DRS operated class 37s in charge on the R.H.T.T. at Bridlington Station - 7627+629
Back here, at Bridlington Station once more, for the RHTT season, just over a year since the last run, on the 9th October, in that instance with a couple of D.R.S. operated, H.N.R.C class 20s, 20311 & 20314, on the inbound working to Bridlington and then the subsequent return to York Thrall Europa.
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908387376/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908593217/
and a video-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/50513105551/
just up-loaded having over-looked this from the 2019 season uploads on the 10th October.
The DRS class 20s have now been replaced by 2 class 37s from the RHTT 'fleet' of 37402/407/419/423 & 716, usually 37423/402 and 419; today its 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo' and 37419, ex-D6991, 'Carl Haviland 1954-2012, with 'B.R. Intercity Livery, on the 3S14, Grimsby Town via Sheffield to Bridlington working. Later 37419 will lead the way on the 3S15, Bridlington via Hessle to York Thrall Europa, back to base. The station had a few more 'enthusiasts' present than last year and all appropriately 'distancing' though it wasn't a problem in such an open space. The traction, although running 10 minutes early, any early arrival being welcome at this time in the evening, but it looks like it got signal-checked between here and Driffield as the set arrived on-time, at 19:28. The driver parked up somewhat down the platform from where the small group were gathered, the set's position a little inconvenient as it was fully illuminated by the station lighting which is normally adequate for decent shots. This time I had deployed the tripod and was all set up at the end of the platform but 37402 pulled up about half way along, needing a reposition, preferable under the lighting ... These first two shots in a series of 4 pairs, processed whilst away from home with the Lenovo Windows 10 Yogabook and plenty of storage internal and external, were put together in a few hours, as was the 1st version of the text; it being quite difficult to operate on a screen of 23x15cms with multiple windows open.. Anyway the shots were processed first in Lightroom with mainly a lot of 'lifting', some 'clarity' adjustment and cropping to remove as much unnecessary black sections as possible. From there, the poor-mans, or small version of Photoshop CS4, the excellent and free open-source, 'G.I.M.P.' image manipulator was used to produce the final pictures, without too much in the way of 'fuss'. At left, one of the D.R.S. personell has dis-embarked and is walking along to what is now the front of the train whilst the second-man? is about to disembark and also head to the front. As well as the lighting conditions,m it doesn't help that by now, October 20th, the set has been operating for 3 weeks and is in a very scruffy state, though at least some colour is discernable under the station lighting. To the right of the rear of the train is 37419, lighter in colour in B.R. Intercity livery and just above the loco, under the bridge, is the platform 6 exit semaphore, at red, operated by the large N.E.R. signalbox, beyond in the dark on the curve out of the station.
DRS operated class 37s in charge on the R.H.T.T. at Bridlington Station - 7627+629
Back here, at Bridlington Station once more, for the RHTT season, just over a year since the last run, on the 9th October, in that instance with a couple of D.R.S. operated, H.N.R.C class 20s, 20311 & 20314, on the inbound working to Bridlington and then the subsequent return to York Thrall Europa.
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908387376/
and
www.flickr.com/photos/daohaiku/48908593217/
and a video-
www.flickr.com/photos/imarch2/50513105551/
just up-loaded having over-looked this from the 2019 season uploads on the 10th October.
The DRS class 20s have now been replaced by 2 class 37s from the RHTT 'fleet' of 37402/407/419/423 & 716, usually 37423/402 and 419; today its 37402, ex-D974, 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' with 'B.R. Large Intercity Logo' and 37419, ex-D6991, 'Carl Haviland 1954-2012, with 'B.R. Intercity Livery, on the 3S14, Grimsby Town via Sheffield to Bridlington working. Later 37419 will lead the way on the 3S15, Bridlington via Hessle to York Thrall Europa, back to base. The station had a few more 'enthusiasts' present than last year and all appropriately 'distancing' though it wasn't a problem in such an open space. The traction, although running 10 minutes early, any early arrival being welcome at this time in the evening, but it looks like it got signal-checked between here and Driffield as the set arrived on-time, at 19:28. The driver parked up somewhat down the platform from where the small group were gathered, the set's position a little inconvenient as it was fully illuminated by the station lighting which is normally adequate for decent shots. This time I had deployed the tripod and was all set up at the end of the platform but 37402 pulled up about half way along, needing a reposition, preferable under the lighting ... These first two shots in a series of 4 pairs, processed whilst away from home with the Lenovo Windows 10 Yogabook and plenty of storage internal and external, were put together in a few hours, as was the 1st version of the text; it being quite difficult to operate on a screen of 23x15cms with multiple windows open.. Anyway the shots were processed first in Lightroom with mainly a lot of 'lifting', some 'clarity' adjustment and cropping to remove as much unnecessary black sections as possible. From there, the poor-mans, or small version of Photoshop CS4, the excellent and free open-source, 'G.I.M.P.' image manipulator was used to produce the final pictures, without too much in the way of 'fuss'. At left, one of the D.R.S. personell has dis-embarked and is walking along to what is now the front of the train whilst the second-man? is about to disembark and also head to the front. As well as the lighting conditions,m it doesn't help that by now, October 20th, the set has been operating for 3 weeks and is in a very scruffy state, though at least some colour is discernable under the station lighting. To the right of the rear of the train is 37419, lighter in colour in B.R. Intercity livery and just above the loco, under the bridge, is the platform 6 exit semaphore, at red, operated by the large N.E.R. signalbox, beyond in the dark on the curve out of the station.