Between a rock and a wet place - a photo on Flickriver

            A current obsession with the North Wales coast around Penmaenbach finds me visiting the area again today, this time to capture the somewhat unique arrangement of stacked tunnels boring through the rock face. 

Just above the railway tunnel is the eastbound carriageway of the A55 which takes a higher and shorter 'underground' bore than the railway line below it. The metalled path skirting the edge of the rock is a walking / cycle route which offers some great views over the bay. The westbound carriageway is out of sight on the right and bores through a more recent, better aligned, and longer tunnel. The steepness of the rock face just here is a good reminder not to venture too far down the north-facing slope of Penmaenbach!

Given the challenges of portrait format images on Flickr I was tempted to go for the landscape view, but eventually had to concede that this was the best pov to make something of the imposing buttress.

The train is the 7.31am Crewe Coal Sidings - Valley Nuclear Electric (6D43) flasks hauled by DRS class 68s no. 68023 "Achilles" and 68001 "Evolution".

8.55am, 16th April 2018

Taken in: United Kingdom / Wales / Dwygyfylchi (show map)

Taken on: April 16, 2018

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DRS

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Conwy Bay

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Nuclear flasks

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North Wales Expressway

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Coast

Conwy

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Groups appears in: • Freight trains of the UK • Rail UK: The Railways of Wales more » • UK Trainz - "Cargo Of Doom!" Let's Go Nuclear! • North Wales Coast Rail Memories. • O yeah, and there's a train in it! (Invite Only) • The Strange Fascination With Railroad Tracks Club - no 30/60 « less

Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:	EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Embettered by PicMonkey. http://www.picmonkey.com
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