Old Oak Common [HS2]: Work to construct the 850m-long station box at HS2’s Old Oak Common station began last month as concrete frame and substructure specialist, Expanded, started on site. Expanded has been appointed by Balfour Beatty, VINCI SYSTRA joint venture (BBVS), HS2’s Station Construction Partner responsible for the construction of the new HS2 Old Oak Common Station to deliver the main station box. The station box is a reinforced concrete structure that will form the frame and base for the HS2 station building.

Birmingham Snow Hill: Snow Hill, Birmingham looking north in 1991 with a suburban DMU in the platform. This had been the Great Western Railway's main station in the city but was closed in 1972 and later demolished. The new station was opened in 1987, initially as a terminus. Later it was used northwards by West Midlands Metro trams and then also trains towards Stourbridge Junction.

Oxheys: 397006, working from Edinburgh to Manchester Airport, crosses the Sharoe Brook on the run down towards the Preston stop on 15th November 2021. This view would have been impossible before trackside tree clearance by Network Rail.

Hest Bank: First Trans Pennine Express service from Manchester Airport to Glasgow Central with 350402 approaches Hest Bank on the afternoon of 12 September 2015. With the change of franchise the livery changed and then the 350s headed south to another TOC.

Slateford: A pair of SPT liveried class 156 DMUs about to meet at Slateford station on 26 September 2006. Both trains are operating on the Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Central via Shotts route. The crossover at the end of the platform enables eastbound freights to access the single lead Slateford Junction thence the sub at Craiglockhart (see image [[4785]]).

Essex Road: Essex Road, on the former Great Northern & City Railway from Finsbury Park to Moorgate, dating from 1904, is unusual in that passengers have to go DOWN from the platforms to the lifts before they can go up to the street. And as can be seen in this view looking down, on 13th November 2021, the stairs are on the steep side, especially when going UP and hardly suitable for people with reduced mobility. Probably explains why this station is so little used, which adds greatly to its rather spooky atmosphere.

Cramlington: The footbridge at Cramlington station is to receive attention, to completely revamp and refurbish it.

Goathland: Lambton 0-6-2 tank No 5 is blasting its way up the 1 in 49 gradient from Grosmont to Goathland on 16 July 1981. It was sharing that day's the North Yorkshire Moors Railway traffic with the unique Black 5, 44767.

Tean: Tean station, on the Cheadle Branch, in 1991. Opened as a temporary terminus as Totmonslow in 1892 and renamed Tean in 1907. Closed in 1953 but passed by passenger trains from Cheadle until 1963, and freight trains until 1986. The track remained until 2013.

Craigendoran Pier: 'MV Maid of Ashton' at Craigendoran, on a fine winter's day, in the early nineteen sixties.

Bay Horse: 47828 was turned out on the rear of LSL's 'Double Scotch' railtour, headed by D345 and D213 from Crewe to Edinburgh, on 13th November 2021. The Inter-City livery of the Brush Type 4 complemented the coaches, except for the Pullman liveried MkII Brake at the rear.