West End - Princes Street [Tram]: In order to connect the Newhaven extension to the existing overhead power supply, services beyond West End were suspended from 13 to 19 February 2023. Tram 253 crosses over at West End and returns to the airport on 15 February as 258 waits its turn.
High Marnham Power Station: 66018 arrives at High Marnham, with coal from Clipstone mine, in 2002. Part of this railway from from Thoresby Junction through Ollerton is now a Network Rail test track with Tuxford being the centre of operations.
Picardy Place [Tram]: New wires going up on 15th February 2023 for the trams to Newhaven.
Wallasey Grove Road: 507013 calls at Wallasey Grove Road, first stop out of New Brighton, while heading into Liverpool on 1st February 2023. This station opened with the line as plain 'Wallasey' but Grove Road was added in 1948. 2023 will likely see the end of the 507 and 508 EMUs on Wirral Line services as the Stadler 777s are gradually introduced.
Glenoglehead Crossing: Glenoglehead Crossing in a 1993 view looking to Killin Junction. The railway cottage survives as a private house but the late station building, which was closer where the tree arch is, has gone.
Maida Vale: Exterior of Maida Vale station, Elgin Avenue side, LU Bakerloo Line, on 28th January 2023. This section of line opened with the extension from Paddington to Kilburn Park on 31st January 1915, extended one stop to Queens Park and a connection with the LNWR on 11th February 1915. Trains passed Maida Vale until this opened on 6th June 1915 and made history by being the first Underground station to be staffed entirely by women. It was designed by Stanley Heaps (1880-1962) who took his inspiration from his predecessor, Leslie W. Green, who had died in 1908 aged only 34.
Cameron Bridge [1st]: Looking west from Station Road bridge on 4 February. Since my last visit on 13 January (image 84005) the last track panels have been removed and only a battered ground frame remains. Ground preparations continue in the background.
Whifflet North Junction: 20212 and 20227 with a Thornton Junction to Mossend freight seen at Whifflet North Junction in 1986. 20212 was scrapped in 1993 but 20227, the last EE Type 1 built, is preserved and main line registered, lately to be seen in London Transport livery.
Leigh: Much of the network of lines and stations around Leigh has vanished without trace since closure. This is the location of Leigh station itself, which closed with the 'Tyldesley Loop' in 1969. The guided busway follows the rail route into the town but the old line and the station were on an embankment that has been swept away. The buildings on the right are on the site of the goods yard and beyond here the line of the route has disappeared under town centre developments.
Appleby: 46115 'Scots Guardsman' powers along with 1Z87 Carlisle - Euston 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' on the approach to Appleby at Keld.
Wimbledon: Exterior of Wimbledon station on 27th January 2023. This was rebuilt by the Southern Railway in the late 1920s in connection with the opening of the Wimbledon & Sutton Line between Wimbledon and South Merton in 1929, completed to Sutton in 1930.
West Renfrew Engineering and Shipbuilding Works: This is a view taken in 2000 looking to the east over the site of shipyards in Renfrew. The former fitting out basin and buildings on the right were the West Renfrew shipyard of Lobnitz & Co Ltd's shipyard. Just beyond were the London Works of William Simons & Co Ltd. The companies merged to become Simons-Lobnitz Ltd. Both works were served by the Paisley and Renfrew Railway with sidings which ran out from Meadowside Junction (and a second connection from the West Renfrew works ran from Blythswood Signal Box on the Glasgow and Renfrew District Railway). The site of Renfrew Wharf station was close to the small oil works in the distance.
Coltness Cement Works: Looking along the disused Coltness branch in 2001. Costain's concrete sleeper plant had closed the previous year. I don't know why a new switch assembly was lying there.
Balornock Shed: 30 March 1963 and Ex-NBR J36 No 65287 is at St Rollox shed awaiting its next turn of duty. This loco and sister 65285 had cut down chimneys and boiler mountings for operating on the Gartsherrie branch.
St Columb Road: The preserved, and only main line certificated Western Class 52, 1015 'Western Champion' is seen at St Columb Road on its way to Newquay in March 2005.