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With three hours between Wednesday's targets there was ample time to grab a bite to eat and reconnoitre a few locations in the Millom area for future reference.
That done I returned to one of them, Aggie's Lonning, for a go at the 14.37 BIF - CAR on the front of which I knew was 37402.
Located on the opposite side of this stretch of line is Millom's "down" distant semaphore and I wanted to include it in the compo' for this one.
Unfortunately the electrically operated signal's attendant grey boxes are on this side, their unwelcome intrusion ruining any attempt to incorporate it.
I had to make do with a mile-post and a few snow-capped south western fells to generate something extra.
Fortunately a couple appeared walking toward me and stopped to take a look as the train approached and they add a tiny bit of something to the composition.
Not only was it bloody cold here an hour before sunset but a bank of cloud was approaching from the west, providing a nervy few moments as 402 seemed to take an age to trundle around the coast from Kirby in Furness.
Within 15 minutes the sun was gone from here.
A companion shot to November's moon, taken from an almost identical place. The moon rises above and reflects in Lake Springfield. If you detect a small white bit close to the center where the water becomes land, that is a pair of White pelicans.
Wetton Mill, from the western summit of Wetton Hill, appearing from the early freezing fog. Wetton Hill drops surprisingly steeply into the Manifold Valley on the western side, giving a very good view of the valley and the Staffordshire moorlands beyond. The farm and teashop are at the bottom of the frame, hidden in the trees about a third from the right; and Butterton church sits almost directly above at the top of the picture
Not a great day to be walking, but we did a mile with umbrellas anyway; mine kept blowing inside out!!
........... on ice.
I uploaded this picture because of the feet. I'm not a fetishist, but these really captivated me. They can practically walk on water with them! When I first saw that, I was completely blown away :)))
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............ auf dem Eis.
Dieses Bild habe ich wegen der Füße hochgeladen. Ich bin kein Feteschist aber diese haben es mir angetan. Sie können ja regelrecht damit übers Wasser laufen, als ich das das erste Mal gesehen habe, war ich total von den Socken :)))
I mentioned yesterday about our garden being colder than most we saw on our walk. Well here we are. I ventured no further than this today.
Mind when the temperature outside soars to 80F in the hall by the front door is about 65F and sitting on the bottom step of the stairs is a good place to keep cool.
22nd January 2023 Home Stafford UK
It's early on the morning of January 2nd 2026. L591's crew was already hard at work cleaning the backlog of cars accumulated in the yard since Christmas cancellations. With only one working cab heater aboard GTW 6226 and minus 4 degree Fahrenheit winter trying to fill up the already cold cab thru every holes and cracks, heavy winter coat and hat are mandatory in cab that day as showing by engineer trainee S.P.
Outside, sub-zero temperature and the ever-present windchill kept the ground crew quite busy dealing with rock-solid air hoses, frozen angle cock along with switches.
You bet S.P feel quite lucky escaping an another winter working the ground and filling up the right hand seat, up toward the spring season.
Coteau-du-Lac,QC
January 2nd 2026
A frosty morning in Cummersdale sees 70812 head a late running 6C34 0550 Dalston-Carlisle Yard, the returning empties from the second of today’s trips to the oil depot with traffic from Grangemouth refinery. Cold weather sometimes slows the discharge of the tanks, particularly the heavier fuels, hence the late running.
Photo of Cold Brook Falls in the White Mountain National Forest of New Hampshire. The waterfall is accessed from the Amphibrach Trail, which begins at the Appalachia hiker's parking lot on Route 2 in the town of Randolph. The source of the falls is Cold Brook.
Tender boat and late November evening don't mix, speeding to wards the Ross Revenge - Radio Caroline.
#You'll find a collection of my favourite Tidal Waves images @
The first month of 2025 has been an essay in how cold we can get! Although we are on the same latitude as Moscow, we do have the warming influence of an ocean around Scotland's shores. So we probably shouldn't complain, but of course we do 😊
-16c was the lowest we managed - and snow a foot deep. So we were quite home-centred, and shooting, even in the garden, was quite an adventure. After keeping ourselves warm, we spent a lot of time trying to ensure our garden birds survived too. Icy weather for a few days is not too bad - but when it extends to 2 or 3 weeks, they were suffering. Both water and food froze solid so quickly!
So there are a lot of white images in the monthly collage! I used one snow bokeh image as the background for the collage. Happily the group challenges gave me inspiration for indoor and tabletop still life shots, as we felt the memories of 'lockdown' returning 😊
February is beginning with the same sub-zero world, though much of the snow has gone. But we are looking forward to a very early and very warm Spring! Well - we can dream!
As ever - many thanks to everyone who has visited my photostream and for the comments and faves.
All my collages are collected here: At a Glance
This brave little mallard duck was forging ahead out on the frozen Fox River in Batavia, Illinois on this brisk Valentine's Day morning. Temperatures ranged from -4F to +3F, or -20C to -16C using the other arbitrary scale.
The cold wind was worth being surrounded by this beauty. My first snowshoe of the year with a great hiking group.
Man it's hot today as I post this in June 2021. So let's go back six months to a cold crisp day standing on a bridge over the Connecticut River right between the Granite and Green Mountain states.
After plowing 50 miles up and over the Green Mountains from Rutland, the Vermont Rail System crew has arrived in Bellows Falls. This view looks north off the closed Vilas Bridge at the 1899 twin arch former Boston & Maine stone arch bridge across the Connecticut River gorge and falls between North Walpole, NH and Bellows Falls, VT. The 263 crew that normally turns back at Riverside yard has come all the way into town, crossed the NECR diamond and is about to enter the old B&M North Walpole yard so the plow can be spun on the turntable in front of the former B&M roundhouse visible above and to the right of the plow. The DASW (Bellows Falls) switcher crew will assist with the move to get the 1954 vintage ex CV Russell plow X106 spun so the crew can wing their way back west across the old Rutland mainline.
North Walpole, New Hampshire
Friday December 18, 2020