Howay and Spray the Lads! 20241024--037
With the shadows lengthening by the minute, 66725 Sunderland and 66719 Metroland take the Soham line at Ely Dock Jn., working the last leg of the Norfolk railhead treatment train, 3S01 08.51 Stowmarket DGL - Stowmarket DGL via Diss, Cromer, Norwich, Acle, Great Yarmouth, Reedham, Theford, Ely, and Bury St. Edmunds.
I'd been working in Ely and, with the weather forecast being for cloudless skies all day, had taken my camera with me - probably for the last time until next March. I'd originally planned to go to Manea for some more close-up pictures of the semaphores (including one looking towards Ely, which I'd so far failed to get in sun), but to do those shots requires the pole to be extended close to its full height - and I thought it slightly too windy.
So I came here instead, arriving just in time for 4L13 (ex-Hams Hall) - which I thought was going to stop to allow 4E20 (to Masborough) to come across the single line from Soham, but I realised too late that it was running straight through (as booked) and wasn't ready... but it had no containers at the front, and the copious loco exhaust "blew down", and would have spoiled the shot. But 4L38 (ex-East Midlands Gateway) was running very late and wasn't far behind; it had DB red 66086 on the front and plenty of containers, and made a much better picture.
DCR's 56103 was at March on a VSTP Chaddesden - Brandon working (empty boxes for Saturday's sand to Ravenhead), having been put in there at lunchtime because Freightliner had earlier run a train to Brandon and it was still unloading; it wasn't late, but the schedules clashed - badly! The empties from Brandon set off on time, not long after I arrived here, and once they'd cleared Ely West Curve the DCR train was allowed to continue on its way - four and a quarter hours late! I rushed round to a spot I'd never used on Ely West Curve, arriving there just in time to set up (it was sheltered, so I could use the pole), but only when I got there did I realise the sun was straight down the track (the shot I'd seen had been taken in June, when the sun was much further round at this time of day).
I then rushed back here for the RHTT, but needn't have worried too much as it is booked to be overtaken by an Ipswich-bound "FLIRT", and it did indeed stand time. But the shadows were getting longer as I waited, and I wasn't sure the back of the train would be shadow-free (it pretty much was - I've not removed any shadows from this image). But I had to use a 75mm equivalent lens in order to shoot past the shadow of the bridge.
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Howay and Spray the Lads! 20241024--037
With the shadows lengthening by the minute, 66725 Sunderland and 66719 Metroland take the Soham line at Ely Dock Jn., working the last leg of the Norfolk railhead treatment train, 3S01 08.51 Stowmarket DGL - Stowmarket DGL via Diss, Cromer, Norwich, Acle, Great Yarmouth, Reedham, Theford, Ely, and Bury St. Edmunds.
I'd been working in Ely and, with the weather forecast being for cloudless skies all day, had taken my camera with me - probably for the last time until next March. I'd originally planned to go to Manea for some more close-up pictures of the semaphores (including one looking towards Ely, which I'd so far failed to get in sun), but to do those shots requires the pole to be extended close to its full height - and I thought it slightly too windy.
So I came here instead, arriving just in time for 4L13 (ex-Hams Hall) - which I thought was going to stop to allow 4E20 (to Masborough) to come across the single line from Soham, but I realised too late that it was running straight through (as booked) and wasn't ready... but it had no containers at the front, and the copious loco exhaust "blew down", and would have spoiled the shot. But 4L38 (ex-East Midlands Gateway) was running very late and wasn't far behind; it had DB red 66086 on the front and plenty of containers, and made a much better picture.
DCR's 56103 was at March on a VSTP Chaddesden - Brandon working (empty boxes for Saturday's sand to Ravenhead), having been put in there at lunchtime because Freightliner had earlier run a train to Brandon and it was still unloading; it wasn't late, but the schedules clashed - badly! The empties from Brandon set off on time, not long after I arrived here, and once they'd cleared Ely West Curve the DCR train was allowed to continue on its way - four and a quarter hours late! I rushed round to a spot I'd never used on Ely West Curve, arriving there just in time to set up (it was sheltered, so I could use the pole), but only when I got there did I realise the sun was straight down the track (the shot I'd seen had been taken in June, when the sun was much further round at this time of day).
I then rushed back here for the RHTT, but needn't have worried too much as it is booked to be overtaken by an Ipswich-bound "FLIRT", and it did indeed stand time. But the shadows were getting longer as I waited, and I wasn't sure the back of the train would be shadow-free (it pretty much was - I've not removed any shadows from this image). But I had to use a 75mm equivalent lens in order to shoot past the shadow of the bridge.
Visit Brian Carter's Non-Transport Pics to see my photos of landscapes, buildings, bridges, sunsets, rainbows and more.