Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: contre-jour

The view across the river Tees to the Conoco-Philips oil refinery at Seal Sands. Taken from Paddy's Hole on South Gare.

My first visit to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway 55 years ago! The only engine running was British Railways-built North Eastern Railway design J72 0-6-0T 69023 Joem. Back then the reversal at Keighley was quite long and involved shunting the coach out of the platform and running round south of the station. Presumably because BR wouldn't allow the KWVR to do this alongside the yard to the north. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

Brilliant sunshine on the platforms of Rugby Midland station as a Virgin Railways Class 390 Pendolino electric multiple unit runs into platform 1 with a train for Birmingham. Trains were badly delayed or cancelled due to a truck striking an under-bridge between Birmingham and Coventry. We took a London Midland Trains emu to Euston which was only 20 minutes late. HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of a new week.

Or Yangon, Myanmar if you prefer. Sunrise over the eastern suburbs as seen from the Rangoon Circular Railway.

Contre-jour! Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45305 and British Railways Standard 5 4-6-0 73156 are seen after arrival at Rothley with the 09.10 train to Leicester. 45305 came off here leaving 73156 to continue alone to Leicester. HFF and have a great weekend!

At speed on Inle Lake, Central Myanmar.

Paris Gare du Nord 2-8-2T 141TC12 departs September 1969. A second 141TC simmers in the adjacent platform on the left. All the atmosphere of a main line capital terminus. With the services out of Gare de la Bastille these were the last suburban steam trains in France. Quite a change from the Eurostars that arrive at these platforms today. My girlfriend of the time studied French at Aberystwyth University & was in Paris for an induction course at the Sorbonne to prepare for her year as a teaching assistant in Verdun. While she studied I photographed. She obviously took the course very seriously as she ended up marrying a frenchman! Still I took my photography seriously too & I still have a liking for french steam, paticularly these modern looking tanks.