Dent Dale green vista 20210825--005

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Dent Dale green vista 20210825--005
Dent Dale green vista 20210825--005

43059 and 43058 power 1Z40 09.40 Appleby - Skipton "Staycation Express" past Mossy Bottom, Dent Head; the train is about to enter Blea Moor Tunnel. [Pole, 2/6 sections (~2.7m)]

I did the shot here last year, albeit about two and a half weeks earlier. I'd not anticipated that a year of tree growth (coupled with the sun being two and a half weeks lower in the sky) would mean the shadows of the trees would be right across the track at the back of the train (the rear power car has not cleared the shadows), and even an hour later (the time last year's train ran) the shadows had not cleared. So I went as far back as I could, using the pole to allow me to go wider and see over the trees in the foreground.

For a couple of days before (including at 11pm the previous evening) the Met Office weather forecast for today had sun all day here, but at 6am on the day it had turned to cloudy during the morning. In the event, it was sunny during the morning, although with low cloud on the tops of the hills and with thin cloud gradually increasing (I got blobbed on the gypsum empties at about 11.30am). It then clouded up completely in the middle of the afternoon, but got out at about 6pm, just in time for the early evening Staycation Express and the loaded cement.

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Taken on: August 25, 2021
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