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Thanks for the quick answer! I'll do my first photo stop of my UK trip there, on friday 27th, hopefully arriving with the 14:38 from Birmingham International. (if my flight from Bratislava isn't late...)
@matt: I'm looking at you photos at the moment - is it possible to get to Cossington...
Welcome to the final part of my Switzerland trip.
After a short break I went to the famous Landwasserviadukt. I made a short stop at this nice viadcut:
Everybody should find the official photo spot: 8)
That's the view from the official photo spot...
Here is part three of my Switzerland trip. I splitted the sunday into two parts, otherwise it would contain too much pictures...
This train will take me from Samedan to Preda:
Preda:
The following photos are taken between Preda and Bergün...
Hi again,
that's part two of my short Switzerland trip, hope you'll enjoy it!
On saturday I did Luzern-Göschenen-Disentis-Filisur-Zernez.
A short stop in Arth Goldau:
Erstfeld
Today I made a photo stop in Göschenen, unfortunately there havn't been many freight...
Hi!
Last weekend I did a short trip to Switzerland. On day one, I did Zürich-Göschenen-Brig-Frutigen-Spiez-Biel-Neuchatel-Olten-Luzern.
The first photo of my trip, a freight train in Göschenen:
On the other side of the station house, you can see the MGB trains to Andermatt...
Hi!
Does anyone have a seating layout of the seated sleeper coaches running on the Caledonian sleepers? Or maybe an idea, wich seats will be best, if I'm travelling alone (airline style seats would be nice...)
Maybe I'll trvel with one this summer, and I defianeatly don't want to catch a...
Welcome to the final part of my UK trip!
On Sunday we went to Swale to take some photos of he railtour to Sheerness on Sea.
In the morning, we made some photos at London Victoria, we even took one of the VSOE:
Kingsferry Bridge:
466001:
34067 "Tangmere" on the Kingsferry Bridge...
You are the third who asked this question :lol:
You'll find the answer here (on the bottom of the page): http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14406
Now it's time for part five of my Uk trip.
On friday, we went from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly. Unfortunately there was a diversion and we had to go via Birmingham, where we fell behind several local services.
All in all, we arrived about 60 minutes late in Manchester :neutral...
You will find the answer on the bottom of this page ;-) : http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14406
In this case, I used the Tamron lens. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough time to change the camera settings, that's the reason why it is not sharp at all.
Hello again!
On thursday, we got up early and went to Dawlish (via Reading-Bristol-Exeter).
Here you can see the Penzcane sleeper in London Paddington:
Finally we arrived in Dawlish Warren with this 158:
The first Voyager came by:
A HST on the way to London...
Only a EOS 20D with some autofocus problem, nothing else :-D
I use the 17-40mm f4 and 28-105mm f3,5-4,5 lenses (both Canon). Sometimes I use also the Tamron 70-300mm f3,5-5,6.
Glad to see that everybody likes to see my pics, havn't expected that!
Hello again to part three of my Uk trip!
On Tuesday, we visited the Isle of Wight. After we left London Waterloo about 30 minutes late (due to signal problems) we finally arrived Portsmouth and took the 11:42 ferry Portsmouth - Ryde Pier.
Here are some photos of the railway:
near to Brading...
This is part two of my UK trip.
On sunday we left Carlisle at 9:26 and went to Shildon via Settle, Leeds and Darlington.
Here you can see the beautiful station of Lazonby-Kirkoswald:
In Leeds I was able to take my first photo of a GNER HST:
A short glance into its cab...
OK, I hope I'll remember next time ;-)
Seems to be correct, I only remember that it was an unusual name for a station :grin:
I'm glad to see that you enjoy my shots - I hope I can finish part two until tomorrow (Locomotion/Shildon, London Underground, Tramlink)
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