April Fool gets steamed up
With its steam-heating boiler working well, Peak no. 46003 stands beneath the much-missed signal gantry at Exeter St David's on a cool April morning after arriving from Bristol Temple Meads with an unidentified train. While it consists of eight items of rolling stock, in fact five of them are parcels vans of one sort or another, with the remaining three being Mark 1 passenger carriages.
Perhaps in memory of days chasing the Westerns (which had come to an end the previous year) I'd spent the night on Bristol Temple Meads with the tripod and camera - 46003 was snapped there beside what was the then new order, a High Speed Train, before she brought me down as far as Exeter.
I eventually went on to Dawlish and the cliff path just to the west of the station before tiredness took hold and I headed back home to Nottingham.
Happily I'm still finding a few slides that process reasonably well using more contemporary software packages. Happily too, this shot was taken before the ornate facade above the canopy was boarded over and hidden from public view.
Agfa CT18
1st April 1978
April Fool gets steamed up
With its steam-heating boiler working well, Peak no. 46003 stands beneath the much-missed signal gantry at Exeter St David's on a cool April morning after arriving from Bristol Temple Meads with an unidentified train. While it consists of eight items of rolling stock, in fact five of them are parcels vans of one sort or another, with the remaining three being Mark 1 passenger carriages.
Perhaps in memory of days chasing the Westerns (which had come to an end the previous year) I'd spent the night on Bristol Temple Meads with the tripod and camera - 46003 was snapped there beside what was the then new order, a High Speed Train, before she brought me down as far as Exeter.
I eventually went on to Dawlish and the cliff path just to the west of the station before tiredness took hold and I headed back home to Nottingham.
Happily I'm still finding a few slides that process reasonably well using more contemporary software packages. Happily too, this shot was taken before the ornate facade above the canopy was boarded over and hidden from public view.
Agfa CT18
1st April 1978