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eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:40 pm

Seeing as Matt Carey has posted his pics of 40145 at Plymouth (see Blue Arrow forum) here is mine, though mine cover from Stafford to Plymouth and back again as I was riding on the train

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Above 40145 pulling into Stafford looking very smart (well done all those who did that)

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Above slighty early (20 mins to be exact) into Birmingham New Street allowed us to go get some photos of 40145 in the sun

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Above another early arrival in the sun at Cheltenham saw yet another oppurtunity for a photo call taken by many (including me

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Above 40145 rolling into Plymouth to pick up the stock again.

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Above Sun out on 40145's windscreen (are you on this shot matt?

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Above Coming under the bridge into Bristol Temple Meads.

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Above Was quite suprised to see this on Bristol Barton Hill Shed, so I got a pic

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Above Rounding Westerleigh Junction in glorious sunshine.

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Above On the run into New Street station, the 40 had just completed a superb run up Lickey with no problems at all.

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Above End of the line, for me anyway, I left the train at Stafford but stayed to photo and video its departure.

This was my 1st ride on a class 40 but it definantly won't be my last. I have already signed up as a member of the Class 40 Preservation Society for 3 years

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rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:57 pm

Regarding her looking smart..I refixed her new brake blocks on Thursday so I hope that counts

Great to see she did well..she was testing her new brake blocks in Buckley Wells yard, didn't sound bad then either

David

jdjonny · Post by **jdjonny** » Sun May 23, 2004 10:19 am

Had a day at Dawlish to phot the 2 railtours that went through;

67006 at Aller

66180 at Plymouth

66180 departing Plymouth

66 at Par (on our way to Dawlish)

HST at Langstone Rock

67006 at Langstone

67006 heading back light engine

your tour! 40145 at Langstone

40145 again (it was crawling, just come out of the loop at the warren, so I could get a few phots)

180113 - first adalante past exeter

180113 heads away

UID HST at the Warren

40145 heading to the sea

All photos low res. enjoy

JDJonny

117305 · Post by **117305** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:08 pm

nice pics i was on that tour as well(40) it was one good day on time only one thing annoyed me a little about it one or 2 photographers on the lickey got a bit 2 close to the line for comfort particuler the man who had his tripod around 8ft or so from the line near teh top of teh bank causeing a another train to use the horn a lot i hope your footage did not come out

jdjonny · Post by **jdjonny** » Sun May 23, 2004 1:20 pm

117305 wrote:nice pics i was on that tour as well(40) it was one good day on time only one thing annoyed me a little about it one or 2 photographers on the lickey got a bit 2 close to the line for comfort particuler the man who had his tripod around 8ft or so from the line near teh top of teh bank causeing a another train to use the horn a lot i hope your footage did not come out

Yep, people like that deserve to have their cameras run over

They ruin it for the rest of us. I can see big palisade fences going up all over the lineside, making photography impossible soon...

JDJonny

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sun May 23, 2004 3:23 pm

rwaceyw wrote:Regarding her looking smart..I refixed her new brake blocks on Thursday so I hope that counts

Great to see she did well..she was testing her new brake blocks in Buckley Wells yard, didn't sound bad then either

David

I'm sure that you fixing her brake blocks helped her look wonderful David

. Full credit to you guys at the ELR and CFPS

117305 wrote:nice pics i was on that tour as well(40) it was one good day on time only one thing annoyed me a little about it one or 2 photographers on the lickey got a bit 2 close to the line for comfort particuler the man who had his tripod around 8ft or so from the line near teh top of teh bank causeing a another train to use the horn a lot i hope your footage did not come out

Where abouts where you on the train? She was actually early most of the time, only delay was when we got the 09 at Plymouth (control wouldn't let us out till we had a clear run into the station and even then we got stopped just before rejoining the main line). I was dissapointed by all the people on the line as well, there was plenty behind the fence who must have got good shots, why couldn't they all stay there? we were told not to do anything on the train

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:57 pm

I'm sure that you fixing her brake blocks helped her look wonderful David .

But of course it did..her brake blocks where the shiniest bits on her

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I was on the tour too

. Lickey with 12 on..18mph at the top

. No problem

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Now lets get the CFPS's other 40 ( 40135 ) mainline and run 'em in tandem!

David

117305 · Post by **117305** » Sun May 23, 2004 5:22 pm

i had a nice comfy seat in first as always it was just a shame as well that 3 persons on the train could not read very well and smoked in coach c i think it was still i surpose a word on teh tannoy embarresed theem enough to stop wonder how the engine will perform in august when she heads for kyle of lochalsh that will be one epic trip -hard to think you can take a pic on a station platform and incour teh wrath off station security guards and yet peaple can stand on teh wrong side of a fence and get off scott free-thanks to all at who mantain the engine for makeing it a very fine day oh and it was my first main line 40 since 2 september 1987 when d200 worked to aberstwyth and back on a service train that was also when very good day

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sun May 23, 2004 6:42 pm

lucky guy, I was in std class with the true enthusiasts

. I wish I could make the August trip to Kyle but am away then. This was my 1st ever 40 trip, certainly not my last

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Sun May 23, 2004 8:28 pm

I had a seat but didn't make much use of it..used a window all the way

David

mattcarey · Post by **mattcarey** » Sun May 30, 2004 6:23 pm

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Above Sun out on 40145's windscreen (are you on this shot matt? )

Nope - i was on platform 4 - where the first great western in the background is going

Regards

Matthew

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:11 pm

Glad I moved round to miss the hst ruining the shots

mattcarey · Post by **mattcarey** » Sun May 30, 2004 9:55 pm

because platform 4 is long it didnt get in the way + it went before the 40 left

Regards

Matthew

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:18 pm

mattcarey wrote:because platform 4 is long it didnt get in the way + it went before the 40 left

Lol I was too busy paying attention to that wonderful 40 to even notice te HST

. If I had I'd have made sure the power car was the back drop not the coaches

mattcarey · Post by **mattcarey** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:29 pm

eddief wrote:
mattcarey wrote:because platform 4 is long it didnt get in the way + it went before the 40 left
Lol I was too busy paying attention to that wonderful 40 to even notice te HST . If I had I'd have made sure the power car was the back drop not the coaches

lol - you got to admit those FGW in that livery is bloody awful

Put them into GWR green i say

Regards

Matthew

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