Rokolya Utca: Budapest Tram no. 4319, one of a fleet of CKD Tatra T5C5K2M vehicles built in Prague for the network, calls at a stop on Route 14 on 6th September 2023. The first trams, horse drawn, in Budapest ran in 1866 with the first electrified line inaugurating twenty one years later. Rokolya Utca stop. Coming from Devai Utca and going to Level ter M terminus.
Bullers O' Buchan Halt: The short lived Bullers O' Buchan Halt (1899-1932), on the Boddam Branch, is in the bottom left hand corner of this 25inch map extract. Presumably it was hoped to cater for tourists visiting 'The Pot', a collapsed sea cave with a natural arch, that is still an attraction today. The single platform had a short path from the road, on the embankment that has since been removed leaving just that on the north side of the bridge. Added by Mark Bartlett. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland http://maps.nls.uk/index.html
Bullers O' Buchan Halt: This view of the site of Bullers O' Buchan Halt, on the former Boddam Branch, was taken from alongside 'The Pot', a collapsed sea cave with a natural arch that is a tourist attraction, although on this windy October day there were only two cars on the car park. The tiny former fishing village of Bullers of Buchan can be seen in its entirety in this picture, so it is likely that the halt was opened in the hope of attracting tourist traffic. It was sited on a continuation of the embankment on the right, beyond the surviving bridge abutment, but closed in 1932.
Cowdenbeath North Junction: A Fife Circle train is seen passing north through Cowdenbeath North Junction. The view looks south. The line off to the left is the 1919 Cowdenbeath North Junction to Lumphinnans Junction connection. On the right is the closed Cowdenbeath to Kelty line of 1890. It closed as a through route to Perth in 1970, was reduced to a single track and closed altogether in 1972 with the closure of Kelty Coup. The train is coming off the remaining part of the line opened in 1890 from Cowdenbeath South Junction to Kelty. The Forth Bridge can be seen in the distance at the top of the photograph.
Forest Gate: 345002, Elizabeth Line to Shenfield, arriving at Forest Gate in east London, at 10.58 on Tuesday, 14th November 2023. The main line platforms, not usually served by stopping trains, are out of view on the right.
Glenmark [NZ]: Built by English Electric, in Queensland in 1966, this 3'6'' gauge 1012 HP diesel electric locomotive is awaiting departure time at the southern terminus of the Weka Pass Railway at Glenmark, Waipara, approximately 40 miles north of Christchurch in New Zealand's South Island. Immaculately restored by its owners, the Diesel Traction Group, it is one of five EE locomotives in their care, the others being products of Vulcan Foundry and Preston works.
Oban: Type 2 diesels at Oban in the early nineteen sixties. The NBL version did not remain in service for long, but the BRCW one (subsequently Class 27) proved more reliable and continued until replacement by Class 37s at the end of the nineteen seventies.
Parkhouse Halt: Parkhouse Halt station in July 1969. Situated just north of Carlisle on the Waverley Route it opened in 1941 to serve Carlisle RAF Maintenance Unit and closed in January 1969.
New Brighton: Merseyrail class 507 EMU 507014 rests at New Brighton on 14 November 2023. I travelled on it from Birkenhead North and then, after the layover, through to Hamilton Square on the 15.38 departure to Liverpool Central.
Kelty South Junction: Looking south, about half way between Kelty South Junction (behind the camera) and Cowdenbeath North Junction. The line ran, roughly, along the green strip on the right, diagonally across the next field and off to just left of top centre, where it then curved round right to the junction and Cowdenbeath.
Cameron Bridge [1st]: 20211 and 20179 engage in shunting at Cameron Bridge in 1990. In the background is the distillery's English Electric 0-6-0 DH shunter.