Sticking with railway photography (because it's us, and of course we'll find plenty of trains to photograph), we're at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for this post, looking to get some pics of the A4 Pacific "Sir Nigel Gresley".
We got some shots of this loco a couple of years back at Kidderminster, just after it had been restored, and was running in black livery. However, we really wanted some shots of it in gloss British Railways Blue, and found it was running on the NYMR midweek. A thick fog didn't bode well (though might have made for dramatic pictures), but the train had just rolled through Goathland when we finally arrived.
Figuring we'd missed it, we carried on for an afternoon our in Pickering, and were just in time to see the loco arrive.
It was particularly impressive running-round under the magnificent overall roof.
Nice steam effects high up in the rafters.
Close-ups of the motion, after the loco had run-round.
Later in the afternoon, we stopped at Goathland, for a brew, and to see the A4 make another pass.
A nice cup of tea in the cafe in the old goods shed before the loco arrived, though oddly enough it was some shots of the 9F in the other platform which produced the better, more dramatic shots of the day, and these will follow in the next post.
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