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Welcome to my new gallery. You may know my 'Eurospotter' gallery of Continental pictures. I've created this one to show British stuff specifically shot between Whittlesea (sic) in the west and Ely North Junction in the east, giving details of locations etc., so rather than being chronological, I aim to make it location specific. Good photographic vantage points are few and far between in the Fens due to a marked lack of bridges (only two road overbridges and two footbridges between Whittlesea and Ely!) and bends (three, 2 through March and a kink at Three Horseshoes) but we do have a plethora of level crossings (about 40 by my (amended) reckoning between those same two points) so I hope to give some idea of where good spots are on what is fast becoming a very busy stretch of railway line, particularly on a Saturday afternoon, when it may even be the busiest freight route in the country.
24/01/06: I have just bought a scanner and so I am putting some of my old pictures onto the gallery. You might think they are bit odd datewise but there are two reasons fot that: the first is that family problems kept me more or less away from all railways between 1990 and 1995 and the pictures published here are virtually all I have from this period, secondly, when I bought my first Praktica MTL3 in about 1984, a 'friend' who was 'in the know' convinced me that slides were better than prints and, knowing nothing, I went along until about 1989 and then I saw the light. I only took prints when I couldn't afford expensive slide film. I have about 2500 slides of March from 1984 to 1989 which I have no idea what to do with - anyone got any ideas?
20:02:07 I have just bought a slide scanner and have 2641 slides to scan and add. Many are elsewhere than the Fens and I am doing them just at random. It will take me years, I hope. Checkout my British Rail Rover site for the first ones, Rugby in July 1986. Some are none too sharp but I was using 65ASA Perutz on an MTL 4 in those days - loads of 1//125th! |
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I am a 56 year old retired schoolteacher, still almost sane, who has never grown up and quite pleased about it too. I have been interested in railways for at least 49 of those years. I used to love UK railways but what's to love anymore? I do still photograph in this country, mainly in my own locality, but I do find endless parades of Yings a little depressing.
| Location: | March, Home of Whitemoor Yard |
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| Hits (today): | 7 |
| Hits (this week): | 7 |
| Hits (this month): | 921 |
| Hits (this year): | 25793 |
| Hits (all-time): | 144608 |
| Collections: | 38 |
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