The Syston to Peterborough Line
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Randolph County, Georgia. This old store is one of my favorite subjects. It remains a favorite because it is one of the few locations that I have photographed for years that has not yet been torn down, blown down, or burned down.
The Parish Church of Saint Mary
The market town of Melton Mowbray is approximately 20 miles north east of the city of Leicester. The town sits on the Rivers Eye and the Wreake and is famous for Stilton cheese and pork pies.
The parish church is dedicated to St Mary and sits in the centre of the town and dates back to around 1170 with most of the current building dated from 13th to the 15th centuries.
The church is cruciform with a 100ft central town that dominates the surrounding town. The church has aisled transepts, one of only five in the country, a feature usually found only in a cathedral.
GB 20905 running light passing four 20s with barrier wagons laid over in the loop waiting for test track duties the following day. HNRC had been working on them during the day, starting them up now and again. 3 May 2016
B and W version of DB Cargo 66025 with the 497P 08.00 Felixstowe South to East Midlands Gateway passing through the station at Melton Mowbray on a dark winter afternoon
I have been here many times so know my way round, so I started at the River Eye and this small lake, so lovely in the sun.
Melton Mowbray is a town in the Melton district in Leicestershire, England, 19 miles north-east of Leicester, and 20 miles south-east of Nottingham. It lies on the River Eye, known below Melton as the Wreake.
Melton Market
Searching for the famous Pork Pie…
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Still looking smart after it`s repaint a few weeks prior, 60024 is seen on ore empties at Melton Ross. 3rd September 1996.
DB Class 60 No.60062 'Stainless Pioneer' passing Copleys Brook with 6M80 13:08 Peterborough West Yard - Toton North Yard.
The 125 Group power cars Nos.43159 and 43048 with a Buffet car sandwiched in between are seen departing Melton Mowbray with 5Z43 10:06 Butterley M.R.C. - Old Dalby. 16-09-2022.
In muted sunshine GBRF 66754 with the Ketton Cement empty tanks racing through the elegantly renovated station at Melton Mowbray
With St Peter's Church at Kirby Bellers looking magnificent in the hard morning frost, 37611 ‘Pegasus’ hauling a brand new Class 710 unit No.710117 with 57312 ‘Solway Princess’ on the rear at Copleys Brook, Melton Mowbray. The train was 5Q58 09:11 Derby Litchurch Lane - Old Dalby. 31-01-2019.
GBRf 66785 heads back for another load past Melton Ross working 4R79 10:09 Doncaster Down Decoy-Immingham HIT. 17/10/2018.
Passengers for a Stanstead train check their phones as a Turbostar unit passes through on a stock move
GBRF Shed 66792 with the early running 6F93 11.22 Churchyard Castle Cement to Ketton empty cement tanks
37601 seen passing Melton Mowbray signal box working the 5Q58 1441 Derby Litchurch lane - Old Dalby dragging 730003 19/4/21.
Weathered medieval carvings (including the green man, if you look closely) at St Mary, Melton Mowbray.
GBRF Shed has just pulled out of the down loop with the 6M60 11.12 Whitemoor Yard L.D.C Gbrf to Mountsorell Gbrf on 14 May
45118 The Royal Artilleryman approaches Copleys Brook (west of Melton Mowbray), working the outward leg of Locomotive InterCity Ltd.'s "The Master Cutler", 1Z45 08.35 Leeds - St. Pancras International. 47593 Galloway Princess is on the rear. [Pole, 5/6 sections (~6.8m)]
Although this railtour was on my radar, I hadn't intended going out for it because the weather forecast was poor. In fact, had the weather forecast for today been good, I would have likely spent the day at the Mid Norfolk Railway Diesel Gala! But with clear skies predicted for a few hours immediately after sunrise I'd gone out (very early) to the Grantham area for the diverted Caledonian Sleeper, and then moved to a couple of spots north of Newark for several southbound class 91 workings as the clouds were not filling in quite as quickly as expected.
Since Melton Mowbray wasn't particularly far away, I went over for this, which was due at about 11.15am. The weather app was now showing some breaks in the cloud for a bit longer, although there was also a passing shower. I could see a small patch of blue sky in the distance and some brightness on some very distant fields, although it didn't look like it would arrive in time... but you can always be hopeful!
1Z45 lost a few minutes around East Midlands Parkway, and was about ten minutes late when it reached Syston. Signalling maps showed it didn't immediately get a clear signal, and I was wondering (hoping?) if it might be held to run behind the Cross Country passenger train. But that was not to be, although 1Z45 is recorded passing Frisby twelve minutes late. The light levels, however, were increasing as the cloud thinned. I heard the train approaching, and the cloud thinned even more as it came into view. It was far from full sun (the sun completely cleared the cloud for a short period a few minutes after 1Z45 had passed), but the slightly diffuse lighting has probably improved the image as by this time of day less than four weeks before the summer solstice the light is quite harsh - just look at some of the pictures from the Swanage Railway Diesel Gala two weeks previously.
But I couldn't believe how much the light had improved - just ten minutes before the train had been due, a light rain shower was just finishing!
Unfortunately, today was slightly windy, and the wind caught the pole and angled it slightly downwards. Adding in extra sky would have been tricky although not impossible, but I didn't have any extra sky to work with. It was therefore much easier to give the image a 16:9 crop. This was the first time I'd done a shot looking this way from this spot, where you are stood slightly below track level, and I had been wishing I'd done the shot from further back, on the other side of the stream, which would have made it a bit easier.
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GBRG 66787 with the 6F93 Churchyard Castle Cement to Ketton empty cement tanks on the curve as it approaches Melton Mowbray
I like visit here, so much of the old railway still in use, The signal mechanism looks like a museum piece
37684 passes the lime works at Melton Ross with an Immingham-Tinsley empty steel train back in September 1997.