Carnforth: A 'Blue Pullman' training or test run on 26th January 2023 saw 43059 and 43047 take an empty short set on a return trip from Crewe to Carlisle, seen passing through Carnforth heading north.

Edinburgh Waverley: North side platforms 19 and 20 at Waverley on the afternoon of 31 January 2023. The 1530 LNER service to London Kings Cross stands alongside the 1518 ScotRail service to Cowdenbeath.

Garriongill Junction: This was Garriongill Junction (1848), the start of the Caledonian Railway, seen in a view looking west in 1987. The Caley met the older Wishaw and Coltness Railway here (this part opening about 1842), using its metals to get closer to Glasgow. The W&CR route to Coltness can be seen on the left. Yards developed here on both lines. The bridge, which has since been replaced, carried the Wishaw Deviation (1880) over the top of the W&CR. The junction has been taken out after abandonment of the Watsonhead coal loading pad.

Lancaster: This is the stone staircase, now sadly disused, that leads from Platform 6 at Lancaster up to the ticket hall and east side entrance. The top of the staircase is partitioned off but with a secured access door. The platform has not been used since the electric service to Morecambe and Heysham via Green Ayre was withdrawn in 1966, although freight trains from Lancaster Power Station could still use the line through the platform until the early 1970s WCML electrification altered the station track layout. Photographed during a supervised visit.

Carstairs South Junction: 805001 nears Carstairs South Junction, with an Oxley to Glasgow Central test run for Avanti West Coast, on 7th February 2023.

Loughborough Central: LMSR 8F 2-8-0 48305 static in Loughborough Central station, with crew in attendance, on 25th January 2023.

Dalry: This view looks south at Dalry, probably taken shortly before the closure of the route to Kilmarnock in 1973. The box closed in 1986 and the station was rebuilt for the electrification of the Ayr Line.

Aberdeen: 60009 and the 'Bon Accord' at the Aberdeen buffers on 13 April 1974. Dig those groovy beards and hairstyles...

Cheadle Hulme: On 11th January 2023, the only dry vantage point at Cheadle Hulme was the covered footbridge. 323228 takes the Stoke line at the junction and calls with a stopping service. See image [[83630]] taken on a brighter day.

Kincardine: A consignment of coal from Hunterston Import Terminal approaching its destination on 8 September 2008. EWS 66083 is skirting the north shore of the Forth shortly after clearing Kincardine Bridge on the approach to Longannet power station.

Seafield Harbour: A hovercraft approaches the beach at Kirkcaldy on 27 July 2007, during a two week demonstration of a potential commuter service to Edinburgh, sponsored by Stagecoach. Whilst popular, the trial was not progressed. A new proposal may come to fruition in 2023, using three craft. In the background to this picture are the shattered remains of Seafield Harbour, once meant to rival Burntisland for the export of coal but fatally damaged by storms before completion. It would have been served by a branch off the Kirkcaldy District Railway.

Eisenerz: A 1970 shot of the locomotive described by Railscot contributor Bill Jamieson as possibly the most exotic to appear on Railscot (Image [[41170]]). It is OBB 0-12-0 tank 197.303, built in 1912 for the standard-gauge rack-assisted Erzbergbahn in Austria's Styrian Alps. She was photographed on shed at Eisenerz.

Aachen: Train D318 on the right from Koln to Ostend waits to depart from Aachen in July 1990 with an SNCB electric loco on the front.

Bodmin Parkway: 43142 to London Paddington, arriving at Bodmin Parkway, formerly known as Bodmin Road, on 30th May 2015. The junction for the heritage Bodmin & Wenford Railway which was the reason I and another friend were here on this day, courtesy of a UK Railtours' excursion which continued on to Par.