Class 100, DB975349 (ex 51116) & DB975539 (ex 56101) with class 101, E54409 & E53229 at Retford at 12:57hrs on the 17th of February 1987

Hampi, school class

Hampi is a village in northern Karnataka, India. It is located within the ruins of the city of Vijayanagara, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. Predating the city of Vijayanagara, it continues to be an important religious centre, housing the Virupaksha Temple, as well as several other monuments belonging to the old city. The ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed as the Group of Monuments at Hampi.

Most of Vijayanagara lies on the south bank of the Tungabhadra River. The city was built around the religious center of the Virupaksha temple complex at Hampi.

The city of Vijayanagara was originally encompassed by seven lines of fortifications. These fortifications had a large number of bastions and gateways. The seventh and the innermost fortification enclosed the main city and is the best preserved. The extant monuments of Vijayanagara or Hampi can be divided into religious, civil and military buildings. While most of the monuments at Hampi are from the Vijayanagara period, a small proportion may be assigned to pre-Vijayanagara times. The Jain temples on Hemakuta hill, the two Devi shrines and some other structures in the Virupaksha temple complex predate the Vijanagara empire. The earliest amongst them, the Shaiva shrines with their stepped pyramidal vimanas or superstructures, date to the early Chalukyan period around ninth-tenth century AD.

(source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampi and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara)

Tuesday, April 11th 2017

Grantham Station

Hitachi Class 800 - A Peterborough to Doncaster test train is headed by 800.001 with 002 at the rear

GWR Class 165 No.165125 arrives at Appleford,with the 13:04 Banbury to Didcot Parkway service,on the 29th of August 2024.

After arriving with the 11:00 from Dundee on 24/7/83.

In the cab of class 317 661

Class 37884

Auchinraith

The Class of 2014 climbed the risers on the Plain on Thursday, April 10, 2014 for their class photo. Always a fun event to capture. The Class photo will be available from PanFoto in the very near future.

Two unidentified Buxton "White Roofed" allocated Derby built class 108 dmu's leave New Mills Central, with a 6 car Summer Sunday only Peak Rail Rambler service to Buxton, this working was normally in the hands of a 3 car unit

Just about in view is the New Mills turn back tunnel , as we called it as it was used to turn back the 2 car dmus back to Manchester, is a Buxton "White Roofed" allocated BRC&W dmu BX482, this tunnel is 197 yards long and was only half bricked up at the other end, officialy called Hayfield Tunnel and was the start of the 2.5 mile branch to Hayfield which closed to all traffic on 03/01/70.

Today the tunnel is trackless but the tunnel mouth is still there, at the other end of the tunnel is the start of the Sett Valley trail which is on the old track bed to Hayfield.

7th July 1985

Class 24 24147 looked somewhat the worse for wear when pictured on Motherwell shed on May 23rd 1976. It was officially withdrawn two months later, and eventually cut-up at Doncaster during November 1977.

The Schlafly class was introduced in 1919 to replace the older destroyers and torpedo boats in Vinland's navy as part of its ongoing modernization program. The small, fast, and slim Schlafly sports four 5in guns, four torpedo turrets with two torpedoes each, and several nests for AA weaponry plus an 88mm flak gun.

Other ships in the class:

-VSS Schlafly

-VSS Busch

-VSS Lemp

-VSS Leinenkugel

-VSS Miller

-VSS Anheuser

-VSS Schlitz

-VSS Juengling

-VSS Koors

-VSS Pabst

-VSS Blatz

-VSS Hamm

-VSS Spoetzl

-VSS Straub

-VSS Stroh

-VSS Frauenheim

-VSS Pfeiffer

-VSS Schaefer

-VSS Kraeftig

-VSS Faust

-VSS Hudepohl

-VSS Michelob

-VSS Genesee

-VSS Narangansett

-VSS Labatt

-VSS Schmidt

-VSS Schell

-VSS Carling

-VSS Ziegenbock

-VSS Florian Kuplent

-VSS Steinhaus

-VSS Wiedemann

-VSS Baderbräu

-VSS Rohrbach

-VSS Weyerbacher

-VSS Weihenstephan

-VSS Paulaner

-VSS Krombacher

-VSS Erdinger

-VSS Franziskaner

-VSS Löwenbräu

-VSS Hacker-Pschorr

British Rail Class 321 'dusty bin' 4 car 25kV EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) 321364 leads the 8 car 1Y31 09:30 (10:08 5L) Abellio Greater Anglia Ipswich- London Liverpool Street service train at a dreary Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).

My Class 321 album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3BAgK

I haven't shot a pistol match in a couple of years, but I guess it's a bit like riding a bike.

One class fits all.

Yarra Road school. Victoria, Australia.

Yarra Road Primary School began in a single classroom with four students in 1925.

Prior to this the local children travelled by foot or horse to Wonga Park Primary School.

In 1925 a Miss Alice G. Broad was appointed as the first teacher at the school which was set amongst the gum trees and native flora of its current site.

Grimsby bound. 8 Sep'14

class 310 unit carriages after the collision at milton malsor 20/4/67

Class 305 EMU set number 305420 DT interior view

Class Picnic Blouse (with lace trim)

The simple life fabric by Tasha Noel

Blogged: sisforsewing.wordpress.com/2013/05/01/kcw-spring-2013-day...

Blackford

CLASS 360 118 HEADING TOWARDS LIVERPOOL ST

Metro-Cammell (Birmingham) Class 465/1 "Networker" 750 v dc 3rd rail suburban 4-car emu No.465 155 of South Eastern at London Bridge, 10/07. Scanned slide taken with a Nikon F65D.

The Class of 2018 stands in front of Dartmouth Hall. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

Brush Type 4 Class 47 Co-Co diesel locomotive 47828 leads 47805 'John Scott 12.5.45-22.5.12' working the 037Z 06:50 (13:02 1E) DRS (Direct Rail Services) Crewe Gresty Bridge- Stowmarket DGL (Down Goods Loop) double header convoy move in readiness for the forthcoming RHTT (Rail Head Treatment Train) season at a dreary Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).

47828 was built at Brush Falcon Works in Loughborough and entered service as D1966 on October 2nd 1965.

Photography courtesy of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.

The order was hands clasped.

Ellebjerg

1962

dk

Class 20,s 20196+20188 pass over the Washwood Heath line on

the Aston to Stechford line with a ECS train of a fotex to Witton, the stock will stable at Coventry. 11/04/1987.

© Kevin Connolly - All rights reserved so please do not use this image without my explicit permission.

Trångfors school 1939

458007 driving car. Doncaster 25Nov'15

A class 116 DMU shut down and stabled in the downside bay platform at Leamington Spa. 9th November 1982.

General Motors (EMD) 3,200hp Class 66/0 Co-Co No.66 749 (ex-No.20078968-006) of GBRf travelling through Cardiff Central on the 10.13 6V32 Tilbury RCT - Trostre empty cargowagons, 11 July 2019.

20092/20046/20137 at Frodingham Depot.

Les Cévennes. France.

It might rain.

Now what was the advert on UK TV in the 2000s on insurance when the main character was always ready for any accident or event.

Saint-Jean, Versailles 1975.

One of the old B&W photos now re-colourised automatically.

British Rail Class 321 'Dusty Bin' 4 car 25kV Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) 321364 working the 1Y05 06:52 (07:33 RT) Abellio Greater Anglia Ipswich- London Liverpool Street service train on August 12th 2017 southbound at Hatfield Peverel Station on the Great Eastern Main Line in Essex (UK).

Note the Dellner type coupling system at the front of the train. The Dellner Coupling is a version of the Scharfenberg coupler which connects pneumatics and electronics at the same point of contact.

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My Hatfield Peverel Railway Station album flic.kr/s/aHsjD3AKYz

Railtrack sandite EMU number 930201 stands in the down goods loop just west of Southampton Central. Scrapped in 2004, 930201 had a quite complicated history, starting life as cars from 2-EPB units 5782 and 5784 and originally allocated the number 017 in the departmental EMU series.

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Adtranz/Bombardier (Derby) Class 168/1 "Clubman" outer-suburban 3-car dmu No.168 108 of Chiltern Railways entering Marylebone from Birmingham Snow Hill, 10/07.

DB Class 66 No.66154 passes Upton Scudamore,with the 08:46 Westbury to St Blazey via Salisbury RHTT working,on the 6th of November 2024.

Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. Type JT42CWR Class 66 diesel electric locomotive 66534 heads a Freightliner intermodal northbound into Chelmsford Station on the Great Eastern Main Line with Class 90 'Skoda' 90046 behind and along for the ride dead in tow pantograph down.. (probably broken down..;-)

Note the signal L758 and the 45 degree 'feather' junction route indicator above the locomotives at the end of the down line platform (2). This signal is used to control bi-directional workings southbound on the down line.

If the proceed green aspect is shown and the 'feather' route indicator (5 lights at 45° above the signal) is illuminated showing a white aspect this means the crossover points are set for a train to crossover onto the 'up' line just beyond here. More often than not these are used for the weekday 6M53 Chelmsford low level yard to Mountsorrel Quarry aggregate return service and some early morning rush hour Liverpool Street bound trains. Generally trains are held at red before using the crossover to prevent excess speed on the points.

The caged signal device on the left is called a 'banner repeater' and these are positioned when the driver cannot see a forthcoming colour aspect signal. In this case it's for the down signal L717 at the other end of this platform (the up line) during bi-directional workings.

Also note the two bi-directional British Rail Automatic Warning System (AWS) Inductor Ramps in between the rails just in front of the locomotive.

The inductor ramp is an integral part of the AWS which was introduced on British Railways in 1956. AWS will warn the driver about the aspect of the following signal which is generally about 180/185 metres away in either direction. In this instance it is for signal L715 at the end of the down line platform (2). Data about the next signal aspect is sent electromagnetically to the driver as the train passes over the ramp. The inductor contains a magnet and an electromagnet which can denergise the magnet.

If the following signal aspect is green, the electromagnet of the ramp will magnetise and when the train passes over a buzzer will sound in the cab and the drivers AWS warning panel will show black and the driver can proceed as normal.

If the following signal aspect is showing yellow (caution) or red (stop, danger) the electromagnet will denergise the magnet and this will sound an alarm in the cab as the train passes over while the AWS warning panel will show yellow and black. If the driver does not press the cancel button to switch off the alarm within 6 seconds the brakes will be applied and the train will be stopped.

;-)

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Nice shooting in difficult autumn light by fellow enthusiast David and photograph posted here with very kind permission.