On April 1st (a rather appropriate date) I cycled from home in North London to Newhaven in Sussex, primarily to see whether I could do it as I'm riding with colleagues from London to Paris in May and the first leg is to Newhaven. I took my camera with me with the intention of taking as many pictures of moving trains on the lines I crossed en-route. No freights I'm afraid but it was a Sunday in deepest Sussex. Leaving home just after 07:00 I arrived in Newhaven just in time to catch the 17:00 back to Brighton.

The 2012 Easter weekend was about as different as last year as it could possible be, the only decent weather in East Anglia was early on Good Friday morning (and late on Saturday afternoon). I went out for a couple of surprisingly rewarding hours at Ely early on Friday morning in, to begin with, sub-zero temperatures. Last year on the same day it was 20C+

Tuesday the 10th was most definitely a day of sunshine and showers, I stopped off at Willesden Green on my way home to shoot the new Arriva Trains Wales DVT currently in service with Chiltern on the Banbury set (18:13 ex-Marylebone) taking a few pictures of the Met and Jubilee Line in the process.

The weather didn't get any better as the month progressed, indeed at times it got decidedly worse, feeling more like October than April. A range of pictures during the last half, mainly Chiltern Trains loco hauls and Brighton Line stuff, with some Goblin thrown in.