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Lines in the Landscape


Peter Kazmierczak
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Hello All,

Thought I'd start a new topic - "Lines in the Landscape". As the title suggests, this is the place to put your photos where the train/railway is just a part of the overall landscape. Could be town or country - the railway might dominate the landscape or may just be a tiny part of it.

 

Seems like the spirit of the thread has morphed into a Google Images on steoids (stunning as some of those shots are).  Personally I would rather see fellow RMwebbers' efforts - which is what I thought the original post was all about.

 

Rant over.  Here's the first departure of the morning leaving Kurort Oberweisenthal for Cranzahl, behind 099 757-7, May 1998.

 

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Lines of all sorts with this one.........A pair Pacific National's EMD-powered 82 class wind a rake of empty coal hoppers off the Kooragang Island branch at Sandgate, New South Wales on 10 May 2005.

 
The junction conflict was completely removed not long after this was taken with the construction of a flyover behind where I'm standing. Click on the pic to get the full effect.
 
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This is a DB class 181.2 bi-voltage electric crossing the double-deck bridge over the Mosel at Bullay, with a passenger train.  Thanks to the wonders of photo-stitching technology, it is also the same locomotive, with the same train, at Bullay station on the opposite bank.  (Original photos taken on a rather overcast day in March 2000, with a 17mm lens IIRC, and scans stitched together using NCH PhotoPad).

 

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The Waterloo Station Pilot in 1966.

 

Yet another case of a photographer waiting for a locomotive to get in the way before taking a picture of the track.

 

There is a nice outside slip under there. The far switch looks very close to the crossing beyond.

 

Martin.

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On 4 February 2015, a loaded Wirrida to Whyalla iron ore train operated by Genesee & Wyoming Australia skirts Lake Hart in outback South Australia about 500km north of Adelaide.

Unfortunately with the collapse in world commodity prices this traffic flow lasted less than two years and ended just a few weeks after this shot was taken.

 

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The North & West line at Stokesay Castle (near Craven Arms) yesterday.

 

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click image for better quality            camera at OS grid ref: SO 43493 81595

 

 

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click image for better quality           camera at OS grid ref: SO 43415 81515

 

 

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click image for better quality           camera at OS grid ref:  SO 43383  81503

 

Martin.

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Strictly more of an 'ex' line in the landscape, this is the line from Ouston Junction to South Pelaw Junction on the Tyne Dock to Consett line, hard to believe that 9Fs once pounded up here with iron ore trains...

 

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Early morning mist burns off at Burrs Country Park Halt on the East Lancashire Railway, 13th March 2017...

 

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... followed shortly after by the morning freight clanking its way up the line.

 

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A trio of QBX class locomotives QBX006/004/005 operated by transport and logistics company QUBE thread the Cullerin Range in New South Wales with train #1311 for Junee. 

The train is carrying largely empty containers destined for the Vizy paper packaging products plant at Tumut which will be transhipped from rail to road at Harefield.

The QBX class are a 4000hp locomotive built by CSR Ziyang (China) with a MTU power unit. (Best to click on image to get full effect)

 

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