Thursday 26th Feb, Crouch Hill; the alarm has sounded, the track workers stand away...

..and 60049 passes en-route from Bow Olympic.

At Upper Holloway 66732 on the 6M09 Ferme Park to Wellingborough.

At Junction Road Junction, 66623 Bardon Aggregates on what I think was probably the 6L88 Bardon Hill to Bow Olympic

Some 10 minutes later the 6L45 Thurrock bound cement passes 6M56, the tri-weekly Ripple Lane to Wembley cargo-waggons...

...within 30 seconds the 6M56 was underway again and heading for Gospel Oak and the NLL.

On Saturday 28th, Grand Central's 06:53 from Sunderland approaching Alexandra Palace...

...passing the 10:38 to Hertford North...

...which in turn was on the flyover on the Hertford Loop as the 08:02 from Hull emerged from Wood Green Tunnel, in the form of Hull Train's last remaining Pioneer 222.104

One of the 222s replacements, the uber-stylish 180s, emerging from Hadley Wood Tunnel on the 10:06 from Hull.

Not as many lineside as for Tornado, about a dozen rail fans were present at Hadley Wood for 700013 Oliver Cromwell on the Great Northern from Cleethorpes

Routed along the slow line and only a matter of minutes behind the Welwyn GC to King's Cross stopping train, 70013 was having a bit of a dawdle.

Still plenty of picture taking though, note the yellow signal, the stopper still at New Barnet.

A final Hull Trains picture; the 13:05 from Hull emerging from Wood Green Tunnel.

Spring is definitely in the air when I can get a decent picture of the 07:20 to Hull at Harringay. After three attempts the first Adelante of the season; last week 222104 seemed to monopolise this service.

An early appointment took me through King's Cross in time to see Grand Central's 08:04 to Sunderland leaving, accompanied by a trail of sooty Valenta exhaust.

A quick time-out at Harringay at lunchtime. The 11:46 to Hertford North arrives, and obscures a King's Cross bound HST.

The 313 was followed in short order by, firstly, the 11:45 to King's Lynn...

...and secondly by the 11:48 to Hull.

An hour later en-route to Crawley I caught the 6Y91 Cliffe to Purley, the 'Bretts', looking rather out of place among the usual MUs...

...crossing from Down Fast to Down Slow...

...and wending its way through Clapham Junction under the gaze of some curious passengers.

On the 24th March I walked to Ally Pally to catch my train. Two empty 313 sets were heading for the Hertford North branch, the one in the foreground on the Down Goods, the one behind on the Down Slow whilst a pair of 365s hurried towards King's Cross on the Up Fast.

The 6L77 Enterprise trip to Ely now runs once a week (on a Tuesday). Here it is at Caledonian Road & Barnsbury with a featherweight load of two bogie cargo-waggons.