Diggle: Climbing up to the Standedge tunnel at Diggle is 47415 on a Liverpool to Newcastle service running past the semaphores that were still in use at that time. 3-car Trans Pennnine 185 units provide the services now but on a much more frequent basis than in the 1980s.

Diggle: New Years Eve at Diggle sees 47511 Thames on a Newcastle to Liverpool service running down past Diggle Junction signal box just after leaving the Standedge tunnel. It can be bleak in this area but the weather was kind to us on this occasion.

Crigglestone Junction: A long lost view across Crigglestone Junction down the then still intact and operational Horbury Branch, with the junction, signal box and cross-over all in situ. Scene in December 1987. See image [[46202]] for a near identical view in April 1974.

Newtonmore: On the last day of 1994, a northbound 158718 draws to a stop at Newtonmore. The view is from the disused former southbound platform.

Pitlochry: A northbound 125 in light snow at Pitlochry on the last day of 1994.

Tomatin: Railway cottage at Tomatin with a small 37402, 47 and LMS locomotive in the garden.

Druimuachdar Summit: New Year's Eve, 1994/5. Under a snow laden sky a northbound train passes Druimuachdar Summit. It was really too late in the day for photographing moving trains!

Garve: Kyle line services crossing in the snow at Garve on New Year's Eve 1994.

Pitlochry: An InterCity 125 HST prepares to depart from the north end of Pitlochry station on 31 December 1994.

Newcraighall Junction: A Loadhaul liveried class 56 about to leave the north end of Millerhill yard with a freight on a cold and frosty December morning in 2002.

Falkirk Grahamston: Imported coal from Hunterston import terminal, heading for Longannet power station via the Forth Bridge, rumbles east through Falkirk Grahamston station on New Years Eve 2004. The locomotive is EWS 66157.

Falkirk Grahamston: Extra supplies of coal for Longannet power station heading east through Falkirk Grahamston during the Christmas holiday period in December 2004.

Falkirk Grahamston: A westbound 158 arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on the last day of 2004.

Falkirk Grahamston: An SPT liveried DMU leaves Falkirk Grahamston westbound with a train for Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld on New Year's Eve 2004.

Alexandria: A Glasgow bound service enters Alexandria and a number of passengers walk purposefully along the platform on New Years Eve 2007. A short portion of the old disused northbound platform remains on the bridge.

Renton: On the last day of 2007 a train heads for Balloch. The old northbound platform has largely disappeared now.

Alloa: A damp end to 2007. The station site at Alloa looking east through the rain on New Years Eve, with work temporarily halted over the festive period.

Balloch Central: View south towards Balloch Central showing the landscaped former trackbed. The turntable was located to the right. See image [[32327]].

Broomhill Viaduct: The two bridges over the River Avon in Larkhall, Broomhill Viaduct was the highest in Scotland and the nearer road bridge had replaced an older stone one. Picture taken on a lovely frosty winter day - New Year's Eve 2008.

Wennington Junction: Forty four years after the rails were lifted from the Lune Valley line at Wennington it looks like they could just be put straight down again. Further on the trackbed is in poorer condition and then disappears altogether near Hornby. View towards Hornby from the overbridge immediately west of Wennington Junction.

Wennington Junction: A Leeds to Morecambe service, formed by 150211, pulls away from Wennington station on New Year's Eve 2009 and passes the site of the junction with the direct line to Lancaster through Halton (closed in 1966). Very little snow remains in the area but this cutting obviously doesn't see much sun at this time of year. See image [[37943]] for the same location in 1976.

Hungerford: First Great Western HST 43020 eastbound at Hungerford on New Year's Eve 2009.

Wennington [1st]: This interesting five arch bridge spans the trackbed, and the River Wenning, a short distance to the west of Wennington station on the old direct line to Lancaster. View towards Hornby at Map Reference SD610693.

Wennington Junction: A Morecambe service heads west from Wennington. 150211 curves away from the disused direct line to Lancaster and is heading for Melling Tunnel, which passes under the hill in the background.

Ropley: The Mid-Hants Railway eqivalent of Barry scrapyard? Not quite! The organisation now appears to have resolved a number of issues with the owner of several locomotives and hopes to see some of them put back into service in the near future.

Lancaster Green Ayre: The station site at Lancaster Green Ayre, closed in 1966, is marked by an old crane in the riverside park. The overbridge carries the main roads from Morecambe and the north over the River Lune and the trackbed and marks the start of the cycleway to Halton and Caton.

Wennington Junction: Wennington Junction lies just the other side of this bridge on the old direct line to Lancaster see image [[26998]]. It carries the B road from Hornby to Bentham and immediately to its left is another similar bridge that crosses the surviving line to Carnforth. The last train to pass this way was in 1966.

Hungerford: 166206 eastbound at Hungerford on 31 December 2009

Lancaster Power Station: A Then and Now comparison at the site of the tipple-sidings at Lancaster Power Station. The pylon still stands, and of course Rennie's canal aqueduct, but everything in the foreground has been cleared away. See image [[27042]] for a 1968 view of this location.

Arbroath: Power car 43066 in East Midlands Trains livery on the rear of an Aberdeen-Leeds HST service pauses at Arbroath on 31 December 2010.

Worcester Shrub Hill: This rather generous yard is still in place behind platform 2 at Worcester Shrub Hill station in December 2011. Don't worry, it's fully utilized: as well as these PW machines, there was a wagon stabled out of view.

Worcester Shrub Hill: Haven't they got small wheels? A 172 heads for Birmingham from Shrub Hill, passing stabled units outside the former train shed.

Worcester Shrub Hill: Some impressive tilework on the waiting room on platform 2 at Shrub Hill, photographed during restoration in December 2011. The protective plastic mesh has a certain 'Dance of the Seven Veils' look about it.

Worcester Shrub Hill: The Worcester 'Vinegar Works Railway', which famously used semaphore signals to control road traffic at level crossings, as well as requiring a bridge over the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, saw its last rail traffic in June 1964. There are still a few rails remaining - as seen here in the industrial estate opening off the approach road to Shrub Hill station in December 2011.

Worcester Shrub Hill: Perfect looking Corinthian capitals adjacent to the waiting room on platform 2 at Worcester Shrub Hill in December 2011. The paint, however, looks to be about two inches thick.

Porth: Looking towards Pontyridd along the disused Maerdy branch face of the former island platform at Porth Station. A replacement ticket office is proposed for this side of the station, to avoid Cardiff bound passengers coming from the station car park having to cross over the line to purchase tickets.

Worcester Shrub Hill: The footbridge between the lifts at Shrub Hill has seen better days - notice the additional ventilation along the South side! Notice also, the squeaky clean new class 172's in the sidings.

Edinburgh Waverley: 334012 at Waverley's platform 17 with the 18.21 to Garscadden, on 31 December 2012.

Carrbridge: An unusual visitor to the Highlands on a dreich New Years Eve 2013. Class 56 No.56312 Jeremiah Dixon passes through a very wet Carrbridge Station on its way south from Inverness. [The full nameplate reads: Jeremiah Dixon - Son of County Durham - Surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line U.S.A.]

Haymarket: Looking east at the new Haymarket on 31 December 2013, with 170415 calling on a Fife - Newcraighall service.

Alloway: Remains at Alloway station - view from the east on 31 December 2014. The cycle-path runs along the single line until this deviation to the left. The overgrown hump is the remains of the island platform. On the other side is the trackbed of the up side loop, now impassable, overgrown and waterlogged.

Shrubhill Tram Depot: Entrance to the former Shrubhill Tram Depot site from Dryden Street on 31 December 2016. See image [[57608]]

ScotRail: A poster from the current ScotRail Every Single Day campaign. Last month Davie Coddington collected Bronze for ScotRail Class 156 performance at the Golden Spanner Awards.

Bamber Bridge: Ian Riley's Black 5s, 44871 and 45407 with support coach pass Bamber Bridge on their way home to the East Lancs Railway for Hogmanay. This was the second day of their journey south from Fort William and the Festive Jacobite services.

Woodacre Crossing: The last main line steam movement of 2016 saw Black 5s 44871 and 45407 run light from Carnforth to Bury on New Year's Eve. The previous day they had worked down from Fort William with empty coaching stock. The two locos are seen just south of the Woodacre footbridge running twenty minutes early.

Stanley Bros Brick Works: In days of old, when men were bold, industrial towns in the UK had a dense network of industrial railways. The photographer is standing on the waste line from Stockingford brickworks see image [[39228]]; while the lateral line of trees in the background is growing in a cutting which was made for the Griff Colliery branch. View across Lingmoor Park. This branch also served a claypit for the brickworks. Both products went out to the centre, or South, in this view.

St Ninians Level Crossing: ScotRail 158782 passes Stirling's former St. Ninian's (Millhall Road) crossing which had, until relatively recently, the dubious honour of being regarded as Scotland’s highest risk pedestrian level crossing. View is north from the new footbridge completed during 2017.

Stirling South Signal Box: View north east of part of the temporary pedestrian and services bridge which has been erected alongside the A905 Kerse Road overbridge. Revised plans have now been approved for the work as part of the preparation for electrification.

St Ninians Level Crossing: View of (and from) the new and very substantial pedestrian bridge which replaces the former St. Ninian's (Millhall Road) crossing.

Princes Street [Tram]: No trams on Princes Street on Hogmanay. (Not ideal!!!)

Kyle of Lochalsh: This plaque was unveiled at Kyle today by the Lord Lieutenant of Ross and Cromarty, Skye and Lochalsh, Mrs Janet Bowen. It reads At 2130 on 31st December 1918 over 200 Lewis men, mostly naval personnel, who had survived the Great War, embarked from this pier in HMY Iolaire. The ship struck the Beasts of Holm rocks at 0155 on 1st January 1919. Of the 284 passengers and crew, 205 perished. This plaque is placed here by the Lochalsh Branch of the Royal British Legion Scotland in commemoration of the centenary of the tragic loss of life and unutterable grief it caused. (Photograph by Frank Roach who was at the unveiling.)

Preston: Freightliner 90043 leads the final Down Highland Beds of 2018 at Preston 38 minutes into the last day of the year. A driver change has just taken place and the Train Manager has come to advise the new driver of a change to the 'plan' on the way north to Edinburgh.

Muchalls: The last 0952hrs Aberdeen to Kings Cross HST of 2018 is only 14 minutes into its journey as it crosses Muchalls Viaduct on a sunny New Year's Eve. It was good to be photographing trains without having to work around catenary masts and wires.

Layton: With the delivery of further CAF DMUs during 2019 they have taken up additional routes including the Calder Valley and East Lancashire lines from Leeds. 195107 heads towards Blackpool North through Layton on 31st December 2019 with a service from York.

Poulton No 5 Junction: This view looks north along the Fleetwood line from Gerrard's Terrace bridge in Poulton-le-Fylde on 31st December 2019. Signals and track are still in place on the long closed (and severed) railway, although when the lines were fully operational there was a triple bracket signal at this point. Immediately behind the camera was Poulton No.5 signal box where the direct line to Blackpool North (the Poulton Curve) diverged from the line to Poulton No.3 just outside the station. The preservation group who hope to reopen the line to Fleetwood continue to make slow progress. See image [[27344]] taken from this spot ten year's earlier.
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Blackpool North: Tracks to nowhere - Phase II. The short tramway extension to Blackpool North is taking an eternity to complete. During 2018/19 the tracks were finally laid along Talbot Road but the terminus itself cannot be completed until the Wilko building and associated car park, which actually occupy the site of the original Talbot Road main railway station, are demolished. Meanwhile the tram tracks apparently disappear under the pavement. See image [[43082]] from an earlier stage in the protracted extension work.

Layton: Seen from the rebuilt Plymouth Road bridge, 158871 hurries through Layton station with a Blackpool North to York train on 31st December 2019. At this date these services are being run by a mixture of these 158s and also the new CAF 195s.

Dalfaber Level Crossing: Strathspey Railway's Ivatt Class 2 No.46512 is lit by the low winter sun as it climbs away from Aviemore with the 11:00 train to Broomhill on 31st December 2019.

Poulton-le-Fylde: New Year's Eve 2019 and a service from Blackpool North to Manchester Airport, formed by newly in service 331111, calls at the island platform at Poulton-le-Fylde.

Dulnain Viaduct [Carrbridge]: 73971 and 73969 cross the short viaduct over the River Dulnain, north of Carrbridge Station, with the Sleeper ECS bound for Polmadie on 31st December 2019.

Knott End: In 1950 this view, taken from behind the buffers, would have been of two platforms with tracks at Knott End station and would also include a water tower, the goods shed off to the right and 'Station House' on the left in the distance. Passenger trains had ceased in 1930 and the final goods train left in 1950. Seventy years later, apart from the cafe in the rebuilt station building behind the camera, the only railway linked building to survive in this car dominated scene is 'Station House' See image [[57696]]. 31st December 2019.

Findhorn Viaduct [Tomatin]: Hauled by 66431, the last Inverness to Mossend container train of 2019 fills Findhorn Viaduct from end to end on 31st December.

Layton: Unbranded 390002 accelerates through Layton with the 1054hrs Blackpool North to Euston service on 31st December 2019.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Platform 2 peek-a-boo from upper Dundas Street. The view is from the site fence over the incomplete new Queen Street Low Level Foyer on New Year's Eve.

Poulton Curve Halt: Nearly seventy years after it closed in 1952 the degraded remains of the two platforms at Poulton Curve Halt are still in situ. The curve opened in 1899 to allow direct running between Fleetwood and Blackpool North but finally closed in 1964, six years before all passenger services on the Poulton to Fleetwood branch. But for the low winter sun the catenary masts on the surviving line between Poulton and Blackpool North would be visible through the overbridge in this view from the old northbound platform.

Leith East Goods: An untouched fragment remains of the CR's goods branch for Leith Docks and is seen looking west on 31 December 2019. Behind me is the cycle path through Seafield, and ahead was the remainder of the branch, all swept away. The goods station was originally called South Leith, like the NB's on the other side of Salamander Street. It laterally took the name Leith East - faute de mieux as it was actually south of the remaining South Leith.

Blackpool North Pier: Looking down the new Talbot Road tram tracks towards the junction at Blackpool North Pier in December 2019. The extension to Blackpool North station has been long delayed. The tracks are now in place to the planned tram station but a retail outlet needs to close and be demolished first and the tracks will not be wired in the meantime. See image [[43092]] of the newly part-laid junction in 2013.

Poulton-le-Fylde: 331111 slows to call at Poulton with a Blackpool North to Manchester Airport service on New Year's Eve, 2019. The now severed line to Fleetwood curves away behind the train and during the past year palisade fencing has been erected across the formation, including a slight diversion around the redundant semaphore.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: Seagulls circle a deceptively deserted looking worksite at Queen Street on the last afternoon of 2019, but as soon as the last train of the year has left the work will resume in earnest taking advantage of the New Year station closure to push the works forward inside the station.

Blackpool North: CAF City. Although only introduced in July 2019 the Northern CAF trains, DMU and EMU, are starting to dominate services to Blackpool North as the year draws to a close. 195107 (left) is in Platform 2 on a York service. 331103 (centre) is newly arrived from Manchester Airport while 331002 (right) is bound for Lime Street.

Layton: 331002, one of the 3-car CAF EMUs now working for Northern, passes through Layton with a New Year's Eve service from Liverpool Lime Street to Blackpool North.

Blackpool North: CAF units on the (new and set back) buffers at Blackpool North on New Year's Eve 2019. 331002 was working between here and Lime Street while 331103 was on Manchester Airport runs.

Poulton Curve Halt: This brick culvert, immediately to the north of Poulton Curve Halt, carried the line over the small watercourse. The structure has now been incorporated into the garden of a house built on the trackbed and fenced off but the old station site itself, immediately to the right of this picture, is still accessible from the public park. 31st January 2019.

Wykeham: Whilst some 90% of the former Forge Valley line between Pickering and Seamer has been obliterated there is a substantial length of embankment still extant alongside the south side of A170 road a short distance east of Wykeham station. See image [[79783]]. It is immediately beyond where a bridge previously crossed the road heading east. Mid way along the embankment is an accommodation bridge, as seen, which is in remarkably good condition considering how long the line has been closed.

Forge Valley: Views of the former Forge Valley station, which is now standing empty after the site was vacated recently by North Yorkshire C.C. Highways. The station building and platform are still generally intact, although a derelict portable building sits on the platform alongside the building. The goods shed is in good condition due to it being used for storage of items over the years. There is a long entrance road upto the station, with an old concrete gatepost on the right by the entrance. What the future holds for the station only time will tell. View is westerly showing the station frontage, which is of symmetrical construction.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board showing the route of the line and earlier years views around the station up to closure. View is east along the entire length of the platform, with the display board seen to the far left of the infilled area. The nearest part of the station building is an addition post closure.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board showing the route of the line and earlier years views around the station upto closure. View is north easterly along the symmetrical station frontage with a sympathetic post closure extension running towards the west.

Forge Valley: The former Forge Valley station, which is now standing empty after the site was vacated recently by North Yorkshire C.C. Highways, in December 2021. The station building and platform are still generally intact, although a derelict portable building is on the platform alongside the building. The goods shed is in good condition due to it being used for storage of items over the years. There is a long entrance road up to the station, with an old concrete gatepost on the right by the entrance. What the future holds for the station only time will tell. View is looking west from the end of the platform by the wall that has replaced the crossing gate.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board, as in this view, showing the stations and gradient profile of the line, and earlier years views around the station locality up to closure.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board showing the route of the line and earlier years views around the station upto closure. This view is along the goods yard track showing nothing much has changed over the last twelve years. See image [[55464]] from 2009.

Wykeham: Whilst most of the former Forge Valley line between Pickering and Seamer has been obliterated there is a substantial length of embankment still extant alongside the south side of A170 road a short distance east of Wykeham station. It is immediately beyond where a bridge previously crossed the road heading east. Mid way along the embankment is an accommodation bridge which is in remarkably good condition considering the line has been closed since 1950. See image [[79698]]

Forge Valley: Views of the former Forge Valley station, which is now standing empty after the site was vacated recently by North Yorkshire C.C. Highways. The station building and platform are still generally intact, although a derelict portable building is on the platform alongside the building. The goods shed is in good condition due to it being used for storage of items over the years. There is a long entrance road up to the station, with an old concrete gatepost on the right by the entrance. What the future holds for the station only time will tell. View is westerly showing the portable building across the platform, and a clothes post from when the station was lived in over the years since closure.

Oubeck Loops: 90019 and 90020 take a Mossend to Daventry intermodal through the reverse curves at Oubeck Loops on New Year's Eve 2021.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board showing the route of the line and earlier years views around the station upto closure. An alternate view south of the weighbridge building showing the access door. See image [[79774]] Part of the weigh platform operating mechanism can be seen inside.

Forge Valley: Views of the former Forge Valley station, which is now standing empty after the site was vacated recently by North Yorkshire C.C. Highways. The station building and platform are still generally intact, although a derelict portable building sits on the platform. The goods shed is in good condition due to it being used for storage of items over the years, and it sits a distance across the station yard from the station building. There is a long entrance road up to the station, with a concrete gatepost on the right by the entrance. What the future holds for the station only time will tell.

Wykeham: Wykeham station is still used as the base for the Wykeham Estate, and kept in good condition. The platform is intact with a short section of the trackbed west of the station building infilled to provide a circulation area complete with a display board showing the route of the line and earlier years views around the station upto closure. View is along the westernmost section of the platform from the short infilled trackbed area, with a permissive path running west along the trackbed towards the former Ruston station site.