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Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer

Subject: Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer
From: "Bill Pearce" <billcpearce@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2013 12:15:21 -0500
Good excursion train operators offer photo run-bys. They pick a particularly 
photogenic spot along the trip and stop the train, all the photographers get 
off, the train backs up and the comes steaming past the gathering. They then 
back up and pick everyone up and all are happy.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jez Cunningham
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 12:09 PM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Steam trains running this summer

You're right Chris.  As an excursion it's completely arse about face for me
- I'd have to travel away in order to come back, and then return so I could
return. But my neighbour (and maybe some others) are planning to do it...
A good vantage point for pix sounds like a better plan!
Jez


On 9 July 2013 17:57, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That looks good, Jez.
>
> Trouble is, it's not that photogenic if you're in the train.  I'd like to
> find a vantage point, perhaps a bridge over the line, from which to 
> capture
> the train passing.
>
> In 1963 I attended boarding school in Worcestershire while my parents were
> abroad (in Aden, at that time); after flying into Heathrow, I remember
> travelling from Paddington to Worcester by train with a steam locomotive
> pulling.  I also remember how filthy were the houses that backed onto the
> tracks outside Paddington.
>
> Chris
>
> On 9 Jul 2013, at 14:30, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Thinking of taking one of these trips (if my wife is up to it) - sounds
> >> like fun! (and photogenic!)
> >> Jez
> >> http://www.railwaytouring.net/uk-day-trips/dorset-coast-express
> >>
> >
> >     Good thing I don't live there, else I'd be taking those excursions
> to no end.  Back in the early 1960's I passed the time doing train 
> spotting
> at Clapham Junction, standing over the track when a steam locomotive 
> passed
> under so as to breath in the smoke and steam.
>
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