Spider Webs, and 70000 Britannia at Liverpool Street, Brome and London - 10th October 2012

It's a misty Sunday morning, and the dew has picked out a million spider webs all around the garden. Then, on an otherwise-normal twice-weekly commute in to London for work, there's an actual steam engine waiting on Platform 5 at Liverpool Street station, packed with people on some sort of nostalgia trip. It's totally worth being ten minutes late in to the office to see and hear the train - BR Standard Class 7 70000 "Britannia" - leave the station. It's under the low-ceilinged Broadgate end of the station, and whilst it waits, smoke billowing out of the stack is trapped and flows strangely across the platform roof. But that's nothing compared to the noise when it sets off, which is similarly confined and amplified and is immense.

next album: Diss Miscellany, and a Few Hours at Bressingham, Diss and Bressingham, Norfolk - 13th October 2012
previous album: Alan Bloom's Gardens, Bressingham, Norfolk - 6th October 2012

A back-lit dewey spider web

A shelf of random books in the office

Harry peers out from his activity pod

Fred does a cheesy pose with Harry

Harry peers out

Harry surveys Fred's railway from his booth

Heavy dew-drops on a web

Boris - Stripey Cat - sits on a car

Drops of water on a car wing

Another wet spider web

The mist over the side field

A dandelion grows out of a rusty down pipe

The chemical works near Stowmarket station

A collection of Class 57 locos at Stowmarket

70000 Britannia on Platform 5 at Liverpool Street

Class 7 Britannia gets ready to depart

Smoke is trapped under the low ceiling

The noise of the departing train is immense

A passing carriage full of suited old dudes

A rake of Mark 1 coaches rattles past

Liverpool Street station, smokey like it used to be

A photo of the kitchen, for some reason

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