Hastings Diesel

by GlynM

The Hastings Diesel Company's heritage diesel set seen here at Guildford on the outward part of a "Green Dragon Rail Tour " from Hastings to Cardiff and back on 18/04/15.

It was nostalgic to see this diesel set as the front motor coach is the only surviving coach that had been used, albeit only for a short while, as part of a 3 coach "Tadpole" set that used to run between Reading and Tonbridge. As a youngster I used to live in Earley, just outside Reading, and this heritage diesel set brought back memories of the wonderful sound of the Tunbridge Tadpoles. However the Tadpoles I remember were never as shiny and clean as this preserved set .

Pentax K-5 with a DA18-135 @ 31mm
1/200sec, F16 & ISO400.

Shot raw. processed in LR5 then resized for the web in PSE10.

Glyn
Uploaded18/04/2015 - 22:18
CategoryLandscape / Travel
Shutter Speed1/200
Aperturef/16
LensN/A
ISO400
Focal Length31mm
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bwlchmawr
Posted 19/04/2015 - 06:25 Link
What a great looking set. When I saw the thumbnail I thought there's a region running DMUs even older than the hand-me-downs we get over here!
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