The Flying Scotsman

[Ryewolf]

The Flying Scotsman from Sunday

[Paul]

I knew you'd get her Geoff!

Great records.

Paul.

Edited September 1, 2021 by Paul

[Denis]

Well done, great shots of an Icon Geoff !

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Paul. I was literally there for 20 hours on Sunday and Monday, so I still have 100's of images and about 60 video to review and sort through.

[Ryewolf]

14 minutes ago, Denis said:

Well done, great shots of an Icon Geoff !

Thanks Denis, most trains on the ELR run engine first from Bury to Rawtenstall, the Scotsman was the opposite and ran engine first from Rawtenstall to Bury, so a lot of my usual places weren't good for photographing the engine. It's running again on Fri, Sat and Sunday, so I might go out again.

[Clicker]

Lovely shots Rye ... I can see you are busy  and that explains  why you haven't read my message yet ...

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Clicker, yes I've been having some pretty long days, I've literally been getting up around 07:30am  and not getting home until 20:00 from Fri to Monday.

[Geebee]

Superb photos, I've got a photo of me back in 1968 of me standing on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman, I don't know how it happened, but I do know my Dad, who apparently took the photo, used to work on the railways before I was born.

[Clicker]

 

14 hours ago, Geebee said:

Superb photos, I've got a photo of me back in 1968 of me standing on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman, I don't know how it happened, but I do know my Dad, who apparently took the photo, used to work on the railways before I was born.

Ooh   that would be good to see...  Any chance ? 

[Geebee]

8 hours ago, Clicker said:

 

Ooh   that would be good to see...  Any chance ? 

I've been looking through boxes and boxes of Dad's old photos, still haven't found it, there's prints and transparencies to go through, he was a keen photographer, and the one would got me into photography, I'll keep looking until I find it. 

[Clicker]

That would be fun to see Geebee... Photographs are such a great bridge into the past  ...I'm never quite sure which comes first .... Is my memory  triggered by the photo ...  or does the photo  illuminate my memory of a particular place, face or event . Whatever the answer , I really wish my ancestors passed down a few  photos  to their descendants   over the  last  150 years . Photographs of any of my ancestors  before 1940 are like hen's teeth !