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ragl vond FearOfManchester's post leuk in het topic Glyn Valley.
I was in the area a few weekends ago and had a good nose about, there’s a lot going on at chirk I noticed so thought I would drop some images from their page for those who wish to avail themselves. Quite an exciting little railway: The pile of...
13 mei 2026 om 21:01
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ragl vond cg's post leuk in het topic Saphos Trains 2026.
Mayflower about to leave
13 mei 2026 om 17:58
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ragl vond AlexGWR1994's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:19 -
ragl vond jsm8b's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:19 -
ragl vond The Gricing Owl's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:05
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ragl vond Gladiator 5076's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:04 -
ragl vond The Gricing Owl's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:03
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ragl vond The Gricing Owl's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:03
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ragl vond The Gricing Owl's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:02
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ragl vond Sheff's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:01
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ragl vond ilvaporista's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 09:01
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ragl vond Spamcan81's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 08:59 -
ragl vond ilvaporista's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 08:57 -
ragl vond The Gricing Owl's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 08:56
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ragl vond Romsey's post leuk in het topic 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 mei 2026 om 08:55
