Throwback Thursday… Great Central Railway autumn steam gala

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SR West Country class 4-6-2 34007 WADEBRIDGE-20111008 (Loughborough Central, GCR)
Southern Railway West Country class 4-6-2 34007 WADEBRIDGE at Loughborough Central
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 58mm, 1/200s, f7.1, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

15 years ago it was the autumn steam gala at the Great Central Railway (GCR).

S&DJR class 7F 2-8-0 No.88-20111008 (Leicester North, GCR)
Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway class 7F 2-8-0 No.88 at Leicester North
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 48mm, 1/100s, f5, ISO 800

Both of the locomotives above were visitors to the GCR, WADEBRIDGE from the Mid-Hants Railway and No.88 from the West Somerset Railway (if memory serves).

Monochrome Monday… Millenium Bridge, Glasgow

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Millenium Bridge, Glasgow
Millenium Bridge, Glasgow
Nikon F80, AF NIKKOR 28-80mm f/4-5.6D at 80mm, 1/125, f8 – Rollei RPX 400
Developed in Ilford DD-X at 1:4, 10 mins at 20°c.

Another image (and another reflection!) from the roll of film exposed (mostly) in Glasgow in October last year but only recently developed…

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, pixl-latr and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Throwback Thursday… Members’ Day at the North Norfolk Railway

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Ready for departure, Sheringham
Ready for departure, Sheringham
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 18mm, 1/400s, f10, ISO 200

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

15 years ago it was the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway Society members’ day at the North Norfolk Railway (NNR).

Above is the view ahead (sort of) from immediately behind the tender of London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) class J15 0-6-0, a view almost impossible to capture unless…

Wisbech & Upwell Bogie Tramcar No.7
Wisbech & Upwell Bogie Tramcar No.7
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 26mm, 1/250s, f8, ISO 200

… you’re travelling on the balcony of this!

This beautiful tramcar was built in 1884 for the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway (made famous by the Reverend W. Awdry’s ‘Toby the Tram Engine’) and was withdrawn from service in 1951 only to become an onion store! Painstaking restoration between 2002 and 2004 returned it to this condition and the NNR use it on during certain special events.

Monochrome Monday… Reflecting on Mitchell Street, Glasgow

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Reflecting on Mitchell Street, Glasgow
Reflecting on Mitchell Street, Glasgow
Nikon F80, AF NIKKOR 28-80mm f/4-5.6D at 50mm, 1/45, f8 – Rollei RPX 400
Developed in Ilford DD-X at 1:4, 10 mins at 20°c.

An image from a roll exposed (mostly) in Glasgow in October last year but only recently developed…

It’s always been the case that wifey and I can stand side-by-side and take completely different pics, this is a case in point, while she was pointing her camera up, I was pointing mine down!

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, pixl-latr and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Monochrome Monday… Russell Street, Sheffield

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Russell Street, Sheffield
Russell Street, Sheffield
Nikon F2S, NIKKOR S·C 50mm f/1.4, 1/250, f11 – Kentmere Pan 200
Developed in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X at 1:4, 9 mins at 20°c.

Yet another pic from the Analogue Wonderland Big Film Photowalk 2026 in Sheffield in June.

Digitised using Nikon D5600 & AF-S Micro-NIKKOR 40mm f/2.8, Nikon ES-2 Film Digitising Adapter and Negative Lab Pro plugin with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.

Throwback Thursday… ISIBUTU at the Statfold Barn Railway

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WB 4-4-0T ISIBUTU (works no.2820 of 1945)-20110917 (SBR)
W.G. Bagnall Ltd 2ft gauge 4-4-0T ISIBUTU
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 40mm, 1/500s, f11, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this day in previous years?

15 years ago it was an event at the Statfold Barn Railway in Staffordshire.

ISIBUTU was built in 1945 by W.G. Bagnall Ltd for Tongaat Sugar in Natal, South Africa, and I believe it returned to the UK in the early 1970s.