Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 Bournemouth Depot on a damp evening. A Cl.444 slips past Cl.455/7 5708, having worked the rear portion off a Waterloo - Weymouth service. 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Castlemaine-Maldon branch this afternoon. Needless to say, I didn't notice the coffee cup until I got home! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Not really "creative", but this caught my eye as I was driving along. The sign is obviously a replica, as Eastcote is on the Underground served by the Piccadilly line; not some wayside Scottish Region station. An interesting scenic addition to a layout though. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Castlemaine-Maldon branch this afternoon. Needless to say, I didn't notice the coffee cup until I got home! I quite liked your "Coffee cup with diesel locomotive". The cup adds a human touch to the impersonal diesel loco, a reminder of the man human who brought it to this place... One pictures that person reaching up to place it where it now rests, and wonders whether he/she finished his/her coffee before leaving it. I've added the adjoining picture, my own creation making use of yours, entitled, appropriately, "Diesel locomotive without coffee cup". This must be viewed as a companion piece to yours, to point the message that a coffee cup may say much more to us than the facile supposition that it is merely a convenient way of stopping one's coffee running away through one's fingers. Edit: punctuation. Edited April 4, 2015 by bluebottle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porcy Mane Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 GNER set 2003. P 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Nicely lit picture. Looks almost like a Hornby model..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2015 This must be viewed as a companion piece to yours, to point the message that a coffee cup may say much more to us than the facile supposition that it is merely a convenient way of stopping one's coffee running away through one's fingers. Do you have any evidence that this cup ever contained coffee? It may have contained tea, hot chocolate, cup-a-soup (with croutons), 6 spare fixing screws for the battery box cover, or the driver's false teeth. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 If you knew Ollie that I worked with you would realise that all of the above would be true except for the false teeth... In sedimentary layers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 How to make a Railbus look interesting. OK, maybe not..... 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Do you have any evidence that this cup ever contained coffee? It may have contained tea, hot chocolate, cup-a-soup (with croutons), 6 spare fixing screws for the battery box cover, or the driver's false teeth. No evidence is needed. The photographer identified it as "the coffee cup", and one accepts that it represents coffee cups as one knows them. If a sculptor showed me a statue of "Aphrodite at the Water Hole" should I demand to know if it's really a depiction of the goddess and not a Cockney landlady? Edited April 4, 2015 by bluebottle 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold martin_wynne Posted April 4, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 4, 2015 If a sculptor showed me a statue of "Aphrodite at the Water Hole" should I demand to know if it's really a depiction of the goddess and not a Cockney landlady? Certainly you should. Do you believe everything you are told? Expect an election candidate at your door shortly. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 How to make a Railbus look interesting. .................................................... OK, maybe not..... Brave try, Peter, but the words "silk purse" and "sow's ear" come to mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Sometimes I sits and thinks Sometimes I just sits Sometimes I sits and take a photo of a railbus 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluebottle Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Certainly you should. Do you believe everything you are told? Expect an election candidate at your door shortly. Ahah! Politicking is a different matter. The General Election candidate for my party arrived on my doorstep a couple of days ago with over a thousand leaflets for my "box", to be delivered ASAP. The chats I have with those locals who take an interest will be useful when I move onto door knocking; I'll have a better idea of local sentiments and what strengths and weaknesses to stress or gloss over as appropriate. One of our local councillors is up for re-election too; I'm one of his subscribers - he's a good man and I'll have to do my best for him as well. It'll be an interesting few weeks; some fun and a lot of bloody hard work. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Think I might've posted this before, but I've cropped it slightly to give a (hopefully) better balance to the shot. Mid 1970s at Southampton Central. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumblestripe Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 (edited) A little post production... The original of this image can be found in my Gallery http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/image/67115-steam/ I was unhappy with the image straight out of the camera but wasn't sure why. If you see the original you can see the high vis jacket of the driver (or other footplate staff!) and an item of high vis clothing in the "spectacle plate" of the locomotive. (Is that the correct term for non-round front windows?!) Anyway all I have done is selected the items using photoshop and de-saturated them and it no longer draws the eye in the way that the High vis did (doing its job I suppose) Edited April 6, 2015 by Rumblestripe 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 A slightly different drivers' eye view of a Class 66. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 444036 as seen through the round knot hole..... 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted April 14, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 14, 2015 In the fading light of late evening at Huddersfield station on 13th April 2015, the late running 20:11 departure to Manchester Airport waits at the platform. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Class 66/7 bogie. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smiffy2 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torn-on-the-platform Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Not particularly creative and its definitely been done before, but its certainly different from my normal style. I tend to focus on the locomotive, maybe the whole train if easy to fit in. It was such a beautiful day today, I wanted to include the train as a feature of the landscape so tried something a little different. There was scope to zoom out further, and the photo quality isn't quite what I'd hoped, but I'm still pretty happy with the result: 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 202 (and a half) miles from Paddington - as measured via Bristol. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightengine Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 202 (and a half) miles from Paddington - as measured via Bristol. Starcross, some lovely shots available around there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Kazmierczak Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 It was very early one November morning. Lovely light, but very cold. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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