On 26/10/2017 had another day off looking for RHTT's starting in Cardiff with RTT showing earlier in the week 3S59 as a VAR & running to Cardiff around the same time as 3S62 to find it had been canceled & with a lot of frieght cancelled through Cardiff had a 2 hour fester but once 3S62 was done it was off to the Thames Valley for 3J44 the Didcot squirt
On 22/10/2017 while at the excellent Taunton Railex i popped around to Forty Steps for a pair of IET's on text
On 12/10/2017 & with the start of the 2017 RHTT season i went to Tonbridge for the first of what could be many places visited for the RHTT's
On06/10/2017 i traveled to London in readiness for the following days Caledonian rail tour (which is below these) but knowing 66727 in its Maritime livery was at Colnbrook but showing departing earl quickly changed plans & went to Acton Mainline arriving 12:30 & leaving at 15:00 in which time i had 11 freights
On 07/07/2017 i went on Pathfinders The Caledonian tour from Euston to Glasgow Central ran in cooperation with GBRF & The Railway Magazine it started with 87002 as far as Crewe where a pair of 50's took over for the run to Glasgpw & back to Crewe
On 08/10/2017 and before heading home i did a few shots at a very quiet Paddington until the gates were opened for the first trains west
On 30/09/2017 & the day after doing a 30742 Charter's shoot me & a friend spent the day around Birmingham to include the Chiltern loco haule's plus the Parry People mover as we both need the opposite one's for haulage so one ouf us would be lucky & it turned out not to be me but after our trip i cheekly asked could they swap them & then the fitter offered to get the other out of the shed for us so that was an opportunitynot to be missed & get both in the same shot & also was taken to do some Midland Metro Tram shots which i enjoyed for something different
On 16/09/2017 was a start of a week away in Cornwall but was also the day Pathfinders Torbay & Dart tour ran with a pair of 50's so i wasn't allowed ro delay departure but came up with we could stop at Cullumpton for them & then continue to our camp site which was just outside par so an evening stroll to Treesmill to look at the location with the bonus of 0Z18 running
On 17/09/2017 and after a day photting Cornwall's heritage ended up in Penzance for a meal and hoping to get Long Rocks 08 on the Sleeper ECS but the 57 reversed the stock in unassisted
On18/09/2017 and after another day of being a tourist relised that the Goonbarrow was running early and thinking i could make St Blazey gate for it only for the wife to tell me it had passed Par so thinking i had missed it only for me to relise we had watched the tide come in at Mevaggissy so i headed to Golant in the hope of getting it as this is my first time of having sun & tide at this classic location
On 19/09/2017 and before heading out for another day as a tourist i popped down to Homeward Hill bridge Treesmill for the morning clay from Goonbarrow
On 20/09/2017 i did a Ride Cornwall rover which use to be the Cornwall Explorer and did the Newquay, Falmouth Docks & St Ives branches before a trip to Plymouth then back to Penzance for the sleeper and hoping again for the 08 but yet again no sign of it
On 21/09/2017 i went out for the Moorswater cement only to get there to find it had departed but not reported so drove up to Liskeard in the hope it was still there and it was so while waiting had the bonus of the Colas driver training run from Tavistock Junc-Penzance before the cement passsed through the up platform to cross to the down main and set back in to the down platform to run round then i went to looe wher i timed it right to get the unit arriving and departing looking across the river
On 21/09/2017 and after visiting Bodmin & Wenford railway and on the way to get fuel for the trip home the following day i got held at St Blazey gate level crossing and pondering what it could be it dawned on me the clay was running early so jump out the car grab camera and stand so i can get the shot now i wonder waht all those other motorist thought seeing a car abandoned in the que
On 02/09/2017 i went to the Old Oak Common open day but while at paddington before & after did a few shots