London Locos - 31/07

[CraigS]

A trip up to London with ekr123 and daniel s visiting London Bridge, Wandsworth Road, Clapham Junction, Headstone Lane, South Kenton, Stratford and Kensington Olympia. Uploaded some pics to my site and these include;

37259/612 with 1Q14 at London Bridge
67001/027 on VSOE at Wandsworth Road
442408 + 73208 + 73206 at Wandsworth Road
66077/194/541/571 also at Wandsworth Road
66025 at Clapham Junction
66011/417/728 and 90016 at Headstone Lane
66003/576, 90041/042 at South Kenton
56303 and 20310/313 at Kensington Olympia

Photos @ http://craigrailpics.fotopic.net/c1545276_40.html

And a few videos from the day;

37259/612 departing London with a little thrash and horns (and voices)
20310/313 thrashing up at Kensington Olympia
66577 passing 456016 at Wandsworth Road

Comments Welcome .

 

[JoshW1992]

Great photos Craig! Was a very fun day I must admit

Here is my dreadful attempt: http://photosbyjosh.fotopic.net/c1554071.html

 

[Jord]

Great photo's Craig!

The GBRf 66728 would have been a stunner if it wern't blurred at the front, but ah well

Still great phots!

Good videos, just shame about the voices :roll:

 

[CraigS]

Great photos Craig! Was a very fun day I must admit

Thanks, certainly was a good day.

Great photo's Craig!

Thanks.

The GBRf 66728 would have been a stunner if it wern't blurred at the front, but ah well.

I didn't get it how I wanted to, I had intended to get more of a zoomed shot, but because people were standing in front of me along the fence, I would have got them in the shot.

 

[JoshW1992]

Shame that we had to leave Headstone Lane. Would have been able to get some really amazing photos there, as it is certainly the best place on the WCML (London) that I have found so far.
Its hard to believe that the smallest of stations give us more grief than the largest...

Perhaps that bloke was just bored and wanted to bring the only excitement he could ever get, into his day and 'tell someone off.'
Must have been the highlight of the week for him.

Oh well, we got some good'uns whilst we could!

 

[CraigS]

Shame that we had to leave Headstone Lane. Would have been able to get some really amazing photos there, as it is certainly the best place on the WCML (London) that I have found so far.
Its hard to believe that the smallest of stations give us more grief than the largest...

Perhaps that bloke was just bored and wanted to bring the only excitement he could ever get, into his day and 'tell someone off.'
Must have been the highlight of the week for him.

Oh well, we got some good'uns whilst we could!

Well I wasn't to bothered that he told us not to take any photos without permission, I only really wanted to go there for the GBRf and DRS 66s anyway, then off somewhere else further down the WCML which we ended up doing anyway.

 

[JoshW1992]

Yeah, at least you had the guts to take the shot of the DRS 66.

 

[thefab444]

What did the man who spoke to you look like? The guy who I spoke to last Friday seemed fine, just told us not to go beyond the yellow line.

 

[JoshW1992]

He was an old, coloured guy, with grey/black hair. Thin and wore a greyish shirt.

 

[EE Type 3]

You should have told him to jog on! hock:

Nice phots chaps.

 

[JoshW1992]

You should have told him to jog on! hock:

Nice phots chaps.

Wish we had of done.............


Cheers

 

[thefab444]

He was an old, coloured guy, with grey/black hair. Thin and wore a greyish shirt.

Sounds like him... :?

 

[CraigS]

Nice phots chaps.

Thanks.

 

[Craig]

Nice shots, I like this one

 

[JoshW1992]

Me too, nicely composed. Shame mine didnt come out that well.

 

[Craig]

This one is quite good too, is that fog or something on the right?

 

[JoshW1992]

Thanks, I think it is a very fine spray of water. They were spraying something in the factories over there.

 

[CraigS]

Nice shots, I like this one

Cheers Craig.

Thanks, I think it is a very fine spray of water. They were spraying something in the factories over there.

I think its a scrapyard down there and I assume they are spraying the piles of scrap to keep the dust down, a bit like what they sometimes do with steam engines where water is sprayed over the coal to keep the coal dust down.

 

[EE Type 3]

This one is quite good too, is that fog or something on the right?

Agreed, the haze from the exhaust mottling the background is nice too

 

[JoshW1992]

Thanks