Just a brief little update for this blog, from a bit more than a month ago... about the only decent spot I've found for doing railway photography in the middle of Keighley is a little lineside spot to the north, where a long-abandoned level crossing means that the path juts out close to the trains...
A lane runs alongside the tracks, with a few options for lineside pictures, but the lighting isn't really on-side in the morning when I tend to pass this way.
The lane itself is pretty photogenic though, and was going to be a background location for a miniatures shoot.
It does make a nice spot for photographing Southbound special trains, albeit they tend to be empty stock workings for West Coast Railways at the times of the morning I'm passing.
And something a little different, this rather woebegone Railbus (a former inspection and maintenance vehicle for the famed Woodhead route between Sheffield and Manchester) is unique, and had been wonderfully restored over at the Middleton Railway in Leeds... where some little scrotes decided to set it on fire. By sheer chance whilst on the school run it passed me on the back of a low-loader, on the way to the Vintage Carriages Trust base at Ingrow for repair, and I got a snap on my phone...
...which was published twice this month. Very much appreciated, but it is typical that after all that effort recently photographing the gala at the Ffestiniog, hunting new locations around West Yorkshire, some visits to new places like the Derwent Valley, what gets published is the phone-cam snap... Still, nice to see pics in print.
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