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An EMT HST set visited the Wensleydale Railway today as part of UK Railtours' "Wensleydale Rambler" from London St Pancras. Beautiful weather allowed for a number of shots of this unusual working. The HST was first seen at Leyburn Caravan Park, heading for a booked stop at Leyburn -...

A walk over to Cottingley Station to take, what are possibly my first, photos in the snow. Here's the set - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/sets/72157633072236560/with/8582638947/

A few shots from around the West Yorkshire area, with appearances from WCRC's 47237 and 47760, and Network Rail's 31285. 47237 is seen at Pontefract Monkhill heading for Normanton with 1Z56, Compass Tours' "White Rose Moorlander" from Saltburn to Carlisle -...

A few hours at Preston produced a bit of variety, with nine Class 325's seen throughout the day, as well as DBS' 92041 and DRS' 57302. Shortly after arriving at Preston Station, 325011 and two classmates were seen working north -...

A trip down to London enabled photos of Freightliner's 90044 and the "Pretendolino" at London Kings Cross, having worked 5Z89 from Euston and prior to working 1Z90 to Wakefield Westgate. This set was chartered to transport Chelsea FC fans to the evenings kick-off against Leeds Utd at Elland...

Job currently stopped from Grantham to Newark due to fatality. Unsure which train involved but believed to be near Peascliff Tunnel.

A great day out around York for some specials and a loco naming ceremony... 20302 and 20301 were seen in the PSD between duties - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/8040769184/in/set-72157631661294635 37425 and Caroline were then seen heading for Derby RTC -...

Evening, With fours hours to kill, some photography in London was in order. First up was London Bridge, where 171728 was seen working ECS to Selhurst - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7783667372/in/set-72157631070288162 Whilst over on 15 and 16 456's were seen stabled...

Hi What are FGW 180's working these days? Specific times / headcodes if possible...

47818 and 47802 were seen at Leeds Station on Friday working 1Z81 Edinburgh to Southampton "Cruise Saver Express". 47818 is seen leading 1Z81 into Platform 8 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7614298690/in/photostream 47802 "Pride of Cumbria" was on the rear -...

The 17th July 2012 saw the first working of a Grand Central HST to Bradford Interchange, on the West Riding route. 43465 and 43467 worked 1D71 and 1A67, and allowed for the checking of stopping points and stepping distances on platforms, utilising the trusty cardboard triangles! A trip...

Back in 1994/95, a relative recalls a rake of Mark 2 coaches being based (dumped?) in the sidings opposite Neville Hill Depot, being in BR Blue with "Ridings Railtours" writing on the side. After a bit of research, RR is still based in Ripon...

Part 2 of an eventful Friday 22nd June, with this set containing photos from the immediate Liverpool area. (For Part 1 see here - http://railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=67386) EMT's 158788 is seen at Liverpool South Parkway working 1R62 -...

Part 1 of a very long day. First seen was 1A07 at Leeds, with both 91126 and BBMF 91110 in train, with 91110 presumably failed. Three liveries were on this train, blue Mk4 set, BBMF 91 and EC silver 91. Seen in the Manchester area were some units, with 2J45, the Stockport to Stalybridge...

A delayed upload of a trip down to Skipton Station for 2Z02, and other things! 2Z02 heads for Leeds, 37409 leading - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7426420176/in/set-72157630252118920 66167 leads 6D72 Hull Dairycoates-Rylstone into Skipton -...

A day in York saw a very unusual convoy, DRS Saloon and other action. The convoy consisted of : 33207 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7396844576/in/set-72157630182747858 5972 Hogwarts Castle -...

Morning, Whilst looking at Kings Cross departures, I noticed how varied arrival times are for Grand Central and Hull Trains. Whereas departures are mostly regular, xx.18 and xx.48 (minus HTs anomalous 2030...), arrivals are much more varied. By the looks of it, should they be xx.10 and xx,45?

I have recently been researching rolling stock that have compartments on-board, which came about after a trip on the Embsay Railway in a First Class compartment and realizing that, currently, none exists on the network. From my research, the last stock in use with compartments were SWT's...

A trip down to a murky Skipton Station for 6D72 Hull Dairycoates - Rylstone (technically Swinden Quarry not Rylstone...) First seen was 333009 http://www.flickr.com/photos/yorkshirerailphotos/7145728605/in/set-72157629972251985 Followed by the arrival of 6D72...

Afternoon, Recently there have been some people calling for an open access operator to compete with FGW on the GWML. However, whilst this may sound a good idea, what kind of open access service could operate on the GWML to Paddington? Of all of the destinations I have come up with, bearing...