Inter-City 125 - The HST
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43277 crossing Kent Viaduct at Arnside with 1Q47, the 10.55 Derby RTC - Carlisle test train on Tue 6th June 2023.
It's a shame about the blue coach in the formation, although I was grateful the light held, with the shadows rapidly encroaching from the right side of the picture.
The 14.00 Cardiff Central - Penzance with 43093 leading, passing Cockwood Harbour on Fri 10th June 2022.
On 15 March 2017 the 17.32 Nottingham to St Pancras International passes Kilby Bridge at sunset.
Only a few more months of HST services, I am hopeful of getting out here soon for some contemporary captures
The HST doesn't have long and a year long project is underway at Garforth to replace the NER footbridge.
The HST is passing under one of the original bridges of the first main line railway in Leeds, the Leeds and Selby Railway, which when conceived in the 1830's was planned to be four track wide, hence the span of the bridges, the footbridge is a much later c1900 North Eastern Railway design.
I've put together a short video of my evening before the works commenced.
Cross Country 43239 & 43184 speed north with 1S53 13:27 Plymouth Edinburgh Waverley.
29th May 2023
A FGW HST passes the harbour with a westbound service on 21/4/2000
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The 19.04 from St Pancras International to Leeds passing through Wistow heads away towards Kilby Bridge. The leading power car was 43058
Quick lens change and the standard shot at Langstone Rock, as 43004 'Caerphilly Castle' leads the 2E10 0740 Penzance - Exeter St Davids 27/5/23.
Another photographer grabs a shot of 43079 as it departs Paddington with a commuter making his way towards the station. Hope the photographer had a permit.....
Running about 35 minutes early here, 43257 leads 1Q47, the 10.55 Derby - Carlisle test train over Leven Viaduct on Tue 9th May 2023.
43150 seen at Jamestown viaduct with the 1B35 1356 Aberdeen - Edinburgh 26/7/21. (Taken using a pole)
Second HST on Saturday was the Intercity one, 43102 seen at Kilby bridge working the 1B28 0834 Sheffield - London St Pancras International 27/2/21.
43367 passing Gilsland on the Tyne Valley line with a diverted Newcastle - Edinburgh on Sat 21st November 2015.
One of my first forays into digital photography after about 40 years using mainly colour slides.
An eastbound FGW set on the seawall on 21/4/2000
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43251 seen passing Claypole working 1Q18 0718 Darlington Up Sorting Sidings - London Kings Cross test train 3/1/22.
Intercity Executive livery HST powercar No.43184 is seen at Little Eaton working the 1S55 1427 Plymouth - Edinburgh 7/8/22. (Taken using a pole)
The Elephant's Trunk nebula or technically vdB 142 (Van den Berg 142), so named because of its similarity in appearance to a elephant’s trunk. The bright outline around the "trunk" is the surface of the dense cloud that is being illuminated and ionized by a very bright, massive star. The entire IC1396 region is ionized by this massive star, except for dense globules that can protect themselves from the star's harsh ultraviolet rays. The Elephant's Trunk nebula is now thought to be a site of star formation, containing several very young (less than 100,000 yr) stars that were discovered in infrared images in 2003. Two older (but still young, a couple of million years, by the standards of stars, which live for billions of years) stars are present in a small, circular cavity in the head of the globule. Winds from these young stars may have emptied the cavity.
This was done using the HST or Hubble Space Telescope Palette which is accomplished by combining sub frames using three narrowband filters that capture light produced by glowing hydrogen (Ha), oxygen (OIII) and sulfur (SII) present in the nebula. Green is assigned to hydrogen, blue to oxygen and red to the sulfur.
Acquisition Date: 11/08/2015 – 11/09/2015
Location: Western Massachusetts
Camera: SBIG STF8300M @ -15°C
Telescope: Stellarvue SV105T (f/7 – fl 735mm) reduced to f/5.6 (fl 588mm)
Mount: Astro-Physics AP1100
Guidescope: 60mm Stellarvue guide scope
Guide Camera: SBIG STi (mono)
Filters:
-Astrodon 3 nm Hydrogen Alpha (Ha): 11 x 30min. (390min.)
-Astrodon 3nm Oxygen III (OIII):08 x 30min. (240min)
-Astrodon 5nm Sulfur II (SII):07 x 30min. (210min)
Total Exposure:780min. (13.0hr)
Limiting Magnitude: 5.1
Comments: Stellarvue SFFR102 field flattener/reducer (0.8)
Well the plan was to photograph the 1721 Westbury to Lostwithiel engineers movement hauled by 66591. She was running 30 minutes early which meant she should of passed around about the same time that this HST did. There was slippage and she arrived 15 minutes after sunset.
However all was not lost and the 1552 Penzance Paddington became the star of the show.
HST Sunset seems quite apt as they reach the end of their careers after 40 years of express service.
This stalwart heads east along the River Teign.
A dip into the archives, back to the days of HST's working the top link London to Penzance services.
Here 43172, in remembrance livery, heads the 1A79 06:47 Penzance to Paddington across Forder viaduct with a glimpse of Trematon Castle just visible to the left in the trees.
18th October 2018.
Another Intercity livery HST ticked off for me in the last few years as 43049 'Neville Hill' is seen at Great Strickland. It was working the 1Z71 1625 Carlisle - Plymouth 'Midland Pullman' 4/6/22.
Another shot from that trip to Bristol Temple Meads.
These are black and while because I was shooting with Ilford FP4. I don't recall now why I took that rather than colour. I typically chose film that was as cheap as possible.
On the eve of the final 'Castle' class HST workings in Devon and Cornwall it felt appropriate to dig out one of my favorite drone shots of the year; overlooking the River Tamar as the Cornish Mainline passes from Devon into Cornall. 43188 'The Welshman' is leading 43092 while working the 2C29 15:47 Plymouth to Penzance and is seen crossing Coombe Viaduct at Saltash.
The more famous Royal Albert Bridge, designed by Brunel provides the background alongside the more modern Tamar Bridge which opened to vehicles in 1961.
This would turn out to be my final day chasing HST's in the west country, a part of the world I have long associated with the trains. Succesfully catching this shot was a good way to end.
I forget where I first saw this shot - but thanks to whoever posted it for the inspiration!
A Sheffield - London St Pancras bound HST approaches bradway tunnel, as it passes Dore on a snowy December afternoon in 2005.
43238 passing through Loughborough with 1D48, the 15.34 St.Pancras – Nottingham on Thurs 22nd April 2021.
The Brush loco works can be seen in the background and by chance, this photo was taken on the same day that the proposed closure of the works was announced, with the impending loss of around 300 jobs. Very sad news indeed.
This was also believed to be last day of service for the unique livery power car 43238, prior to withdrawal.
43274 passing East Goscote with 5M17, the 10.20 St.Pancras - St.Pancras via Leicester on Thurs 22nd April 2021.
Not many signal boxes permit the signal man to hang a plate telling the passers by his name.
Heres to Keith who is facilitating 43138 to pass safely through his section with the 1102 Inverness to Aberdeen.
Full zoom for maximum compression and cropped as much as I dare to exaggerate the exhaust plume and give Keith his time in the spotlight.
Such a delightful place with so much to photograph, I could have stayed here all week and not had a wasted trip.