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Subject: [Leica] UK Steam trains / The Flying Scotsman
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Aug 9 06:50:32 2005

For railway fans

http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage

Steam train pictures from last week, rather boring old tank engines, a 
common or garden Black 5, and the most beautiful (to me) locomotive ever 
built, the famous "Flying Scotsman".
Also - anathema for steam fans - a couple of diesels.

In detail:
Flying Scotsman at York
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2342_edited_2
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2341_edited_2
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2338_edited_2

Locomotives on the NYMR (North Yorkshire Moors Railway
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2561_edited_2  three 
times a week there's a steam special running out of Whitby.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2534_edited_2 
Standard BR tank engine at Pickering Station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2533_edited_2 Puffing 
up the incline to Goathland (Hogwarts) Station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2511_edited_2 The 
workhorses of Grosmont Depot
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2503_edited_2 Black 5 
held up by road traffic at Grosmont Crossing
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2502_edited_2 In the 
sidings, waiting to be rebuilt, industrial saddle tank locomotive
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2499_edited_2 Pulling 
hard past the coaling station
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2493_edited_2 8.45 to 
Pickering pulling past a  Black 5
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2491_edited_2  Black 
5 at Grosmont tunnel
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Railway-Heritage/MG_2487_edited_2  Tank 
Engine at Grosmont Station

Unfortunate that the weather wasn't a bit brighter.
cheers
Douglas
 

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