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This is GWR 7800 Class 'Erlestoke Manor', seen about to depart from Kidderminster Town station on the Severn Valley Railway. The locomotive was built at Swindon in 1939, and was withdrawn by British Railways in 1965, being sent for scrap at Barry but later rescued for preservation. The sign on the platform reads: "Kidderminster Town. Change for main line station" (meaning the National Rail one just out of shot to the right). Taken from the public footbridge a little way to the south of the station throat.
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Is it particularly weird? It's by no means ideal, sure, but when you don't have a DSLR you're never going to get perfectly clean photos. Especially when it's a dull and overcast day, and you're at the far end of the zoom handheld, so need a decently fast shutter speed -- which inevitably means a higher ISO, something compact cameras don't cope with well. There wasn't a "nice and smooth" option available to me; it was take it like this or not get the shot.
Yup, and I answered using the words "It's by no means ideal, sure". I've never tried to claim that it would be okay to send a photo like that for print publication, because clearly it wouldn't. I weighed up whether to post it here and decided that the scene was attractive enough that it was a bigger positive than the undoubted technical shortfall was a negative.
If you want to say "saved of the blowtorch", yes, we have some locomotives in this state, like this one:
http://www.locomotoravapor.com/foto.....ppq%200797.jpg
Painful...
Only there are 3, that i know, that are in conditions of run, and they only do it in VERY special events.
http://www.locomotoravapor.com/foto.....ppq%200797.jpg
Painful...
Only there are 3, that i know, that are in conditions of run, and they only do it in VERY special events.
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