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Throwback Thursday… The Fife Coast

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Lower Largo, October 2017
Lower Largo, October 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 55-200mm f3.5~4.8 R LM OIS at 70mm, 1/110s, f11, ISO 400

What was I photographing on this days in previous years?

Nine years ago it was the Fife coast during our first full day on holiday there…

The Firth of Forth, October 2017
The Firth of Forth, October 2017
Fujifilm X-T1, Fujinon XF 55-200mm f3.5~4.8 R LM OIS at 74mm, 1/1800s, f11, ISO 400

Maybe it’s living as far as it’s possible to get from the sea (in the UK anyway) but I never tire of being at the coast…

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).

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.

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.