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

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

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