Railway Photo Gallery
January 2008
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3rd January 2008 -
International Painted Dildos
I went to Birmingham International in the
hope of capturing a night shot of 47847 on a mail, but that flew straight
through without stopping, so all I got were some Virgin Pendolinos.
5th January 2008 -
Nottingham Trams
I've wanted to do some night shots of
Nottingham Trams for some time now. As I'm not brave enough to mix it with the
clubbers and pubbers during an evening, I decided a mid winter early morning
photographing session would be much safer. It was well worth making the effort
as I was very happy with the photographs that I came away with, especially those
taken around the Old Market Square.
6th January 2008 - First
Sunny Shot of 2008
8F 48305 working the GCR's 1315 Loughborough
Central to Leicester North 'Elizabethan' dining train.
11th January 2008 - Mixed
Blessings at Grantham
I went over to Grantham for a night shot of
86101 on the Hull Trains diagram. However, about 15 minutes before it was due, a
northbound 91 failed in platform 2 and cocked up the planned shot. Although I
did get something of the 86, it wasn't the shot I wanted, and I have had to do a
lot of work to the photo to remove hexagons caused by rain on the lens and also
to remove a red reflection from the side of the 86 from the DVT's tail lights.
The failed 91 eventually had to be moved, and 67002 came down from Doncaster to
take the errant set to Bounds Green. The 67 was posed quite nicely for a phot so
I went home reasonable happy despite not getting what I went for.
12th January 2008 - GCR
Steam
A couple of sunny shots from the Great
Central Railway.
19th January 2008 -
Llangollen Photo Charter
An EMRPS photo charter at the Llangollen
Railway. This was a night shoot with class 25 25313 and class 108 DMU 54490 and
51907. Despite the rain trying it's best to ruin the evening, the photographers
battled against the elements and we all got some good shots. The 25 featured on
a short freight, but we also took the opportunity to recreate a DMU drag by
posing it coupled up to the 108. The DMU was also posed on it's own at each end
of the station.
A big thanks to the participating photographers for their support and to the
EMRPS lighting crew for another top job. A big thanks also to the Llangollen
Diesel Group, Llangollen DMU Group and the volunteers and staff of the
Llangollen Railway for helping make this photo shoot possible.
26th January 2008 - More
Nottingham Trams, a Tractor, a Tug and a Can
I started the day with another session of
dawn shots of the Nottingham Trams. I then went over to North Staffs Jcn for a
Serco working and also managed to pull in 60009 on 6M57. Finally, in the
evening, I made another attempt at capturing a night shot of 86101 at Grantham -
this time without the offending failed 91!
27th January 2008 - ECML Can
This was the first chance I have had to have
a go at some daylight shots of the superb 86101 working for Hull Trains. So it
was quite pleasing to nail it in both directions in sun.
