Forth Bridge: Like painting the Forth Bridge.... 'A job that is never finished because by the time you get to the end it's time to start over again.' (Cambridge Dictionary of Idioms)

The photograph shows the heavily scaffolded south span of the bridge on a May evening in 2006, partway through the 10 year project aimed at making the old cliche redundant.

On 9 December 2011 BBC News reported : 'The painting of the Forth Bridge has finally been completed and the structure is now scaffold-free for the first time in a decade. It will not need another paint job for 25 years. New techniques and products are behind the project's success. A 400-strong team applied a triple layer of new glass flake epoxy paint which creates a chemical bond to provide a virtually impenetrable layer to protect the bridge's steel work from the weather'.

Goodmayes: Goodmayes, in that part of Essex now within Greater London, looking west towards Liverpool Street on 13th February 2019. The line here was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1839 but this station was not opened until 8th February 1901 by the ECR's successor, the Great Eastern Railway. Quadrupling of the main line as far as Shenfield was not completed until 1934 with the final section from Romford, that included the notorious Brentwood bank, by the London & North Eastern Railway that succeeded the GER at the 1923 Grouping. Out of view on the left are the fast tracks and obsolete platforms that are now fenced off from the surviving platforms.

St Monance: St Monance, taken from an eastbound DMU. The photograph dates from 4th September 1965, just two days before closure of the line to regular passenger traffic.

Bristol Bath Road Depot: 37127 lets off some clag at Bristol Bath Road in September 1983. This Type 3 remained in service for a further twenty years before being stripped of usable components by EWS at Springs Branch and then scrapping by Booths in 2005.

Toddington: SR (BR) Rebuilt West Country 4-6-2 34028 'Eddystone' southbound at the Stanton Road Bridge near Toddington for the G&WR Platinum Jubilee gala. The more observant will notice a second SR Bulleid in the train. This is local Merchant Navy 35006 'Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co' whereas 34028 is usually based on the Swanage Railway.

Brock Water Troughs: Unusual working on the WCML on 11th July 2022. Royal liveried 67005 hauls Bellmond Pullman coaches north at Brock in an empty stock move from Stewarts Lane to Bo'ness where they were scheduled to stable overnight, ahead of an excursion back to London via York the following day.

Haltwhistle: That is a nice bit of varnished wood on the Haltwhistle footbridge, but the signal box could do with a clean. The train is heading for Carlisle, on 15th April 2022.

Innellan Pier: 'P.S. Waverley' going flat out past Innellan in 1987.

Woodacre Crossing: Recent hot dry conditions were NOT the reason for 37676 and 37706 hauling 'The Dalesman' at Woodacre on 12th July 2022. 35018 'British India Line' had failed at Carnforth that morning. It was repaired and tried to rejoin the tour at Hellifield but failed again near Bentham and the 37s took the train all the way to Carlisle.

Dumfries: Comings and goings at Dumfries on a fine spring afternoon in 2002 as a train for Glasgow Central (ex-Carlisle) calls at platform 1. Opposite the G&SWR station building stands the companys notable Station Hotel, part of which is visible above the roof line. (For a full view of the hotel see image [[39481]].)

Sheriff Street Level Crossing: Sheriff Street signal cabin and level crossing, Dublin, in 1991. This was the Great Southern and Western Railway's 1886 branch from Church Road junctions to their North Wall terminus, east of the L&NWR terminus. The sidings on the left remain but the route over the level crossing has closed.

Stutton: Almost no-one travelling along the A162 that runs between Tadcaster and Pontefract will appreciate that they are crossing a stone built 3 arch bridge just north of Towton village. There is still a parapet on the west side of the road, but nothing on the other side, by the junction to Ulleskelf, bar a grass verge and some scrub land beyond. This bridge - CFH 1 / 1A - is one of few remaining features from the former line running between Church Fenton and Harrogate via Wetherby. View is northerly along the A162 towards Tadcaster.

Irwell Vale: East Lancashire Railway Summer Diesel Gala 2022. Visiting locomotive 60046 'William Wilberforce' leaves Irwell Vale with the 12:30 Heywood to Rawtenstall on 30th June, the first day of the Gala.