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It's a strange story about this abandoned train, rotting on a siding track east of Brussels. An urban explorer posted images of this train a time ago and called it "Orientexpress". Another photographer took this story for real and posted a very detailed description and history of the real Orientexpress and so on. Today you can find numerous misleading stories. But actually it was not the Orientexpress, but a luxurious and a very intersting diesel train built in 1936 and we were happy to explore it especially inside, before it will disappear some day. In fact, it's a Type 654 DMU (diesel multiple unit) of the Belgian Railways (NMBS/SNCB). Those trains were once the pride of Belgium railways, but today this is the only one left.
A composite featuring the DMU from the North Norfolk Railway,main background from Wales and signal box on Kent & East Sussex Railway.All elements of this were taken by me.
A DMU going away from the camera on the approach to Blackpool South on 11/5/1984.By this time the line here was operating as a single track,before removal of the nearside one.
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Abandoned type 654 DMU (diesel multiple unit) of the Belgian Railways (NMBS/SNCB). Some people call it "Orientexpress", but it isn't.
Class 110 DMU 51842 pauses at Ramsbottom with the 16.50 Rawtenstall - Bury service on Sat 13th November 2021, day 1 of the ELR DMU weekend.
In 2012 HZ was having some serious issus with their 612 DMUs which were almost all broken due to not being able to cope with the climate. As such most of the Intercity trains were loco hauled. This one was a cool mix of the latest HZ paint scheme and the old coach livery behind.
A DMU waits at the remaining platform at this once important station on the Bolton-Blackburn line on 13/2/1985.I couldn't find any flickr shots to link to show the site in it's prime but there some elsewhere on the internet
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24th August 2024. Reflections at Butterley on the Midland Railway Centre. I worked hard to get this shot as best I could with the reflection
M51907 & M56490 British Rail Class 108 DMU
Midland Railway – Butterley 25/06/2022
Having played a leading role in the previous weekend’s DMU gala, the Class 108 set rests in the yard at Butterley. In these uncertain times for many heritage railways, the humble ‘bus on rails’ has become indispensable.
Reading-based Class 117 diesel-mechanical multiple units rest near the stop-blocks at Paddington in November, 1991. Nearest the camera is set L415 comprsing vehicles 51371, 59503 and 51393. The adjacent set L404 comprises 51065, 59489 and 51379. Both sets were based at Reading. These high-density suburban units were built by Pressed Steel from 1959 specifically for Paddington commuter services.
strathspey Railways DMU sits at the platform with the Class 27 on the front ready to head for Broomhill. Due to a busy winter time table the DMU has a blown engine hence the loco hauled formation.
175116 British Rail Class 175 ‘Coradia’ DHMU
Astley, Greater Manchester 15/06/2019
Approaching the level crossing at Rhindle Road, 175116 is seen when still under the ownership and wearing the livery of Arriva Trains Wales. At the time of writing/uploading, the unit is in store waiting to be transferred to the modern brand of the Great Western Railway company.
A walk with a camera from Lelant to St Ives along the coast path that parallels the railway has always been a pleasant way to spend a summer's day, with frequent trains and plenty of beautiful locations. This Metro-Cammell set, number L842, wearing rather out-of-place Network Sutheast livery, was operating the Branch shuttle on 24 July, 1994.
1L01 Edinburgh to Perth. Class 158 Express in Scotrail Saltire livery heads north seen here crossing over at Hilton Jn on approach to the Tunnel. A location I have always wanted to get before the Semaphores and Signal Box become history. Due to the high vegetation and fence a pole was used for this shot.
Riddles designed Standard '2MT' 2-6-0 no.78018 re-enacting a DMU pull by taking the Metropolitan Cammell Class 101 DMU set on the 09:25 with the up 09:25 Loughborough-Quorn local.
GCR 50th Anniversary Celebrations Weekend
Continuing the Burscough theme,the town has 2 stations - this one on the Preston-Ormskirk line and Burscough Bridge on the Wigan-Southport line.There was a link between the lines which was closed many years ago but plans to rebuild this come up regularly.The sidings were for a MOD depot which closed in 1996 but I think rail traffic had finished before then - actually Oct 1981 from info supplied by Shed Loop
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Heavy snow on 5 February 1996 closed the Cumbrian coast line until the arrival of the snow plough the following day. The first train to arrive at Whitehaven following the ploughs, was MerseyTravel pacer 142057, nominally forming the 1425 Carlisle – Barrow-in-Furness.
However - like the snow plough that preceded it - it did not travel any further south and was turned back north (presumably to Workington if its destination blind is to be believed). It was the next day – 7 February - before the entire Cumbrian coast line was cleared.
A desolate scene on 11/5/1984. The line on to Blackpool Central was closed in Nov 1964 and a vast area of railway land was acquired by the local council for a knockdown price.It was gradually developed into massive car and coach parks,most of which stand empty for much of the year.The trackbed to the right of shot is now the course of a road and the railway survives as a single line to Kirkham.
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One of the places that I've spent a lot of time online over the past few years is in the Flickr Group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit photos to a voting pool and group members then offer brief critiques of these photos along with a vote to either save or delete the photo. If a photo gets 10 "saves" before 10 "deletes" it is put into a portfolio of images called "The Lightbox."
There are probably two things to me that set DMU apart from other groups on Flickr.
First, it is one of the few (and was the first) "uncensored" group on Flickr. This means that admins don't ban members, censor forum threads, lock threads, lock the entire group, etc. Along with the voting game there is a vibrant community of photographers who generally engage in all kinds of discussion from the super important to the super inane. Thoughtful threads about politics, photography, art, music and life are mixed in with immature threads about bad music videos, bad craigslist adverts, threads devoted to animated gifs, and well, you get the idea.
Second, the photo critiques in DMU are meant to be constructive, but no-holds-barred. Sometimes on Flickr you'll post a photo and end up with a litany of "great shot" "wonderful" "beautiful" "nice" etc. type comments. And while those are pleasant and there is certainly nothing wrong with those, sometimes it's also interesting to get more constructive criticism -- even if negative, even if brutally honest. Having members point out your dust spots on your photo, or your bad crop, or your wrong angle, aren't simply meant to talk down your photography, they're meant to provide you criticism as a mechanism to improve.
What really makes DMU work more than anything else though is that it is a tight knit group of community photographers on the web. I've found that more than anyplace else I've seen on the web, people really get to know each other in this group. Many have met each other in real life. Many spend many hours a day hanging out in the group and chatting.
So I was super excited when one of the DMU Members, Ivan Makarov, proposed launching a DMU Magazine. There is something about seeing photos in print that makes them even so much more vibrant than what you see on the web. And after several months of planning and hard work, issue number one of DMU Magazine is launching today. I personally contributed a lot of photography to issue number 1. It's probably the first time so much of my own work has ever been printed in one place. That was super exciting to me. In addition to a profile on my work as one of the top Lightbox contributers, I also contributed some other photos and the editors also included a feature section on my $2 portrait project.
The magazine itself is 72 pages long and is printed on full color paper in large format magazine quality. 26 different photographers from DMU contributed to it and it also features profile pieces on the top four contributors to the group's "Lightbox." The magazine is chock full of interesting photos by many outstanding emerging photographers. It's exciting to me that in today's DYI world that something like this is possible. Issue one of the magazine costs $13.99. It's published by HP's MagCloud and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., Cananda or the U.K. The quality of the MagCloud magazines are very high. HP is really one of the top names in color printing today and they've put together a really top notch offering with this magazine service. The $13.99 price involves no profit for anyone involved in the publication of this effort. This is simply a labor of love by a bunch of talented photographers to publish our work. If you like photography I'd encourage you to purchase a copy and take a look at what we've produced. I've already purchased my copy and if you'd like to purchase one as well you can do that here.
A lot of credit goes to those who helped put this magazine together. In addition to all 26 photographic contributors (along with many people not featured in this issue, but who provided valuable advice and feedback during the development process) Ivan Makarov deserves a lot of recognition as the one who really drove this project from the beginning. In addition to Ivan, Charlotte Reynolds worked as the magazine's designer, and Ingo Meckmann, Mo Tabesh, Wendy Martyn and Pierre Honeyman all worked as co-editors and publishers.
If you'd like to learn more about DMU Magazine, also be sure to check out its website dmumag.com.
More from Ivan here, and Meckimac here.
Up with the old and down with the new! Old and new DMUs pass on the Dawlish Sea Wall in June, 1992. In this case, the 'old' comprises a Class 101/108 hybrid on the ‘up’ line while the 'new' is a Class 150, a type still to be seen on the Sea Wall today.
DMU-001 built at Electroputere VFU Pascani in tests between Pascani and Roman
Roman, Romania
08.07.2020
Southbound service on the Cumbrian Coast on 18/6/1983.
Black Combe dominates the backdrop
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One of the places that I've spent a lot of time online over the past few years is in the Flickr Group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit photos to a voting pool and group members then offer brief critiques of these photos along with a vote to either save or delete the photo. If a photo gets 10 "saves" before 10 "deletes" it is put into a portfolio of images called "The Lightbox."
There are probably two things to me that set DMU apart from other groups on Flickr.
First, it is one of the few (and was the first) "uncensored" group on Flickr. This means that admins don't ban members, censor forum threads, lock threads, lock the entire group, etc. Along with the voting game there is a vibrant community of photographers who generally engage in all kinds of discussion from the super important to the super inane. Thoughtful threads about politics, photography, art, music and life are mixed in with immature threads about bad music videos, bad craigslist adverts, threads devoted to animated gifs, and well, you get the idea.
Second, the photo critiques in DMU are meant to be constructive, but no-holds-barred. Sometimes on Flickr you'll post a photo and end up with a litany of "great shot" "wonderful" "beautiful" "nice" etc. type comments. And while those are pleasant and there is certainly nothing wrong with those, sometimes it's also interesting to get more constructive criticism -- even if negative, even if brutally honest. Having members point out your dust spots on your photo, or your bad crop, or your wrong angle, aren't simply meant to talk down your photography, they're meant to provide you criticism as a mechanism to improve.
What really makes DMU work more than anything else though is that it is a tight knit group of community photographers on the web. I've found that more than anyplace else I've seen on the web, people really get to know each other in this group. Many have met each other in real life. Many spend many hours a day hanging out in the group and chatting.
So I was super excited when one of the DMU Members, Ivan Makarov, proposed launching a DMU Magazine. There is something about seeing photos in print that makes them even so much more vibrant than what you see on the web. And after several months of planning and hard work, issue number one of DMU Magazine is launching today. I personally contributed a lot of photography to issue number 1. It's probably the first time so much of my own work has ever been printed in one place. That was super exciting to me. In addition to a profile on my work as one of the top Lightbox contributers, I also contributed some other photos and the editors also included a feature section on my $2 portrait project.
The magazine itself is 72 pages long and is printed on full color paper in large format magazine quality. 26 different photographers from DMU contributed to it and it also features profile pieces on the top four contributors to the group's "Lightbox." The magazine is chock full of interesting photos by many outstanding emerging photographers. It's exciting to me that in today's DYI world that something like this is possible. Issue one of the magazine costs $13.99. It's published by HP's MagCloud and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., Cananda or the U.K. The quality of the MagCloud magazines are very high. HP is really one of the top names in color printing today and they've put together a really top notch offering with this magazine service. The $13.99 price involves no profit for anyone involved in the publication of this effort. This is simply a labor of love by a bunch of talented photographers to publish our work. If you like photography I'd encourage you to purchase a copy and take a look at what we've produced. I've already purchased my copy and if you'd like to purchase one as well you can do that here.
A lot of credit goes to those who helped put this magazine together. In addition to all 26 photographic contributors (along with many people not featured in this issue, but who provided valuable advice and feedback during the development process) Ivan Makarov deserves a lot of recognition as the one who really drove this project from the beginning. In addition to Ivan, Charlotte Reynolds worked as the magazine's designer, and Ingo Meckmann, Mo Tabesh, Wendy Martyn and Pierre Honeyman all worked as co-editors and publishers.
If you'd like to learn more about DMU Magazine, also be sure to check out its website dmumag.com.
More from Ivan here, and Meckimac here.
A first generation Class 110 DMU passes the box at Sykes Jct, near Torksey, heading for Lincoln, 7.7.88.
One of the places that I've spent a lot of time online over the past few years is in the Flickr Group DeleteMe Uncensored. DeleteMe Uncensored is a group on Flickr where users submit photos to a voting pool and group members then offer brief critiques of these photos along with a vote to either save or delete the photo. If a photo gets 10 "saves" before 10 "deletes" it is put into a portfolio of images called "The Lightbox."
There are probably two things to me that set DMU apart from other groups on Flickr.
First, it is one of the few (and was the first) "uncensored" group on Flickr. This means that admins don't ban members, censor forum threads, lock threads, lock the entire group, etc. Along with the voting game there is a vibrant community of photographers who generally engage in all kinds of discussion from the super important to the super inane. Thoughtful threads about politics, photography, art, music and life are mixed in with immature threads about bad music videos, bad craigslist adverts, threads devoted to animated gifs, and well, you get the idea.
Second, the photo critiques in DMU are meant to be constructive, but no-holds-barred. Sometimes on Flickr you'll post a photo and end up with a litany of "great shot" "wonderful" "beautiful" "nice" etc. type comments. And while those are pleasant and there is certainly nothing wrong with those, sometimes it's also interesting to get more constructive criticism -- even if negative, even if brutally honest. Having members point out your dust spots on your photo, or your bad crop, or your wrong angle, aren't simply meant to talk down your photography, they're meant to provide you criticism as a mechanism to improve.
What really makes DMU work more than anything else though is that it is a tight knit group of community photographers on the web. I've found that more than anyplace else I've seen on the web, people really get to know each other in this group. Many have met each other in real life. Many spend many hours a day hanging out in the group and chatting.
So I was super excited when one of the DMU Members, Ivan Makarov, proposed launching a DMU Magazine. There is something about seeing photos in print that makes them even so much more vibrant than what you see on the web. And after several months of planning and hard work, issue number one of DMU Magazine is launching today. I personally contributed a lot of photography to issue number 1. It's probably the first time so much of my own work has ever been printed in one place. That was super exciting to me. In addition to a profile on my work as one of the top Lightbox contributers, I also contributed some other photos and the editors also included a feature section on my $2 portrait project.
The magazine itself is 72 pages long and is printed on full color paper in large format magazine quality. 26 different photographers from DMU contributed to it and it also features profile pieces on the top four contributors to the group's "Lightbox." The magazine is chock full of interesting photos by many outstanding emerging photographers. It's exciting to me that in today's DYI world that something like this is possible. Issue one of the magazine costs $13.99. It's published by HP's MagCloud and can be shipped anywhere in the U.S., Cananda or the U.K. The quality of the MagCloud magazines are very high. HP is really one of the top names in color printing today and they've put together a really top notch offering with this magazine service. The $13.99 price involves no profit for anyone involved in the publication of this effort. This is simply a labor of love by a bunch of talented photographers to publish our work. If you like photography I'd encourage you to purchase a copy and take a look at what we've produced. I've already purchased my copy and if you'd like to purchase one as well you can do that here.
A lot of credit goes to those who helped put this magazine together. In addition to all 26 photographic contributors (along with many people not featured in this issue, but who provided valuable advice and feedback during the development process) Ivan Makarov deserves a lot of recognition as the one who really drove this project from the beginning. In addition to Ivan, Charlotte Reynolds worked as the magazine's designer, and Ingo Meckmann, Mo Tabesh, Wendy Martyn and Pierre Honeyman all worked as co-editors and publishers.
If you'd like to learn more about DMU Magazine, also be sure to check out its website dmumag.com.
More from Ivan here, and Meckimac here.