A collection of photos of the tramway and waggonway at Beamish.

An early morning autumn visit in the fog to Leith.

The Bathgate branch is served by a half-hourly passenger service from Edinburgh, and has a large STVA car terminal receiving a daily train. The line originally ran through to Glasgow via Airdrie, and there are plans to reopen it, electrify the line, and redouble the current single line section to Bathgate.

A visit to the impressive Falkirk Wheel - the world's first rotary boat lift - on the E&G Union Canal.

The last booked run of the Caledonian Sleepers to be hauled by a class 37: the engine at rest after its swansong.

Stored class 20s.

Can you guess where it is yet...?

Another update on progress on reopening the railway between Stirling - Alloa - Kincardine.

Views from the top of the rapid loading bunker at Ravenstruther.

A Network Rail MPV fitted out for weedspraying, captured at Mossend Yard.

A trip round north London from Dagenham via the T&H to Wembley.

Gatwick Airport station on the LBSCR mainline from Victoria to Brighton, and is served by Southern, Gatwick Express, First Great Western Link, Thameslink, and Virgin Cross Country.

Craigentinny depot (EC) is located next to the ECML east of Edinburgh Waverley, and is responsible for both GNER and Virgin Cross Country's train fleets.

Waverley station is undergoing £24m worth of work to create two new platforms and two new through lines, as well as construction of a new platform at Haymarket, which will see capacity at the west end of the station to be increased from 24 to 28 trains per hour by the end of 2007.

This collection will be updated to show the progress of the work.

A collection from various locations - sun and snow at Motherwell and Carstairs, Cockenzie power station, snow at Haymarket, Bathgate for the cars.

The Powderhall branch in Edinburgh, which originally ran to Leith but now only survives to serve the refuse loading point at Powderhall.

Earthworks for the closed 'Queens' Curve at Carstairs.

This short branch line, opened in 1901, connected to the Edinburgh & Glasgow mainline just to the west of Haymarket station, and had three stations.

Balgreen, the first station, was immediately after leaving the main lines, had timber platforms, and opened after the rest of the branch in 1934. The second was Pinkhill, next to the zoo, and the terminus was Corstortphine itself. The line was double track throughout.

DMUs took over from steam traction in July 1957, with the passenger service finishing on New Year's Day 1968, and the line closed entirely a month later.

In latter days, trains operated from Corstorphine, through Waverley, direct to North Berwick or Rosewell.

It is now in use as a footpath, but is largely intact, with Pinkhill station being in particularly good condition.

Various locations in around Edinburgh at night.

37417 waiting in company with some 66s at Millerhill TMD, before working the sleepers.

Also some night shots from Edinburgh Waverley.

Work underway to reopen this line.

Not such a mystery now, thanks to John Turner on the UK-RAIL group (http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-rail/) and Phil Brindley on the Industrial Railway Society group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndustrialRailwaySociety/
).

The loco is 0-4-0DH RSHD/WB 8365/3210 of 1962.

Engineering work.

Junction for the Fife Circle via Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy, and the focus of much activity with passenger and freight traffic, including coal train loading in the yard.

The sleeper e.c.s. needed rescueing from Midcalder Junction by a class 66 after being sent out with the wrong traction.

Another variety from the Edinburgh area in the dark.

Two class 73s made a very rare visit to Scotland to act as barrier vehicles for a transfer of HST coaches, hauled by a class 87.

Poor photos (!) from Shieldmuir and Craigentinny!

The BKR held a steam gala over the weekend of 22/23 October to mark the entry into service of 'Morayshire'.

Millerhill, Cockenzie, Craigentinny and the Waverley!

The loading of a coal train in Leith Docks during a night shift.

Engineering trains on the East Coast Main Line.

The Sandite/water cannon train for treating rails during periods of poor adhesion.

Leith has recently seen an upturn in traffic, with pipe traffic arriving from the NE, and imported coal being loaded.

Shark ballast plough brakevans.

Ok so not quite "loco" cabs, but close! Cab views of DVTs and PCVs.

A surviving gas lamp next to the Ayrshire main line at Brownhill.

Insert mandatory Rod Hull joke here...

The Tanfield Railway is a heritage railway near Newcastle which is the world\'s oldest existing railway. It is quite different from most heritage lines as you won\'t find a Mark 1 there, or a mainline loco. Instead, its trains are formed of four-wheeled vehicles hauled by industrial locomotives, much closer to collieries\' workmens trains.

Cabs of electric locomotives, including class 86, 90, and 92.

Shields depot is near Glasgow Central on the lines to Paisley Canal and Gilmore Street, and maintains the Glasgow suburban EMUs of classes 314, 318, 320, and 334. It also has a wheel lathe which is often used by 'foreign' visitors.

Polmadie depot is located next to the WCML near Glasgow Central, and maintains Voaygers and Pendolinos for Virgin, class 91s and Mk IV sets for GNER, as well as the ScotRail sleepers and North Berwick class 90 and Mk III sets.

There are also stored coaches kept there made surplus by the introduction of the Pendolinos.

Rutherglen is on the WCML out of Glasgow, south of Polmadie, and is a base for On Track Machines (OTMs) and Network Rail's Multi Purpose Vehicles (MPVs).

Mossend is situated near Motherwell, and as such is convenient for the WCML and ECML (via either Shotts or Carstairs), as well as being en route for trains coming from Ayrshire to central Scotland. It is Scotland's busiest railfreight yard dispatching train all over the UK, and dispatching and receiving a variety of traffics. Coal is loaded within the down yard, while the up yard is home to the Euroterminal.

A number of locos for EWS and Freightliner are also stabled in the Engine Sidings.

Motherwell TMD is EWS's main depot in Scotland, and is situated between Motherwell station and Mossend Yard.

I have been fortunate enough to have a footplate trip across the Forth Bridge, and this collection shows the driver's view.

Haymarket West Junction is situated on the Fife and E&G lines out of Edinburgh, and provides a connection between these an the Sub. It is next to Murrayfield Stadium.

Ayrshire is a major source of power station coal for the whole of Britain, with a number of open casts centered on Falkland Yard, Ayr, as well as imported coal coming through Hunterston and loaded using twin bunkers fed by conveyor from the ship.

Services are operated by both EWS and Freightliner Heavy Haul.

Penmanshiel Tunnel was on the ECML between Grantshouse and Dunbar, but collapsed in 1979 with the loss of two lives. The Tunnel could not be reconstructed, or the bodies recovered, and the railway was subsequently diverted around the hill, also forcing the A1 road to be moved. A memorial was erected above the Tunnel to the men who died.

Thornton Yard is at present busy again since coal has started being loaded in Fife, with three loading points in the yard itself plus those at Westfield and Inverkeithing.

The Westfield branch was reopened to traffic in 2004 after some years disuse so that coal - from St Ninians open cast - could be loaded at the former mine\'s loading point.

The route runs for 5 miles from Redford Junction, through Thornton Yard, to Westfield and is all that remains of a route which joined the direct Cowdenbeath to Perth line at Kelty.

Locomotives and scenes from EWS's Millerhill T.M.D., Edinburgh.

Pictures of the cabs of various locomotives.

Workings to, from, and in Cockenzie Power Station on the ECML near Edinburgh.