In crisp early morning light, 37897 & 37888 growl past Compton Beauchamp on 2 September 1997 with the 6L20 05:00 Cardiff Tidal to Purfleet steel train. Apologies for the poor quality of this image, but this film was virtually ruined when the E6 lab massively over developed it, leaving a very thin bleached out image. Of course I could have scanned the 35mm version, but a 6x7 slide always beats a 35mm one, and so with the magic of Photoshop an acceptable result has been obtained. I thought I had thrown away this roll film version at the time, believing it to be useless. However, whilst sorting out the darkroom, I rediscovered it, and so modern technology has come to the rescue. |