Anything of interest taken in December

Nipped out to walk the dog and maybe 10 minutes at the footbridge, ended up bumping into another regular photter (and his dog !) Hi Jim ! and ended up stopping a full hour .....glad I did too, heres the bumper crop seen between 1630 and 1740...

Spent Friday 17th July showing a friend from North Wales some good spots for Rail Photting ...including the station of course. Wasn't expecting anything special but one or two surprises turned up, and got some good snaps despite the afternoon rain ....havd a look !!

Hi all,
A selection of pics from a great morning in Carlisle at DRS's Kingmoor Depot ....all locos are featured here I think ....

Here's the piccies from about 45 minutes linesiding in Weston, about a mile out of Crewe on the Kidsgrove line ...the main reason for the trip was to snap 66302 working one of it's two route learning trips on behalf of GBRF between Derby and Crewe ....just in case you were wondering, all piccies were taken from proper footpaths ....
Also added pictures from the next days route learner with GBRF using one of their own machines, 66707 ....

Nipped down to a very Sunny Chorlton to phot the FA Cup Match Specials, full of hopeful Everton fans heading south for the match with Chelsea. there were three trains, all TnT 67 jobs, including the Royal twins......here s the pics with a few interesting gatechrashers....

A tip off on the UK-Rail Yahoo Group (cheers boys!) had me jump into the car and head off for Gresty road Freightliner entrance for the movement of 87003/6/34 to Hull docks ...missed them !! But a quick gander at the invaluably Blackberry found a mail saying that one of the wagons had a tyre problem en route ....great ! Anyway I overtook tthe convoy about three miles into their trip on the A500, passing plenty photters en route , and finally picked the M6 Junction 16 abnormal load refuge as a place to wait for the oncoming ensemble ....my piccies of the convoy entering the busy roundabout were ...well...crap !! Luckily, for me they all did a full circle of the junction and entered the abnormal load refuge for maintenance to the front wagon...SOOOO...here's what I got! Thanks to Mark Birch and aStephen Beeston for the tip off on UK-Rail !!

An interesting hour was spent at Crewe Station awaiting the late running 1845 ATW service to Holyhead, 57314 having to be detached at Cardiff being replaced on the rear by 57316, 57315 taking point sounding very nice indeed !
The interest started as 57314 arrived dead in train, along with Mk3 sleeper M10588 and Thunderbird 57313 at the head into platform 12. 57313 was quickly detached and run round onto the rear, where a quick word with the driver revealed the train eas being shunted onto the LNWR Shed where the Sleeper would be left and the ailing 57314 was then to be sent on to Longsight....according to the driver it may need a new traction motor !!

Hi all,
spent a freezing 30 minutes on Crewe Station to catch the WCRC 37's, 37248 & 676 which were in charge of the returning 1Z49 Poole - Blackpool Railtour on film ....here's what I got....

A chance meeting whilst coming home from walking the dog this afternoon saw me pass Bulgarian bound 87010/22 & 28.
They were seen right at the start of their long trip to Eastern Europe, pictured from Gresty Road Freightliner entrance and onto the A500. According to reports on UK-RAIL Yahoo group they are to be exported via Hull.