Wow we have already reached February, this year is really flying along! I have only managed 2 updates this year so far and its time to get photting again. It was a nice sunny day today and I have an extra hour to kill before work each day this week which gives me chance to phot the Avon binliner. I headed out to one of my favourite haunts at Kennington. You may remeber I tried on numerous occasions to phot the binliner late in 2003 which all failed though I don’t have a clue how I missed it so many times. I did manage to rectify it today however and pulled out a shot of 66549 working the bins.

I said just a few lines ago this is one of my favourte shots and I have done it a few times since bringing the site online. I try to vary the shots up as much as possible to keep things interesting so it looks like its time to search out some more shots for your viewing pleasure.

The updates are getting a bit sparse now, and with reformatting my PC again it takes time to get all the software reinstalled. Earlier in the week I had seen a message stating that on hire from GBRF 66717 was working the Avon binliner. It was sunny so I thought I would give it a go. I headed out to Kennington for it. As you may recall I have had difficulties in seeing this working in recent weeks and today was no exception. It managed to avoid me again for whatever reason, this is starting to get annoying now! While I was waiting the Flying Banana rocketed South on its regular scouring of the Network.

What I had forgotten about until I heard the familiar rumble was that 37042 was working 6Z60 Bescot – Reading West Yard. Not a particularly exciting consist, just one track machine but its all I managed to photograph. I’m on holiday next week but the forecast isn’t too good so whether I get out or not we will see.

I made another attempt at photographing 66549 on the Avon bins today and again I failed. I thought maybe it had be retimed but I saw a report that 519 had been swapped for 549 in the week so maybe it was just running early/late.

It was not a wasted trip though as I got 542 on the same working as I photographed 535 on Monday, whatever it is. I also made sure I did the other shot I mentioned on Monday so here 66542 powers through Kennington. I like the heat haze and it makes it look like the Fred is putting some effort into moving the train!