Staffordshire’98 #10: Perfect Day - a photo on Flickriver

            86102 ‘Robert A Riddles’ passes Heamies Farm, near Norton Bridge with 6L42, the 1101 Halewood to Dagenham service.

It seems trite to describe a day of railway photography as 'perfect', but, through rose-tinted spectacles, 25 years later it looks like a pretty good day.

The sun shone all day and unusually, I don't have any memories of the 'shot I just missed' or 'if only I had been here rather than there', which are so common after a day's linesiding.

Illustrating the variety of this section of the WCML at the time, I shot the following locomotive classes: 37/ 43/ 47/ 56/ 60/ 86/ 87/ 90/ 92, together with a sprinkling of EMU & DMUs.  

In 2023 the area is still one of the busiest in the UK, but the removal of every day locomotive haulage, the standardisation of motive power, the virtual eradication of coal mining and the removal of traditional signal boxes has taken away some of the interest.

Taken on: May 19, 1998

Sets appears in: • England in the 1990s • Staffordshire '98 (Christmas 2022)

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