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Had a driving lesson this morning. I got overtaken by a milk float. A MILK FLOAT.
I get all panicky when there are cars around me (which is often).. its as though I can hear their engines whispering "what are you doing, noob? grrrr!" and so I get flustered and stall :(
I don't think i'll ever get the hang of this..
37175 Seen at Branch End Monk Bretton
Working the 0Z34 Route Learner from
York Yard North - Derby RTC
Balfour Beatty-liveried Class 20s 20189 and 20142 pass through Twyford station with a route learning run when they were planned to have a part in the Great Western Main Line electrification scheme.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DRS 57308 'Jamie Fergusson' is seen making an unusual appearance while passing through Heaton Chapel with 0Z33 Wilmslow Down Reversal Siding - Crewe Gresty Bridge via Longsight & Manchester DRS Route Learner - 9th July 2022
GB Rail Freight's 73968 rumbles through Holytown with a route learning run from Elderslie upl to Craigentinny,
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.
800202 near Baldock working 5Z81 09.27 Ferme Park to Peterborough route learner for upcoming diversions via Cambridge
Here’s an Eastern bluebird fledgling on the feeder pole, but it seems he has nabbed himself an insect without my or his parents' help.
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Captured with a Nikkormat EL and a roll of Ilford HP5 Plus 400.
CanoScan 8800F.
Note: I’m still learning so much at all levels using that type of nice cameras. Even though the feeling was really great and the camera body perfectly functional [smooth shutter at all speeds, clean and solid heavy metal parts, accurate working light meter, very good lens, nice look/design], I’ve learned the hard way the crucial importance of light seals especially on that camera back which is apparently well known for not tolerating quiet any lacking on this point. […] Anyway, with discoveries and mistakes made with some, malfunctions noted or adjustments required on some others, my knowledge and my handling notions keep growing. I’m still enjoying testing gear and experimenting things to candidly capture framed moments but I think that I’ll now use all these lessons learned to start focusing and caring a lot more on my restricted personal cameras top selection. I can now almost fully rely on these selected few to explore, improve and express myself. As it says, gear is only a part of the journey, a chapter of the book. Despite the attraction that I have even for the simple beauty of the items, I’ll let go a big part of the cameras batch I own because deep inside I’m rather still perfecting my practice and growing as a learner - or a life traveller - than becoming an items collector. Love is Love.
Feral Pigs - Biolab Road, Canaveral National Seashore, Wilson, Florida
It's hard to say whether this little piggy is a fast learner, or whether it's just instinct to stick it's face in the muck.
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
Chiltern Railway's Bubble Car 960014 stabled at Aylesbury in 2012. This unit was used for various inspection or route learning duties and is now owned by Locomotive Services Limited as part of its chairman's fleet.
Unit: British Rail Class 121 Diesel Multiple Unit 960014/W977873 (formerly 55022).
Location: Aylesbury station, Buckinghamshire.
The driver of 37099 slows for a signal stop at Colton whilst working a Doncaster to Derby, via Scarborough, route learner
KFC 37418 on 0Z37 07:50 Derby R.T.C. Network Rail - Chester Middle Yard Route Learner, at Warrington Arpley 20/10/2025