Brock: Looking south along the Lancaster Canal from the Calder Aqueduct (a siphon), 88005 is glimpsed heading north with a Daventry to Mossend intermodal service on 3rd September 2020.

Helwith Bridge Quarry Siding: 57316, still in Arriva blue, is on the rear of the 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' on 26 July 2014 as the railtour heads north near Helwith Bridge. On the front of the train was 60009 'Union of South Africa' but, due to fire risk, the Class 57 was providing assistance. On the hillside on the left is Arcow Quarry.

Helmsley: You may wonder how the Edinburgh Woollen Mill store in Helmsley relates to railways. Firstly their head office is Waverley Mill in Langholm, which sits alongside the former terminus of the Langholm branch running from the Waverley route, but secondly, and more pertinent, is that the stone arch over their Helmsley store entrance was created from the stone recovered from the demolished narrow humped overbridge HMY7 that gave access, across the Gilling to Pickering line, to Rye House Farm near Harome. See image [[74246]]

Lamington Viaduct: A TransPennine 350 heading for Manchester Airport approaching Lamington Viaduct on 27 July 2016. Photograph taken from the temporary access pathway created alongside a field between the B7055 and the north bank of the Clyde. The pathway had been used by Network Rail during the 7 week closure of the WCML earlier that year following damage to the Viaduct caused by storm Frank.

Grantshouse: Extract from the Scottish Region timetable winter 1960-61 showing morning stopping services on the ECML between Edinburgh and Berwick. Grantshouse was not to get another Down train until teatime. I’m not quite sure what the Queen of Scots was doing on this (typically fussy) table as it didn’t stop till Newcastle.

Dingwall: 66303 and 66304, with a Georgemas (for Dounreay) flask train, at Dingwall on 18th June 2019.

Big Pit Mining Museum: 'JESSIE,' a Hunslet 0-6-0ST No. 1837 of 1937, running into the Big Pit Mining Museum station on the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway on 5th May 2019.

Polmont: Over the last six weeks, engineers have had to completely rebuild the foundations of the line, replacing over 15,000 tonnes of soil and stone beneath the track. A kilometre of new double-track railway has also been laid consisting of more than 4,500 metres of new rails and 4,424 concrete sleepers along with 10,000 tonnes of new ballast requiring 27 engineering trains. Over 3,000 metres of signalling cables have been re-laid and two new twin track overhead power gantries installed.

Polmont: Engineers have been working around-the-clock to repair the line which was partially washed away near Polmont when the Union Canal burst its banks on Wednesday, August 12. The force of thousands of gallons of water flowing from the breached canal bank washed away sections of track and undermined the railway’s embankments along a 300m stretch of the line.

Glasgow St Enoch: Black 5 44677, seen on 17th June 1966, preparing to leave Glasgow St Enoch with the 4.45pm parcels for Carlisle. Although the train looks quite lengthy, the service often left the station with only one van, and may indeed have done so on this occasion. I believe it was effectively a pick-up, with other parcels vans and postal coaches being collected en route south.

Balshaw Lane Junction: DBC 66054 proceeds south following a signal stop and is seen crossing Balshaw Lane Junction on 26 August 2020 with the Hardendale Quarry to Margam limestone boxes.