LNER4479 Posted June 27, 2021 Share Posted June 27, 2021 I know it's already been mentioned (unsurprisingly) but I'll just leave this here all the same. Taken on 11th August 2018, from (roughly) the same spot as I was taken to as a four-year old 50 years previously. 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 96701 Posted June 27, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 27, 2021 3 hours ago, LNER4479 said: I know it's already been mentioned (unsurprisingly) but I'll just leave this here all the same. Taken on 11th August 2018, from (roughly) the same spot as I was taken to as a four-year old 50 years previously. Nice shot of Whernside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 One that has gone form Classic to over exposed is Glenfinnan Viaduct, remember going up there to photograph the steam service in 1988 and I was the only one on the hillside - now you need to reserve your spot in advance. Jim 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Photographing down trains from the down platform at Farnborough seems to have been relatively popular. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 16 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said: Went to Butterley I believe initially about 2008, then to Ropley on the Mid Hants. So the present one isn't an adapted one. Well I never realised that! What a duffer I must be. Maybe I have this vision of the York Footbridge in my remaining brain cell! P Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 There are a Shed Shots I would count as Classic. Steam days: Nine Elms, Exmouth Junction, Barrow Road and St Phillip's Marsh, Willesden, Stratford, Top Shed, all Crewe, Kingsmoor, in fact almost any including Wadebridge! Diesel days.. I loved Tinsley and Barrow Hill, Laira (nice design) again Stratford and a few of those ex Scottish Steam Sheds just turned over to Diesel. Happy memories. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 11 hours ago, 96701 said: Nice shot of Whernside. Pedant alert: Pen-y-Ghent actually but - hey... This panoramic prior to the main event shows both Pen-y-Ghent and Ingleborough (on the right, with the flat top). Whernside is behind me. Yorkshire's 'Three Peaks'. What a fantastic place to build a railway. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 36 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: So the present one isn't an adapted one. Well I never realised that! What a duffer I must be. Maybe I have this vision of the York Footbridge in my remaining brain cell! P Definitely not the old one adapted. The Grade 1 listed Victorian bridge didn't serve platforms 2-7 - it only connected the outer platforms and so wasn't used much - it was a railwaymen's euphemism for having to report to the management offices after some misdemeanour! Time-lapse photography of its removal: They obviously thought we were getting so old and decrepit we need a stairlift now ... this is the replacement : https://www.stannahlifts.co.uk/case-studies/stannah-kings-cross-moving-millions-radical-revamp https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/resources/kings-cross-footbridge Rebuilding at Ropley: 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted June 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 28, 2021 1 minute ago, Michael Hodgson said: Definitely not the old one adapted. The Grade 1 listed Victorian bridge didn't serve platforms 2-7 - it only connected the outer platforms and so wasn't used much - it was a railwaymen's euphemism for having to report to the management offices after some misdemeanour! Time-lapse photography of its removal: They obviously thought we were getting so old and decrepit we need a stairlift now ... this is the replacement : https://www.stannahlifts.co.uk/case-studies/stannah-kings-cross-moving-millions-radical-revamp https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/resources/kings-cross-footbridge Rebuilding at Ropley: Nice pictures of the Crane due from somebody (?). Thanks for that. Some of us are grateful for that new facility at the bridge and it really helps access when there are platform changes. Great that the old Bridge was reused; Network Rail at its' best. P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hodgson Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 10 minutes ago, Mallard60022 said: Great that the old Bridge was reused; Network Rail at its' best. P The fact that it was Grade 1 listed probably forced their hand somewhat. The redesign of Kings Cross such that departing passengers no longer use the old concourse at the platform ends but had to enter from the new booking hall at the side of the station meant that a bridge was required, it had to be disability-friendly and the old one was unsuitable for conversion. The pedestrian flow works much better as passengers departing and arriving no longer impede each other on the main line platforms. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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