55022 Woodhorn curve 6N51 Alcans from Lynmouth smelter. 27th April 2011.
And it really happened! A Deltic on the Blyth and Tyne, hundreds flocked in the warm spring sunshine of a double bank holiday. Yes, a royal wedding too! We will take it all.
We sped along the spine road that shoots past Cramlington, Blyth and Bedlington. So many wait for the mornings first train on the over bridge by Freemans crossing. Its -The Shot- of the morning. We continue on, beyond Ashington to the Woodhorn curve, and then on a little more, towards the smelter. And stop there to check. Really?!! It is there but we can't see in. An unmistakable drone can be heard from within, the multi layered roaring drone from the triangular configuration of cylinders and their opposed pistons, six pistons in each back, eighteen to an engine. Thirty six if both engines were running but here they are not.
And so we return to Woodhorn and await. The dandelions are in first bloom, a low down viewpoint will accentuate this. There is no one else waiting here! And then she comes, roaring on one engine at low speed on the tight curve. A racehorse on a slow slog, so beautiful in the sun. Our days work is already done!
55022 Royal Scots Grey. Woodhorn curve, 6N51 morning empties from Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter to North Blyth. 27th of April 2011.
Minolta x300, 100mm f2.5 Rokkor. Fuji Provia 100, 1/250 @ f8-1/3.
55022 Woodhorn curve 6N51 Alcans from Lynmouth smelter. 27th April 2011.
And it really happened! A Deltic on the Blyth and Tyne, hundreds flocked in the warm spring sunshine of a double bank holiday. Yes, a royal wedding too! We will take it all.
We sped along the spine road that shoots past Cramlington, Blyth and Bedlington. So many wait for the mornings first train on the over bridge by Freemans crossing. Its -The Shot- of the morning. We continue on, beyond Ashington to the Woodhorn curve, and then on a little more, towards the smelter. And stop there to check. Really?!! It is there but we can't see in. An unmistakable drone can be heard from within, the multi layered roaring drone from the triangular configuration of cylinders and their opposed pistons, six pistons in each back, eighteen to an engine. Thirty six if both engines were running but here they are not.
And so we return to Woodhorn and await. The dandelions are in first bloom, a low down viewpoint will accentuate this. There is no one else waiting here! And then she comes, roaring on one engine at low speed on the tight curve. A racehorse on a slow slog, so beautiful in the sun. Our days work is already done!
55022 Royal Scots Grey. Woodhorn curve, 6N51 morning empties from Lynemouth Aluminium Smelter to North Blyth. 27th of April 2011.
Minolta x300, 100mm f2.5 Rokkor. Fuji Provia 100, 1/250 @ f8-1/3.