D6836 Soldridge 18 May 2014

Another of my pictures from the Mid Hants Railway on 18 May 2014, where I have tried to go for an unusual viewpoint, in order to compensate for the monotone green landscape with green trains. A wide angle view at Soldridge deliberately includes the lichen encrusted fence posts in the foreground, as D6836 works the 11:20 Alton to Alresford service. This particular Class 37 is probably upsetting the purists, as whilst it looks for all the world like an original loco, in 1960s BR green, mechanically it is still a 1980s 37/9, with six cylinder Ruston RK270T engine in place of the original English Electric 12CSVT unit.