DMU Photography - Away from the Three-Quarter View

[eastglosmog]

The 8:05 setting off for Oxford this morning:

 

Edited April 16, 2022 by eastglosmog
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[ardbealach]

Central 158 at Barmouth and Fairbourne Railway passenger stock at Barmouth Ferry caught together back in the Nineties. [Alisdair]

[Claude_Dreyfus]

Peek-a-boo at St Ives, taken by my dad some time in the early 80s.

 

 

I believe this is class 118 set P460.

Edited August 27, 2022 by Claude_Dreyfus
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[GWRPhil]

A few pics of 80x running along embankment towards laira Jn and Plymouth. Will upload vid later
 

 

[GWRPhil]

And some of 220 heading in the other direction. 
 

 

[GWRPhil]

Here’s some from more secluded spot

 

 

[GWRPhil]

[4630]

On the straight and narrow.   A short distance south-east of Acle on 4th May 2017 a Greater Anglia class 156 heads for Great Yarmouth with a working from Norwich.

 

 

For those interested, this is a Google Map reference for the above location;

Branch Rd off A47, Acle New Road

 

 

 

 

 

[johnw1]

170530 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/pics-by-john/50953074601/

 

 

[4630]

On 21st May 2018 a Northern class 153/156 combo, in the debranded livery of previous operator Northern Rail,  passes over Copley Viaduct, and heads towards Halifax, with a service from Manchester Victoria to Selby via Bradford Interchange.

 

 

For those interested, this is a Google Map reference for the above location;

Pickwood Lane, Sowerby Bridge

[jestocost]

 

Close to Lakenheath, passing the RSPB reserve.

Probably Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich.

[4630]

1 hour ago, jestocost said:

 

Close to Lakenheath, passing the RSPB reserve.

Probably Liverpool Lime Street to Norwich.

 

 

A 'side on' shot like that with those bare almost skeleton like trees in Winter against the sky would probably work really well in black and white. 

[eastwestdivide]

2 hours ago, 4630 said:

On 21st May 2018 a Northern class 153/156 combo, in the debranded livery of previous operator Northern Rail,  passes over Copley Viaduct, and heads towards Halifax, with a service from Manchester Victoria to Selby via Bradford Interchange.

That's my kind of day - sitting at the top of a hill, watching distant trains go past on a viaduct, sun out, flask of tea...

 

[4630]

43 minutes ago, eastwestdivide said:

That's my kind of day - sitting at the top of a hill, watching distant trains go past on a viaduct, sun out, flask of tea...

 

 

I completely agree with you.

 

Well worth the fairly stiff walk up the hill from Sowerby Bridge (pronounced 'Saw-bee' according to the locals and not, as mispronounced by this ex-southerner, as 'Sour-bee'* when I first arrived in the area over 25 years ago!).

 

I'd actually gone to photograph a Grand Central class 180 crossing the viaduct.   They'd just started working one peak hour morning and afternoon service for Northern between Leeds and Hebden Bridge and I thought it would make an interesting photo as, until that time, they hadn't worked along that part of the Calder Valley.  It was also an opportunity to use my 'big lens' as I was some distance away on the other side of the valley.

 

 

 

 

*   My mispronunciations when new to the area also included 'Todd Morden' for Todmorden, which apparently is pronounced by locals as 'Todmurden'.  And of course, I also slipped up with the well known 'Slay Thwait' for Slaithwaite which, although the locals disagree sometimes, the consensus is with 'Sla-wit'. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by 4630

[eastwestdivide]

I eventually solved the pronunciation problem by taking up with a Bradford lass with connections to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, but getting my revenge with Trottiscliffe and Meopham.

[62613]

3 hours ago, 4630 said:

 

I completely agree with you.

 

Well worth the fairly stiff walk up the hill from Sowerby Bridge (pronounced 'Saw-bee' according to the locals and not, as mispronounced by this ex-southerner, as 'Sour-bee'* when I first arrived in the area over 25 years ago!).

 

I'd actually gone to photograph a Grand Central class 180 crossing the viaduct.   They'd just started working one peak hour morning and afternoon service for Northern between Leeds and Hebden Bridge and I thought it would make an interesting photo as, until that time, they hadn't worked along that part of the Calder Valley.  It was also an opportunity to use my 'big lens' as I was some distance away on the other side of the valley.

 

 

 

 

*   My mispronunciations when new to the area also included 'Todd Morden' for Todmorden, which apparently is pronounced by locals as 'Todmurden'.  And of course, I also slipped up with the well known 'Slay Thwait' for Slaithwaite which, although the locals disagree sometimes, the consensus is with 'Sla-wit'. 

 

 

 

 

 

When I went to school in the Colne Valley, more years go than  care to remember, I made the same mistake. You could get away with with Slathwaite. Golcar was always Goker, and as for Maarsden, well!

 

Edited February 22, 2021 by 62613
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[4630]

17 minutes ago, 62613 said:

Golcar was always Goker

 

 

Thanks for reminding me of that little gem !

 

Only a couple of miles away from me too.

[Northmoor]

1 hour ago, eastwestdivide said:

I eventually solved the pronunciation problem by taking up with a Bradford lass with connections to the Yorkshire Dialect Society, but getting my revenge with Trottiscliffe and Meopham.

Or Rottingdean, which apparently only the uncouth would pronounce as it reads (I think it's Roe-dean).

I grew up near the village of Mynachlog-ddu, which a lot of English visitors gave up and pointed at (it's pronounced Munnach-log-thee).

[Ramblin Rich]

This is the 14:55 from Paignton to Exeter St Davids today (06/03/2021), seen across Powderham Deer Park north of Starcross, during a permitted family walk out from home. In the distance, across the River Exe, is Lympstone.

 

 

 

 

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[Darius43]

On 22/02/2021 at 18:10, Northmoor said:

Or Rottingdean, which apparently only the uncouth would pronounce as it reads (I think it's Roe-dean).

I grew up near the village of Mynachlog-ddu, which a lot of English visitors gave up and pointed at (it's pronounced Munnach-log-thee).

 

Rottingdean is pronounced the way it is spelt.  Roedean is the school for (posh) girls that is located nearby.

 

Cheers

 

Darius

[GWRPhil]

On my family permitted walk today got a few shots of voyagers. First Plymouth to glasgow

[GWRPhil]

Secondly Bristol to plymouth

 

 

[Halvarras]

Some 1970s views of 1st Gen DMUs on the Truro - Falmouth branch......

 

A real mixed bag heads down the line from Penwithers Junction on 26th August 1974 - W55016 + W50666 + W59357 + W50712. Unlike most Class 122s which cleared off to all kind of points north, W55016 was probably the longest-serving member in the far south-west, only W55018 would come close I think. The two Class 120 power cars were of the marker light variety and made a nice change from the indigenous headcode box examples which I was bored with seeing year in, year out. W59357 belonged to local Class 116 set W51128/51141 but wasn't always required and was a little nomadic - on 9th April 1970 for example it was noted as first vehicle in an up parcels train headed by D846 Steadfast passing Penwithers Junction. As I understand it, the large flat area to the right was where the infill was sourced to replace Penwithers Viaduct with an embankment. Note Cornwall's New County Hall in the distance - of dubious architectural merit, even if it had been opened by HM Queen 5 years earlier (I was there!)

 

And three views (with a better camera) of W55026 + W51576 + W59582 + W51590, two at Penryn (love the cars - Triumph Heralds seemed popular in Penryn!) and one at Falmouth Docks, on 21st June 1977. The retaining wall on the left of the middle shot used to support the headshunt for Penryn Goods Yard. W55026 was another long-time Laira 'Bubble Car' - although it had spells away it always seemed to come back. It worked the last day's passenger service on the Lostwithiel-Fowey branch on 2nd January 1965 still with speed whiskers and 20 years later was still working Cornish branches but in blue/grey livery. Here's it's in the in-between all-blue. The Class 120 was also a local fixture and was still in lined green in 1969 when one or two of the other headcode box '120s' had already had their blue syp livery repainted into blue/grey!

 

[Ben B]

 

A welcome return for the W&M Railbus on the Worth Valley this weekend; out for driver/guard refresher runs apparently.  Really like this little unit, shame the weather wasn't much better, but so nice to see trains running past our patch again

 

 

I quite like this angle; I know a lot of older enthusiasts on the line are still upset the old mills here were dropped, but there's something nice about the 60's railbus, the 2010's housing estate up front and the older estates behind, and the 2020 bridge in the distance.

[Jack Mc]

Northern's Class 150206 is seen from Smithley Lane Bridge in Wombwell Woods, near Barnsley, working 2B60 Sheffield - Huddersfield 

 

 

 

 

 

Yet trains can't tackle hills...

 

Jack