Berwick-upon-Tweed: Gateshead A4 Pacific no 60001 'Sir Ronald Matthews' photographed at Berwick in September 1962 with a fish train.

St Boswells: Platform view south along the Waverley route from St Boswells on 10 September 1962. St Margarets B1 no 61244 Strang Steel is about to run through the station heading north with a brake van.

Kelso: The single coach St Boswells - Berwick branch train stands alongside the platform at Kelso on 10 September 1962. Hawick shed's standard class 2 2-6-0 no 78049 is the locomotive in charge.

Ferguslie Viaduct: Bad news for three Fairburn tanks heading for the scrapyard as they pass over Linwood Road, between Elderslie and Paisley Gilmour Street, on 10 September 1963. 42191, 42193 and 42203 had all been withdrawn at Ardrossan Shed, which was still the home for 45463, the Black 5 towing the them. The vehicle scrapyard below was not a good omen! [Ferguslie Viaduct is out of shot off to the right.]

Kennishead: 73072 pilots 60134 through Kennishead on car sleeper.

Lancaster: A pair of class 50s hauling train 1M20 the up 'Royal Scot' taking the middle road through Lancaster station on 10 September 1971.

Conder Viaduct: A down parcels train crossing the viaduct over the River Conder at Galgate, south of Lancaster, in September 1971.

Lancaster: A class 50 brings a WCML service past Lancaster No 4 box in September 1971.

Lancaster: A down WCML express passing through Lancaster in September 1971.

Delamere: Delamere station is situated about six miles west of Northwich on the ex-CLC route from Manchester to Chester and today boasts a popular station cafe. That was, unfortunately, still way into the future on my brief visit in September 1972. A dmu can just be seen disappearing in the direction of Chester.

Middlewich: Middlewich station looking north from the A54 bridge in September 1972. It had closed to passengers in 1960 and to freight seven years later, although the line from Sandbach to Northwich, on which it was the only intermediate station of any significance, was still open to freight traffic, as it is today.

Salzbergen: DB 23-076 photographed in full flight near Salzbergen on 10 September 1977. The locomotive was bringing a special from the Hook of Holland into Rheine. The passengers look like they're enjoying the trip almost as much as the crew!

Gloucester Road: A Piccadilly Line service for Heathrow Airport leaving Gloucester Road in 1980. [Ref query 6778]

Gloucester Road: View east over Gloucester Road Underground station in 1980 with a train at one of the District Line platforms. Cromwell Road runs past on the left of the picture.

Saxmundham: 1983 - 1984 was a time of major transition on the East Suffolk line from Ipswich to Lowestoft. To ensure its survival, sections of the line were singled, signalling was simplified and loco-hauled workings withdrawn. Here, wrong line working is in force in connection with the singling process as 47150 creeps through Saxmundham with the last down SO London Liverpool Street (10.52) to Lowestoft express on 10 Sept 1983. This was a summer service for Londoners heading for holiday camps around Lowestoft. Passengers returned to London behind 31239 on the last up working the following Saturday, bringing to an end a long tradition of holiday camp expresses on the line.

Coombe: 37675 with clay from Moorswater to Fowey at Coombe Junction on a wet dull day in September 1987. The hoods would all be gone by Feb 1988 replaced with CDA wagons. The refurbished 37/6 only worked the hoods for a very short period of about eight months.

Prague: Tram stop on Smetanovo Nábřeží on the east bank of the River Vltava. The famous Charles Bridge is in the background with Prague Castle (remember the Defenestration?) and St Vitus Cathedral above. The tram is a Tatra T3 which was built by the Czech company ČKD. Over 14,000 of this type of tram were built for use in the former Eastern European states including, at one time, 1,000 in Prague alone. The first electric tramline started from the top station of the funicular see image [[62356]] in 1891.

Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]: Transrail liveried 56072 leaves Millerhill yard northbound with coal empties in September 1995.

Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]: Coal empties leaving Millerhill Yard northbound on 10 September 1995 behind Transrail liveried 56072.

Kinghorn: It is a September evening in 1998 and after a grinding journey from Kirkcaldy, during which there was an ominous fug in the carriages, 117301 was terminated at Kinghorn and we few passengers were left to our own devices.

Auchendinny Tunnel: Looking out from the south portal of Auchendinny Tunnel on 10 September 2002. The former station stood on the other side of the bridge which carried the railway over the North Esk see image [[43919]]. The Penicuik terminus was located approximately one kilometre to the south.

Auchendinny: The remains of Auchendinny station in September 2002 looking east towards the tunnel. The former rail bridge over the North Esk can just be seen in the distance.

Auchendinny: Looking north from Auchendinny Station in 2002 towards the bridge over the North Esk and the tunnel beyond.

Auchendinny Tunnel: East end of Auchendinny tunnel, September 2002.

Reedham Swing Bridge: Crossing Reedham Swing Bridge, September 2004.

Todmorden: Todmorden looking east on a quiet Sunday.

Hadfield: EMU for Manchester leaves Hadfield.

Dinting Viaduct: An evening Glossop service crosses Dinting Viaduct.

Dinting: Platform scene at Dinting on a September afternoon in 2006 looking towards Manchester. See image [[31135]]

Hall Royd Junction: View looking east over Hall Royd Junction, towards Millwood Tunnel, in 2006. The rusty loop in between the two running lines was subsequently lifted.

Edinburgh Waverley: The east end of Waverley on a Sunday morning in September 2006 with work in progress in several areas, including the new north side Balmoral through platform. A Virgin Voyager is leaving platform 1/19 on a CrossCountry service to Plymouth, while stabled class 67 and 90 sleeper locomotives and a class 322 EMU occupy bay platforms.

Steeton and Silsden: Steeton and Silsden looking south east in 2006 from the bridge which replaced the level crossing. The line to Skipton had been electrified in the mid 1990s.

Hall Royd Junction: View west at Hall Royd Junction in 2006, with the loops reverting to nature.

Edinburgh Waverley: East end view over Waverley on 10 September 2006 showing platform extension work in progress, alongside construction of the new north side 'Balmoral' through platform. A GNER service from Kings Cross is arriving, passing a class 323 EMU, while over on the left class 67 and 90 'sleeper' locomotives are stabled in the short bays.

Walsden [1st]: The footbridge crossing the line at the site of the first Walsden station, just south of the present station. The old level crossing was removed sometime after the first station closed in 1961.

Littleborough: The northbound platform building at Littleborough station in 2006.

Leith Walk West Goods: At the junction of Leith Walk and Stead's Place stood the entrance to the former Caledonian goods depot at Leith Walk West. View in September 2006 with the metal entrance gates still in place but the site now occupied by new flats. The flat roofed red sandstone block on the right, fronting Leith Walk itself, was built by the LMS in the 1930s. Part of the upper level reportedly housed railway goods offices.

Rumbling Bridge [2nd]: Lanscaped remains at Rumbling Bridge - closed 1964

Glasgow Central: 220011 Tyne Voyager crossing the Clyde Viaduct. Must have been a warm day or the driver must have forgot to shut the door

Glasgow Central: 156510 approaching Glasgow Central with an early morning service

Glasgow Central: 314216 departs from Glasgow Central on an empty coaching stock movement

Arkleston Junction: Glasgow bound 334 at Arkleston Junction. The old Renfrew line trackbed is overgrown as are what remains of the CE sidings (distant right).

Arkleston Junction: You want to put a third track where? View looks east to Glasgow from Arkleston Junction. Once a tunnel, then opened out for four tracks, now two.

Arkleston Junction: Looking west to Gilmour Street from Arkleston Junction. The Renfrew route was on the right and the Barrhead route was built - but not connected - to the left.

Glasgow Central: 334026 arriving at Glasgow Central on 10 September.

Glasgow Central: 156501 leaves Glasgow Central on 10 September on a Carlisle service.

Glasgow Central: 156445 on the approach to Glasgow Central

Glasgow Central: 314210 leaves Glasgow Central on 10 September with a Neilston service.

Glasgow Central: 156467 crossing the Clyde Viaduct on 10 September on the approach to Glasgow Central.

Glasgow Central: 334021 departs Glasgow Central with a service for Gourock

Lancaster: Although the Lancaster Canal runs near to the WCML for much of its length this bridge just south of Lancaster Castle station is the only point where the active section of the canal crosses the railway. A northbound Trans Pennine 185 unit drops down the bank towards its stop at Lancaster on 10 September. (Map Ref SD 474609)

Shap Summit: A soundbound freight has just crossed over Shap Summit. This is the view from the very high footbridge just to the south.

Mobberley: Inside the northbound platform's waiting shelter at Mobberley station. A very nice survivor.

Glazebrook: An eastbound service passes non-stop through Glazebrook.

Barlaston: Barlaston: Currently no train service operates from this station..

Wedgwood: A southbound Pendolino approaches the level crossing at Wedgwood at speed in 2009. At the time there were no stopping services at the station.

Stone: A non-stopping service passes Stone on the Stafford to Stoke-on-Trent line.

Goostrey: A visit to Goostrey, with that building, is like a step back in time. It's nice to see an old timber construction building survive on a mainline.

Abington: A pair of 92s take the evening Mossend - Wembley service south through Abington.

Stone: Stone looking south. The line to the left is the Lichfield route and that to the right is to Stafford. The platforms on the Lichfield route have been removed. It looks a bit like standing on the prow of a ship here.

Mobberley: Mobberley looking at the Chester bound platform, level crossing and signalbox.

Barlaston: A London Midland service passing non-stop through Barlaston on its way south.

Knutsford: Platform scene at Knutsford in September 2009, looking north east towards Altrincham.

Irlam: Looking west at Irlam, Greater Manchester, on 10 September 2009. The strange set back position of the old station building in relation to the platforms gives away the fact that the line was re-aligned in 1893 when the Manchester Ship Canal opened.

Ascott-under-Wynchwood: View to Oxford on the, in 2009, single track OWW. The line has since been doubled with a second platform being provided to the left. Behind the camera is a level crossing and the signal box. If you're wondering what's wrong with the colours - this photograph was over-exposed.

Norton Bridge: The inaccessible island platform at Norton Bridge station in 2009. The view looks east over the line with the junction off to the left. The access footbridge had been removed.

Glazebrook: A wonderful but neglected fountain on the westbound platform at Glazebrook. 1872 is featured prominently.

Stone: The fine facade of Stone station, south of Stoke on Trent. The platforms to the left on the Stoke line are still open whereas the ones on the Lichfield line, to the right, have been removed. The junction between the two lines is beyond the station building. View looks north.

Crianlarich: 61994 The Great Marquess stands in the sidings at Crianlarich with the service coach on 10 September prior to heading for Oban.

Wallsend: A Tyne and Wear Metro departure for South Shields from Wallsend early on Saturday afternoon 10 September 2011.

Fawdon: Photograph taken from the rear of a Metro service departing from Fawdon for Newcastle Airport on 10 September 2011. The train has just left from the staggered platform on the far side of the level crossing - the Newcastle bound platform stands on left. See image [[21036]]

Cambridge: This is the Cambridge end of the Northern (from Huntingdon) part of the new Guided Busway. The bus is about to turn right along Milton Road to the city centre and station. The avenue of trees ahead runs along the old line to Chesterton Junction, adjacent to Cambridge Science Park. There is a scheme afoot to open a new Cambridge Science Park station, in which case it would make sense to extend the Busway across Milton Road into the former goods yard adjacent to the station. Notice the absence of concrete blocks see image [[32111]].

Ross-on-Wye: I was in Ross on 10 September and happened to stop at a garden centre. I was very surprised to see that the main shop is inside the erstwhile engine shed see image [[30119]]. The lady on the till said that lumps of soot still fall from time to time! See image [[36285]]

Ross-on-Wye: Inside the garden centre at Ross-on-Wye that occupies the former locomotive shed see image [[36282]]. The shed was a sub to Hereford, coded 86C when it was officially closed by BR in October 1963.

Penrith: A Glasgow - Euston Pendolino tilts through Penrith as it heads south on 10 September 2011.

Tebay: A northbound Pendolino speeds through the Lune Valley towards Tebay on 10 September, passing traffic on the M6 motorway.

Glasgow Central: Ex-LMS Black 5 44932 after an on-time arrival at Glasgow Central on 10 September with 1Z20 The West Highlander, steam hauled between Carnforth and Glasgow.

Penrith: An Edinburgh - Manchester Airport service calls at Penrith on 10 September 2011.

Glasgow Central: The crew of Ex LMS Black 5 44932 enjoy a well earned rest after an on time arrival at Glasgow Central with 1Z20 The West Highlander tour, steam hauled between Carnforth and Glasgow.

Penrith: A TransPennine Manchester Airport - Edinburgh service calls at Penrith on 10 September 2011.

Scout Green: The first day of a railtour from Preston to Mallaig, The West Highlander on 10 September 2011, with Black 5 no.44932 working hard passing Scout Green on the climb from Tebay to Shap summit.

Penrith: Having just passed through Penrith, a southbound Pendolino is about to cross the M6 motorway at junction 40 on 10 September 2011. To the right is the present day Down Slow line which used to continue west from the WCML towards Keswick and Cockermouth see image [[21956]].

Wallsend: A Tyne and Wear Metro train arriving at Wallsend on Saturday 10 September on its way to South Shields.

Long Stanton: This station, on the former Huntingdon-Cambridge line, has been converted to a private home named 'Gresley House'. The whirring sound you hear is Sir Nigel himself, spinning in his grave, as a double decker bus heads for Cambridge on 10 September along the new Guided Busway.

Whitby: 'Right lads, kettle's boiled...' Fireman of 75029 'The Green Knight' at Whitby on 10 September 2012.

Pickering: Commemorative plaque on the wall of the Black Swan Inn, Pickering, photographed in September 2012.

Montreux: A SBB New Pendolino calls at Montreux on an Italy bound service from Geneva. The similarities of these ETR610 units to the Virgin Pendolinos are apparent but the generous loading gauge makes for a much bigger train.

Vevey: Vevey, on the shore of Lake Geneva, is a meeting point for metre and standard gauge networks. Here an articulated unit on a Blonay service waits to leave the narrow gauge platform with an older single car stabled alongside. On the right a SBB EMU waits in a standard gauge bay.

Romford: 360121, from Liverpool Street to Colchester Town, at Romford on 10th September 2013. The 360s were replaced by new Class 720 trains on this service in 2020/21 and have moved to East Midlands Railway working from Corby to St. Pancras.

Montreux: Three different operational gauges make Montreux station unique in Switzerland. All the trains in this view are of metre gauge but under the canopies are the SBB standard gauge platforms and just off picture to the right are the 800mm tracks of the Rochers de Naye cog railway. MOB GDe4/4 6005 leaves with the daily Chocolate Train, a tourist service, while railcars 7004 and 1007 await duties.

Romford: 315835, from Shenfield to Liverpool Street, arriving at Romford on 10th September 2013. These units on what is now a TfL Rail service have now been replaced by class 345 units and will, we hope, one day run all the way from Shenfield to Reading via the Crossrail tunnels, if it ever does open. Should have done in December 2018.

Blonay: Three very different looking Swiss metre gauge units stand at Blonay on the line from Vevey. The cream coloured EMU at the left hand station platform was one of two providing a 30-minute interval shuttle between here and Vevey. The silver and red sets were stabled between duties.

Millbrook (Beds): The 16.57 to Bletchley arrived well ahead of time, and departed on time - which didn't stop someone thinking she'd missed it. see image [[52616]]

Galabank Junction: 67026 Diamond Jubilee emerges from the cutting just to the north of Stow. 10 September 2015

Millbrook (Beds): The station master's house has definitely gone downhill since 1998 see image [[45199]], but the post box is still looked after.

Glenesk: Preserved A4 Pacific 60009 Union of South Africa passing the site of Glenesk Colliery with an Edinburgh - Tweedbank steam special on 10 September 2015.

Dumfries: The restored drinking fountain on the down platform at Dumfries in September 2015 see image [[19189]].

Carnforth: 37409 Lord Hinton takes the daily Preston to Barrow-in-Furness loco hauled service away from Carnforth on 10 September. On the rear is refurbished DBSO 9707, which had led the train from Carlisle to Preston. The section of platform on the right is now out of use and rather neglected compared to the rest of the station.

Glenesk Junction: Having cleared Glenesk Viaduct between Shawfair and Eskbank on 10 September, the 1024 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank has just passed the site of the former junction for the Dalkeith branch. See image [[30685]]

Marston Crossing: You can't always trust local information. The lady occupant of this house, who unexpectedly appeared at her front door after I took this picture, told me it was formerly Marston Vale station; and that the white door on the left led to the ticket office. Although the demolished brickworks opposite was called Marston Valley (its office block has just been renovated), I cannot find any record of a Marston Vale station. So I will stick to my initial hunch, that this was a crossing keeper's cottage. The location is between Millbrook (left) and Lidlington (right) on the Bedford to Bletchley line. The crossing on the left is to be replaced by a bridge; which our informant fears will cause her house to be demolished to allow its construction.

Glenesk: Bringing up the rear. 67026 Diamond Jubilee passing Glenesk southbound on 19 September 2015 at the rear of the steam special heading for Tweedbank behind 60009 Union of South Africa.

Millbrook (Bedfordshire): Things to do at Millbrook: (1) Assure a concerned passenger that she hasn't missed her train for Bedford - it will depart from the other platform; (2) look through the hedge (too thick to allow photography) at the guards van at right angles to the line; (3) enjoy the platform decorations on the Bletchley bound platform.

Umeå: This shot of the out-of-town EMU depot shows that it is several hundred metres long. The adjacent freight yard is just visible on the left.

Inverness: When was a pair of Class 20s last at Inverness?

Helmsley: Looking north along the road running from Harome towards the A170 Pickering Road, across bridge HMY/10 crossing the in cutting section of line that ran east from Helmsley to Kirkbymoorside. The bridge is sited some 400metres east of Helmsley station, and, other than some movement at the parapet ends, appears to be in a sound condition.

Helmsley: View looking east at, and through, bridge HMY/10 sited some 400 metres beyond Helmsley Station on the line towards Kirkbymoorside and Pickering. The former trackbed is soggy on the Helmsley side but is firm and dry on the other side. The bridge has slight skew, and is sited on a road with a significant fall towards the A170 road..

Aberdour: The 'GBRf 15' tour from Edinburgh to Inverness and return nears Aberdour hauled by Harry Needle 20096 and 20107, with Colas 47739 on the rear.

Loughborough Central: With apologies for the grain, you would think the 'Moon and Three Signals' would be a railway pub; but it's an end of gala view at Loughborough see image [[57193]]

Slingsby: Looking south east from the bridge over Wath Beck, across the level crossing over Railway Street, towards the former Slingsby Station between Hovingham and Malton. The building across the infilled trackbed is the Station Bakery, and still has a sign on the fence advertising (exceedingly good) home made cakes. See image [[19992]]. A section of platform edging stones still runs from the fence to below the RH side of the bakery window.

Slingsby: On the north side of Slingsby station, standing on either side of the roadway into a camping and caravan site that now occupies railway land east of the former station, are the two large concrete gates posts that would have carried the substantial gates across the station goods yard entrance.

Quorn and Woodhouse: A bit of a mixture of eras with modern cars and 1940's window shatter protection visible, but feast your eyes on that Deltic with a down train from Marylebone, er, Leicester ... See also image [[57050]].

Belgrave and Birstall: 'I'm not coming out, it's raining'. 45041 seems reluctant to rejoin its train at Leicester North after running round at the GCR Autumn Diesel Gala.

Barton and Broughton: A lightly loaded Coatbridge to Daventry container service gives an opportunity for a south facing shot of Freightliner 70005 from the St. Heliers Place footbridge in Barton. The old station site is at the end of the straight track by the second bridge.

Loughborough Central: Looking North along platform 1 at Loughborough on 10 September 2016. The Diesel Gala crowds had gone home and the staff were closing up.

Quorn and Woodhouse: The space under the road bridge at Quorn station has been turned into a NAAFI canteen for Forties weekends. The gent at the centre of the shot may appear a little waxen, but was very much alive. View looks North.

Leicester North: How about it lads? I'm up for Marylebone. 37714 gets a bit more enthusiastic than 45041 at Leicester North on 10 September 2016 see image [[56531]].

Loughborough Central: Steam giving way to diesel on the GCR at Loughborough Central on 10 September 2016.

Preston (Ribble Branch): The last surviving Grant-Ritchie 0-4-0ST (272/1894) returned to service on 10th September 2016 after restoration at the Ribble Steam Railway. One of only two Grant-Ritchie locos left in the UK this veteran of the Fife Coalfield survived because for many years it was in the Thomas Muir scrapyard in Thornton See image [[56564]]. It is seen making its debut with the Victorian Train at the 2016 RSR autumn steam gala.

Loughborough Central: That 'end of gala' feeling. Sadly, it was time to go home.

Quorn and Woodhouse: Bet the trees weren't that lush in steam days. But the class 31 in original butterscotch livery looks very 'sixties'. View looks North, from the road overbridge.

Wetheral Viaduct: An unexpected Rail Operations Group train leaving Wetheral viaduct on 10/09/2016 approaching Great Corby heading towards Newcastle. So unexpected was it, I managed to maintain the drivers anonymity with the sign!

Umeå: A staggered lineup at the new EMU depot on the outskirts of Umeå. When the high speed line was opened in 2010 the depot was moved out of the city centre adjacent to Umeå Central to a new site next to the new freight yard visible on the far left background. Left to right are Norrtåg X62 and the older type X11 used as a spare set and X55 known as the SJ 3000 see image [[55897]].

Niddrie West Junction: A PW working conveying spoil and spent ballast on its way back to Millerhill from Carstairs on 10 September 2017. The train is seen here on the section between Niddrie West and Niddrie South Junctions.

Aberdour: Dawn of a new era as ScotRail HST (power cars 43132 and 43021) nears Aberdour, heading from Craigentinny to Aberdeen on 10 September 2017.

Dinant: SNCB EMU 08099 rumbles over the level crossing in Dinant as it slows for the station with a service from Brussels Airport that has travelled down the scenic Meuse Valley from Namur. One last railway picture as we headed back to the UK. 10th September 2017

Niddrie West Junction: GBRf 66709 takes the Millerhill route at Niddrie West Junction on 10 September 2017 with a trainload of spent ballast. The locomotive is in 'MSC Sorrento' promotional livery. Note the new housing development now occupying the site of Niddrie Yard see image [[4546]].

Victoria Harbour [British Columbia]: Black Ball Ferries 'MV Coho' negotiates the narrow passage into Victoria Harbour on Vancouver Island after crossing from Port Angeles in the USA on 10th September 2018. In the foreground one of the small harbour tour boats goes about its business. Photo by David Lawson.

Muirhouse Central Junction: 156450 passes Muirhouse Central Junction with a service from Barrhead. Pollokshields East station is on the left and the 'Terminus Curve' bears right.

Mount Florida: 314211 leaves Mount Florida with a Newton service on 10th September 2018. 314215 is heading for Glasgow Central, on the left.

Muirhouse North Junction: 156 504 passes Muirhouse North Junction with a Carlisle train on 10th September 2018. The lines to the right are for the Cathcart Circle/Newton/Neilston.

Inverkeithing Central Junction: 68007 passes Inverkeithing Central Junction with the 07.44 from Glenrothes with Thornton to Edinburgh on a very dull and wet 10 September 2019. It had been held for nine minutes to allow late-running trains to clear the main line, on the right.

Easthouses Extension Pit: The B6482 Easthouses Road crossing the route once used by the Easthouses Tramway, seen here in September 2020, looking north towards the site of the former drift mine (closed in 1969). The photograph is taken from Mayfield Road, below which the tramway originally passed (now infilled).

Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont]: The huge Ainscough crane being used at the Carmont crash site to lift the rear power car out on 10th September 2020.

Brocken: Tank wagon on transporter truck, in the elevated station at The Brocken, on 10th September 2020.

Drei Annen Hohne: Harzer Schmalspur-bahnen railcar at Drei Annen Hohne on 10th September 2020.

Easthouses Extension Pit: The B6482 underpass near the site of Easthouses pit on 10 September 2020, exactly one year on from my first visit, at which time the route had been fenced off. Unfettered access on this occasion allowed the opportunity to recreate the Douglas Blades photograph taken almost 50 years earlier (see [[72293]]) shortly after the lifting of the Easthouses Tramway. View is south, with the bridge that carried Mayfield Road now infilled along with the old tramway cutting beyond.

Drei Annen Hohne: Harz steam loco 99 7241-5 at Drei Annen Hohne in September 2020.

Bamber Bridge: 40145 from the CFPS (on hire to LSL) is seen at Bamber Bridge on 10 September 2020 heading light engine from Crewe to Appleby. The headboard on the rear of the locomotive, and reports elsewhere, suggest that it is heading to work the southbound 'North Pennine Staycation Express' on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 September.

Kendal: Apart from a short stretch in Lancaster the towpath of the Lancaster Canal was entirely on the west side of the waterway, until it reached the last but one bridge in Kendal. This is known as the Change Bridge and the horse would pass underneath the arch and then go up the ramp seen here to cross over and rejoin the towpath without unhitching the barge rope. This is the only change-line bridge in Cumbria and has been restored by the local civic society. Seen here on 10th September 2021 looking north towards Canal Head. The railway owned canal closed shortly after WWII and this section was drained and filled in many years ago but is still a public right of way.

Kendal: Castle Bridge in Kendal is the first or last on the Lancaster Canal (once owned by the LNWR and then the LMS) depending on your direction of travel. Some guides show it as Bridge 187 but I believe that was the nearby but demolished Gas House Bridge and this is No.188. Cast iron girders on either side of the original stone arch mean the roadway is now about three times its original width. There are similar cast iron additions widening some canal bridges in Lancaster city centre. This view looks south from near the site of Canal Head on 10th September 2021. The course of the disused and drained canal can be followed for five miles from Kendal to Stainton where it joins the watered section. The plans to reopen the closed lengths of this canal are ambitious to say the least.

Liverpool South Parkway: Vintage Trains 'The Mersey Explorer' on 10 September 2022 saw GWR designed 4-6-0 7029 'Clun Castle' working from Tyseley to Liverpool Lime Street. The railtour was photographed passing Liverpool South Parkway during the outward run.

Tobermory Pier: Caledonian MacBrayne ferry 'Loch Tarbert' which my friends and I travelled on from Kilchoan after three nights in Fort William, seen here shortly after arrival at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull where we stayed for four nights, on the afternoon of Saturday, 10th September 2022.

Kilchoan Pier: Caledonian MacBrayne ferry 'Loch Tarbert' from Tobermory, after arrival at Kilchoan on the Ardnamurchan peninsula, on the afternoon of Saturday, 10th September 2022. After three nights in Fort William, during which stay we enjoyed the delights of 'The Jacobite' to Mallaig and back, we were now on our way for four nights at Tobermory on the Isle of Mull where I had never been before and which included a full day's excursion by two buses and ferry to the Isle of Iona.

Skelmanthorpe: Visiting locomotive 'Count Louis' double heads with resident 'Fox' rolling in to Skelmanthorpe heading for Shelley during the Kirklees Light Railway steam gala. The railway has been rebranded as Whistlestop Valley. See image [[29866]] from this spot in 1986.

Liverpool Lime Street: Passengers wait to board TPE Hitachi unit 802208 at Liverpool Lime Street with a service to Newcastle on 10 September 2022.

Earlestown: Vintage Trains 47773 hauls the ECS from Golborne Jct back to Liverpool Lime Street with 7029 'Clun Castle' on the rear at this stage. This was part of a move to turn the stock and steam loco for the return journey of 'The Mersey Explorer' on 10 September 2022.

Newton-le-Willows: Rush hour at Newton-le-Willows at around 1415 hrs on 10 September 2022 with TfW 175002 on the 1D38 Manchester Airport to Llandudno service as TPE 802215 arrives with the 1P29 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle service.

Clayton West: Northern Chief', visiting from the Romney 'Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, heads away from Clayton West for Shelley at the Kirklees Light Railway on 10 September 2022. The former standard gauge branch line, closed in 1983 (See [[19907]]), has been rebranded as Whistlestop Valley.