RMweb Premium Popular Post Northmoor Posted July 19, 2018 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 19, 2018 (edited) I mentioned on the Wright Writes thread that growing up in West Wales, I'd taken quite a few photos of DMUs as there wasn't much else. I have always admired (and tried to emulate) the railway photographers who moved away from the "3/4 view, sun over the shoulder" school of railway photography. I'll post a few of my early efforts, from the last years of the 1st Gens with a few Sprinters as they started to make an appearance and I moved away to other parts of the UK, by which time the Sprinter revolution was complete. Apologies for the indifferent quality of the scanning (hairs/dust etc.), I've a cheap/bargain scanner but it seems to have attracted dust.... Here's #1 from my "portfolio", just labelled as a 2-car Cl.101 passing Gelli. This was about 15 minutes cycle away from my house and a favourite spot. Edited January 23, 2022 by Northmoor 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted July 20, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2018 (edited) Here's another from just a couple of miles West along the line at the bridge, formerly the site of Clarbeston Crossing (we always knew it as Deep Ford Bridge when we crossed it on the school bus). Behind the cameraman is the original crossing keeper's cottage, which ceased to guard the crossing after about 1906. By this date (1989 I think, will have to check), Metro-Cammells were disappearing and being replaced by the Derby Cl.108s, some of which still had Manchester route maps for months afterwards. Edited July 20, 2018 by Northmoor 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Ian Smeeton Posted July 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 20, 2018 126 in possibly THE most bleak & barren landscape I have seen, just south of Glenwhilly, between Girvan & Stranraer 1981 or 1982. Regards Ian 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted July 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2018 View to the west of previous post. Regards Ian 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted July 21, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 21, 2018 That is just so grim and bleak! Glad I don't live there! Regards, Rob. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted July 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21, 2018 Nobody does, not now anyway. Even in the late 70's, in the WTT one train a week in each direction stopped to piick up/drop off railwaymen's wives for their shopping. The cottages, derelict in 1982, can be seen here Regards Ian 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post Northmoor Posted July 21, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted July 21, 2018 Time for another. I have a couple more from Gelli (it was close to home and offers many good camera angles) but will save them for now. Coming forward a couple of years, here's one of my absolute favourite personal shots, a 150/2 on the Pembroke Dock branch, just East of Narberth. It is so much better for firing the shutter early. 35 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post eastwestdivide Posted July 22, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 22, 2018 Did someone say bleak and barren? 23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Market65 Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 22, 2018 That’s a lovely photo’, which shows how majestic the bleakness and grimness of the area is. To model it would require a huge room, but I hope one day perhaps someone might do just that. Rob. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted July 23, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2018 A completely different DMU view this time (and not really "In the Landscape"). This is Chester in 1991 I think, the vehicles in the background were a line of withdrawn stock that stood there for months. By this time I was a student in Liverpool and did a few North West Day Rangers on Saturdays. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted July 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2018 From a cycling holiday in Cornwall 1989, here's the Looe branch train at Coombe Junction. Is that wagon still there? 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Killybegs Posted July 27, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 27, 2018 Bassenthwaite Station on the old Cockermouth Keswick and Penrith Railway 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted September 27, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 27, 2018 Haven't put another DMU shot out for a while; here's another Gelli shot from about 1989: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted October 20, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2018 Possibly the same day as my second post, it's from about 1/4 mile away up the hill. One the few places where it is possible to get Foel Cwmcerwyn in the background: 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post big jim Posted October 20, 2018 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted October 20, 2018 Look closely there is a 158 in the picture Another cambrian one And an ‘urban landscape’ taken from Severn Jn signal box 21 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Not in too much countryside, but this is a Class 120 passing Standish Junction on 1st July 1967. The trailer buffet second is W59265. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted October 20, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) Look closely there is a 158 in the picture Another cambrian one And an ‘urban landscape’ taken from Severn Jn signal box I think it's difficult to take a poor shot of Barmouth Bridge, but your second one is particularly excellent. Edited October 20, 2018 by Northmoor Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted November 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2018 Coming forward a few years, I was living in Fife for a while. One day on a day off work I walked the Coast Path from Aberdour to Burntlisland and back and took a few shots, here's one: 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted November 18, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 18, 2018 Jumping forward 23 years, here's one from yesterday. A 165/166 passing through the autumn colours just East of Sonning Cutting. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 60091 Posted November 21, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted November 21, 2018 A small selection from the S&C taken 2009-11. Blea Moor Arten Gill Mallerstang from Wild Boar Fell Grisedale Crossing Garsdale 22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted November 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2018 Just north of Barmouth, somewhere around 1970. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northmoor Posted November 21, 2018 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2018 (edited) A small selection from the S&C taken 2009-11. 2009-09-10 E 158xxx Blea Moor.JPG Blea Moor 2010-07-10 C 153xxx+158xxx Arten Gill.JPG Arten Gill 2010-09-02 B 158xxx Wild Boar Fell.JPG Mallerstang from Wild Boar Fell 2010-10-07 C 158xxx.JPG Grisedale Crossing 2011-08-05 D 158xxx+153xxx Garsdale Viaduct.JPG Garsdale A photographer after my own heart; if you can read the number, you're too close! <Edited to add> Here's a another shot from the same day on the Fife Coast Path: Edited November 21, 2018 by Northmoor 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerhaul 70 Pey Posted November 21, 2018 Share Posted November 21, 2018 A classic shot of a 158 DMU crossing Barmouth Bridge on 25th March this year. A 158 DMU in Criccieth 27th March this year. A Northern Rail 150/142 combo in the Rochdale area near to Smithy Bridge on 25th July this year. 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Morgan Posted November 21, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 21, 2018 A long way from Barmouth 3H DEMU approaching Battledown Flyover. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karhedron Posted November 22, 2018 Share Posted November 22, 2018 I can't take any credit for the photo but this is a lovely shot of different generations of DMU crossing paths in the shadow the ruins of Corfe Castle. 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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