Lostwithiel Down HST 2010-06-04--083
Power car 43010 leads a First Great Western Paddington to Penzance HST working into Lostwithiel.
This was the last train I photographed during a day in Cornwall while staying on a family self-catering holiday in Torquay. It is the only digital picture I have of this view, although I'd taken it more than once on film.
Back in my early years of digital photography I did not take a burst of shots, mainly because the frame rate was much slower than on my second digital camera. So I usually tried to concentrate on firing the shutter at exactly the right time... But on this one I fired marginally too late, and the shadow of the lamppost on the left was on the front of the train; it has been digitally removed. I did take three frames as the train arrived, autobracketing the exposure (because I could), but in the second the shadow from the tree on the left (visible in front of the train in this frame) was on the front, and in the third it was on the body side (plus the view of the signalbox was blocked).
Lostwithiel signalbox closed at the end of February 2024, with the semaphores being removed as part of the Mid-Cornwall resignalling scheme (which also saw Par and Truro boxes close). GWR (as First Great Western had become) stopped using full-length HSTs in May 2019, although the short "Castle Class" HSTs continue to operate in Cornwall in 2024.
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Lostwithiel Down HST 2010-06-04--083
Power car 43010 leads a First Great Western Paddington to Penzance HST working into Lostwithiel.
This was the last train I photographed during a day in Cornwall while staying on a family self-catering holiday in Torquay. It is the only digital picture I have of this view, although I'd taken it more than once on film.
Back in my early years of digital photography I did not take a burst of shots, mainly because the frame rate was much slower than on my second digital camera. So I usually tried to concentrate on firing the shutter at exactly the right time... But on this one I fired marginally too late, and the shadow of the lamppost on the left was on the front of the train; it has been digitally removed. I did take three frames as the train arrived, autobracketing the exposure (because I could), but in the second the shadow from the tree on the left (visible in front of the train in this frame) was on the front, and in the third it was on the body side (plus the view of the signalbox was blocked).
Lostwithiel signalbox closed at the end of February 2024, with the semaphores being removed as part of the Mid-Cornwall resignalling scheme (which also saw Par and Truro boxes close). GWR (as First Great Western had become) stopped using full-length HSTs in May 2019, although the short "Castle Class" HSTs continue to operate in Cornwall in 2024.
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.