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Having spent almost an hour to built up some air pressure on it's 81-car train in Richmond Yard, SLR 520 is finally on the move toward Canadian National Southwark Yard located on the south shore of Montréal island with a diminutive two-engine consist on this quite cold winter day.
Here, the locomotive engineer aboard SD70MAC 4022 have just engaged its dynamic brake in anticipation of the momentum Danby hill will starting to built in a few hundred feet.
SLR 520-22
4022 3047
Milepost 83.3 Sherbrooke subdivision
Durham-Sud,QC
January 22nd 2025
Another new viewpoint discovered for the magnificent Norman cathedral at Durham.
I'd found it on an OS map, although I couldn't really tell from the map exactly how the view would look. It seemed promising, but there was only one way to find out.
The path that I set out along goes through some woods and there were so many Autumn leaves on the ground that I didn't realise I had left the path.
I ended up getting a little lost and there were so many trees that I couldn't see the cathedral!
To cut a long story short, I did eventually find a great vantage point, but the light was really poor – very flat and grey.
I must have hung around for around an hour, hoping it might improve and the sun bursting through just before it set.
It did brighten up a little, but fell short of what I was hoping for. However, now that I know how to get here, I'll definitely be back!
Durham Cathedral has been described as ‘one of the great architectural experiences of Europe’. It is renowned as a masterpiece of Romanesque (or Norman) architecture. It was begun in 1093 and largely completed within 40 years. It is the only cathedral in England to retain almost all of its Norman craftsmanship, and one of few to preserve the unity and integrity of its original design.
Durham Cathedral & Fulling mill
Durham city
North east England
Nikon D850
Tamron 17-35(32mm)
F 11
8 seconds exposure
Iso 31
Nisi Landscape Cpl
Nisi 4 stop Medium grad
Edited in Lightroom with Nik.
Durham Cathedral from the banks of the river Wear. I had a cup of coffee and a scone in the Cathedral this day.very nice to.
Prebends bridge is a scene I always love to visit & photograph whilst in Durham .. the warm afternoon sunlight was just clipping the tree tops lighting up the winter scene.
Lee 0.9S grad & Nisi landscape polariser filters.
Climbing the tower. A glimpse through a locked door window along one of the galleries above the Nave.
One of my favourite viewpoints, especially as Spring is giving up its final days to Summer and the buttercups make an appearance.
Durham Cathedral looks just fantastic from this location, especially on a glorious late Spring day like this.
The location also proves a popular chill-out zone with the city's university students.
Reflections of on evening in Durham, thinking I had managed a shot of the Cathedral with no scaffolding
Durham Cathedral
Durham City
North east England
Nikon 850
Tamron 35-150(135mm)Di OSD
Nisi V6 Landscape Cpl
Nisi 3 stop soft grad
F 11
1.6 seconds exposure
Iso 64
Edited in Lightroom with Nik.
The usual shot of Durham Cathedral taken with a smart phone. It is a panoramic of 9 image stitched together.
Durham 3 December 2022.
Late afternoon and riverside office are reflected in the calm waters of the River Wear. Oddly the reflections of the setting sun are reflected in the water, but not directly on the building's windows.
Midland Pullman 43055 and 43046 pass Durham with 'Royal Highland Pullman: Day 1' tour
1Z90 0739 St Pancras International to Inverness
Amongst a batch of old family photographs once belonging to my wife’s grandfather is this portrait of three Durham coal miners. The one on the left my wife and I think is my wife’s Grandfather Tommy Wake, born on the 14th February 1890 and who died just a couple of days before his 100th birthday. Tommy looks to be in his mid teens thus dating the picture to circa 1906.
Built in 1926, this building was designed by Thomas C. Atwood and Arthur C. Nash to serve as a training facility for the Durham Fire Department. The five-story 61 foot tall building features a red brick exterior, eight-over-eight double-hung windows, oxeye windows on the first floor, an exterior metal fire escape, arched windows on the fifth floor, and a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet. The building was utilized by the Durham Fire Department to train firefighters until the 1970s, when it was replaced by a more modern facility. The building, along with the adjacent City Garage, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Today, the tower sits empty, but is maintained by the city of Durham as a historical landmark.