43033 Uffington 29 March 2017

43033 Driver Brian Cooper 15 June 1947 - 5 October 1999 speeds past Uffington on 29 March 2017 with the 1Z48 10:40 Newport to Paddington First Great Western service. This was running 22 minutes late, but as indicated by the Z headcode, this is a last minute special, presumably as a replacement for the cancelled 1L46 09:55 Cardiff Central to Paddington. I decided on this wide view, to show the extent of the work site, which even extends into the field by Moor Mill Farm. Stopping the train exactly in the right place in a wide angle view is always difficult, and I chose a 1/4000sec shutter speed here to freeze the action. Even so, I am quite impressed that I managed to get the framing more or less exactly right!