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Of all the Urban Readers I've photographed, this was the only one of a person reading while standing...
50038 Formidable departs Reading and heads for Paddington in November 86
Taken on a trip to London and I think the only train shot taken that day.
The headlight appears to have failed! Photos where the sun was off the front always benefited from the light being on.
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On Sunday 24th October 2021, a large rail replacement operation took place in the Basingstoke area affecting the services of SWR, GWR and Cross Country. This resulted in a nice variety of vehicles turning up throughout the day - in fact 37 different operators were noted supplying 53 different vehicles!
Replacement bus services ran out to Andover, Reading, Winchester and Woking.
Seen in Reading in February 2019 is Reading Buses Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Enviro300 419 YR13PNV.
Reading about Mr.Croup and Mr.Vandemar will prepare us for Halloween!! Don't you think sweet friends?
In the stretch of double track between Crestwood and Solomons Gap is Penobscot Yard and the lead to the Crestwood Industrial Park (which requires headroom through CP Crestwood to access) the PECW (Penobscot-Crestwood, more commonly referred to as the Crestwood Drill) passes the neat brick building of the water company at Glen Summit. A single pup pretty much lives on this job to serve the handful of customers in the industrial park and recently travel towards Pittston to knock around stored oil cars. With the abolition of NS through freights setting off and picking up their interchange at Penobscot the Crestwood Drill's cars are brought to and from Penobscot by the 4pm YJPI2 out of Pittston. The Crestwood Drill goes to work at 8am Monday and Thursday.
Keeping with the CNJ theme today we'll take a look at the former CNJ portion of the Lehigh Division. R&N acquired what was kinda referred to as the middle portion of Conrail's Lehigh Line in 1996. A collection of mostly LV track from Lehighton to Mehoopany. The exceptions are the former CNJ for about 40 miles between White Haven and Laurel Run which was kinda folded into the LV's mainline when the CNJ pulled out of Pennsylvania in the 60's. The other exception being the former DL&W from Pittston to Scranton. The LV portion of the line is spectacularly scenic through the Lehigh Gorge and the descent towards Pittston however it has become at times simply hard to access and at other times very, very grown in. Many classic shots along the LV have been destroyed in ways that could only be undone by a massive wildfire and others are currently blocked or otherwise marred by stored oil cars. The former CNJ portion of the line does a whole lot of aiming into the sun for the current afternoon NRFF schedule between White Haven and Mountain Top (Solomons Gap) with plenty of access, a tunnel, searchlights, restored mileposts, a yard and even a signal bridge. So today we'll take a look at that as well as the twice-weekly (Mo-Th I think...) Crestwood Drill which rates a single SW8 and serves the only active customers between Lehighton and Pittston from the yard in Penobscot.
Reading Company RDC1 9157 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on an unknown day in September 1964, Kodachrome by R. S. Short, Chuck Zeiler collection.
It was a few hours in Reading today (24/04/2021) to see what was going on and to test out a new lens for the camera. The many colours of Reading Buses were in full bloom in some lovely April sunshine.