ABB125
Established Member
Unfortunately I didn't manage to get tickets
So instead, I'll be following the train by car, taking pictures
However, I'm unfamiliar with most of the areas it goes through, so would appreciate some advice as to good photographic locations. Anything from "big landscape" shots to the stereotypical "front and side" shot. The main requirement is that the suggested locations are easy to get to by car. I'm happy to go to stations as well (but only if there's free parking!).
Clearly it'll be quite difficult to plan which locations I'll go to until the detailed timings of the train are released, but that's less of an issue than finding locations in the first place.
I'll definitely be following days 3 and 4 (Scotland) and possibly day 1 (East Anglia), but not day 2 (LSWR land).
On day 3, I'd like something like the following (whether this is logistically possible, I'll work out once detailed times are published):
Many thanks for all your suggestions!
So instead, I'll be following the train by car, taking pictures
However, I'm unfamiliar with most of the areas it goes through, so would appreciate some advice as to good photographic locations. Anything from "big landscape" shots to the stereotypical "front and side" shot. The main requirement is that the suggested locations are easy to get to by car. I'm happy to go to stations as well (but only if there's free parking!).
Clearly it'll be quite difficult to plan which locations I'll go to until the detailed timings of the train are released, but that's less of an issue than finding locations in the first place.
I'll definitely be following days 3 and 4 (Scotland) and possibly day 1 (East Anglia), but not day 2 (LSWR land).
On day 3, I'd like something like the following (whether this is logistically possible, I'll work out once detailed times are published):
- A view approaching Mossend Yard
- Loco change in Mossend Yard
- Somewhere where the railway runs along the Clyde west of Glasgow
- Between Helensburgh and Crianlarich then Crianlarich and Oban
- At Oban
- Two different locations back to Helensburgh
- Between Glasgow and Edinburgh
- Somewhere where the ECML runs along the coast in Northumberland
- Somewhere between Newcastle and Carlisle, if it'll still be light
- At least one location on the WCML south of Carlisle, and again south of Warrington
- Somewhere in the West Midlands
- On the mainline south of Manningtree
- On the Harwich branch
- Somewhere between Ipswich and Cambridge
- Somewhere south of Cambridge
Many thanks for all your suggestions!