East Coast Service to Aberdeen - a photo on Flickriver

            Back in 2006 to 2011 I had the pleasure of working on the Forth Rail Bridge as a site manager for the refurbishment project. Whilst there I did a personal project of photographs I took whilst working on the Bridge. I feel proud when my kids say... Dad that is the bridge you helped paint!

When you walked on the bridge at the track level you where made aware of the passage of one of the 421 trains a day by the automatic train warning system (ATWS)... Basically the trains tripped an alarm system set off by sensors on the bridge approaches. When you heard this you leant over the wind fence... As you can see you had to keep leaning over as the trains are not that far from your arse! And as they thunder over at 50mph... I tell you now its quite a sensation and one I'll never forget... but it came part of daily life on the bridge as we used the track level extensively to store scaffold materials. We did minimise use of the track however and you always had to be signed onto a COSS's briefing.

Taken on: November 15, 2011

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D, f/6.3, 1/60 sec, 24mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D
Lens:	24.0 - 105.0 mm
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.017 sec (1/60)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Digital Photo Professional
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