Articles and Publications

More railway-related publications today on the blog... recently I (Ben) was asked to write a couple of articles for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for their mag, about walking in the Worth Valley, and using the train in conjunction with that fitness regime, as well as a kind of travelogue about an excursion me and Amy went on earlier in the year.  I'm not exactly setting myself up as the next Michael Palin when it comes to travel writing or anything, but they were still fun to do.  

Anyway I needed to get some pics, specifically of the Railcar Wednesday services.  The problem is that one of the editors I was writing for specified photographs with sunny weather and blue sky conditions if possible, and my free time for taking the pics coincided with a late Spring of awful, awful weather.

Being as I was writing a bit about some of the newer footpaths through places like the housing estates, I went to some trouble to try and get some odd angles, and make the most of the new housing developments and things.  Again, might have been better in better lighting and weather.

Trying to make the most of the moody conditions...

Then just before Easter, we went on the trains with The Elder Childs, and though the day started unpromising, the weather magically cleared and I was able to get a load of photographs in the sun...

The lovely viewpoint from the rear cab.

So, I managed to get some pics on a sunny day after several weeks of trying.

The article in the summer issue of Push and Pull, the KWVR mag.  They've split the article in two, so part two next issue.  

Earlier in the year the two of us took a rather last minute, spur of the moment decision to celebrate (slightly early by a few months) our 10th anniversary by going on an excursion being run from the railway up to Carlisle, where we first met (awww...).  Newly restored "Bahamas" was doing the honours, and I offered to write something for the mag as well as providing a couple of pictures.

So article two in the mag.

And yet more pics in the mag!  Two more of mine...

Adding to the list of pictures in print for the month, shots from the Diesel Gala on the Worth Valley from the mags.  The gala was superb, but as usual the KWVR seems to have been overshadowed by the big boys like the Severn Valley in the press coverage (who held their own gala, with many of the same visiting locomotives, just a week later).  Nonetheless, shots with that beautiful prototype HST made it into The Railway Magazine...

...Todays Railways...

...and Railways Illustrated.

So a busy month for getting stuff in print.  Lots of other more arty projects on the go, so a bit of a change from railway photography for the blog next post.