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From a set of photos taken during a photographic charter at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.
Please note that some of the locations in this set of pictures are on private property access to which had been requested and granted.
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Waiting to meet us at Fjærland was a coach which whisked us off to the Norwegian Glacier Museum. After some time there (including watching a fantastic-yet-sea-sickness-inducing panoramic video of the glacier, we boarded the coach again for a trip to the glacial tongues. The coach does two of these trips – timed to meet the morning and the lunchtime ferry – however the afternoon version only takes in one glacial tongue - Bøyabreen. Which is a shame because personally I thought that Supphallebreen was more interesting for reasons which will become clear!
Taken on day 3 of our fjord based holiday in Norway.
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From the backside of La Grande Arche, the massive approaching storm was visible. This isnt even the worst of it. The green in the background that I thought was a maze is actually a graveyard.
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Amelie, Jolanta and Maria approaching the ridge to the first summit. Other people can be seen on the top
Approaching Blair Circle at the border of Silver Spring, MD, and Washington, DC
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Blogged by Greater Greater Washington ("Urban foliage in the Flickr pool" by Aimee Custis - November 10, 2017) at ggwash.org/view/65532/urban-foliage-in-the-flickr-pool
Blogged by Greater Greater Washington ("Montgomery is shifting its priorities for funding transportation in the county" by Joe Allen - March 30, 2018) at ggwash.org/view/67060/montgomery-is-shifting-its-prioriti...
Approaching Wilton, ND — At about 8:55 a.m. on Monday, July 29, 2019, Dakota Missouri Valley and Western Railroad (DMVW) 5454, 6941, 5500 are at 227th Ave. NE, north of Baldwin, approaching Wilton, ND with a northbound train.
DMVW 5454 is an SD50F. Reportedly: it was built by the Diesel Division of General Motors of Canada, Ltd. as SD50F CN 5454 in 1987, serial number A4631.
So close were we that we'd now crossed the railway line that would soon take us to London. Via Leeds.
A single Landing Craft sails past HMCS MAYFLOWER as the corvette approaches the Normandy Invasion Area on 7 June 1944. Hundreds of ships of all types can be seen on the horizon. Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ralph O'Brien, RCNVR. (RTL-ROB052)
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Expo 88
Australia was approaching its bicentennial celebrations, and after Brisbane’s success hosting the 1982 Commonwealth Games, Brisbane City Council and the Queensland State Government were confident they could win the bid to hold the next World Exhibition.
Brisbane won the right to hold the event and Expo 88 was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 30 April 1988. By the time it closed, it had changed the way the world saw Brisbane and helped shaped the city as we know it today.
Starting with an estimated budget of $645 million, the Queensland State Government developed a World Expo that would recoup and support its own costs and promote international investment in Queensland, both during and after the event. South Bank, badly damaged in the 1973–74 floods, was chosen and the site acquired for $150 million. Developers completed construction on time and within budget. The targets set for ticket sales were reached 11 weeks before Expo 88 had even opened. It was off to a smashing start.
Celebrating ‘Leisure in the age of technology’, there was an incredible range of pavilions, performances, parades, comedy and artwork on show. Guests could experience over 50 restaurants filled with flavours from around the globe. Hosted over six months, it drew more than 18 million people to the renewed South Bank parklands district. An average of 100,000 people a day entered the gates.
An influx of royalty, celebrities and international visitors came to Brisbane for the exhibition, but it was Queensland residents who attended the most often, purchasing 500,000 season tickets. Expo 88 provided something the city needed: an easy-to-access recreational facility with exciting things to do, see and experience. Brisbanites returned again and again to socialise and enjoy the festival atmosphere.
The monorail was one of the most popular attractions. Giving travellers a view of the entertainments from above, it operated along a 2.3-kilometre track during Expo 88, taking up to 44,000 visitors a day from one side of Expo to the other, along the Brisbane River. Built by Swedish manufacturer Von Roll, the monorail cost $12 million and comprised four MkII trains with nine carriages each. The idea of keeping the monorail operating after Expo and extending it into the Brisbane CBD was discussed. Ultimately, the existing monorail wasn’t a feasible long-term people-moving solution and it was disbursed. Three trains were sold back to Von Roll and were used in Germany’s Europa-Park. The remaining train and some tracks were incorporated into the Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast.
Some of the most significant installations, exhibitions and artworks from Expo 88 were relocated and continue to be enjoyed today. Ken Done AM, a prominent Australian artist and designer, was commissioned to produce the entry and exit statement art pieces for the Australia Pavilion. Using the word ‘Australia’, Done produced a sign nearly six metres tall that could not be missed by anyone who attended Expo 88. The letters have since been restored and are on display at the Caboolture Heritage Village. The Nepal Peace Pagoda was the only international pavilion that remained on-site, after a petition asking that it remain attracted about 70,000 signatures. The Japan Garden and Pond were gifted to the city of Brisbane and moved to the Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-Tha.
The buzz of activity, the investment in South Bank’s infrastructure and the spotlight on Brisbane transformed the city. The physical legacy left by Expo 88 turned South Bank into a thriving social space and prominent cultural hotspot: 42 hectares was dedicated to the construction of the South Bank Parklands.
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Brighton MRCs 4mm 009 layout depicts a narrow gauge whisky railway in North East Scotland. A nearby brickworks provides additional traffic
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Aproximación final a plataforma petrolera en la boca del Estrecho de Magallanes en el Mar Argentino.