Noticed there wasn't a thread for train photos, so I thought I'd start one.
Caught 390010 passing through Tipton with it's new livery earlier today. I was using a loaned camera from Wolves uni, and had it set to manual as I was doing some landscape photography, so the shutter speed was too slow for it, but hey, it still came out okay.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ju2StG7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Jil1LnU.jpg)
An unidentified London Midland 350 approaches Tipton heading towards Birmingham New Street.
(https://i.imgur.com/9YNnsGB.jpg)
Finally, an unknown Virgin Trains West Coast 390 speeds past the canal at Tipton, heading in the direction of Wolverhampton.
(https://i.imgur.com/DEvc6ba.jpg)
Hi I had wondered how you were able to load your photo's to the forum page? have they been cropped? I was under the impression that photo's were generally far too big TBH...I have always uploaded any worthwhile photos direct to Tony for inclusion in his catalogue. They seem to find their way there eventually! Are we starting a new album with this thread?.... :-\
Quote from: windy miller on October 13, 2017, 12:54:30 AM
Hi I had wondered how you were able to load your photo's to the forum page? have they been cropped? I was under the impression that photo's were generally far too big TBH...I have always uploaded any worthwhile photos direct to Tony for inclusion in his catalogue. They seem to find their way there eventually! Are we starting a new album with this thread?.... :-\
Probably uploading them to an external site and using the direct link in the 'image' function.
[ img ]http://PUT LINK HERE [ /img ] < put your link to your image in the middle, without the spaces in between the brackets. You need the direct link so it'll end in something like .jpg or .png depending on the file type you want to attach.
It'd be better if you guys carried on giving the photos to Tony tbh, as this thread won't have any organisation after a few pages.
Quote from: MW on October 13, 2017, 01:19:56 AM
Probably uploading them to an external site and using the direct link in the 'image' function.
[ img ]http://PUT LINK HERE [ /img ] < put your link to your image in the middle, without the spaces in between the brackets. You need the direct link so it'll end in something like .jpg or .png depending on the file type you want to attach.
Yeah, that's how I usually do it, but I tend to click Preview first before posting, as then it'll automatically reduce them to the right size for the forum.
thanks both I don't have a degree in Mi6 so I'll stick with the usual method :)
I've just finished uploading all of my images from a day out to Tyseley and back, nothing noteworthy but it was a fun few hours out there. Kudos to the Chiltern drivers, ended up getting a few two-tones from them without even asking. Too bad I was taking photos and not recording! ;)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145227801@N02/
Spent an afternoon up in Stafford, it seems luck was on my side as 345014 stopped there for a while, while I was there. It seems like a great place to take photos considering the amount of traffic passing through there, and the staff were really nice too! :)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145227801@N02/
I just posted some video footage from when I was in Stafford too, if anyone's interested! :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6mTom0Z0n4
DRS 57312 was dragging Greater Anglia DVT 82013 earlier today, I caught it when it was passing through Rugeley Trent Valley.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145227801@N02/40917343202/
I've been down on the Chiltern Mainline, mainly at Widney Manor, for the past couple of days. Nothing really noteworthy, but hey, it was a fun couple of days out, at least!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145227801@N02/sets/72157690326697210
https://www.flickr.com/photos/145227801@N02/sets/72157666257723477
Here's a few of my favourite shots from a trip down to London a few days ago. I've also added the Flickr links if you want to see them at full size.
One of them's a bus, I know, but the rest are on a railway, at least.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1857/43560534804_217851953d_z_d.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/43560534804/in/datetaken-public/
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1841/42469962970_5baf0a8502_z_d.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/42469962970/in/datetaken-public/
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1853/44229338342_e81ac0771d_z_d.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/44229338342/in/datetaken-public/
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1875/43372174205_651222a2d9_z_d.jpg)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/43372174205/in/datetaken-public/
@StourValley98 Some impressive shots there! Loving that Southern 377 coming round that bend...
Would anyone be kind enough to point me in the direction of the newly liveried West Midlands Railway trains? Not sure whether my best bet are the Class 172s or the 323s. I've had multiple people tell me the 323s on the CrossCity lines, but to be fair, they are the people who live in the area in which that line serves! Should I just try my luck with the 323s?
350262 did the 07:39 New Street to International this morning, so is probably still around locally in the lastest version of the LNWR livery.
I'm sure if you watch the Cross City line for an hour you will see a couple of 323s with orange ends. There are at least 3 class 170s done as well
Quote from: Tony on August 29, 2018, 10:54:37 AM
350262 did the 07:39 New Street to International this morning, so is probably still around locally in the lastest version of the LNWR livery.
I'm sure if you watch the Cross City line for an hour you will see a couple of 323s with orange ends. There are at least 3 class 170s done as well
Lovely! Many thanks, Tony. Much appreciated.
323's work the Wolverhampton - Birmingham - Walsall stoppers too most of the time, and I've had a WMR liveried one turn up more times than not recently. The service is completely 323 operated on Saturdays and Sundays too in my experience.
You could always park yourself somewhere at New Street, I've found that the north/west side of the station is pretty good, usually at the end of Platform 4C, as you can see workings coming in from Soho as well as Five Ways.
Quote from: StourValley98 on August 29, 2018, 12:46:44 PM
323's work the Wolverhampton - Birmingham - Walsall stoppers too most of the time, and I've had a WMR liveried one turn up more times than not recently. The service is completely 323 operated on Saturdays and Sundays too in my experience.
You could always park yourself somewhere at New Street, I've found that the north/west side of the station is pretty good, usually at the end of Platform 4C, as you can see workings coming in from Soho as well as Five Ways.
Photographs are awful in New Street though. Aston is a far better place
Quote from: StourValley98 on August 29, 2018, 12:46:44 PM
323's work the Wolverhampton - Birmingham - Walsall stoppers too most of the time, and I've had a WMR liveried one turn up more times than not recently. The service is completely 323 operated on Saturdays and Sundays too in my experience.
You could always park yourself somewhere at New Street, I've found that the north/west side of the station is pretty good, usually at the end of Platform 4C, as you can see workings coming in from Soho as well as Five Ways.
M-F - There's one that does the 0719 WVH-FOK. Another starts at 0908 BHM-WVH, one at 1508 BHM-WVH, eventually all diagrams become 323 as afternoon peak/evening services get into full flow
Quote from: Tony on August 29, 2018, 12:52:15 PM
Photographs are awful in New Street though. Aston is a far better place
I wouldn't say awful, the ends of the platforms have a decent amount of natural light, and even on the platforms themselves, you can get some good shots with a good enough camera.
Quote from: StourValley98 on August 29, 2018, 04:43:33 PM
I wouldn't say awful, the ends of the platforms have a decent amount of natural light, and even on the platforms themselves, you can get some good shots with a good enough camera.
I've got a good enough camera, but photo quality is still poor and photographing units with only one or two carriages in natural light does not produce quality. Hence why it is extremely rare you see a photograph taken in New Street published in a magazine
This is what I mean. If you wait for the end to be in enough natural light the other end has disappeared into the tunnel
Quote from: Tony on August 29, 2018, 05:38:56 PM
I've got a good enough camera, but photo quality is still poor and photographing units with only one or two carriages in natural light does not produce quality. Hence why it is extremely rare you see a photograph taken in New Street published in a magazine
Good point, what I consider a good photograph would be far from what would get published in a magazine.
If you try and take a photo along the platform, if you are not careful you get light burn out at the far end
You can photograph signs that have got the wrong platform number showing though! Why a screen on platform 4B says it is 3A is anyone's guess
Finally tracked down 172339 (the trial livery one) not too long ago, at Moor Street... Unfortunately, at the time, I was on the top deck of a Harborne branded MMC! ::)
According to trainline, it's due to arrive into Kidderminster for 1850. I presume its due back out from there at 1855, where it'll go out on a trip to Birmingham Snow Hill; arriving into Jewellery Quarter (my local station) for 1930, or thereabouts. Not a bad station for photographs, if I do say so myself.
Thanks for all the help,
@StourValley98 @Tony - It's been much appreciated. Will try my luck on the CrossCity line another day, perhaps on the stations south of Birmingham, as I'm more familiar with that section of the line. I'll keep Aston in mind, though.
Quote from: CL on August 29, 2018, 10:47:45 AM
@StourValley98 Some impressive shots there! Loving that Southern 377 coming round that bend...
Would anyone be kind enough to point me in the direction of the newly liveried West Midlands Railway trains? Not sure whether my best bet are the Class 172s or the 323s. I've had multiple people tell me the 323s on the CrossCity lines, but to be fair, they are the people who live in the area in which that line serves! Should I just try my luck with the 323s?
I spent a couple of hours on the CrossCity route last week and noted 9 different Cl 323's in the new livery
Quote from: CL on August 29, 2018, 06:31:50 PM
Finally tracked down 172339 (the trial livery one) not too long ago, at Moor Street... Unfortunately, at the time, I was on the top deck of a Harborne branded MMC! ::)
According to trainline, it's due to arrive into Kidderminster for 1850. I presume its due back out from there at 1855, where it'll go out on a trip to Birmingham Snow Hill; arriving into Jewellery Quarter (my local station) for 1930, or thereabouts. Not a bad station for photographs, if I do say so myself.
Thanks for all the help, @StourValley98 @Tony - It's been much appreciated. Will try my luck on the CrossCity line another day, perhaps on the stations south of Birmingham, as I'm more familiar with that section of the line. I'll keep Aston in mind, though.
And my presumptious self turns out to be wrong, yet again. Waiting for the 1951 arrival at JEQ before calling it a day.
Quote from: JIM H on August 29, 2018, 07:15:49 PM
I spent a couple of hours on the CrossCity route last week and noted 9 different Cl 323's in the new livery
Will definitely be looking out for the 323s another day ;) Thanks
@JIM H
Quote from: CL on August 29, 2018, 06:31:50 PM
Finally tracked down 172339 (the trial livery one) not too long ago, at Moor Street... Unfortunately, at the time, I was on the top deck of a Harborne branded MMC! ::)
According to trainline, it's due to arrive into Kidderminster for 1850. I presume its due back out from there at 1855, where it'll go out on a trip to Birmingham Snow Hill; arriving into Jewellery Quarter (my local station) for 1930, or thereabouts. Not a bad station for photographs, if I do say so myself.
Thanks for all the help, @StourValley98 @Tony - It's been much appreciated. Will try my luck on the CrossCity line another day, perhaps on the stations south of Birmingham, as I'm more familiar with that section of the line. I'll keep Aston in mind, though.
What on earth made you think that - the 1850 arrival goes ECS to Worcester and the 18.55 starts there in service. Realtimetrains is your friend here - but nothing can turn round that quickly at Kidder as a shunt is required.
Quote from: CL on August 29, 2018, 06:31:50 PM
Finally tracked down 172339 (the trial livery one) not too long ago, at Moor Street... Unfortunately, at the time, I was on the top deck of a Harborne branded MMC! ::)
According to trainline, it's due to arrive into Kidderminster for 1850. I presume its due back out from there at 1855, where it'll go out on a trip to Birmingham Snow Hill; arriving into Jewellery Quarter (my local station) for 1930, or thereabouts. Not a bad station for photographs, if I do say so myself.
Thanks for all the help, @StourValley98 @Tony - It's been much appreciated. Will try my luck on the CrossCity line another day, perhaps on the stations south of Birmingham, as I'm more familiar with that section of the line. I'll keep Aston in mind, though.
The 1855 from KID runs from WOS (1837), diagrammed as 2 x 172/3
Quote from: mikestone on August 29, 2018, 08:28:24 PM
What on earth made you think that - the 1850 arrival goes ECS to Worcester and the 18.55 starts there in service. Realtimetrains is your friend here - but nothing can turn round that quickly at Kidder as a shunt is required.
Well, Trainline did. And my nonsensical noggin, I suppose. :P A Kidderminster-bound service, due to arrive into Kidderminster at 1850. Looking at trains back to Birmingham (or Jewellery Quarter, in my case) was 1855. An easy mistake to make for a newbie to the train scene. Especially since I've never been/am yet to go to Kidderminster. Perhaps I should stick to the buses. :-[
Lesson learned: trains don't run like buses do.
Quote from: Sh4318 on August 29, 2018, 10:36:10 PM
The 1855 from KID runs from WOS (1837), diagrammed as 2 x 172/3
Duly noted.
Quote from: CL on August 29, 2018, 06:31:50 PM
Finally tracked down 172339 (the trial livery one) not too long ago, at Moor Street... Unfortunately, at the time, I was on the top deck of a Harborne branded MMC! ::)
According to trainline, it's due to arrive into Kidderminster for 1850. I presume its due back out from there at 1855, where it'll go out on a trip to Birmingham Snow Hill; arriving into Jewellery Quarter (my local station) for 1930, or thereabouts. Not a bad station for photographs, if I do say so myself.
Thanks for all the help, @StourValley98 @Tony - It's been much appreciated. Will try my luck on the CrossCity line another day, perhaps on the stations south of Birmingham, as I'm more familiar with that section of the line. I'll keep Aston in mind, though.
I'm not someone who really photos trains but on the South CrossCity, University is good towards New Street as the Station is on a curve so easy to get full unit in shot. Kings Norton and Northfield aren't worth it as there is the old platforms in the middle which will get in the way if standing on one platform and getting them going both directions. The rest are all on straight sections so photos quite easy. Barnt Green is on a curve towards Redditch but straight platform to Bromsgrove
Quote from: Dylanbusboy45 on August 30, 2018, 07:18:13 PM
I'm not someone who really photos trains but on the South CrossCity, University is good towards New Street as the Station is on a curve so easy to get full unit in shot. Kings Norton and Northfield aren't worth it as there is the old platforms in the middle which will get in the way if standing on one platform and getting them going both directions. The rest are all on straight sections so photos quite easy. Barnt Green is on a curve towards Redditch but straight platform to Bromsgrove
Thanks for the tip! I had given some thought about University Station. Haven't walked the entire length of the platforms though, so I didn't realise that there was much of a curve. Been meaning to get some shots of buses passing through the University grounds, so I might as well kill two birds with one stone! Thanks, again.
GWR 800017 at Worcester Foregate Street yesterday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/31718859677/
Quote from: StourValley98 on January 08, 2019, 10:00:07 AM
GWR 800017 at Worcester Foregate Street yesterday.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/stourvalley/31718859677/
Wow.. Stunning photo! 😍
Kensal Green
https://flic.kr/p/2h2CGNa
Willesden Junction
https://flic.kr/p/2h2CLhj
trains aren't particularly my forté, so to speak - as such, I'm open to any constructive criticism/tips for improvement
Still occasionally trying my hand at trains.. still rather stick to buses though! ;)
196101
https://flic.kr/p/2jyZjyq
https://flic.kr/p/2jz1JkT
Stourbridge Junction
139: https://flic.kr/p/2jySn6d
172: https://flic.kr/p/2jySVYD