There have been plenty of updates flowing at the moment mostly due to the lovely weather we have been experiencing recently and today is no exception with the bonus of bringing you a brand new location you haven’t seen here before and its a pretty good one I think!
First up as the forecast was wall to wall sunshine I thought I would try the early morning shot at Radley as it is one on my favourites although you have to wait until the clocks change to be able to do it. Sunrise was 06:21 today and my target working was due about 07:00 so the sun was still very low when 66124 appeared around the curves with the 4E69 Southampton -Wakefield Intermodal catching the early morning rays.
Next up is a new shot I have been wanting to try and find for a while and the guaranteed sunshine made a good excuse to try. I had first seen the shot on Martin Loaders website and really liked it so after studying the OS maps I worked out where I thought the shot was taken and head of Tackley. I found the location as I had guessed and a very nice shot it is and I bagged a lovely shot of 66504 working the 4O14 Birch Coppice – Southampton thru the cutting just North of Tackley.
The final shot of the day should have appeared last week as I went out to photograph it but the weather didn’t play ball but as I saw the same working was running again this week I thought I’d have another bash. I don’t have many photos of the Freightliner Heavy Haul aggregates workings that ply the Thames Valley so it was nice to bag 66620 working the 6V60 Angerstein – Cardiff Pengam empties at Baulking.
