Swindon: Collett ex-GWR 0-6-0PT no 3758 waits with a train at Swindon on 29 June 1959.

Strawfrank Junction: A Black 5 takes the Edinburgh line at Strawfrank Junction (now Carstairs South) with a freight on 29 June 1963. Carstairs MPD stands in the background.

Strawfrank Junction: Trains passing the PW depot on the WCML just south of the former Strawfrank Junction on 29 June 1963. The northbound train is hauled by Carstairs based Black 5 no 45173.

Rose Grove Shed: Fowler 3F 0-6-0T 47333 in the sidings alongside Rose Grove shed in June 1963.

Rose Grove Shed: 42717 stands in the yard at Rose Grove shed in June 1963. The Crab 2-6-0 was officially withdrawn from here in October the following year and cut up at Cashmores, Great Bridge, a month later.

Leeds City: Neville Hill A3 no 60084 Trigo at Leeds City station with a military special in the summer of 1963.

Bolton MPD: Ex L&Y 0-6-0 no 52523, minus one or two key components, stands abandoned in the rain behind Bolton shed on 29 June 1963. See image [[36976]]

Bolton MPD: A damp and misty morning on Bolton shed, featuring ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire 0-6-0 no 52523. The locomotive, of 1909 vintage, had been withdrawn in September 1962 and is seen here having been 'stored' at the end of a siding. The photograph is thought to have been taken during a visit on 29 June 1963 (although there is some conflict with reported disposal dates).

Rose Grove Shed: Fowler 0-6-0T no 47562 abandoned at the end of a siding alongside Rose Grove shed in June 1962, some 5 months prior to its official withdrawal.

Rose Grove Shed: Lonely looking 'Jinty' 0-6-0T no 47383 stands in the yard at Rose Grove on an overcast day in 1963.

Eglinton Street: A BR Standard 2-6-4 tank crosses the bridge carrying the CGU line from St Enoch, seen from one of the platforms of Eglinton St. in June 1963.

Wyre Dock Junction: BR Standard class 2 2-6-2T no 84018 in the sidings at Wyre Dock junction, Fleetwood, on 29 June 1963. The photograph is taken from alongside the signal box with the now-demolished Fleetwood power station in the right background. Fleetwood shed (24F) from which the locomotive was withdrawn in April 1965, stands directly behind the camera. Official closure took place in February 1966.

Keighley: The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway re-opening special coasts back into Keighley Station after the first round trip working to Oxenhope. USA Tank 30072 is leading on the return working with LMS 2MT 41241 inside. My mostly reliable Ford 105E van, which had been bought for me, primarily, shortly after passing my driving test, can be seen by the roadside. This had taken a number of us down to Devon, and to Barry, round South and Mid Wales twice, and numerous other rail and Rugby League locations.

Keighley: Formerly of USA Transportation, Southern Railway, and British Railways. USA Class 0-6-0T 30072, seen in one of its many guises as Worth Valley no 72, is one of the locomotives on the re-opening special awaiting departure from Keighley Station on 29 June 1968. See image [[24540]]

Keighley: A historic day on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on 29 June 1968 as Ivatt 2-6-2T no 41241 + USA 0-6-0T no 72 take the inaugural train out of Keighley following the reopening ceremony.

Keighley: 41241+30072 leaving Keighley station with the inaugural Keighley & Worth Valley working following the reopening ceremony on 29 June 1968.

Fillan Viaduct: Heading north from Crianlarich - a class 26 takes an oil train over Fillan viaduct on 29 June 1971.

Crianlarich: BRCW Type 2 5357 on a Fort William - Glasgow Queen Street working crossing a northbound service at Crianlarich in the summer of 1971. The train crews are in the process of swapping over.

Ardlui: BRCW Type 2 no 5359 southbound at Ardlui in the summer of 1971.

Garelochhead Viaduct: A Fort William - Glasgow Queen Street train on the approach to Garelochhead in June 1971.

Bath Spa: Class 50 no 50047 departs east from Bath on 29 June 1974.

Lowestoft: On June 29th 1977, the station name board declared this destination as Lowestoft Central, despite the fact there was no other station in the town that might be confused with it. Up until May 1970, however, there was also Lowestoft North on the line to Yarmouth South Town. Visible in this view are the DMU services to Norwich and Ipswich, a Class 03 shunting locomotive and apparently failed stock from the Lowestoft - London service.

Haddiscoe (High Level): The direct line between Beccles and Yarmouth South Town was closed in November 1959, with the high cost of maintaining the swing bridge at Haddiscoe part of the justification. This northerly view from the derelict swing bridge box (now restored) in 1977 shows the remaining bridge foundations and circular pivot base.

Polkemmet Colliery: No 25 (Andrew Barclay 2358 of 1954) ambles past the screens at Polkemmet Colliery on 29 June 1978.

Colwyn Bay: 47529 slows for the Colwyn Bay stop with a westbound passenger service along the North Wales Coast on 29th June 1980. This particular Brush Type 4 was withdrawn in early 1987 and cut up shortly afterwards at Crewe, the first Class 47/4 to be scrapped.

Coppull: The now preserved 40135 hauls a refurbished Wirral Line Class 503 EMU south along the WCML near Coppull heading back to Merseyside from Horwich Works. This working travelled out from Horwich to Preston See image [[19617]] before reversing to run south to Birkenhead via Warrington and Ellesmere Port. Note the way the unit has been formed in the train so the (possibly modified and dedicated) brakevans were able to couple to the inner ends of the cars but not the non-standard front coupling. Photo by Steven Brindley. Additional information about these workshop trains by Steven Brindley and Neville Parry.

Leyland: 47358 hauls a very mixed freight towards Euxton Junction on the Up Slow line through Leyland in the Summer of 1981.

Leyland: Now preserved 40135 hauls a Class 503 Wirral EMU on the Down Fast line through Leyland. At this time these units were still going for works attention rather than scrapping and I have since been told that the workings went to and from Horwich Works with a reversal in Preston on the journey to and from Merseyside, hence the two brake vans. See image [[25598]] 40135 was withdrawn just over five years later and is now with the Class 40 Preservation Society on the East Lancashire Railway. Image 38875 shows the modern day equivalent working.

Castle Yard: The surviving pier and the slip at the former Castle Yard of James Lamont and Co, Port Glasgow, seen from Newark Castle in 1997.

Inverkip: Inverkip station building on very much its last legs. Two similar buildings faced each other at this formerly double track station but by 1997 only one platform remained and the canopy had been severely cut back. See image [[9561]] - this is the building on the left platform.

Swanage: BR Standard 4MT 2-6-4T 80078, together with 35027 'Port Line', a rebuilt Merchant Navy 4-6-2. are seen at Swanage on 29th June 2000. Appearances belie the fact that both these locos were once Barry wrecks.

Corfe Castle: Standard class 4 no 80078 with a train on the Swanage Railway, near Corfe Castle, on 29 June 2000.

Neustadt (Sachsen): By 2001 it was a bit of a rarity to find two passenger trains standing side by side worked by the Romanian built C-C diesel hydraulics of DB class 219. One place where this could still be experienced was Neustadt (Sachsen), where local trains to Pirna and Bautzen were so worked using short push-pull sets. On the right, No. 219093 is standing on an unrecorded duty while to the left No. 219110 has not long arrived on the 09.10 from Pirna.

Wilthen: A block load of combine harvesters from the 'Fortschritt' factory passing through Wilthen on 29 June 2001 (probably in the direction of Poland) behind former DR B-B hydraulic No. 298314.

Kurort Oybin: 99731 was the first of 32 2-10-2T locos built for the pre-war Deutsche Reichsbahn for service on the various 750mm gauge lines in Saxony. Thanks to being reboilered in 1965, this loco was still in service from Zittau at the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and passed to the Sächsisch-Oberlausitzer Eisenbahngesellschaft, along with the lines to Jonsdorf and Oybin, in the mid nineties. Here it runs round at Kurort Oybin in June 2001, having arrived on the 13.39 departure from Zittau.

Dawlish: An unidentified eastbound train approaching Dawlish station during the early afternoon of Saturday 29 June 2002.

Dawlish: A Plymouth - Edinburgh Virgin CrossCountry HST approaching Dawlish in the summer of 2002.

Edinburgh Road Bridge Junction: 58045 and 58025 depart Perth with the return leg of the Worksop Highlander tour on 29th June 2002.

Starcross: Looking east towards the River Exe estuary at Cockwood Harbour at low tide in the summer of 2002. The train is a First Great Western service from Penzance to Paddington and will shortly pass through Starcross station, some 9 miles short of its next scheduled stop at Exeter St Davids.

Dawlish: A Virgin CrossCountry service heads west after leaving Dawlish on Saturday 29 June 2002.

Starcross: A Virgin CrossCountry service photographed just south of Starcross, Devon, in June 2002. The train is passing Cockwood Harbour, on the GWR main line between Exeter and Newton Abbot. [Ref query of 18 October 2017]

Dawlish: A Virgin CrossCountry service approaching Dawlish from the south west on 29 June 2002 behind a Class 47 locomotive. The train is on its way from Plymouth to Glasgow Central.

Thurgarton: View of Thurgarton station from the level crossing looking to Newark.

Burton Joyce: View towards Nottingham from the level crossing at Burton Joyce.

Newark Castle: Newark Castle signal box seen in 2003. The view looks away from the station towards Nottingham.

Bleasby: Bleasby level crossing looking north in 2003.

Fiskerton Junction: View of Fiskerton Junction signal box from the level crossing in 2003. The gates have been replaced by barriers.

Fiskerton: Fiskerton level crossing looking west to Nottingham and Fiskerton Junction in 2003 with the station behind the camera. The gate box still stands, although it closed when barriers were installed.

Fiskerton: Fiskerton looking east from the level crossing in 2003. The gates have since been replaced by barriers.

Staythorpe Level Crossing: View west from Staythorpe Level Crossing towards the former Staythorpe Yard.

Netherfield Junction [MR]: 2003 view west from Netherfield station, looking towards the junction with the Midland line (in the far distance).

Rolleston: The level crossing at Rolleston still had hand operated gates in 2003. The view looks south east over the line with the station off to the left. The gates were replaces with barriers around 2016.

Rolleston Junction: This copy of the Rolleston Junction signal box diagram was in the gate box at Rolleston Level Crossing. Rolleston ceased to be a junction in 1966.

Bleasby: Former station building at Bleasby opposite the eastbound platform. The station has staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing. It was originally on the westbound platform but this was removed and replaced by a new one further west.

Lowdham: The Nottingham to Lincoln line passes through a very rural area. View north east towards Lowdham station from the level crossing.

Carlton: View east of Carlton station, on the east side of Nottingham on the former Midland line to Lincoln. The station has staggered platforms on either side of a level crossing.

Lowdham: A step back in time at Lowdham as it looked in 2003.

Netherfield: View east over Netherfield showing the broad island platform. Beyond the platforms was Netherfield Junction [GNR] (originally Colwick West Junction) which, in its latter days, gave access to Gedling Colliery.

Rolleston Junction: This photograph was in the gate box at Rolleston level crossing. The old photograph shows Rolleston Junction station from the former signal box before closure of the Southwell Branch (on the right) in 1966. The Nottingham to Lincoln line (left) remains open although the station is somewhat minimal today.

Rolleston: Rolleston looking to Nottingham showing the distant signal for Fiskerton.

Fiskerton Junction: Photograph of a photograph, pinned up in Fiskerton Junction signal box in 2003. The junction closed in 1965 but the box remained open.

Albert Road Level Crossing: Having entered Leith Docks on 29 June 2005, EWS 66078 reverses its train over the dock exit road towards the coal terminal. Note the thick ropes in the foreground, normally jammed into the rail flange gaps on the level crossing. This is to prevent them becoming blocked with mud and other debris, increasing the risk of a derailment.

Edinburgh Dock [Leith]: Empty coal hoppers being reversed over an internal level crossing into the loading area within Leith Docks on 29 June 2005. The hoppers will be loaded with imported coal destined for Cockenzie power station.

Paisley Gilmour Street: Class 334 334029 departs Paisley Gilmour Street for Ayr.

Alloa: Busy platform scene at Alloa on 29 June. Note road markings have now appeared.

Paisley Canal: Plaque unveiled at Paisley Canal station as part of the Thomas Telford 250th anniversary celebrations on 29 June.

Newbridge Junction: EWS 66184 brings a Sunday morning PW train off the Bathgate branch and onto the main line at Newbridge Junction on its way back to Millerhill Yard during branch engineering work on 29 June 2008.

Perth: North end of Perth station on 29 June with 170 405 arriving with a service from Inverness.

Wallingford: The legendary GWR locomotive City of Truro backing onto a train at Wallingford on the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway on 29 June 2008. No 3440 is believed to have been the first locomotive to break the 100mph barrier, having reached a top speed of 102.3 mph while hauling the Ocean Mails express from Plymouth to London Paddington on 9 May 1904.

Uphall: Northside site entrance at Uphall station during engineers occupation of the line on Sunday 29 June. Work in preparation for the new platform, access roads, car parking and other infrastructure is underway. A PW train stands in the station behind EWS 66008 and is straddling the rail bridge over the B8046 just off picture to the right. The road below the bridge is single-file here, controlled by traffic lights, and could become a significant bottleneck given current station expansion plans.

Wallingford: The Cholsey & Wallingford Railway has three class 08 shunters, two from the Guinness Brewery. This one, numbered 060, was photographed at Wallingford on 29 June.

Newbridge Junction: ScotRail 170408 runs east through a pre-electrification Newbridge Junction on 29 June 2008. The train is the 0845 Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley.

Uphall: Engineering occupation at Uphall on 29 June 2008. View west with EWS 66008 on a PW train.

Cholsey: 3440 City of Truro coming onto a train at Cholsey, on the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway on 29 June. Note the close proximity of the GW main line alongside.

Dunaskin Platform: Former NCB Ayrshire Area No 10 providing brake van trips at Dunaskin on the former Waterside complex on 29 June 2008. [The locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock as AB2244 in 1947.]

Fylde Junction: 158758 on a Blackpool to York service passes under Wellfield Road bridge at the junction with the WCML to the north of Preston station.

Cholsey: Great Western Railway 3440 City of Truro slows its train on the approach to Cholsey station on the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway on 29 June, seen from Cholsey churchyard.

Newbridge Junction: A PW train about to come off the Bathgate branch and onto the Edinburgh - Glasgow main line at Newbridge Junction on a wet 29 June behind EWS 66184.

Uphall: EWS 66008 stands at the west end of Uphall station with a ballast train on Sunday 29 June 2008 in connection with the redoubling of the line and construction of a second platform see image [[19979]].

Dunblane: The driver of 67 009 watches the conductor-guard complete his check of the train before the Caledonian Sleeper departs Dunblane for Inverness. It is shortly after 5 a.m. on 29th June 2009.

Greenock Central: Looking South to Greenock Central showing the goods line that left the main line at Greenock Central and went down to the street level goods station at Bogle Street and Chapel Street that stood on the site now occupied by Morrison's superstore and car park.

Craignure Pier: This 2010 view shows MV Isle of Mull with the insert 5.4 metres long just in front of the funnel to fix her deadweight problem. Off Craignure. See image [[54153]].

Claughton: As seen here, the buckets on the aerial ropeway at Claughton brickworks were removed when the brickworks was mothballed by Hansons during the economic downturn but happily it returned to use in 2013. This is the last gravity operated ropeway in the United Kingdom and can carry 250 tons of material a day down 750' from Caton Moor over a distance of just over a mile. It was constructed in 1924 and its historic status has been recognised by the Transport Trust see image [[29588]].

Claughton: A Transport Trust red plaque, along with a model gantry and bucket, stands outside the lower wheelhouse of the Claughton aerial ropeway, alongside the A683 main road through the village. This is in recognition of it being the last working gravity operated ropeway in the UK.

Craignure: View back from the rear of a train towards Craignure on the Isle of Mull Railway in June 2010.

North Connel: Looking north at the location of North Connel Halt on 29 June 2010 along the former trackbed. The old road can be seen descending on the right of the photograph. See image [[22767 for a view from the old road twenty-three years earlier]].

Connel Ferry Unused Curve: Demolition of the bridge that was intended to carry a direct line chord from Oban to Ballachulish at Connel Ferry on 29 June 2010. See image [[29610]]

Connel Ferry Unused Curve: No, not that one, another one - see image [[29609]].

Connel Ferry: Remains of the old loading ramp at Connel Ferry see image [[32319]] still there in June 2010 at the time the bridge on the aborted link direct to the west was being demolished.

Connel Ferry Bridge: Connel Ferry bridge, in the early morning, from the east, June 2010.

Craignure: Driver possibly contemplating the future at Craignure Station on 29 June 2010. Now confirmed, sadly, that the little railway is to close.

Torosay Castle: Frances Running round at Torosay in June 2010.

Tarmstedt Loop: Trains passing at Tarmstedt on the Isle of Mull Railway on 29 June 2010.

Craignure: Scene on the 260mm gauge Isle of Mull Railway at Craignure on 29th June 2010, locomotive no 7 Frances at the platform.

National Railway Museum York: D1023 'Western Fusilier' standing at the entrance to the workshops at the NRM on 29 June 2011.

Malton: The station buildings at Malton, photographed looking east from the car park entrance in June 2011. See image [[19621]]
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National Railway Museum York: Bulleid 'Battle of Britain' Pacific no 34051 Winston Churchill receives attention in the NRM workshops at York on 29 June 2011. The locomotive is part of the national collection.

York: The driver of the East Coast 1201 York - Kings Cross HST about to make his way along bay platform 6 at York to take up the reins on 29 June 2011. Standing alongside at platform 7 is the Northern 1213 service to Blackpool North.

Malton: The 15.12 Scarborough - Liverpool Lime Street TransPennine service calls at Malton on 29 June 2011.

York: When is a platform not a platform? Platform 4 at York is in fact the north end of platform 3 and is used only by trains arriving off the Scarborough line. This view north from the said platform on 29 June 2011 shows a Liverpool - Scarborough train running left to right across the picture heading for the bridge over the River Ouse, shortly after leaving platform 5. On the left is the view north along the East Coast Main Line.

York: An afternoon Grand Central Trains service from Sunderland calls at York on 29 June 2011 on its way to Kings Cross.

Alness: The 1236 from Wick calls at Alness on time at 1603 heading for Inverness. A couple of passengers join 158709 which will arrive in Inverness in 45 minutes time. View north towards Invergordon from the local academy footbridge.

National Railway Museum [York]: The NRM Road Train heading north along Leeman Road in the summer of 2011. The half-hourly shuttle service carries visitors between the National Railway Museum and York city centre.

York: Car park creep - York, June 2011. A Northern service to Hull stands at what is now platform 1 at York, the last operational bay platform in the south east corner of the station see image [[34418]].

York: At first glance it could be mistaken for a guard of honour in corporate colours waving a Grand Central service away from York station. It is in fact a Network Rail PW team standing clear as the 11.23 Kings Cross - Sunderland service restarts from York on 29 June 2011.

York: The big yawn. Waiting for a train on platform 5 at York station on 29 June 2011. The train in question is the 11.55 non-stop service to London Kings Cross (09.30 ex-Edinburgh Waverley). Awaiting connecting passengers on the adjacent platform 6 is the 12.01 stopping train to the same destination, with the 12.13 to Blackpool North standing alongside at platform 7.

National Railway Museum York: HST prototype no 252 001 on display at the NRM on 29 June 2011 see image [[36847]].

York: An arrival from the south entering the most westerly of York's platforms on 29 June. The train in this case is the 'East Coast' 10.00 Kings Cross - Aberdeen and the platform is no 11.

Alness: The 1236 service from Wick (and Thurso) departs from Alness and heads for Dingwall. This photograph of unit 158709 was taken from the academy footbridge that spans the line at the station and offers this view to the south.

New Bridge Level Crossing: '...and you!' Exchange at New Bridge level crossing on 29 June 2011. The train is the 10.00 ex-Pickering seen shortly after getting underway behind D7628.

Malton: Single car 185? Not quite. A TransPennine service leaving Malton station bound for Liverpool Lime Street is in the process of crossing from the platform line back onto the up main before continuing westward on its journey towards its next scheduled stop at York. Photograph taken from the end of the platform on 29 June 2011.

York: The 12.11 service to Leeds via Harrogate awaits departure time from York's platform 8 on 29 June 2011.

New Bridge Level Crossing: D7628 passes slowly over New Bridge level crossing on 29 June 2011 shortly after leaving Pickering with a train for Grosmont.

York: Northern 150211 awaiting departure time at York station's platform 8 with the 1211 to Leeds via Harrogate on 29 June 2011. The train had arrived 25 minutes earlier as the 1029 service from Leeds.

National Railway Museum [York]: 'Not here you don't!' Preserved notice from a pre-snowflake era, once used by the Cheshire Lines Committee, photographed at the National Railway Museum, York, in 2011.

National Railway Museum York: Almost there. Deltic 55002 'The Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry' nearing the end of a long restoration and refurbishment programme in the NRM workshops on 29 June 2011. A month earlier the locomotive had moved through the yard under its own power for the first time in 14 years.

National Railway Museum York: Ex-LNWR motor coach open brake third no 28249 introduced on the Broad Street - Richmond (North London Line) services following electrification in 1916. Photographed at the NRM on 29 June 2011 during temporary relocation pending completion of structural alterations.

National Railway Museum [York]: Last of the line. BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92220 Evening Star on display in the main exhibition hall at York on 29 June 2011.

York: That roof again. View south along the main platforms at York in June 2011.

York: That roof again - take 2... York on 29 June 2011 with a Reading - Newcastle Central CrossCountry service arriving at platform 5 alongside a Northern DMU for Leeds via Harrogate awaiting its departure time in bay platform 8.

Malton: Sunshine and blue skies over North Yorkshire on 29 June 2011 as a First TransPennine 185 arrives at Malton with a westbound train, ultimate destination Liverpool Lime Street.

Edinburgh Waverley: Siemens 380105 ready to depart from Edinburgh Waverley Platform 8 on the First ScotRail 12.11 fast service to Dunbar on 29 June. Technicians from both First ScotRail and Siemens are standing alongside.

York: A Northern service to Leeds via Harrogate leaves York on 29 June 2011.

York: The 10.48 Scarborough - Liverpool Lime Street TransPennine service, recently arrived at York on 29 June 2011. The train is standing at platform 4 (effectively the north end of platform 3) which is used only by trains arriving off the Scarborough line.

Tower Hill: Now withdrawn LUL C stock train on a clockwise Circle Line service at Tower Hill station, which will head away from the camera when it departs, on 29th June 2012. This station opened in February 1967 on the site of the short-lived Tower of London station that had existed only from 1882 to 1884 when it was replaced by Mark Lane station, renamed Tower Hill in 1946, with the completion of the Inner Circle Line which, in its turn, the new Tower Hill station replaced. I vividly recall using the old Tower Hill station lots of times when a boy, usually on trips with my parents and brother from our home in Loughton, Essex to visit the Tower: Central Line to Mile End and then the rattly District Line which was very atmospheric in those days, as was Tower Hill station, almost as dark as a crypt. It is still possible to discern the site of the eastbound platform of the old station from a passing train, the westbound platform was demolished to make way for a new track layout.

Nuneaton: A late running 16.39 to Leicester, delayed by signalling problems, snakes its way out of platform 7 at Nuneaton on 29th June 2012. The station appears to be empty, but the class 153 for Coventry can just be seen in platform 1.

Nuneaton: 66041 and its containers make a colourful sight at Nuneaton on 29 June as the train snakes between the platform 4 through route and platform 1 (Coventry line). At least one down passenger train was slowed to allow this relatively rare conflicting movement.

Lochgreen Junction: An Ayr-bound 380 unit passing the site of Lochgreen Junction at the south end of the Troon Loop on 29 June 2013. Photographed from the track-bed of the original direct line. See image [[28035]]

Katzhuette: On 29th June 2013, a Schwartzatalbahn branch train arrives at the Katzhuette terminus of the 25km branch line from the Rottenbach junction on the Saalfeld-Erfurt line in Thuringen. The single-car VT641 diesel unit is a driver-only operation, with a ticket machine on the train. The grid in the foreground and the container to the right are part of a small refuelling point.

Troon [2nd]: The original Troon station on the direct line closed on 2 May 1892 when the new present day station opened. This is the up building - much altered - from the platform side on 29 June 2013. The goods yard to the left and the line north have long disappeared under what is now 'Old Station Court'. See image [[42538]]

Troon [2nd]: The up side buildings of the original Troon station see image [[43622]] in June 2013.

Obstfelderschmiede: Passengers board the Oberweissbacher Bergbahn's standard-gauge passenger coach (carried piggyback on a 1.8m gauge Rollwagen) at the Obstfelderschmiede terminus on 29th June 2013. Note the elderly Deutsche Bahn wagon on the chord siding linking to the adjacent Schwartzatalbahn.

Lichtenhain: The Oberweissbacher Bergbahn's sloping split-level passenger coach approaches the funicular's hill terminus at Lichtenhain on 29th June 2013.

York Road: Entrance to former LUL Piccadilly Line station at York Road, closed in 1932 and with the name still engraved on the walls, on 29th June 2013. Below ground, the site of the platforms can be made out by the gap in the tunnel wall about midway between King's Cross St. Pancras and Caledonian Road stations, although hundreds of passengers will pass by each day without realising they are speeding past one of London Underground's ghost stations.

Troon Harbour: The G&SWR powerhouse on the west harbour at Troon in June 2013. Now a Fish Restaurant / Chip Shop [but a rather upmarket one].

Obstfelderschmiede : On 29th June 2013, a Schwartzatalbahn branch train for Katzhuette passes the Obstfelderschmiede station chord siding (with diesel shunter and elderly DB wagon) linking to the Oberweissbacher Bergbahn funicular.

Obstfelderschmiede : The Oberweissbacher Bergbahn's standard-gauge passenger coach (carried piggyback on a 1.8m gauge Rollwagen) inches down into the Obstfelderschmiede terminus on 29th June 2013. Passengers interchange here with the standard-gauge Schwartzatalbahn branch line, whose single-track platform runs left to right in the foreground.

Dunaskin Platform: It's that time of the year again - out comes a shiny No. 10 at ARPG Dunaskin to give trips up and down the line.

Beningbrough: The Sidings Hotel & Restaurant at Beningbrough and two of the three grounded Mark One accommodation carriages seen through the site entrance on 29 June, with a semaphore signal standing guard by the roadside. A further two parallel carriages are out of view to the left, with one a first class layout dining carriage to supplement the dining area of the main building. Both have a clear view of activity on the East Coast Main Line which runs on the far side of the building. See image [[21805]]

Beningbrough: A smokebox door mocked up and purporting to be from Raven Q6 0-8-0 63412 adorns the wall of the entrance foyer of The Sidings Hotel and Restaurant adjacent to the ECML. The door displays a 52F Blyth shed plate, despite that loco being allocated to 51C West Hartlepool during its final years of service. The door, which is with hinges on the wrong side, appears to be from another class of loco, as the hinges do not match those in views of the class and there is not a pillar type protrusion on the centre line near the edge of the door on the opposite side to the hinges.

Perth Carriage Sidings: Perth stabling sidings on 29 June. A class 170 is in residence, standing alongside a polytunnel.

Glasgow Central Low Level: Pillar supporting the roof of the disused platforms at low level Glasgow Central.

Crossgates: WCRC 47854 nears the site of Crossgates Station on 29 June 2015 with the Edinburgh - Boat of Garten leg of the 'Classic' tour.

Braehead Viaduct: Grabshot from a passing train showing the eastern end of the new Bargeddie bridge on 29th June 2015.

Farington: DCR 31601 hauled 47643, 20020, 26038 and 37025 south at Farington on 29 June 2015. Quite a collection of classic traction although examples of each type, less the Class 26, can be seen working on the mainline over 40 years after they were built.

Braehead Viaduct: Contractors working at the construction site of the new Bargeddie bridge on 29th June 2015, seen from a passing train. The bridge is due to be moved into position during a line closure from 11th - 26th July.

Chester: Well, the livery is cheerful anyway. A service for Liverpool Central waits to depart Chester on 29/06/2016. It won't actually terminate at Central, but continue round the loop and come back to Chester.

Chester: The concourse at Chester on 29/06/2016. Deliberate or not, the copper oxide look matches the colour of the local operator!

Bache: Bache (pronounced 'Baitch') is in north Chester and the last stop before the terminus. A service from Liverpool stops on 29/06/2016.

Hooton: The platform on the right is - not a platform. The one on the left is numbered 1 - but not in regular use. Platforms 2 and 3, out of shot, do all the work.

Hooton: An Ellesmere Port service calls at Hooton on 29/06/2016.

Ellesmere Port: Having terminated, a Liverpool service waits to return on 29/06/2016. Platform 2, in the foreground, is on the Helsby line and sees far fewer trains.

Bromborough Rake: I stopped because I liked the name, and made a new friend, currently licking his paws.

Rock Ferry: Rock Ferry station on 29/06/2016, with the little-used bay platforms in the foreground.

Birkenhead Central: A Chester service calls at Birkenhead Central on 29/06/2016.

Weggis: Flagship of the fleet of 21 vessels operated by the Lake Lucerne Navigation Company, PS Stadt Luzern slows to call at the pier at Weggis on 29th June 2016. This is the largest vessel on the lake, with a capacity of 1200 passengers, and one of five operational paddle steamers in the fleet. Behind the ship, with its summit shrouded in cloud, is Mount Pilatus which has the steepest cog railway in the world connecting with the Lucerne steamers at Alpnachstad.

Birkenhead Hamilton Square: The landmark tower at Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead still boasts its British Railways era lettering together with a ghost of something even older. A bank of four spacious lifts take you down to the platforms; shades of the London Underground.

Heald Green West Junction: Heald Green West Junction, seen from an aircraft on final approach to Manchester, in June 2016. The branch to the Airport station, seen below, opened in 1993 with the triangular junction linking to both north and south on the Styal line.

James Street: The 'heritage' Platform 2 at James Street, Liverpool. It has a departure board, but the platform is surely not in passenger use.

Liverpool Central: The Northern Line platforms at Liverpool Central photographed on 29/06/2016.

Maghull: A six-car service from Ormskirk to Liverpool Central calls at Maghull (pronounced MaggULL) station on 29/06/2016.

Sandhills: Judging by the name, Sandhills must once have been characterised by grassy dunes on the banks of the Mersey. A look around here shows that this was a long time ago. Sandhills has an intensive service seeing all Northern Line services from Liverpool before it branches off to Southport, Ormskirk and Kirkby. A city-bound service seen on 29/06/2016.

Town Green: A Liverpool-bound service rolls into Town Green on the Ormskirk line on 29/06/2016.

Aintree: Here at Aintree the signs saying 'Alight here for Aintree' are, can I suggest, superfluous. An Ormskirk service calls on 29/06/2016.

Moorfields: A West Kirby service on the one-way circle round Liverpool city centre at Moorfields on 29/06/2016. Shades of the London Underground which of course has its own Moorfields.

Cressington: The attractively maintained station in the leafy suburb of Cressington.

Lucerne: Sudostbahn (Swiss South Eastern Railways) electric locomotive 018, in advertising livery, is on the rear of a train for St. Gallen at the main station in Lucerne in June 2016. A sister loco in black livery was on the front of the train. These loco hauled services are scheduled to be replaced by new Stadler FLIRT EMUs.

Stockport Edgeley Junction: The three-way Edgeley Junction at Stockport seen on 29th June 2016 with a Class 323 EMU taking the Up Slow on the main line towards Cheadle Hulme. The Hazel Grove and Buxton line swings left at this point while the line curving right behind Edgeley Junction No.1 signal box goes to Northenden and Altrincham.

Liverpool Lime Street: The concourse at Lime Street. From a Scottish perspective at least the lack of ticket machines and ticket barriers is surprising.

Liverpool Central: Possibly the only British station entered through a shopping mall - and with sweeties at the ticket counters! With but 3 platforms (all underground), and handling only local services it's not as high status as the name suggests. However it does what it does really well.

Plates, signs, notices etc: Sage advice on a Northern Rail set. Get this the wrong way round and you're in for an uncomfortable and undignified travelling experience.

Morecambe: The old order changeth. Until 2015 the Heysham flasks were almost exclusively hauled by EE Class 20s and Class 37s. The Class 20s were retired first and now modern traction is taking over these workings. Brand new 68029 brings up the rear of a single flask train as it enters the Heysham branch on 29th June 2017. What looks like fogging on the image is actually a surprisingly smoky acceleration from lead loco 68022.

Morecambe: DRS 68022 Resolution swings on to the Heysham branch after reversing at Morecambe and heads for the power station with a single flask wagon and classmate 68029 in tow. Image taken on 29th June 2017 from behind the fence at the improved foot crossing for the cycleway to Lancaster along the old Green Ayre trackbed. See image [[51941]] taken from the same spot two years earlier with classic traction in use.

Thrumster: The beautifully restored Thrumster station on 29th June 2019.

Gartsherrie North Junction: 66739 'Bluebell Railway' snakes through the realigned junction at Gartsherrie with the northbound Alcan Alumina tanks on 29th June 2019.

Brora Viaduct: A southbound 158 crosses the River Brora, just south of the station, on 29 June 2019.

Coatbridge Central: An unidentified Colas Class 70 brings the Dalston Oil Terminal to Grangemouth Ineos empty tanks over the bridge at Coatbridge Central, which was built to take the railway across the Monkland Canal Basin. Unfortunately, in recent years, somebody has forgotten to put the plug back in! 29th June 2019.

Coatbridge Central: An unidentified Colas Class 70 brings the Dalston Oil Terminal to Grangemouth Ineos empty tanks over the bridge at Coatbridge Central on 26th June 2019. This was built to take the railway across the Monkland Canal Basin. Unfortunately, in recent years, somebody has forgotten to put the plug back in!

Bay Horse: A gleaming 6201 'Princess Elizabeth' on the tail of an ECS working from Carnforth to Crewe on 29th June 2019, ahead of a private charter excursion to Holyhead the following day. 57314 was hauling the train but I hadn't expected a top and tail formation and only just managed to capture the Pacific on the rear as it passed through Bay Horse.

Dunmanway: View of the former Dunmanway station building, now a vet clinic, on the up (Cork) platform at Dunmanway. The platform ramp can be made out and the platform canopy now encloses a waiting area. The trackbed is completely overgrown and the down platform, if it survives, is not visible. The first station at Dunmanway was a terminus before the line was extended westwards and lasted from 1866 to 1877. The through station pictured opened in 1877 and survived until closure in 1961.

Newark Shipyard: Looking across the River Clyde to the MV Glen Sannox tied up alongside the Ferguson Marine yard in Port Glasgow on 28 June 2021. The ship is still to enter service with Cal Mac years after being launched and, if reports are to be believed, still some years away from being ready for revenue earning service.

Armathwaite: The guard gives a cheery wave to disembarking passengers as 158909 prepares to leave Armathwaite with a Carlisle to Leeds service on 29 June 2021.

Armathwaite: On 29 June 2021, 46115 accelerates the 'Pendle Dalesman' away from a speed restriction just south of Armathwaite heading for Lancaster on its return from Carlisle.

South Esk Viaduct: New plaques on the South Esk Viaduct.

Scorton [Lancashire] [2nd]: The Lancaster to Carlisle (via the S&C) tours ran as 'The Fellsman' for many years but in 2021 are known as 'The Pendle Dalesman'. 46115 is making good progress approaching the Wyre Viaduct at Scorton on the last section of the return leg, just after 9pm on the evening of 29th June.

Brock Water Troughs: GBRf 66712 'Peterborough Power Signalbox' passes the site of the Brock water troughs with a special working from Southampton Docks to Carlisle Yard on 29th June 2022. This comprised a mixture of vehicles including some empty vehicle carrying wagons.

Oxford: DC Rail Cargo 60029 southbound from Oxford Banbury Sidings to Machen Quarry passes through Oxford on 29th June 2022 as a Turbo DMU calls at the station. Reporting No. 6Z52. Oxford's new Platform 5 is in the later planning stages and will be open for traffic in early 2024. Perhaps this might include electrification from Didcot to Oxford.

Dalgety Bay: Colas 37116 passes Dalgety Bay on a Slateford to Fife and return route learner on 29 June 2022.

Brock Water Troughs: A very lightly loaded Mossend to Daventry train passes Badger Bridge at Brock behind 88009 'Diana' on 29th June 2022.

Oxford: From this weekend (2nd July) the Severn Tunnel is to be closed for ten days for major track work, so I am expecting more of a variety of trains in the Oxford locality. DRS 68016, working from Eastleigh Arlington Services to Crewe with some 4w PFA container flats was certainly an unusual visitor ahead of the closure.

Brock Water Troughs: I'm sure it brings in some nice rental income to Network Rail but I wish that phone mast had been sited somewhere else. 57313 takes Northern Belle empty stock from Carnforth to Norwich on 29th June 2022. This is now the view north from what is known locally as Badger Bridge, at the site of the old water troughs. 57314 was on the tail of the train.

Oxford: Freightliner 66613 northbound through Oxford with 684H, Whatley Quarries to Oxford Banbury Sidings, on 29th June 2022.

Oxford: DC Rail Cargo 60029, southbound from Oxford Banbury Sidings to Machen Quarry with Cappagh box wagons, passing Oxford at 1125 hours on 29th June 2022. Reporting No. 6Z52

Didcot Parkway: The flanks of DBC 66100 'ARMISTICE100', with Poppy emblem and inscription plate too, seen in Didcot Station sidings on 29th June 2022. It is still sat on the accommodation bogie that I first saw last May.