John Patston's Railway Gallery

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22/11/2007Pictures of both of the "Silverlink Swansong" railtours in November 2007 section

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The tours headboard sits on Shenfield staion while being transferred from 86235 to 86246
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The Farewell 86 tour organised by ONE Anglia 30th October 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_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	(12)
2	IMG_9416.jpg	90020 heads th 1G21 Euston to Birmingham New Street station past the works that are part of the preperations for Milton Keynes platform 6 on Friday 14th September 2007	September 2007	(7)
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	(6)
4	CRW_9233a.jpg	86246 at Southend	The Farewell 86 tour organised by ONE Anglia 30th October 2004	(6)
5	CRW_8005a.jpg	Another picture 0f 09 014	Yorkshire 28th May 2004	(5)
6	CRW_9298-01.jpg	377112 with a Brighton to London Victoria via Littlehampton service approaches a stop at Lancing on Sunday 5th February 2006	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(4)
7	CRW_3067-01a.jpg	377452 enters Clayton tunnel near Pyecombe with a Brighton bound service on Sunday 31st July 2005	Hassocks and Clayton Tunnel	(3)
8	CRW_6010-01.jpg	A class 57/3 dragging a pendolino passes the 4M21 waiting a a signal to cross the line into Hams Hall terminal on Saturday July 8th 2006	Whitacre Junction	(3)
9	CRW_3507-01.jpg	Unit 377150 on the rear of a Brighton bound service enter Clayton Tunnel on Sunday 19th March 2006	Hassocks and Clayton Tunnel	(3)
10	CRW_9270-01.jpg	156655 approaches Fishersgate station with a Brighton to Cardiff Central service on Sunday 5th February 2006	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(3)
11	IMG_2998.jpg	350101 forms the 10.08 Northampton to London Euston semi-fast service for Silverlink passing south through the now unobstructed view at Ledburn on Tuesday 16th January 2007	Ledburn Jan - Jun 2007	(3)
12	CRW_6115a.jpg	Euston 12/02/05	Pendolino nameplates	(3)
13	CRW_9291-01.jpg	159022 of South West Trains approaching Fishersgate station with a service from Brighton to Exteter on Sunday 5th February 2006	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(3)
14	CRW_4209a.jpg	390 021 - Euston 15/01/05	Pendolino nameplates	(3)
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	(3)
16	CRW_4510a.jpg	08842 on a low loader at the M1 J9 truckstop on Friday 9th April 2004 en-route to Old Oak Common	Rail on Road	(3)
17	CRW_9278a.jpg	86235 nameplate taken at Clacton	The Farewell 86 tour organised by ONE Anglia 30th October 2004	(2)
18	CRW_3551-01a.jpg	South West Trains unit 159 011 approaching an intermdiate stop at Hove with a Reading to Brighton via southampton service on Sunday 8th August 2005	Southern - Coastway West Worthing, Littlehampton, Chichester	(2)
19	IMG_2905.jpg	508210 heads north through Salfords station while forming a Three Bridges to Maidstone West service on Sunday 16th December 2007	December 2007	(2)
20	CRW_8096a.jpg		Pendolino nameplates	(2)
21	CRW_8091a.jpg		Pendolino nameplates	(2)
22	CRW_6645a.jpg		Pendolino nameplates	(2)
23	CRW_6627a.jpg		Pendolino nameplates	(2)
24	IMG_2935.jpg	At Salfords station init 460005 retruns from Gatwick Airport heading north towards Victoria on Sunday 16th December 2007	December 2007	(2)
25	CRW_5093a.jpg	All three DRS class 87's that were dragged south from Kingmoor to Willesden on Saturday 29th January 2005. From front to rear 87006, 87028 and 87022.	Willesden	(2)