bluebottle Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) Slate country and an unidentified Class 25 about to enter Ffestiniog Tunnel with a nuclear flask train in the early 1980s... This is the kind of image that challenges one's thinking about what the word "beauty" really means. It does capture an unsettling man-made landscape almost terrifying in its scale and power. To one like myself, brought up in coal-mining areas, the kind of places abhorred by such as John Ruskin, it provokes a variety of emotions.. It's familiar yet alien; unnatural in the sense that humankind has raped the natural landscape in its need for raw materials yet, in a sense, is acting in a most unself-conscious and so natural manner... I haven't clicked "like", as I'm not sure "like" is an appropriate word. It certainly made an impression on me. Edited April 23, 2012 by bluebottle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted April 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 24, 2012 Bleak? Desolate, end of the world locations? I can do that. This photograph dates from July 1978 (yet another wet summer's day) and shows that corporate image can take a while to be rolled out, even in quite prominent places. I can't for the life of me recall where this one was taken... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-missy- Posted May 5, 2012 Share Posted May 5, 2012 Hello Some more from me. Taken earlier today at the Didcot Railway Centre DNS day... Missy 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 A few work related shots.... Luton, taken whilst waiting to make a shunt in the stone sidings... Bardon Hill in Leicestershire, looking up the bank towards Coalville... Bescot Down Tower, as seen from the Up Goods... Top Link Driver J.Harper Esquire points out an important notice at the Bardon Hill International Diesel Fuelling Point Facility... Somewhere to keep the tea bags... Worcester... 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 I'm right with you there - a fan of desolate and end-of-the-world places. Like Hoo Junction in the fog, 1985 Hoo Junction - positively Dickensianly desolate place even without the fog - there was a buoy on the river that made a regular eee-ooww noise that also added to eerieness. There was also a "large Cat" myth in the yard - bo**ocks I'm sure but wandering around the depths of "B" section alone on a Sunday morning photographing wagons - what was that rustle !!?? Anyway that guy that wanted a picture of a SR fogmans hut - there's a bit of one............... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Spot the train/s - An up Pacer and down HST pass on the Sea Wall. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Spot the train/s - An up Pacer and down HST pass on the Sea Wall. There's something of the quality of a painting about that shot - maybe due to the extreme distance. Was it cropped out of a maximum telephoto? And were you standing on top of the headland at Shaldon? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 That's almost the whole picture. Just taken with a simple point and shoot camera. The HST is about 2 miles away. It was taken further back than from The Ness at Shaldon, I'm above Teignmouth Road. I'll dig out one taken from The Ness so you can compare. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 This is the view from The Ness at Shaldon. Teignmouth Pier in the foreground and a down HST about to swing round inland off the Sea Wall in the background. Lots of seagulls inbetween. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastwestdivide Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Got fed up with in-focus, sharp and straight three-quarter front shots this week, so I started playing around: A Flying Scotsman flying along: Focus on something other than the train: And a dramatic (?) angle: Like the sky and the lighting in the last one. All taken the non-railway side of the fence at public footpath crossings. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestPines Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 I love the motion blur one there. I received a variable ND filter for Christmas and keep meaning to try doing something along those lines, but I'm too lazy to take the tripod out with me. I would suggest reducing the depth of field for the middle one would increase the blur on the train and give it a slightly better effect. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted May 13, 2012 Share Posted May 13, 2012 Last two from Teignmouth / Shaldon, but this time the western end of the town. In both cases the train is a down FGW HST. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jukebox Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Profile grinding in the tunnels under Taipei. Taiwan High Speed Railway Construction. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 In WesternSunsets top shot (post # 313), my eye went straight to that alien walking across the mud..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Trevellan Posted May 15, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 15, 2012 In WesternSunsets top shot (post # 313), my eye went straight to that alien walking across the mud..... It's a ready-to-plant yacht... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted May 15, 2012 Share Posted May 15, 2012 Not sure how creative this may appear. Taken at Porthmadog on Sunday, the loco is Lyd coaling up in the station. Quite a few chaps were there apparently waiting for her to finish and pull forward for the usual three quarter shot. Sometimes you just have to go with what's in front of you. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Liverpool Lime Street today. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.A.C Martin Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 That is a sensational shot Thomas. I had to do a right double take before I realized it wasn't two NR HSTs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted May 24, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2012 (edited) That is a sensational shot Thomas. I had to do a right double take before I realized it wasn't two NR HSTs! I have been past that mirrored wall a number of times but I still had to do a the same! Edited May 24, 2012 by roundhouse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblestripe Posted May 24, 2012 Share Posted May 24, 2012 I have been past that mirrored wall a number of times but I still had to do a the same! Ha! Thank you for that, my brane couldn't work out why there appeared to be a hole in the red pillar! Great shot Thomas! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Horn Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 Try to time this one between the two masts, and the signal gantry . . . worked out ok apart from the shadow on the windscreen Cheers Tim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted May 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2012 By chance, I photographed the VSOE rake at Victoria Station yesterday and I was struck by the contrast between the 1920s elegance of the Pullman coaches and the 1990s starkness of Platform 18 together with the digital clock... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblestripe Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 A dismal grey day at Grosmont, so I tried this Shot using a 300mm telephoto to get the compressed look, I'm quite pleased with the composition 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 (edited) Green and verdant land with the 10.33 Holyhead-Cardiff passing Hen Wrych west of Abergele on 30th May 2012..... Edited May 30, 2012 by coachmann 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohmisterporter Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 (edited) One for Captain Kernow, a pirate ship at Conwy. Oh, and a train in the background. Quite surprised by the frequent service through to Llandudno. Edited May 30, 2012 by Ohmisterporter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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