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Shot at ISO 2500, Aperture of 3.2, Shutter speed of 1/320 and Focal Length of 50.0 mm
Taken with a 24-70mm F2.8 ZA SSM lens and processed by Aperture 3.2.2 on Monday February-27-2012 21:05 EST PM
An winters morning view of 91105 ready to depart for the north, Kings Cross, 11th February 2008. Who ever thought adding a white band to the GNER livery was an attractive combination is in my view mistaken.
Following heavy overcast skies in the morning, the FWCR heads southwest under crisp sunlight with scattered clouds, the train has just crossed the Crowley-Plover grade crossing as it heads toward Cresson, Texas. Photo February 28, 2016.
Looking down on Colton from Colton Heights on the edge of the Lake District National Park. The difference a day makes, yesterday this was blanketed under snow!
Colton Church was built in 1575 (and rebuilt in 1600) and stands above the village.
Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 18-55 f2.8-4.0 @ 30mm, f=13, 1/100th Second, ISO160
Great Western Railway 150102 stands in platform 7 with 2O86, 08:42 Gloucester – Weymouth, 1st February 2016.
Unit History
150102 is one of the first production batch (fifty, two car units) of “second generation” Diesel Multiple Units built as replacements for the original Diesel Multiple Unit fleet introduced in the late 1950’s. I still consider these to be modern vehicles but I first came across 150102 almost to the day thirty years earlier on the 4th February 1986 at Derby. Built at York Works in 1985 150102 was initially used on East Midlands duties based at Etches Park, Derby and I remember them arriving and displacing the Swindon Cross Country (class 120) sets. They were soon displaced themselves with the introduction of the class 156 units on East Midlands duties in 1988 and the class 150/1 units migrated to Tyseley for Birmingham suburban duties. With introduction of the class 172 fleet in 2012 150102 was transferred to Bristol for Great Western duties.
43048 T.C.B Miller MBE brings up the rear of the 15:00 departure for London St Pancras from Derby, 16th February 2009. The station platforms were in the process of being rebuilt and with the north end of the of the station platforms substantially complete you could see the transformation from the 1950’s concrete canopies that had dominated Derby station photographs for over fifty years.
Locomotive History
43048 was built at Crewe Works as part of HST set 253024 for Western Region London – Bristol/South Wales services and entered traffic in March 1977. 253024 was one of five Western Region HST sets transferred to Midland Main Line duties in 1982 and 43049 has been pounding up and down to London St Pancras from the East Midlands and South Yorkshire for the last twenty eight years. 43048 has been fitted with a Paxman VP185 engine in lieu of its original Paxman Valenta.
Withdrawn in 2020 and sold for preservation and currently (February 2025) based at the Midland Railway Centre.