From the guard's van

91001 in original Swallow Inter City livery standing at Newcastle with a down train in the early 1990s. 91003 arrives in Newcastle station from the south with a down train. 91112 at York with a down train on 20th February 2020.

A train of limestone arrives from Tunstead Quarry in the Peak District. The class 47 runs round the train... it will be taken further by the company's shunting engine.  The empties are inspected before they leave.  A train of tanks and a train of empty hoppers are ready to leave the yard.  Train of empty hoppers approaches Northwich station.

York station.  The nearest we got to the North of England services. All these pictures were taken during the time that spare North of England sets were leased to GNER for use on Kings Cross to York and Kings Cross to Leeds trains - 2000 until the contract ended in 2005. They took a heavy toll on the overhead power supply.