From the guard's van

  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

 In a typical bit of London based thinking the 1977 GN electrification scheme went out as far as Royston (about 70 miles from Kings Cross) but the powers that be obviously did not think it worth going the extra 10 miles to link the wire up with the GE scheme from Liverpool Street to Cambridge. That would have enabled the locals to visit the local centre, Cambridge,  on the new EMUs instead of having to suffer out dated DMUs which ran a shuttle service. After all everyone wanted to go to London but... These pictures were taken at Royston station in 1987.