Railway Photo Gallery
October 2003
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3rd October 2003 - Dream
Photo Opportunity
An EMRPS photo charter to coincide with the
Barrow Hill 'First Born' Diesel Gala, and a dream opportunity to capture the
prototype 'Deltic' on film in a realistic scenario. This realised a dream for
me, and my photos of 'Deltic' basking in the sun and under the floodlights at
Barrow Hill are among my favourites in my photographic collection. That said,
the other locos involved in this charter cannot be overlooked especially 40013,
which looked just like it did in BR days.
5th October 2003 -
Thunderbirds are Go!
I was still coming down off a high after
photographing the prototype 'Deltic' when the gen for this one came through. A
90 had failed at Northampton and 57303 was going to the rescue. A quick dash
over to Tamworth secured the shot.
17th/18th October 2003 -
Pairs of Tractors and Other Bits
Friday afternoon saw a move to Easenhall for
the 37's on 4Z44, followed by a quick dash over to Kibworth for 47773 on a rake
of redundant EMU stock. The Saturday saw a spin and win tour passing through the
Midlands, and this tour was chased resulting in photos of 37375+37707, 56083 and
47316+47200.
23rd October 2003 - Worksop
Cannons
An evening move to Worksop for a night shot
of 37712 on the water cannon train from Healey Mills.
24th October 2003 - Load
Haul Grid and a Royal Skip
Work wasn't going very well at this time and
I was down to a four day week, which meant I could go out photting on Fridays. I
had gone out for 56107 on the Toton to Bescot and got an unexpected Royal Train
bonus. This turned out to be the last Friday I would have free as I was made
redundant the following Monday and ended up spending the following week job
hunting!
26th October 2003 -
Engineering Posession on the MML
Got the gen that two class 60's were in an
engineer's posession at Rushton, so decided to take a look and came away with
some reasonable shots.
