Pemberton: 156429 slows to call at Pemberton, first station out of Wigan Wallgate on what was once the L&YR main line between Manchester and Liverpool but is now a partly single track branch line to Headbolt Lane near Kirkby. This was a 'direct' service from Blackburn via Todmorden and Manchester on 19th November 2025, taking well over two hours with twenty plus intermediate stops. However, with timely connections at Wigan and Preston that journey could be made in little more than an hour.

Aberfoyle: View looking west out of Aberfoyle. To the left, above the River Forth, is the narrow trackbed of the quarries tramway.

Ferryside: 50031 'Hood' approaching the old pill box that I am standing on at St Ishmael, a lovely spot to wait for the trains on a sunny warm afternoon by the Towy estuary and well worth the drive through the lanes. Shame there are few locos now along this stretch of line. This was the period when Class 50s and other locos were used rather than units. .