Out of the loop, escaping Tyneside for Wearside 20220408--069
37403 Isle of Mull leads the Branch Line Society's "The Tweedmouth Tractors" out of Pelaw Loop, after being overtaken by 156469 on 2N28 11.56 Hexham - Whitby. West Coast Railways' 37516 is on the rear (WCRC operated the train), and the coaching was provided by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.
This was the first day of a three-day tour originally advertised as "The Tyne Tees Tractors", starting and finishing in Edinburgh but with overnight stops in Doncaster; it covered various freight lines in the north-east, and this leg is 1Z68 08.11 Edinburgh Waverley - South Dock Port of Sunderland. Pelaw Up Loop was a requested part of the itinerary, today's main highlights being the Forth Goods branch in Newcastle (the stub of the old route to Carlisle) and the Sunderland South Dock branch (all the way to Corporation Quay) - but it was also booked to do various other loops between Edinburgh and Newcastle and between Sunderland and Doncaster, as well as the ECML diversionary route via Church Fenton and Askern.
With a booked stop of nine minutes here (and it being overtaken), it was possible to photograph the train from the footbridge by Pelaw Metro station and then walk down to this footbridge to get it leaving the loop. Unfortunately there was a lot of cloud around, and it was full dull when the train ran into the loop. But the sun made an appearance just as the points went over for the train to depart... and as we photographed the rear of the train, a small, thin cloud meant the rear loco wasn't fully lit until it was passing the junction with the line to Jarrow, so we were very lucky with the timing!
Pelaw was my first point of contact with this train, as I'd decided to concentrate on 56302 during the morning. But I then chased it to Sunderland, getting it going down the South Dock branch (in dull) and then coming back (in sun). I did, however, realise that the sun would be just "off the nose" for this shot, but thought it was probably the best interesting location between Newcastle and Sunderland, with the sun angle between Sunderland and Ryhope Grange Jn. still being a little too inline at the time this ran.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.
Out of the loop, escaping Tyneside for Wearside 20220408--069
37403 Isle of Mull leads the Branch Line Society's "The Tweedmouth Tractors" out of Pelaw Loop, after being overtaken by 156469 on 2N28 11.56 Hexham - Whitby. West Coast Railways' 37516 is on the rear (WCRC operated the train), and the coaching was provided by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.
This was the first day of a three-day tour originally advertised as "The Tyne Tees Tractors", starting and finishing in Edinburgh but with overnight stops in Doncaster; it covered various freight lines in the north-east, and this leg is 1Z68 08.11 Edinburgh Waverley - South Dock Port of Sunderland. Pelaw Up Loop was a requested part of the itinerary, today's main highlights being the Forth Goods branch in Newcastle (the stub of the old route to Carlisle) and the Sunderland South Dock branch (all the way to Corporation Quay) - but it was also booked to do various other loops between Edinburgh and Newcastle and between Sunderland and Doncaster, as well as the ECML diversionary route via Church Fenton and Askern.
With a booked stop of nine minutes here (and it being overtaken), it was possible to photograph the train from the footbridge by Pelaw Metro station and then walk down to this footbridge to get it leaving the loop. Unfortunately there was a lot of cloud around, and it was full dull when the train ran into the loop. But the sun made an appearance just as the points went over for the train to depart... and as we photographed the rear of the train, a small, thin cloud meant the rear loco wasn't fully lit until it was passing the junction with the line to Jarrow, so we were very lucky with the timing!
Pelaw was my first point of contact with this train, as I'd decided to concentrate on 56302 during the morning. But I then chased it to Sunderland, getting it going down the South Dock branch (in dull) and then coming back (in sun). I did, however, realise that the sun would be just "off the nose" for this shot, but thought it was probably the best interesting location between Newcastle and Sunderland, with the sun angle between Sunderland and Ryhope Grange Jn. still being a little too inline at the time this ran.
To see my non-transport pictures, visit www.flickr.com/photos/137275498@N03/.