Millers Dale on Flickr. The disused Midland Railway route through the Peak District to Manchester, shot a few years ago, before I started thinking about this whole Lines In The Landscape thing properly… Finally opened up as a cycle path since this was shot, so will hopefully get the view from the line itself one of these days.
× 6 × UK × England × Derbyshire × Peak District × Midland Railway × Millers Dale × railways × landscape × rivers × bridges × viaducts
Cows! on Flickr. A South West Trains DMU passing the ruins of Sherborne Old Castle on the West of England Main Line, near where I grew up in Dorset — a not-previously featured spot, shot last summer back while this tumblr was still new and was still working its way through other people’s shots…
× 15 × UK × England × Dorset × West Dorset × Sherborne × Sherborne Castle × castles × railways × trains × DMUs × Class 159 × Super Sprinter × SWT × South West Trains × motion blur × cows × farms × ruins × Lines In The Landscape × West of England Main Line
Tyne on Flickr. The double-deck High Level Bridge, with some variety of sprinter (unless that’s a pacer) DMU, shot from the Tyne Bridge when I was passing through Newcastle in May 2011. The Newcastle/Gateshead riverside is amazing — like a full size version of one of those model train sets where people stuff in an implausibly dense network of impressive railway infrastructure.Newcastle/Gateshead High Level Bridge, East Coast Main Line.
× 20 × UK × England × Northumberland × Newcastle × Gateshead × bridges × trains × railways × cityscape
Dentdale on Flickr.I spent a long and very cold easter weekend in Cumbria, Yorkshire and Lancashire, mostly doing the usual proper photography, but with a couple of crossings of the Settle to Carlisle on my route, I couldn’t not stop off to catch a few cliché Lines In The Landscape shots — including a northbound pair of 158s on Arten Gill (followed a couple of minutes later by a southbound freight). It’s a scene that others have shot more than enough times before, and which appeared here on LITL at least twice, but…
× 9 × UK × England × Yorkshire × North Yorkshire × Yorkshire Dales × Dentdale × Arten Gill × Settle-Carlisle Line × Settle to Carlisle Railway × Arten Gill Viaduct × landscape × trains × DMUs × Class 158 × Northern Rail × Pennines × Lines In The Landscape
arcing train on Flickr. Here’s something I shot a couple of months ago, taking a little detour on the way home from work. Overlooking the Brighton and Kent Main Lines and Southern suburban commuter lines out of London Victoria, from the backstreets behind the station. The bright light below the depot is a train arcing the damp third rail electric supply.
× 9 × England × London × Brighton Main Line × Kent Main Line × railways × trains

I love your blog :) Some great photographs on here

Thanks — though for 99% of them, I can claim credit only for being the curator, and now the curated queue has all run out. Perhaps I’ll keep the tumblr ticking over by adding my own shots from time to time…

× 1 Asked by mahoosiveanaconda

Do you have a personal favourite rail route?

There are lots of nice ones, but obviously none could present any serious challenge to the West Highland Line.

× 1 Asked by arodean

Where are you from?

Just down the road from here, on the West of England Main Line:

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But I’ve also lived here, here, here, here, and here. But currently, I’m just down the road from here:

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× Asked by swampcabbage
Rannoch Moor by PrawnFM 05 on Flickr.West Highland Line
× 10 × Scotland × Highlands × West Highland Line × railways × trains
37410+66034 at Wash, 6M05 binliner 31st July 2007 by John Eyres on Flickr.Hope Valley Line
× 12 × Derbyshire × Edale × railways × South TransPennine × trains
66104 Kildonan by Dave_SUFC on Flickr.Far North Line
× 10 × Scotland × Highlands × Far North Line × railways × trains
The Ribblehead Viaduct I by Paul ‘Tuna’ Turner on Flickr.Settle-Carlisle Line
× 18 × England × Yorkshire × Settle-Carlisle Line × railways × trains
37410 at Criccieth Beach, ‘The Snowdonian’ 19th May 2007 by John Eyres on Flickr.Cambrian Coast Line
× 9 × Wales × Snowdonia × Cambrian Coast Line × railways × trains
Mail ECS At Docker. by neilh156 on Flickr.West Coast Main Line
× 7 × Cumbria × West Coast Main Line × railways × trains × freight
37148 with Ford vehicles at Muchalls, 14 Mar 1984 by bob the lomond on Flickr. Edinburgh-Aberdeen Line.
× 9 × Scotland × Aberdeenshire × freight × railways × trains