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GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PT No 4621 at Severn Tunnel Junction
This loco was officially withdrawn one month after this picture was taken
29 June 1965
FG Steinle
Reynisfjara black sand beach, South Iceland
Gardar cliff is composed of dark basalt columns that some say resemble a pyramid or organ pipes.
8138 and 48160 havign shunted Boambee Beach siding are now on their way to Grafton to stable overnight.
4621 is an ex GTW built as a GP9 4540 and now a GP9R. Given the exhaust plume, 4621 is cranking it up along Whootentown road.
8162 8130 have made the climb to Landrigans and now have the run to Grafton to complete before they can have a well earned rest.
8255 AND 4621 having completed shunting along the way head now for Grafton having just passed Landrigans.
This luminous orb is the galaxy NGC 4621, better known as Messier 59. As this latter moniker indicates, the galaxy was listed in the famous catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by French comet-hunter Charles Messier in 1779. However, German astronomer Johann Gottfried Koehler is credited with discovering the galaxy just days before Messier added it to his collection. Modern observations show that Messier 59 is an elliptical galaxy, one of the three main kinds of galaxies along with spirals and irregulars. Ellipticals tend to be the most evolved of the trio, full of old, red stars and exhibiting little or no new star formation. Messier 59, however, bucks this trend somewhat; the galaxy does show signs of star formation, with some newborn stars residing within a disk near the core. Located in the 2000-strong Virgo Cluster of galaxies within the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin), Messier 59 lies approximately 50 million light-years away from us. This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency)
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, P. Cote