Rule Britannia
A GWR HST slows for the stop at Yatton with 1C22, the 16:30 London Paddington to Taunton service on Thursday 25th May 2017.
The title's association for me is not with the popular British patriotic song (which incidentally should have a comma after "Rule"), but with the late novel by Daphne du Maurier that has this name. The story, set in Cornwall in the nineteen-seventies, deals with the situation where Britain has fallen on hard times, and as a consequence has had to enter into a subservient union with the USA.
I had actually gone out to photograph the 17:51 Fairwater Yard to Bristol Temple Meads working (top 'n' tail Class 66s), but those shots didn't work out as well as this one because the flag failed to unfurl in the wind as well as it did here.
Rule Britannia
A GWR HST slows for the stop at Yatton with 1C22, the 16:30 London Paddington to Taunton service on Thursday 25th May 2017.
The title's association for me is not with the popular British patriotic song (which incidentally should have a comma after "Rule"), but with the late novel by Daphne du Maurier that has this name. The story, set in Cornwall in the nineteen-seventies, deals with the situation where Britain has fallen on hard times, and as a consequence has had to enter into a subservient union with the USA.
I had actually gone out to photograph the 17:51 Fairwater Yard to Bristol Temple Meads working (top 'n' tail Class 66s), but those shots didn't work out as well as this one because the flag failed to unfurl in the wind as well as it did here.