Mirfield: Work continues on the rebuild of Mirfield and this accessible footbridge has been constructed, linking the platforms with each other and the road below the station, although it is not yet open to passengers. Behind the island platform to the right a fourth line has been laid although it is not yet connected to the current running lines. This December 2025 view looks towards Heaton Lodge Junction.

Bath Green Park [2nd]: Bath Green Park basks in the setting sun on 1st November 2025. I was taking a much needed break from teaching GCSE Mathematics.

Muchalls Viaduct: Embankment works by McPherson Bridge, just south of the Muchalls Viaduct, in December 2025.

Glasgow Central: Opinions will no doubt differ as to the respective merits of the various liveries that have been carried by Glasgow’s suburban units over the years, and I remember it taking a while to get used to the 334 livery shown in this shot from the summer of 2003. 334014 sits side by side with 318251 at Glasgow Central.

Twyford: Freightliner 59205 eastbound from Westbury Tarmac to Hanwell Loop Bridge, passing Twyford on 5th November 2025. Rep. No. 6A50

Incline Foot [Craigmore]: This is the embankment of the Aberfoyle Slate Quarries Tramway just above the incline foot showing a lovely flat trackbed making its way over very rough uneven ground. This incline was a double track self-acting incline. It was over 2,100 ft long, at a gradient of about one in three, and dropped over 600 ft. There was a continuous steel wire rope on which 'trains' of six wagons carrying 500 slates of 17cwt descended and empty wagons (and the occasional 'passenger') climbed the incline. Movement of the rope could be stopped via a screw brake, stopping the wagons.

Rainford: 150120, Headbolt Lane to Blackburn, pauses at Rainford to handover the single line token. From 1858 this was a three-way junction. The old platform curving right was on the ELR line to Ormskirk, closed in 1956 and now built on. To the left a pedestrian footpath initially follows the LNWR line St. Helens line that closed in 1951. A direct chord for Ormskirk to St. Helens freight and excursions crossed the Wigan to Liverpool line on a now demolished bridge about 300 yards to the west of here. See image [[94748]], a map of this location in pre-grouping days.