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Peter Kazmierczak
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One the Double Fairlie's heading a Porthmadog bound train through Tanygrisiau on 11th September 2007... (click to enlarge)

 

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Pouring rain makes for interesting lighting, and a good many of my trackside shots are taken in the wet stuff. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland storms out of Penmanhead Tunnel and on past the site of Llysfaen Station on 11th September 2004....

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Lines in the Landscape - Lines can change but so can the Landscape.

 

 

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A Class 47 on a Holyhead to London train at the West End of Colwyn Bay in 1980

 

 

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Taken from the same view point, a footbridge, with a wider angle lens, the same scene in February 1983 during construction of the new A55 road through the town with 40106 on a Bangor to Manchester train.  The overbridge in the left distance is the same although the properties on the right of it in the earlier view have been demolished and all the trees on each side of the line removed.  The wide railway formation (it was originally 4 tracks here) was used for the new road and the railway moved over to run alongside the new wooden fence on the right.  

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A view from the bank of the Kennet and Avon Canal near Dundas.

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An unidentified class 159 set has been temporarily halted by a signal check while working the 15.51 Bristol Temple Meads to Waterloo, 7/8/2017

 

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A Southwest Trains 455/456 combo at London Waterloo, in the company of some yellow Network Rail wagons on 12th August 2017.

 

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The train's between Cuxton and Strood on the Medway Valley line, the photographer's on the cycle/footpath on the Medway viaduct, Diggerland is on the left, and the castle and cathedral on the right are in Rochester. 2017:

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Edit: Just found the corresponding shot from early 1985. Diggerland was previously a rubbish dump, here landscaped over, and the "leisure park" on the right was still to come. There was still Martin Earles cement/lime works on the right (middle distance, white silo):

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Another one from the lens of David Letcher... the 'Duke' and 'Duchess' meet just east of Gwinear Road on 22nd May 1974, with D1043 on the down Rivo and D1044 on the up milk...

 

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Surely those telegraph poles are not far enough apart, most unrealistic!

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There is a line in this landscape and I don't mean the cable car in the foreground.

 

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We are at the top of the Zwoelferhorn in the Salzkammergut, near Salzburg in Austria. In the background is the Schafberg, the summit of which is reached by a rack railway from St Wolfgang on the shores of the Wolfgangsee. The town and lake are hidden by the fog in the valley. You can make out the course of the line as it zig-zags its way to the summit, which is 1783 m above sea level.

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