As part of my (Ben's) photography project to track down some of the lesser-known preserved railway subjects for photographs in the railway press, in the Christmas-New Years period whilst visiting the family down in Dudley we went down the road to the Pensnett Trading Estate to get some shots of the preserved Ruston and Hornsby 88DS on the site.
It's been there for as long as I can remember, but actually getting to photograph it was a bit tricky. Whilst it is accessible from a public road, the trading estate has gates securing it, which were all-but-one closed for the Christmas period. One attempt to visit was stalled by the massive queue for security inspections, but a return visit saw it quieter. After being scanned by the security camera, we were in.
Shame about the tuppaware-lid sky, but there wasn't time to wait for better lighting before we headed back to Yorkshire the next day.
All in all a successful visit, and nice to see one of these plinthed locomotives in such excellent condition...
...and it got into the March 2019 Railways Illustrated...
...and even to accompany a short article I wrote for the March 2019 Model Rail (the higher shot is another one of mine, from the Derwent Valley in York).
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