Tuesday 2nd September 2014, 8.40am (day 1,104)
Sometimes the shot is just a consequence of being stood in the right spot at the right time, isn’t it? And you wait ages for a photogenic plastic bag to come along, then there’s two in two days…
Being 42
Life, one day at a time
Category Archives: Transport
Working the lock
Wednesday 27th August 2014, 12.05pm (day 1,098)
An uneventful day, but at least the canal in Hebden Bridge usually comes up with some kind of animated scene, particularly at the moment when the summer tourist traffic is coming through. This family seemed proficient enough at working the lock. I wonder if the kid realises that two hundred years ago, all things being equal, he’d have been doing that full-time.
Nearly missed it…
Sunday 17th August 2014, 2.35pm (day 1,088)
… but this family did make their connection in Leeds. As did Clare and I on our way home from London, after an excellent weekend all round.
Victoria Station’s new roof
Monday 11th August 2014, 4.25pm (day 1,082)
Into Manchester for the first time in a few weeks. Victoria station’s redevelopment proceeds onwards: this is taken from platform 1, looking back towards the old building (listed, so they have to preserve it in the rebuild) and the new roof. It’s good to see.
By Canal Street, Manchester city centre
Thursday 3rd July 2014, 9.40am (day 1,043)
Canal Street in Manchester is best known for being the street in the midst of the Gay Village; but it does actually still have a canal beside it. This is probably the first time I have seen a working boat on it. If you barge it for long enough, by the way, in a generally northerly direction, this is also the canal that goes through Hebden Bridge, as seen many times on this blog in the past.
Platform 1 roof, Hebden Bridge station
Monday 30th June 2014, 8.40am (day 1,040)
After 1,040 days I need now and again to try to see something more than the usual scenes. Heavy cropping made something of what was otherwise a standard ‘train coming in’ snapshot. Does the modern display board spoil the shot?
Trainspotters, Doncaster station
Thursday 26th June 2014, 2.45pm (day 1,036)
I admit I take many photos of railway stations and trains but at least I’m travelling on them at the time. I know it’s a fine line but I’ve never seen the point of people going to a railway station simply to watch the trains go by, and at Doncaster this practice is particularly prevalent. Pictured on my way home from Brighton this afternoon.
Boarding the ‘Greta Garbo’
Friday 20th June 2014, 9.40am (day 1,030)
Home from Norway this morning on the twice-weekly Stavanger-Manchester flight. All of Norwegian’s planes have some Scandinavian historical personage of note on the tail fin, but I thought this was a particularly good one. I admit this picture is slightly out-of-focus, but it did best encapsulate the day.
On Todmorden station
Wednesday 11th June 2014, 4.15pm (day 1,021)
A sunny moment captured through the window of a train on the opposite platform. What I want to know is whether the cat is also intending to catch the imminent Manchester service.
Platform 1, Manchester Victoria station
Thursday 13th March 2014, 2.45pm (ish…) (day 931)
OK, I am repeating a theme from three days ago, but there you go. I spend a lot of time on trains and railway platforms. This may be the right time to catch platform 1, anyway. As the renovations proceed, over the last couple of weeks it has lost its roof, allowing the continuing pleasant sunshine to fall on those waiting for their trains home. And the roof leaked anyway.
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