The Captains Table
2010
 
010110 153318 heads up from Looe and is approaching Terras level crossing. Fri 1st Jan 2010
January 2010
Hoping for many freights and wall to wall sun in 2010,

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2009
 
061209 The returning RHTT is caught in a lucky patch of sun. Tue 1st Dec 2009
December 2009
Can it get any worse...wettest November on record!!

171009 Well just off the plane and were off to get the RHTT working.After many anxious moments dodging clouds 66116 and 66153 pass Restormel with the Westbury to Par working. Sat 17th Oct 2009
October/November 2009
After 4 months away fingers crossed for some good trains and light

Engine control room...not a spanner in sight Sat 20th Jun 2009
Back to work
All good things must come to an end.
Off to rejoin my ship,some photos here of last trip.
Back end of October in time for the Autumnal light.(I wish)

010609 57603 crosses Saltash viaduct with the down sleeper Mon 1st Jun 2009
June 2009

160509 After my week up North it was back to the local patch.37401 and 37670 on the Sun 17th May 2009
May 2009 continued
Starting of with 37's in Cornwall

130509 With a days photography available in Scotland,I was lucky to get a full blue day.66414 heads the 0850 4M44 Mossend-Daventry Malcolm train, Sun 17th May 2009
Up North May 2009
A trip up to Scotland to see the relatives gave us 3 days of decent weather and a fair few freights.

010509 66522 heads past Trerulefoot with the Moorswater cement Fri 1st May 2009
May 2009

020409 Three freights west of Burngullow and a cloudless sky,what could go wrong>Well lots,66097 was the only one that turned up,seen on the 0900 ex Long Rock,captured just west of Burngullow. Thu 2nd Apr 2009
April 2009

190309 66707 on a late running (3hours) 5V60 Eastleigh - Bishops Lydeard. Moving a set of Mk1 Coaches to the West Somerset Railway for their Spring  Gala Mon 2nd Mar 2009
March 2009
Back by the lineside,hoping for some decent stuff over the next few months

Sun 1st Mar 2009
Black and White
Some scans of black and white prints.Now I wish I had taken most of them in colour but at the time black and white was the way to go.I think my hands still smell of the chemicals to this day!

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2008
 
Laysan albatross,mid Pacific ocean Thu 23rd Oct 2008
Bye for now (again)
On the high seas (on the day job) until around March.Good shooting to you all this winter

011008 66021 on 6B99 was running an hour late when it passed trerulefoot,pity as the sun was now off the front.At least it did run and the sun was out when it came! Wed 1st Oct 2008
October 2008
Fingers crossed for some nice autumnal light

120908 NMT set  on1Z19 1009 Plym-Pad with 43062/089 pass Teignmouth Fri 12th Sep 2008
September 2008
Can the weather get any worse??

010908 390045 heads south at Docker Sun 7th Sep 2008
Up North September 2008
9 days of possible photography were a virtual washout.We stayed for a week near Appleby but the weather was so bad ended up straying back into Scotland

020808 1E47 with 43104 + XC05 + 43303 on 0940 Newquay-Ncs at Bethany Fri 1st Aug 2008
August 2008
Can August be worse than July weather wise......so far yes!

210708 To do Forder and Trerulefoot within 12 hours is a real bonus.57602 passes with the down sleeper Tue 1st Jul 2008
July 2008
Back by the lineside,some dodgy weather to start with and never take a new camera out without checking the settings.
All pics now taken with equipment from the "dark side" bye bye Canon hello Nikon.Does the sun ever shine in the south west??
Plymouth had 3 times its average July rainfall this year...enough said.

Tue 19th Feb 2008
Bye for now....
Alas I must take up the day job again,no more linsiding until June,remember mine is bigger than yours

120208 59201 7A09  0712 Merehead-Acton yard  leans into the Curve at Crofton Fri 1st Feb 2008
February 2008

280108 66186 with the Didcot-Burngullow Wed 16th Jan 2008
Jan 2008

100108 Believe the locos are German built,approacing Aswan with a Luxor-Aswan working Tue 1st Jan 2008
Egypt Jan 2007
Went for a Nile cruise as the assistant and myself wanted some winter sunshine.I did not expect to be in a signal box taking photos of locos and semaphores.Thanks to all at Aswan station a great bunch of blokes.

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2007
 
011207 59103 passes dawlish with a engineers train to teignmouth Sun 2nd Dec 2007
December 2007
Good start with 59 on the sea wall and last run of the Valenta powered 125.

091107 47703 5Z43 Laira-Nevile Hill at South Brent with rake of MML stock Sun 11th Nov 2007
November 2007
Back by the lineside after a 5 month hiatus.So far so good.Virgin farewell on the sea wall,Two 47 stock moves in 2 hours,

050507 Its a long story....57603 and 57602 with load 13 pass cartuther Barton near Liskeard Sat 26th May 2007
May 2007
Double headed 57's on double sleeper stock!,60 in the south west,57 drag,CDA's in Cornwall,Exeter Footex's,66724 in devon,GBRF very early in the morning at Cogload,Barbie GBRF at Dawlish,GBRF at Hemmerdon

260407 66722 on the 4M911316 Cottam-Newbiggin gypsum is seen in the evening light at Lunds Mon 30th Apr 2007
Back on the S and C April 2007
Missed a few shots due to the weather but when it all comes together is there a better place to photograph trains?

190407 47840 with a Laira-OOC stock working in stonking light Fri 20th Apr 2007
Grand days out
Serco,Yellow Banana,Freightliner freights 47480 wall to wall blue skies is this really the South west?

170407 66582 departs Moorswater with 21 PCA's in tow Wed 18th Apr 2007
Moorswater cement returns.
After over 7 months with no workings a Moorswater cement ran on the 17th of April.Fingers croossed it will keep running.

120407 66540 passes Hanging Langford with the 4O16 Lawlet St-Soton liner Sun 15th Apr 2007
Westbury diversions April 2007
With the line blocked at Basingstoke the Wyle valley became a freight hotspot,pity the weather forcasters got it wrong for 2 days out of three

140407 57603 heads the empty sleeper stock near Moorswater,this working will happen over the next few weeks due to the cornish mainline being shut on a Sunday Wed 4th Apr 2007
April 2007

260307 66411 passes Lambrigg   Mon 2nd Apr 2007
Up North March 2007,S and C diverts
Up North to visit God's own Country,some nice sun in the Lake district and eventually for the S and C diverts.

070307 47813 Passes Wearde Quay with Wagons that are now surplus to requirements on a St Blazey to Glos working Mon 19th Mar 2007
March 2007
March 2007,not a bad month with a good bit of sun

260106 FGW 125 in fading light at Cornwood Wed 14th Mar 2007
Devon 2006
Some shots around devon in 2006

140106 saturday freight in cornwall,66001 crosses St Germans with scrap to tavi junct and beyond Wed 14th Mar 2007
Cornwall 2006
A selection of shots taken in the Duchy in 2006

061195: 37672 is reflected nicely at Golant Sun 11th Mar 2007
37's in the South West
Was there ever a better sight/sound in the South West than these locos

Sat 10th Mar 2007
37's in the South West (part two)

100294_37668-521_Burngullow-Irvine_at_Shaldon.jpg Thu 8th Mar 2007
Devon in the 90's
Some shots from Devon in the 90's

37673 rounds the curve at Cartuther barton with CDA's from Tavi junct Thu 1st Mar 2007
Cornwall in the 90's
A selection of shots fron the Duchy in the 90's.Those were the days,no gen,just go out sit by the lineside and wait for "something".

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