144001 leaves Goole on 7 February 1998 with the 11:28 Goole to Doncaster service. 56133 can just be seen in the background waiting to follow it with the 6J50 11:34 Goole Docks to Rotherham steel train. This wide open view is no longer possible, as the field in the foreground has been built on. Several large industrial units now occupy the site, which is presumably what the sign that can just be seen to the right of 56133 in the background is advertising! Also the lineside vegetation has increased considerably.

144004 passes Calder Bridge Junction, Wakefield on 18 October 1997 with the 14:54 Wakefield Westgate to Pontefract Monkhill service. In the best tradition of DMU operation the destination blind shows where it has come from rather than where it is going to!

144004 passes Melton Ross on 26 July 2003 with the 14:56 Cleethorpes to Sheffield Arriva Trains Northern service. This has traveled from Cleethorpes as an all stations service, and will shortly be calling at Barnetby, it will then proceed via Retford, finally arriving at Sheffield at 17:05, no doubt any passengers making the whole journey will be then be very glad to get off!

A very grubby 144009 slows down for the stop at Crowle whilst working the 09:03 Doncaster to Scunthorpe service on 1 May 1999. The line runs parallel with the Stainforth & Keadby Canal for some distance here. Presumably the odd cantilevered signal gantry is to improve sighting, although I would have thought cutting the bushes back would have been easier!

144009 passes North Rigton on the Leeds to Harrogate line with the 07:10 Leeds to York service on 6 September 2004. The soft autumnal sun was just burning off the mist, which can still be seen lingering in the background. The 39 miles between Leeds and York is possibly about the furthest you'd want to travel in one of these railbuses. Lively is possibly the kindest description of quality of their ride, with a very basic bus like accommodation. At least they were cheap!

144010 passes Old Denaby on 17 April 2006 with the 09:27 Lincoln to Adwick Northern Rail Metro service, in a brief patch of sunshine. Very brief, as Mexborough station in the background is not in sun, and there are some threatening dark clouds approaching! This is not what you would call a speedy service taking 2 hours 20 minutes and calling at Saxilby, Gainsborough Lea Road, Retford Low Level, Worksop, Shireoaks, Kiveton Park, Kiveton Bridge, Woodhouse, Darnall, Sheffield, Meadowhall, Rotherham Central, Swinton, Mexborough, Conisbrough, Doncaster, Bentley and Adwick. I pity anyone that has to endure the entire journey!

A typical desolate Yorkshire mining landscape background at Hatfield & Stainforth on 15 March 2007, as 144010 heads away from the camera with the 09:25 Sheffield to Scunthorpe Northern Rail service. This side view shows off the crude construction of the underframe of these vehicles.

144011 departs from Goole on 11 October 2004 with the 09:00 Beverley to Doncaster Arriva Trains Northern service. Passengers got a slightly better deal shortly afterwards, with these relatively long distance trains being replaced by the more suitable Class 158 units. The barriers are going up and traffic is already crossing the road in the background.

144012 passes Ackworth on 7 May 2007 with the 11:01 York to Sheffield Northern Trains service, one of only two daily direct trains on this route. It is approaching the site of Ackworth station, opened by the Swinton and Knottingley Joint Railway in 1879 and closed by British Railways in 1951.

144014 pulls away from Sherburn-in-Elmet on 17 September 1996 with the 17:52 York to Hull service. Although the level crossing has been closed to road vehicles and replaced with a bridge (upon which I am standing), and clearly the only crossing over the line in this view is a footpath, the level crossing barriers were still operational when this picture was taken, merrily going up and down for each train for no reason whatsoever. Unfortunately this sort of stupidity is typical of Britain in recent years.