Photography

Because I'm getting old and lack of racing events happening around my place, I decided to move into wildlife photography where instead of having the lowest shutter speed, the challenge is quite the opposite.... Some I took this year.

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ok one racing photo :D
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It was absolutely rammed with people at the Nene Valley Railway so a bit of a struggle on the photography front, but I'm rather happy with this one. I'm trying to make more of an effort to highlight not just the trains themselves, but the people that make these operations happen.

This weekend is the GB Railfreight Gala at the Nene Valley Railway. GBRf are one of the UK's major freight operators and sent several locomotives to the railway for the occasion. This one though, is one of the most ubiquitous around, the Electro-Motive Diesel Class 66, specifically number 66799, named Modern Railways Diamond Jubilee. Interestingly, although the Class 66 are Britain's most common locomotives this particular example was not built for the UK but for Germany in 2003. It was imported into the UK in 2021 and modified to British spec.

This scene is at Wansford Station, showing one volunteer from the railway flagging down the locomotive for the token exchange (a token being used on unsignalled stretches of single track railway to ensure that only one train is in the given section at a time),

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@nkz444 ,this forum is age 13 and up, please do not post pics of racing casualties.
Besides, that's not the purpose of this thread, it's to show pics you personally made.
 
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