Yes, it did get rather dark - in fact, at 8.30pm, a couple of days before midsummer, it was like night. The camera was struggling - 1/20 @ f:8, ISO1600... (the photos are "as taken" - no tweaking)
By Wednesday morning, the damage was done - Hampton Loade, just a few miles down the Severn Valley, was cut off, its only road washed out, and the SVR's tracks suspended in space above washed-out embankments. To quote the SVR website, "from Bridgnorth Outer Home Signal to Northwood Halt ... sections of the line have been subjected to landslips, with several sections of track left suspended in air, cuttings filled with debris and at Highley, a major landslip, with the Up Starter Signal washed away, down the embankment."The SVR have launched an appeal for funds and practical help.
Yes, 2007 marks ten years since the first pictures were published on the site, on the enterprise.net server webspace, which would become "Geoff's Rail Pages". It started with scans of prints and drawings, but on acquiring the first slide scanner (a Nikon Coolscan II), the slides started to appear. Soon afterwards, the first video clips were digitised (which was real fun in those days, on a Pentium 120 - took hours to compress a minute or two of video) and the links page created (not many of them still going, ten years on...)
I'm not sure how much web space we got in those days - was it 10mb? Didn't need a lot, with a 28.8kbit modem. Anyway, if you've not been there before, visit Geoff's Rail Pages - original and best!
Just back from a little outing to see the King - 6024 "King Edward I" hauling the "Cambrian Coast Express" between Shrewsbury and Paddington. The line climbs at 1 in 137, steepening to 1 in 100 through Albrighton, after the descent from Hollinswood - consequently, the train was moving quickly - perhaps 60mph - and working hard enough for a decent action shot - see below:
Shame about the horrid water wagon immediately behind the tender - no doubt it's going to be an increasingly necessary feature of main line steam operations. Bring back the Ethels - all is forgiven!
Welcome to the geoffspages blog: - a "what's new" guide to the whole of Geoff's Pages, and a selection of bits and pieces that never made it to the site
Yes, it did get rather dark - in fact, at 8.30pm, a couple of days before midsummer, it was like night. The camera was struggling - 1/20 @ f:8, ISO1600... (the photos are "as taken" - no tweaking)
Bridgnorth Outer Home Signal to Northwood Halt ... sections of the line have been subjected to landslips, with several sections of track left suspended in air, cuttings filled with debris and at Highley, a major landslip, with the Up Starter Signal washed away, down the embankment." The SVR have launched an appeal for funds and practical help.
