Page 5: Assortment

A selection from the "Geoff's Rail Diaries" pages. Click the thumbnail to download and play the movie. Please read my copyright notes if you wish to use them in any way

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The following clips are 240 x 192 x 25fps

 

Tyne-Tees Venturer: 30 October 1999

D9000 arrives at Wolverhampton with the stock from Oxley
(25 secs / 408k)

 

Having stopped while running round, D9000 gets the road and accelerates away
(27 secs / 427k)

 

D9000 backs on to the train at York, ready for the run back to Wolverhampton
(34 secs / 536k)

 

A Scottish trip:
Whim Moss, Penicuik, 3 August 2000

The Whim Moss Keef loco trundles back along the main line with some noisy empties, then heads away towards the moss. It shunts into a siding to let the Motor-Rail propel the next trainload of peat to the wagon tipper.
The MR has a cap on its exhaust pipe - which goes tap-tap-tap as the engine idles...

(3 min 32 secs / 3mb)

 
 

A Scottish trip:
Bo'ness 4 August 2000

27001 chugs up the bank with the day's last train on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway 
(34 secs / 840k)

Peak & West Coast: 24 August 2000

These clips are all 176 x 144 x 25 frames per second

68012 accelerates away from RowsleyPeak Rail

68012 pulls away from Rowsley and heads on towards Darley Dale
(45 secs / 592k)

60 047 near ChinleyChinley

60047 climbs towards Chinley with a long train of empty stone hoppers 
(1 min 5 secs / 855k)

47 358 on a northbound freightliner, SlindonSlindon

47 358 hurries northwards with a long freightliner....
(36 secs / 484k)

47 301 on another northbound freightliner, Slindon....and 47 301 follows on a similar train a few minutes later. 
(39 secs / 520k)

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