Buxton Bound (again)

So yesterdays double-header was a success but when the same two engines were off to Buxton again, three weeks later the photography was not so successful.

The weather was dull, but I had picked a good spot on a hill between Chesterfield and Sheffield. The two engines would be working hard giving off a lot of steam. I and many others enjoyed the sight of the pair storming up the hill, from the platform at Dronfield station but as they got close, a toot from a diesel train going the opposite way told us we would be lucky to get any picture.

I just kept my finger on the shutter and kept shooting for this shot. K10D/18-55 as was usual for me in 2007.

It does not surprise me any more, how often a shot can be ruined like this on the crowded modern railway.