The Rail-Net tour 2003

Monday, 11th August, 2003

With a week to spare I set off to visit a friend in Scotland. Such a long journey requires breaks for rest and relaxation, so plenty were taken. Also the trip provided the opportunity to put some faces to names and meet some new people. So after an 1,123mile round trip here are my images.

Rugby Station	Day 1 a good place to start. Rugby, plenty of Virgin West Coast trains. Some thunderbirds and a bit of freight.	Monday, 11th August, 2003
Stafford Station	I had arranged before hand to meet up with a few other alt.binaries.pictures.rail (ABPR) photographers at Stafford this day. As it turned out there were quite a few of us there that day.	Monday, 11th August, 2003
Warrington Bank Quay	The end of day 1 and the start of day 2 were at Warrington.	Monday, 11th August, 2003
Glasgow, Motherwell	Finally I made it up into Scotland, first stop Motherwell. Here I arranged to meet up with Ewan Tait owner of Scotland's online railway community Scot-rail group, after all if you need a guide you may as well have one that knows where he is going, many thanks Ewan	Tuesday, 12th August, 2003
Mossend Yard	The freightliner hub of Glasgow, Mossend Yard.	Tuesday, 12th August, 2003
Glasgow Central	After Mossend we headed into Glasgow Central, a hive of activity for unit enthusiasts.	Tuesday, 12th August, 2003
Edinburgh Waverly	Day three started a little later than planned with great thanks to my Chris my digital buddy for a night out in Edinburgh at the Fringe	Wednesday, 13th August, 2003
The Forth Bridge	One of the great historic railway engineering achievements, in my opinion. is the Forth Bridge across the Firth of the Forth.	Wednesday, 13th August, 2003
Tyne yard and York	After leaving the lovely Scotland I stopped off at Durham to see the Royal Borders Bridge from the ground rather then the train for a change and then onwards and southwards to Newcastle and Tyne yard.	Thursday, 14th August, 2003
Doncaster	Doncaster, one of the great spotters mecca in South Yorkshire. Rude not to visit really.	Thursday, 14th August, 2003
Felixstowe	The port of Felixstowe has a special place in my memory, primarily because I many a happy holiday in my youth watching double headed class 37's crossing over the road at the beach station level crossing. The 37's are gone now sadly. But there is still plenty of activity to be seen.	Thursday, 14th August, 2003
Ipswich	Freightliner stronghold Ipswich has plenty of green to be seen. And now the class 90 is becoming the new order on Anglia Railways services.	Thursday, 14th August, 2003
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