Train, Train

A stunningly sunny and warm day here in the North East today. The outside temperature in my car gauge was reading a mean 22 degrees.
After a quick bit of grocery shopping and a refreshing cup of lemon and ginger tea with a shared toasted teacake, we came back home, and I took advantage of the fine weather to wash the windows.
Exciting stuff eh?
Sometimes normality is sufficient.
June is cooking dinner and making her own pickled beetroot with beets fresh from the garden. Then I shall be off to work to see what kind of Saturday evening I will have.
This is the sidings and rear of Aberdeen's Train Station taken from the Second Storey of Union Square car park.
It used to be known as Joint Station. The station currently standing was built as Aberdeen Joint Station between 1913?16, replacing an 1867 structure of the same name, on the same site. The station and the new Denburn Valley Line enabled the main line from the south and the commuter line from Deeside to connect with the line from the north. The lines from the south had previously terminated at the adjacent Aberdeen Guild Street. Even this had not been Aberdeen's first railway station, that distinction belonging to a previous terminus a short way south at Ferryhill. After the construction of the Joint Station, Guild Street Station became a goods station. Some of its tracks remain, but the vast majority of the site was cleared in 2005. Prior to the construction of the Joint Station, lines from the north had terminated at Aberdeen Waterloo, a short but inconvenient distance along the edge of the harbour. This too became a goods station after the construction of the Joint Station. There is no longer a station at the site, but a goods service runs approximately weekly to industrial operations there. The Waterloo tracks join the north-south connecting Denburn Valley Line in the Kittybrewster area of the city, where the very first terminus of the lines from the north had briefly been, before extension and the building of the Waterloo Station. As far north as Inverurie, these follow the route of the Aberdeenshire Canal which had been purchased and filled in by the Great North of Scotland Railway. As a result of the grouping of railway companies caused by the Railways Act 1921, Aberdeen came under the auspices of the London and North Eastern Railway. It later became part of British Rail and is now managed by First ScotRail. It was announced in 2006, that as part of the Union Square retail project, the railway and bus stations would undergo major refurbishment, including new ticket gates, a new ticket office and improved parking. The automatic ticket gates have since been installed.