John Patston's Railway Gallery

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A scene soon to be a distant memory. Two Virgin West Coast DVT's pass each other at the north end of Central Milton Keynes station
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Milton Keynes up to May 2004

Recent Changes

2008-03-01 12:18:03: 1 image added to March 2008
2008-03-01 08:55:00: Added new collection March 2008 (2 images)
2008-01-09 19:31:23: Added new collection January 2008 selected (1 image)
2008-01-09 19:29:59: Added new collection January 2008 (15 images)
2008-01-09 19:24:02: 7 images added to December 2007

Welcome

You are most welcome to my gallery. All the pictures here are railway, the prime subjects being

■The West Coast main line (WCML) in the area local to my home in Leighton Buzzard,

■The South Central area around Brighton and Eastbourne.

■The Midland Main line (MML)

and

■The southern part of the East Coast Main Line.

During 2003 and 2004 my main subject matter was the West Coast main line which was then in the throes of a major re-equipment project. Sadly once 2005 came round this was virtually complete with nearly all locomotive hauled passenger services being in the hands of class 390 pendolino units. No longer do we see any HST's or Virgin class 86, or 87 's regularly tramping up and down the tracks, the only locomotove hauled services are the irregular use of a couple of EWS class 90's and ex VT MkIII sets to fill in for pendolinos undergoing maintenance. I have however included some of the shots I took during their final days of all these classes running through Ledburn, Linslade and Leighton Buzzard

A lot of the pictures in the gallery are taken at Ledburn Junction to the south of Leighton Buzzard and Old Linslade to the north of Leighton Buzzard. However quite a few are also take beside the bridge where the West Coast Main Line (WCML) dives under the Leighton Buzzard by-pass road.

An extremely good summary of photographic locations around Leghton Buzzard exists on Nick Ross's "Leighton Logs" site.

The equipment used to take these photograph prior to January 2004 was an Olympus 5050z. During the first week of 2004 I purchased a new Canon 10d digital SLR which has subsequently been joined by a Canon 400d, with these I use Canon 50mm, 85mm and 28-90 lenses together with Sigma 18-50 and 70-300m lenses.

I have chosen to organise the gallery by geographic location rather than by date or by class as I see this gallery as an ongoing project to document the railway subjects that interest me. It's also worth pointing out that now the site is starting to contain a significant number of photographs I have started sub-dividing some of the subjects into collections grouped by a time period, these collections have the time period covered incorporated in their title.

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking my many friends who help with information, "gen" and advice, among the many (in no particular order) there is Marcus Dawson of Trainspots, Richard Tearle, Nick Ross of Leighton Logs (an invaluable source of local knowledge) and many others who know who they are but there is not room to list them all.

Top Photographs This Month

1	CRW_2067a.jpg	A scene soon to be a distant memory. Two Virgin West Coast DVT's pass each other at the north end of Central Milton Keynes station	Milton Keynes up to May 2004	(25)
2	IMG_6090.jpg	At Ledburn on Saturday 1st March 2008 66578 inches past the obstruction operating under emergency regulations and passing red signals in order to clear line of waiting trains	March 2008	(19)
3	IMG_6103.jpg	Another container which apparently came off the overnight Fastline Grain to Doncaster train. This one just north of Cheddington is fouling the OLE.	March 2008	(16)
4	CRW_3984-01.jpg	87002 returns to WCML front line duties for the first time since its heavy repairs were completed, leading 87006 on the 1G21 Euston to Birmingham New Street service on Tuesday 10th October 2006	Carpenders Park	(15)
5	CRW_9252b.jpg	The tours headboard sits on Shenfield staion while being transferred from 86235 to 86246	The Farewell 86 tour organised by ONE Anglia 30th October 2004	(14)
6	IMG_6086.jpg	Container lying across up and down slow tracks of WCML at Ledburn on Saturday March 1st 2008. The previous night had been very windy and the container probably blew off a passing overnight freight.	March 2008	(12)
7	CRW_7030a.jpg	On Sunday 16th May 2004 a pair of SWT class 170 units on a Brighton to Reading service races through Angmering station in Sussex	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(8)
8	CRW_0248-03.jpg	377441 departing Lancing station with an Angmering to Brighton service on Sunday 14th May 2006	Southern Coastway West 2006	(5)
9	CRW_0475a.jpg	90020 in charge of the 17.40 Euston to birmingham New Street passing Carpenders Park on Wednesday 6th July 2005 the LHCS again deputising for deficiencies in the class 390 fleet	Carpenders Park	(5)
10	IMG_3782.jpg	377407 forming a Brighton to Angmering service is passed in Lancing station by 377413 with 377404 behind forming an Angmering to London Victoria service on Sunday 6th January 2008	January 2008	(5)
11	CRW_5063-01.jpg	87002 leads the 1G21 Euston to Birmingham New Street through Carpenders Park on Tuesday 17th October 2006	Carpenders Park	(4)
12	CRW_0929-01a.jpg	90017 pushes a Birmingham New Street to euston express south through Ledburn on Saturday 22nd October 2005	Ledburn July to December 2005	(4)
13	CRW_4267-01.jpg	87002 races across the A5 road bridge at Redmoor wih the 1G21 Euston to Birmingham New Street service on Thursday 12th October 2006	Bletchley	(4)
14	CRW_1168-01.jpg	87006 screams north thtough Carpenders Park in North London with the 1G21 Euston to Birmingham New Street service on Tuesday 12th September 2006	Carpenders Park	(4)
15	P9278094a.JPG	"Celebrity" class 86 no. 86233 "Alsthom Heritage" approaches Leighton Buzzard staion during the afternoon of Saturday 27th September 2003 with a northbound express. This was the last weekend of class 86 operations on the West Coast mainline, this journey being the penultimate northbound journey for any member of the class	Leighton Buzzard Station and by-pass	(4)
16	CRW_7438-01.jpg	Self powered track plant machine DR73837 heads south through Horley returning to its base at Three Bridges on Sunday 5th November 2006	Horley	(4)
17	CRW_4007-02.jpg	A view down onto Lovers Walk depot from Howard Place Brighton on Sunday 27th November 2005. Two coaches of one of the one remaining slam door set (now retired) can be seen in the foreground.	Brighton	(4)
18	CRW_6648-01.jpg	377475 sits in the stabling sidings at Eastbourne on Monday 2nd January 2006 displaying some of the �unofficial decoration� it has received.	Eastbourne	(4)
19	P9147248a.jpg	Berwick level crossing on the Lewes to Eastbourne line looking East towards Polegate	Sussex Coastway East services between Lewes and Hastings	(3)
20	CRW_2210-01.jpg	377159 approaching Glynde station in Sussex with a London Victoria to Eastbourne and Ore service on Sunday 5th March 2006	Sussex Coastway East services between Lewes and Hastings	(3)
21	CRW_6639-01a.jpg	92041	Carpenders Park	(3)
22	CRW_5529-01.jpg	66116 heads north through Wolverton on Thursday 6th April 2006 with an additional non-timetabled intermodal	Wolverton	(3)
23	CRW_4933-01a.jpg	90026 providing the power and 90029 tucked inside unpowered on the rear of the 10.00 Birmingham New street to Euston service passing through Leighton Buzzard on Thursday 25th August 2005	Leighton Buzzard Station and by-pass	(3)
24	CRW_9794a.jpg	150 263 of Wessex trains trundles through Ford station in Sussex with a Brighton bound service on Monday 28th March 2005	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(3)
25	IMG_2054.jpg	377401 forms a Fratton to Victoria service passing though Goring-by-Sea station on Tuesday 2nd January 2006	Southern Coastway West 2007	(3)