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York Minster Sky (rescan), York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:41:01 +0000

As the title indicates, this is a rescan of a much older photo from when I lived in York, with the sky burnt in slightly. This view is a favorite with some of the locals, who lie on the steps looking up at the carvings.

Flying Scotsman Cab (rescan), Doncaster, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:41:01 +0000

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This was my one and only time in the cab of ex-LNER 4472 "Flying Scotsman," when they were letting people up into it at the Doncaster 150 Celebrations. I did have to wait on line for a good long while, though, and the photo I had somebody take of me in it didn't come out, unfortunately. This latest upload is a rescan of an older shot.

Clifford's Tower (rescan), York, England, 2002

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:41:01 +0000

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This was an old photo that I recently decided to rescan, with decent results, I think. Clifford's Tower was the site of a Pogrom in 1190 A.D., but otherwise it's history is no more hideous than any other Norman military building. That means there was a bloodbath of one sort or another every few years, but it was no big deal, really. :-) It was originally built in 1068, and survived less than a year before being burned down by rebels, as it was originally built out of wood. The Normans didn't learn their lesson, though, and rebuilt it out of wood, instead brutalizing the population of York in retaliation, and we all know from recent events how well that works at quelling an uprising. The castle came under attack so often that it was finally rebuilt in stone in the latter part of the 13th Century, after having been burned down again in the Pogrom. It got its current name in 1322, when one Roger Clifford was hanged there, and in the 1660s (I'm not clear on the exact date) the wooden interior of the castle burned out, leaving little left inside that wasn't within the stone structure of the walls. It's nevertheless open to the public, even though it doesn't look it.

ex-LNER #4472 "Flying Scotsman," and ex-BR #60009 "Union of South Africa" at Doncaster 150 (rescan), Doncaster, England, 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:40:01 +0000

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This is a rescan of an earlier shot that I posted on my own website, as well as Flickr, if I'm not mistaken. I took the original while I was at the Doncaster 150 Celebration, celebrating 150 years of Doncaster Locomotive Works.

York Minster--Sky, York, North Yorkshire, UK, 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:34:01 +0000

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I took this lying on the steps of York Minster, in a position popular with local teenagers, as it's one of the most impressive ways to admire the intricate carvings that cover this world-class church. It bothers me, in a way, that I didn't have a medium format camera when I took this. I rotated the photo 180 degrees, though, as the "U" shape created by the church against the sky simply looks better this way, in my opinion. I apologize for the poor quality of the scan, though, as you can see scanner lines in the sky. The original, of course, doesn't have this problem. :-)

St. Paul's Cathedral, Picture 1, London, England (UK), 1999

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:56:01 +0000

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Designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace the original St. Paul's Cathedral destroyed in the Great London Fire of 1666, although that earlier St. Paul's, built in 1087-1314, had actually been the fourth cathedral to sit on this site and some historians believe that the site has Roman Pagan origins. There was a church built here at least as early as 604 AD, supposedly on an ancient Roman See. In any case, as a photo, this is one of my all-time favorites, and I hope you like it too. This illustrates what a good camera and even better film can do, giving the lie to the claim that the quality of camera doesn't matter. Of course, I like to think there was some skill involved too.... :-) That fuzz in the background is because, regrettably, Ritz ripped me off on the scanning. They even damaged the slide.

St. Paul's Cathedral, Picture 2, London, England (UK), 1999

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:56:01 +0000

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I like this shot of St. Paul's, too, and it was shot on the same night as Picture 1, right after I more or less stumbled upon it while wandering London at night.

Tower Bridge, London, England (UK), 1993

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:53:01 +0000

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I took this, like my Networkers At London Waterloo shot, on my first trip to London. It was obligatory, of course, to take a bunch of photos of Tower Bridge, and indeed I have many of them from almost every year I was in Britain, but in actuality most of them are too common. This one is at least a little bit more artistic, giving me an excuse to scan it and upload it. :-)

Battersea Park Power Station, London, England(UK), 2001

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:53:01 +0000

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Everybody who's been to London recently has their obligatory Tower, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace (except for me), Westminster Abbey, and Houses of Parliament shots, but the coolest one to have, maybe, is one of Battersea Park. Here's mine. :-) The streaks in the sky to the upper left are reflections from the train lighting, as I was on a Gatwick Express unit when I took this, if I'm not mistaken.

Intercity 125 Panshot, York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:51:02 +0000

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I took this on one of my many trips to London, and until I found it in my collection a few weeks ago I had forgotten completely that I had it. I figure it should fit nicely into the various rail-oriented groups on Flickr, and interest a number of people, so why not post it? :-)

Seals Off The Coast Of Blakeney, Norfolk, UK, In the North Sea, 2000

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:50:01 +0000

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This is from a highly unusual photo shoot that I went on with the University of East Anglia Photo Society, when we got on old-style wooden motor boats and ventured out into the shallow parts of the North Sea off the Norfolk Coast, as this is where it's possible to see a lot of seals relaxing on the sandbars. The weather was less than ideal, but considering how nasty ocean weather can be, especially if you're in small boats, it wasn't too bad. I've posted this to the Fog & Rain group for this reason, so if anybody has a problem with it I'll remove it. :-) I'll probably have more photos of this trip shortly, but I have some other stuff that I'm working on at the moment.

Pan Shot of Anglia #86237 "University of East Anglia," Norwich, Norfolk, England(UK), 2001

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:50:01 +0000

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I took this shot on a slightly snowy day in 2001 during my second to last full day living in Norwich, England. I figured I wouldn't get back anytime soon, so I shot a bunch of photos so that I would have them. In reality, I returned many times to visit friends, but I didn't know I would do so at the time. This is one of my best shots that day, a pan of one of Anglia's Intercities departing Thorpe Street for London Liverpool Street. These Class 86 electrics were originally designed in the mid-1960s for use on the newly-electrified West Coast Mainline, but when the Great Eastern Mainline was electrified in the 1980s they were mostly cascaded to the Great Eastern. When I first went to school in Norwich in 1998, nearly all had been transferred to this service, with few left on the West Coast, and now all are on the Great Eastern, if I'm not mistaken. I rode these trains many times, of course, and I would ride one out of Norwich two days later. As a point of side interest, the blurred locomotive in the upper right is a English, Welsh, & Scottish Class 67 diesel, a 125 m.p.h. locomotive used mainly on mail trains. It turns out that I was wise to catch this, as I don't think I got another shot of it before it was scrapped at Cardiff in October of 2004.

First Great Western Intercity 125s and Adelantes, London Paddington, London, England(UK), 2006

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:43:01 +0000

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Jumping way ahead in my trip, since I took few photographs during the night, this is after I arrived in London Paddington, after having arrived in Brussels, changed to the Eurostar, arrived at London Waterloo, and taken the Underground to Paddington. At this point, I finally had enough light, in other words, to shoot handheld. I've always loved the way the trains at Paddington, which are nearly always high performance in looks as well as reality, look so great when lined up and read to go! :-)

ex-BR #44767 (ex-LMS #4767) "George Stephenson," Holt, Norfolk, England(UK), 1999

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:40:01 +0000

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I took this shot at Holt station on the North Norfolk Railway, along with a roll of other black and whites that I took that day. This was my second visit to the North Norfolk Railway, which was done precisely to shoot photos, and in particular black and whites.

ex-LMS #5000, National Railway Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 1999

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:40:01 +0000

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I took this at the National Railway Museum of Britain in York, and the locomotive is the very first of the famous LMS "Black Five" 5P5F Class 4-6-0s. Although some others had lower numbers, like 4767 downloaded right before this, the first Black Five does nevertheless carry the number 5000. Here it's displayed coupled to a period version of the Royal Train, as it would be configured to pull it.

GNER #91121 "Archbishop Thomas Cranmer," York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 2000

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:40:01 +0000

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This was more or less certainly not taken in 2000, as I have no record of any trips to York in 2000, so the copyright date is wrong. It's probably like that because I had this photo in with my 2000-2001 darkroom stuff. I do I recall taking it while I was on a research trip to York, after going there had become routine but before I actually started living there (2002-2004).

ex-GWR #5972 "Olton Hall" Hauling "The Wizard Express" Into York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:35:01 +0000

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Here's ex-GWR #5972 "Olton Hall" a.k.a. "Hogwarts Castle" pulling "The Wizard Express" into York after a run to Scarborough, taking advantage of the Harry Potter craze for all it's worth. In actual fact, not only is the story pure fantasy, but so is the paint scheme and name on "Olton Hall!" It's a Great Western Hall Class, not a Castle Class (Castles were 4-cylinder, while Halls were 2), and Great Western painted their locomotives Brunswick Green, not red!! Oh well, one would have to assume that everyone enjoyed themselves on this particular day.

GNER #89001 "Avocet," Doncaster, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:30:01 +0000

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This may raise the eyebrows of some British trainspotters, who are constantly hunting this one-of-a-kind (and quite old, being built by British Railways Engineering in 1987) experimental electric, yet never finding it. The well-informed know that it's usually at Doncaster, working as a stationary power unit rather than a locomotive, although I once spotted it working a service in King's Cross back in 1999. Here it wasn't doing anything, being instead a display during the Doncaster 150 celebrations. The other locomotives around it are interesting, too, even if they're far less rare.

ex-BR #60800 (ex-LNER #4771 and 800) "Green Arrow" On Scarborough Bridge, York, North Yorkshire, England(UK), 2003

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:30:01 +0000

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Here's a shot that I actually planned in advance, knowing that "Green Arrow" was working the Scarborough Express on the day in question. The yellow tint to everything is from the sun.

Docklands Light Railway #78 From The Cab Of An Oncoming Train, London, England(UK), 2004

nobody@ipernity.com (Jon Searles) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:30:01 +0000

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This is my first photo on Flickr taken from a train cab while the train was in motion, and my only shot ever taken from a moving train while I was in the driver's seat. The way I got away with this, as I don't have a license, was that I wasn't actually driving. Although all DLR trains can be driven manually, they rarely are, instead being run driverless using a version of Automatic Train Operation. Crews are then limited to a few ticket inspectors and station staff who catch fare dodgers and protect the public's safety. The driver's controls are locked up under a heavy cover while not in use, and the driver's seat is open to anyone...like me, which gives people like me a chance to get photos like this one.