Modern Rail Traction

davidtrout · 2020-08-18T18:56:11+0100

I take a fairly wide range of photographic subjects, including railways where I rarely photograph anything other than historic steam powered trains. A couple of weeks ago with Barrie Forbes and another photo buddy, not a Pentax User, I spent a morning at Newcastle Central Station on the East Coast Mainline and was impressed by the new generation of rail transport. The boxy looking diesels and electric locomotives that replaced steam power are a dying breed … being replaced by sleek and colourful modern trains owing much to the best of up to date industrial design inspired by the aviation industry. These three shots showing the LNER's new Azuma trains and the almost identical Trans Pennine Express Nova. Azuma s Nova Azuma

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Plus Member Graham_A_E Graham_A_E

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7 years
York.

Posted 25/08/2020 - 15:27 Link

Great, love them all. They really beg for the wide angle shot when in the station.

Graham
York

JAK JAK

4192 posts
16 years
Scarborough,
North Yorks.

Posted 25/08/2020 - 20:58 Link

davidtrout wrote:

MrB wrote:
They really do look sleek, colourful and modern in the first two captures, David - which lens(es)/focal length(s) were used? The third is also fascinating for the apparent chaos of the overhead electrics!

Philip

I used a Sigma 10-20mm lens set at 10mm on the K70 for the close views and a D FA*70-200mm zoom on the K3 for the longer view of the train approaching the station under the wires. That castle in the background is Newcastle Keep which in my schooldays hundreds of boys used as a grandstand for trainspotting.
David

Can't promise it was a Pentax photo though but probably was c.1950

John K

Plus Member davidtrout davidtrout

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Durham,
England

Posted 26/08/2020 - 08:53 Link

That brings back memories John.... I can't recognise me among those boys with their Ian Allan ABCs but I reckon that grimy loco pulling out of the station with a Scottish bound express is a V2. It must have been a Heaton or Gateshead based loco, not an Edinburgh Haymarket or St Margarets based one as the Scottish Region kept their fleet much cleaner than the North Eastern Region.

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