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07:15.

Nearly there! I’d have been quite happy to stay here in my suite at the station hotel here in Newcastle but I’ve a lot more miles to cover and a border to cross yet. Right now it’s time to get packing before my first train of the day, which will carry me to Edinburgh. The rain we had last night has disappeared and the weather promises to be good heading up the East coast, but as usual, the West side of Scotland looks more mixed.

I’ll blog (when I can) throughout the day….

Local services around Newcastle are mostly in the hands of these old Class 156s, built by Metro-Cammell in Birmingham between 1987-89. Nowadays the 114 strong fleet is divided between Northern and Scotrail.

09:36.

We’ve just crossed the Royal border bridge and are about to enter Scotland. This is always a magical journey.

11:00.

My stay in Edinburgh was brief. I’m about to head off to take in a new line that’s only reopened this year, the branch to Levenmouth. But not on one of these!

Hitachi built these Class 385s for Scotrail, the only company that operates them. They’re good trains but their introduction was ‘troubled’

23:30.

Well, what can I say? It’s been a busy day on busy trains where I’ve not always had the space to move, never mind blog. So, I’ll end the day with a few pictures from my travels now I’m tucked up in my hotel in Glasgow.

The furthest North I got today was Dundee, where I spent an hour by the banks of the Tay thinking about the past and taking pictures like this.
After dropping my bags off at my hotel it was time to head back into the city centre and indulge in a ‘shoogle’ on the new trains on the Glasgow Subway aka – the ‘clockwork orange’…
Another day, another class of train. Here’s the Alstom ‘Juniper’ which took me back from Partick to Anniesland.

Tomorrow is the official end of my trip. I’ll be taking a train from Glasgow all the way to Mallaig. Hopefully, I’ll be able to blog en-route. But for now – goodnight.

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