Thursday 19 October 2023

Number Collecting Wasn’t for Me

Some more neg scans from early 1983 taken around the Southampton area when I was still a knee high to a grasshopper cherub. Some say I still am.

Sorry I don’t have any more details like loco numbers, I like railways but was never interested in collecting numbers. I tried proper trainspotting with a notebook at Eastleigh station taking numbers for half an hour in early 1981 and thought ‘nah’. Also being a teenager at the time such wasn’t a great chat up line ”hello, what’s your name? I’m Chris and I like collecting engine numbers, will you go out with me?”  

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Between Millbrook and Southampton stations. Spring 1983. Minolta SRT101, 135mm, Kodak Tri-X

Between Millbrook and Southampton stations. Spring 1983. Minolta SRT101, 135mm, Kodak Tri-X

The grade between Bursledon and Hamble on the Southampton to Portsmouth line. Minolta SRT100, a borrowed 600 lens, Kodak Tri-X. Spring 1983

The grade between Bursledon and Hamble on the Southampton to Portsmouth line. Minolta SRT100, a borrowed 600 lens, Kodak Tri-X. Spring 1983

Between Millbrook and Southampton stations. Spring 1983. Minolta SRT101, 200mm, Kodak Tri-X


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