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Sonia Steel. On a cold frosty morning and looking incredibly tidy, 60062 ‘Sonia’ sits on Toton with a shed-load of 66s and 67028. 21 November 2024.

TPE 185109 approaches Doncaster running another Cleethorpes - Liverpool Lime Street service. 28 November 2024.

Grime time. 66171 with 3J84 RHTT sits in Lincoln awaiting a passing service to clear the route towards Market Rasen. 1 November 2024.

Toton hill. Always a great viewing platform, looking over the stored line of 60s - 60094, 60072 and 60042 - and over the running lines towards two blue sheds 66051 and 66122 and two red tugs 60024 and 60009. 21 November 2024.

Knottingley rounder. Northern 158794 enters the bay platform 13 at Leeds. A new crew is waiting to take over the unit for the next Knottingley circuit. 28 November 2024.

EMR Regional. 170511 runs a Doncaster - Peterborough service with the red signals behind protecting Metheringham LC. It appears that EMR aubergine can actually photograph ok…. 15 November 2024.

When in Leeds, it is the law. 91124 sits on platform 8 awaiting what should have been a return working to Kings Cross. Unfortunately the set limped off to Neville Hill having been failed. 28 November 2024.

Freight locos. Class pair 66790 ‘Louise’ and 70810 appear to be making an unusual consist with DB re-geared 66657. In reality the Colas pair are working west and 66657 is heading east with 6E01 Wolverhampton Steel Term - Toton Up Sdgs. Sheet Stores Junction. 21 November 2024.

Doyen of the Sprinter fleet. Northern 150001 departs Leeds in the morning sunshine. 28 November 2024.

Big shed, little shed. 66027 shunts a single wagon in front of the big shed that is Toton Traction Maintenance Depot. The imposing fuel storage tanks unfortunately obscuring a pair of Class 60s sitting on the Fuel Roads. 21 November 2024.

Azumas. 801106 has just arrived into Leeds platform 8 with a service from Kings Cross, while 800205 runs into platform 9 from Neville Hill ready to form a Harrogate working. 28 November 2024.

With the afternoon light rapidly fading, 66520 rolls through Metheringham with 4L87 Tees Dock - Felixstowe North. 15 November 2024.

CrossCountry. 170621 is in the final stages of the long journey from Cardiff Central - Nottingham, only running 6 minutes late which given the wintry weather isn’t too bad. Sheet Stores Junction. 21 November 2024.

66055 ‘Alain Thauvette’ heads a short rake of Civil Engineers wagons entering Doncaster station, running 6D06 York Engineers Yard - Doncaster Up Decoy. 28 November 2024.

Metheringham rush hour. Passengers alight from EMR 170514 which was working an early evening Doncaster - Peterborough service. 15 November 2024.

Station throat. The early morning sun picks out the trackwork on the approach to Leeds station as 150228 departs on yet another Knottingley run and 333004 runs in from Skipton. 28 November 2024.

Thunderbird ready. Green machine 57009 ‘G.J.Churchward’ sits in the Up Sidings at Newark Northgate whilst 170516 is ready to depart with a service to Lincoln Central. 16 November 2024.

Royal Stone-man. On a more prosaic working than its livery suggests, 66743 threads its way through Leeds station throat with 6D50 Hull Dairycoates - Rylstone hoppers. 28 November 2024.

Maritime blue. 66051, the evocatively named ‘Maritime Intermodal Four’ running 187 minutes late as 0D38 for the short transfer from Toton - East Midlands Gateway, passes another blue vessel moored securely on the Erewash Canal. Sheet Stores Junction. 21 November 2024.

Cold start. Midland Pullman power car 43059 ‘Loch Shiel’ clags into life in Doncaster West Yard ahead of an ECS move back to Crewe (with 43049 ‘Neville Hill’ on the back). 28 November 2024.

801223 and 801226 Together at Newark Northgate. 223 departing south after a station stop while 226 speeds through heading for Edinburgh Waverley. 16 November 2024.

Washing plant 1 180 nose nil. Seems all 180s have a bare metal stripe between the windscreen sections. 180108 at speed through Newark Northgate with a Sunderland - Kings Cross service. 16 November 2024.

Sadly no longer flying… 60094 ‘Rugby Flyer’ sits stored in the Toton lineup as the vegetation slowly claims the siding. 21 November 2024.

Sprinting banana. With snow still clinging on in places, Network Rail’s 950001 approaches home base working 2Z08 Middlesbrough Sdgs - Derby RTC. 21 November 2024.

70010 runs 6G65 Hope Earles Sdgs - Walsall Freight Term through Sheet Stores Junction, with just the merest hint of exhaust as the power goes down. 21 November 2024.

Winter sun. EMR Meridian 222103 crosses the River Trent with 1F25 St Pancras - Sheffield with the cows in the snowy field seemingly unbothered. The now disused Ratcliffe Power Station towers over Red Hill in the background. 21 November 2024.

Erewash Canal. Colas pair 66790 ‘Louise’ and 70810 forming 0Z65 Barnetby - Rugby DED cross the canal just west of Sheet Stores Junction. 21 November 2024.

London overhead railway. Southeastern 376002 crosses Borough High Street having just departed London Bridge station. 11 October 2024.

Yes - the footpath south through the woods virtually from the station level crossing gates. Taken rom the field as the path emerges from woods.

Them big oak trees. EMR 170533 running a Peterborough - Doncaster is dwarfed by an autumnal looking oak tree near Metheringham. Given that Metheringham station opened in 1882, it is amazing to think that the tree may well have pre-existed the railway. 15 November 2024.