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On a rather dull day, the chase concludes with a lucky patch of light on the viaduct high above the Marinas and Cortinas.
In a very lucky patch of sun that lasted all of 5 minutes 57305 leads 1Z14 Harrogate - Birmingham International 'Northern Belle' at Slitting Mill (Barrow Hill) on 25.04.15.
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A going-away shot of 313208 as it departs Littlehampton on 18 November 2022 working 2S18 11:55 Littlehampton - Portsmouth & Southsea, in a very lucky patch of sun. The 1967-built gas holder, which has been a Littlehampton landmark since its construction, is scheduled for demolition by Southern Gas Networks at some stage in the coming years. Thanks to Nic Joynson for his inspirational shot here, and more recently to Adam Snow for the push to go and have-a-go. Myself and GG were very pleased with our take on the scene here.
16:9 aspect ratio crop.
NOTE: Taken with the aid of the camera on a pole.
Rare for such a statement to be applicable on only the second day of the year but this is the question raised due to a wiper fault. Having hired in Freightliner 86s for the previous couple of workings, GBRf used the AC Locomotive Groups 87002 'Royal Sovereign,' which they have been crewing as necessary as the WCML icebreaker, to top the demic 92010 (which was assisting both ways due to the load) on 6m49 Mossend - Carlisle Yard and 6s51 return.
It is seen crossing Metal Bridge in a lucky patch of sun. Unfortunately however shortsightedness on small gallery's part saw the shadow from the bridge cast over the loco. Still, such a rare working won't be seen very often so its worthy of uploading. 02/01/14
It had been a crystal clear day up until about 45mins before this and a couple of other freights were due. The thick bank of cloud rolled in (as can be seen above the train) but we had a lucky patch between two banks.
This is another of those workings that can be a bit hit & miss but on 26th February it was running right on time. 66067 heads 6K32 13:30 Arpley Sidings - Stoke Marcroft Engineering. The consist can be anything and can often look like a mixed wagon freight of the 80’s.
On this occasion it looks like a revenue train of steel wagons. All on their way to the Marcroft Works at Stoke.
Copyright Ken Davies. All rights reserved
66605 approaches Crowle Road Bridge near Tibberton in a lucky patch of sun with the 6V54 Elstow Redland to East Usk yard empty hoppers on August 10th 2023
Finally caught 'Braunton' on camera. A lucky patch of sunlight came at the right time; I usually suffer from "personal cloud" issues....
Seen at Finsbury Park, en route to Rowsley with the "Peak Forester"
In a lucky patch of sun ex Transpennine 158766, recently reallocated to Bristol, passes Besford at 14.40 on the 5th September 2006 working the 14.04 Great Malvern to BTM.
With MJ and GG choosing to go hill climbing, i went for the track side option and was rewarded with 59204 on the 7V16 Fareham-Whatley just hitting a lucky patch of sun
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Catching a lucky patch of sun for a shot of 37411 standing at Arrochar & Tarbet on 15 November 1986, working 1Y11 08:20 Glasgow Q.S - Oban, whilst waiting for 37405 'Strathclyde Region' the other way on 1T12 08:00 Oban - Glasgow Q.S, which was occupying the single line section from Ardlui . A quick check on the WNXX site (thank you) reveals the former D6990 / 37290 was withdrawn from traffic during July 2008, with final disposal finally following during May 2013 at Booths of Rotherham.
56105 heads into a lucky patch of sunlight, well more accurately, out of an unlucky patch of cloud, at New Bridge, just south of Ribblehead, with the Carlisle-Chirk logs, 14.8.13
with an extremely lucky patch of sun, Here is ex EMT 43423 and 43467 passing through south kenton on what could be the last 777 drag working 6Q77 1330 Wembley Receptions 1-7 to Walton Old Jn.M.S.C.Sdgs
29/05/24
20 September 2016
Royal Twins 67006 and 67005 complete with their DB logos and ugly red stripe were swapped onto the Chelsea footex ecs at Wembley to replace 67028 and are seen passing Husborne Crawley on the Bletchley - Bedford line working 1Z95 from Euston to Leicester for the league cup tie in a lucky patch of hazy sun.
In a lucky patch of sun, 66788 "Locomotion 15" skirts round the village of East Linton with the Mossend, PD Stirling - Doncaster iPort GBRf (4E04) weekdays intermodal service.
Running about 40 minutes late after a lightning strike at Sheffield Park, 34059 catches a lucky patch of sun climbing past Vaux End on the Bluebell.
46100 returning to Crewe with a ten coach test/training run finds a very lucky patch of sun at Millmeece as gathering clouds spoil the day's sun.
Resident Bullied 34027 " Taw Valley" catches a very lucky patch of sunshine as she heads away from Bewdley on Northwood Lane with the 13:30 service from Kidderminster.
Still carrying a coat of RHTT grime from the autumn, celebrity Gbrf shed No.66718 is seen passing in a lucky patch of sun at Crofton Road Junction, near Peckham Rye on the 1st of March 2024, working the 12:22 4Y19 empty JNA’s from Mountfield Sidings to Southampton West Docks.
Taken with the aid of a pole.
66002 is seen passing Besford in a lucky patch of sun at 14:24 working 6V92 Corby to Margam Empty coils. Nothing too special about this shot baring from the fact 66002 is one of only 2 class 66s with screw couplings 13/04/16
On Tuesday the 7th of April, DBS stickered 66168 is seen passing Stenson Junction in a lucky patch of sun with the 6X01 10:17 Scunthorpe to Eastleigh rail train.
in a lucky patch of sun with threatening clouds in the background and running in its earlier (better) path, dbs liveried super tug 60019`port of grimsby & immingham` approaches becketts crossing copmanthorpe working 6D43 13.50 jarrow - lindsey empty tanks 12/08/2013.
In a very lucky patch of sunshine, 45699 heads a mixed rake of Mk 1s, pullmans and the Queen of Scots set away from March, seen approaching the crossing at Silt Road. Not the best location, but I figured it would be working away from March, and so it proved.
Finding a lucky patch of sun ROG / Stadler Thunderbird 37800 arrives in Colchester working the 0F03 10.03 Norwich T.C. - Colchester Sudbury Dock on the 17 February 2020.
69005 Worting Junction 02/08/22 4Y19 Mountfield to Southampton Western Docks
Late running today allowed for a shot here in a lucky patch of sun.
In a very lucky patch of sunlight, 67026 is seen just north of Bowshank Tunnel on 16.09.15, while working the 1Z23 14.38 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley private charter. 60009 was on the rear of the train having worked the charter south from Edinburgh along the newly reopened Borders Rail Link earlier in the day.
The closure of the WCML while major upgrade work was going on at Bletchley saw the odd Saturday intermodal diverted via the Chilterns and here one coincides with a lucky patch of sun. Pathing of the freight was not easy back then as large parts of the route between Princes Risborough and Aynho Junction were still single track at the time.
Passing the soon to be demolished South Brent box, 57604 passes the site of Brent station while working 2E75 1125 Par ~ Exeter St Davids in a lucky patch of brightness
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The first shot from what was to be a pretty productive day, except for the 'main event' that was to pass here shortly after this view was captured, in a lucky patch of cloud. I always thought the 5-car Class 180 DMU was quite a stylish looking unit, in First Great Western blue livery. Here, No.180102 passes Hinksey lake, just south of Oxford, working a slightly late running 1P40 09:54 Great Malvern - Paddington on 04 December 2012.
Mega lash up on 6K73 yesterday 57008+007+37510+688 its a pity the tractors werent leading. 08.50 Sellafield - Crewe with 4 FNA's caught in a lucky patch of sun at Acton Bridge, Saturday 9 January 2011.
2 October 2014
I had intended to go the other side of the bridge but the farmer was in the field and I didn't want to antagonise. 82145 leads two coaches, 67003 and 82111 through Church Brampton in a lucky patch of sun on the 5Z68 Stafford-Northampton which seems to change formation on virtually every run.
With the opening of the London Gateway container terminal on the north Thames estuary situated on a former oil refinery site (so already rail connected), the Freightliner owned and operated Tilbury RCT terminal effectively lost all its rail traffic. Having been dormant for a couple of years now, rail traffic has returned in the shape of a DRS operated service to Daventry conveying Tesco and Stobart containers and swap bodies. Unusually DRS is also using the nearby Purfleet Deep Water Wharf terminal for loading traffic for Daventry in parallel. Very smart looking 66421 hauls a STP 4M07 working from Tilbury RCT to Daventry service which additionally on this day had a 2.5 hour stop over at Ripple Lane to add more traffic. Pictured on the Kensal Green cord, Willesden in a very lucky patch of sun on Tuesday 18 September 2018
37706 making a rare outing working the Branch Line Society's 'Power Hall Tracker' charter that ran from Carnforth to the Manchester Museum Of Science & Industry, formally Manchester Liverpool Road station. 47760 was on the rear for manoeuvres and heating.
The Heavy-Weight tractor approaches the loop at Broughton as part of the tour, in a very lucky patch of sunshine. I do love the West Coast livery at this time of year, mixes in quite nicely with the colours of Autumn.
With the sky overhead looking very 50/50, it was smiles all round as DBS 60020 working 6E38 Colnbrook - Lindsey hauls the discharged consist of TDA aviation fuel bogie tanks through Kangaroo Spinney prior to running through Wellingborough station in one such lucky patch of blue.
An extremely lucky patch of sun highlights a TGV Sud-Est set as it approaches La Roche Maurice with a Paris to Brest service on 12th August 2008. With approx. 20 km to journeys end, this is the staple power this far west, the Finistère department of Brittany being devoid of virtually any freight or loco hauled passenger services. This picture was taken from the ruins of an old castle perched on top of a rocky outcrop dating back to 1263, a boarded up location and not open to the public back in 2008.
66152 'DEREK HOLMES RAILWAY OPERATOR' taken from the London end of Platform 1, the only DB Red Shed is seen under a lucky patch of sun stabled on the line that runs into the steel terminal. Having arrived into Swindon on the morning 6B49 from Llanwern steel train, the loco will later work the 6B50 back to Llanwern.
In a lucky patch of sun the Felixstowe - Crewe Basford Hall clatters over the first viaduct behind a pair of class 86s.
GBRf 66717 Good Old Boy powers towards Felixstowe at Gun Lane crossing near Trimley while working 4L02 0824 Wembley to Felixstowe South conveying a lightly loaded intermodal service in a lucky patch of sun.
A change of location to Greenholme on the lower slopes of Shap. In a lucky patch of sun an unidentified 86 heads north. As the stock has not been painted into Virgin Trains livery it is probably heading to Edinburgh.
Catching a lucky patch of sun on a showery afternoon GBRf 66743 rumbles under Wharfdale Road Bridge at Tyseley in Birmingham. The train was the 11.56 Westbury up T.C. to Cliffe Hill Stud Farm GBRf empty ballast working.
Under the grass and shrubs to the left, at track level, the old head shunt for Tyseley goods is still intact albeit not connected at the yard end now. When I was a youthful trainspotter the entertainment between trains was to watch one of Tyseley shed's hard-worked pannier tanks, usually 3660, 4648, 8700 or 9608, fly- shunting along that track. The engine would appear under the bridge with it's train and trundle up to the buffers which are roughly level with the end of the ballast train, then with a crow of it's whistle the little pannier would charge forward then stop suddenly. Out of sight at the yard throat a shunter would be running alongside the train with his shunters pole and he would uncouple the speeding wagon which would then roll into it's designated siding and hit, usually very loudly, whatever was in the way, the whole operation would then be repeated until all the train was split and berthed in their correct siding for unloading or loading. The damage to goods during a rough shunt must have been quite expensive.
Copyright Geoff Dowling; all righrs reserved
31128 'Charybdis' - 1Z29 15.45hrs Ashton-in-Makerfield - Liverpool Lime St - Crewe BLS 'The Sunday Yicker' Railtour passes in Prescot Station in a lucky patch of sun. Seeing the Class 31 here, reminded me of the NW 'Club' 4/5 coach trains that operated on this line during the early 1990's. 9th June 2019.
Copyright: Doug Birmingham (8A Rail)
In a lucky patch of Sunshine, 66585 passed Roydon Lock between Broxbourne & Bishop's Stortford at 1343 (8 late) on 28/12/18 with 4L31, the 0903 Freightliner service from Bristol to Felixstowe North, which was formed of containers (several loaded with glider fuel) on flat cars & diverted via Seven Sisters!, the West Anglia mainline & Bury St Edmunds, due to pre-planned Engineering Work.
Apparently, there was a "Wally" at Welwyn North today & it wasn't me! Hi, Baz!!
66713 "Forest City" (GBRF).
5Z91 : 0845 SO STP Bounds Green T&RSMD - Doncaster Down Decoy.
Bayford - 1035 (86 late, after 91 late start - I wonder why?) - 11/07/20.
Q. Was it worth wait?
A. Only just or as Take That would say "you got have a little patience", thanks to a "lucky patch of sun" [the cloud had been "bubbling up", ever since I left home two hours earlier, but I won't make a mountain out of a molehill!!!!) & a pair of Buzzards, circuling overhead a few minutes earlier!
With fine weather forecast next week, will I be well enough to get the tour bus out & if I'am, will there be anything to phot?
A lucky patch of winter sun illuminates Colas 56105 and 56049 as they thunder past Waitby, just north of Kirkby Stephen, with the 6J37 Carlisle Yard to Chirk log train.
6B01 the 10.40am Embsay to Bolton Abbey demonstration Permanent Way train catches a lucky patch of morning sun headed by D8110.
The train is approaching Hollywell Halt.
Red amongst the green. 66150, in DB red, leads the morning Mossend Euroterminal to Tees Dock BSC Export Berth (4E96) intermodal working through Longniddry in a lucky patch of sun. The July weather has not been condusive to getting lineside so this was refreshing to get out.
DBC EWS liveried 66025 approaches Portchester station (in a lucky patch of sun) with the diverted 4O30 VAR 15:41 Morris Cowley M.A.T. to Southampton Eastern Docks loaded car train on the 25th July 2020. The train was loaded with brand new BMW Minis for export and was diverted via Reading, North Camp, the Portsmouth Direct Line and the Fareham to Southampton line due to engineering work at Eastleigh. Another rather late notice engineering blockade was put in by Network Rail so they could install the second set of new points at Eastleigh (the points connecting Platform 3 to the Down Fast line) after they were removed back in February due to the damage caused by the derailment of 70001 on 4O05 at the end of January.
22 May 2017
Not my first choice of location but I only just made this, 67018 leads set BN17 and 91112 on the 5Y04 1110 Newcastle to Bounds Green Depot at Offord Cluny crossing in a lucky patch of hazy sun.
Friday nights 6O27 Mountsorrel - Eastleigh was recessed over the weekend at Bescot due to the Banbury - Oxford blockade. On Sunday GBRf 66720 is seen at Spetchley in a lucky patch of sun with the diverted 6O27 Bescot - Eastleigh loaded aggregates. Sadly, the originally booked 6V82 cement and the normally reliable 6E47 steel didn't run which was disappointing and hopes of a Sunday nights full house evaporated as quickly as they arrived! What is it with freight in these parts these days?