The millenium year as I recall was pretty wet, and its noticeable that my slide collection goes weeks at a time when I apparently took no pictures (I was a very fair weather photographer). As usual there are a number of well trodden paths in London, the Home Counties, East Anglia and around York, as well as a few expeditions further afield, notably to Cornwall, South Wales and the Welsh Marches

One really memorable day out was on November 4th when I took my dad with me to Barnetby! My father was not a rail-fan but he was well disposed towards trains in general and travelling by train in particular, even though he would always refer to them as chuff chuffs to wind me up :-)

We set off from Easingwold, stopping firstly at Elsham for the 56 hauled Enterprise from Doncaster to Immingham, and then on to Grimsby and Cleethorpes before returning to Melton Ross for more pictures. The reason for the side trip into Grimsby and Cleethorpes, and the real reason why dad had come with me is that he'd lived in Grimsby as a boy and was interested to see what remained of the family house. For reasons I could never fathom out he remained a committed armchair supporter of Grimsby Town FC for the rest of his life, our weekly phone conversations invariably dwelt on the latest indignity visited on the Mariners :-(

Finally I've added some pictures from two visits to North America during the year; to the USA and Canada in May/June, which included my first visit to the iron ore railroads of Eastern Canada and the, almost legendary, Alco/MLW fleet of the Chemin de Fer du Cartier and to Florida for Thanksgiving