Nice day out, spent little really, picked up a couple of US 4 bay covered hopper wagons at £15 a punt, they need a lot of work, I did take the 40' box cars to sell but couldn't part with them so they stayed in the car, also picked up some lovely castings from Ragstone for the A3
I did like the look of the Heljan Falcon, I do hope they do one in the brown ochre livery, the green one looked good as did the weathered blue one, but I need a brown ochre one for my 'Master Cutler' in 62
Due to a lack of photos taken at the show, hereby follows a blatant diversion, none of which probably interests anyone else here except me, sad as it is, I still find trains very appealing, even up to date modern stuff.
Being as it was such a lovely afternoon I dragged Phil around some ECML spots I haunt and had a little photo jaunt, I'm finding more and more that it makes more of the day if you can include something else rather than just the show.
First stop was Huntingdon, sod all moving there, only interesting thing was a local stopper that the police were called to as some drunken yob had offended or assaulted a young girl on the train, so that screwed all down local trains as it blocked the line in the station.
Next stop the S bends at Offord Cluny, a favourite area back in the 30's for the LNER to shoot promotional photos of the new streaks.
A North bound service catches the low sun as it races away and piles on the power back to 125mph after the slacks through Offord curves. This one I think I'm going to print and hang on the wall, I have a couple of picture frames in the study that I rotate images through as suits my fancy.
A local stopper ambles down the up slow. I hate dot matrix displays, unless you use a slow shutter speed they just look gibberish as the matrix is flashing at a rate the human eye cannot see, but fast shutter speeds can.
Next stop was St Neots
A Northbound Hull Trains Adalante thunders flat out (125mph) up the grade toward St Neots, I like these, sleek, diesel, and bloody quick on their heels, just what modern rail transport should be. It would of been nicer if it were an HST, better yet a Paxman HST, but I think best of all would be a Deltic on a northbound sweeper service
Finally
A Southbound 12 car local catches the last of the evening sun as it heads away toward London under a sea of catenary, MkIII catenary is supposed to be eye sore friendly
A good day at the show, but a great day out
Normal service will now resume...
When he loses interest it can go on The Bay... 
