An intrepid band of Durham PS enthusiasts assembled in the Tanfield Railway car park at 10.00 am, 10th December. It was a crisply cold, clear morning and some minutes were spent comparing equipment. Not cameras - winter clothes, which ranged from the ripped jeans look (he’s a hard man is John C 1) to an extreme weather ensemble that would have graced the slopes of a fashionable ski resort (yes, it was John C2 at his most elegant).
Soon enough, we were into the delights of Tanfield – the iconic engine shed, the acres of railway sidings with the delights of dereliction and decay – to the railway station, busy with Santa North Pole Express excursions (fully booked for 2011).
Many a happy hour was spent, doing our own thing, pausing for convivial fat-chewing and watching the masters (photographers and railway engineers) at work. There was a special challenge to enliven things still more which your correspondent mis-remembered to be “Up Close and Personal”. After several fruitless hours trying to capture a Brief Encounters scene through the steam wreathed station, realised it was in fact “Close up and Interesting”. At least one member, inspired by the work of Lilian Blot, sadly not with us on the day (Oh how we miss him!) was thinking Triptychs. And several others were impressively seeming to know what they were doing.
With several hundred images in the bag that would not otherwise have been taken, Assignment Tanfield ended convivially in the nearby Black Horse. Once again, a good time was had by all.
http://www.tanfieldrailway.co.uk/santa.html
El G
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