A Week on the Rails, Stratford and Liverpool Street, London - 23rd July

It's a busy week for the ever-changing graffiti alongside the railway lines through Poplar and Tower Hamlets and into Liverpool Street, along with snatched glimpses of life in the side streets. Many of these photos are now impossible to do since the trains were "upgraded" and replaced with ones where it's impossible to open any windows.

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Graffiti on a bridge and weeds on the tracks

Graffiti on a bridge and weeds on the tracks

A cluster of graffiti on a couple of walls

Silver and bright pink tags

A cloud-like silver tag

A curious hut on a bridge over the line

The mystery stripey building at Forest Gate

More tags on a brick wall

Graffiti says Bam

Network Rail has an ongoing fight with Buddleia

Ancient Class 86 loco 86605 rumbles past

A pair of Class 86s pull a rake of freight wagons

The train snakes along to Liverpool Street

The A12 on a sunny day

A pair of signalling boxes

Özil on signalling cabinets

More-daring-than-usual tags on a gantry

Özil in action again

A Bethnal Green scrapyard

A scrapyard by the railway

The shell of a demolished building

Moral Runch - Still Rollin' Wild

Silver tags on an electrical substation

Runch tags - full moon 2013

Nice tags on a high-up wall

Silver graffiti from 3FP

A Class 86 lurks at Maryland Station

An expanse of railway tracks

An underground trains heads, er, underground

Class 90 90003 Raedwald is parked at Stratford

A pre-fab community centre

Malcolm Road in Poplar

Cambridge Heath Road

Flats and silver tags on a bridge

A pile of discarded railway tracks

Close up to silver tags on a wall

A Class 315 Tin Can commuter train

More rows of railway track

The mad buildings over the slow lines

A view down the side of the train

New lines are built in Ipswich Goods yard

A track-measuring train at Ipswich