There are no trains today but that doesn't stop public transport serving my local area. Keighley is lucky in that the local Keighley Bus Museum provides a number of bus services that serve most parts of Keighley including the 19 that serves Airedale Hospital and Oxenhope. Here are a few pictures of the first service (11am out of Keighley) as it approaches Airedale Hospital. It is a London Routemaster.

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A great event aimed at the community at Heaton Railway depot. I arrived early to get pics of them setting up and stayed late to get a lift direct from the depot back into the train station.

A shot of the framework of the new footbridge going into place over Platform 3 and 4 used by trains travelling from Bradford Forster Square to Leeds, Ilkley and London.

Sunshine, nothing to do. What was going on? This was not my summer. It was supposed to be rain and lot of depressing work. Oh well, a quick trip to Leeds and Donny with my camera to get me back into things. I really do need more practice but Leeds is suffering with new construction casting long shadows over the through lines to the east of the station and I just couldn't stop people talking at Doncaster.

Services to Hull were affected by the failure of the swing bridge at Goole and were taking the Selby route

Just a few bits from Leeds

After stewarding the Flamboyant trains charter, we got a quick break to take a few photos around Barrow Hill. Here are a small selection of pics. Many of the locomotives were being prepped for the rail event a few weeks later

Here are some pics of the recently reliveried unit 333002.

The first two pictures were ones that I quickly grabbed whilst at Skipton going to work.

The rest of the pictures are ones that I grabbed whilst during 1st August

A selection of units in the Northern fleet have been adorned with small stickers representing Travel South Yorkshire, which is South Yorkshire's PTE.

This gallery shows a side shot of recently repainted and adorned 153352

Here are some pictures from the Carnforth Open Day. A great day for all, with stunning weather in the end

Pictures from Manchester Victoria in the morning and Manchester Oxford Road in the afternoon

A quick trip around the Merseyrail system

Pictures from Southport, Bank Hall and Green Lane

Another set of photos with pics from Highbury and Islington and Stratford

A quick two day trip to London to meet up with a couple of mates and add some variety to my hols

The Northern Rail Stakeholder specials ran from Hull (158910), Newcastle (156448) and Southport (156490 and 156475) to Keighley for a trip up the KWVR. Here is a picture of the first two on their ECS up to Skipton for connecting up for the return journey to Leeds. The Southport service was slightly delayed and not photographed

A trip to Lincoln to take pictures of the Semaphores and signalboxes before they disappear from next week.

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway's 40th Anniversary celebrations were held over the weekend.

In this album is pictures of the Stobart Charter and the evening Ribblehead charter

A special service around the ABT run by SENRUG. The 10:57 Morpeth - Morpeth was an enjoyable journey.

There are pictures of 142020 having arrived with the 10:15 Newcastle - Morpeth, pictures of and from the train as we travelled around and pictures of Morpeth LC as 142020 terminates with another service from Newcastle

The High Level Bridge in Newcastle finally opens up this week. Following a press launch yesterday, the bridge was being used today by a special bus service serving Gateshead depot.

When the bridge reopens tomorrow it will only be open to local taxis and buses running in a southbound direction.

An after hours visit to the National Rail Museum's 1968 and all that event organised for Northern. An excellent event. Also in this collection is my winning entry to the Northern Railways Forum May Photo of the Month

A K1 moved from Scotland to the National Railway Museum at York for "1968 and all that" passed through Manors a few minutes ahead of time at 17:50 approx.

A big thanks to the guys for providing the gen and the updates in Scotland.

The tall signal at Hexham was to be decommissioned on the Sunday, so I popped across to Hexham to get some photos of the tall signal and its replacements

Popped down to Donny for a few hours. A wide selection of photos of various locos and units including 66429/66430 that had just been delivered and 159019 that had just been released from the paintshop.

Here are some pics from Leeds with the newly reliveried 220006 in Arriva Crosscountry livery. Also includes 158904 (Sweetytrain), almost on the verge of repainting.

Here are a selection of photos taken at London Paddington Railway Station

Pictures taken at Clapham Junction including 37608 and 37611 on a test train, 59 on a stone train and numerous third rail units

Some of the photos taken by me at West Ealing. Did not spend long here as there seemed to be little going on.

A few pics taken as I travelled home from Newcastle

A picture of 185105 carrying Hull at Newcastle, 333005 with grafitti and 155328 reformed as its 153's form into the correct formation and forms the 18:02 Leeds to Man Vic with an uid 155

Here are a selection of photos from when the Choppington Changer arrived in Newcastle to tour the Northumberland freight branches. 56303 was at its head and 66423 was sitting on the avoiding lines to provide additional traction when the train went south

Hanging around Newcastle with my camera taking photos of the RAG week bungee jump and abseil plus the Chinese New Year celebrations let me snap a few photos of Trains

Here are pics of a 6 carriage Northern Rail train (156428, 142026, 156424) and GC train (43067 and 43080)

Today the Alcan, which usually runs overnight ran through on a special service. 66001 hauled ten Alcan tankers to Millerhill in Scotland. I got down there a little early. Odd liveried 156424 trundled around as did newly reliveried 156438.

The newly reliveried National Express East Coast HST provided me with an opportunity to get out on to Newcastle train station and catch it. Other photo opportunities came from partially liveried trains and 156460.

The first run of the first Arriva Liveried Voyager (220017) was the 09:59 Bristol - Newcastle. Here it is having completed its journey and starting its return to Weston Super Mare.

Its a Saturday, I'm a little bored, I've got a camera, so its off to station of the year to get some pics.

The East Coast was shut north of Morpeth so HST's were taking passengers to Scotland via Carlisle

Having done Leeds, it was a quick trip across the pennines to Manchester Piccadilly

A quick trip to Leeds pulled a few amazing photo opportunities.

A trip out in York allowed me to gain a number of pictures, especially of the Scarborough Spa Express

West Ealing is located on the mainline out of London Paddington towards the West Country. A number of trains use this route including the sister class of the units that operate on the Leeds - Bradford - Ilkley - Skipton "triangle", the class 332's.

Having visited several points around London, I ventured back to my gateway to London, Stratford. Various pictures from the mainline platforms can be seen here.

TRavelled to Ally Pally to see the DRS 47's. Unfortunately they terminated just South of Peterborough due to late running. Here are some shots I gained whilst waiting for them

Having signed in, I made my way across to the mainline platforms so that I could clear my third rail units.

After visiting London Bridge, I travelled across London to get pictures of SWT stock. Realising that Eurostar were about to leave Waterloo and that I had no pictures of them, I chose Vauxhall and it didnt disappoint.

I quickly visited North Weald Station as it was near to where I was staying.

This Summer has been the worse on record. Few days without rain existed, and those that did threatened to rain anyway.

The first sunny day in many weeks allowed me to travel to Leeds and Doncaster to cover my old stomping grounds.

The Great Yorkshire Show provided several opportunities for rail photos

With a large part of Yorkshire flooded, I managed to make my way from home to Newcastle. Here are a few photos that I grabbed at points of the day where I was twiddling my thumbs.

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen, Ive hit 20,000 photo hits for my train fotopic site in just two years. Pretty good for someone who is not well known.

So with that I decided to go out and get WASTED in true Newcastle style

With a heavy heart, me, JST and Col, travelled from Newcastle to Man Pic on one of the last Twilight Expresses run by TPE.

A quick nip down to the station to pick up a charter heading north and 158793 which had been trundling around the area for the previous few days

Just a few minutes in Leeds, transferring trains gave me these images. Also a picture of a plaque on a wall next to Claremont Tower, Newcastle University. The Stephenson Building is across the road.

I was a little bored during the easter holidays, so I decided to pop up the line to Cononley, where the close proximity of the valley sides and reasonable rural look of the area allows for many good photos from vantage point high above the railway line

It was a nice day, clearing rapidly, so I wandered into Leeds for some photography. A few surprises including 47703

Uni finished, just waiting for Sunday to roll around and get the train home. So back to an old fave to get some more pics

153332 was found sitting at Newcastle Platform 1. It is unknown why it was there, but it is believed that Newcastle Crews are not trained on them

Cheers for the heads up Col

A big thanks to the people who supplied the gen for the mail trains diverted away from the WCML. A nice sunny day at Newcastle

The weatherman said it was going to be a nice day and I was a little bored, so I caught the bus to the station and stood around for a few hours. Nothing much of interest appeared apart from the NMT and a higher than usual number of 158s, including one on a service to Middlesborough

Some pics from a few hours on Newcastle Central

I was bored, so I decided to spend a few hours on Newcastle Central to regain lost camera experience due to work and preparation for uni. Whilst some of the photos were dodgy, I haven't lost it all and I got my first shot of the NMT, which really made my day

Here are a few pics I have recently done

The question is? Can you spot the errors in two of them

I gained a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Australia and wasted time taking pictures of trains. Well what did you expect me to do?

Here are a selection of pictures from Sydneys and Brisbanes suburban networks. Also included are a few trains located in Australias National Museum in Sydney and the rail musuem in Ipswich near Brisbane.

The colourful locomotives operated the twice daily train to Kurunda, a tourist village near Cairns.

In preparation for Oz, Im currently carrying my camera around with me for the most mundane of tasks. 321423 happened to pop up on my train home from work and on a quick trip to Manchester to collect plane tickets, I picked a few pictures up at Bradford Foster Square.

Its a bit hard to be nostalgic about 2 years go. But as my photos show, a lot has changed in just under 2 years. With my GCSEs finished and A Levels due to start, I did several runs out, including two trips to the north west (Crewe and Manchester) and a final trip on the railway working of the year, TnT 37s on the S+C

A quick railway trip to Cardiff gained me several pics

I got released from my painting of the house and travelled down to Stratford for a few hours. After photting several trains including my first 59/2, I felt the need to travel home. A rough ride around London, got me to a rainy Harrow and Wealdstone, and I also got a few good shots at Leeds when I arrived back in Yorkshire, sadly the camera was set up for a bright day.

I am in my final year at school now, and I am working hard to get good A-Levels. Something that also occurs are the university open days and interviews. Today I visited Bath Uni for an interview. They were very nice and gave me an offer, but I still favour Cardiff.

Anyway, I had 90 minutes on Bristol Temple Meads and got a few pics. A great little treat was a ride home between the power cars 43066 and 43048

Went to Crewe and what a day that was

Went to Doncaster with one aim. Get pics of 322482 as it passed through. Well I got more than I bargained for. 950001 turned up in P7, a shunter spewed flames from its exhaust, 43054 was operating on a GNER Train and 322482 left Doncaster with a bigger load than it arrived with.

Travelled south for a holiday in the Isle of Wight, stopping for a night at Lymington, then travelled across to the Isle of Wight for a weeks holiday. travelled back home on the 27th

First of all a quick jaunt to Doncaster to see the recently arrived 322484. It was on its second day of diagrams and operated its first service up the Aire Valley line. A surprise came from 90027 suddenly arriving on a charter to newcastle for the Tall Ships.

The Second set of photos show a very quick trip to Leeds with more photos of 322484 plus 158750. 156482 shows the recently applied Northern logos to some Neville Hill based Northern units

Just had a trip up to Newcastle Uni. Cool Place

Travelled to Edinburgh University on Friday, Manchester University on Saturday and had a look at the KWVR before being forced North to Giggleswick by a family reunion.

Went back to Doncaster again and there were loads of stuff going on.

After weeks of waiting for it to finally happen, Royal Ascot at York commenced. I spent the morning at Doncaster taking Photos of the Hatex's. Sitting west of the station awaiting a trip south was ONE 156416 which had just been refurbished. The Orient Express went through hauled by 67017 and an MML HST was operating London-Leeds Services.

The aim of todays trip was to get pictures of the Class 90s operating Edinburgh to North Berwick Services. So after 3 hours in a Voyager, I did just that. I include pictures of 90028 and 90029 and 47854 which happened to pull into Edinburgh on a special to Keith as I was wandering around.

This is a place where I will place one off photo's.

I went to Cardiff. Unfortunately I forgot to take photos in Cardiff, so here is a selection from Leeds.

Decided to check out the traffic going throuh South Yorkshire by spending several hours on Donny station