June 23rd, 2007
We caught a Virgin train in the early afternoon at Edinburgh, Scotland and made for High Wycombe, England. On the way I tried to shoot anything interesting, catching my second Class 37 and my only Class 57 of the trip. Somehow we managed to see two of the rare Class 67s but were not able to shoot either of them in time. We transferred at Leamington Spa and made the whole trip in a little under seven hours.
Banbury, England
(map) Banbury is a few miles north of Oxford.
June 19th, 2009
We headed from High Wycombe up to Barnetby, a busy freight location every trainspotter we met told us we had to visit.
June 22nd, 2009
We went to Oxford for a couple of hours in the afternoon and were graced with the unexpected arrival of the Tornado, Britain's freshly built steam engine.
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An EWS Class 67 pulls an InterCity passenger train out of Banbury station as a Chiltern pulls in.
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Freightliner 66589, which I had previously shot on the Guelph sub on its way to the UK, pulls an intermodal train out of the bypass track at Banbury station after receiving the appropriate semaphore.