[Leica] Its steam train time again- - this year's shots

[philipprice80 at yahoo.com (Philip Price)]

Hi Douglas Super photo, I just love the Castles, their lines are classic, a 
bit like Leica ! For me its memories of holidays to the West Country 
starting from Snow Hill, the old station was so atmospheric unlike the 
concrete monstrosity that replaced it. A few years ago a present from my 
children was Steaming into Birmingham, and many of the pictures were by a 
chap called Michael Mensing who I am sure you will of heard of, and he 
captured beautifully the old Snow Hill, and New Street. Those were happy 
days ! Regards Phil



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From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2009 4:38:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Its steam train time again- - this year's shots

Hi Philip

Kinlet Hall is a beauty, the class is pretty well known from the Harry 
Potter films - which, BTW, were partly shot at Goathland station on the NYMR.

The Earl too, the Castle Class are pretty superb engines. Another one of the 
class, "Nunney Castle", spent quite a long time on the NYMR, also in green 
livery and lots of shining brass - seen here at Goathland in 2006

http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/180583-1/SteamImage5-16-Edit.jpg

Cheers
Douglas

Philip Price wrote:
> Hi Douglas, I meant to tell you, I went to the Severn Valley Autumn Gala 
> on Sunday but was a little disappointed it did not live up to 
> expectations, for me personally the only star was Kinlet Hall, it seemed 
> as well that people stayed away, it was very quiet. I have got a lovely 
> photo of Earl of Mount Edgecombe on the Shakespeare Express from three 
> weeks ago arriving at Tyseley, she was in spanking condition with steam to 
> spare. Regards Phil
> 
> 
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> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:27:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Its steam train time again- - this year's shots
> 
> Thanks Philip,
> 
> the day I was there the locomotives were not exactly the most spectacular 
> either - Sir Nigel and the Black 5s were being given a once over in the 
> sheds and the Schools Class "Repton" only turned up on another day when we 
> were in Pickering on market day - it pulled up about 6 feet away from our 
> table where we were having coffee - interesting that there was a group of 
> about 10 young ladies learning "footplate awareness" on that day.
> 
> I noticed this year that the Southern 825 now also has smoke deflectors - 
> doesn't look half as good as without - in fact, all in all the beast is 
> beginning to look a bit tatty.
> 
> Best from Hannover
> Douglas
> 
> Philip Price wrote:
>? 
>> Hi Douglas, Lovely shots, a railway I still need to explore properly. I 
>> made the North Norfolk during our holiday at the end of August, a really 
>> nice railway, I loved? the way the line followed the sea, before turning 
>> towards Sheringham. Unfortunately the motive power was not as good as I 
>> was hoping for. I shall be in Krefeld next week for a couple of days 
>> business, and will carry the camera, with the hope of finding something ! 
>> Regards Phil.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Cc: cvug <cvug at cameraquest.org>; LEG <leica at freelists.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:48:11 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] Its steam train time again- - this year's shots
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> as usual when I'm on vacation I took a day out on the North Yorkshire 
>> Moors Railway, a preserved line running from Whitby on the Yorkshire 
>> coast to the market town of Pickering on the other edge of the North York 
>> Moors.
>> 
>> Here's the crop of shots taken on that day - for the technically minded, 
>> the digital shots are those with an MG in the filename, the rest are on 
>> film.
>> All are displayed in black and white.
>> 
>> Comments and criticism more than welcome:
>> 
>> They start here: 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/Transport/Railways/NYMR_2008_BW/Steam_MG_0241.jpg.html
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for taking time to take a look
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>> 
>> The cameras were a Canon 20D with Canon, Zeiss and Leica lenses, a Rollei 
>> 3003, a Pentax P30 I found up in a charity shop in Pickering and my late 
>> father's Yashica T-AF (Zeiss lens). Negatives scanned on a Canon 9900F 
>> flatbed 24 at a time - my Nikon V ED needs servicing and a clean.
>> 
>> 
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