الأنشطة الأخيرة الخاصة بـ ragl
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة AlexGWR1994' في موضوع Saphos Trains 2026.
[MEDIA] Here's my footage of Sir Nigel Gresley with it's first English Riviera Express of 2026. I filmed the A4 at Beambridge, Saltern Cove, Noss Marina and Ayshford nr Tiverton Parkway. I hope you enjoy it
11 ماي 2026 في 9:19 صباحاً -
أعجب ragl بمشاركة jsm8b' في موضوع LE movements, ECS and test runs 2026.
Crewe - Southall Friday 15/5 https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U84802/2026-05-15/detailed (71000 ?)
11 ماي 2026 في 9:19 صباحاً -
أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Those 25NC were wonderful Cape Gauge (3 ft 6 inch) mixed traffic 4-8-4s. Below is 3467 on the 21 coach up Oranje Express on 12 July 1991. Some years after the train was dieselised, but returned to steam sometimes towards the end as part of the...
11 ماي 2026 في 9:05 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة Gladiator 5076' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
There are some lovely images on this thread. I wonder what the late member from Hayling Island would have made of all that black smoke.
11 ماي 2026 في 9:04 صباحاً -
أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
25NC 3441 blasting up the grades near Perdevlei, between De Aar and the summit at Behrshoek on 28 July 1991. Not that long after a freezing dawn in the wonderful Karoo region. A frame grabbed from a low res MPEG4 digitisation of a Hi-8 camera...
11 ماي 2026 في 9:03 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
I did quite a lot of my photography, and later on my filming, in winter pre-dawns in the Northern Karoo. Fabulous low light with a variety of sky colours as they developed before sun rise, to some extent depending on where distant winds had...
11 ماي 2026 في 9:03 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
A combination of Karoo photos and me taking still images from a just digitised Hi-8 camera video tape. Those images below are in July 1991 when I was using a Sony 3 CCD pro camera. It's a very rough draft of a page for my eventual SA steam loco...
11 ماي 2026 في 9:02 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة Sheff' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
This was probably my fav shot - I was using Kodachrome 64 iirc with a 200mm lens, so all my stuff is pretty ropey ... I'd already had a go at editing it Windows Gallery years ago, but this is after letting ChatGPT have a go, and it's another step...
11 ماي 2026 في 9:01 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة ilvaporista' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
I managed to find one of my albums. These are the 'least worst' of my efforts with my Russian Zorki 4 camera. I can still feel the vibrations and heat as these babies thumped passed. Also a view inside the works at Capetown [ATTACH]
11 ماي 2026 في 9:01 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة Spamcan81' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Those fences were formidable but no problem for a springbok. Those beasts can sure jump. Did a couple of steam safaris and took strips of carpet to drape over the top strand to avoid leaving one’s “meat and two veg” behind.
11 ماي 2026 في 8:59 صباحاً -
أعجب ragl بمشاركة ilvaporista' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
I was trying to remember the name of the place I stayed, but after so many years and travelling so much my mind drew a blank. I used to visit the diamond mine for work and would stay for the week as we worked on the special trucks they had...
11 ماي 2026 في 8:57 صباحاً -
أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
As I got to know Salmon who ran the Witput hotel I always got room 5. It had a bath and a door that opened directly to the outside that was a few paces to the track side. And as steam operations reduced, Peter Odell, a De Aar driver until that...
11 ماي 2026 في 8:56 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة Romsey' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
It doesn't seem long ago, but my visits to Kimberley - De Aar were in 1977 and 1979. It doesn't feel that long ago..... Yes I remember the telegraph poles but also the SAR cattle proof barbed wire fences which sometimes limited lineside access....
11 ماي 2026 في 8:55 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة The Gricing Owl' في موضوع Photographing steam in the Karoo.
I'm not sure if this non-UK thread is allowed- but there is at least a Harz steam thread around somewhere. So I'll bash on with this for now. The Karoo semi desert region in South Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo is top of my list of...
11 ماي 2026 في 8:54 صباحاً
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أعجب ragl بمشاركة geoff_in_chester' في موضوع 6024 King Edward 1.
Here's a view of it during its reversal at Chester South Junction yesterday for those who like to chew over what's missing/changed etc. RE an earlier comment, both my wife and I commented on hearing a regular "squeak" when it passed us during the...
7 ماي 2026 في 9:38 مساءاً
