View 2 from platform 3

… showing the curves. A similar view featured on Saltaire Daily Photo some time ago

View from platform 3

York, three times a lady - look hard through the open arch.

Steam surprise

Who should we bump into on platform 10 of York station but Oliver Cromwell (the engine, not the man in the pony-tail). We took a rather more ordinary train to Darlington to a conference featuring a speaker from Manila and another from Bordeaux. 

More blossom

… opposite the railway station. This picture is a few weeks old; the daffodils look pretty dreary at the moment, and will soon be gone.

Outside a city wall

We perhaps don't do flowers as well as our Gallic neighbours, but we do 'em, as evidenced by this railing-box on Station Road. 

York station clock and

roof structure, taken on our way to Durham to see me mam, as I would have said years ago, before adopting ma mum after moving to North Yorkshire. The transcription of the vowel sounds is approximate.