The Royal Scotsman leaves Edinburgh with the 'Classic' tour, taking tourists round the Scottish Highlands. This scene is soon to disapear - the pylons for the new catenery on this line are already... (more)

The Edinburgh sleeper from London approaches its destination over the Slateford viaduct, unusually behind a diesel Class 67.

The Edinburgh portion of the lowland Caledonian Sleeper makes its way into the Scottish capital.

A short departmental ballast travels west with Edinburgh Castle dominating the skyline.

Empty stock crossing paths at Wester Hailes. Early morning stock travelling to Edinburgh and Glasgow ready to start their day's work

The morning binliner leaves Edinburgh for a landfill site near Dunbar behind a 40 year old class 37.

Deltic no 55 016 Gordon Highlander at rest at Haymarket Depot way back in December 1979.

66718 is seen passing Winchburgh (Scotland) with 6e59 Aberdeen Waterloo to Doncaster 'mud oil' empties.

Deltic 55 018 - Ballymoss on shed at Haymarket. At this stage she was still allocated to Finsbury Park and carried that depot's trademark white cabs

As Edinburgh Castle looms overhead (on the hill), a Scot Rail 3-car MU train arrives at Waverly Station on a rainy day (this is Scotland, after all!). The work train to the left, powered by an EW... (more)

A Scot Rail Class 156 MU train, wearing the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Kilmarnock Carmine & Cream livery, emerges from the first tunnel, just a few hundred yards from the Waverly Station trai... (more)

English Welsh and Scottish Railway electric locomotive 90024 rests between runs at Edinburgh's Waverly Station in the Scottish capital on June 27, 2007.

English Welsh and Scottish Railway electric locomotive 90024 rests between runs at Edinburgh's Waverly Station in the Scottish capital on June 27, 2007.

A railtour comes off the magnificently over-engineered Forth Bridge behind A2 class Pacific 'Blue Peter'.

Power Car 43 122 has a wash and brush-up before preparing to take passengers southwards to London Kings Cross in the days before the East Coast Main Line was electrified.