Aberystwyth on 19th May 2007 - what was previously platform 3 has been converted to commercial use - note the obvious platform brickwork beneath the glass-enclosed shop units.

The Old Deeside Line used to run from a junction south of Aberdeen at Ferryhill through to Ballater, but closed in 1966. Part of the route now forms a pedestrian walkway from Duthie Park to Culter, and it is at the former that this picture was taken on 16th September 2008. It shows the truncated bridge that carried the track from Aberdeen towards Holburn - the walkway starts just to the right of the photographer.

The first staion west of Aberdeen on the Deeside Line was Holburn, where the old station has been tidied up well enough for the platforms to be easily visible. September 16th 2008.

Parts of both platforms still exist at Holburn station, the westbound platform is seen here on September 16th 2008. On the right is one of the many information boards along the route detailing the history of the line.

Not all stations along the Deeside Railway are as in good condition as Hoburn. This is Ruthrieston on September 16th 2008, where the platofmrs remain in slightly less well preserved condition.

You do wonder what the point of doing this was! Single track runs along what was a double tracked trackbed at Aberdeen station on 13th September 2008. These now closed platforms are on the western side of the station - this view is facing south.

Slowly but surely, these old style "Next Train" indicators are being replaced on the Tube by indicators giving not only the next few trains due, but when they are due to arrive. 0550 at Aldgate East on 28th March 2009.

The granddaddy of all disused tube stations has to be the closed station At Aldwych. The station, closed in 1994 after required lift repairs proved to be financially prohibitive, looks less like how it closed and looks more like how it opened back in 1907 when it was called "Strand", named after the road it was located on. September 3rd 2007.

Although situated on the Strand, the main entrance to Aldwych was actually on an adjoining side street. With the original Piccadilly Railway signs on show, this picture shows the "other" entrance on 3rd September 2007. Note the Tube Roundel just visible near the middle of the picture.

A close up of the Aldwych roundel on September 3rd 2007. The station remains fairly intact, and is regularly used as a location for filming. Indeed, it was a regular location for filming even when it was open, as the line was underused and only ran as a peak hour shuttle to Holborn for most of it's lifetime.

There used to be several deep level tube stations with island platforms, but most have been rebuilt over the years. This is Angel on 10th May 2009 - this used to be a single island platform, but is now the southbound Northern Line platform only. The left hand wall, which now forms the platform wall, used to be the tunnel wall adjacent to the northbound running line. The extreme width of the platform indicates the original layout of the station.

The new northbound platform at Angel - compare this to the previous picture to see just how narrower this platform is when compared to the southbound platform. There remained, when this picture was taken, a section of disused track to the north of the station where the original line headed in the direction of where the island platform was situated. May 10th 2009.

One of only a handful of deep level island platforms still in use - this is Clapham North, looking south, on May 8th 2009. You can imagine how crowded this platform could get during rush hour, which was a factor in the rebuilding of Angel station.

Whilst the Underground Roundel has been in existence for many years, there have been subtle changes to the design over the years. This entrance sign at Temple, photographed on 3rd September 2007, dates (I believe) from the 1930s.

You would have thought that preserved railways are supposed to do just that - preserve - but the Strathspey Railway has a genuine disused station. When the line was first opened to Aviemore, the line stopped just short of the BR station, so a special terminus had to be built barely quarter of a mile to the north, called "Aviemore Speyside". This arty shot of the station on 12th September 2008 shows the sign advising visitors that they are at the wrong station!

A view looking south through Aviemore Speyside - the general rubble confirms the disused nature of the station. "Queen Anne" rests on 12th September 2008.

Aynho station, with the northbound station building still standing, on 29th March 2009. Aynho Junction, where the line from Princes Risborough meets the line from Oxford, is just to the right of the picture.

Some rather impressive signs at the Baker Street Metropolitan line platforms on April 4th 2009. Notice the GWR style benches.

More impressive signage at Baker Street - a pair of Metropolitan Railway signs above the western end of the station on 4th April 2009.

The Hammersmith & City line was, until 1988, still part of the Metropolitan Line. However, given that this line was a combination of different routes (ie. trains from Whitechapel did not go to Amersham), the decision was taken to rebrand the Barking - Hammersmith section. However, this curious anomaly still remains at Baker Street - the colours for the Circle and Metropolitan lines are used as part of the signs, some 21 years after the Metropolitan stopped using this platform. April 4th 2009.

A mixture of different roundel designs at Barbican on 2nd August 2008. In the background is the westbound "BR" platform which, by this time, had closed to passengers - only First Capital Connect trains running from Farringdon to Moorgate stopped at this station by this point in time, the eastbound platform of which forms an island platform with the westbound LUL line. The patches of paint in the background are where, following a graffiti attack on the closed platform, were the station staff's way of covering it up.

The Barking Park Light Railway was a 2009 "re-opening" of the Barking Park Miniature Railway, which had closed in 2004. The line was re-gauged upon opening, which means one of the line's existing locos, "Little Nan", could not be used on the re-opened line. The loco is stored in the shed seen here, and I do believe that the piece of track you see running out towards the turntable is of a different gauge. Barking Boating Lake station, May 24th 2009.

47727 approaches Berkswell with the rather short 6Z47 1255 Rugeley - Bescot on 26th May 2009 - so short, that by zooming in, you can't see the consist! The "Duff" is approaching pointwork that, theoretically, gives access to a short headshunt that previously would have led onwards to Kenilworth, but this route closed in the Beeching era. In the background, to the right of the 47, the clearing more or less indicates the path of the trackbed, which further south is being converted into a Greenway Cycle Path.

A slightly different picture, in that whilst it shows a disused aspect of Birmingham Snow Hill, this scene would change within 5 years. 47813 has arrived with the "Velvet Glove" tour on May 6th 1991, and is facing in the direction of West Bromwich, this being the old GWR route to Wolverhampton Low Level. The station had closed in 1972, but the short section from Moor Street was reopened in 1987. However, in 1995 services would once again run north into the tunnel seen in the distance in this picture.