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70808 Colas with 66847 Colas Pass through LEAMINGTON SPA with the 6M50 0755 WESTBURY DOWN T.C - BESCOT UP ENGINEERS Sdgs , Wednesday 28th October 2015
“Little Dennis” still guards the entrance to the River Fal, Falmoth, 28th June 2015. The Little Dennis Blockhouse was built as part of the wider defences of Pendennis Castle around 1540. The D-shaped blockhouse is built of stone and had one enclosed gunroom with a timber roof on which there was an upper, open gun platform. The wooden floor has gone but the embrasures for the upper guns remain visible.
The track up from the road to our home on the hill overlooking Drumnadrochit. Tonight we were treated to another good sunset but I decided to venture out with a more conventional camera than recent days late night drone excursions!
A sunny morning view across Scarborough North Bay with the North Sea rolling in and silhouetted on the horizon are the remains of the 12th Century Keep of Scarborough Castle, 28th December 2017.
The gate leading down to Dhivach Falls with Roki the Border Collie waiting expectantly to continue on his adventures! The woods near the house are fantastic - one of the most northerly sisal oak forests in the British Isles with trees dripping with lichen. We are pretty lucky to have this just across the field from our front door!
Yes... it is snowing... again!
Burney Farm on Kirkby Moor on the southern edge of the Lake District National Park on a late summer afternoon.
Out for a run up the valley with Roki (the dog). It wasn't particularly successful as a run mind, but at least it was quite scenic.
The fields of grain south of Muir of Ord and the Cromarty Firth almost glowing green following some rain.
Clouds build over the Old Man of Coniston in the South Lakes, Cumbria on a summer afternoon. Photographed from Blawith towards Water Yeat and the Furness Fells.
The view from Clunemore this afternoon. The drone controller threw a bit of a wobbly so I could only fly a few meters! Fixed now ready for a (hopefully) busy January....
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On hire to Arriva Wales and West, DB Cargo 67014 propels 5D31 Manchester Piccadilly – Longsight empty coaching stock away from platform 13. The stock had arrived as 1H89, 13:07 Holyhead - Manchester Piccadilly, 28th September 2016.
Freightliner 66575 joins the Great Eastern Main Line at Stratford with a Felixstowe bound container train, 28th July 2007.
Locomotive History
66575 was built 2004 by General Motors - Electro Motive Division at their factory in London, Ontario, Canada and entered traffic in the UK in April 2004. At the end of April 2011 it was returned to HSBC (Leasing) and stored at Eastleigh works until leased to Colas in June 2011 and renumbered 66848.
A rather fine traditional station clock situated on platform 1 at Darlington Bank Top station, 28th October 2023.
In a couple of days time we will have been looking at this view for a full year, the journey down the track to the village is always spectacular as we catch different glimpses of Drumnadrochit, Glen Coiltie and Loch Ness on the way down the hill.
Standing in the platform at Springburn on the 28th March 1978 waiting departure time with a service to Milngave is “ Glasgow Blue Train” 303053.
Unit History
The electric multiple unit fleet introduced as part of the Glasgow suburban electrification scheme where painted in a light blue livery (commonly called electric blue) and as part of the publicity to promote the services they where dubbed “The Blue Train”. Ninety-one, three-car units were built by Pressed Steel at Linwood near Paisley, from 1959–1961. Initially classified as class AM3 they later became class 303. The two outer carriages of each unit were driving trailers, with an intermediate motor coach containing the motor bogies and electrical equipment. The class was built in two batches; units 303001-035 were built 1959-60 and units 303036-091 were built 1960-61. The units had many features which made them state of the art at the time of their introduction; this included the use of air brakes and pneumatically operated sliding passenger doors. In 1984 British Rail began a major refurbishment programme for fifty of the now twenty five year old units. In the early 1980’s, following a decline in passengers in the Glasgow area, several Class 303s were transferred to North West England and these survived until the mid 1990’s. Most of the un-refurbished units were withdrawn at the end of the 1980s, following the introduction of new Class 320 units on the North Clyde route in 1989 and the surviving forty refurbished units were withdrawn during 2001/02, following the introduction of new Class 334 units. 303053 was one of the units transferred to the North West (Longsight) and was withdrawn circa 1991.
Praktica LTL, Ektachrome 200
This is a revisit to Monk's Bridge on Cold Fell in West Cumbria. Last time I photographed it from the other "easy" access side (which just involves scrambling down a steep, grassy slope before dropping onto a rock ledge). This one involves a bit more scrambling and climbing... ideal when there is a deep, fast flowing river to fall into!
Monk's Bridge is thought to be the oldest packhorse bridge in Cumbria and was built for the monks in the nearby Savignian (and then Cicstercian) monastry of Calder Abbey which existed from 1135-1536.
A Malc in his natural environment. He is my neighbours dog who likes to pop down for a bit of fuss when he hears the car!
Also mocking me for failing to make it back up the drive all the way before losing traction! I couldn't be bothered snow socking up to make it the last 3 meters so abandoned the van where it lost the will!
A drone shot of Lochness and Urquhart Bay on a bright afternoon at the end of February. Not a bad end to the month, roll on March and the coming of Spring (plus the boys back to school in a couple of weeks, fingers crossed!)