Diesel on the Met
20205 approaches Eastcote working the 09.15 Ruislip Depot - Harrow on the Hill empty stock working for the days steam on the met trips to and from Amersham. In the shadows at the rear are 20142, 9466 and Met Number 1 the steam locomotives being the attraction for most. The 20 could be heard approaching for several minutes and was a most welcome sight as I was expecting an underground liveried loco on the front. Sunday 10th September 2017
86101 hitches a ride on the rear of 5E43 the 08.43 Kings Cross - Wembley Inter City Depot empty stock working. The 86 had hauled the train from Kings Cross to Hornsby where the train reversed. The stock was off the Aberdeen/Fort William sleeper which was diverted due to the closure of Euston for some preliminary HS2 work. The Inverness portion ran as a separate train due to platform length restrictions at Kings Cross. Holloway Road, Saturday 26th August 2017.
Lucky break
37116 and 37025 pass underneath the Metropolitan Line near Kenton working the 3Z04 10.40 Derby RTC - Tonbridge West Yard test train on 2nd April 2017. The train was on time for most of it's journey and had it been so at this point would have come in cloud. It was following a local service but then mysteriously stopped in the station at Harrow and Wealdstone a few miles further north for just long enough to allow the sun to come out.
57302 Virgil Tracy hauls pendolino 390036 south near Headstone Lane whilst working an Oxley - Euston ECS that had run via Nuneaton and so required diesel haulage. The sun angle is a bit tight and with mid summer conditions the result is far from perfect but as it was the first time I had seen a 57 dragging a pendolino I have no real complaints!!
20309 and 20312 approach Kenton hauling a Whitchurch - Canterbury charter on the morning of Saturday 16th June 2012. Not the best view in the area but as it was from the footbridge adjacent to my son's football tournament and was therefore the only place I could see the train it was better than nothing.