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No Sleep Til bury
I can't help it, it's a gift, or a curse.
One of my very first digital images since I returned to the fold after a 20(ish) year break, Brook Road bridge at Oldfield Park again as Shed 417 (or maybe Szopa 66014 as she's now known) passes Twerton Cemetery working 4L32, the 11.00 departure from Bristol FLT to Tilbury.
At the time 66417 had been on hire to Freightliner from DRS until ultimately being sold to them that summer, a few months later, in March 2012, the locomotive was shipped out of Immingham to Poland to become one of a handful of ex.UK GMs which have been based there ever since in the employ of Freightliner PL (obviously). While undergoing some conversion work at Wrocław Główny locomotive shop the loco also also received a version of Freightliner's familiar corporate green and yellow garb.
This photo and the preceding one both feature the Brook Road bridge and although 8 years apart that black patch at the apex of the arch is unchanged - what's with that?, it's like a patch of soot from "olden days" steam locos(?) is it still there in 2025? Is anyone even out there? Hello...
come on Scotty, don't you live in Twerton?
No Sleep Til bury
I can't help it, it's a gift, or a curse.
One of my very first digital images since I returned to the fold after a 20(ish) year break, Brook Road bridge at Oldfield Park again as Shed 417 (or maybe Szopa 66014 as she's now known) passes Twerton Cemetery working 4L32, the 11.00 departure from Bristol FLT to Tilbury.
At the time 66417 had been on hire to Freightliner from DRS until ultimately being sold to them that summer, a few months later, in March 2012, the locomotive was shipped out of Immingham to Poland to become one of a handful of ex.UK GMs which have been based there ever since in the employ of Freightliner PL (obviously). While undergoing some conversion work at Wrocław Główny locomotive shop the loco also also received a version of Freightliner's familiar corporate green and yellow garb.
This photo and the preceding one both feature the Brook Road bridge and although 8 years apart that black patch at the apex of the arch is unchanged - what's with that?, it's like a patch of soot from "olden days" steam locos(?) is it still there in 2025? Is anyone even out there? Hello...
come on Scotty, don't you live in Twerton?