From the guard's van

Class 68 number 68 003 (named Astute) arrived from the north mid afternoon and was parked in platform 1.

An afternoon visit to the station brought the following.... A coal train heading south... a rare sight these days. Each Thursday there is a Carnforth to Scarborough charter which is steam hauled from York to the seaside and back. Here the loco with its support coach is going from the yard at NRM, where it is coaled and serviced, to Holgate sidings where the locos are changed. The train was class 37 hauled up to this point. Class 180 arrives at York with a down train. 185108 shows off its new Trans Pennine livery. A train of long welded rail heads north at speed through platform 3 (which used to be the up platform).