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  1. ragl gefällt AlexGWR1994s Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Mai 2026 um 09:19

  2. ragl gefällt jsm8bs Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Mai 2026 um 09:19

  3. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    3467-train-61006-Graspan-Bryan-Benn-12July.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 09:05

  4. ragl gefällt Gladiator 5076s Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Mai 2026 um 09:04

  5. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    401.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 09:03

  6. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    3411-and-Groot-Tafelberg-Bryan-B-July-1991.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 09:03

  7. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    upload_2026-2-28_16-31-7.png 11 Mai 2026 um 09:02

  8. ragl gefällt Sheffs Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    Steam locomotive in rural landscape (2).jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 09:01

  9. ragl gefällt ilvaporistas Beitrag in dem Thema 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]

    IMG-20260223-WA0001.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 09:01

  10. ragl gefällt Spamcan81s Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Mai 2026 um 08:59

  11. ragl gefällt ilvaporistas Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Mai 2026 um 08:57

  12. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    Oranje-Express-Kraankuil-1989.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 08:56

  13. ragl gefällt Romseys Beitrag in dem Thema 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....

    A276 3530 Kraankuil 29 May 1977 (2).jpg A1173 3526 (25NC) Delise Oranje Rivier 14 Apr 1979.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 08:55

  14. ragl gefällt The Gricing Owls Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    25NC-Poupan-Karoo-July-1989-Bryan-Benn.jpg 11 Mai 2026 um 08:54

  15. ragl gefällt geoff_in_chesters Beitrag in dem Thema 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...

    P1040273 (2).JPG 7 Mai 2026 um 21:38
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