Happy New Year to all visitors to Geoff’s Pages!
Photo: New Year’s Eve at Attingham Park, Shropshire
999 standards – and others…
Finished, for now – I’ve just uploaded page 11 of Kenneth Gray’s photos to the monorail pages. Visit BR standards et al. for a look at the BR-designed steam locomotives – and the unloved Austerities…
Clee sentinels
It’s cold on the Clee hills! Snowy scenes from south Shropshire – more at Flickr
In due course…
…and here are the LNER pre-grouping tank locos, another interesting selection. I think the number of different classes of steam locomotive on our railways in the 1950s must be greater than the number of locomotives on the modern mainline railways of the UK.
Visit “LNER (part 3)” on the Kenneth Gray section of “monorail” for 12 more photos from a different world.
Just the BR standards to do now…
LNER pre-grouping steam
The LNER had its fair share – and then some – of pre-grouping motive power. Lots of photos in Kenneth Gray’s collection – here’s part 1 – the tender locos (part 2 – tank engines – will follow in due course). Visit “LNER part 2” on Kenneth’s monorail pages.
Attingham deer
Attingham Park, Shropshire – the deer are fed carrots at 2pm, winter weekends. Easy to photograph – tricky avoiding the “mouthful of carrots” shot…
More photos on Flickr
Leith wharfage
After a rainy morning, some light in the afternoon, and a very pleasant wander around Leith’s docklands. More snaps on Flickr…
Wrekin views
Friday morning, 27 November – a walk up the Wrekin for an aerial view of the floods in the Severn valley. Sadly, the clear blue sky didn’t last – there’s more rain to come…
Nantmawr
Much better weather today – for a ride on the country’s newest steam railway, behind one of its oldest working locomotives. The Nantmawr quarry branch, originally contructed by “the Potts”, is an amazing survivor. The track wasn’t lifted after the last quarry train, nearly 40 years ago. All the preservationists had to do was clear a linear forest… The locomotive is Beyer Peacock 1827 of 1879 from Foxfield.
Visit “Nantmawr” on “Geoff’s Rail Diaries” for photos and video.
Panniers in the dale
This one had been in the diary for a little while – so had the awful weather… (the immediately following shot has a raindrop clearly visible on the filter). But it was well worth turning out for the spectacle of steam in Coalbrookdale – only the second time since the end of steam
