An additional Christmas Mail service from Shieldmuir (Scotland) to Willesden (London) formed by 3 of the Post Office's 4-car class 325 units.
A rare sunny day. The daily Dalston-Grangemouth empty tanks (the loads run overnight) approach Carstairs.
A week of heavy rain finally ends with the River Clyde in flood, creating this photo opportunity.
A coal train weaves through Carstairs behind a 56 and 47 (barely visible) in tandem. The class 56, station buildings and canopies have gone. The coal trains and poor weather are still with us.
The heavily delayed combined Glasgow and Edinburgh sleepers arrive out of the mist at Carstairs, where they will split for their respective destinations. It's about 11 am - this train normally arr... (more)
A London-Glasgow 'Pendolino' at Speed alongside the infant River Clyde on the approach to Carstairs.
This daily Carlisle-Edinburgh infrastructure train was the only freight to Edinburgh's Millerhill Yard to utilise electric traction. It has since reverted to the ubiquitous EMD class 66.
Ageing 37417 hauls failed EMD 66157 and its train of Grangemouth bound empty petroleum tanks approaching Carstairs on a blustery Spring afternoon.
Freightliner's small fleet of 1965-built class 86s still clock up high mileages on intermodal trains on the West Coast Main Line, like this southbound Crewe-bound train leaving Carstairs.
A heavile delayed London-Edinburgh overnight sleeper service - normally only photographable at night - waits to leave Carstairs for Edinburgh. In the background a high speed "Pendolino" passes on ... (more)
