142002, wearing the colourful Greater Manchester PTE livery, passes Agecroft on 10 June 1994 with the 07:50 Wigan Wallgate to Manchester Oxford Road service. The lamposts devoid of any lamps in the background, are not the result of vandalism, but council recycling, as the road over the bridge is disused and has been further cut back since I visited the location.

With Goole's landmark 'Salt and Pepperpot' water towers on the horizon, 142005 rattles its way north with the 09:46 Doncaster to Hull Northern Rail service on 11 March 2009. Also visible in the distance is a more recent landmark in the flat East Yorkshire landscape - the Guardian glass factory.

142012 pulls away from Lostock Hall station on 10 May 1997 and passes Lostock Hall Junction with the 11:10 Blackpool South to Colne Regional Railways service. The line diverging to the left connects the Preston to Blackburn line with the West Coast Mainline. This route is electrified which explains the last catenary post visible on the left, on the adjacent sidings.

142014 passes Maud's Bridge on 14 March 2007 with the 10:25 Sheffield to Scunthorpe Northern Trains service. Thorne church can be seen in the background, while on the extreme left is the brickwork of a bridge over a lineside ditch, which is also a favourite spot for photography.

A pacer meeting at Warton (near Carnforth) on 9 June 2005. 142049 heads for Lancaster (for once, a clear destination blind!) with the 12:41 Northern Rail service from Carlisle, while 142007 heads in the opposite direction with the balancing Carlisle working. Note the contrast in liveries.

Still wearing Arriva livery, albeit with the branding removed, 142017 arrives at Hatfield & Stainforth station on 15 March 2007 with the 08:23 Sheffield to Scunthorpe Northern Trains service. This is one of the hourly all stations trains, calling at: Rotherham, Rotherham Central, Swinton, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Doncaster, Kirk Sandall, Thorne South, Crowle & Althorpe.

142029 leaves Micklefield station on 26 November 2005 with the 12:29 Wakefield Westgate to Selby Northern Rail service. Note the staggered platforms in the background. Hopefully there is more traffic from this station on a weekday, otherwise the car parking arrangements seem a little over optimistic!

142054 arrives at Newton-le-Willows with the 09:22 Liverpool Lime Street to Preston service on 28 July 1992. The viaduct carries the line over both the A49 Winwick to Haydock road and the valley of the Newton Brook. Completely straight track here, so no ear splitting shrieking from the unarticulated wheels of this 'bus on rails'!

With the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant dominating the skyline, 142057 approaches Seascale on 2 May 2005 with the 08:35 Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness Northern Rail service. The area of sand dunes between the railway and the nuclear plant is used as a golf course. Presumably the areas of rough and sand traps were not that difficult to construct from sand dunes!

142092 rattles past Ryther with the 10:20 York to Selby Northern Rail service on 1 October 2009. This is a relatively new section of railway, opened in 1983. Known as the Selby diversion, it not only avoids the town of that name with its sharp curves and swing bridge, but also took the East Coast Mainline away from the developing Selby Coalfield with its possible problems of subsidence.

142093 negotiates the sharply curved line between Retford and Whisker Hill Junction with the 12:53 Retford to Wakefield Kirkgate service on 17 September 1996. It is just about to join the Gainsborough to Worksop line, which is at a considerably lower level in the cutting just out of the picture in the foreground. This line burrows under the East Coast Main Line near Retford station, hence this tightly curved line connecting the two routes.

142096, still wearing its original Regional Railways livery, arrives at Crowle station with the 09:03 Doncaster to Scunthorpe service on 25 September 1999. Note the long closed signal box at the end of the platform. The Stainforth & Keadby Canal parallels the railway for several miles here, and is in fact just over the fence on the left. Crowle station is actually in the village of Ealand, Crowle being a mile further north on the road towards Goole.