11:12.

I’m back on the rails again as we’ve lovely weather here in West Yorkshire, albeit with a frosty start. Now the sun’s warming the world and the blue skies are untroubled by more than just a few clouds. Having spent the morning pottering around at home I prepped to head out for the day to make the most of things before the start of the Easter break,

Having explored the Harrogate loop line the other week I’ve decided to retrace my steps in the hope of getting pictures of some of the things I discovered – but missed out capturing on camera. Right now I’m on the 10:58 from Sowerby Bridge, heading for Leeds. There’s plenty of room on this train as it consists of two 2-car Class 195s, making it easy to bag a table bay and set up the mobile office. Let’s see how the day goes…

12:45.

As always, Leeds was busy. Whilst I wasn’t there long LNER came up with a trio of Class 91s in 15 mins. Here’s 91127, a local celebrity as it’s named after the city’s main rail depot – Nevill Hill.

I wasn’t entirely sure which clockface way around the loop I was going to go today, but the first available train was the 12:06, so I’m going clockwise as far as Knaresborough.

One day I’d love to explore the section from Leed to Harrogate more as it has some amazing tunnels and viaducts set in gorgeous rolling scenery but that would be more on foot/road than rail.

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Paul