I haven’t caught a train since early March – a theatre trip south to Newcastle.  As lockdown restrictions have gradually eased I’ve followed the evolving guidelines, wondering when I’ll be able to catch a train again.  With two daughters living in Edinburgh, I hope to be on a north-bound train before long.  Meanwhile Cee’s photo challenge, Anything to Do With Trains,  has given me an excuse to relive past train journeys and revisit distant stations.

 

A Cambridgeshire village church glimpsed from the East Coast Main Line – July 2016
Normandy farmland seen from Eurostar – December 2017
Seen from a train travelling east from Lyon, a line of pollarded poplars stand out against the distant mountains – December 2016
Landscape with reflections – heading north from York – August 2017
Allotment gardens in the outskirts of Turin with mountains not far beyond – April 2018

Window gazing in England, France and Italy…

 

The Victorian train shed at King’s Cross station…
and the dazzling new concourse opened in 2013
Ten minutes to spare at Gare du Nord – January 2016
Gare de Lyon, gateway to the south of France – January 2016
Misty morning at Port Royal – a station on the urban RER network

and station views from London and Paris.

Click on any image to view the gallery.

The headline image is from Edinburgh’s Waverley station, which takes its name from the novel by Sir Walter Scott set around the time of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.