Category Archives: Transport

Feb 18 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Go that way, for no particular reason

Tuesday 17th February 2026, 6.10pm (day 5,290)

Roadworks and signs, 17/2/26

For the second semester in a row I have been allocated a 4-6pm teaching slot, and, as yet, we are nowhere near far enough into the spring for me to be seeing sunsets on a Tuesday; it’s dark by the time I emerge. The walk home then begins up Brook Street, which for some time now has been consistently a traffic jam at about 6.10pm. The cause is obvious, and I’m sure all the Manchester drivers are very happy when they realise there is, as far as I can tell, nothing in particular going on in the coned-off lane.

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Feb 16 2026
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Art and architecture, Daily Post, Transport

In the dry dock, a wave

Sunday 15th February 2026, 3.35pm (day 5,288)

Barge in dry dock, 15/2/26

Couldn’t decide between two pictures today and went with this one largely to avoid having two pictures in the same weekend taken in the cinema. But this one will do. It has been a while since something has used the dry dock in Hebden town centre, but this barge obliged today while also being quite well-decorated, although what a tsunami has to do with the water on a canal does pass me by. Wishful thinking perhaps?

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Feb 06 2026
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna, Transport

Dubai Creek

Thursday 5th February 2026, 3.10pm (day 5,278)

Dubai creek, 5/2/26

Welcome back to Dubai, for my third trip here after 2019 and last year. Purely for work, well, except today when I had a day off thanks to teaching all of the weekend that is to come. Dubai Creek is why the city is here, being the inlet of the Persian Gulf around which the original settlement was founded. These days it’s just another part of the big shopping mall that the city has become, albeit with cuter buildings and some cats. Oh yes, and lots of seagulls.

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Jan 19 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Moor Road metrolink

Sunday 18th January 2026, 3.30pm (day 5,260)

Moor Road metrolink, 18/1/26

Having managed to avoid going to work in Manchester for several days (a run that is not over yet), I nevertheless concocted a reason to go there on a Sunday, to ‘get out of the house’ — go figure that one out. I did not regret this, but it was a day on which the city lived up to its reputation for a certain dampness of climate. It’s not obviously coming down in this shot, but you can just feel it, can’t you?

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Jan 11 2026
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Daily Post, Transport

Routes on from Warrington

Saturday 10th January 2026, 10.05am (day 5,252)

Tracks at Warrington, 10/1/26

Warrington was the intermediate stop on today’s journey. Which way on from here? Left & further south? Right, and eventually north? Do we score 45 points one way and 100 points the other? And the wiring looks just as complex as it did yesterday…

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Dec 27 2025
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Daily Post, Landscape, Transport

50-mile view, with plane

Friday 26th December 2025, 12.25pm (day 5,237)

Culter Fell with plane, 26/12/25

Boxing Day was spent walking in the Ochil Hills. Grey skies above us were contrasted with the sight of sun shining on hills to the south. This shot, from the summit of Innerdouny Hill, was taken with a very long zoom, and I am prepared to state that what is seen here is Culter Fell, the 2,454-feet high summit of South Lanarkshire — it’s in the right direction, and it certainly looks like it (see the second image down on the page as linked). Which means that here we have a view of just under 50 miles. That’s impressive — but in the end, I pick the shot because of also capturing the aeroplane, which is just cute. (More pictures from the walk will appear on my other blog in due course….)

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Dec 24 2025
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Daily Post, Landscape, Transport

The 12:10 to Edinburgh

Wednesday 24th December 2025, 12.15pm (day 5,235)

Train on Tay bridge, 24/12/25

As seen crossing the Tay rail bridge, more-or-less on schedule. The shot is taken from Newport-on-Tay, on the opposite side of the firth from Dundee. I am feeling minimalist this Christmas Eve, it seems.

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Dec 22 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

The tractor from the deep

Sunday 21st December 2025, 8.45pm (day 5,232)

Tractor creature, 21/12/25

‘Tractor runs’ seem to have become a definite thing in the last couple of Christmases, giving the local farmers an excuse to drive their machines out on public roads, blocking them while making large amounts of noise and raising money for, well, something or other. Following on from the one at home last year, here we have the Ribble Valley version. Virtually impossible to take decent photos of these things, at least, not with my kit, but I go with this one if only because it reminds me of something from the twisted mind of H P Lovecraft; Great Cthulhu’s Tractor perhaps?

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Dec 17 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

Freight passing through

Tuesday 16th December 2025, 5.50pm (day 5,227)

Freight does still make an occasional appearance on the line, usually long trains of wagons marked with ‘Drax’, meaning they are heading to or (in this case) from the power station. Not that you can tell any of this from this extended blur, but I challenge anyone to get a sharp picture of something moving at at least 30mph in the dark. Drax (it’s amazing what you can learn from Wikipedia pages on a Wednesday morning) burns wood imported from the US and Canada, which these trains then ship across the country from Liverpool, with Hebden en route — so we often see these, at all times of day and night.

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Nov 21 2025
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Daily Post, Transport

The 9:31, according to Northern

Thursday 20th November 2025, 10.05am (day 5,201)

Very late train, 20/11/25

I do appreciate the notion of ‘First World Problems’ and that there are parts of the world where trains can run days late, if they run at all. But for Christ’s sake, Northern….. at this time of year particularly (‘leaves on the line’ plus the cold snap of the last couple of days). This train was due to arrive in Manchester at 10:01, so there went the first twenty minutes of my 11 o’clock.

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