Duchess on Tour

Duchess of Sutherland at Durham
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Duchess at Hexham
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At Langwathby
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At Kirkby Stephen
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The 1930s express steam loco Duchess of Sutherland ran the Citadel Express from York to Carlisle via Durham and Newcastle and back via the Settle and Carlisle Railway on Saturday. I set out to grab shots at four locations on the circular route, starting near home in Durham.
It gave me a round trip of around 150 miles and some hectic driving.
Worst moment was at the first location, Durham Station, when a southbound high speed electric train partly blocked the view for photographers just as the Duchess came through at around 75mph.
My poorest pictures were at Langwathby in Cumbria when I attempted panning instead of taking straight shots.
My final location was at Kirkby Stephen where I got ahead of the train with just two minutes to spare when the Duchess stopped for water at Appleby. The result was a sequence of action pictures of one of the fastest and most powerful steam express engines ever built in Britain. It is due to be taken out of service soon for major servicing, including boiler checks.

That's a lovely set David

John

As above David. A pleasure to see these images.

Regards

As you observed on my last gallery effort, we are always at the mercy of passing trains!

I like the panned shot, not quite 10/10 but it shows nicely the profile of the engine and I enjoy the way the exhaust is drawn out by the speed.

Good to see her working hard in the last shot too.

Regards

David, I like the last two best. Wonder if an even slower shutter speed on the panned shot would have been even more dramatic. The black smoke on the final shot adds to the drama. Excellent set

You've done her justice David - lovely.

Beautiful series David

Mike

Thanks for your comemnts all. Gareth, the juxtaposition of the first picture was accidental. The language from some of the phtographers there was rich when that electric express got in the way.
David

I've already done a mono conversion of one of the sequence I took at Hexham, #2. I didn't want to overload the thread by submitting too many shots but I may add the black and white later.
David

Here goes then.
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Like it a lot David

Absolutely lovely

Yeh - B/W is really the right medium for the subject.Very nice

Nice set David. I'd prefer to see one of my favourite engines in red, but this is different, at least. Hexham is particularly good in either colour or mono.

David,

Apologies for the delay and the stuff-up with my photobucket posting.

Here is my attempt at a conversion.

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