Peterborough: A4 Pacific no 60009 'Union of South Africa' at Peterborough on 24 October 1964 with the 7.50am Kings Cross - Newcastle Central RCTS/SLS Jubilee Requiem. The 10-coach special was run to mark the demise of A4 workings over the route. See image [[29900]]

Lamesley: A hard working Q6 0-8-0 trundles north towards Gateshead at Lamesley with a coal train on 24 October 1964.

Gateshead Shed: Gresley V2 2-6-2 60891 stabled in the Chaytor's Bank sidings alongside Gateshead shed on 24 October 1964, just over a week after its official withdrawal by BR. The locomotive was cut up at Darlington Works by the end of the year.

Kings Cross: 60009 Union of South Africa at Kings Cross on 24 October 1964 with the 7.50am RCTS/SLS 'Jubilee Requiem' special to Newcastle Central. The train was run to mark the end of scheduled A4 operations over the East Coast Main Line between the 2 cities. See image [[29900]]

Gateshead Shed: A3 no 60051 Blink Bonny photographed in the Pacific shed (originally part of the old tender shop) at Gateshead on 24 October 1964. The locomotive was withdrawn by BR the following month.

Gateshead Shed: North Eastern line up inside the repair shop at Gateshead on 24 October 1964 with 65791 nearest the camera on the left, 65832 beyond that and 63455 at the end of the line.

Lamesley: A4 Pacific no 60009 Union of South Africa passing Lamesley on its way north with The Jubilee Requiem in October 1964. The RCTS/SLS 10-coach special, a Kings Cross - Newcastle return working, was run to mark the end of the A4s over this route. See image [[22334]]

Gateshead Shed: Leeds Holbeck Black 5 no 45079 stands in the shed yard at Gateshead in October 1964 alongside 52A's A3 Pacific no 60071 'Tranquil'. View is east towards Greensfield with the original Chaytor's Bank roundhouse visible in the right background.

Gateshead Shed: Gresley V3 No 67643 on shed at Gateshead in October 1964.

Newcastle Central: 60009 Union of South Africa stands at Newcastle Central on 24 October 1964 following arrival from Kings Cross with the RCTS/SLS Jubilee Requiem. The special, which had arrived via the High Level Bridge, marked the end of A4 running on the London - Newcastle route. See image [[22334]]

Gateshead Shed: 67628 at Gateshead Shed on 24 October 1964.

Edinburgh Princes Street: Steam to spare in the shadows at Edinburgh's Princes Street station on 24 October 1964. In the middle distance a pair of Black 5s prepares to take out the 10.10am to Birmingham New Street, while in the foreground a driver walks back through the murk towards the train engine for the 9.30am to Manchester Victoria standing at the adjacent platform.

Invergordon: No, not the long-haul express freight to the Midland Region which the headcode might imply, but rather the shorter than usual 16.10 Invergordon-Inverness trip freight heading south on 24th October 1972. Standing out in the consist are four wagons of aluminium blocks from the smelter, four alumina hoppers for Fort William via Cadder Yard (330 miles!), plus two Speedfreight containers and two tank containers from the Invergordon Distillery.

Fearn: The passenger station may have been deserted but Fearn's freight sidings were awash with traffic - seed potatoes and offshore oil pipes - on 24th October 1972.

Alness: The daily Lairg-Inverness trip freight, hauled by a Class 24, approaches the site of the soon to be re-opened Alness station on 24th October 1972.

Ditchingham: Some 11 years after the last train of sand trucks had left, Ditchingham station had become rather neglected and a washing line had been strung out along the platform by the inhabitants. In common with neighboring stations on the Waveney Valley line, the building did not survive beyond 1982 when the route of the A143 took over the trackbed.

Ferryhill MPD: A Class 27 stands in the shed yard at Aberdeen, Ferryhill, in October 1981.

Newcastle Central: Goods and parcels bays at the west end of Newcastle Central in 1981. See image [[9461]]

Dundee: Gloucester RC&W Co class 122 single railcar SC55007 standing at Dundee on 24 October 1981.

Dundee West MPD: 06005 and 06006 standing alongside Dundee West diesel depot on 24 October 1981. See image [[4780]]

Newcastle West Junction: K1 2005 + 5MT 4767 George Stephenson leave Newcastle Central on 24 October 1981 for the Tyne Valley (via Scotswood) on a railtour.

Newcastle West Junction: K1 no 2005 double heads Black 5 no 44767 out of Newcastle on the Carlisle route on 24 October 1981. The train is the NELPG 15th Anniversary Tour which had originated from Middlesbrough.

Montrose: Montrose station sees 55015 Tulyar posing for the photographers on 24 October 1981 with the Deltic Preservation Society railtour The Deltic Salute.

Tay Bridge: 55015 Tulyar takes the Deltic Salute railtour onto the Tay Bridge on 24 October 1981.

Dundee: Class 26 in platform 2 bay at Dundee on 24 October 1981.

Carlisle: Class 85 mixed traffic electric loco 85108 stabled alongside the west wall to the stabling sidings by Platform 1 at Carlisle Citadel station in October 1990

Bo'ness: Photograph taken during the SRPS Gala on 24 October 1993. A2 60532 Blue Peter and A4 60009 Union of South Africa stand side by side at Boness station.

Bo'ness: Scene at Boness during the SRPS 1993 October Gala, featuring A2 60532 Blue Peter and ex-Clyde's Mill Power Station No 3 see image [[33865]].

Bo'ness: Preserved A2 Pacific no 60532 Blue Peter at Boness in October 1993.

Eastfield TMD: Eastfield looking south.

Haughhead Junction: Looking east over Haughhead Junction. The Larkhall branch junction is being laid in.

Poniel Junction: Poniel Junction looking east in 2004, with the [[Muirkirk and Lesmahagow Junction Railway]] branching off to the left and the Caledonian's main Muirkirk line to the right.

Kirknewton [NER]: The former station at Kirknewton, Northumberland, on the Wooler branch. Closed to passengers in September 1930, the building is now a private residence. View south toward Wooler in October 2006.

Wooler: The old goods shed at Wooler, photographed from the A697 on 24 October 2006. The building had recently been taken over by an antiques dealer. See image [[47596]]

Berwick-upon-Tweed: The 11.53 Virgin CrossCountry service to Bournemouth ready to leave Berwick on 24 October 2006.

Berwick-upon-Tweed: Berwick station has always had an up-market look about it. The recent reorganisation of the station approach and general surroundings has further improved its appearance. October 2006.

Berwick-upon-Tweed: ECML service leaving Berwick for the south in October 2006. View from the new pedestrian entrance from Castlegate Bridge installed as part of the reorganisation project.

Akeld: Not often I find myself lost for words... the former Akeld station on the Cornhill branch. October 2006.

Royal Border Bridge: A London - Edinburgh train rumbles over the Royal Border Bridge in October 2006 as it slows for the Berwick stop.

Berwick-upon-Tweed: A GNER Waverley - London Kings Cross service arriving at Berwick on 24 October 2006, passing the abandoned bay on the north side of the station.

Berwick-upon-Tweed: Car park and approach to Berwick station one year on, with new road and pedestrian access completed, bus turning circle installed, taxi ranks and reorganised car parking in place. Scene outside the station in October 2006. See image [[4771]]

Kirknewton [NER]: The former station at Kirknewton, on the Wooler branch, looking north along the platform towards Coldstream in October 2006.

Bendor Level Crossing: What a pleasant surprise. A signal box still standing alongside the site of Bendor level crossing just to the east of Akeld station in October 2006.

Wooler: Looking as good as ever - the old station building at Wooler. October 2006.

Doncaster: View looks north-west.

Doncaster: 66242 heading south. View looks south-west.

Doncaster: Looking south.

Doncaster: Looking north.

Doncaster: Looking south from the south end of the station.

Doncaster: Looking south west - works on the right. (Note the West Coast
Railway company class 33).

Doncaster: Looking north-west at the Works.

Doncaster: looking north-east at the empty bay platforms (the train in the northbound platform has just terminated due to a bridge strike on the line towards Leeds hence all the people milling around wondering if they will ever get home!)

Scremerston: The former station at Scremerston, Northumberland on the ECML, photographed in October 2006.

Goswick: The former Goswick station alongside the ECML in Northumberland, photographed in 2006.

Kirknewton [NER]: The surviving stone signal box at the south end of the platform at Kirknewton on the Wooler branch. Viewed from the roadside in October 2006. The station building still stands off to the left and is now a private residence. See image [[11840]] [Ref query 1004]

Romford: 321303, in the single bay platform at Romford, awaiting departure for Upminster on 24th October 2019. This was previously a separate station, opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1893, to the Eastern Counties (later GER) station that is on the opposite side of the road bridge but the two are now linked by a footbridge and treated as one station. Conversion of this line into a guided busway in the 1970s happily never occurred and it is now an isolated section of the London Overground.

Nuneaton Abbey Street: The stone block forecourt is on the South side, the station master's house is on the North side - not much in between since 1969 or so.

Newark North Gate: Dusk at Newark Northgate sees East Midlands Trains 153310 just arrived at the island platform of this rebuilt and modernised station. This view looks south along the East Coast Main Line.

Harold Wood : 315858, from Liverpool Street to Shenfield, arriving at Harold Wood station in Essex (the most easterly station within the London Fare Zones), on 24th October 2009. The line here opened in 1840 but Harold Wood station was not opened until 1st September 1868 by the Eastern Counties' successor, the Great Eastern Railway and was rebuilt in 1934 when the line was quadrupled between Romford and Shenfield, including the notorious Brentwood Bank.

Chadwell Heath: 315839, with a stopping service from Shenfield to Liverpool Street, arriving at Chadwell Heath on 24th October 2009. This service should have been running all the way to Reading via the Crossrail tunnels under central London from December 2018 but, as we all know, this didn't open on time and promises to open in the autumn of 2019 were also not met. The latest proposed opening date was then within a window of autumn 2020 and spring 2021 but now it looks like it might be 2022 before it opens, this time the coronavirus pandemic providing a good excuse for yet more delays.

Chadwell Heath: 315852, with a stopping service from Liverpool Street to Shenfield, departing from Chadwell Heath on 24th October 2009. The line here was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1839 and became the Great Eastern Railway on 1st January 1862 and it was the GER that opened Chadwell Heath station on 11th January 1864. The platforms on the fast tracks, out of view on the right, are no longer in use. On weekdays, this is a busy commuter station in this fully built up area of Essex, now part of Greater east London. This service is now operated as TfL Rail with new class 345 units and which will eventually become part of Crossrail, that should have opened in December 2018. But as of July 2021, there is still no firm date for its opening.

Harold Wood: Harold Wood station, Essex, originally opened in 1868 and rebuilt with four platforms in 1934 during the final quadrupling of the line between Romford and Shenfield, seen here looking east in the rain on 24th October 2009. The platforms on the fast tracks (right) are no longer in use and, since this photo was taken, the down fast on the right hand side of the central island platform has been fenced off from the up slow on the left.

Carlisle: The fireman of 46115 Scots Guardsman (who seems to be kitted out with a pristine pair of outsize 'Marigold' washing-up gloves!) gazes out from the cab at Carlisle on 24 October 2009. 46115 had worked The Hadrian charter (which had originated in Leicester) from Hellifield and would take it on to York via Hexham.

Harold Wood: The main entrance building on the road overbridge at the west end of Harold Wood station, Essex, on 24th October 2009. The station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1934 when the LNER, the GER's successor, completed the quadrupling of the line from Romford to Shenfield. The entrance dates from that time.

Nuneaton Abbey Street: This waiting shelter on the North side (towards Nuneaton) is very well preserved, considering every other building on Abbey St. has been demolished. It is easier to see from a train than on foot!

Carnforth: Still TOPS registered but confined to the West Coast yard at Carnforth is shunter 08418. Its EWS red and gold livery is perhaps better described as pink and yellow but it is kept busy moving stock and locomotives around the complex. Its a long time since the old shed was known as Steamtown.

Carnforth: The last two stored Class 20s were towed away from Carnforth on 15 November 2011 to Barrow Hill. 20311 and 20314 were purchased by Harry Needle from DRS for further main line work. They were at Carnforth for many months and are pictured on the storage line there on 24 October 2011. Note the two different DRS blue liveries. 20314 and 20311 subsequently re-emerged from the workshops in HNRC orange livery See image [[48833]].

Carnforth: A new face has apppeared on the stored loco line at Carnforth in the shape of 57005, which was transferred here from Gloucester where it had been stored after the demise of Advenza Freight. The loco was previously with Freightliner and before conversion was numbered 47350. It remains to be seen what will happen to it now it is with West Coast Railways.

Musselburgh: ScotRail's latest barrel-train at Musselburgh Station has been adopted by Musselburgh Rotary to mark the 25th anniversary of the station's opening on 1 October 1988.

Girvan Harbour: View upriver on 24 October showing, on the north bank of the river, the site of the coal chutes from which rail wagons were unloaded into ships, There were sidings here reached via Girvan Goods. See image [[24815]]

Redbridge Viaduct: Looking south along the Black Path towards the Red Bridge at Galashiels on 24 October 2013. Beyond stands Tweedbank with the Eildon Hills on the horizon. Photographed from the temporary path recently put in place to bypass the bridge works on Winston Road see image [[42351]] part of which is currently closed and inaccessible.

Fountainhall: A relatively common sight for drivers on the A7 between Galashiels and Edinburgh these days is the tent-like white encapsulation material covering some of the 140 bridges along the Borders Railway route. Inside these covers, the work of blasting, painting, restoring and strengthening goes on in all weathers. The two examples shown here were photographed looking west from the roadside on 24 October.

Edinburgh Waverley: DB-liveried 90018 with the London sleeper at Waverley on the evening of 24 October.

Redbridge Viaduct: The currently closed Winston Road in Galashiels, on 24 October 2013, looking north west over the section of road that once bridged the Waverley route. The trackbed follows the re-excavated cutting beyond in the general direction of Galashiels station see image [[44759]].

Redbridge Viaduct: 'We've got WHAT...?' Sign on the Red Bridge, Galashiels, 24 October 2013.

Glasgow Central: Late afternoon across the platforms at Glasgow Central from the adjacent Jurys Hotel. A class 380 has just crossed the Clyde and two classmates stand on the right.

Gorebridge: Ongoing work on the Waverley trackbed south of Gorebridge station on 24 October 2013, looking towards Fushiebridge from Lady Brae Road.

Gorebridge: 'Waste of time washing the car this morning...' Southbound through Gorebridge on 24 October 2013.

Redbridge Viaduct: Looking north towards Winston Road, Galashiels, in October 2013 with the River Tweed behind the camera. Work is underway on the re-excavation and replacement of the infilled bridge that had once carried the road over the Waverley Route, part of which has been revealed in the centre of the picture. For a view of progress in May 2014 see image [[47848]].

Dorchester West: Looking north along the platform at Dorchester West on 24 October 2014 as 150101 calls with a Weymouth to Gloucester service.

Bowshank Tunnel: Close up of the new bridge over the Gala Water at the south end of Bowshank Tunnel looking essentially complete on 24 October 2014. Note also the twin 200m runs of slab track emerging from the south portal of the tunnel.

Galashiels [1st]: Work continuing on the new railway bridge taking the Borders Railway over Currie Road, Galashiels, on 24 October 2014. View north west towards Galashiels station.

Bowshank Tunnel: Activity around the south portal of Bowshank Tunnel on 24 October 2014 seen from alongside the A7. 'Slab track' has already been laid through the 200m tunnel (provided as 'passive provision' for possible future electrification). The double track route through the tunnel is part of a 6.4km dynamic passing loop on the new Borders Railway. See image [[49398]]

Dorchester South: South West Trains 444034 calls at Dorchester South on 24 October 2014 with a Weymouth to Waterloo service.

Redbridge Viaduct: The rebuilt bridge that will carry Winston Road over the Borders Railway, looking north west along the re-excavated cutting on 24 October 2014. The replacement pedestrian pathway will start top left and run in parallel with the line as far as the south end of the Red Bridge [[65717]]. Galafoot Lane footbridge crosses the formation in the background.

Redbridge Viaduct: Almost there. View south west over Winston Road bridge, Galashiels, on 24 October 2014. The bridge is scheduled to open to traffic by the end of the month. See image [[49194]]

Newtongrange: Early afternoon sunshine catches the front of Freightliner 66605 with a Borders Railway ballast train at Newtongrange on 24 October 2014. Sister locomotive 66602 is on the other end of the train. View north towards the Firth of Forth.

Newtongrange: Scene at Newtongrange on the Borders Railway on 24 October 2014, one week after the passage of the tracklaying train. Approaching into the sun is Freightliner 66605 at the head of a ballast train, with 66602 bringing up the rear. The train is passing below the A7 and through the site of what will become Newtongrange station. The station would welcome its first fare paying passengers less than 11 months later, on Sunday 6 September 2015 see image [[52489]]. The bright sunshine is also illuminating the wind turbines at the top of the picture, which are part of Earlseat Wind Farm in Fife, approximately 18 miles to the north.

Dumfries: Trompe l'oeil paintings at Dumfries station on 24 October 2014 see image [[10436]].

Kilnknowe Junction: The northern approach to Galashiels on 24 October 2014, showing the bridge over Wheatlands Road.

Tweedbank: Looking north from the buffer stops at Tweedbank terminus towards Galashiels on 24 October 2014, with platform construction work well underway. The trackbed of the original Waverley route runs along the far side of the fence on the left.

Galashiels: The new transport interchange at Galashiels under construction on 24 October 2014, view east across Stirling Street.

Tweedbank: Scene at Tweedbank terminus on 24 October 2014, with platform construction well underway beyond the stockpiles of concrete sleepers.

Redbridge Viaduct: The bridge built to carry the Waverley route over the River Tweed between Galashiels and Tweedbank, seen here looking south in October 2014. Following closure of the railway in 1969 the structure became part of a busy pedestrian link between the two locations known locally as 'the black path'. The scene shows work in progress in connection with the new Borders Railway, on completion of which trains would share the crossing with pedestrians, cyclists ...and bats! (See image [[45114]])

Galashiels [1st]: The new railway bridge under construction spanning Currie Road, Galashiels. Photographed on 24 October 2014 looking south east towards Tweedbank, with the Eildon Hills visible in the right background.

Dorchester South: Platform scene at Dorchester South on 24 October 2014 as SWT emu 444004 calls at platform 2 with a Waterloo to Weymouth service.

Dorchester West: First Great Western DMU 150101 approaching Dorchester West on 24 October 2014 with a Weymouth to Gloucester service.

Bowshank Tunnel: Wide view of the Waverley trackbed on the approach to Bowshank Tunnel, 4 miles to the north of Galashiels, on 24 October 2014. In addition to the tunnel itself, work is also taking place on the bridge over the Gala Water near the tunnel's south portal. The complex project had its problems, though none so devastating as that which befell many of those in the 300-strong navvy encampment located here in February 1849, as the original construction works were drawing to a close, at which point the camp suffered a fatal cholera outbreak.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: The unprepossessing Millenium Hotel extension currently completely obscures the roof of the station when viewed from George Square. It is due to be demolished in the refurbishment of the station which will see platforms extended into the present concourse.

Glasgow Queen Street High Level: All but hidden by the dreadful building presently in front. the south face of the roof of Glasgow Queen Street station may yet be seen again from George Square during the renovation work. It should be visible from within the new concourse on completion of the refurbishment work.

Abington: The Northern Bell on a Manchester Victoria to Edinburgh excursion approaches Abington taken on Saturday the 24th of October.

Coatbridge Central: The empty coaching stock movement from Fort William to Carnforth on the Saturday the 24th of October passing through Coatbridge Central some two hours late.

Arbroath: DRS 66426 runs through Arbroath on 24 October 2016 at the head of the 1223 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal.

Cardross: The 'Leaf Train' at a standstill as the driver has to get out in order to remove a particularly tricky leaf.

Glasgow Central: A fun day was held at Glasgow Central on the 29th of October.

Inverkeithing East Junction: 66746 passes Inverkeithing East Junction with the 'Royal Scotsman' from Dundee to Edinburgh on 24th October, possibly the last run of 2017.

Dunbar: Micropub at Dunbar Station; due to open in the former Foggie's coal merchants in December.

Whitby: 61264 arrives at the Whitby Co-op, er, station on the 24th October 2017.

Livingston North: An Edinburgh service pulls into Livingston North on 24th October 2017. On the day this station opened, 31 years and 7 months previously, I stood on the far platform, then the only one. see image [[18408]]. The scene is unrecognisable. Livingston South however still has the same temporary look that it had when it opened, around the same time.

Whitby: Sage advice at Whitby station.

Falkirk Grahamston: On 24 October 2018 a 158 re-enters Falkirk Grahamston station to return to Glasgow Queen Street while a 170 pulls out on a Dunblane to Edinburgh service. Pretty soon this will be an all-electric scene.

Cogan: 66115 leads the RHTT 'leaf train' through Cogan heading towards Barry and its final destination of the day at Margam on 24th October 2018. 66185 was on the rear. [Ref query 17 January 2019]

Pencoed: Pacer 143609, traversing Pencoed level crossing, with a Cheltenham Spa to Maesteg service in October 2018.

Cogan: 66185 brings up the rear as 66115 takes the leaf train through the tight curves of Cogan heading west towards Barry on 24th October 2018.

Pencoed: A Cheltenham Spa to Maesteg Pacer powered service departs Pencoed in October 2018.

Polmont: A Glasgow to Edinburgh service calls at Polmont on 24 October 2018. Not only do you get the destination, but the calling points, frozen in time. I'd like to claim that was deliberate. When the Class 385 rollout is complete 4-car 365s will transfer to newly electrified locals.

Pencoed: 175109 runs through the staggered platforms of Pencoed, with a Fishguard Harbour to Manchester Picadilly service, on 24th October 2018.

Grangetown: New 'Transport For Wales' branding on a Class 143 Pacer at Grangetown on 24th October 2018. The script on the lead coach is in Welsh and on the rear in English.

Grangetown: Merthyr Tydfil / Barry Island services cross paths at Grangetown on 24th October 2018.

Llanharan: A Class 175 DMU runs through Llanharan with the 1V35 Manchester Picadilly to Carmarthen service in October 2018.

Grangetown: The entrance to the island platform at Grangetown station, seen on 24th October 2018.

Lancaster: Testing of Northern's new CAF EMUs and DMUs continues on the WCML ahead of a planned introduction to public service in December 2018. Here brand new 3-car DMU 195105 drops down the bank towards Lancaster station during round trips between Carnforth and Preston on 24th October.

Falkirk High: An Edinburgh service rounds the curve into Falkirk High on 24 October 2018. 365s are doing the bulk of the work on the EGML at the moment, but the plan is to put them on newly electified locals when the the 385 rollout is complete.

Cogan: TFW Pacer 143608, on a Barry Island to Pontypridd service, pulls away from the platform at Cogan on 24th October 2018. At one time there were four running lines here.

Llanharan: An IEP800 set runs through Llanharan with a Swansea to London Paddington service on 24th October 2018.

Kirkcaldy: The morning CrossCountry Aberdeen to Penzance service calls at Kirkcaldy on 24 October 2018 after a necessarily lengthy announcement (think what it is like at Aberdeen). I wonder how many people make the 13 hour 23 minute journey all the way? Probably more than attempt it with the 5 changes suggested as an alternative online.

Cogan: Seen from the platform at Cogan, a Penarth to Rhymney service crosses Cogan Junction heading towards Cardiff on 24th October 2018.

Carstairs: Edinburgh to Glasgow Central service at Carstairs on the afternoon of 24 October 2018. For all its charms Carstairs station is not a place you want to be stuck at for 4 hours so I before I got off I checked that my return service due in 20 minutes was running...

Grangetown: 150254, on a Rhymney to Penarth service, enters Grangetown station on 24th October 2018.

Lancaster: Freightliner 90042 and 90044 begin the climb of the bank to the south of Lancaster station with a Coatbridge to Daventry intermodal on 24th October 2018. The train is just about to pass under Ashton Road by Ripley St. Thomas school.

Emerson Park: Emerson Park on the Romford to Upminster branch, looking towards Romford, on 24th October 2019. This short branch line was opened by the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway in 1893 but Emerson Park Halt did not open until 1909 and despite the UK-wide abolition of the term 'halt' by British Rail in the 1970s, here the word Halt appeared on running-in boards until quite recent times. On 31st May 2015 this line, somewhat curiously, became a completely detached part of the London Overground network.

Morningside [Edinburgh]: A familiar sight for railway photographers, this view shows the entrance to the footbridge over the South Sub between Balcarres Street (behind camera) and the lane leading to Maxwell Street. Despite the fact that this bridge was built in association with the railway it was not a station footbridge; its function was and still is to preserve the right-of-way between South Morningside and North Morningside.

Emerson Park: 321303 heading away from the camera as it departs for Romford from Emerson Park on 24th October 2019. The station was formerly called Emerson Park Halt and is the only stop on the short single track line between Upminster and Romford in Essex, and an isolated part of the London Overground network since May 2015. In the 1970s there were proposals to convert this line, first to a guided busway and then to a road for all traffic (that would have required serious widening). Thankfully both these mad schemes were confined to the planners' wastepaper bins before the ink was dry on the proposal documents.

Crooklands Wharf: The main water supply for the Lancaster Canal comes from the reservoir at Killington Lake, near the motorway services of the same name. It travels along the Killington and Peasey Becks until it is diverted into a channel near Crooklands and fed down to the canal itself by the old wharf. (See historic map [[74601]]). This picture shows the point where the feeder channel empties into the canal. The culvert behind the fence takes the water under the A65 road. The M6 motorway crosses the canal three times to the south of this point but small culverts were installed to allow the water to pass down to the navigable section beyond Tewitfield.

Kents Bank: Glimpsed from the elevated lineside footpath, 195107 accelerates away from the stop at Kents Bank heading for Grange-over-Sands with a Manchester Airport service on 24th October 2020.

Laigh Milton Viaduct: Looking across the historic Laigh Milton Viaduct in October 2020. It spans the River Irvine, five miles west of Kilmarnock. Built by the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in 1812 it closed in 1846 when the railway was realigned. Thought to be the oldest surviving viaduct on a public railway, the restored structure has been Category A listed since 1982. See image [[7023]]

Grange-over-Sands: 156421 runs along the Furness coast between Grange-over-Sands and Kents Bank on a gloomy 24th October 2020. Arnside Knott can be seen on the other side of the Kent Estuary.

Marefield South Junction: I like walking around triangles. There is the tantalizing choice of which side to do first; especially if, like me, you are on a Railway Ramblers walk, with permission for all three. There is also a wonderful sense of completeness when you cover all three sides. The spur on the left went to Leicester Belgrave Road via Lowesby; the main line on the right led to John O' Gaunt viaduct, then to Bottesford, East of Nottingham, and all points North.

Bond Street [EL]: Interior of Bond Street station ticket hall, Elizabeth Line, of the new Hanover Square entrance, looking towards the barriers on the morning of the day of opening, Monday, 24th October 2022.

Bond Street [EL]: The new lengthy pedestrian subway linking the Oxford Street entrance to the new Elizabeth Line platforms at Bond Street that opened on this day, Monday, 24th October 2022. You can seemingly walk miles in this gargantuan subterranean catacomb before you even set foot on a train.

Bond Street [EL]: View from foot of escalator from the Hanover Square entrance to the new Elizabeth Line platforms at Bond Street station, on opening day, Monday, 24th October 2022.

Bond Street [EL]: Bond Street, Elizabeth Line, on the day the station opened, Monday 24th October 2022. This view looking east towards Abbey Wood. Bond Street was already served by the LU Central and Jubilee Lines, since 1900 and 1979 respectively.

Edinburgh Waverley: 385024 stabled in a bay platform at Waverley on 24th October 2022. This was an enforced 'time killing' session for me after my 21:00 train was cancelled and the next was the 22:28 to Dundee, then a bus North from there. Long day.