hughesfowler
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The East Lancashire Railway, in conjunction with Bury resident photo charter operators, 3P20 Parcels Group will once again be organising photographic opportunities associated with the Steam Event on Saturday and Sunday 18 and 19 January. These will concentrate on visiting locomotives Standard 4 76084 and B1 61264 together with resident Super D 49395, which it is anticipated will be making its final event appearance prior to the expiry of the boiler certificate
The first is a night shoot on shed at Buckley Wells, on the Friday evening 17 January preceding the main event, and will comprise two cameos featuring Super D 49395 and Standard 4 76084 followed by 76084 and B1 61264. The shoot will commence at 19.00 and conclude at 21.00. Cost is £15.00 per person payable on the night. Please enter the site by the main car park gates on Baron Street, park in the car park and report, from 18.15, to John Tate who will book you into the event. He will be located in the vicinity of the pair of gates at the south end of the shed.
This will be followed on the Saturday and Sunday morning by the early morning "mini photo charter" at Burrs (BL8 1DA). The train will leave Bury at 08.00 and is booked to arrive at Ramsbottom at 09.00. Sunrise is 08.15 and starts to clear the hill line at around 08.30/08.35. When the sun shines, the results are spectacular. If conditions are favourable, time will be tight and we may only get one run with the sun fully on the train, however, we will get in as many photo runs as we can in the allotted time, prior to and as the sun clears the hill.
Saturday features Super D 49395 as the train loco with Standard 4 76084 as the banking engine on a 17 vehicle freight train, comprising a mixed freight of box vans and open wagons, accompanied by an engineering train, recreating a typical scenario whereby BR would combine what were two separate trains if they were going to the same destination. 76084 as banking loco is highly appropriate, being a local engine based at Lower Darwen, where regular turns involved banking trains north east from Blackburn to Wilpshire summit and south to Sough tunnel.
On Sunday, the train will be hauled by B1 61264. Cost is £10.00 per person and members of 3P20 will be at the footpath crossing, collecting the money and handing out stickers as proof of payment. Please be at the crossing by 08.00. Should any further information be required, please contact event organiser Richard Newton at [email protected].
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Regarding the early morning "mini photo charter" at Burrs on 18 and 19 January, as the gala moved forward a week a couple of years ago, we have reviewed the sunrise times in conjunction with the timetable. If conditions are favourable, time will be tight and we may only get one run with the sun fully on the train, however, we will get in as many photo runs as we can in the allotted time, prior to and as the sun clears the hill. Pre-sunrise mist, as with the Apple Green B1, can look very appealing."
The first is a night shoot on shed at Buckley Wells, on the Friday evening 17 January preceding the main event, and will comprise two cameos featuring Super D 49395 and Standard 4 76084 followed by 76084 and B1 61264. The shoot will commence at 19.00 and conclude at 21.00. Cost is £15.00 per person payable on the night. Please enter the site by the main car park gates on Baron Street, park in the car park and report, from 18.15, to John Tate who will book you into the event. He will be located in the vicinity of the pair of gates at the south end of the shed.
This will be followed on the Saturday and Sunday morning by the early morning "mini photo charter" at Burrs (BL8 1DA). The train will leave Bury at 08.00 and is booked to arrive at Ramsbottom at 09.00. Sunrise is 08.15 and starts to clear the hill line at around 08.30/08.35. When the sun shines, the results are spectacular. If conditions are favourable, time will be tight and we may only get one run with the sun fully on the train, however, we will get in as many photo runs as we can in the allotted time, prior to and as the sun clears the hill.
Saturday features Super D 49395 as the train loco with Standard 4 76084 as the banking engine on a 17 vehicle freight train, comprising a mixed freight of box vans and open wagons, accompanied by an engineering train, recreating a typical scenario whereby BR would combine what were two separate trains if they were going to the same destination. 76084 as banking loco is highly appropriate, being a local engine based at Lower Darwen, where regular turns involved banking trains north east from Blackburn to Wilpshire summit and south to Sough tunnel.
On Sunday, the train will be hauled by B1 61264. Cost is £10.00 per person and members of 3P20 will be at the footpath crossing, collecting the money and handing out stickers as proof of payment. Please be at the crossing by 08.00. Should any further information be required, please contact event organiser Richard Newton at [email protected].
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Regarding the early morning "mini photo charter" at Burrs on 18 and 19 January, as the gala moved forward a week a couple of years ago, we have reviewed the sunrise times in conjunction with the timetable. If conditions are favourable, time will be tight and we may only get one run with the sun fully on the train, however, we will get in as many photo runs as we can in the allotted time, prior to and as the sun clears the hill. Pre-sunrise mist, as with the Apple Green B1, can look very appealing."
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