KWVR- Coughs and Sneasels, Big Diseasels...

It's that time of year again, the joy that is the HMRC Self Assesment.  Somewhat delayed this year by us having to return to Home Schooling during a period of Self Isolation, so whilst we're too busy to do any newer blog posts, here's some railway photography from September.  The month saw the return of the large diesel locomotives to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for a day- in the past I've done quite well for pictures of heritage diesel locomotives, so I wanted to get out and take some photographs after the veritable drought of stuff to snap this year.  

Me and The Childs arrived in our usual stomping ground at Damems nice and early, and had a stroll, looking for suitable locations.  I was quite drawn to this, the pool in the former sluice gate controls for the old millponds.

It was rather nice in our usual location though, so I was a bit torn for where to go.

In the end, I figured it would be best to try a new angle, so we went back to the sluice gates.

Problem was, the angle didn't quite work out, as it happened.  Couldn't quite get the angle right for a reflection shot.

The steam service with the 2MT on vintage stock was snapped from the more usual spot, though the sun was starting to go in a bit at this point.

By the time it returned from Keighley, the sky was becoming somewhat cloud-covered.

Indeed, by the time of the next diesel hauled run, the sun and blue sky was irritatingly absent.

We headed up to the far end of the valley for a change.  20031 heading for Keighley.

We relocated again to Haworth later on.

Playing around with the long-exposures.

The 2MT again.  Thought I'd try this one in greyscale as it was getting a bit murky.  A colour version of this shot ended up getting used by the KWVR for one of their update/roster emails.

Back up on the Sunday, no diesels about but I wanted to try and get some better shots of the 2MT.  Lighting isn't quite right here in the afternoons, but we were busy in the morning.

We'd also been back to Damems.

Class 101 DMU on route-refresher duties for the staff.  Didn't hang around, some eejit has decided to start hooning it around the woods here on a scrambler bike.

Still, the weather might not have played ball, but it was nice getting out to photograph trains on a day where there was a service every half-hour or so.  Almost like being back to normal...