The 2nd most scary shot! (gbw,79/13/13)

            Another picture of 45047 at the head of the 07.35 Bristol to Leeds, the picture is taken at Nuneaton Abbey Junction on Sunday April 22nd 1979.
After taking the front 3/4 from the tall signal. I wobbled round in my crow's nest and took this, it has never been printed. 
The signalman had suggested that if I wanted a really great shot I should go and climb the signal...really! Not wanting to be seen as a wimp I did just that. It was a high narrow ladder and as I approached the signal seemed to stretch to the sky. Up I went in time for the train, the camera was set at 1/1000 of a second more because I was shaking with fear than to stop the train. The driver opened up the Peak which was bad enough but the worst part was when the signalman dropped the peg back to danger, the whole signal shook. 
Lord knows what would have happened to the bobby had I fallen off or 'frozen' I wonder if the train driver saw me. I know I was as white as a sheet when I returned to the box, the bobby just said "Did you get a good picture then?" On this day the bobby didn't care where I wandered, all over the tracks, or in the box, no problem.
This 'going away picture at least gives a panorama of the tracks approaching Nuneaton Station.
45047 was built at Crewe Works, as D69 it entered into traffic at Crewe North 18/10/1960. The Peak was withdrawn 03/08/1980 and cut at Derby Works in February 1981.
Copyright Geoff Dowling 22/04/1979: All rights reserved
   

Taken in: UK / England / Nuneaton and Bedworth District / Nuneaton (show map)

Taken on: April 22, 1979

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Nuneaton Abbey Junction

signal

45047

Sets appears in: • 1979 railways

Groups appears in: • British Rail 1979 (No 30/60 Limit) • All in black and white in the 11 dimensions known up to now

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