IMG_5999 70008 on 6G65 09.19 Hope Earles Sidings to Walsall passing Whitacre Junction at 13.13 on 19th April 2021
I met with my original mentor in rail photography in the form of Ron Kosys on this bridge today. He had informed me that I had missed IT (6D44) in his usual amusing way. It had gone main line this time so my standing on steps to prepare, without prior knowledge of this, would be fruitless. Where's the Daventry he then asked, "Oh. you have missed it Ron" I retorted. He had but it is the sort of tit-for-tat humour that we often share.
The reason for telling this story is because I left him to move to Lea Marston for the regular mainline passing of 6G65 whilst he hung on for a, by now, backlit shot of a container train coming from the Coleshill direction. Whilst waiting at Lea Marston 'Cams showed greens for the section through Kingsbury so I assumed I was right to be at Lea Marston. This then showed as being in the section between Kingsbury and Whitacre forcing me to dash back thinking "Ron, you've got one over me after all!". Thankfully, I got back in time, just to capture this.
It is unusual for it to come this way but I know it also did so on Thursday whilst running mega early.
It was great to have a long session with Ron today
Cheers mate
IMG_5999 70008 on 6G65 09.19 Hope Earles Sidings to Walsall passing Whitacre Junction at 13.13 on 19th April 2021
I met with my original mentor in rail photography in the form of Ron Kosys on this bridge today. He had informed me that I had missed IT (6D44) in his usual amusing way. It had gone main line this time so my standing on steps to prepare, without prior knowledge of this, would be fruitless. Where's the Daventry he then asked, "Oh. you have missed it Ron" I retorted. He had but it is the sort of tit-for-tat humour that we often share.
The reason for telling this story is because I left him to move to Lea Marston for the regular mainline passing of 6G65 whilst he hung on for a, by now, backlit shot of a container train coming from the Coleshill direction. Whilst waiting at Lea Marston 'Cams showed greens for the section through Kingsbury so I assumed I was right to be at Lea Marston. This then showed as being in the section between Kingsbury and Whitacre forcing me to dash back thinking "Ron, you've got one over me after all!". Thankfully, I got back in time, just to capture this.
It is unusual for it to come this way but I know it also did so on Thursday whilst running mega early.
It was great to have a long session with Ron today
Cheers mate