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Reflections of a flight
inside out
along a painted sunset
south, south
still flying south
I couldn't decide on the right title for this so have compiled them into the worlds worst poem ;-p
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Mentzelia decapetala
tenpetal blazingstar (evening-star)
„Abendstern“ (Zehnblättrige Mentzelie)
It pays to enlarge! 😎 Vergrößern lohnt sich!
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A Night of Winter
The lamp is burnin' low upon my table top
The snow is softly fallin'
The air is still within the silence of my room
I hear your voice softly callin'
___Gordon Lightfoot
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**Textures courtesy of various sources
***Always___Thank You for your generous visits and comments
Captured at the end of Brixham Breakwater the sky glows from the setting sun leaving a light pillar in the sky along with the Moon to the top left as well as Venus and Mercury.
The view from Zabriskie Point is no less stunning after dark. As last month’s super moon illuminates the foreground, Venus is seen setting over the alien horizon right in front of the faint, but visible, milky way.
Arwen: "The light of the Evenstar does not wax and wane. It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart."
have a perfect day, dear friends! Take care!
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66779 "Evening Star"
6X01 Scunthorpe Trent Terminal Complex to Eastleigh East Yard
Portway Lane, Tamworth, Staffordshire
The last Class 66 built for Britain 66779 Painted in BR lined Green and named Evening Star heads past Belper with 66762 working 6M73 Doncaster to Toton on the 28/7/16
92220 Evening Star leaves Scarborough with the SSE on 11/8/1983
Copyright David Price
No unauthorised use
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66779 "Evening Star"
4F62 East Midlands Gateway Terminal Complex to Seaforth Container Terminal
Streethay, Lichfield, Staffordshire
Watch and listen to the Evening Star, giving a glimpse of days gone bye when steam locomotion was the norm:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvF1F-3nTU
Steam locomotive and tender, British Railways, 9F class 2-10-0 No 92220 "Evening Star", designed by R.A.Riddles, built at Swindon in 1960, withdrawn in 1965.
Evening Star is historically significant as the 999th British Rail (BR) Standard, and indeed the last steam locomotive to be built by BR.
Evening Star was the only 9F to be painted in BR’s express passenger service livery of lined green. The name Evening Star was chosen following a competition held by the BR Western Region Staff Magazine. There were three winners, who all suggested Evening Star – a fitting name given that one of the first locomotives to run on the Great Western Railway was named Morning Star.
Evening Star had an extremely short life span for a steam locomotive and was unexpectedly withdrawn from service in 1965. The locomotive was claimed for the National Collection in 1975.
Conjunction (close approach) of the crescent moon and Venus, seen from Sapporo in the evening of 31 January 2017. Venus's apparent magnitude (brightness) was -4.7, close to the possible maximum, which made it an unmissable object in the sky.
During the first days of March 2025, the waxing crescent moon will join Venus again in the western early evening sky. Watch out!
Camera: Canon PowerShot G12.
Edited with GIMP.
All day long, sunshine struggled to overcome the clouds that lingered after yesterday's rain and last evening's storms. I, too, struggled to overcome the melancholy brought on by the lingering weather. By this evening, it seemed as if clear sky may win. I stood on the front porch and watched the last wispy, feathery clouds move eastward at breakneck speed, high in the sky.
I brewed the first coffee of the day just before sunset and poured a mug to take to the dam so I could watch the sunset.
These colors are the fastest home remedy available for melancholy.
14.6.2015.
Found this shot whilst looking through some old stuff.
BR '9F' 2-10-0 No 92214, masquerading as 92220 'Evening Star' pulls out of Swithland Sidings with a demonstration freight.
Taken when I was lucky enough to still have a line side pass!
66786, with 66779 "Evening Star" tucked inside hauls the Peak Forest Cemex to Selby through Edale on Tuesday February 26th 2019.
A weekend of engineering works saw all normal traffic on the Tyne Valley route stopped. Having the route to itself on Sunday afternoon was 66779 'Evening Star' which was operating the 6G44 14:30 Hexham to Carlisle New Yard.
I wouldn't have normally ventured out for a single service in indifferent conditions but I hadn't photographed the celebrity '66' before so thought I would make the effort. Just before it's arrival the skies darkened and the heavens opened providing a much more atmospheric set of conditions than the overcast but dry weather of only a few minutes earlier.
16th May 2021.
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Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66779 "Evening Star" hauling a weed killer set
6Z96 11.46 Derby RTC Serco to Kidderminster Severn Valley Railway
Haselour Lane, Elford, Staffordshire
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Standing in South Dakota and looking across the Missouri River towards Nebraska. It was a serenely beautiful evening
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Great Central Railway - Timeline Charter (April 2015) with Class 9F 92214 as 92220 Evening Star (DSC 8080)
All images taken on two days of charter can be seen by accessing the smugmug link below
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66779 Evening Star approaches Frisby-on-the-Wreake, working 4M23 09.35 Felixstowe North - Hams Hall. [Pole, 4/6 sections (~5.4m)]
This was fairly close behind 60028, but I had enough time to walk the rest of the way down the lane to do an angle I'd looked at when I first arrived. I kept the 35mm (53mm equivalent) lens on the camera, so I could maximise the amount of the train which was visible. However, this is cropped slightly as in the next frames there are distracting shadows on the second container, plus it means the loco is positioned before it has the big tree directly above its cab roof.
It was a shame, however, that the loco bodysides were so dirty, but I was pleased the only two containers on the train were close to the front - and their "social distancing" improves the image, I think.
Thanks to Jason Cross for the heads-up on this, as I might not have spotted it was a celebrity.
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1S25 London Euston to Inverness. Class 66 (Evening Star) in GBRF celebrity livery leads with Class 73 tucked in behind. Seen here on the HML nearing journey's end.
Pink clouds accented by a contrail in matching color fill the western sky. The evening star, Venus is visible through the wispy clouds.
Locomotive(s) :- 66779 "Evening Star".
Working :- 6K50 15:13 Toton North Yard to Crewe Basford Hall S.S.M.
Location :- Rugeley Trent Valley Railway Station.
Date :- 26th July 2016.
Time :- 16:52:19.
© Andy Parkinson 2018 - No Unauthorised Use Please.
3Q00, GBRf’s 0942 Carlisle Upperby Sidings - Carlisle Upperby Sidings (via Millom) Bayer weed control train top and tailed by 66779 “EVENING STAR” and 66787 has just entered the Lowca single line section of the Cumbrian coast at Parton North Junction on 8 May 2022.
GBRF 66779 Evening Star head's North away from Leicester working 4H73 Wellingborough to Tunstead on the 1/6/21
Great Central Railway - Class 9F 92220 Evening Star (actually 92214) in BR lined green (Late crest) with goods (DSC 8684)
All images taken that day can be seen by following my Smugmug link below
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Celebrity 'Shed' 66779 "Evening Star" glides past Helwith Bridge, with the 4N00 0925 Carlisle New Yard to Clitheroe Castle Cement - 15/06/2022.
When I found out that this locomotive had worked this train just before we went on holiday, I was fairly confident it would keep on the working during our stay at Ribblehead.
I was hoping that this train would run on the previous Friday, which was our arrival day. However, it was cancelled. Then I thought it would run on the following Monday, but it was cancelled again. No show on Tuesday either, but it then looked guaranteed it would run on the Wednesday, when it appeared on RTT with this locomotive allocated. However, it didn't show any movement off Carlisle & I began to wonder if the train would be cancelled yet again. Thankfully however, it was just a delayed departure & it was definitely worth the wait in the end. I was over the moon to see this locomotive while we were on holiday & I was very lucky to capture it on camera in superb weather conditions such as this.
6V84 (MWFO) Clitheroe - Avonmouth cement is normally held at Farington Junction for fifty minutes but today they let it out and put it on the slow south of Wigan.
Here filthy GBRf 66779 'Evening Star' after being stopped on the up slow gets the signal to proceed across Golborne Junction in a welcome spell of winter sun.
In low winter sunshine GB Railfreight Class 66 diesel locomotive 66779 "Evening Star" approaches Portway Lane, Tamworth working 6X01 Scunthorpe Trent Terminal Complex to Eastleigh East Yard.
Venus as a bright evening star over the Blakiston Valley and Creek in Waterton Lakes National Park, May 29, 2023. Above Venus are the stars Pollux and Castor in Gemini. The valley was ravaged by a forest fire in September 2017.
This is a blend of two exposures: 25 seconds for the dark ground, and 5 seconds for the bright sky, both at f/4 with the Canon RF15-35mm lens at 31mm and Canon R5 at ISO 100. A mild Orton Glow added with Luminar Neo.
'In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.' (Auden) 😊