Fewer names please
For the student of English building there is much to enjoy in Bury St Edmunds although, after nine years, I feel that I have extracted from it all that is to be had of this particular pleasure. Otherwise the town is, in Pevsner's words, "a little sleepy". So, knowing that I would have a couple of hours to kill there last Saturday I took the trouble to look up the afternoon's scheduled movements on Realtime Trains. With a passenger "service" just departed in each direction, the town's station was certainly a little sleepy ...totally deserted in fact, just as I like. Passing through was the 13:47 Felixstowe North - Peterborough Maintenance Shed, presumably a movement of light engines that end up at Felixstowe without balancing workings to return them to their home depot.
If you ask me, a period of restraint in the naming of locomotives is desirable. The present incontinence "devalues" the practice. I have a little pocket book of locomotives, dated 2015, but neither of this duo had been named when the edition went to press. I can make out from my "going away" shot, that the trailing loco, 66 757, is named West Somerset Railway, but I don't know about the other, 66 751. This, I learn from the copious notes in the volume's back pages, was built in 2003 for service in Germany.
The Fuji GW690 II isn't really an ideal railway camera, but I wanted to use up the Kodak Ektar film I had in it ...one of my rare excursions into colour.
Fewer names please
For the student of English building there is much to enjoy in Bury St Edmunds although, after nine years, I feel that I have extracted from it all that is to be had of this particular pleasure. Otherwise the town is, in Pevsner's words, "a little sleepy". So, knowing that I would have a couple of hours to kill there last Saturday I took the trouble to look up the afternoon's scheduled movements on Realtime Trains. With a passenger "service" just departed in each direction, the town's station was certainly a little sleepy ...totally deserted in fact, just as I like. Passing through was the 13:47 Felixstowe North - Peterborough Maintenance Shed, presumably a movement of light engines that end up at Felixstowe without balancing workings to return them to their home depot.
If you ask me, a period of restraint in the naming of locomotives is desirable. The present incontinence "devalues" the practice. I have a little pocket book of locomotives, dated 2015, but neither of this duo had been named when the edition went to press. I can make out from my "going away" shot, that the trailing loco, 66 757, is named West Somerset Railway, but I don't know about the other, 66 751. This, I learn from the copious notes in the volume's back pages, was built in 2003 for service in Germany.
The Fuji GW690 II isn't really an ideal railway camera, but I wanted to use up the Kodak Ektar film I had in it ...one of my rare excursions into colour.