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Here are some pictures that have lain in "the archives" for a number
of years - taken in the early 80s, they are all on 35mm, taken with a
300mm lens (one or two with a 2x converter) and 400ASA film, possibly
uprated to 1600ASA. I would click away on the long lens when the train
was still a little way off, switching to the other camera as it
approached. If it stopped raining, that is - on dull days I only took
b&w...
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 6000
"King George V" was a favourite on the "North and West" for many
years - here he is steaming well down the bank near Marshbrook |
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 4498 "Sir Nigel
Gresley" was a much rarer sighting on the route - seen here
climbing Gresford bank |
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  46229
"Duchess of Hamilton" (left) is on the "North and West" too -
can't remember where (Baschurch perhaps?)
34092 "City of Wells" is seen on
a different route altogether - leaving Poppleton to head,
anticlockwise, around the "York Circle" |
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  Another
shot of the Duchess, this time approaching Ais Gill summit with an
S&C "Cumbrian Mountain Express".
850 "Lord Nelson" is in a
different corner of the country altogether - nearing the top of
Llanvihangel bank, north of Abergavenny |
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 5690 "Leander"
is working hard near All Stretton, on a southbound special |
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 4472 "Flying
Scotsman" lays a smokescreen near Clapham station, on the southern
leg of a Cumbrian Mountain Express |
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 850
"Lord Nelson" is going well near Selside, with the northbound S&C
leg of the same train, same day |
  Lord
Nelson is seen again, a little later, on the final stretch to Ais
Gill Summit (left)
46229 is working hard across
Ribblehead viaduct |
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  SR
777 "Sir Lamiel" is seen on an outing on the "North and West" -
firstly (left) approaching All Stretton, and (right) topping the
short climb from Craven Arms, near Stokesay |
 60009 "Union of
South Africa" is seen clearing Armathwaite viaduct, near the
northern end of the Settle and Carlisle |
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 "GWR
150" specials on the Sapperton
route - firstly, 5051 "Drysllwyn
Castle" is
seen approaching Sapperton tunnel from the east... |
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 ...and , in
slightly better weather, on the climb from the west, at Frampton
Mansell |
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