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.