Tag: Norfolk

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built in 1884 for the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway (made famous by the Reverend W. Awdry’s ‘Toby the Tram Engine’) and was withdrawn from service in 1951 only to become an onion store!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… Ptarmigan, Morston Quay

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Ptarmigan, Morston Quay
Ptarmigan, Morston Quay
Canon EOS 5, Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM at 60mm, 1/125s, f8 – Ilford Delta 400 Professional
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 8 mins at 20°c.

I’m building up quite a backlog of black & white film developing at the moment… so here’s a pic from March 2024!

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.