47806 Goes Trainspotting

[47806]

Up early this morning to see Oliver Cromwell at Ely, thanks to DaveK for the composition advice! I think that this shot is quite good although I would have preferred the boats to have stayed by the shore.



Also:

170207:


Cross Country 170 and Ely Cathedral:

[PTmodeller]

Very arty- great compositions!

[davek]

Good shot Thomas, although the boast are quite heavy in the pic, OC standsout well without being obscured by OHL posts.

I see the cows have mooved (sorry) into the field on the Ely cath. shot...

[47806]

Good shot Thomas, although the boast are quite heavy in the pic, OC standsout well without being obscured by OHL posts.

I see the cows have mooved (sorry) into the field on the Ely cath. shot...

The boats started moving just as OC came into view! The cows add quite a bit to the Cathedral shot. I am heading back to Ely this weekend to see a NENTA railtour.

[47806]

Nice trip to Cromer today. I was hoping to see the North Walsham tanks today, but they ran late (I think). I managed to catch 66723 stabled at North Walsham on my way home, the loco having delivered the tanks.

[47806]

Off to Ely this morning to see freight and a railtour:


66726


47789 on the front of the NENTA tour.


170207 approaches the crossing.

[guitardave_1]

A successful morning! Really nice view of the freight - certainly a beautiful day for it.

[47806]

One of my Ely photos occupies all of page 21 in this week's Railway Herald!

A nice revision break this morning to see 4L72 (West Burton-Tilbury) pulled by 66841 at Cambridge. A very lucky shot, the second half of the train was bowled by a 317!

[davek]

Ooo clack! 66841 in the bag eh Thomas?! Strangely enough my brother was at South Tottenham today and texted me to see if it was about - being Mr Gen I was able to tell him and he saw it too!

Congrats on the pic in Railway Herald - it's a cracker. The elevated angle (from bridge?) is great, good colours alround including the blue sky and the barges lead the eye from the bottom left up and across the bridge to the train - a very well composed shot, brilliant mate!

[47806]

Ooo clack! 66841 in the bag eh Thomas?! Strangely enough my brother was at South Tottenham today and texted me to see if it was about - being Mr Gen I was able to tell him and he saw it too!

Congrats on the pic in Railway Herald - it's a cracker. The elevated angle (from bridge?) is great, good colours alround including the blue sky and the barges lead the eye from the bottom left up and across the bridge to the train - a very well composed shot, brilliant mate!

Thanks! The Ely shot is from the road bridge over the river. It is not the most fun location as the traffic is accelerating towards a national speed limit stretch! However, you can see the railway station to your left when standing there so there is plenty of warning. I could not believe how rich the blue in the river was when I took that shot. I had to keep the foreground reflections!

[guitardave_1]

Everything that Dave said! Lovely shot in RH - top marks!

I had meant to submit some of my Eastleigh pics from the loco movements and open day, but never got around to it. If I say so myself, I think they were at least as good as some of those published.

[47806]

Everything that Dave said! Lovely shot in RH - top marks!

I had meant to submit some of my Eastleigh pics from the loco movements and open day, but never got around to it. If I say so myself, I think they were at least as good as some of those published.

Thanks!

Give RH a try, it helps me to focus my photography and to be more critical of my own work.

[davek]

If I say so myself, I think they were at least as good as some of those published.

Indeed - I didn't bother sending in anything from the open day as I though they'd be swamped with admissions, but I'm sure I turned out pictures to match the standard if not slightly better than some they published! Anyone who has seen my website ould have seen my shots from the weekend and can make their own mind up.

I'm off to Long Marston this weekend - good hunting to anyone who's going out this weekend.

[47806]

Exams are over and I have more time to trainspot. I was hoping that the new Advenza freight would run today, it didn't. However, my consolation prize was 321405, still in Silverlink livery but now used by First Capital Connect.

[47806]

Thanks to DaveK for the tip, I ventured to Peterborough to see a test train. Unfortunately, if it did run (37s always seem to fail on the first day of test runs) it was late and I had to leave before it arrived. I did give it an extra half-hour and no one seemed to be waiting for it. Oh well, still lots of interesting things to see.


43300


66537

It was an interesting morning, there was a track circuit failure at Ely and I had a long conversation with two Canadians from Cambridge on the train, it is a small world!