150110 at Hall Royd Junction with a Blackpool to Leeds train. 15/6/88.

155343 & 155342 climb to Copy Pit summit at Portsmouth with a York to Blackpool service. 30/8/93.

155345 passes Holmes Chapel on the climb to Copy Pit with the 11.40 Blackpool North to Leeds service. 29/12/90. Pendle Hill is prominent in the background.

158755 drifts down through Cornholme, near Todmorden with 1B33 14.30 Blackpool North to Leeds. 28/5/07.

158756 approaches Copy Pit Summit with the 10:11 York to Blackpool North service. 9/2/08.

158797. Robinwood Viaduct. 1B27 11.30 Blackpool North to York. 26/4/07.

158851 descends from Copy Pit Summit with the 10:30 Blackpool North to Leeds. 22/11/08.

31207 and 31210 round the curve at Hall Royd Junction with 7E60 Preston Docks to Lindsey on the 9th December 1987.

33116 "Hertfordshire Railtours and 33051 "Shakespeare Cliff" are at the "other" Portsmouth, ie. the one near Todmorden, with the 1Z33 "Duck & Weasel" charter from Kings Cross to York, on the 28th December 1996.

37167 at Hall Royd Junction with 6E80 11.30 Preston Deepdale to Healey Mills "Speedlink" coal on the 17th May 1988.

37235 had just recently been named"Coal Merchants Association of Scotland" when I took this. It's at Hallroyd Junction on the 9th December 1987. The train was a daily Speedlink coal train from Healey Mills to Preston Deepdale. This was the return working with reporting number 6E80, which again, I photographed on numerous occasions. Motive power was usually a 37 but Class 45s, 47s and 56s were also to be seen.

40145 climbs to Copy Pit at Lydgate, Todmorden with the 1Z40 15:00 Leeds to Crewe "Retro Retracer". 28/5/07.

40145 thrashes it's way up to Copy Pit Summit in crap light with 1Z07 16:48 Manchester Victoria to Blackburn - "The Cotton Mill Express". 14/6/08. What a difference there'd been if the sun had been out!

45007 comes round the curve from the Copy Pit line, at Hall Royd Junction on the 19th May 1988. The train is the Preston Deepdale to Healey Mills, which on this occasion is very lightly loaded. This bridge is where I did my childhood trainspotting with a constant procession of Dub-Dees, Black Fives, 8Fs, Crabs etc!

47330 leaves Hall Royd Junction for Preston after completion of engineering work on the 28th February 1988.

47537 "Sir Gwynnedd" crosses Robinwood Viaduct with the "Midsummer Night's Dream" railtour on 17th June 1988. To this day I still haven't captured a special in sun at this location!

47608 comes off the Copy Pit line at Hall Royd Junction with a train from the MOD depot at Chorley. 7/12/87. This was a pretty rare sight. I certainly never photographed another one of these trains.

47709 approaches Copy Pit Summit with the "The Lake District Explorer" charter - 1Z40 05.10 Norwich to Oxenholme on the 3rd September 2005.

47760 has 37676 dead in train as it climbs away from Portsmouth and attacks the last few yards to Copy Pit Summit. The train was 5Z83 12:55 Barnetby to Carnforth. 1/3/09.

47820 tackles Copy Pit and is seen near Portsmouth on 29th May 1993. The train was a Nenta Railtours charter to Carlisle.

47826 "Springburn" descends from Copy Pit with 1Z68 16.45 Lancaster to Stevenage. 29/5/06.

47853 leads the ECS of "The Spinning Jenny" Blue Pullman Railtour, over Copy Pit on the 10th March 2007.

56043 climbs to Copy Pit summit with 6M58 Wakefield Cobra to Blackburn. 29/5/93.

56112 descends from Copy Pit past Portsmouth with 6E41 Arpley to Lackenby (which ran via Blackburn at the time). 4/5/99.

57601 is on the rear of 1Z68 16.45 Lancaster to Stevenage at Portsmouth, near Todmorden, on the 29th May 2006.

66554 crosses Robinwood Viaduct with 4S42 09.45 Drax to Hunterston. 26/4/07. This was only the fourth time that the train had traversed the Copy Pit line. Before Monday of that week no Freightliner coal train had ever used the route. This photo features in the July 2007 edition of Railways Illustrated Magazine.