Here’s a 100-year-old photograph of the “Up” Flying
Scotsman,
hauled by a North-Eastern Wordsell
B21 4-4-0 locomotive as it crosses the King Edward VII bridge in
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
It is taken from a double-page spread in a 1913 bound
edition of “Railway Wonders of the World”
The photographer was R.J.Purnell.
It is just one of many magnificent photographs in the
volume.
I photographed the photograph and then used Photoshop
to align the two pages.
I then used various enhancement techniques to tidy up
imperfections in the print.
This is the original double-page spread
Here it is after treatment (black and white)
And here it is in glorious colour!
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