Nigg Cattle Station: When first opened to the city in April 1850 the Aberdeen Railway Company (ARCo.) used sidings for cattle at Ferryhill Station. Anticipating that siding accommodation would not suffice for the winter traffic, later that year ARCo. proceeded to use the vacant ground beside the mainline just south of the Dee Viaduct, in Nigg Parish, as the site for their new cattle station. This had probably been used as a base for viaduct construction and had been part of Craiginches Farm. Sheds were erected there and deliveries of turnips, hay and straw were ordered for that location. Soon afterwards the local farmers, cattle-dealers and fleshers (butchers) established a tryst or weekly market at an adjacent site. However by 1859 the inconvenience of driving cattle through the city streets and crossing the Wellington (toll) Bridge from Waterloo (GNSR Co.) and Market Street (Deeside Railway Company) Stations induced the Directors to change back to having a cattle station at Ferryhill in 1860. At the time this map was surveyed the Nigg Cattle Station was still in regular use; the cattle sheds were located along the edge of Wellington Road. These would have been used for longer term keeping of livestock waiting to be transported south. The cattle sheds remained at the Nigg/Craiginches site for some years as a railway store with resident storekeeper and were later used by A&G Paterson as part of Craiginches Sawmill. Research and text by Charlie Niven. Map provided by kind permission of the National Library of Scotland. https://maps.nls.uk/copyright.html

Kentish Town: Gathered round the roundhouse at Kentish Town on 26 August 1962 are a motley crew of locos, namel Black 5 No 44688, 4F No 44210, BRCW Type 2 (later Class 27) diesel No D5379, Jubilee No 45620 'North Borneo', and another Black 5. It looks like a design for a commercial extolling the cleaning abilities of a new product called OZOO!

Harwich Town: A Community Rail Partnership has been hard at work on the terminus of the Mayflower Line at Harwich Town, seen here in May 2022.

Barking Riverside: Interior of 710273, with a London Overground GOBLIN service from Gospel Oak, displaying the new destination of Barking Riverside on 22nd July 2022.

Spean Bridge: Looking west a Spean Bridge as a 37 takes empty ballast wagons towards Fort William. The curved end of the platform is a reminder of the branch to Fort Augustus.

Summit Tunnel (Littleborough): 195119, on a Calder Valley service from Leeds to Chester, emerges from the near two mile long Summit Tunnel in July 2022. This shot into the deep cutting taken from the Rochdale to Todmorden road that crosses here over the 55yd long Summit West Tunnel.

Barking Riverside: After calling at Barking, the extended London Overground GOBLIN service runs parallel with the C2C Tilbury Loop for a considerable distance before rising on to a sinuous viaduct to cross the loop line and make its way to the new terminus at Barking Riverside. Despite the state of the windows, this is a grab shot from 710273 that is now on the extension proper, looking towards Barking Riverside, on 22nd July 2022.

Barking Riverside: Seen through a zoom lens (and a wire fence), the new London Overground station at Barking Riverside taking shape on 24th June 2021. This will be served by an extension of the London Overground GOBLIN service from its present terminus at Barking and will necessitate trains being diverted away from their present bay platform at Barking and crossing the 1959 flyover to serve the station before travelling along a short section of the Tilbury Loop to the new junction from which the Riverside line diverges,

Barking Riverside: The new London Overground viaduct, immediately outside Barking Riverside station, under construction in June 2021 ahead of opening in July 2022.

Barking Riverside: 710256 about to depart from the new London Overground GOBLIN terminus at Barking Riverside with the 12.03 service to Gospel Oak, on Friday, 22nd July 2022 which thankfully was nowhere near as hot as the stultifying 40.6C heatwave that wrecked the station's Grand Opening four days earlier. Only a handful of trains ran before the station shut up shop due to problems with the track and overhead wires caused by the heat.

Grantshouse: The site of Grantshouse station on the ECML seen from the hillside looking east in bright spring sunshine on 16 March 2004. The train is a Virgin CrossCountry service from Bournemouth destined for Edinburgh Waverley.

Turnham Green: LUL S7 stock with a District Line service to Upminster heading away from the camera as it departs from Turnham Green station, on 9th February 2019.

Ramsbottom: 26007 and 25279 await departure from Ramsbottom on the 15.30 Heywood to Rawtenstall at the ELR 2022 summer diesel gala. D8096 and D8107, part of the Locomotive Services Ltd main line fleet based at Crewe, are on the tail of the 16.00 Rawtenstall to Heywood which was being hauled by DC Rail 60046 'William Wilberforce'.

Whalley: D8107 + D8096, top and tailed with 47282, crossing Whalley Arches on the evening of 20th July 2022 with the returning 'S&C Fellsman'. They were substituting for steam due to the very dry and hot ? conditions. With plenty of power available the train was powering up the gradient, what a racket!

Heywood: Two Victorian built steam locos run round their train at Heywood prior to working back to Bury and Rawtenstall on 25th June 2022. L&YR 0-6-0ST 752 (BR 51456) and L&NWR 0-6-2T 1054 (BR 58926) had been brought together by the ELR to mark the centenary of the merger of their parent companies in 1922, one year prior to the 'Grouping'.

Crookston: Looking east at Crookston in 1990. The station had closed in 1983 and was soon burned down. Since rebuilt as a private house with passenger services restored later in 1990 but using the other platform.

Euston: The old London Euston station on 16 June 1962, and EE Type 4 (later Class 40) D308's location makes the warning on the notice pretty obvious. It's not often that spotters get a special mention!

Winchcombe: GWR 4-6-0 7820 'Dinmore Manor', in lined black livery with BR Lion on Wheel emblem, is northbound tender first out of Winchcombe during the Platinum Jubilee G&WR gala on 3rd June 2022.