Pictures of steam locos

Loads of great Pictures.  Thanks pal.:)

Lovely shot of the class 43 Mike, interesting livery too. Keep the photos coming Mike always enjoy looking through them, especially as I'm not as mobile these days.

Found this whilst I was out and about this morning:

Colas Rail Frieght Class 70 No. 70801 alongside the Plym Estuary.

Nice, never seen one in this lively before, when I was at uni there was usual a railfreight class 70 stabled at parkway station, Bristol, Filton. Never photographed it, but a very good looking loco.

Quite a gradient there Mick.

It was camera angle Mike. The track there is dead flat. It was taken from the far side of the Plym Estuary, about 350 yds. away. It was probably coming from Laira after refuelling. It had probably dropped off a load of Engineering Supplies at Tavistock Junction Yard. This shot was off it heading back to Tavistock Junction after about half an hour at Laira. I did catch it going into to Laira but there was too much vegitation in the way.

Your brave Mick, must've been bl@@dy cold out there yesterday morning and it's not much better today.

Ed

[user=1397]Dorsetmike[/user] wrote:

Quite a gradient there Mick.

I'm told they go water skiing  there….



Doug

[user=1338]Ed[/user] wrote:

Your brave Mick, must've been bl@@dy cold out there yesterday morning and it's not much better today.

Ed

It wasn't too bad Ed. Bright sunshine and low winds, although the temperature was only about 6 - 7 degrees. Last Friday was worse, 3 degrees with 40mph NW winds.

Yes Chubber. A bit lower down the Estuary. They're a darn nuisance, scares all the birds away. Mind it is only at High Tide. It would be mud skiing at Low.

Continuing the Colas theme for a while here are a few taken a couple of days ago.

Colas Rail Freight Class 60 No. 60047



Railcare Railvac.



And another view of 'Harry Patch' leaving Plymouth for Paddington

Went to the South Devon Railway Winter Gala yesterday. Here are some pics.

From the footbridge at Buckfastleigh.



No. 6412 at Totnes






No. 6412 at Buckfastleigh



No. 1369 at Buckfastleigh






No. 1450 at Buckfastleigh



No. 1450 at Totnes






No. 1450 at Staverton



D2246 at Staverton on Milk and Parcels Turn



No. 4612 at Buckfastleigh.



More later (Infrastructure and a couple of wagons). Next Sat/Sun will be another visit weather permitting. Then it is a Great Western Show with 6 engines in steam.
This whole trip turned out to be a bit of a nightmare. The weather remained pretty well ghastly all day. On arrival at Totnes from Plymouth and making my way to the SDR the first thing I met with was a flood, about 12 inches deep with prevented access to the Footbridge that leads the SDR. Back to Totnes Station and after a breakfast at the Signal Box Café (recommended) I found an alternative route to the SDR and managed to get there with Dry feet. The biggest problem then for the rest of the day was attempting to keep the cameras (and myself) dry. The light overall was terrible and because of flooding I was unable to do my normal walks along the Dart for birds etc. At about 2.30 I had had enough so returned home, by which time the normal route back to Totnes had dried up (The tide had gone out). Trains however back to Plymouth were delayed by a 'One Under' event at Slough, so it was almost 5 by the time I got home. Apparently we were lucky as there was a massive land slip between Staverton and Totnes on Monday last which could have thrown the whole Event off, but sterling work by the SDR got things up and running again, albeit with speed restrictions past the damaged area. I'm looking forward to a repeat trip next weekend, at least I now know an alternative route to the SDR from Totnes. Such is life I suppose.

Great photos as always Mick, lots more reference material to help this poor dusty, dry and hot Australian create a miniature Wales in his spare bedroom!
Sorry to hear you couldn't get your birding done in the same trip but you've captured some lovely scenes of a wet, winter railway so, as you say, a long wet day but not totally wasted.


All the best
Marty

Here are some infrastructure and wagon pics from last weekend.











More at the weekend if all goes well.

With all the hype on the Flying Scotsman of late thought I put up Devon's Answer to it. (Alice at Trago Mills, Bovey Tracey, Devon)



Till later

Great pictures mick even with the bad light.
Thanks for sharing:thumbs

A slightly smaller loco, but just as  nice :thumbs


Ed

Friend of mine took this on the West Somerset,

http://mjdd.zenfolio.com/p207042256/h6d7857d3#h6d7857d3

Should be able to click on the image for larger.

And more from the WSR

http://www.wsr.org.uk/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?h=Latest%20pictures&t=pics

The photos on the WSR of Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 Caledonia Works are really good, there is a facebook page dedicated to this loco, with excellent photos of its restoration.

Pete.

Gee…. they are really worried about Alice jumping the tracks aren't they? A concrete wall and old tyre barrier between it and the road!


Marty…


with his silly hat on…


yeah, yeah… I know…. when do I take it off.