This is York

As a fan of the former North Eastern Railway (and that's the pre-1923 North Eastern, not the upstart LNER from 1923-1948!) my favourite stations in Britain are Darlington (Bank Top), York and Newcastle - in that order. Pure cathedrals of the great railway age. Well, Darlington I'm come to later but here's a recent photograph to introduce York.

York is the home of our National Railway Museum - it's a couple of hundred yards to the west of the station and in fact if you follow that footbridge to the left you'll come to it.

This is the third (maybe fourth?) station at York and was opened in the 1880's. As you can see it's got a beautiful steel roof, with cast iron pillars. Actually a lot of this span is quite recent - during WW2 this platform took a direct hit from a bomb.

The train here is a 'Virgin' Voyager of some description - probably a 220 Class. It will be headed for Bristol and maybe further west.