Good Evening (or Morning depending on when you read this blog).

Well I must say it's been a fair while since I did a blog on here, April 2016 to be precise (it's December 2017 now.....).

So why has it taken me so long to write a blog??, to be honest I do not have an answer I'm afraid, maybe just laziness, or just forgot about it perhaps??.

Anyway as 2017 draws to a close, It's very unlikely I'll do a major update before 2018 starts, so I'll do an end of year summary now.

First and foremost, I would like to Thank everyone who has visited this site over the course of 2017, it is appreciated indeed and I'm also glad of the feedback I received too.

It has been asked why have I not bothered with road haulage this year, it's NOT a case of I can't be bothered, but I simply haven't had time, not to mention my days off this year haven't coincided with any Truck Events, which I am somewhat disappointed in but hopefully 2018 will be different - well actually it will be, as my Truckfest galleries have been popular over the last few years.

As you may have also seen, my enthusiasm for aircraft hasn't abated either and I still managed a few trips out to Heathrow and Manchester, can we expect anything different in 2018??, possibly more visits to Birmingham as that's my local airport but it's too early to say as and when I will visit airports, of course I will also still do aviation-themed Timeline Events.

The railway front has, however, proved quite productive, with a nice selection of workings captured over the year, as well as some nice photo charters attended as well and of course this will continue in 2018 :). 

So it was Sunday Morning, sun was shining and it was also my first one back at work later in the evening, so what better way to do then go out with the camera, Sunday however isn't one of the better days for transport photography so it was a case of check Realtime Trains to see what was happening. I seen that the car train from Halewood to Southampton was running so it was a case of plot a place and go, with the light being decent, the best place to get to was Barby Nortoft next to Daventry International Railfreight Terminal on the fringes of Northamptonshire, so it was down the A5 I went.

Arriving at the location, which on RTT is classed as Daventry North Junction, no surprise really seeing the junction is literally just North of the bridge. Another glance at RTT seen there was also 2 engineers' services due so I hung about to see what materialised.....

• 12:12 66168 6O38 Halewood - Southampton Eastern Docks.
• 12:22 66060 6R04 Weedon - Bescot via Swanbourne Sidings.
• 12:56 66182 6R05 Weedon - Bescot via Swanbourne Sidings.

Compared to the day previous when the weather was rubbish, Good Friday yielded some decent light and weather to boot, the only downside was most stuff was showing as either cancelled or just not running, anyhow, determined not to let the nice weather go to waste, I armed myself with my camera and headed off, first port of call being Elford, just North of Tamworth....

ELFORD.

• 12:04 60044 6E54 Kingsbury - Humber.
• 12:21 60020 6M57 Lindsey - Kingsbury.
• 12:33 66014 + 90019 6D44 Bescot - Toton.
• 12:40 66150 4M07 Felixstowe - Burton Yard.
• 13:19 66144 6O01 Doncaster - Hinksey.

PORTWAY.

• 13:49 66144 6O01 Doncaster - Hinksey.
• 13:55 66605 6Z90 Southall T.C. - Barrow Hill.
• 14:27 66054 4M11 Washwood Heath R.M.C - Toton Yard.

COSSINGTON.

• 15:22 66610 6L89 Tunstead - West Thurrock.
• 16:06 37884 + 37503 + 56104 6Z37 Barrow Hill - Leicester L.I.P.

WOODTHORPE.

• 16:44 48624 16:40 Loughborough Central - Leicester North.

ELFORD.

• 18:27 60017 6M00 Humber - Kingsbury.

TAMWORTH.

• 19:03 60020 6E59 Kingsbury - Lindsey.
• 19:17 60017 6M00 Humber - Kingsbury.

Cheers,

James