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Not a bad way to learn to fly is it?
The RAF Hawk T.1 is a training aircraft used to progress pilots onto fast-jet flying in the Tornado GR4 and Typhoon FGR4.
This juvenile Black Skimmer joined in to the attack. This is full frame and uncropped. I did cut the wing tips off, but it's so hard to get them when they are flying right out you.
Stone Harbor, NJ
Class 222104 Working 5M17 0842 London St Pancras To Leicester Then Leicester To Cricklewood Sidings Seen Here Passing Kettering Station on Thursday 19th January 2023
Shell Game
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Shot for Iron Photographer 143
1 - the color orange
2 - something with a handle
3 - vignetting
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Strobist info: Single SB-600 sporting a StoFen Omni-Bounce triggered by Yongnu 502, the whole mess placed to the left & slightly behind & above the subject(s), 1/64 power. Manual exposure: f/2.8 1/200 -2/3 EV.
70817 Passes through Lincoln with 0D02 Doncaster station sidings -Barnetby Colas Sidings- Doncaster Road Learner/Driver Training light engine on Tuesday 18th January 2022.
Ex-GA 90003 and 90012 (both with nameplates removed) were used today on the Freightliner's Midlands route learner with 0Z90 Crewe Basford Hall to Northampton.
GB Railfreight Class 92, 92020 leads the Caledonian Sleeper Down Highlander (1S25) through Hartford.
A revised timetable was in operation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the Highlander running to/from Inverness and Fort William only and the Lowlander serving Glasgow and Edinburgh as normal.
PhotoExif - Camera: Minolta XD7, Film: Fujifilm Superia X-Tra 200.
While shooting my first roll in the Minolta XD7 I was walking round the IMAX at Waterloo on my way to Silverprint when I spotted this motorbike sitting in the sun.
86632 passes through Doxey on 0Z91 Northampton to Crewe via Birmingham and Bescot route learner 16/02/21. I believe the purpose of this is in case they need to divert services that way.
It turns out that this may well be the last 86 working for Freightliner.
37688 "Great Rocks" on 0Z51 Chesterfield - Crewe H.S. Route Learner blowing through the leaves as she flew past Woodley 28/10/2020
ScotRail liveried 68007 'Valiant' at Preston on 0Z68 08:13 Carlisle Kingmoor TMD - Crewe route learner on 08/04/16.
Freightliner Class 90 No. 90045 is seen passing Scremerston working a route learner
From Mossend loco sidings - Newcastle 0Z86.
How the mighty have fallen. Queensland Rail 2470 class number 2490H and 2400 class number 2414 crawl around the balloon balloon loop at Pinkenba beside the Brisbane River on the last of four driver training runs down this rarely used branch line on a wet and dreary Sunday 14 June.
My wife and I were headed to our daughter's place not far away but decided to take the long way and oft travelled route via Pinkenba and the Airport just in case something interesting of any nature popped up. We saw a few planes take off from the airport and some birds paddling about near the Luggage Point Treatment works before taking a side road into what was once the busy railway yard at Pinkenba where I was to take a couple of arty shots (not like me)! Anyway, heading back I noticed a QR worker at this unlikely place on a Sunday morning and then another further back towards the city that raised my suspicions. We eventually returned to sate my curiosity when I noticed the usual coating of rust on the rails had turned to a fresh shine! Ah ha, a train of some sort about in a place where trains rarely go. So off back to Pinkenba to ask, and as we arrived, there were these two locos! Now, this was a catch indeed. Breaking news stuff. Asking the high visibility clad and friendly staff member, he told me they were on driver training, doing runs up and down the disused (nearly) part of the branch.
Passenger train services on this branch now terminate at Doomben while the rest of the branch has lost its own sub-branch to Hamilton and the wharves and all its sidings, while all sidings at Pinkenba including oil refinery, gas terminal, fertiliser works, petrol terminals and grain storage and ship loader are all gone. The view straight ahead in this shot heads towards where most of those sidings were once located and the expanse of nothingness in the main part of the shot middle to right was the old Pinkenba Yard that consisted of multiple tracks with the former grain silos and unloader on the left while the wharf is just out of shot to the right. The large silo like facility is now an ethanol plant which was to be served by rail but only a couple of trains ever ran after it opened while grain now comes all the way by road from the Darling Downs (when not in drought). Pinkenba used to be a busy railway place.
The separate Pinkenba railway station which was served by passenger trains until 1993 and its tracks have been also obliterated, the old station building having been cut in half, one piece to a private residence at Cleveland and the other half went across Moreton Bay where it serves apparently as a ticket office for North Stradbroke Ferries on the island of the same name.
I can only hope that new American railway company, Watco which has set up in Queensland may win some traffic back to rail and return here. Otherwise it will remain a balloon loop used only for the occasional heritage trip or crew training until someone decides it is too expensive to maintain and goes the way railways of the 21st. century all to often do, closing as freight is moved to already busy and undercharged road freight operators.
On 22 December 1995, route-learner 930082 heads north past the site of Coulsdon North station. The bypass road has since been built over the open land behind the train.
DB Class 66 66069 departs from Newhaven Marine Aggregate Terminal with a route learner working returning to Acton TC.
Due to the election in Dhaka today all cars and motorized vehicles were banned on the streets. This gave some new learner riders a chance to master their skills on the roads
Note to you Coopers and Red Tails. I love having you a few feet from my desk and puters every day but perching ON the feeder is not considered stealth mode. It does save on bird seed (sparrow food) however.
On a sort of mini-hiatus from railway stuff at present but noted this was coming through and I was in the right place at the right time so it would be rude not to: 69005 ‘Eastleigh’ is seen here approaching the Totnes Bypass overbridge in the last patches of sun with one of a series of route learning trips for GBRf that have run over the past week.