Passing Pendo. - a photo on Flickriver

Passing Pendo.

            For some reason 66424 just arrived in the bay of platforms 7 and 8 at Crewe. The driver jumped out and got in the other cab, waited for a few minutes before getting the road to leave. 
Its these little workings that keep us meere uninformed mortals fascinated and intrigued with the railway network. I can imagine several conversations around Crewe's enthusiast community that spent a pleasant hour or so speculating the purpose of that move.
My speculation however, was brief and i quickly focused camera and mind on capturing the moment. The unplanned event had my creative juices flowing and having several conventional pictures in the bag i was on the hunt for that special opportunity. 
The Crewe station anti suicide squad had recently set me free having convinced themselves that i was not a danger to myself nor society and had no intention of putting one toe beyond the yellow line thus endangering the lives of hundreds of other passengers. 
I was behaving impeccably until they disappeared and then behaving like a crazy man i dropped to one knee to get a different angle my knee grazing the yellow line. Phew ! i got away with it.
The approaching Pendo had me fiddling with my camera settings to induce some intentional in camera movement whilst still keeping the Class 66 as sharp as i could. Referring to the manual step 1 said place camera on tripod......Bollocks ! tripod was in the car. Manual discarded i decided to wing it as carriage after carriage glided by. 
Bingpot...this is pretty much what i had hoped for and no railway enthusiasts were harmed during the recording of this picture.
   

Taken on: December 11, 2024

Tags:

Class 66

Diesel

night

platform

Railway

Railway Photography

station

train

Crewe

Pendolino

Platform 8

DRS

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Sets appears in: • At Night

Groups appears in: • After Dark - Night Photography • Railway Photographers more » • Night Rails • Phoenix Railway Photographic Circle (PRPC) • 1Z10 - Rylstone December 2024 « less

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