Scaring the crows
I could have airbrushed out the character in the field (not a scarecrow but a photographer without a zoom lens?) but left him in.
This shows 55009 on 12th December 1981 hauling "The Grampian Deltic" railtour which started in Edinburgh and headed via Stirling to Aberdeen, returning via Kirkcaldy.
Luckily I chose not to travel on this and only took a few photos, as the steam heating apparently didn't reach some or all of the stock, leading to some grumpy participants. It seems like this loco was diagrammed to be used on a morning semi fast to Dundee and back the previous day but cancelled due to a non functioning steam heat boiler. Haymarket must have got it working as it did a return trip to Aberdeen later that day, but the fault presumably returned before the following morning's railtour duty.
This scene has completely changed since then, the fields in the foreground are now covered by the Edinburgh City Bypass and the Hermiston Gait shopping centre, and the Deltic is approaching what is now Edinburgh Park station and tram interchange.
Scaring the crows
I could have airbrushed out the character in the field (not a scarecrow but a photographer without a zoom lens?) but left him in.
This shows 55009 on 12th December 1981 hauling "The Grampian Deltic" railtour which started in Edinburgh and headed via Stirling to Aberdeen, returning via Kirkcaldy.
Luckily I chose not to travel on this and only took a few photos, as the steam heating apparently didn't reach some or all of the stock, leading to some grumpy participants. It seems like this loco was diagrammed to be used on a morning semi fast to Dundee and back the previous day but cancelled due to a non functioning steam heat boiler. Haymarket must have got it working as it did a return trip to Aberdeen later that day, but the fault presumably returned before the following morning's railtour duty.
This scene has completely changed since then, the fields in the foreground are now covered by the Edinburgh City Bypass and the Hermiston Gait shopping centre, and the Deltic is approaching what is now Edinburgh Park station and tram interchange.