Railway Photo Gallery
April 2008
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12th April 2008 - Local
Stuff
A few local workings that were worth hanging
around for. First of all, in the morning, 'Duchess of Sutherland' worked a
Leicester to Scarborough railtour, followed a couple of hours later by 47787 and
47826 on another railtour. The 47's were in cloud, and although the Duchess was
in sun, the smoke blew down and knackered the shot, so the day did not get off
to a very good start. Later in the day, things improved with 60044 on a
Mountsorrel to Sandiacre ballast at Loughborough. The sun was doing its best to
clear as the train approached, but the back end of the train didn't quite get
lit. It could have been much worse I suppose. Next up, a few shots of the GCR
diesel gala including large logo 37314, which was in squiffy sun southbound, but
came back north in top evening light. Finally, 40145 passed through the area,
and although it was in top light at East Goscote, the sun had squiffed up for
the second shot at Cossington.
13th April 2008 - 37314 on
the GCR
Following on from the pictures taken
yesterday, here are a couple of shots of 37314 in action on the GCR.
19th April 2008 - The Ice
Cream Van is Back!!!!!
After a request from the EMRPS to repaint
25322 in it's unique 'ice cream van livery' that it carried in the 1980's,
volunteers of the North Staffs Diesel Group and the Churnet Valley Railway got
to work, and what a top job they have done. Although the loco is currently non
operational, the EMRPS hired the loco for a day of photography at the Churnet
Valley Railway (towed around by 33102). The day was mostly cloudy with very
little in the way of sunshine. For this reason we are greatful to the Churnet
Valley Railway for allowing us to set up a quick night shot with the loco in
Cheddleton station at the end of the day, which in terms of quality photographs
certainly saved the day for the photographers who took part.
A big thank you to everyone involved in returning the loco to this livery, and
to the CVR crews for their efforts during the day. Thanks to the participating
photographers and especially to Phil C and everyone who assisted him in lighting
up the 25 for the night shot. It was wonderful to see this loco in this
condition once again and it certainly stirred some childhood memories.
Included in this collection of images are pictures taken in dull light,
something that I normally try to avoid putting on my site, but the loco just
looked so totally mega, that I couldn't resist including them.
26th April 2008 - Local
Tractor Fest
With a class 37 hauled railtour passing
through my local patch and 37610 in action on the GCR, there was no need to step
outside the county boundary.
