellers as seen from the stepped entrance in a quiet period between services. It must be some comfort to any non savvy walkers who have arrived near to time for a train to Oban to note that they need to then get to the lower station around 1.0Km away.

North Berwick: 380 102 leaving North Berwick with the 12.26 to edinburgh on 20 June 2011.

Upper Tyndrum: View from the car park of Tyndrum Upper station on 20 June 2011. Slightly more relaxed than my last visit in the summer of 1963 see image [[35988]]. Didn't realise how far the climb had been from the road all those years ago!

Crossgates: A rural idyll. View south from the B925, a little to the east of Crossgates, Fife, on a summer's day in 2012. The fence on the left marks the boundary of the Fordell Railway and in the distance is the spoil heap of Muir Dean opencast mine which has obliterated much of the old route.

Birmingham New Street: Three noses, three liveries, and some stalactites on the overbridge at the primary rail passenger hub of the Midlands. That white light on the side of the Voyager wasn't my flashgun, honest.

Garsdale: Looking south west towards Garsdale station on 20 June, with Dandry Mire Viaduct on the right and the trackbed of the former Hawes branch running off to the left along the embankment in the background.

Salutation Junction: In contrast to Cardiff Road see image [[39471]], here in Ebenezer Terrace, with its brightly colured houses, the narrow bit on the right was the road; and the broad bit on the left was the railway. View looks North and slightly East, towards the River Usk in June 2012; the junction would be perhaps sixty feet behind the photographer. The junction was named after a pub; the standard local salutation being 'Awrightabutt', which might not do as the name of a junction.

Newport: 67002 is hardly overburdened by four Mark 3 coaches as it heads the Welsh Assembly sponsored Premier Train from Cardiff to Holyhead under the 'titanium worm' footbridge at Newport on 20 June. With a half coach of First Class dining, a buffet counter for standard class, and a non-stop run from Abergavenny to Shrewsbury, this is a very civilized way to travel - especially for regular fares.

Shrewsbury: The garish colours and modern design of Colas Rail 66846 (hauling empty timber wagons South) contrasts with the old-fashioned architecture and muted colours of Shrewsbury station on 20 June 2012.

Courtybella Junction: Looking the opposite way from my previous shot see image [[41577]], the electric crossing barriers, installed in 1960, have gone; but rails are still visible, and the long, thin car park for the Royal Gwent Hospital is a bit of a giveaway. These tracks connected the Western Valley to Newport docks; I rode down them on a Monmouthshire RS railtour in 1988.

Llanarth Street Junction: This 0-4-0 saddle tank has been minding its own business on a track panel pointing towards the West bank of the River Usk - approximately along one of the old coal loading lines - for some ten years. It's quite vandal resistant, but the wagon behind it has fared less well. Apparently, some homeless people started sleeping in it - the longitudinal timber frame member on the right side broke soon afterwards. As the original safe load was 12 tons, the timber must have been quite rotten. This engine can just be seen from trains coming into Newport station, on the South side.

Fort William: K1 2-6-0 no 62005 stands at Fort William on 20 June 2012 shortly before its scheduled departure time with the morning 'Jacobite' service to Mallaig.

Shrewsbury: The 18.24 to Holyhead snakes across from a through line to platform 3 at Shrewsbury while crossing the River Severn in June 2012. The Abbey, having seen the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway come and go, stands aloof in the distance.

Newport: As if in a time warp - only the yellow platform barrier just visible on the right shows that the 10.31 to Swansea is approaching its stopping point, rather than being there already, as Newport station has been effectively moved West following its recent rebuild. The rear power car has just passed the former rail-over-rail bridge see image [[39372]].

Newport: That's the Great Western main line on top of the bridge (see signal gantry on left), but why that curious structure beneath? That was an underbridge for the direct line from the Blaenavon collieries to ships on the wharves on the River Usk. see image [[39348]] Newport station is to the right (West) of this view. Mill Street station was just North of this bridge; it was open to passengers from 1853 to 1880, and had standard gauge track; as opposed to the broad gauge High Street station, and the 4 foot 4 inches Dock Street!

Newport: I have no problem with the appearance of the 158 forming the 10.44 to Portsmouth Harbour from platform 4 see image [[39316]]; but from this angle, the recently built footbridge bears a passing resemblance to a giant hairdryer.

Glenfinnan Viaduct: After crossing the morning 'Jacobite' steam service to Mallaig, a twin 156 DMU set pauses briefly on Glenfinnan Viaduct on 20 June 2012, providing passengers with an opportunity to view the wild and wonderful scenery.

Locheilside: Platform view at Locheilside in June 2012, looking east towards Fort William.

Hams Hall Freight Terminal: Not a pig in sight... as 08633 shunts container flats at Hams Hall on a nice bright Wednesday morning in June 2012. This former power station site now contains a Sainsbury's food warehouse and a BMW engine factory, as well as a container terminal.

Stirling Hill Quarry: Surviving Admiralty specification fence post of the Peterhead Quarry Railway, at Stirling Hill quarry in June 2015.

Courtybella Junction: View East in Newport, parallel to Cardiff Road (left). The sunken roadway in front of the houses used to be a railway from the River Usk wharves see image [[39348]] to Courtybella Junction (actually well behind the photographer) and the Ebbw Junction area. The GWR latterly ran a light engine along this route once a year to keep it legally open. Its blaze of glory came in 1927-28 when Newport station was being resignalled. At that time crowds turned out to see main line express trains diverted through the streets in order to avoid the station. These days, they'd put on buses.

Courtybella Junction: This headshunt for a steel loading point (Alphasteel, IIRC) used to be near the Western end of the loop line from Crindau past wharves on the Usk see image [[39348]] to the yard by Ebbw Junction. The lush vegetation reflects the above average rainfall in this area. View looks West; the precise location of Courtybella Junction would be perhaps 60 feet beyond the buffer stop. There was a temporary passenger station in this area in the mid-19th century.

Shrewsbury: Come the revolution, brother, those 153's will be first up against the wall. The 18.25 to Crewe prepares to leave town on 20 June 2012. The bicycle on the right appears to be embracing tilt technology.

Newport: Somebody told me there wasn't much freight in South Wales any more. They were wrong. 66090 hauls empty steel coil wagons off the River Usk bridge and through Newport station on 20th June. The new brickwork on the right is part of the conversion of the old station booking hall into a council information centre. The Upper Crust cafe on the left survives, somewhat improbably, adjacent to the walled-up steps to the old footbridge, at the opposite end of the station to all of the other passenger facilities.

Fort William: LNER Thompson / Peppercorn K1 2-6-0 62005 stands ready to depart Fort William, with the morning Jacobite service to Mallaig on 20 June 2012. The K1 was in fact built by the North British Locomotive Co in 1949, as loco 26609, after the formation of British Railways.

Saintes: Front end of a regional DMU at Saintes Station on 20 June 2013.

Largs: 380 018 arrives at Largs on 20 June 2013 with the 14.48 ex-Glasgow Central. It will form the 15.53 Largs - Glasgow Central return service.

Farington Junction: Having changed locos at Farington Junction on 20 June, the return Cumbrian Mountain Express snakes out onto the WCML behind 86259 Les Ross on its way back to Euston. On the right is 46115 Scots Guardsman which had hauled the train from Carlisle and was waiting to return home to Carnforth.

Ullapool Pier: Calmac 'MV Isle of Lewis' rounds the headland as it approaches Ullapool Pier along Loch Broom after the 2 hour 30 minute crossing from Stornoway on the evening of 20th June 2013.

Ullapool Pier: Calmac 'MV Isle of Lewis' manoeuvres onto the berth at Ullapool Pier some 20 minutes late following the crossing from Stornoway on the evening of 20th June 2013.

Appleby: Royal Scot 46115 Scots Guardsman accelerates away from the Appleby water stop on 20th June 2013 with the southbound Cumbrian Mountain Express.

St Andrew Square [Tram]: A sunny morning in St Andrew Square on 20 June 2013 looking south towards Princes Street. With the wires now in place construction work on the tram stop has recommenced.

Carnforth: Six months on but still bearing the scars of the Salford fire in January 2013, West Coast Railway Brush Type 4 47500 languishes on a storage road at Carnforth shed. In happier times this loco carried the name Great Western See image [[40966]]

Carnforth: Back on Parade. Fresh from recent overhaul 46115 Scots Guardsman takes its first revenue earning train of the 2013 season out of Carnforth Down Loops and on to the main line heading for Carlisle on 20 June. After a trip over Shap and the S&C the Scot would hand this Cumbrian Mountain Express back to AL6 86259 at Farington Junction.

Princes Street [Tram]: Looking west along Princes Street towards the Caledonian Hotel on 20 June 2013. Further work is currently in progress on The Mound tram stop.

Plockton: The class 158 unit working the 09.00 service from Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh skirts the harbour at Plockton on 20 June as it nears the end of its journey.

Avalanche Shelter: An easterly looking view of the avalanche shelter alongside Loch Carron which protects both the road and railway line near Stromeferry. View taken whilst waiting to access the single track road tunnel in June 2013 during a journey from Portree on Skye to Ullapool, via Gareloch, to next overnight stop north whilst heading to Thurso via Balnakeil and Durness.

Ullapool Pier: Calmac 'MV Isle of Lewis' reverses on to the linkspan at Ullapool Pier on 20 June 2013, after arrival early evening following a 2 hour 30 minute crossing from Stornoway.

Plockton: View over Plockton station towards Kyle of Lochalsh in June 2013 showing the improvements to the platform surface since the adoption of the station by Plockton High School. See image [[26277]]

Bromley Cross: Bromley Cross between trains. This view is towards Blackburn and the signal at the end of the platform protects the single line section to the passing loop at Darwen. The signal box and surviving station buildings, which contain the still staffed booking office, are on the Bolton and Manchester platform.

Charnock Richard: Unusual sight in the lorry park at Charnock Richard Services on the M6 on 20 June 2014.

Entwistle: A lengthy campaign to redouble the Blackburn-Bolton line was partly successful with the opening of a two mile long dynamic loop at Darwen in 2015. However, reinstating a second track at Entwistle would have required major work. A 153/150 combination leaves the rural request stop heading for Bolton and Manchester past the relay room that was built on the old goods lines. The surviving platform was once part of an island but the other road has been filled in and an exit ramp created in place of the old footbridge.

Tay Bridge: View north across the Tay Bridge from slightly east of Wormit station site, on what was, despite the clouds, a warm and pleasant Saturday afternoon.

Heywood: Platform scene at Heywood on the East Lancs Railway on 20 June 2015 with LMS Hughes Crab 13065 in the process of running round its train.

Spiegelau: Scene at Spiegelau on the Zwiesel-Grafenau branch, one of the stations where overnight visitors benefit from free regional public transport using the Bayerischer Wald 'Nationalpark-Card'. Here ramblers join a morning train to Zwiesel on 20th June. The station platform has yet to be upgraded (and redundant loop and siding lines remain in situ) but the station building is being converted into a café / restaurant.

Glossop: Northern Rail EMU 323230 about to leave Glossop Station on the evening of 20 June bound for Manchester Piccadilly.

Tay Bridge: Looking north across the Tay on 20 June 2015 as a northbound ScotRail Turbostar, forming the 15.00 from Edinburgh Waverley to Dundee, meets the 14.52 ex Aberdeen southbound Virgin East Coast HST 125.

Bury Bolton Street: WD Austerity 0-6-0ST no 75008 'Swiftsure' (Hunslet 2857/1943) starring in a Peppa Pig Gala Day on 20 June 2015 at Bury Bolton Street station on the East Lancs Railway.

Slochd Summit: 60163 Tornado makes light work of the gradient up to Slochd Summit on 20 June with 'The Highland Rambler' for Inverness. In the background is Slochd Viaduct.

Cheddleton: 33102 Sophie at Cheddleton on the Churnet Valley Railway on 20 June 2015.

Tay Bridge: The 15.28 Edinburgh Waverley - Inverurie heading north across the Tay Bridge on 20 June 2015.

Cheddleton: Former US Army Transportation Corps class S160 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotive no 5197 under extensive repair at Cheddleton on the Churnet Valley Railway in June 2015.

Zwiesel: Any colour you like... as long as it's green! A Waldbahn unit climbs the steep gradient between Zwiesel and Bodenmais on 20th June 2015.

Lendrum Terrace Bridge: Granite bridge over the trackbed of the Peterhead Quarry Railway at Lendrum Terrace, two and a half miles south of the Harbour and Prison at Peterhead. The line ran from Stirlinghall Quarry, south of this bridge to the Harbour of Refuge, carrying granite for the great breakwaters and convict labour to the quarry. The bridge, as other structures on the line, built to exacting Admiralty design standards and an example of exceptional craftsmanship - far above what would be expected of an 'industrial' railway.

Dalwhinnie: DRS 68001 Evolution races south on the long straight section north of Dalwhinnie on 20 June 2015 with a train of eighteen empty containers bound for Mossend Yard.

Peterhead Harbour: The South Breakwater at Peterhead Harbour of Refuge on 20 June 2015, showing clearly the position of the rails used in construction and early maintenance of this massive structure. Granite used in the construction was quarried at Stirling Hill, worked by convict labour, and transported on the Peterhead Quarry Railway.

RNAS Longside: Deep in the forest at Lenabo, Aberdeenshire, is the trackbed of the railway running north from the the WW1 Royal Naval Airship Station to meet the GNSR Maud - Peterhead line near the site of Longside station. RNAS Longside became Operational in 1917, providing patrols across the North Sea and was rail-served from the start of construction.

RNAS Longside: 'Ohhh... Grandpa, what big feet you have!'
'All the better to show the scale of these old moorings my dear...'
Adjacent to the railway siding at the former Longside Airship Station are mooring rings and anchor blocks, once used to tie-down the airships. Evidence of the massive hangars, 150m long and 30m high, can also be found here.
(For the record the brogues are size 10!) See image [[52311]]

Peterhead Harbour: In the left background members of the GNoSR Association stand on the trackbed of the South Breakwater railway at Peterhead Harbour of Refuge on 20 June 2015. In the foreground is clear evidence of Admiralty design standards, attention to detail and exceptional craftsmanship in the granite construction of the breakwater walls. Thanks are due to Admiralty civilian Engineers, stone-masons and convict labourers.

Rawtenstall: LMS Hughes Crab 13065 standing in the rain at Rawenstall on 20 June 2015.

Craiginches Yard: This is Craiginches cement sidings in an industrial area of Aberdeen. Colas Rail 60076 Dunbar, which was named here in March 2016 by the then Scottish Government Minister Derek McKay MSP, waits to return the empty VTG wagons to Tarmac's Oxwellmains cement works. Another connection between these places is that the railway is helping to preserve these place-names which are at some risk of disappearing. Craiginches Prison closed in 2014 with new housing on the site not certain to retain the name. Oxwellmains cement works and landfill have a limited lifespan so who knows what will become of that name in coming decades. [Ref query 17831]

Port Talbot Steel Works: Torpedo ladles in position for filling on No 5 Blast Furnace. For a similar view at Ravenscraig see image [[9791]].

Port Talbot Steel Works: The full height of blast furnace no 5 seen in 2016.

Interlaken Ost: Veteran electric loco 420501, in BLS AG livery, propels a regional passenger service for Zweisimmen alongside the River Aare. The train has just left Interlaken Ost and is negotiating the busy single track section between there and Interlaken West. BLS, SBB and DB services all use this line.

Port Talbot Steel Works: Empty torpedos returning to No 5 blast furnace. View from above.

Oberstafel: RB No.12, waiting in Oberstafel loop to climb the final section to the Rothorn summit, is seen from a descending train on 20th June 2016. Only an hour before as we went up the mountain this spot had been completely in dense cloud.

Dublin Heuston [Tram]: Luas tram no. 4011 to Jervis departing from Dublin Heuston stop with the railway terminus of the same name in the background, on 20th June 2016.

Vanvouver, BC, Canada: The Rocky Mountaineer just arrived in Vancouver from Kamloops. Locomotive 8017 was originally built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in August 1968 for the Penn Central Railroad as a class GP40 then re-built as a GP40-2 by National Railway Equipment prior to leasing to Rocky Mountaineer. Locomotive 8013 was built by General Motors Diesel Division in September 1975 for Canadian National as a class GP40-2LW.

Rothorn: Close up of the motion of Rothorn Bahn locomotive No.16 during a short layover at the summit station. The outward appearance is of an 0-4-2T but the rail wheels carry only and all propulsion is via the Abt rack system. The 3rd generation locomotive was built in 1992 for the Rochers-de-Naye railway in Montreux and transferred to Brienz in 2005.

Thompson River, BC, Canada: The Rocky Mountaineer beside the Thompson River between Kamloops and its junction with the Fraser River, looking forward from my carriage. See image [[57040]]

Geldried: View of the bright blue mineral rich waters of Lake Brienz from a descending Rothorn train approaching the loop at Geldried. This is a line of two halves with rugged mountain scenery on the upper section and glorious lake views from the lower. The wooded outcrop on the far side of the lake is Geissbach, calling point for the lake steamers and the location of the funicular railway of the same name. See image [[56919]] 20th June 2016.

Thompson River, BC, Canada: The Rocky Mountaineer beside the Thompson River between Kamloops and its junction with the Fraser River, looking back from my carriage. See image [[57053]]

Port Talbot Steel Works: General view from no 5 blast furnace and empty torpedos for no 4 blast furnace being shunted.

Geldried: A descending Rothorn train waits in the Geldried loop to pass an ascending service on 20th June 2016. The gradient in the loop is severe but noticeably steeper beyond as the climbing train shows.

Clayhills Yard: To the south of the Joint Station lies the Clayhills Service Delivery Depot (left background) and associated sidings with Caley sleeper train waiting for the evening start. The name Clayhills is an old name for a district of Aberdeen which has otherwise disappeared from the map. This is a classic example of how the operational railway preserves old place names. There was indeed a small extractive industry and brick and tile-making works on this site see http://www.scottishbrickhistory.co.uk/clayhills-brick-and-tile-works-aberdeen/

Brienz: Metre gauge EMU 160001, on the Zentralbahn system travelling from Lucerne to Interlaken, calls at Brienz. Here passengers can change for the Rothorn Bahn steam powered mountain railway or Lake Brienz cruises. There are several rack sections on the Zentralbahn. Most services are formed by EMUs but in 2016 a few trains were still loco hauled See image [[55885]]

Aberdeen: A view from the footbridge showing the middle road between (former) Platforms 8 and 9 looking north. Note the digital display screen on a post to the right of the track. This is an indicator which shows the speed of rail vehicles as they pass through the carriage washer which is situated some distance to the south of the station.

Niederried: A Zentralbahn local push-pull service runs along the north shore of Lake Brienz near Niederried in June 2016. The Class 101 metre gauge electric loco is hauling the train from Interlaken to Lucerne. The loco is cog fitted as there are some rack sections on this line.

Interlaken Ost: BLS local double-deck EMU 525016, waiting at Interlaken Ost station prior to forming a local service in June 2016.

Haymarket Central Junction: This is a view of the recently wired-up Haymarket Central Junction from a passing train. Part of the EGIP project it will allow the new electric rolling stock another route to access the depot at Millerhill via the South Sub.

Broughton Level Crossing: Looking north beyond the small settlement of Broughton, east of Malton, towards the former level crossing over Moor Lane, with the crossing keepers dwelling, now named Gate House, sited on the north side of the line. I was advised that the crossing keeper at closure still lives in the property.

Geissbach: Geissbach Funicular was built in 1879 to transport guests and supplies from a steamer station on Lake Brienz 322' up to the hotel above. It was the first funicular in the world to use a single track with passing places rather than two parallel lines and as such, in 2015, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers designated it a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark.

Cults: Cults Station building dating from 1894 replaced the original structure from 1853 (which had been moved on a train from its original location a few hundred yards east in 1855). It has the typical piended (hipped) roof of stations on the Deeside Line. The Up platform is heavily overgrown but intact whereas currently there is no obvious sign of the Down platform; in fact it is hidden behind a row of trees. The building is extended for light industrial use and lies close to the North Deeside Road and is easily accessible on foot off Station Road (private parking only). The walk/cycle/bridleway is part of the Deeside Way route from Duthie Park, Aberdeen to Ballater. In the early 20th Century not only did Cults have two stations but also on-street trams. A photo of these latter is displayed in the toilets of the nearby Cults Hotel.

Planalp: BRB No.16, zig-zagging up the Rothorn mountainside on the section above Planalp loop, as seen from a following train in June 2016. The low speeds of these rack trains means that two travelling in the same direction are allowed to occupy the same section of track.

Leven Viaduct [Dumbarton]: A mixed livery train crossing the River Leven viewed from the Dumbarton bank.

Tan-y-Bwlch: Greetings are always Ffestive from here ...

Lowgill Viaduct: This quick snap of the Lowgill Viaduct was taken from a passing Pendolino whose tinted glass lends an 'old postcard' look to the photo. The Ingleton Branch line of the L&C joined what is now the West Coast main line at Low Gill, south of the Lune Gorge and Tebay.

Porthmadog Harbour [FR]: An unusual view from a table at the Spooner's Cafe and ... a cooling pint of fruit cider.

Guide Bridge: 142057 leads a four car Pacer set into Guide Bridge, en route to Rose Hill (Marple). The train is just passing Guide Bridge Station Junction, where the line to Stockport diverges. This route, and its two intermediate stations of Denton and Reddish South, enjoys a parliamentary service of one train a week running from Stockport to Stalybridge. See image [[20139]] from this location in 1982.

Liverpool Lime Street: Ken Dodd about to tickle Bessie Braddock outside the temporary Virgin first class lounge at Liverpool Lime Street. The bronzes were installed in 2009.

Liverpool Lime Street: Northern Class 319 nos. 367 and 361, still in their white base livery with blue doors, seen at Lime Street's Platforms 1 and 2 in June 2017.

Edinburgh Waverley: Having arrived ECS with barely enough time to board, 68022 Resolution pulls out of Platform 2 at Waverley with the 1717 to Cardenden on 20/06/2017.

Preston: Pacer 142061 prepares to squeal its way out of Preston towards Blackpool North on a very hot summer day.

Caernarfon: Seen at the new Caernarfon station. This is the 1997 terminus of the Welsh Highland Railway.

Preston: Pendolino 390040 'Virgin Radio Star' on a Glasgow – Euston service starts to roll, if not yet rock, southwards out of Preston.

Porthmadog Harbour [WHR]: Phewhatascorcher! A Welsh Highland Railway train at Porthmadog Harbour on a particularly hot day in June 2017.

Interiors: The mint green of the SPT Rail era clashes a bit with the Scotland's Railway seating covers in this Class 320. The grab poles, presumably, are meant to stand out anyway.

Cambuslang: A Glasgow Central to Lanark service at Cambuslang on 20 June 2018.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: This pub sign is unusual in celebrating a tramway, not a railway. It was taken from a stationary car in a traffic jam - not that I have an axe to grind about tramway closures. The old tramway is now a very agreeable tarmac path running behind the pub. see image [[46889]]

Tenterden Town: The light railway pioneer, Colonel Holman F. Stephens, is brought to life at the Kent & East Sussex Railway museum at its Tenderden Town terminus.

Croftfoot: The corporate look: a Newton service at Croftfoot on 20th June 2018.

Dyce: The bridge just south of Dyce, crossing over Farburn Terrace, was being demolished by a large digger on the 20th. The crane was in position to lift the new deck into place. This view looks west from Victoria Street.

Tenterden Town: Class 14 No. D9504 runs round its train at Tenderden Town on 20th June 2018.

Crossmyloof: A service for Glasgow Central makes its last stop on 20 June. You can tell whether it has come from East Kilbride or Barrhead purely by the number of passengers on board.

Long Marston: This West Midlands tram seems to be rather puzzled as to what it is doing at Long Marston (I saw it at the Rail Live show). The London Transport D stock on the left is on the former GWR line to Birmingham and Wolverhampton LL - it is probably anxiously awaiting its next powertrain.

Coatbridge Sunnyside: An Airdrie to Balloch service enters Sunnyside on 20 June. Meanwhile two painters demonstrate close teamwork.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: The Great Western must be slipping up on maintenance. They have owned the Stratford and Moreton tramway since 1868, so they really ought to cut the grass. This maintenance boundary marker can be seen (just) on the town side of the Avon bridge.

Bodiam: The current western limit of the extension of the K&ESR to the Rother Valley Railway (just over two miles east of Robertsbridge) seen on 20th June 2018.

Newtongrange: A Tweedbank to Edinburgh service enters Nitt'n on 19 June. Plenty of room for a second track here. Just saying.

Cambuslang: A Milngavie service enters Cambuslang on 20 June.

Long Marston: The remaining Nightstar coaches, which were built for sleeper services to the Continent which never ran, are now looking rather grimy - no surprise after 25 years in storage.

Robertsbridge: Banana vans at the Robertsbridge terminus of the Rother Valley Railway on 20th June 2018.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: Straight as an arrow, well maintained and green - a nice way to leave Stratford. View looks South, near the eponymous pub, in June 2018. (see image [[64787]])

Robertsbridge: Class 03 DM 0-6-0 shunter D2112 at the Robertsbridge terminus of the Rother Valley Railway on 20th June 2018.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: The average tourist probably has no idea that this pleasant little park used to be a transhipment wharf from tramway wagons to boats. They would be even more amazed to know that the stone paths follow the tracks of tramway sidings; in particular, there were points at a junction where the silver car is parked. The bin under the right side of the tree in the background is at a crossing of paths, where there used to be a wagon turntable. I can think of two possible explanations: either there was a closet tramway enthusiast on the council payroll; or more prosaically, the ground under the sidings was contaminated, so that grass would not grow there; so someone did the pragmatic thing, and covered it with paths.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: The tramway bridge across the Avon in June 2018. Other photographers use the car park viewpoint, but I prefer grass and boats.

Long Marston: New EMU 345046, to be used on Crossrail, enjoys the fresh Warwickshire air at the RAIL LIVE exhibition in June 2018.

Long Marston: Fresh out of the box - 88.004 'Pandora' shows off to the crowds at the first day of the RAIL LIVE show at the Quinton Rail Technology Centre.

Burnside: 320s seem to be regular stand-ins for 314s on the Cathcart lines these days. One such calls at Burnside on 20 June heading for Newton. The station building does not, alas, fulfill the promise of the street entrance.

Blairhill: A Helensburgh Central service enters Blairhill on 20 June. The station is certainly more inviting than it used to be.

Long Marston: An early hydrogen fuel cell train, constructed at the University of Birmingham, waits to give demonstration rides to rail engineers at the RAIL LIVE show at Long Marston in 2018. Possibly better looking than a class 70!

Northiam: The driver of Class 14 No. D9504 checks his train after departure from Northiam towards Tenderden on 20th June 2018. The old wagons in the siding, and the semaphore signal, help to create a very 1960s feel with this picture.

Burnside: One expects a figure in a cassock to be hurrying past this entrance, not a woman with her shopping. The 'windows' though are blind, and the carvings are rather secular: elements of the Caledonian Railway coat of arms between a 'C' and what would have been an 'R'.

Long Marston: A reminder of the 2018 RAIL LIVE exhibition - 230 002 ready to demonstrate its (totally silent and very smooth) Lithium Ion battery power.

Bodiam: Class 14 No. D9504 rounds its train at the Bodiam terminus of the Kent & East Sussex Railway on 20th June 2018. Behind the loco is the track leading to the planned extension of the line to the Rother Valley Railway (and the main line) at Robertsbridge.

Busby: An East Kilbride service calls at Busby on 20 June. It will shortly enter the single track section through Throntonhall and Hairmyres which sadly limits the capabilities of this line.

Bodiam: The second train of the day heads east from Bodiam on 20th June 2018, seen from the cab of Class 14 No. D9504. With its central cab the loco has a passing resemblance to the Clayton Class 17.

Stratford-on-Avon [S and M Railway]: This detailed map is on an information board near the river, and shows a number of sidings around a wharf area; also details like wagon turntables. This is now a pleasant grassed area, with no overt clues as to its past apart from the layout of the footpaths, which just happen to follow a number of sidings!

Busby: As at West Calder the station building at Busby survives in the occupancy of a Chinese restaurant. It's looking better than it has done for many years, though outside it must be the only empty planters on ScotRail. Some painted in windows might make it look even better.

Crossmyloof: An East Kilbride service at Crossmyloof on 20 June. This is 100 per cent Class 156 territory; has been for years and there's no sign of it changing.

Bodiam: Harry, ex-BR Assistant Area Manager at King's Cross, attends to his ticket issuing duties at the Bodiam terminus of the Kent & East Sussex Railway on 20th June 2018.

Aberfoyle: Looking west along Lochard Road in Aberfoyle. On the left is the surviving parapet of the bridge which allowed the Aberfoyle Slate Quarry tramway to pass underneath. The foliage is too dense to see what survives of the bridge, while the opposite side of the road has been landscaped as a garden. The quarries closed in 1958. 20 June 2018.

Busby: An East Kilbride to Glasgow service pulls into Busby on 20 June. Electrification of this line is surely long overdue, but if frequency is to improve there will need to be some redoubling. This may be what's holding electrification back.

Blairhill: A notice announces that the old steps are closed for essential maintenance. It's always 'essential' maintenance, isn't it, as opposed presumably to the unnecessary kind. Anyway it looks to me as if things have gone beyond maintenance of any sort. The disused ticket Portakabin (TM) survives though looking in a bad way. The shiny new office is just visible on the extreme left.

Caldercruix: A Milngavie service pulls in on 20 June. Caldercruix Main Street has the 5 small-town essentials: a Chinese takeaway, an Indian takeaway, a convenience store, a bookies and a pub ... but nothing else. That was a long half-hour.

Northiam: Driver and signalman exchange tokens (and gossip) at Northiam on the Kent & East Sussex Railway on 20th June 2018.

Coatbridge Central: Although (obviously) more central than Sunnyside, Coatbridge Central has a far less direct service into Glasgow due to the lack of a north to west curve at Mossend. It only supports an hourly Cumbernauld to Dalmuir like this one seen on 20 June. A shorter route is available to Glasgow via Gartcosh, but this hasn't been used since Buchanan Street closed.

Bristol Temple Meads: West Coast Railways 47245 is tail end Charlie to Black 5 44871 at Bristol Temple Meads on 20th June 2019.

Hartlepool: An almost missed them, quick shot over the car roof, of 68005 leading 68034, as they enter the curve on the approach to Hartlepool station with the return working to Carlisle ex Seaton Power Station with a nuclear flask wagon in tow. 68034 is now in the TransPennine Express loco pool, along with 68033, but both retain DRS livery.

Bristol Temple Meads: Colas 70807 northbound at Temple Meads with cement tanks on 20th June 2019.

Wuhan: Although China is regularly accused of copying western designs etc., here is an example which might be the other way round. This is the frontage to the vast station at Wuhan, and the new frontage at Dundee is clearly copied to some extent on this, although on a vastly smaller scale. See image [[73041]]. Wuhan railway station is the high speed station for the city and was opened at the end of 2009. The other two principal stations in Wuhan are Hankou and Wuchang which have both conventional and high speed train services. 20th June 2019, before the Covid-19 outbreak that thrust Wuhan into international consciousness.

Bristol Temple Meads: Great Western HST power car 43160 at Bristol Temple Meads on 20th June 2019. By this date the number of HSTs still in service with GWR had been significantly reduced.

Wuhan: CNR Wuhan Station interior looking across the platforms. There are 20 platforms and the immense scale of the station is apparent in this picture, taken on 20th June 2019.

Aviemore: Speyside Railway banner on the platform fence at Aviemore on 20th June 2019.

Morecambe Euston Road: The Pacers have continued in use well into 2019. 142063, seen passing the site of Morecambe Euston Road on 20th June 2019, is on the 1033 Morecambe to Leeds via Bentham service. Both tracks are bi-directional stubs, with that on the left also affording access to the Heysham branch.

Bristol Temple Meads: 43086 is southbound at Temple Meads in the dying days of the GWR HSTs, 20th June 2019.

Wuhan: Wuhan Station looking south over the platforms. Wuhan Station, opened in 2009, is a major transport hub sitting astride the long distance Beijing - Guangzhou and Shanghai - Chengdu high speed lines as well as for regional intercity lines to cities in Hubei such as Huanggang. 20th June 2019.

Bristol Temple Meads: GWR 800311 arriving at Bristol Temple Meads on 20th June 2019.

Bristol Temple Meads: DRS 68001 'Evolution' and 68005 'Defiant' leave Temple Meads on 20th June 2019 heading north with a single nuclear flask.

Bristol Temple Meads: X-Country 220020 arriving at Bristol Temple Meads on 20th June 2019.

Glasgow Central: Cross Country Voyager 221133 at Glasgow Central forming the 2105 Mondays to Fridays to Edinburgh on 20th June 2019. This is the only scheduled service train to operate via the Edinburgh Suburban line but as I discovered on two consecutive nights, if it is running late it travels direct from Slateford to Haymarket and misses out the sub.

Bristol Temple Meads: X-Country HST 125 power car 43357 leading a service into Bristol Temple Meads in June 2019.

Bristol Temple Meads: Black 5 44871 pulls into Temple Meads with a 'Steam Dreams' special at 1315 hrs on 20th June 2019.

Bay Horse: DRS 66422 rolls a Grangemouth to Daventry intermodal service past the civil engineering works in Forton cutting on a sunny 20th June 2020. This service would usually be electric (Class 88) hauled. See image [[68947]] for the same location one year earlier.

Bay Horse: Greater Anglia 317340 makes its way back to Ilford Depot, behind 37800, after modification at Brodie Engineering, Kilmarnock. The train is seen at the south end of the cutting at Forton on 20th June 2020 and the Up Side cutting wall seen here is likely to be the next stretch to see reprofiling and drain installation by civil engineering contractors.

Bay Horse: ROG 37800 'Cassiopeia' heads through the cutting at Forton, to the south of Bay Horse, taking EMU 317340 back to Ilford on 20th June 2020 after PRM modifications at Brodie Engineering. This has become a regular WCML weekly working during 2020 with a Greater Anglia EMU dragged to Kilmarnock on Fridays and another returned home the following day.

Scruton: Looking along the restored Scruton station on the Wensleydale Railway in June 2021. Former Northern Trains Leyland bodied Pacer 142060, and sister 142090, are stabled at the platform after arrival with one of the shuttle workings from Bedale and Leeming Bar that have been provided post Covid movement easing. Much of the line is not usable at present for passenger workings due to deterioration of track components over the last 18 months. A mile of flat bottom rail, sleepers and other items have been obtained from the closed Eggborough Power Station for a relay needed approaching Redmire.

Silverstripe Saw Mill: The 1923 Edition of the 25 OS map shows a more restricted tramway system than the 1901 map. Aerial photos taken in 1933 and 1948 show that the tramway consisted of narrow gauge tracks with small trolley-like flat wagons. These were probably hand-propelled down to the loading bank level and around the site between the stacks of cut timber. By 1948 the site had been re-arranged so that the tramway no longer reached the siding and the operators needed to use some other means of transport to get the wood to the railway wagons. Research for caption text by Charlie Niven. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland. See https://maps.nls.uk/index.html Examples of aerial Images include: https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SPW042235 from 1933 and https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/SAW016812 from 1948 You need to register to zoom into these images.

Scruton: Looking east from the level crossing by Scruton station in June 2021, along the presently non operational to passengers section of the Wensleydale Railway line running to Northallerton East Station and Castle Hill exchange sidings. Much of the line is not usable at present for passenger workings due to deterioration of track components over the last 18 months. A mile of flat bottom rail, sleepers and other items have been obtained from the closed Eggborough Power Station for a relaying needed approaching Redmire.

Ashton Hall [Private]: Ashton Hall was a private station on the Glasson branch, serving the estate of Lord Ashton, a very wealthy Lancaster businessman and philanthropist. It never appeared in a public timetable but the building survives in residential use alongside the Glasson Branch cycleway. Ashton Hall is now the home of Lancaster Golf Club. In this June 2022 view, looking south along the branch, the port warehouses at Glasson Dock can be seen across the curve of the Lune Estuary.

Edinburgh Waverley: LNER Azuma 800103 calls at Waverley, platform 19, with the 09.47 from Aberdeen to Kings Cross on 19th June 2022.