Sundown leaf-busters
It might be the first day of the meteorological winter but, so far as Network Rail goes, there's still some autumn business left to clear up.
Passing Old Colwyn on the North Wales coast are a pair of Colas class 56s, 56105 leading with 56113 in the rear, working the 2.46am Shrewsbury Coleham - Shrewsbury Coleham (3S71) Rail-Head Treatment Train, running about an hour late. Thankfully not so late as to miss the sun altogether - it's 2.15pm and the shadows are already pretty long.
I've been itching to get this shot for the last few days and was gutted when I saw 3S71, scheduled to depart Shrewsbury last night, didn't actually leave. Luckily it left this morning on a shorter tour taking in Holyhead and return - a trip that fortunately coincided with some decent weather conditions, and cloud shadows that just lifted over the bay in the nick of time.
2.15pm, 1st December 2017
Sundown leaf-busters
It might be the first day of the meteorological winter but, so far as Network Rail goes, there's still some autumn business left to clear up.
Passing Old Colwyn on the North Wales coast are a pair of Colas class 56s, 56105 leading with 56113 in the rear, working the 2.46am Shrewsbury Coleham - Shrewsbury Coleham (3S71) Rail-Head Treatment Train, running about an hour late. Thankfully not so late as to miss the sun altogether - it's 2.15pm and the shadows are already pretty long.
I've been itching to get this shot for the last few days and was gutted when I saw 3S71, scheduled to depart Shrewsbury last night, didn't actually leave. Luckily it left this morning on a shorter tour taking in Holyhead and return - a trip that fortunately coincided with some decent weather conditions, and cloud shadows that just lifted over the bay in the nick of time.
2.15pm, 1st December 2017