View allAll Photos Tagged Add
I'm sooo happy to see people who know my work and like it,
both on the blog and in my store [ b a h ô l i ].
After two years with my blog I see results.
Thank you all followers and of course my sponsors,
that motivates me to continue !!
♥ ♥ ♥
mrsbombastic-sl.blogspot.com.es/
Taken for the "Capturing Motion" (Confetti) brief for this year's Canon EOS Photo5 competition.
This is another tribute to my dad who passed away this week. He loved nothing more than a party with his grandchildren where he always had a knack of getting everyone to laugh and enjoy themselves. Party on dad!
Late afternoon spotters atop the viewing platform on the cliff-top overlooking the port of Arromanches-les-Bains.
Wreck This Journal: Add your own page numbers. Numbering took forever! And I forgot to do my original thought which was to use a variety of languages and Roman Numerals. Instead I was boring and just straight numbered it. =( However it's come in handy for finding certain pages!
A brief history of railways in New South Wales.
It all began with the calling of a public meeting to consider the issue of building railways in 1846. Lines were being considered to Windsor, Bathurst and Goulburn. It proposed the American solution to railway building – government grants of land along the proposed line but with an added bonus of a government guarantee of 6% per annum on the first £100,000 of capital and a government grant of cash. In 1848 the Sydney Tramroad and Railway Company was formed. After some delays work began in 1850 but by 1851 not much had happened and the company wanted a further £150,000 which was granted for a line only from Sydney to Parramatta. In 1855 the line was finally completed with the first train to Parramatta in September 1855. The line was only completed with substantial government investment and in 1856 the government decided to take over the railway and have it run by three government Commissioners. In 1861 parliament authorised lines to Campbelltown and Goulbourn, another to Bathurst across the Blue Mountains and a third from Newcastle to Murrurundi in the Hunter Valley. The line from Newcastle to Maitland opened in 1857.
Westwards to Bathurst.
At the end of 1860, with the royalties from gold mining the government had completed lines from Sydney to Penrith and Richmond; to Picton in the south; and from Maitland to Morpeth. The biggest engineering challenges were still ahead of the railways department – crossing the Blue Mountains to Bathurst and climbing into the Southern Highlands to reach Goulburn. The problems of crossing the Blue Mountain ridges were immense and two zig zag railway sections near Lithgow were eventually approved and several major viaducts. They line was completed to Wentworth Falls in 1867 and it was 1875 before the railway line reached Kelso across the Macquarie River from Bathurst. The official opening into Bathurst was in April 1876. The 1870s were a decade of significant railway expansion and new lines. At one stage there was even a proposal to have a direct rai link to South Australia from Cootamundra westwards to Pooncarie on the River Darling and then across the SA border near Renmark. That never eventuated. But a link to Queensland was pursued more vigorously and completed as was a line to Albury with a link to Melbourne.
Southwards to Goulburn and Albury.
A main truck railway line to the South was important to peon up the Western Slopes of NSW in the 1870s. The rail head was settled at Picton in 1863 and with tunnels it was extended into the Highlands to Mittagong in 1867. It was quickly pushed on to Goulburn reaching there in 1869. It was important to extend this line south to Albury to prevent the Victorian railways taking more trade from the Riverina Districts. The Goulburn to Yass section was finished in 1876. It was extended to Wagga Wagga in 1878 but the line did not cross the Murrumbidgee River into Wagga Wagga until 1879. From here the line pushed onwards to Albury where the railway opened in February 1881. It was June 1883 before the River Murray was bridged and a connection was made with the line to Melbourne.
Northwards to Newcastle and beyond.
Newcastle was a rail terminal like Sydney with the first line to Maitland completed in 1857.This line was eventually extended to Muswellbrook in 1869 and on to Aberdeen in 1870 and Scone in 1871. Murrurundi was reached in 1872. Work began on pushing the line north through Quirindi to Tamworth in 1874 with it being completed in 1878. From here the railway was extended towards the Queensland border and the northern tablelands. The first section with steep gradients reached Uralla in 1882 and Armidale in 1883. In 1884 the railway reached Glen Innes and then Tenterfield. The Queensland border was reached in January 1888 linking up with the Queensland railway system. Queensland railways had extended their lines to Wallangarra which is across the border from Jennings in NSW. But there was no connection to Brisbane from Sydney as there was no connection between Sydney and Newcastle.
Linking Sydney and Newcastle.
It was Premier Sir Henry Parkes who appropriate funds for a railway northwards from Sydney with the first stage to the Hawkesbury River and a section southwards from Hamilton just outside of Newcastle to Gosford. The line to the Hawksbury River was completed in 1887 and that to Gosford in 1888. The 3,000 feet wide (914 metres) stretch of the Hawkesbury River were still to be spanned by a railway. A competition called for engineering designs and the contract was let to an American company. Despite difficulties the bridge was completed in May 1889 with piers deeper than those of any other bridge and it was largest bridge of its kind in Australia and the third largest in the world at that time. It was a milestone in Australian railway history as it provided a rail link from Sydney to Brisbane via Wallangarra and this service was already linked with the line from Sydney to Albury and Melbourne and Adelaide and Melbourne had been the first colonial capital cities linked by rail in January 1887. So now there was railway link from Adelaide to Brisbane (1,789 miles or2, 8880 kilometres) albeit with many changes of gauge along the way and with no coordinated railway timetable for such a service. But this 1889 bridge was not stable enough for bigger and heavier trains and a new bridge was constructed across the Hawkesbury River between 1939 and 1946.
The North Coast line.
A new coastal line from Newcastle/Maitland to Taree and Gloucester opened in 1913 before reaching Wauchope in 1915. This lien was extended to Coffs Harbour and South Grafton in 1915. Earlier a railway line had headed south from Murwillumbah to Lismore. It was constructed in 1894 but extended to Lismore and Casino in 1903 and northwards to Tweed Heads at the same time. The section from Casino to Grafton opened in 1905 but it did not cross the Clarence River. This was not bridged until 1932. A branch line was built to Kyogle from Casino in 1910 and this was linked to a new line to Brisbane in 1930 which necessitated a rail spiral and a long tunnel across the border between the two rail systems to get the rail tracks up into the Great Dividing Range. A through train service was not possible until the Clarence River was bridged by rail in 1932. The introduction of the Brisbane Limited train via Casino and Kyogle reduced the train travel time from Sydney to Brisbane via Wallangarra by six hours. The service ended at South Brisbane until 1986 when it was rerouted to Brisbane Roma Street railway station. The Brisbane Limited train between Sydney and Brisbane ceased in 1990 when it was replaced with an XPT service. The line from Casino to Murwillumbah closed in 2004.
Extensions to the main truck lines.
By 1900 most major towns and cities of New South Wales had a railway service. The 1880s and the 1890s were decades of considerable railway expansion.
•The urge to get a railway to the Darling River at Bourke branched out from Bathurst firstly to Orange and then on to Dubbo in 1881. The north western line reached Bourke in 1885. From Nyngan a line was built to Cobar.
• The discovery of silver, lead and zinc in the Barrier Ranges near the South Australian border spurred the growth of Broken Hill but it was not linked to Sydney by train until 1927. Earlier a railway had been built from Broken Hill to Menindee in 1919. Then the links were made between Parkes and Condobolin and Roto to Menindee in 1927. The air conditioned Silver City Comet train began the service between Sydney and Broken Hill in 1937.
•New lines in the Riverina were designed to stop the leakage of trade across the River Murray to the Victorian railways. A line from Wagga wagga reached Narrandera in 1881 and Hay on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in 1882.
•A branch line from Cootamundra to Gundagai was completed in 1886 and later extended to Tumut in 1903. Another line which stretched from Cootamundra to Temora opened in 1893. The Temora line was extended to Lake Cargelligo in 1917. Also from Temora the line went west to Griffith in 1916 and on to Hillston in 1923. It was then joined with the Broken Hill line at Roto in 1926 to provide alternative routes to the west.
•A new southern coast line opened to Wollongong and North Kiama in 1887. The section from Kiama to Bomaderry on the outskirts of Nowra opened in 1893.
•Over a few years a north western railway branched from the New England railway at Werris Creek. The first section to Gunnedah opened in 1879 and the second section to Narrabri opened in 1884. The line reached Moree in 1897. The line extended to the Queensland border at Mungindi in 1914.
Hay.
White explorer Captain Charles Sturt passed this way in 1830 when he was exploring the Murrumbidgee and Murray rivers. A town was gazetted at this spot in 1859 and named after a local Member of Parliament, Sir John Hay. It was not because hay grew here! Hay was the centre of a pastoral region based along the Murrumbidgee River. But the town grew quickly because Cobb and Co based their Riverina services and coach building factory here and the Anglican Church based its bishop for the Riverina here. The Diocese of the Riverina was separated from the diocese of Goulburn in 1884 with the first Bishop taking up residence in Hay in 1885 with the Bishop’s Palace being constructed in 1887. Hay church was the Pro Cathedra until the church in Griffith was designated the cathedral in 1984. The residence of the Bishop was moved from Hay to Narrandera in 1953. The NSW government built a major gaol here in 1879. In the early years the river boat trade linked Hay with Victorian and South Australian towns along the Murray River. The railway line was extended across the Riverina to Hay in 1882 bringing about the demise of the river trade. Wool was eventually replaced with irrigated agriculture and the district is now known for its rice, cotton, sorghum, and vegetables such as broccoli, pumpkins, tomatoes etc .
© Nicola Roggero - all rights reserved Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
www.facebook.com/pages/LAngolo-Manzoni-Libreria/222621957...
The varsity boys: Drake Hacker, Samuel Zinkgraf, Tim Kowalinski, Joe Maurer, Brian Durbin, Justin Chu, Caleb Schaber.
I have large memory!!!
愛用のMacBook（2009 Early）でRAW現像しながらPhotoShop立ち上げたりすると、
どうにも動作が遅くて辛かったのでメモリを標準2GB→4GBに増設。
Kingston社の中国製だと2GBのSO-DIMM DDR2 200pinが１枚僅か2310円ナリ。
そうかぁ、こんなにも値段が下がっていたとは知らなかった。
2GB×２枚購入しても4620円。サクっとAmazonから購入して、サクっと刺したら
MacBookが快適になりました。(・∀・)
Add a sweet touch to your holiday parties and events with a delicious assortment of candies featuring the colors of red, white, and green! Shown here are chocolate covered almonds, cinnamon hard candy sticks, ribbon candy, gummy bears, swirl suckers and twist lollipops, taffy, peppermints, chocolate balls, sour strings, candy canes, and rock candy.
Getting quite close to being finished. Sometime next week the floor gets painted. Then I will complete the flow of the checkerboard road right out to the edge of the stage. Should be a pretty cool effect.
Everyone at the school has been very excited to see this evolve. This back drop is in plain view of the main entrance hall where they all have lunch, assemblies etc. So the kids get to see it every day and so many of them come up to me with there compliments and excited energy. In our art starved educational system, the kids crave a connection to creativity now more than ever.
For those who want to have authentic, not over commercialized Shanghai experiences, the west bund of Shanghai is highly recommended. This waterfront, where many concrete factories, piers located once, is now a fashionable, futuristic commercial complex.
Thank u, Ann wood. I made a boat for my 88 year old father. He suffers from dementia. Hopefully, he will remember happy times with my mom, when he sees it!
Added an NG Creations pattern fishtail skirt to the Shannanigan sheath dress yesterday, which gave Spectra an upgrade ! Instead of making this a single 'cut one on fold', I cut two, sewed 'em together at the hem, and flipped 'em right side out. That way, you get a great fabric view inside and out, since it shows.
Looking forward to trying the double fishtail pattern this weekend !