The convoy photos were seen in the main line section, but I have included some of those photos here in the SVR section along with some shunters around the turntable. The convoy to Eastleigh consisted of 56312 hauling 50026, 50031 & 50135.
Plenty in this photo!
Having a camera & camcorder creates problems – video or photo! Spending a few hours at Arley gave me the opportunity to do a bit of both, filming the moving trains & photographing “still” shots. As yet I haven’t sorted the videos but have a fair selection of the locos in varying light conditions. The darker shots weren’t meant to be masterpieces, but just experimenting to see the results at the maximum camera setting of iso12800. The locos seen are 2857, 4936, 7812, 34053 & 43106.
This one of the darker shots, showing 4936
I wanted to see 5164 on its final day. I decided against a video as it was quite breezy (should’ve had my camcorder with me the previous day when it was calm!) so made do with photos. Also seen are 4 shunters by the turntable & the DMU departing.
Roll on half term when services resume!
My final shot of 5164
The last weekend of running for 5164 before the boiler ticket expired. It was working the Bridgnorth set and I took a few photos of it during the short time I was at Kidderminster. Must say it still looked very smart!!
Note the sad “face” on the smokebox, which can be seen better in a couple of the other photos
D8188 had been at Washwood Heath for about a year for some repair work & was hauled back to the Severn Valley Railway behind 47727. The locos are seen passing Old Hill on the way to Kidderminster. The 47 should have returned with 37906, which has been sold and is to be overhauled for main line work, but the move was cancelled. Running very late, 47727 is seen on the way back to Washwood Heath. Several of us had been waiting at Old Hill, but gradually drifted away as time passed by – I was half way home when I noticed it had left, so about turn & back to the station. Sorry Martin, I would have sent you a text if I had your number!!!
D8188 looks immaculate in this photo
I thought everything on a new pc would work perfectly! After installing the latest version of Firefox, I soon found youtube videos wouldn’t play. The videos would stop after a second or two. After a few searches, I found lots of other people had found the same problem. The answer appeared to be updating the flash player, which I did – but still the same problem. The solution was to remove the older version of flash player, which I suppose was installed by Firefox? Wherever it came from, it needed updating, so if anybody has the same problem and does a search & finds this – update your flash player & remove the old version of flash player.
I suppose it had to happen one day! The old pc kept locking up for no apparent reason, also it didn’t have enough processing power to handle the videos from the camcorder. With this new pc everything happens so fast, and it’s so quiet. It’ll probably use less electricity as well – whenever the old one was working the fan was whirring away very noisily so probably using more power. I had cleaned out all the dust from the fan etc. but it still blew out a lot of hot air. Support for XP finishes soon, so I knew the days of using the old pc safely on the internet were numbered.
After what seems a very long time, I’ve actually got around to sorting some photos. These were from a little outing yeterday, the yellow DMU was running from Tyseley to Derby via Stourbridge and running as far south as Kidderminster. It also ran up the Round Oak branch. I saw it rolling down through Old Hill, then went to Stourbridge to see it on the way back. I couldn’t be bothered to wait for it to return from Round Oak, but the timing was right to see 66183 on 6V07 steel empties from Round Oak.
150001 at Old Hill
I don’t seem to have done much in the last few weeks, but am pleased to say the above app now appears to be working. I know a few people used the one I wrote for last year, but don’t know if it was just dozens or hundreds. For this year I have added a counter to the link so that it gives me the number of times it is downloaded.
