Comments on: Manchester Oxford Road http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/railway-photography/manchester-oxford-road/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/railway-photography/manchester-oxford-road/comment-page-1/#comment-78075 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:24:03 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=15518#comment-78075 In the news today The Flying Scotsman’s trip to Norwich has been cancelled as a health and safety risk because it was deemed too difficult to keep trespassers off the tracks. Discussion on Twitter today suggests that’s a consequence of the BTP not taking strong enough action against the numpties at St Neots a few weeks ago.

One big difference was with everyday trains on a Monday morning, I more or less had the whole station to myself; it wasn’t a case of 200 photographers all getting in other’s way like the photo pit for Anneke van Giersbergen at The Garage….

]]> By: PaulE http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/railway-photography/manchester-oxford-road/comment-page-1/#comment-78073 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 15:44:08 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=15518#comment-78073 A set of photos that clearly show that the photographer needs to be several feet away from the platform edge to get a good shot – even for a train on the opposite platform. So why do some nutters risk their lives leaning out from the edge just to get a bad shot ? E.g. recently for the Flying Scotsman. Are cr@p pictures of steam engines in short supply ?

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