Tonbridge Shed: Wainwright H Class 0-4-4T no 31005 on shed at Tonbridge in August 1961.

Southall: WD 'Austerity' 2-8-0 no 90299 stabled in the shed yard at Southall (81C) in the summer of 1961. The locomotive is standing face-to-face with BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 see image [[33519]].

Southall: Hawksworth 0-6-0PT no 8422 stands on Southall shed in August 1961. Designed for heavy shunting duties and classified 4F this example was built in 1950 during the BR era. No 8422 spent its last days at Southall, being withdrawn 11 months after this photograph was taken and cut up at Cashmores, Newport in October 1962 after less than 12 years service. Note the old grounded clerestory coach in the background, once a feature on many steam sheds.

Tonbridge Shed: Tonbridge shed in August 1961 with Wainwright 'C' class 0-6-0 no 31592 stabled in the yard.

Southall: GWR Collett 0-4-2T 1474 photographed at Southall in August 1961. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from Gloucester Horton Road in September 1964.

Southall: BR Standard class 9F 2-10-0 no 92214 in the shed yard at Southall on 20 August 1961. After a period in Barry scrapyard, followed by subsequent rescue and restoration, this locomotive moved to the NYMR in 2010. See image [[40267]].

Tonbridge Shed: Locomotives stabled for the weekend in the shed yard at Tonbridge (73J) on Sunday 20 August 1961. Centre stage is Maunsell N1 2-6-0 no 31877.

Tonbridge Shed: A Wainright C class 0-6-0, no 31244 of 1902, stands centre stage amongst various steam and diesel types on Tonbridge shed (74D) in the summer of 1961, only 2 months prior to its withdrawal.

Clarkston and Stamperland: BR Standard tank 80108 photographed approaching Clarkston on 20 August 1964 with a morning East Kilbride - Glasgow train.
See query 2272

East Kilbride: East Kilbride on a rainy August day in 1965, with a Cravens DMU on a service to Glasgow St Enoch and Standard 2-6-4T 80130 waiting in the loop.

Edinburgh Princes Street: Two diesel multiple units in Edinburgh Princes Street on 20th August 1965, a couple of weeks before the station closed. Judging by the volume of diesel fumes, the unit on the left was making its departure.

East Kilbride: Plenty of mail sacks in transit at East Kilbride on 20th August 1965, as a Cravens DMU waits in the platform with a service to Glasgow St Enoch.

Carlisle Kingmoor Shed: Stanier 8F 48356 and shed pilot Jinty 47471 at Carlisle Kingmoor in August 1966.

Carlisle: Jubilee 4-6-0 45593 'Kolhapur' has just finished taking water at Carlisle, before setting off for Glasgow with the 6.40 am from Birmingham in June 1966. This summer Saturday service ran over the Settle & Carlisle and G & SW routes.

Gourock Pier: A busy scene at Gourock pier in the summer of 1966. The two car ferries are 'Cowal' and 'Bute', with 'Waverley' in the foreground.

Glasgow Central: Jubilee 45593 'Kolhapur', after arrival at Glasgow Central, with the summer Saturday 6.40 from Birmingham.

Dumfries: Jubilee 45593 'Kolhapur' tops up with water whilst calling at Dumfries with the summer Saturday 06.40 Birmingham – Glasgow service on 20th August 1966.

Princes Street Gardens Cutting: Rainy day in Princes Street Gardens in August 1969.

South Pelaw Junction: Class 37 no 6952 brings empty 16t coal wagons back from Consett past South Pelaw Junction on 20th August 1971 and turns towards Tyne Yard.

South Pelaw Junction: 6833 heads up the Consett line past South Pelaw Junction on 20 August 1971 with what appear to be empty coal hoppers from Tyne Yard to one of the still working collieries on the line. (At that time the phrase 'taking coals to Newcastle' still had some resonance!) The direct line to Tyne Dock passed through the extreme right hand span of the bridge in the background.

South Pelaw Junction: Class 37 no 6772 drifts down towards South Pelaw Junction with a load of rolled steel plate from Consett to Tyne Yard on 20 August 1971.

Ouston Junction: Deltic no 9009 Alycidon speeds past Ouston Junction on 20 August 1971 with the 13.05 Newcastle Central - Kings Cross service. The line to the left is turning west towards South Pelaw Junction where it will join the route to Consett.

Lamesley: The 13.45 Eastgate - Heaton cement train, photographed passing Lamesley on 20 August 1971. The locomotive is thought to be Thornaby class 37 no 6898.

Lamesley: An unidentified <I>Peak</I>, seen from Chowdene Bank bridge, accelerates the 16.20 southbound Newcastle - Bristol train on the approach to Lamesley in the summer of 1971.

Ouston Junction: What appears to be class 46 locomotive no 176 passing Ouston Junction in August 1971 with the 10.10 Edinburgh - Kings Cross. The photograph was taken from the embankment of the South Pelaw - Tyne Dock line, which crossed the ECML at this point.

Lamesley: An unidentified class 47 with a nice-looking rake of new Mk2d coaches (the Mk1 buffet car is far enough back to hardly spoil the overall effect) is on the last lap off its journey with the 11.00 Kings Cross - Newcastle, seen here passing Lamesley on 20 August 1971.

Bressingham: Britannia Pacific No 70013 Oliver Cromwell simmers in the leafy setting of Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens in August 1978. The engine was in a kind of limbo, isolated from the national network and, as seen here, steamed just to provide brief cab rides for visitors. After becoming a purely static exhibit a few years later, it was eventually restored to working order by the Great Central Railway and started hauling trains on the network again in 2008.

Mellis: The former station at Mellis recorded on 20th August 1978 as 47115 dashes through with a Norwich to London service. The signal box was still in use despite the station (once the junction for the Eye branch) having closed to passengers some 12 years earlier. Note the signalmans wing mirror, enabling a better view of the level crossing and its signals. [Ref Query 15487]

Diss: A Sunday morning visit to Diss on 20th August 1978 is rewarded with 40195 thundering through towards Norwich. It is hauling ecs from an Ipswich to Edinburgh Merrymaker excursion after its return to the Suffolk town. Steam was displaced from the London - Norwich expresses by Class 40s from 1958 and, in their turn, the Class 40s were replaced by Class 37s and 47s in the mid 1960s. By the time this photo was taken, such workings through Diss by Class 40s were very rare, even though the locos (including 40195) could still be seen on freight and boat trains between Harwich and the Midlands.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Looking down over the platforms at Queen Street station Glasgow on 20 August 1981. On the left is the 1535 train to Aberdeen, while on the right is the 1530 push-pull shuttle service to Edinburgh Waverley.

Doncaster Works: Deltic locomotives 55009 Alycidon and 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier leaving Doncaster works after the handover ceremony on 20 August 1982. The pair were about to start their journey to Grosmont. See image [[19760]]

Doncaster Works: 55009 Alycidon and 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier at the handover ceremony at Doncaster Works on 20 August 1982, when they became the property of the Deltic Preservation Society for the sum of £36,000.

Doncaster Works: 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier leaving Doncaster Works on 20 April 1982 under its own power, having just been handed over to the Deltic Preservation Society by British Rail.

Bealings: During the last summer of Saturdays Only London – Lowestoft trains for holidaymakers, a Class 47 hauled down working streaks across the level crossing at Bealings on the East Suffolk line. The photo was taken from the signal box window ledge on 20th August 1983. The crossing keeper was wary of some train drivers speeding on this stretch of line, having once watched his gates being “gone through” after his signals were overrun. The box was abolished the following Spring and the gates replaced by lifting barriers. [Ref query 6339]

Sandplace: The river at Sandplace is still tidal and at times of very high tide can cover the minor road and even the railway. This is Terras Crossing between Sandplace and Looe in the parish of Morval and a very scenic spot to watch the train.

Bo'ness: 80105 waits at the platform at Boness on 20 August 2003.

Neilston: Colourful scene at Neilston station on 20 August 2006 as a terminating service arrives from Glasgow Central. Unit 314202 is the last train to carry SPT orange and black livery. Shame.

Noyelles-sur-Mer: CFBS Haine-St Pierre 2-6-0T No 15 of 1920 arrives at Noyelles on 20 August 2006 with a morning train from Le Crotoy. To proceed to St Valery-sur-Somme the engine must run round the train. The SNCF station on the former Paris-Calais main line lies behind.

Neilston: Smart looking goods shed in the old yard at Neilston in August 2006.

Whitecraigs: Located approximately seven miles south west of Glasgow Central on the Neilston line is the notable station of Whitecraigs, seen here looking north west across the running lines on 20 August 2006. Opened by the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway in 1903 the station building is a now a category C listed structure. The station nameboard reads 'Whitecraigs for Rouken Glen Park'

Neilston: Scene at Neilston on 20 August 2006, as a class 314 EMU, resplendent in orange and black livery, runs into platform 1 from the turnback siding ready to head back to Glasgow Central. In the background is the impressive refurbished former goods shed.

Noyelles-sur-Mer: Rush hour with CFBS Haine-St Pierre 2-6-0T No 15 of 1920 and CFBS Cail 2-6-0T No 2 of 1889 waiting to depart for Le Crotoy and St Valery-sur-Somme respectively. Both are at the head of packed 8 coach trains. No 2 was built in France for the Panama Canal railway before seeing service in Puerto Rico, returning to France in 1994 after periods in the Henry Ford Museum and at Travers City in Michigan.

Neilston: The former goods facilities standing alongside Neilston station in August 2006.

Milliken Park: 334 012 with a Glasgow Central - Largs service calls at Milliken Park on 20 August.

Pollokshaws East: A Cathcart Inner Circle service formed by 314 211 calls at Pollokshaws East on 20 August.

Whifflet: A wet day at Whifflet on 20 August 2008, as 156 514 runs into the Glasgow bound platform after reversal, following a short lie-over on the little used Whifflet South Junction - Sunnyside Junction freight only line running behind the arrival platform on the left.

Shawlands: 314 216 on the Inner Cathcart Circle route calls at Shawlands on 20 August 2008

Whifflet: A wet Whifflet station welcomes 156 508 on a terminating service from Glasgow Central on 20 August 2008. The train will run forward and reverse onto the little used Whifflet South Junction - Sunnyside Junction freight line, off to the right behind the platform, where it will lie-over pending the next scheduled service back to Glasgow Central.

Dunbar: Freightliner 66953 is routed into the platform road at Dunbar on 20 August 2010. The train is the 6Z28 Leith Docks - Drax Power Station imported coal. The diversion is being carried out in order to facilitate a passing movement on the main line.

Dunbar: 67021 leans into the curve at Dunbar as it nears its destination with the 6B45 Powderhall - Oxwellmains Binliner on 20 August 2010.

Shrivenham: 55022 Royal Scots Grey with a GBRf charter at speed near Shrivenham on 20 August.

Stirling: A view over the north bay platforms at Stirling on 20 August 2011 with 158867 stabled in platform 4.

Stirling Middle Junction: 158732 heads south past Stirling Middle SB on 20 August 2011 shortly after leaving the station. In the background no 57601 stands at the north end of the stabled stock for the 'Edinburgh Military Tattoo Statesman' special.

Stirling North Junction: A southbound service in the hands of 170428 passes Stirling North signal box on the approach to Stirling station on 20 August 2011.

Carlisle: Black 5 no 44932 waits at the south end of platform 3 at Carlisle with The Waverley railtour on 20 August 2011.

Stirling: Having just arrived in Stirling station from the south sidings on 20 August, 47804 stands at platform 10 with the stock of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Statesman railtour.

Shrivenham: Deltic 55022 'Royal Scots Grey' at speed on the Great Western Main Line with a GB Railfreight staff outing from Peterborough to Weston super Mare on 20 August 2011. The special is passing the site of the long gone Shrivenham Station on the east side of Swindon.

Stirling: An Alloa to Glasgow service arrives at Stirling on 20 August 2011.

Stirling: 158732 departs from Stirling on 20 August 2011 with a service for Edinburgh. Stirling Castle overlooks the scene.

Coventry: 323211 forms the 7.07 to Wolverhampton at Coventry on 20th August 2012. It looks considerably more bright and alert than the photographer!

Whitehaven: 156448 forming a southbound Northern Rail service disappearing into Whitehaven Tunnel on 20 August 2012. Next stop in two minutes time is Corkickle (easy for you to say!) en route to its ultimate destination at Barrow.

Windermere: A TransPennine Express service recently arrived at Windermere from Oxenholme on 24 August. Amazing that this service has survived but Penrith to Keswick did not.

Newcraighall: The 12.17 train to Waverley waits alongside the platform at Newcraighall station on 20 August 2012. Long lens view from Whitehill Road at the north end of Millerhill Yard, looking under the bridge carrying the A1.

Trafford Park: Trafford Park is now an unstaffed station with a basic two hourly service. 142011 hurries through without stopping on 20 August on its way from Lime St to Oxford Rd, now only seven minutes away. The huge industrial estate, which still has an operational internal railway, lies just beyond the trees.

Nuneaton North Chord: A big difference in the last month see image [[39619]]. The Stoney Road bridge is complete, and the road is back on its original course. There is embankment to either side of the bridge, plus rails and sleepers. The new target date for completion of the Chord is 4th October.

Gorebridge: The 1847 Gorebridge station building enjoys a clear view to the north once again, following the demolition and clearance of Harvieston Villas. The site will be used primarily as parking for around 100 cars. The trackbed now runs south unimpeded through the station site and below Lady Brae road bridge in the background. See image [[37704]]

Sheriffhall City Bypass Overbridge: A westbound van on the Edinburgh City Bypass approaching Sheriffhall roundabout on 20 August 2012. The gap in the trees is the point where the Borders Railway will run below the road shortly after leaving Shawfair station. Test bores and other advance works took place here during the summer. See image [[50963]]

Nuneaton North Chord: A lot has happened here since May 5th see image [[38775]]. The bridge deck for the North Chord over the WCML-Birmingham line spur is in place, and the embankment is complete. The working area in the foreground has been massively tidied - what price track, signals, and trains? About another £1 million, at a rough guess.

Humphrey Park: Humphrey Park is a fairly recent addition to the Manchester rail network having opened in 1984. It lies immediately west of (and in sight of) Trafford Park station on the line to Warrington Central. 150218, on a Lime St to Oxford Rd service, calls at this suburban halt which is unremarkable apart from the very pink fences that run the full length of both platforms. View west towards Urmston.

Coventry: The 07.06 class 153 service about to head back from Coventry to Nuneaton on a hazy summer morning in August 2012. This route will soon be upgraded with a new station at Bermuda Park see image [[31054]] and at the Ricoh Arena.

Carnforth: Now a West Coast locomotive, but still in Arriva blue livery, former Thunderbird 57316 stands in one of the down WCML loops at Carnforth prior to working an ECS train to York via Bentham.

Biggar: The signal box nameboard now in the Gladstone Court Museum in Biggar. See image [[6449]]

Istanbul, Sultanahmet: A modern tram passing through the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul in August 2014.

Istanbul Sirkeci: Interior of a Marmaray trans-Bosphorus train serving Istanbul Sirkeci see image [[48507]].

Lostock Hall: Complete with Inter City swallow and Eastfield 'Scottie Dog' badges, 37518 'An Gearasdan' is on the rear of the outward leg of 'The Fellsman' railtour on 26th August 2014.

Lancaster: Two brand new Class 68s, 68011 and 68010, in Chiltern Trains livery, running light engine from Crewe to Carlisle on 20th August 2014.

Tweedbank: Scene at Tweedbank following the formal announcement of the opening date for the Borders Railway by the First Minister - trains will run over the new line from 6 September 2015.

Lancaster: Fun and games at Lancaster. Black 5 45231 with the Fellsman stock stands on the Up Fast line at Lancaster having been wrongly routed there by Preston PSB instead of into Platform 4 where around a hundred passengers were waiting. Fortunately, the Class 37 on the rear was allowed to set back with the train so the service got away to Preston without too much delay.

Ayr Harbour: PS Waverley warps herself across from the North Harbour to collect her passengers for the last sail of the season from Ayr to Tarbert Loch Fyne.

Istanbul Sirkeci: Preserved steam locomotive outside the railway museum next to Istanbul's Sirkeci Station in August 2014.

Istanbul, Sultanahmet: Istanbul had lost its old streetcars long before sleek modern trams, such as those seen here in the historic Sultanahmet district in August 2014, made their debut from 1993.

Istanbul Sirkeci: Marmaray trans-Bosphorus train serving Istanbul Sirkeci, photographed on 20 August 2014.

Appleby: At about 13:35 on 20 August 2015 Jubilee No. 45699 accelerates away from the water stop at Appleby while working the northbound Dalesman. Galatea will shortly pass under the highly skewed masonry arch bridge at Brown Bank, which now carries no more than an unsurfaced farm track over the line. The track was at one time part of the Penrith to Brough Roman road and one presumes must have retained some importance into more recent times to justify such an expensive form of bridge construction.

Galashiels: Looking north along the A7 Ladhope Vale, Galashiels, on 20 August 2015, with the new Transport Interchange on the left. The building was officially opened on 6 August and is now operational as a bus station. The pedestrian crossing will eventually link the Interchange with the new railway station opposite.

Galashiels: Part of the interior of the new Galashiels Interchange on 20 August 2015, showing the exit onto Ladhope Vale and the station platform opposite.

Melrose: Remains of the former station at Melrose on 20 August 2015 looking east towards the site of Ravenswood Junction. The A6091 now runs past on the right. See image [[26778]]

Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal: Amazing what a couple of days with an excavator and several large packets of grass seed can do see image [[50226]]. All ready for the next extension across the A5 on 20 August 2015?

Preston (Ribble Branch): Despite its diminutive size, Rolls Royce Sentinel Enterprise presents a powerful appearance as it draws seven loaded bitumen tankers from Strand Rd exchange sidings to the Lanfina depot on Preston Dock. The train is approaching the boarded foot crossing and the locomotive will shortly return light engine for the second rake of tanks.

Kirkcaldy: 46100 'Royal Scot' speeds through Kirkcaldy with the 'Forth Circle' on 20 August.

Hest Bank: 46115 Scots Guardsman rolls a Cumbrian Mountain Express excursion through Hest Bank on 20th August 2016. The loco had taken over the train at Preston and was running via Shap to Carlisle and returning via the Cumbrian Coast.

Farington Junction: Ex LMS 4-6-0 no. 46115 Scots Guardsman with support coach head north on the WCML to Preston after completing a reversal which had taken them via Lostock Hall Jct. The loco was being positioned in readiness to take over the CME railtour to Carlisle.

Bay Horse: On the west side of the WCML just south of the site of Bay Horse station is a building with large sliding doors on either end. It certainly looks like it was used by the railway as a goods shed but I don't have any definite proof, just the old maps which show there were sidings in that area.

Bay Horse: A Virgin Voyager on a London bound service approaches the site of Bay Horse station on the WCML between Preston and Lancaster. The station Opened in 1840 and closed in 1960 but 56 years later there is still evidence of it see image [[19844]], even when it is next to the WCML!

Hest Bank: Two nearly new DRS Class 68s, 68020 Reliance and 68018 Vigilant, take the Tesco Express north through Hest Bank on a gloomy 20th August 2016.

Sheriffhall City Bypass Overbridge: A Linlithgow - Tweedbank steam special emerges from below the Edinburgh City Bypass on 20 August 2017 hauled by Black 5 44871.

Stow: The Forth Bridge and Borders Steam Special of 20th August 2017 is seen approaching Stow with Black 5 No. 44871 at the rear (EE Type 3 No. 37 685 was at the front) on its way back north. A well known Railscot contributor is lining up his 'going away' shot in the foreground!

Aberdour: 44871 climbs away from Aberdour with the SRPS 'The Forth Bridge & Scottish Borders' excursion on 20 August. 37685 was working hard on the rear.

King's Gate Junction: Black 5 44871 about to run south through Kings Gate points on 20 August 2017 with the 0843 steam special ex-Linlithgow heading for Tweedbank.

King's Gate Junction: Close-up of Black 5 44871 southbound through Kings Gate points on 20 August 2017 with a Linlithgow - Tweedbank steam special.

Dysart: 44871 climbs away from Dysart with the SRPS excursion to Fife and the Borders on 20th August 2017.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: Black 5 No. 44871 making a determined climb of Borthwick Bank with the Forth Bridge and Borders Steam Special just after mid-day on Sunday 20th August. The location is about mid-way between the old Borthwick Bank box and Tynehead station, near Halflaw Kiln Farm.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: The 11-coach SRPS Railtour from Linlithgow to Tweedbank battles up Borthwick Bank. Note the old platelayers' hut which has survived through being located in a private field, rather than within the new railway footprint where it would have been swept away indiscriminately during construction works. The field formerly housed extensive sidings for the dumping of ash from St Margaret's shed.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: This location is about mid-way between the old Borthwick Bank box and Tynehead station, near Halflaw Kiln Farm. 37 685 banking 44871 - there is some smoke visible to the right hand side of the shot which betrays the presence of the Black 5 at the front of the train, otherwise one might conclude that the Type 3 is running wrong line downhill.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: The SRPS Railtour from Linlithgow to Tweedbank battles up Borthwick Bank, with both locos working hard - 44871 at the front and 37 685 at the rear.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: Formed of a 6-car Class 170, the 11.45 Tweedbank-Edinburgh service coasts down Borthwick Bank past the southbound SRPS Railtour.

Dysart: 37685 on the rear of the SRPS Borders Railway excursion, returning from Tweedbank on 20th August 2017. The train has just passed Dysart.

Edinburgh Waverley: DRS 57301 Goliath at Platform 9 in Waverley station with the returning Northern Belle to Manchester Victoria on 19th August 2017. DRS 57303 Pride of Carlisle was on the rear of the train.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: 37 685 pushes from the rear of the SRPS Railtour on the approach to Tynehead. This was the first time the photographer had ever witnessed a Class 37 on the Waverley Route / Borders Railway, as most of his travel on the line was from 1961 to 1966, prior to the introduction of EE Types 3s. It was worth the 50-plus year wait for the sight and sound!

Donibristle Platform: 66430 and 66424 pass the site of Donibristle Halt with an Elgin - Millerhill ballast on 20 August 2017.

Borthwick Bank Signal Box: Author Sandy Mullay's description of a 'sinuous succession of curves' comes to mind in this long shot of the SRPS Railtour passing through the distinctive deep stone cutting at the south end of Borthwick Bank.

Birky Side Dump: Deep in the woods to the east of Borthwick Bank lurk a remarkable number of survivors of the former ash dump sidings - in this case a 1900 NBR chair.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: View north east towards the Queen Street trainshed from West George Street on 20th August 2018. Piling work for the new building is in progress during the day.

Needlefield Carriage Sidings: Grab shot of Inverness Depot on 20th August 2018, with a HST alongside presumably on a training trip.

Newbigging Siding: With the opening of the Forth Bridge and its connecting railway from Burntisland, a transfer platform was provided for the Carron Company's Newbigging limestone mine and its tramway, which crossed a bridge over the footpath. The main line railway is to the right. 20 August.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: The south aspect of the train shed on an evening in August 2018. The plywood partition is at the level of the concourse and platforms with the Dundas Street entrance passageway coming in from the left.

Finnart Viaduct: 44871 returns north to Fort William after a quick stint in Fife and the Borders over two weekends. The locomotive is seen here just north of Finnart Viaduct passing the Finnart Oil Terminal on Loch Long. Finding a gap in the trees anywhere between Whistlefield and Arrochar and Tarbet is a challenge.

Glenfinnan: The Jacobites gather at Glenfinnan on 20th August 2019. 45407 leaves Glenfinnan for Fort William while passengers from the afternoon trip to Mallaig, hauled by 45212, mill around on the station.

Polnish No 107 Tunnel: Black 5 45212 climbing the gradient out of Lochailort with the afternoon 'Jacobite' service for Mallaig on 20th August 2019. Pictured passing the former 'Our Lady of the Braes' Roman Catholic Church, which ceased to be used in 1964. After appearing derelict for many years it has recently been painted. A good omen, perhaps? In the early 1980s scenes for the film 'Local Hero' were filmed here.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: 43014 and 43062 top and tail the New Measurement Train seen here at Queen Street platform 7 during its journey from Heaton back to Newcastle via Edinburgh.

Glenfinnan: Black 5 No.45212 pounds up the 1 in 50 gradient into Glenfinnan Station, while 45407 waits to depart for Fort William, on 20th August 2019.

Glenfinnan: Black 5 No.45407 hauls the return working of the morning 'Jacobite' into Glenfinnan station on 20th August 2019.

Port Talbot Steel Works: It looks like TATA have spent money on a new loco for Port Talbot. This powerful looking machine - is it an 0-6-0 or a 6W? - is seen in action on 20th August 2019.

Claughton: A slightly hazy view of the Claughton Aerial Ropeway, top to bottom, looking across from the Aughton side of the Lune Valley in August 2019. Claughton brick works can be seen at the bottom with the trackbed of the Wennington to Lancaster line running across the fields towards it. The lower wheelhouse is the slightly taller building near the centre of the photo. The cables can just been seen heading up hill across the fields from there and then take a line through the trees on their way to the clay pit wheelhouse, the grey building top left of the photo.

Tom-na-Faire Depot: Black 5 No.45407 experiences a signal check shortly after leaving Fort William for Mallaig with the morning 'Jacobite' on 20th August 2019. Nice to see semaphore signals still in use here.

Hornby: Station Court at Hornby, and a small industrial unit behind it, occupy the site of Hornby Station and the trackbed of the North Western line from Wennington to Lancaster. The station closed in 1957, around nine years before the line itself. The road from the village climbs past the site to the bridge which still spans the trackbed.
See query 2146

Glenfinnan: Black 5 No.45212, seen from near the station, crossing Glenfinnan Viaduct with the afternoon 'Jacobite' service for Mallaig on 20th August 2019.

Margam Knuckle Yard: A train of loaded hot rolled coil, which included some apparently new wagons, emerges from the TATA siding at Margam into the Knuckle Yard on 20th August 2019. The coils are bound for Hartlepool Bsc 20'' Mill where they will formed up into pipes.

Bay Horse: Shining in the morning sunlight, the Network Rail HST heads for Edinburgh across the embankment at Bay Horse on 20th August 2019.

Staveley: The 1957 hrs departure from Staveley leaves bang on time on 20 August 2019 as 195118 sets off to Windermere on the final leg of a journey that started at Manchester Airport almost 150 minutes earlier.

RNAD Bandeath: RNAD Bandeath still retains quite a lot of track work as can be seen in this westwards view along the southern most line of sheds on 20 August 2019.

Farington Curve Junction: The Network Rail NMT heads south on the WCML near to Farington Curve Junction on 20th August 2020. The train had been scheduled to run from Slateford to Crewe on the 19th but after an unexpected and extended stop in the up loop at Abington, made it to Carlisle around midnight. On the 20th a path from Carlisle to Derby RTC appeared in the schedule and it was on this move that the HST was seen.

Raploch Crossing: View east towards Raploch and Cowane with the trackbed of the former railway from Balloch to the left and Stirling Castle to the right. A short distance behind the camera the M9 cuts through the solum.

Stirling: View west along the line of the former F&CJR trackbed from the middle of the roundabout on Back o’Hill Road and at the centre of the former railway alignment.

Raploch Crossing: View east from just off the A84 along the path following the former F&CJR trackbed towards Raploch. The A84 cuts through the solum at right angles just behind the camera.

Stirling: View west along the former F&CJR trackbed in August 2020. Traffic on the M9, which cuts through the solum, can just be seen on the left. Stirling Castle is to the left behind the camera. [See image 74051]

Moss Lane Junction: 150136 drops down from Moss Lane Junction, where the direct line to Lostock Hall diverged, towards the WCML at Farington Curve Junction with the 1201 hrs Ormskirk to Preston service on 20th August 2020.

Raploch Crossing: View east along the path which now occupies the former F&CJR trackbed behind King Robert Court. The path continues to Raploch Road, after which the solum has been built over.

Stirling New Bridge Signal Box: View southeast along the A84 and the route of the F&CJR towards the site of the New Bridge Signal Box and its once busy level crossing on the Stirling to Bridge of Allan Road. Unhelpfully almost entirely concealed by the tree in the middle of the present roundabout is the ornamental 1910 Bridge Clock Tower also marooned just behind it on the roundabout.

Lingerwood Road Level Crossing: View west along Lingerwood Road towards the junction with Main Street, Newtongrange on 20 August 2020, showing some of the houses built by the Lothian Coal Company. The level crossing ran between what are now metal gates on the right and the entrance to the public footpath on the left. The path follows the route of the trackbed as far as the bridge that once carried the line across the A7 into the Lady Victoria site ([[71372]]).

Lingerwood Weighbridge: The former rail route between Lady Victoria and Lingerwood Junction looking east towards the latter on 20 August 2020. A memento from operational days, alongside the trackbed to the left, is the remains of a tubular steel lighting column complete with lamphead. A number of these are shown in the photograph taken by Douglas Blades looking west along this section some 49 years earlier (see image [[72280]]).

Potters Brook Br 81 [LC]: Maintenance boat 'Tewitfield' moored alongside the Canal and River Trust wharf at Potters Brook in August 2022. The C&RT have several different craft on the Lancaster Canal and they are kept busy with various tasks on the 225 year old waterway. See image [[82698]].

Leyland: With NTS and logo under the cabside window, 88010 no longer seems to mention DRS on the side of the loco which now displays the slogan Refrigerated Rail .... Cool Move. The loco was working the 4Z27 Mossend to Daventry intermodal service on 20 August 2022, a rail strike day, and is seen passing Leyland.

Inverkeithing: On the sixth day of 2022's national rail strikes, Scotrail ran a reduced timetable on eleven routes including a half-hourly service between Edinburgh and Inverkeithing. On 20th August 170409 used the Down Goods Loop at Inverkeithing as a turnback siding before forming the 14.40 departure south.