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floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, riverland, south australia
Glynrhonwy Isaf slate quarries were aquired by the Air Ministery in 1939 and opened as a bomb storage depot during 1941. The stores were in use until 1956, however, this was not without a major construction mishap, shortly after opening
"In response to pressure from the treasury efforts were made to cheapen and accelerate the construction of Llanberis, but unfortunately the cost cutting had disastrous consequences only six months after the depot was opened.
On 25th January 1942, two-thirds of the structure collapsed within seconds under the weight of the overlaying backfill, completely engulfing a train of twenty seven wagons which was in the process of unloading. The collapse buried over 14,000 tons of bombs which at the time represented 14% of the total RAF stock. A court of inquiry concluded that faulty design was the principal cause of the failure; cracks were noticed in the structure as the building neared completion but these were attributed to minor defects rather than to a major and fatal miscalculation."
Read the full article about the stores and the history here:
Die Aare-Seeland ist eine Bahngesellschaft im Schweizer Mittelland. Auf 2 Strecken betreibt sie Vorortsverkehr mit modernen Niederflurfahrzeugen in straffem Takt.
Eine der wenigen Ausnahmen davon ist der tägliche Kiestransport auf der Strecke Sutz (Kieswek) - Siselen (Kiesgrube) zwischen Biel und Ins.
Dieser Kiestransport wird mit 2 Zügen aus je 3 Fad-Wagen zwischen 2 Be 4/4-Triebwagen realisiert. Für das Kieswerk Hurni in Sutz werden so jährlich um die 1400 Fahrten à 120t Aushubmaterial gefahren.
Auf dem Bild zu sehen ist der Be 4/4 302 an der Spitze eines solchen Zuges Sutz - Siselen mit Auffüllmaterial für die Kiesgrube.
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Aare-Seeland Mobil is a railway company in Switzerland. It operates suburban traffic with modern low-floor vehicles on two routes at a tight pace.
One of the few exceptions to this is the daily gravel transport from Sutz (gravel works) to Siselen (gravel pit) on the route between Biel and Ins.
This gravel transport is carried out with 2 trains each consisting of 3 Fad wagons between 2 Be 4/4 railcars. For the Hurni gravel works in Sutz, around 1400 journeys of 120 tons of excavated material are made every year.
The picture shows the Be 4/4 302 at the head of such a Sutz - Siselen train with backfill material for the gravel pit
floodwaters rising in the muray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
The Sarsfield Pit, located in North Queensland's Ravenswood, operated from 2000 to 2009. In 1978 Carpentaria Gold took up exploration mining and tenements in the Ravenswood district and in 1987 recommenced mining in Ravenswood - -beginning with the Buck Reef Qest pit near the old Grant and Sunset mines.
Underground mining in the Buck Reef operated until 1993 - these operations went into the old workings of the General Grant, Sunset, and Duke of Edinburgh mines. The Melaneur-Shelmalier-Black Jack-Overlander reef complex was mined as an open cut from 1990 - 1991 and was then backfilled to form a golf course for the town. The Nolans pit, located behind the Sarsfield pit, was mined from 1993. Mount Wright underground began operating in 2006, whilst Nolans East pit (located behind the Nolans processing plant and administration offices) was mined from 2017 - 2018.
Source: Carpentaria Gold & Resolute.
the 5th (and 14th!) tee at the morgan cadell golf course is inundated by the waters of the murray backfilling bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Campbell, Hartman and Gibb discovered copper in a water hole on the ridge behind where the Cobar Heritage Centre now stands in 1870. Sidwell Kruge, the Cornish wife of Henry Kruge the owner of the Gilgunnia Hotel, identified specimens of ore collected by Charles Campbell and his team of contractors from the Kubbur Waterhole as copper. As a young woman, Sidwell had worked in the Cornish copper mines and was able to accurately identify ore. Campbell and his contractors, George Gibb, and Thomas Hartman, immediately set off to secure a mining lease to the land. For the price of 20 pounds, these three men, in partnership with the local postmaster and part time financier Joseph Becker, took up a mineral conditional purchase of 40 acres (approximately 16 hectares) over the waterhole on the 6th of October 1870. The partners eagerly awaited the results of samples of the ore that were sent away for assay. They were not disappointed as the samples sent to Adelaide gave spectacular assays of 33% fine copper. Other samples assayed returned similar high percentages of copper. Copper fever struck nearby Bourke and Joseph Becker quickly secured an additional 10 acre selection north and south of the initial mineral selection in May and June of that year.
The full strike length of the Cobar copper lode extended over the three leases. The central lease, which covered the discovery waterhole, was situated on the richest portion of the lode. The workings of this lease became known as the Cobar Copper Mine. The lease was transferred to the Cobar Copper Mining Company which was formed in late 1870, with an issue of 200 shares set at 10 pounds each. Shares subsequently sold for up to 250 pounds a piece. The northern part of the lode, owned by Becker, became known as the North Cobar Mine. The southern portion of the lode, also owned by Becker, became the South Cobar Mine operating by South Cobar Mining Company. Later the two companies merged to form the Great Cobar Copper Mine in January 1876.
The Great Cobar Copper Mine opened in 1871 and at its peak it had fourteen smelters, a 64 metre chimney stack, and employed over 2000 men. Little above ground evidence of the substantial mine workings now remain. The most obvious feature is an "open cut" or "Mullock Tank" east of Lewis Street. It was not actually a mine but a quarry from which the material was used to backfill the stopes of the mine and build up the ground level so the miners could gain access to the ore bodies above them. It was dug by hand with pick and shovel. According to stories handed down by old miners who worked the open cut, at least one horse was accidentally killed every day. At its deepest, the Open Cut is 430 meters.
Between 1876 and 1919 the Great Cobar produced 114, 809 tonnes of copper, 9, 670 kilogrames of gold, and 46, 700 kilograms of silver. It was during this boom that the late Victorian, early Federation administration office was built, north of the smelting heads, in 1910.
The Cobar North Mine, where the Miners Heritage Park now stands, was the "poor relation" of the Great Cobar Mine. Nevertheless, the owners continued to have faith in the mine. During the period 1910 - 1913 the mines undertook a considerable amount of development work, perhaps stimulated by the apparent success of the nearby Great Cobar Mine. In 1911, the North Cobar shaft had reached a depth of 466ms. Crosscuts opened up across the northern extension of the Great Cobar lode showed that the lode was improving in depth. Drives on the 1500ft (457m) level found wide zones of low grade copper ore up to 30ms of 2.3% copper, although these grades were not payable. The shaft was further deepened to 519 meters in 1913 before shaft sinking was abandoned. An inclined drive was then constructed from the 1300ft (397m) level to connect with the nearby Great Cobar workings, thereby improving the quality of ventilation in both mines.
Fortunes however crashed after World War One when the demand for copper decreased and the mined ceased operations in March 1919.
The Miners Heritage Park opened in 2002 now commemorates the "Cobar Miner". From the 1870s until today underground mining has been the predominant activity in the Cobar Mining field. In the early days the mining method was "hammer and tap" - a crude physically exhausting process which was akin to chiselling out the hard sulphide ores to make the holes for explosives. Large teams of men were required working in dark, cramped and wet conditions. The 1900s saw the introduction of machine mining which utilised hand held pneumatic drills. From the 1960s, mining became more highly mechanised with the advent of mobile drilling, loading, and hauling machines.
Whilst safety in underground mines is of paramount importance in today's mining operations, historically it has often been treacherous and inherently dangerous activity. Between 1870 and 2000, over 120 men lost their lives in the underground workings in the Cobar mining field. Within the Miners Park is now displayed the "Cobar Miner" a bronze cast life-size miner portrayed with a modern air leg drilling machine. The figure was designed and cast by renowned Australian sculptor Terrance Plowright and weights over 600kg. It is a commemorative memorial by the Cobar community to the contribution of miners and their families to the area.
The Chesney No. 1 Headframe:
The Chesney No. 1 Headframe was erected by New Occidental Gold Mine No Liability (NOGM) when it reopened Chesney Mine in 1938. The Chesney Mine began producing coppergold ore in 1943 in response to a request from the Commonwealth Government to increase copper production to assist wit hthe war effort. Ore was trucked nearby New Occidental for treatment. The mine operated until 1952 when it and the New Occidental Mine closed in response to poor metal prices and rapidly increasing costs.
The Chesney No. 1 headframe, being of steel construction, differed from the other headframes in the Cobar goldfield, which were made of timber. As a result, this headframe better withstood the test of both termites and weather. The headframe was reportedly originally used at the Youanmi Gold Mine in Western Australia.
In 2000, the headframe was relocated to the Cobar Heritage Park by Peak Gold Mines as a community project. Chesney No. 3 headframe, which is still at the Chesney Mine, was brough in from Mount Isa for the No. 3 shaft sink in 1970, but the headframe and winder were originally used on thr South African Goldfields.
Source: Cobar Heritage Park & New South Wales Heritage Register.
We heard something that sounded not dissimilar to an English Electric class 37 thumping hard, heading in the opposite direction across the woods. I knew it was the tipper returning, it has to balloon round a 90 degree curve to gain access to the single track to the Staszic mine. And so it proved, within ten minutes it was approaching. Don't be fooled by the woods, this is less than five kilometres from the centre of Katowice, a place of more districts than you could think of built around the mine or works that was exploited there. But these quiet and ancient places still exist, breathing spaces between the industries. And there are hidden treasures here, remnants of a very old smelting of iron.
TEM2-292 of CTL Logistics runs the final kilometre to the Staszic colliery on South Eastern edge of Katowice. Returning from Bór Górny on the edge of Sosnowiec, the locomotive operates with CTL Maczki-Bór which was a huge sand excavation pit with the sand used for the back filling of coal mines, mitigate against subsidence in the built up conurbation. The sand mining there has now finished and the site has morphed into a huge colliery waste site, with waste from the areas surviving collieries backfilling the old sand workings.
March the 13th 2023.
This is part of the core of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805). It is a region of superheated ionized Hydrogen with some of the dark sections coming from dense lanes of dust. This emission nebula is too large in the sky to fit in one frame of my telescope/camera combo. IC 1805 is about 7500 lightyears away and it shows up near Cassiopeia in our night sky.
I was shooting at this target across the beginning of 4 separate nights, but had varying degrees of success. The end result comes largely from 2 of those nights, and the final image basically was composed of about an hour of data from Hydrogen-alpha, about 90 minutes from Oxygen-iii, and around 30 minutes from Sulfur-ii.
For those that have asked, I recorded part of the process of how I make these images from a monochromatic camera. I didn't realize that the screen-capture program I was using didn't record any of the menus that I was clicking through, so... sorry about that. Because of that, I might recommend that you skip to around 8:40 in the video if you want to see some behind-the-scenes work. Anyway, here's the video: youtu.be/NvcZ3g5-7Pc
Also... I'm working on starting a page for my astrophotography. I intend for it to be a place where I'll just put my telescope stuff. I'll still share Atlas photos and macro shots and other photography here, but I figured I'd have a page that I would dedicate to just keeping track of my work in one location. I'll be backfilling it with previous work in the coming days. You can find that page on facebook ( @JeffLightyearAstro ) or as @JeffLightyear on instagram . I'm thinking of doing some more in-progress or behind-the-scenes type stuff on there, as well... while still keeping my personal page pretty much the same.
Rut track:
The ruts of this route in the Salonaise countryside, more precisely in the municipality of Pélissanne, are 1.27 to 1.30 m between axes. This ancient route linked Lambesc to Salon and was parallel to Via Aurelia located 2 km further south.
Note the central wear between the ruts, it is due to two phenomena. The first on the hooves of tractors (horses or oxen) and the second on the shoes of walkers for centuries. The depth of the ruts in molassic limestone can reach places of 30 or 40 cm.
Note that the depth of the ruts quickly became a problem for the axles of the carts which ended up touching the rock. We noticed cuts in the rock to place stones intended to retain a backfill.
Two words on La Via Aurelia:
It linked Italy to Arles in the year 6 of our era under Emperor Augustus, then it joined Via Domitia (in Nîmes) and Via Augusta in Spain via the Panissars pass.
I was able to find there ruts of 1.43 / 1.45 m in the countryside which correspond well to those of the Roman chariot.
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Les ornières de cette voie dans la campagne salonaise, plus précisément sur la commune de Pélissanne, font 1,27 à 1,30 m d'entre axes. Cette voie ancienne reliait Lambesc à Salon et se trouvait en parallèle de la Via Aurelia située 2 km plus au sud.
On remarquera l'usure centrale entre les ornières, elle est due à deux phénomènes. Le premier aux sabots des tractionneurs (chevaux ou bœufs) et le second aux chaussures des marcheurs durant des siècles. La profondeur des ornières dans le calcaire molassique peut atteindre par endroits 30 à 40 cm.
A noter que la profondeur des ornières devenait vite un problème pour les essieux des chariots qui finissaient par toucher le rocher. On a remarqué des retailles dans le roc permettant de placer des pierres destinées à retenir un remblai de comblement.
Deux mots sur La Via Aurelia:
Elle reliait l'Italie à Arles dès l'an 6 de notre ère sous L'Empereur Auguste, ensuite elle rejoignait la Via Domitia (à Nîmes) et la Via Augusta en Espagne par le col de Panissars.
J'ai pu y relever des ornières de 1,43/1,45 m dans la campagne qui correspondent bien à celles des chariots romains.
Bryn Celli Ddu is generally recognised as the finest passage tomb in Wales, and unlike many other megalithic sites, it not only has a full entrance passage and a roughly circular chamber, but also lies beneath a mound of earth which was backfilled after the 1929 excavations. It is located on the island of Anglesey.
The oldest remains of the complex are five postholes, which were previously thought to date from the time of the tomb. However, radiocarbon analyses in 2006 revealed that they date from around 4000 BC. This means that the holes date from the end of the Mesolithic period and are therefore around 1000 years older than the next known utilisation phase of the site.
A henge was built around 3000 BC, consisting of a circular rampart and a ditch 21 metres in diameter. Within this circle was an oval stone circle. Burnt human bones were buried at the foot of some of these stones. The serpent pattern stone was found lying nearby, its decoration on both sides suggesting that it was standing upright.
About 1000 years after the henge was built, the site was radically remodelled. All but one of the standing stones were vandalised and the tomb was erected. At 26 metres in diameter, it was much larger than it is now, and will have had a full row of kerbstones. Human bones, both burnt and unburnt, were found in the chamber and in the passage, indicating a number of different burial rituals. In the end, the tomb was sealed by placing a large stone in front of the entrance between the two portal stones.
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Menhirs, dolmens, cromlechs
Interesting parade up the Solent.
Cormorant is a self-propelled seagoing sheerlegs, with a 600 ton lifting capacity. It was completing a mission here recovering an £850,000, 80-tonne excavator, known as 'Moby Dig' which was stuck in the sea for two months at Lancing beach. The digger had finished backfilling cable duct trenches dug along the seabed as part of the construction of the Rampion Windfarm when it got stranded.
The Front Tug is BARNEY, Gross: 382 Tonnes. Built 2015. Home port: Zwijndrecht, Netherlands
Please see my other Photographs at: www.jamespdeans.co.uk
The Carreau Wendel Museum is the museum of the Wendel-Vuillemin coal pit, in Petite-Rosselle on the Saarland, Lorraine border. Though often in Germany, since 1945 it has been in Moselle department France.
The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
The Wendel 1 pit was closed in 1989, Wendel 2 in 1992 and Wendel 3 in 2001. The first piece of coal was mined in Petite-Rosselle in June 1856, at the Saint-Charles pit. These pits are in France but surrounded on three sides by the national border with Germany. Several pits were dug between 1862 and 1889: Wendel 1, Wendel 2, Vuillemin 1 and Vuillemin 2. Emile Vuillemin was the consulting engineer for Charles de Wendel and Georges Hainguerlot's company- Compagnie Anonyme des Mines de Stiring. The coal produced was primarily used to fire the Wendel steelworks. The company became - Les Petits-fils de François de Wendel et Cie in 1889.
After the Second World War, the government required the industry to triple the Lorraine coal production within ten years. In the 1946 nationalising, the Wendel assets were assigned to public company Houillères du bassin de Lorraine. The Wendel 3 pit was dug in 1952, and in 1958 was equipped with the new wash house 3. The Wendel 1 and 2 pits were modernised and equipped with new headframes. After 1960, the coal recession hit: the company modernised wash house 1-2 in 1962 by creating a new module on top of the former wash house, adapted to the existing equipment. Operations and investment continued up until 1986 when central activities ceased. Some infrastructure continued to be used up until 1989 serving other pits in the Wendel franchise.
The museum is presented in several section. The simple tour shows the life of the miner and the hazardous working conditions. There is then an opportunity to take a guide tour down the workings seeing the machinery current when the last deep mine in France closed in 2004. There is an AM 100 heading machine, G210 electro-hydraulic loader, Electra 2000 shearer and ANF winning machine, roof supports etc.
12-25 Union Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire
A row of fourteen terraced houses built in 1914 by McKinley and Co of 2 Hartley Street. Number 19 was a newsagents shop between 1960-1994. Constructed out of red brick with slate roofs, two stories with basement at the rear in the partially-backfilled Castle ditch. Nos 26-32 were the subject of a separate application by the same builder in 1914, but there is no break between the two terraces, so they may have been built as one development.
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The draw for this evening was the chance to capture what could possibly be the last loaded train out of Winfrith of low level radioactive waste ever. The usual 10 loaded PFA's have been replaced with 8, conveying the usual half height cabriolet containers and distinctive blue tarpaulin covers.
Each wagon conveys 10 sealed stainless steel drums of low level nuclear waste, destined for the UK's nuclear waste repository in Drigg, Cumbria
Hauled by 68034 and tailed by 68017, the 6Z95 (1551 Winfrith Sidings to Crewe Coal Sidings) ensemble makes its way past Horseshoe bridge, Southampton and the assembled gallery.
Consist was:
DRSL 92781 PFA
DRSL 92766 PFA
DRSL 92761 PFA
DRSL 92740 PFA
DRSL 92723 PFA
DRSL 92801 PFA
DRSL 92731 PFA
DRSL 92768 PFA
The Winfrith Site, currently managed by Magnox Ltd (a UK government funded organisation) is located on a 129 hectare site in Dorset, near Wool. It was constructed in the 1950s to enable vital research into nuclear reactor design. The site housed nine experimental reactors at various times with only two remaining today, both of which are being decommissioned. Fifty hectares of the site was transferred to different ownership in 2003 following its decommissioning and progress since has seen the skyline change dramatically. Ponds have been emptied, bulk asbestos removed and waste sorted. Winfrith is working towards reaching its interim end state, at which point the land will be returned to heathland with full public access.
The large sub-surface structures at the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor (SGHWR) and Dragon reactor are likely to remain in place as low-level radioactive waste disposals, and backfilling with suitable site demolition rubble, filling some larger voids with concrete and closing off with secure caps, as the current radiation levels are very low, providing a much cheaper option than total demolition and removal of all materials.
Manifest of all services to date (Many thanks to Mark Jamieson for the info)
(1) .. 24th March 2022 .. 68017+68016 (10 PFA's all loaded)
(2) .. 26th May 2022 .. 68016+68018 (10 PFA's all loaded)
(3) .. 11th August 2022 .. 68002+68007 (10 PFA's all loaded)
(4) .. 7th September 2022 .. 68002+68016 (10 PFA's all loaded)
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(5) .. 18th January 2023 .. 68018+68016 (10 PFA's all loaded)
(6) .. 23rd March 2023 .. 68003+68009
returned empty (not loaded due to weather conditions - high winds)
(7) .. 20th April 2023 .. 68001+68018 (10 PFA's all loaded)
(8) .. 31st May 2023.. 68017+68034, returned
1st June 2023 (8 PFA's all loaded)
Ran over two days due to crew shortage
29 June 2023 - 68002 + 2 PFA + 68003 (load 2)
10 August 2023 - 68001 + 10PFA + 68034
28 September 2023 - 68018 + 10PFA + 68033
9 January 2024 88002 - 10 PFA - 68003
23 January 2024 - 68002 - 7 PFA - 68016
Giving 1700 sealed drums of low level waste to date, each weighing about one metric ton
*Manifest above updated on 9 January 2024 to reflect the first run of 2024
Thursday 1 June 2023
I haven't felt much like shooting lately, so... yesterday, I promised myself I would take only one picture. That restriction might inspire someone else to carefulness; to caution; to patient exploration of the many possibilities before selecting just the right one.
Not me. Frankly, I saw the self-imposed "one only" rule as a getting-off-the-hook thing. And figured I might as well shoot this creek, since I walk past it alllll the time.
I happened to have my IR filter, but no tripod with me. So I set the camera on a fence post. Realized... only after I'd started the exposure... that I hadn't set a new custom white balance. But the camera seems to remember from last time.
Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with this... considering I was expecting nothing.
Man... I cannot WAIT for retirement. (Siiiigh.(
See? I'm so mentally mushy these days that I can't even close my parentheses.
Miracle Blade
"Ogni stelo d'erba ha la sua goccia di rugiada" - Lao Tze
Stamattina, nel campo dietro casa, con il 70-300 :)
Buon sabato
:)
floodwaters rising in the murray river backfilling the river plain of bryans creek, near morgan, south australia
Pure symmetry is often an illusion – our perception of complex objects tends to “even out” the differences, unless they are overtly obvious, like the top branch of this snowflake. But why is that one different from the rest?
There’s a “scar” on this snowflake, a diagonal line right before the changes in symmetry occur. In most cases, this happens when something gets stuck on the surface of the snowflake during formation – another crystal or fragment of a snowflake is most likely, affecting the way the rest of the branch formed. There’s nothing that links the growth of the six branches of a snowflake – there’s no architect’s drawings to follow; there is, however, near-identical growing environments. Change the variables even slightly, and you can see the change in the pattern.
This particular snowflake has two additional fun features: a clue into the mysteries of “spoke” formations, and inward crystal growth. The inward growth is easy to see, with the lines radiating from/to the center. These are on the reverse side of the crystal, backfilling in the snowflake towards the center, increasing the thickness in waves.
Those spokes – the thicker lines pointing to each branch tip – carry with them some very interesting details. It’s easiest to see at the bottom and bottom-right branches, and here’s a close-up of what I’m talking about: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_8192-BTS.jpg . It appears as if this heightened feature might actually begin forming as two separate ridges, which then get filled in with molecular accumulation between them. This process is not always solid, allowing for bubbles to occasionally form as it fills in. On these two lower branches, it’s easy to see the pockets of air forming on the edges of this growth.
I don’t like this. This doesn’t follow the standard model of how snowflakes grow. I do not have the knowledge to explain why two separate ridges form and then fill in the gap, all the while happening internally compared to the outer footprint. These two separate ridges, however, would explain the often-seen parallel bubble lines which this crystal also features; they must be related. I don’t like it because I can’t explain it. There’s an answer, obviously, but it escapes me. Maybe I should just embrace the fact that no matter how much we understand about one of the basic elements of life – water – some things are still a mystery.
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3E-42 and 3E-53 with empty coal wagons that were unloaded at Siekierki heat/power plant in Warsaw, are preparing to depart from Warszawa Okęcie station. And above Embraer 145 plane of LOT Airlines, approaching Warsaw Okecie airport (today: Chopin Airport). May 13, 2006.
Locomotives are branded "PCC Rail Szczakowa" which means the livery comes from the time after "Szczakowa" railway operator of backfill sand pit was bought by PCC Group. Couple of years later PCC Rail was bought by DB Schenker and became DB Schenker Rail Polska, later on DB Cargo Polska.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
3E-42 i 3E-53 z próżnymi węglarkami po wyłądunku w EC Siekierki przygotowują się do odjazdu ze stacji Warszawa Okęcie. A nad nimi podchodzący do lądowania na lotnisku Warszawa - Okęcie Embraer 175 LOT-u (nazwa "Lotnisko Chopina" funkcjonuje oficjalnie od 2011 roku, chociaż od pięciu lat nosiło imię Fryderyka Chopina). 13 maja 2006 roku.
Lokomotywy są w malowaniu "PCC Rail Szczakowa", czyli z okresu po kupnie "Operatora Kolejowego Szczakowa SA" przez grupę PCC. Jak wiemy, PCC Rail zostało finalnie sprzedane do DB Schenker i nosiło początkowo nazwę DB Schenker Rail Polska, by ostatecznie stać się DB Cargo Polska SA.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
today was the day i finally plugged my computer in at the new house. :) meanwhile, it rained outside and i saw a momma deer and her fawn run right by the window.
the last month has taken a lot out of me, as is to be expected i suppose when you up and move across the country.
i am going to try to recommit to this (second time around so maybe i don't care as much?) 365, picking up today and backfilling for while i was away, but if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen ... it is what it is.
The Forth and Clyde Canal is a canal opened in 1790, crossing central Scotland; it provided a route for the seagoing vessels of the day between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde at the narrowest part of the Scottish Lowlands. This allowed navigation from Edinburgh on the east coast to the port of Glasgow on the west coast. The canal is 35 miles (56 km) long and it runs from the River Carron at Grangemouth to the River Clyde at Bowling, and had an important basin at Port Dundas in Glasgow.
Successful in its day, it suffered as the seagoing vessels were built larger and could no longer pass through. The railway age further impaired the success of the canal, and in the 1930s decline had ended in dormancy. The final decision to close the canal in the early 1960s was made due to maintenance costs of bridges crossing the canal exceeding the revenues it brought in. However, subsidies to the rail network were also a cause for its decline and the closure ended the movement of the east-coast Forth River fishing fleets across the country to fish the Irish Sea. The lack of political and financial foresight also removed a historical recreational waterway and potential future revenue generator to the town of Grangemouth. Unlike the majority of major canals the route through Grangemouth was drained and backfilled before 1967 to create a new carriageway for port traffic.
The M8 motorway in the eastern approaches to Glasgow took over some of the alignment of the canal, but more recent ideas have regenerated the utility of the canal for leisure use.
On the last day of railway operation at the Courtaulds Rayon factory at Red Scar, Ribbleton at Preston, February 12th 1980, resident Sentinel Diesel (10280/1968), was stood underneath the substantial brick bridge that took Longridge Road over the short private single track semi-rural branch that connected the factory to the BR exchange sidings on the truncated former Preston to Longridge line. The loco was stood at the gated/fenced factory boundary. The works had opened in 1938 and at the time was the largest Rayon Factory in Britain, employing over 4,000 people in its heyday. A pair of new Peckett 0-4-0 saddle tanks were supplied to shunt and haul coal wagons on the extensive internal system. The Sentinel arrived new in 1968 and was sister locomotive to the three identical Sentinels that went to Preston Docks at the same time - (10281, 10282 & 10283). On that cold February morning, the loco had delivered the last rake of empty BR 16 Ton Mineral Wagons to the exchange sidings to be worked back to Wigan by BR Class 25 25142. On seeing me photographing the last working, the crew of the Sentinel invited me for a cab ride/tour of the remaining internal system, including going as far as they could in the furthest extremity of every siding! The extensive works would close later in 1980 and the location here has been obliterated by backfilling the bridge under the road. In the intervening years the whole area has been redeveloped complete with an M6 Motorway link road. It is now difficult to see any traces of this railway, just the brick bridge walls remain alongside a ever busy Longridge Road as the only reminder that there was once railway activity at this much changed location. The Sentinel went onto pastures new at British Celanese at Spondon, near Derby and it eventually became a Wabtec hire loco.
Poulnabrone is probably one of the most photographed ancient monuments in Ireland. It rises prominently above the limestone pavement of clints (blocks) and grykes (crevices) resulting from eons of water erosion through the limestone.
It is located in County Clare just outside of the town Coroffin - Population 689 in 2011 .
The burial chamber was 25 cm deep. The dolmen, which is also called a portal tomb, is made up of a large single capstone that rests on two portal stones, two more orthostats, and an end stone. The portal stones are each 1.8 m tall. The entrance of the dolmen faces to the North. A sill stone crosses the front of the entrance, and might have extended all the way up to the cap stone, thus sealing the tomb. The capstone is 12 ft by 7 ft and angles from the portals down to the rear. The chamber was 8 ft by 4 ft in size. The dolmen was always a prominent feature above the limestone bedrock. A portico was formed in front of the tomb by three upright limestone stones. The portico was then backfilled with loose dirt and gravel. The tomb lies in the center of the cairn. The cairn is in the shape of an oval. The cairn is made up of large limestone slabs extending about 3m from the tomb and laid against the side of the chamber. The cairn has been stripped down from its original depth, but it has been theorized that it was only 55 cm deep at the time Poulnabrone was built. The cairn, even though it was not very tall, helped prop up the side stones.
The remains of at least 30 people have been found in the tomb.
[Today, we are going away for a few days for a family reunion, so there will be no more uploads from me until at least Sunday evening, perhaps Monday morning. Thank you very much.]
As you may know, my primary source when preparing a trip to discover the most fascinating Romanesque monuments in France (and elsewhere) is the Zodiaque collection of books, published between 1950 and 2000 by the Benedictine monks of La Pierre-qui-Vire in Burgundy, under the ægis of (and with photographs by) my mentor Dom Angelico Surchamp, osb. The Languedoc roman volume in that collection mentioned this isolated church of which I had never heard but which was conveniently located right next to the spa resort of Lamalou-les-Bains in the département of Hérault.
I say “conveniently” because, to tell you the truth, the real, primary purpose for which I drove down to Languedoc in November 2022 was not to photograph Romanesque churches (although that would obviously be a welcome complement), but to bring my beloved Revox B77 Mark II tape deck to a competent “fixer” who lived in a village not far from Lamalou. Months ago, I had stupidly broken one of the façade switches, and now the sick boy had to be taken to a healer to be fixed. And while the artisan was doing his thing on the Revox, I got to drive around and see beautiful old stones...
Back to the main matter, the church we are visiting today was built on the remains of an early Christian sanctuary built around the late 300s on the Gallo-Roman site of Rhèdes (traces of it have been found by archæologists). Then, in 551 (there is a most rare written trace), a new church was ordered to be built over the primitive one by “a King of France” whose name is not mentioned —and of course, “France” did not exist as such at that time.
That church was then donated to the Benedictine abbey of Villemagne at a date unknown, but it is mentioned in the last will and testament of Guillaume, viscount of Béziers and Agde († 990 AD), and again in 1153 as a priory of Villemagne.
Stylistically, the church we see today belongs to the First Romanesque Art of the 11th century, but there are indications of an earlier construction date for some parts of it, probably around Year 1000 or even before that milestone. It is a simple yet ample church, very old but beautifully preserved and restored, with none of the absurd excesses of the 19th century. It has been listed as a Historic Landmark since 1880 and the acoustics are so good there are many concerts of all kinds of music during the Summer season. It has been deconsecrated at some point but I haven’t found the exact date.
The western façade. I managed to keep the perspectives straight, however at the price of unsightly proportions. There is, unfortunately, no way to avoid this, as the church sits on a backfilled terrace overlooking the modern cemetery, and there is simply no room to step back.
Difficult to believe I know, but I am stood in approximately the same position for both of these photos. There's been a bit of backfilling!
In the photo on the left, various withdrawn class 76s await removal for scrapping, two class 506 e.m.u. are parked up and a class 104 d.m.u. is in the background, presumably visiting for wheel turning.
Reddish depot closed in May 1983 and maintenance of the 1500V d.c. class 506 units was transferred to Longsight. As the overhead at Longsight was 25kV a.c. the units had to be dragged to and from there and a means of producing suitable d.c. was required to run the electrical equipment on the 506s, which continued in service until December 1984. This was achieved by using class 83 83009 as a stationary d.c. generator.
When Reddish closed, the wheel turning lathe was moved to Allerton depot.
Ruxox, Flitwick, Bedfordshire, 7 May 2020
Ruxox Farm is a typical 1850s Duke of Bedford Model Farm.
However the site is a Scheduled Monument whose history goes back a long way.
Dunstable Priory established a moated monastic grange (farm) here in 1150. It supplied food and other products to the Priory and to the Church and poor of Flitwick until the dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540.
There is a large, 'D'-shaped moat enclosing an island measuring at least 250m by 160m. The moat ditch is dry and measures 10-15m wide and up to 3m deep. In the fields to the north of the farm the moat has been backfilled, although its line is discernible as slight linear hollows. The island is generally flat but large fragments of stone scattered near the edges of the moat provide visible evidence that stone buildings once occupied the island edge.
Excavations in the 1950s and 1960s revealed traces of an Iron Age settlement and Romano-British settlement of some kind extending from 1st to late 4th centuries AD. These demonstrate that the moat was constructed on top of the remains of a much earlier settlement.
An Iron Age urn was found nearby when the A507 was built in 1983 and fragments of an Iron Age decorated mirror were found in 1998.
The name “Ruxox” comes from the Saxon “Hroc’s Oak”
El rompeolas de Cesarea fue construido con cajas de madera, que eran llevadas al mar y una vez alli eran rellenadas de un cemento hidráulico hecho de arena volcánica puzzoliana de Santorini, un cemento capaz de endurecerse bajo el agua, formando bloques de hasta 12 m. X 15 m. X 1,5 m., y bloques que pesaban más de 50 toneladas.
The breakwater of Caesarea was built with wooden boxes, which were transferred to the sea and once there they were backfilled with a hydraulic cement made from puzzoliana volcanic sand of Santorini, cement capable of hardening under water, forming blocks of up to 12 m. X 15 m. X 1.5 m., And blocks weighing over 50 tons.
Description: Planetary Nebulae represent the late evolutionary stage of low to intermediate mass stars. As these stars reach the final stage of their existence they enter the AGB (asymptotic giant branch) phase. As early AGB stars they begin to lose mass through dense but slow winds. This phase is followed by more profound mass lose through tenuous fast winds or superwind phase. The dynamic interaction between fast and slow winds ultimately forms the complex shell structure of Planetary Nebulae.
M97, more popularly known as the "Owl Nebula" is an older planetary nebula (PN) with a circular morphology and a bland inner structure. It is one of about 1600 planetary nebulae discovered in the Milky Way. The Milky Way has an estimated population of about 10,000 planetary nebulae. The low number is due to the brief time they exist, less than 50,000 years. M97 is at a fairly advanced stage as the superwind from the central star has long since ceased. M97 has a triple shell structure consisting of a round double shell comprising the main optical nebula and a faint bow-shaped outer shell which is very faint. The outer halo formed from material ejected thousands of years ago during the dying stars red giant phase. It continues to interact with the surrounding interstellar medium as the PN moves through space. The central star is a hot dead cinder of about 0.6 solar masses which produces abundant radiation from its 110,000 degree surface temperature.
Astronomers have had increasing success at building three dimensional models of planetary nebulae from two dimensional data. The models are based however on three assumptions: 1) material in the nebula moves exclusively in radial directions 2) each shell is ejected at different time epochs 3) each shell is composed of sub-shells that expand with velocities proportional to their distance from the center. The double shell of the main nebula is about 1.3 light years in diameter and has an expansion velocity of 40 kilometers/second. The inner shell is slightly elongated and the outer shell is round. The outer halo is bow shaped and has no measurable expansion velocity.
There are two distinguishing features of the Owl Nebula. The first is the presence of a central bipolar cavity excavated by the superwind of the central star. The second peculiar feature is the lack of a bright rim. The superwind that carved out the central cavity has since ceased allowing nebula material to backfill the cavity and smear out any bright rim that previously existed. The higher density of the material along the rim of the cavity is responsible for producing the forehead and beak of the owl. The bipolar cavity forms the characteristic eyes of the owl.
A reasonable conjecture regarding the evolutionary history of M97 begins in the early ABG phase of the dying star. The first event was the early slow wind which plowed into the interstellar medium forming the outer halo. During later stages of the ABG phase high mass loss occurred in the superwind phase which formed the main body of the planetary nebula. (Text: www.robgendlerastropics.com/M97text.html)
This picture was photographed March 17-18 2013 in Khlepcha observatory, Ukraine.
Equipment: reflector S&D 254 mm. f/4.7
Mount WhiteSwan-180, camera QSI-583wsg, Tevevue Paracorr-2. Off-axis guidecamera Orion SSAG.
LRGB filter set Baader Planetarium.
L=20*600 sec., bin.1 RGB: 10*450-600 sec. each channel, bin.2 Total 7.5 hours.
Processed Pixinsight 1.7 and Photoshop CS5.
Leafhopper, From one of our expeditions to the Dominican Republic, pulled from the cast off pile as too pretty to cast off. I am not a leafhopper person, so this remains only as "leafhopper" . That said, leafhoppers and other plant sucking insect ilk are one of several covert layers of biodiversity that few are aware of. For example, many leafhoppers are specialists feeding only on a select few species of native plants. Again, this takes us back to Nature-based strategies that look to creating and maintaining plantscapes as targeted biodiverse native plant groups (versus: we like pretty color flowers groups) and then the insects etc. backfill automatically (as least far as we are concerned). since we know so little about the these covert insects its the best we can do. There's a meandering account for you. Photo by Cole Cheng who used to be an intern in the lab until fear fear of the Rona left only me.
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Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
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Pictured is a soldier from 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, on the streets of West London with an armed member of the Metropolitan Police as part of Op TEMPERER, providing security and reassuring the public.
Operation TEMPERER – the mobilisation plan for military support to the police service in response to a major terrorist attack.
It is an established security plan by the Government which aims to help protect civilians at times of high terror threat when the official national threat level is raised to critical...Military personnel are deployed alongside the police at nominated sites to provide additional protective security. . .They backfilled existing armed guarding roles filled by armed police units, thereby releasing armed police officers to support the wider incident response...During this deployment, soldiers were working under police command and replaced or supplemented armed police officers to guard major sites such as rail stations, Parliament, embassies and Buckingham Palace.
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Photographer: Corporal Pete Brown
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I still need to backfill around the foundation and get the other structures finished but soon enough crews will be ready to unload those tankers.
Title from Waylon's "So Good Woman". Off the "Are You Ready For The Country album
Monochrome image of Irida with a backfill light.
The first of many of the pictures taken during our session with my nephew. He's just 5 months old and his name is Miguel. We had a really good light during sunset and I used that to backfill the image. I hope you like the results. more to come.
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Leafhopper, From one of our expeditions to the Dominican Republic, pulled from the cast off pile as too pretty to cast off. I am not a leafhopper person, so this remains only as "leafhopper" . That said, leafhoppers and other plant sucking insect ilk are one of several covert layers of biodiversity that few are aware of. For example, many leafhoppers are specialists feeding only on a select few species of native plants. Again, this takes us back to Nature-based strategies that look to creating and maintaining plantscapes as targeted biodiverse native plant groups (versus: we like pretty color flowers groups) and then the insects etc. backfill automatically (as least far as we are concerned). since we know so little about the these covert insects its the best we can do. There's a meandering account for you. Photo by Cole Cheng who used to be an intern in the lab until fear fear of the Rona left only me.
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All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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Sam Droege
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46 & 47 Steep Hill the Grade I Listed Norman House (formerly Aaron the Jew's House), a Stone house originally with shops on the ground floor and domestic quarters above and in rear range built in 1180. On the corner of Steep Hill and Christs Hospital Terrace in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
It may have been built over the west terminal of the Bail Ditch, backfilled after 1138. It has been much rebuilt but traces remain of the front chimney stack, ornamental string-course and doorway. It has a barrel vaulted undercroft facing south. A built-over window was revealed in 1877 and reset. Restoration work in 1936-7.
Parts of the foundations were observed in 1996. The timber floor of the first-floor corner room was found in 1999 to have been the subject of five phases of alterations and replacement. It was covered in 2000 by a new timber floor supported on a base of steel joists inserted into recesses. During this work, the date 1869 was noted on the underside of part of the earlier floor, and evidence of early 20th-century alterations to the east wall were seen.
1853 Robert Massingham and Levi Fletcher; 1878 R Lee, newsagent; 1901 M Hart hosiery shopkeeper; 1975, E E Wallis, antique dealer; late 1990s to date House of Wines. 46 became a separate shop in 2005, River Trees; 2009 The Bag Shop; 2011 Heritage bags.
Information source www.heritageconnectlincoln.com/
Baby Steps.
On Fromentine backfill you can find a really uncommon line of seaside villas, from the very typical cottage of 1920, to the Arab-type villa Dar Koum"
This is 2-10-0 Ty51 133, one of a number of this class employed by the huge Sand Railway operation in Upper Silesia in Poland. The giant excavator is half way through loading sand into the rake of wagons. Much of this sand was used to backfill redundant coal mines to avoid subsidence as far as possible. Steam operation on this system finished soon after this visit.
Dappled full moon-light on an early-sixties Club-Cab Power Wagon former prison truck. At the Cuyama Car Garden, an Art project consisting of over 1,000 carefully curated and arranged vehicles, lost up a remote SoCal canyon. The site was cleared in 2017. Night, full moon and a little warm white flashlight backfill, 4-minute exposure
Leafhopper, From one of our expeditions to the Dominican Republic, pulled from the cast off pile as too pretty to cast off. I am not a leafhopper person, so this remains only as "leafhopper" . That said, leafhoppers and other plant sucking insect ilk are one of several covert layers of biodiversity that few are aware of. For example, many leafhoppers are specialists feeding only on a select few species of native plants. Again, this takes us back to Nature-based strategies that look to creating and maintaining plantscapes as targeted biodiverse native plant groups (versus: we like pretty color flowers groups) and then the insects etc. backfill automatically (as least far as we are concerned). since we know so little about the these covert insects its the best we can do. There's a meandering account for you. Photo by Cole Cheng who used to be an intern in the lab until fear fear of the Rona left only me.
~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
Pictured is a member of The Royal Horse Artillery with an armed Metropolitan Police Officer on Horseguards Parade Ground.
Operation TEMPERER – the mobilisation plan for military support to the police service in response to a major terrorist attack.
It is an established security plan by the Government which aims to help protect civilians at times of high terror threat when the official national threat level is raised to critical...Military personnel are deployed alongside the police at nominated sites to provide additional protective security. . .They backfilled existing armed guarding roles filled by armed police units, thereby releasing armed police officers to support the wider incident response...During this deployment, soldiers were working under police command and replaced or supplemented armed police officers to guard major sites such as rail stations, Parliament, embassies and Buckingham Palace.
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October's massive bomb cyclone caused many creeks and major tributaries to flood. One such tributary was Sonoma County's Laguna de Santa Rosa. When the waters of the Russian River rise, water backfills into the Laguna, causing a massive lake to develop. The floodwaters added a nice compliment to the floodwaters the day after the massive storm.
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The Giant is cut into the west side of Trendle Hill near the village of Cerne Abbas in Dorset, England. It depicts a nude male wielding a large club in his right hand and sporting a prominent erection. The 55m long Giant is in the care of the National Trust and each Spring a team of volunteers cuts back any turf overgrowth and backfills the shallow trenches which mark the figure, with chalk rubble. The age of the Giant has long been debated but recent optical luminescence tests show him to date from approximately 1000AD. His member measures some 11 metres in length, nearly the size of his head. Lidar tests show that the original figure had a defined navel and a much smaller penis. It seems this was altered in the 1908 turf cut when it was extended and the navel disappeared; a photograph from the 1890's would appear to confirm this. One commentator has wryly noted that postcards of the Giant are the only photographs of erections that can be sent via the Royal Mail (Royal Male?!). Taken with a 1975 Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera model 1 on Polaroid (TIP) B+W film. 'RoidWeek Autumn 2022 Day 5, Photo 2.
Today's upload brings a tale of two Volvos, as a couple of former Metroline London Plaxton President bodied Volvo B7TLs have joined the fleet here at Grantham. I'm told that these are only here on a temporary basis to provide backfill for other deckers heading off for MOTs which were deferred when lockdown struck.
930 is the first of the duo, and is seen here at the Bourne Road Estate in Colsterworth, whilst waiting for time on the 0900 from Grantham to South Witham.
Note that both also retain their dual doors, useful on school runs.