Luton DART Parkway: Having travelled on the first train of the new Luton Airport DART Railway on its first day of service, Friday, 10th March 2023, after arriving back I decided on one more trip to the airport before going home. This is the view from the rear of the unit, on the substantial bridge over a motorway link road, with the haulage cable clearly visible.

Thoresby Colliery: 60081 has left Thoresby Colliery Junction heading for the loading bunker at Thoresby with empty MGR wagons from Toton in 2002. Photographed from the A6078 Ollerton Road bridge the short branch was pretty inaccessible. There was no run round facility at the mine and the loaded train would propel back to Thoresby Junction! Thoresby was the last deep mine left working in Nottinghamshire but has since closed.

Dirleton: Looking back from a North Berwick to Edinburgh EMU as it passes the site of Dirleton station in February 2023. The goods siding here closed in 1959, five years after the last passenger train called, but the loading dock survives in what is now the garden of a house.

[Pitnappie Junction]: An unexpected surprise just north west of Pitnappie on the Newtyle deviation - a short length of re-laid track in a much tidied up cutting at Millhole. The three arch bridge is rather impressive in this view which looks east. The original course of the Dundee and Newtyle Railway was at the top of the cutting on the far side of the bridge, the two alignments meeting off in the distance to the right.

Paisley Gilmour Street: Standard 2-6-4 tank No 80054 (of Hornby Dublo fame) makes a smoky entry to Paisley Gilmour Street on 8 April 1966 with a train from Gourock. Note the partly hidden Stoneybrae signal box in the background.

Inverkeithing East Junction: 47614 and D1935 (47853 and 47805) climb away from Inverkeithing East Junction towards Dalgety Bay with the 'Lord of the Isles Statesman' from Rugby to Inverness on 11 March 2023.

Luton DART Parkway: View from Luton Airport DART Railway train approaching Luton DART Parkway, on the line's first day of service, Friday, 10th March 2023. Just visible at lower left is Luton Airport Parkway station with a class 700 unit on a Thameslink service waiting to depart south towards St. Pancras International.

Mytholmes Viaduct: KWVR Steam Gala. 45690 'Leander' and 45596 'Bahamas' double head the 14:40 Keighley to Oxenhope crossing Mytholmes viaduct on the second day of the Steam Gala.

Newtyle [1st]: The east side of the old Newtyle station trainshed, later goods shed, seen in 2023, surrounded by rubble and fenced off. After having spent some time in agricultural use, the building is planned to undergo conversion into six dwellings.

Lock 5 Ribble Link: The Ribble Link, opened as recently as 2002, at long last joined the isolated Lancaster Canal to the rest of the mainland canal network, albeit via the challenging tidal River Douglas, Ribble Estuary and Savick Brook. The link follows a canalised Savick Brook but being of recent construction there is no tow path. This is Lock 5, one of eight on the four mile navigation.

Cameron Bridge [1st]: Looking west over Cameron Bridge (1st) on 10 March 2023, with materials being assembled on site.

Taff's Well: I last visited Taff's Well to view progress on the new Metro EMU depot in August 2019. There was no sign of work then. This time - March 2023 - my flabber was gasted, so I stopped half way across the very traditional riveted steel footbridge to take this shot of the south end of the main building. It was raining, presumably to ensure the continued greenness of the Valleys.

Blaenant Mine: 37896 passing the site of the once Blaenant loading point, where there was also a block post and loading siding, in May 1996. Blaenant mine shut in 1989. 37896 is en route with the Cawood containers to Swansea Dock having been loaded at Onllwyn with coal for Northern Ireland. These containers were a regular sight for a while and loaded at many different locations.