No Sleep till Brook Road - a photo on Flickriver

            Couldn't resist it.

Passing under Brook Road bridge and it's fine display of Buddleja davidii, 57305 Northern Princess at the rear of 1Z22 Manchester Victoria - Bristol Temple Meads Northern Belle luxury excursion seen hammering through Oldfield Park station,  57312 Solway Princess was up front.

At the time the luxury rail service was still operated by Direct Rail Services (DRS), or Direct 'ail' Services as can just be seen (under magnification), the gold vinyl lettering and logo under the cabside metal number plate.

For a better view of the missing 'R' (there's an oxymoron surely Pete, you can't view something that you confess is missing, mmm, naaah) check out the inestimable Glen Batten's page, Glen (who gets far too many mentions around here...apparently) got a good piece of the return working at Bathampton junction later that afternoon.

To the right of the frame, (probably) stage and screen royalty in the form of the wonderfully talented Ian McDiarmid, in a career spanning over 50 years the Scottish-born thespian is undoubtedly best known for playing evil Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars film franchise. I noted that my fellow enthusiast had chosen to video the working and as he passed me to leave the platform I quipped that I thought that I may have got a pretty decent photo to which he replied 'Your feeble skills are no match for the power of the Dark Side!' - he'd obviously seen my Flickr page already, still a bit harsh.

Taken in: UK / England / Englishcombe / Twerton (show map)

Taken on: August 20, 2016

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DRS

Direct Rail Services

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Northern Princess

Northern Belle

The Northern Belle

Oldfield Park

Oldfield Park Station

Twerton

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1Z22

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Camera: Nikon D7000, f/11.0, 1/500 sec, 62mm (=93mm), ISO 1000 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D7000
Lens:	55.0-300.0 mm f/4.5-5.6
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.002 sec (1/500)
Focal Length:	62mm (35mm equivalent: 93mm)
ISO:	1000
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Program AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	High gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 24.0 (Windows)
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