Tags

, , , ,

No travels for me today as I’m up to my neck in picture editing and sorting out the diary for the next few weeks now that some jobs have been put to bed. It’s frustrating, as normally I’d be at the vast Innotrans rail fair in Berlin right now, but this year various things have conspired to prevent me attending.

Instead, the day’s been spent staring at a screen as I go through the hundreds of pictures I’ve taken over the past couple of weeks. Some have already gone out to clients, others are about to. I reckon I’ve at least two more days of editing to get through. Oh, then there’s another 4000 words to type-swipe that’ll be the 3rd part of my round-Britain trip for RAIL magazine.

Mind you, with all the yellow weather warnings for the UK being stuck at home’s not necessarily a bad things right now. The weather’s been pretty dismal here in the Pennines but we’ve managed to swerve the torrential rain that was forecast. So much so I’ve even managed to get all my daily steps in without getting wet once!

Over the next few days I’ll be adding links to all my Zenfolio galleries that will have been updated. Right now I’ll leave you with today’s picture which is one from last week’s visit to Alstom in Derby.

This is ‘G’ shop at Derby. It’s rather quite at the moment but soon it’ll be full of new trains being built. The bay to the right is where the next 10 ‘Elizabeth line’ trains will be built. In a couple of years time the bays to the left will be full of trains for HS2. The bodyshells will be brought in from Hitachi in Newton Aycliffe whilst the bogies will be built at the Alstom plant in Crewe. All the different components will be brought together to make a complete trainset here.
Another view of the area which will be full of HS2 trains in the future.

I’ve a small favour to ask…
If you enjoy reading this or any of the other blogs I’ve written, please click on an advert or two. You don’t have to buy anything you don’t want to of course – although if you did find something that tickled your fancy that would be fab! – but the revenue from them helps me to cover some of the cost of maintaining this site (which isn’t cheap and comes out of my own pocket). Remember, 99% of the pictures used in my blogs can be purchased as prints from my other website –  https://paulbigland.zenfolio.com/

Or – you can now buy me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/paulbigland68312