The Swale at Richmond Falls

Richmond Station - Before and After
While I would rather see trains, at least George Townsend Andrew's elegant design has been beautifully preserved and repurposed as a valuable community asset

Ford between Swaledale and Arkengarthdale

Some glorious colours in York's Museum Gardens

Rosedale
Today looking remote and peaceful, but a hundred years ago not so. This was a hive of industry - the mining of ironstone with kilns and railways bringing in coal and taking out roasted ore. The Ingleby incline was worked by rope and achieved the height gain to over 1200' with gradients of up to 20%. It connected the line to Rosedale West and its branch to Rosedale East to the main rail network at Battersby Junction

Rievaulx Abbey

78019 at Pickering station
BR Class 2, 2-6-0 'Mogul' built in 1954 at Darlington

Flamborough Head

Robin Hood's Bay

Some cliffs - looks like Whitby mudstone

Whitby Abbey

Roseberry Topping
Under a hard sandstone cap are layers of mudstone, ironstone and more sandstone. In 1912 a collapse altered its shape considerably

Saltburn
The oldest water-balanced cliff railway still working in the UK

'Triggers' Locomotion at Shildon
Apparently this is the original no.1 although evidence suggests that every part of it has been replaced!

A work of art

The Lairig Ghru

The River Dee plunges from 4,000 ft before heading east towards its eponymous meeting-place with the North Sea

Cairn Toul and Sgor an Lochain Uaine with the Devil's - erm, 'point' ma'am - poking out from behind

Corrour Bothy

Corrour Bothy dwarfed by the grandeur of the Lairig and Bod an Deamhain

Top of the Lairig Ghru. At nearly 3,000 ft, it doesn't feel like an 'almost Munro' with Ben Macdui and Braeriach glowering down on either side!

Hare - Cairngorm Mountain Railway. Broad gauge at only 2m, so not quite Brunelian!

Stanier Class 5 5025 running round at Aviemore

Knoydart and Loch Quoich

Gairich in the evening sun

Knoydart and Loch Quoich in the morning sun

Gleouraich and Spidean Mialach

The Knoydart hills from Spidean Mialach

Kinlochhourn

Well on the way to Barrisdale

Ladhar Bheinn

Barrisdale Bay

Loch Hourn

Loch Quoich

The van

Glen Roy and its 'Mysterious' parallel lines - a detour on the way home

Scalloway

Minn Beach

West and East Burra

Clift Sound

Foula from Culswick

Culswick Broch

Our Accommodation

Approach to Fair Isle past North Lighthouse

Robinson Crusoe struggles for survival

The Bressay Ferry

Isle of Noss - no boats until May

West Sandwick Beach

Bluemull Sound Ferry - to Unst

Muckle Flugga and Out Stack. The End!

The Vikings have Landed

The Drongs from Braewick

Dore Holm (pronounced 'Dorem')

Caldersgeo, Esha Ness

Da Grind o da Navir, Esha Ness (Ronas Hill in Background)

Fulmar

Esha Ness (Little and Muckle Oss out at Sea)

St Ninian's Isle and the Tombolo

Puffin and Huffin

Another Puffin

You can't have too many Puffins