Debs. Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Gratuitous picture time! ......... Enjoyed (and saved) with gratitude! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Awsome pictures!!! realy enjoyed them,shame all the freight has finished on the Bromborough line now,and i see canning street north signal box has been burnt out now,passed it yesterday.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Dave, just caught these up, excellent and such memories! Its true, you dont know what you have had till its gone. Ohhhhh for a time machine!!!!! Would love, just one more time to see a Western going over the bridge (Saltash) with a load of blue/grey mark 1's or a 25 with a stack of hoods on! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 9, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2012 Some photos without captions - for now - I do have the dates and loco numbers but they are currently packed away, once they get found again I'll update (more likely, I'll rescan and update completely) Picton Road, Edge Hill Hooton Chester Widnes West Deviation Chirk Helsby Warrington Arpley Chester Hooton Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 You're getting closer to the territory in new well - hence my increased interest. Various innadequate cameras were my companions for over 20 years and we probably all kick ourselves at times for not buying an SLR sooner. Our friend Merf Jones of this parish got me interested in diesels though it took him about 8 years to do it, so anything you took in North Wales will be gratefully recieved Dave.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HealeyMills Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Rekindling some very happy memories, thank you very much for posting those. Particularly like the whister pics Cheers Lee Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 9, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2012 so anything you took in North Wales will be gratefully recieved Dave.... Fuuny you should say that Coach, guess what the next batch will be about ... (and on the signalling thread too) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 12, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2012 Time for some North Wales photos. First off, a couple at Chester, I'd been on the Cambrian Coast Express to Barmouth (iirc) and had got off, photographing the double header 24s which had taken us there and back, a short time later, the signal cleared, but I ignored it, until I saw 40106 on the up through, in it's tatty green livery Despite the improvement in technology, the original prints, from a "bargain bucket" developing shop are still the best rendition of this. 24081 and 240?? (it's on my notes and I'll update when I can) 40106 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 12, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 12, 2012 40s meet at Llandudno Junction More at Llandudno Junction 40106 arrives empty from Bangor / Holyhead and runs round Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merfyn Jones Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 A few from a slightly different Junction on my flickr site today. http://www.flickr.com/photos/merf29/8266312339/in/photostream Merf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Ah, a low-point in my photography! I got the call, Mr.Dale gave me the permission, Joe House gave me the roll of film and you can guess the rest............ Joe's film turned out to be totally daylighted. Glad you got your photos and they came out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 A few from a slightly different Junction on my flickr site today. http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream Merf. Great pictures!! thats some derailment..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 24, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2012 Some more blues stuff (prefer Ska myself) As for the signalling thread some of these have been posted previously, but no harm in reposting and one day they will be rescanned to todays quality Edge Hill (under Picton Road) Helsby Llandudno Holyhead Me in the cab of the next two Excellent timing ! Southport Chester Helsby Northwich Bit "prem" with this one ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 24, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 24, 2012 Chester Hooton Crewe Allerton (now Liverpool South Parkway) Lime Street Birkenhead Shed Rock Ferry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 26, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2012 A short post with not much blue 01002 at Holyhead 40106 at Crewe South 08355 (?) at Dallam (Warrington) - rubbish shot but does record it still being in green Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 26, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2012 Crewe 47367 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 26, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 26, 2012 You dont need to re-scan Dave, most of these just need basic finishing although its tough pulling much back from underexposed film (which these are). If they were digital underexposed would be good. Afraid theres no fix for out of focus though but you should at least be able to get rid of the colour casts in some of them. Cheers Jim I don't really want to get into a discussion about scanning but these were scanned several years ago, on less than the best settings, saved as jpegs and probably resaved several times (thereby losing quality as you no doubt know), so there is plenty of room for improvement. The out of focus ones are reproduced simply because they are better than other postings of the same location and loco ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jim s-w Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 You only loose quality if you dont save at full in the first place Dave (and for the benefit of others) Even if you do loose quality it will only be the resolution and not the colours, saturation or lights and darks. Likewise the scan quality will affect detail not the overall image. It would make sense to rescan if you are going to put the work in to getting them good* but even a newer scan wont save you any work on the finishing side, it will just give you a better end result. Cheers Jim * you could do the adjustments via adjustment layers first to see if the images are saveable, would save you the effort if re-scanning if not but would mean you can simply transfer your adjustments over to the new scans if they are, meaning you only have to do the work once. Some good finishing will always help an image even those you think perfect to start with. Having spent a decade finishing hundreds of thousands of images from professional photographers i never came across one that didnt benefit from being finished properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted December 26, 2012 Share Posted December 26, 2012 Jim is right. When we saw what the lads at Amadeus could do with old 'steam' negs, it opened the door to lots of old slides. I sort of envy Dave (Beast) to for using colour. When I was re-awakened to the railway scene in 1976 I ran a couple black & white films through the new SLR and some pictures got published. Had this not happened I would have reverted to colour slide film just as I had with a previous Instamatic, but magazines demanded black & white and this gave my photography a purpose. When I did my first colour album with Greg at Foxline, how I dearly wished I had done much more in colour. So browsing through this thread is quite a delight especially when I see that Dave has taken shots of trains on the coast line that I shot in black & while further down the line or up in the Conway Valley. Keep 'em coming! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 27, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2012 On with some pictures Lime Street Lancaster Chester 24133 poses next to No.6 Llandudno Junction Birkenhead Docks Rock Ferry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 27, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2012 Lime Street Llandudno Junction Abergele Canning Street North Rarely caught on camera - a Smiths shunt Wigan North Western Chester Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAndy Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Absolutely fantastic shots here mate. Taking me right back to my spotting stamping grounds................and look at those shots of the spoon and a bucket at Chester, with the Victor estate and the Capri in the foreground, nostalgia Nirvana.......... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
class"66" Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 More and more super pictures!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 I understand that Dave is feeling a little moby.....feel better, mate! Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold beast66606 Posted December 27, 2012 Author RMweb Gold Share Posted December 27, 2012 I understand that Dave is feeling a little moby.....feel better, mate! Best, Pete. Bit on the hot side today, if I was a car you'd replace my thermostat or fit a bigger radiator fan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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