From the guard's van

  Battery loco "Newcastle" arriving at Alston on  Wednesday 2nd October 2024.

  While staying near to the Carlisle to Newcastle line recently all ECML London to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness trains were diverted past our door! A London bound train heads East through Bardon Mill Station.  A train of aviation fuel passes bound for Prestwick. A northbound train passes heading west. Tanks for Fort William head west.  A local stopping train pulls away from Bardon Mill station bound for Newcastle. Another Azuma bound for Scotland.

 These are from the Chasewater Railway in the West Midlands. 

 

 No 4 arriving back at Llanfair.

  The Sierra Leone loco numbered 14 on the W&LLR lists during its operating period in the early 1990s. On the way back to Llanfair