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Passing this rather nice Signal Box is 150204, working the Saturday only 2H05 1137½ Sheffield to Cleethorpes via Brigg.
The remains of the sidings can be seen to the left, rather overgrown!
(10/10/2020)
BR Standard tank 80080 works the evening "Ghost train" through Shottle on 12.11.2022 (Photo taken using flash with the knowledge and permission of the excellent crew)
These are two of the many funfair rides, a ghost train and roller coaster at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park , London. It's a large travelling amusement park set up just for the Christmas period.
Verlassene Waggons in einem Geisterbahnhof.
Abandoned cars at a ghoststation.
Agfa APX 400 Film
Rodinal 1+25 (Grain!!!)
Minolta Dynax 800si
Minolta AF 35-70 Primekiller
This stretch of former railway has a more visceral feel than many of the previous lines that I've walked along. The tunnel is, of course, a big part of this but the scene at the western portal is completed by the occasional noise from modern-day trains. They cross the Crimple Viaduct immediately ahead of this point, and once-upon-a-time would have been destined to enter this portal.
After the Wetherby line was closed, a new stretch of track was laid at the end of the viaduct which turns the trains away from this old portal along ninety degrees over the course of a short half mile curve. As such, some of them make quite a screech as they round the corner and this noise echoes down the cutting into Prospect Tunnel - a very cool and eerie effect!
Click here to see this location from above - you'll notice the lay of the former railway line from the viaduct and how the modern-day route has been diverted. The ghost train seen here is a 4-6-0 that is currently operating on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and was originally photographed by "Toulouse Leplotte" (a.k.a. Alan) of Sherwood Forest.
An image with and without a train superposed. Deliberately no attempt to somehow align the images. The railway line from Stoke-on-Trent to Manchester at Lyme Green, Cheshire.
Having combined them, I liked the illusion that there's a junction ahead of the train; there wasn't.
This is a VERY Weird photo.~ btw, no this is not a good photo, it is a really horrible photo. What showed up in it, is what I felt was worth saving. ....
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I so swear, there is a train that displays in the center of this photo and there was absolutely No Train on these tracks. Further, I did not add this in any way to this photo to make this happen, it occurred naturally from mirroring the original image.
scroll down to view the cropped and enlarged version of the center of this photo
(as well as the photo of how it was originally taken).
I took this photo of 'half' of this tunnel. After I sent this photo to a friend, he told me to hold on while he tried something. He doubled (mirrored) this photo and I couldn't believe what displayed on this photo. In fact, I thought he was pulling my leg and this 'train' couldn't be in the original photo. I was so new to photoshop then that he had to explain to me how to mirror the original image like he did. And indeed, that 'train' is in the original photo because I got the same results by simply mirroring the image then lining them up.
Note: "The train' that displays in the enlarged version of this photo below is located directly in line and beyond the merging train track. Interestingly as well, the foliage on the track took on a bridge appearance. So the 'train' in this photo is located in the center of this photo beyond where the tracks seem to disappear and the trees formed a type of bridge over it. (Not sure if my explanation is clear. let me know.)
I will show the 'ghost train?' in an enlarged cropped version of this photo where a train appeared on the tracks that flat out wasn't there.
Note: This photo is one of the very first photos I ever took when I wanted to try to learn my then new hobby of photography. It shows with the bad lighting in the photo that my skills were not so hot then. However, what I also did not know is how to manipulate photos at all. So, this photo is absolutely not manipulated. This is what came out of the camera. At the time, I had Kodak software that came with the camera. The program enhanced the greens and yellows (it added a bit of saturation) Nothing more has been added to this photo.
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Note 2- I will try to dig down to my very first archives of photos to find the original of this photo as well.
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On another note: This tunnel was nearly in the back yard of my home for several years (The Horseshoe waterfall that is found on my stream was as well). When I was a kid I used to go through this tunnel nearly everyday with my friend, The tracks were not used even as far back as then well over 20 years ago. Though, my friend and I used to get completely creeped out in this tunnel, especially when we would approach the middle and it is blacker then pitch. Even more fun, bats had dove at us more then once. This tunnel was along our daily track where we started by hopping on the tracks where an old abandoned coal mine was located in Pequabuck CT at the time. We crossed a bridge over the Pequabuck river. I so clearly remember the first time I did it trying to keep my feet solidly on the wood planks of the railroad track that made up this bridge, and being petrified that I would fall through and plummet into the river lol. Later, I became more skilled and I would balance on the narrow track to cross the bridge. To continue our daily hike my friend and I hopped off the bridge on the opposing side of the river and we wandered through the woods that line the railroad tracks, until the woods ended at the Horseshoe (water) Falls. I remember too my favorite part of the woods that were next to the waterfall. It was an area of very tall pine trees. The needles from the trees that scattered below glistened a pure glorious golden carpet under our feet. (Before this area it was always a challenge to get through all the thick over growth of the forest. I loved the pine trees as I only understand now that the needles a natural treasure to provide clearing in the woods.) Just beyond the pine trees that lined the falls, we would then hop back on the track to reach the mile long tunnel. On the other side of the tunnel my friend and I would climb up a steep bank to reach the rural road and walk several miles back home. Those were the good old days when kids could roam freely in this way and no one would think a thing of it. Today, if parents let their kids do this, cops would haul the kids down to the police station after neighbors called them with complaints of 'gangs' loitering in the area. Then, today our parents would be reported to child services for letting us.....???? Be free? It is indeed illegal today to be a free child. In hindsight the tunnel was never all that scary. A world where it is illegal for children to roam beautiful woods and explore like I did, and their parents getting threats of loosing their kids if they let children explore like I did, now that is SCARY to me!!
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2022, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days. Final day 09 Oct 2022.
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A brave little lad boarding a ghost trains at Loughborough Fair.
#458 in Explore for 14 November on 2 December 2008
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2022, its runs for 10 days! Usually its 3 days, occasionally 5 days.
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Top shot is a westbound metra train at the Schaumburg station with nice long light trails. I love the 50mm lens for night shots of this nature. Shot at F11, for 8 seconds using a rear curtain flash to iluminate the red/white stripes on the back of the car.
The bottom two are from an eastbound freight train. In the 3rd shot, I captured that little red blinky light on the last car as it passed by. You can see the intervals of the "blinks" and each of those blinks even have a teeny light trail.....lol. That's so cute :-)
Do you have your ticket to board the Ghost Train? It leaves at midnight and is one of two known ways out of Grave Stone.
See the video here: www.flickr.com/photos/25848889@N03/6817741961/in/photostream
The day Dave and I started loading up parts of the Haunted Castle from Miracle Strip Amusement Park into his van.
I have printed about 35 of my prints so far A4 size(8 by 10). Put them into plastic sleeves with cardboard backing. It has been fun packaging them up and finaaaaally printing some of them off. Geez it took me long enough!
I am going to start selling them at one of the local markets in afew weeks :) I hope I sell some I am sooo broke at the moment!
Ghostly Spectre of a 1960s DMU at Broadway Station in Worcestershire.
The station is currently a building site but taking shape thanks to hard graft from GWR volunteers.
Greet tunnel, a few miles down the line is said to be haunted but daytime sightings of this ghostly train in the Broadway area have only occurred since the station rebuild began. It is thought that this long gone engineer was angered by closure of the line and visits the site in his ghost train to check on the station's progress.
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2022, it runs for 10 days, usually it's 3 days. Final day 09 Oct 2022.
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Grave Stone Abandoned Station
The clock is nearing midnight... An Abandoned Station stands along the rusty tracks of Grave Stone. Jebediah's last words were "I'll be dead before this train comes". Who would have guessed he was right? There's one ticket out of Grave Stone that can be found within the decrepit walls of the Abandoned Station; but this ticket is for a special ride, a ride on the haunted Ghost Train. In order to redeem the ticket, one must wait between 11:00 PM and midnight at the station. The only problem is that there are other less-sightly creatures that are also trying to escape Grave Stone, and they will kill for a ticket aboard the Ghost Train. And what ghastly train stops at an Abandoned Station within Grave Stone?
Do you dare wait until midnight to find out...
Courtesy Tim Hollis. This was Six Flags' attempt at a haunted house attraction. I don't remember too much about it other than there was a fountain or pool of water in it. A monster would rise up out of the water periodically. Also there were some vampires laying in glass coffins that were breathing, which was kind of spooky. Later on in the walk-through tour, you went down some steps that were dimly lit and into a room where it looked like it was raining outside, with blue light and trees if I remember correctly, which was a little depressing.
The last time I went through it was about 1983 or 84. There were Six Flags employees dressed like witches and monster in the line. I never thought the theming was quite right for Six Flags, even as a kid. Their haunted house never fit in with the vibe of the rest of the park. A few of their rides were a little scary I thought; for example, the train ride had skeletons in the passing scenery, and the Riverboats had indians and dead people throughout, and Tales From The Okeefenokee was terrifying to a kid. But the Horror Cave had no ties with the vibe of the park. It was in the Spanish section, and when I think of Spain, I don't think of haunted houses. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate if it was in the Confederate or British section.
From what I hear there was a long slide at the end but I don't recall that. Anybody else remember anything about it?
Suffering from being a badly under exposed 30 second exposure, a lot of strange artifacts showed up in this shot when i lightened it up in post. I liked the shot, so I just kept on processing and trying to use the criss-crossed lines and splotches to better effect. I even went so far as to add a heavy film grain to mask the defects. As it turns out, this is my favorite shot of the night, and I hope you like it, too...^+^
Have a creepy weekend...^+^
The lupine transport seems to have become disattached from the Ghost Line when the train made its descent into the valley. By the light of a full moon, a "clank" is heard from the chained box as a section of the crate gives way. A large head, not human, but not quite animal growls ferociously as its eyes glow red with the scent for blood.