Creagan: A starlit sky over the beautifully restored Creagan station shortly before Christmas 2008.

Camden Road: 90043 passes through Camden Road with the 4M81 Felixstowe to Garston Freightliner.

Camden Road: Freightliner 66589 at the head of the 4E24 Grain- Leeds is signalled onto the North London Incline as it passes through Camden Road station on 16 December. The train will shortly turn south off the NLL at Camden Road East Junction and run over the freight-only link to reach the ECML at Freight Terminal Junction, just south of Copenhagen Tunnel.

Daventry International Railfreight Terminal: A shunter called Malcolm - there was only just enough light to shoot this class 08 on 16 December, but I was elated - it was the first locomotive I had seen on the North-West side of the A5 at Daventry. See image [[35428]]

Becconsall: The last 'Santa Special' of the weekend at the West Lancashire Light Railway has just arrived back at Becconsall from Toyland on 16 December 2012 hauled by Kerr Stuart 0-6-0 WT & T Joffre.

Becconsall: A clear December evening sky on 16 December 2012 gives a clue to the temperature as O&K 0-4-0 WT & T Montalban waits in the yard at Becconsall for the last 'Santa Special' of the weekend to return so that it can shunt the stock.

Levisham: Levisham Station Signal Box and Ticket Office seen at dusk on Sunday 16 December 2012. The steam from 45428 Eric Treacy adds to the haze by the signal box.

Kinneil: 47643 brings up the rear of the SRPS 13.30 Bo'ness - North Pole service on 16 December, with 246 Morayshire drawing away from the Kinneil stop.

Carrbridge: DRS 37605 and 37602 top and tail a northbound nuclear flask train approaching Carrbridge on 16 December.

Hest Bank: Pullman liveried 47790 leads a Northern Belle tour through Hest Bank on 16 December 2014 heading for Barrow-in-Furness. The train originated in Crewe and ran via Manchester and Bolton with 47818 on the rear. See image [[46137]] of the same loco in an earlier guise on more mundane duties.

Woodacre Crossing: DRS 68023 Achilles heads south on the WCML at Woodacre with a Northern Belle luxury excursion from York on 16th December 2016, This ran out via the Little North Western route to Carnforth and returned over the Copy Pit line. Classmate 68016 Fearless was on the rear of the train.

Hillington East: A few Scottish stations have ticket windows where the 'ticket office' is only on the staff side of the glass. Hillington East's is surely the most exposed, with protection from only completely vertical rain and for only one customer. 16th December 2017.

Plates, signs, notices etc: Yes, Scotland's oldest current stock is being withdrawn in 2018, the same year that even older HSTs are joining the fleet. I wonder what percentage of passengers would be able to identify a 314, let alone will notice when they go? Photographed aboard a 314 (what else?) on 16 December 2017.

Argyle Street: A Dalmuir service pulls out of Argyle Street on Saturday 16th December 2017 while its many disgorged passengers queue for the exit and Argyle Street's shops. Those in the foreground, their shopping done, can afford to relax and await their train back to Lanarkshire.

Muirend: First stop on the Neilston branch is Muirend, one of several comfortable suburbs served by the Cathcart lines. On a cold 16th December 2017 a Neilston bound Class 314 pulls out as its last two (well, one and a half) passengers make their way to the Muirend Road exit.

Galgate: 3.30pm on a gloomy 16th December but there is just enough light to capture 8F 48151 on the fourth and final 2018 'Santa Special' as it approaches Hampson Lane near Galgate on its way back to Lancaster.

Ayr MPD: Grab shot from a passing train north of Ayr station on 16 December 2018. This must have been one of the last surviving traditional G&SWR sheds. There is obviously no sense of history amongst the powers-that-be.

Glenfinnan Viaduct: The Monarch contemplates. The view is north east from the spot where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite Standard was raised (the location is on the hillside to the north of the monument).

Galgate: 48151, in fading light, takes the fourth 2018 'Santa Special' north through the long cutting south of Hampson Lane on 16th December 2018. The gloomy conditions accentuated the glow of the firebox in the cab of the 8F.

Galgate: 8F 2-8-0 48151 approaches Hampson Lane bridge near Galgate with the returning 'Santa Special' on 16th December 2018. Just a minute - who's that on the bridge? See image [[66877]]

Blane Valley Junction: I came across this relic at Blane Valley Junction on 16th December 2018. It seems to have managed to evade the Lennoxtown scrap metal goblins by carefully blending with nature.

Blane Valley Junction: Another piece of old point rodding from Blane Valley Junction, just visible in a patch of cleared undergrowth on 16th December 2018.

Robroyston: Michael Matheson (Cabinet Secretary for Transport) speaking at the official opening of Robroyston station on 16th December 2019. Speeches were also made by Alex Hynes ( Managing Director, Scotland's Railway) and Susan Aitken (Glasgow City Council). Many other well known figures from the rail industry were in evidence.

Robroyston: Robroyston was officially opened by Michael Matheson MSP on the 16th of December. The station features a 263 space car park close to the M80.

Curriehill: A Glasgow Central stopper pulls out of Curriehill on 16 December 2019. There is not much to the north of the station, though you can walk to Heriot-Watt's Riccarton campus via the back gate if you are determined. For many years there wasn't much to the south of the line either, but residential Currie grew north while the station was closed, and adjacent housing has just been built.

Kinghorn Tunnel: The 07.08 LNER service from Leeds to Aberdeen passes Pettycur Bay on the approach to Kinghorn Tunnel on 16th December 2019.

Dalgety Bay: The 09.52 LNER service from Aberdeen to Kings Cross nears Dalgety Bay on 16th December 2019.

Currie [2nd]: This is the course of the Balerno branch immediately to the east of Currie station with the line crossing the road, seen looking north west on 16 December 2019. The passenger entrance to the station can just be discerned from the change in stonework to the right of the lampposts. Non-nerd cameras here would be pointed at the attractive Currie Kirk in whose grounds I am standing.

Burntisland [1st]: At the invitation of Ian Archibald from the Burntisland Heritage Trust, the National Transport Trust's latest Red Wheel denoting a site of transport heritage was unveiled on 16th December 2020 by Vice-President John Cameron CBE on the wall of the town's first railway station. This was built in 1847 and the plaque commemorates the train-ferry that linked Fife with Granton on the Edinburgh shore for forty years until the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890. John paid tribute to the success of the world's first seagoing train ferry in reducing the Edinburgh-Dundee freight movement time from three days to four hours, carrying 29,000 wagons in the first six months of operation. The so-called Floating Railway had three main elements: an inclined pier at the dockside, a flying bridge to the vessel and a flat deck on-board lined with rails. A moveable framework rolled up and down the pier to suit the state of the tide. This new and efficient way of moving freight traffic across water would influence the introduction of rail and road ferries right up to the present day. John found it somewhat ironic that such a successful development had been designed by Sir Thomas Bouch, whose reputation would be destroyed nearly thirty years later when his Tay Bridge fell, and suggested that one could surmise the extent of his fame if only he had stuck to ferries and left bridges alone!

Burntisland [1st]: The inscription on the National Transport Trust Red Wheel, denoting a site of transport heritage, at the first Burntisland railway station, commemorating the Forth train ferry. This was unveiled by Vice-President John Cameron CBE on 16th December 2020, captured in image [[75219]].

Soham: A brand new station. The 12.50 from Ipswich to Peterborough departs after calling at Soham on 16th December 2021. Prior to three days earlier, only Soham residents well over the age of 56 could have claimed to have boarded, or alighted from, a passenger service here. The positive impression created by the new station architecture and facilities is undone somewhat by the extensive use of visually intimidating high-security palisade fencing throughout the premises, as would be more befitting a high risk inner city depot than a rural station in Cambridgeshire.