Steam Survivor
by pgweber
One of the rusting engines featured has also appeared in one of Andrew's (Bwichmawr) sets from the West Somerset Railway.
Here I captured the same, Ex BR No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' on a round Britain tour named 'The Great Britain', storming through Wigan North Western station in April 2007.
A second sequel, 'The Great Britain III' started today and can be seen in many parts of the country over the next week. See the website below for details:
http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs10.htm
Shot using K10D/18-55 as a jpeg.
I would love to know the number of hours I have put in on those platforms as a kid! Boy how the place has changed, its barely recognisable now from steam days.
Cant wait for Thursday, lets hope the weather holds out.
As you will well know by now Cliff, I like to capture them with a good head of steam.
It is a little bit more of a head-on view than I go for nowadays but I did not really know many good locations on the West Coast Main line (that would give a better view), so I just went to somewhere that was easy to get to.
If we're counting the hours, what about 'how many hours have you spent waiting to photograph a special train, that ends up being cancelled, diverted or just very late'.
Patience is a virtue and has it's rewards!
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