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Flickr Trains

Feb 28, 2008
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In previous posts I've shared some of my favourite/most popular photos from my flickr account. We've had flowers and people. I think getting good pictures of flowers is relatively easy, people slightly more difficult, but I can't say I feel at all successful taking photos of trains. The pictures generally don't seem to portray the raw power of the huge beast, or the romantic flavour of the smoking, steaming, hissing creature. I shall keep trying, but I hope you like some of these I've taken over the past year or so.

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The three photos above are 92203 Black Prince at Cheltenham Racecourse station in Gloucestershire; 30777 on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough, and an engine under restoration at Loughborough, England.

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Diesel railcars taken at St.Ives in Cornwall, England and at Mayrhofen in the Zillertal, Austrian Tyrol. The next one is an electrically powered inter-city train at Jenbach in Austria.

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The next two were taken on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway in England and feature 92203 Black Prince and a prairie tank 5542.

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This one was taken in the Zillertal, near Mayrhofen in the Austrian Tyrol. Most of the trains were diesel but a few trains a day were steam hauled old-fashioned passenger cars.

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This is my favourite photo from a trip on the Swiss railways and was taken at Wengen near the famous Eiger mountain. The train goes up to Kleine Scheidegg where another train goes to up to the Jungfrau Joch, the highest railway station in Europe.

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The engine above is 26043, a class 26 diesel I and others have been working on for the past six years, trying to restore it to full operational status. Last year I did a lot of work painting it (the picture shows it before painting!). The controls are being finished now, and it is being prepared for a topcoat of paint, ready for action in the summer, working on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway in England.

GWR Diesel Gala

Dec 1, 2007
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The Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway held their Autumn Diesel Gala on November 3rd this year. Unfortunately I was not rostered on the trains so I was able to take some photos and video. In fact I spent most of the time taking video with a Canon HV20 high definition video camera. I have just finished editing the video in iMovie on my MacPro and have produced two sequences, one based at Toddington and the other at Winchcombe. The Toddington video shows 47105, 37215, 24081, and D8137 in action. The Winchcombe sequence shows 37324, D8137, 24081 and 47105.

Videos from the GWR Diesel Gala

Jun 17, 2007
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I shot four short videos using my still cameras yesterday at the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway which was holding a Diesel Gala. No visiting engines because of date conflicts with other railways, but we did have all our diesel engines running (except 24081 which is in for repairs). I took lots of photos with my Sony H9 in continuous shoot mode which means I've got to spend ages selecting the best shots - so they'll be uploaded later. Here are the videos from my YouTube and embedded for those that don't yet appear in the YouTube search box:

37324 & 37219 at GWR Diesel Gala June 2007

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Video of the GWR Steam Gala

Jun 10, 2007
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Here's some video I took at the recent Cotswold Festival of Steam at the GWR (see below). I took more but haven't been able to edit or convert it so that it's less than 100Mb for YouTube. If you search on YouTube for GWR or for steam, you'll find lots more video - or do a search for the engines I named in my post about the festival, eg Green Arrow and Wadebridge and Black Prince.

GWR Steam Gala - Black Prince

26043

Apr 6, 2007
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Over the last six years I have been rebuilding an old diesel engine at weekends with a team of blokes from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. The class 26 engine, a Sulzer type 2, is owned by the Cotswold Mainline Diesel Group, of which I am a shareholder and first came to the GWR in 1994. The bodywork was initially pretty good but has deteriorated since being kept in the open. The engine is still good and works well, but all the control gear was destroyed when the loco was being checked for asbestos just before it was bought by us. I have been working on the body, painting and repairing or replacing the metalwork. Others have been concentrating on the control gear and rebuilding the cabs. One cab has been almost completed but the second still needs a lot doing to it. Here's all my photos in one collection and there are more photos on the CMDG site. When I started work on the engine I was told "another 2 years work" and it'll be ready - I think we're still saying the same 6 years later!