The Tay Bridge is the longest railway bridge in the UK at just over two miles. The structure seen here is the second attempt at bridging the estuary, the first famously collapsed during a violent ... (more)

A National Express East Coast HST rolls off the Tay Bridge with 1E14, the 09:52 Aberdeen to London Kings Cross. It seems the tennis match has been abandonded..

Still hard at work after nearly 50 years, 31233 sends a plume of acrid exhaust skyward at Perth station. While most class 31s have been turned into coke cans and razor blades, a few of these locos... (more)

A rare sight - one of the few remaining class 20s in the UK heading nose-first to Mallaig. This was the second leg of a railtour which had already taken this loco and a class 37 from Preston to Fo... (more)

DB Schenker red liveried 37670 leads 37401 at the head of 1Z27 - the Northern Belle dining excursion from Aberdeen to Kyle of Lochalsh on the West coast of Scotland. The location is Craig Highland... (more)

A famous train! 5972 'Olton Hall' (in disguise as 'Hogwarts Castle') is seen at Fort William Junction on 16/09/09. The train has just arrived from Carnforth, having travelled to Scotland to be use... (more)

Less than 6 months after crossing the Atlantic, GE Class 70 loco 70005 passes Alloa while working a Freightliner Heavy Haul coal train to Longannet power station. Though not to everyone's taste, t... (more)

37425 (a 44 year old veteran of the rails) waits for a passenger train to pass at Perth while working 6D66 - the 18:39 Inverness to Mossend train, which conveys empty fuel tanks. The loco is the o... (more)

Every year around easter, a steam hauled railtour - the Great Britain - travels the length and bredth of the UK. On the 2010 Scottish legs, BR Standard Pacific 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' was the loco... (more)

Looking more like a model, the weekly train of fuel oil tanks from Glasgow to Fort William passes the Northern shore of Loch Tulla, deep in the Scottish Highlands, on a glorious early summer after... (more)

1S03, the 07:10 Leeds to Aberdeen, skirts the shore of the River Tay estuary on the outskirts of Dundee. The rather large oil rig in the background is "Rowan Gorilla VII" - which arrived in Scotla... (more)

Preserved A4 number 60007 "Sir Nigel Gresley" heads North at Dairsie with a railtour from Edinburgh to Dundee. The locomotive is named after its designer, the famed Chief Mechanical Engineer of th... (more)

66729 'Derby County' passes beneath the looming bulk of Ben Lomond (3196 ft) while working the daily Fort William to North Blyth alumina tank train. Spring has definitely come to the Scottish High... (more)

The first hard frost of 2008 hit North East Scotland on November the 30th. Here detail is highlighted on a rail near Dundee station. Note the manufacturing date...

Working a Glasgow to Aberdeen train, 170407 crosses the River Tay at Perth on a clear autumn day in 2008.