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Under heavy skies, Class 47818 powers through Whitlingham Junction heading the 3S01 RHTT consist towards Norwich Crown Point.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/6s 37606 and 37611, with 37218 and 37603 along for the ride, diesel-electric locomotives storm out of Workington Main station on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6C46 the 19:31 BNFL Sellafield to Carlisle Kingmoor nuclear flask train.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4's Nos. 37402 Named. "Stephen Middlemore" + 37419 Named. "Carl Haviland" are seen here passing through Maryhill Station painted in British Rail Large Logo Blue and Intercity Mainline while working service 1Q80 which was the 15:56 Mossend Down Yard - Mossend Down Yard [Network Rail PLPR Track Inspection Train].
DMUs of classes 101/111 and 105 are seen in the bay platforms used for direct services to Leeds and beyond, whilst there is an InterCity125 in the background.
Swiss-German-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes / Filmwelt Berlin, Bakede / News Productions, Stroud, no. 56501. Photo: Collection Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne.Brigitte Bardot and Yves Robert in Les Grandes Manoeuvres/Summer Manoeuvres (René Clair, 1955), produced by Filmsonor and Rizzoli Films.
Beautiful French actress Brigitte Bardot (1934) was the sex kitten of the European film industry. BB starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. After her retirement in 1973, she established herself as an animal rights activist and made vegetarianism sexy.
Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris in 1934. Her father, Louis Bardot, had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Her mother, Ann-Marie Mucel, was 14 years younger than Brigitte's father and they married in 1933. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance. At the age of 13, she entered the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse to study ballet. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying a modeling career and found herself in May 1949 on the cover of the French magazine Elle. Her incredible beauty was readily apparent, Brigitte was noticed by Roger Vadim, then an assistant to the film director Marc Allegrét. Vadim was infatuated with Bardot and encouraged her to start working as a film actress. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand/Crazy for Love (Jean Boyer, 1952). In the same year, she married Vadim. Brigitte wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. In April 1953 she attended the Cannes Film Festival where she received massive media attention. She soon was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. From 1952 to 1956 she appeared in seventeen films. Her films were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She made her first US production in 1953 in Un acte d'amour/Act of Love (Anatole Litvak, 1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France.
Roger Vadim was not content with the light fare his wife was offered. He felt Brigitte Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme/...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a smashing success on both sides of the Atlantic. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "It's easy enough to say that ...And God Created Woman is much more important for its historical significance than for its actual quality as a film, and that's true to an extent. Woman's immense popularity, due to its willingness to directly embrace an exploration of sex as well as its willingness to show a degree of nudity that was remarkably daring for its day, demonstrated that audiences were willing to view subject matter that was considered too racy for the average moviegoer. This had both positive (freedom to explore, especially for the French filmmakers of the time) and negative (freedom to exploit) consequences, but its impact is undeniable. It's also true that Woman is not a great work of art, not with a story that is ultimately rather thin, some painful dialogue, and an attitude toward its characters and their sexuality that is unclear and inconsistent. Yet Woman is still fascinating, due in no small part to the presence of Brigitte Bardot in the role that made her an international star and sex symbol. She's not demonstrating great acting here, although her performance is actually good and much better than necessary, and her legendary mambo scene at the climax is nothing short of sensational." During the shooting of Et Dieu créa la femme/And God Created Woman (1956), directed by her husband Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot had an affair with her co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant, who at that time was married to French actress Stéphane Audran. Her divorce from Vadim followed, but they remained friends and collaborated in later work.
Et Dieu créa la femme/...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956) helped her international status. The film took the USA by storm, her explosive sexuality being unlike anything seen in the States since the days of the 'flapper' in the 1920s. It gave rise to the phrase 'sex kitten' and fascination of her in America consisted of magazine photographs and dubbed over French films - good, bad, or indifferent, her films drew audiences - mainly men - into theaters like lemmings.BB appeared in light comedies like Doctor at Large (1957) - the third of the British 'Doctor' series starring Dirk Bogarde - and Une Parisienne/La Parisienne (Michel Boisrond, 1957) which suited her acting skills best. However, she was a sensation in the crime drama En cas de malheur/Love is my profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1958). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "this Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief named Yvette, who becomes the mistress of influential defense attorney Andre (Jean Gabin). Though Andre is able to shower Yvette with jewels and furs, he cannot "buy" her heart, and thus it is that it belongs to handsome young student Mazzetti (Franco Interlenghi). Alas, Yvette is no judge of human nature: attractive though Mazzetti can be, he has a dangerous and deadly side. En Cas de Malheur contains a nude scene that has since been reprinted in freeze-frame form innumerable times by both film-history books and girlie magazines." Photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed considerably to her image of sensuality and slight immorality. One of Lévin's pictures shows Brigitte, dressed in a white corset. It is said that around 1960 postcards with this photograph outsold in Paris those of the Eiffel Tower.
Brigitte Bardot divorced Vadim in 1957 and in 1959 she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre/Babette Goes to War (Christian-Jaque, 1959). The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world. Vie privée/Private Life (1962), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. James Travers at Films de France: "Brigitte Bardot hadn’t quite reached the highpoint of her career when she agreed to make this film with high profile New Wave film director Louis Malle. Even so, the pressure of being a living icon was obviously beginning to get to France’s sex goddess and Vie privée is as much an attempt by Bardot to come to terms with her celebrity as anything else. Malle is clearly fascinated by Bardot and the documentary approach he adopts for this film reinforces the impression that it is more a biography of the actress than a work of fiction. Of course, it’s not entirely biographical, but the story is remarkably close to Bardot’s own life and comes pretty close to predicting how her career would end." The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names, was based on an actual incident and is a resonant image of a celebrity in the mid-20th century. Soon afterward Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France.
Brigitte Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs and right-wing politician Bernard d'Ormale. She is reputed to have had relationships with many other men including Sami Frey, her co-star in La Vérité/The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960), and musicians Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In 1963, Brigitte Bardot starred in Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris/Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963). She was also featured along with such notable actors as Alain Delon in Amours célèbres/Famous Love Affairs (Michel Boisrond, 1961) and Histoires extraordinaires/Tales of Mystery (Louis Malle, 1968), Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria! (Louis Malle, 1965), Sean Connery in Shalako (Edward Dmytryk, 1968), and Claudia Cardinale in Les Pétroleuses/Petroleum Girls (Christian-Jaque, 1971). She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury, and Sacha Distel, including 'Harley Davidson', 'Le Soleil De Ma Vie' (the cover of Stevie Wonder's 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life') and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'.
Brigitte Bardot’s film career showed a steady decline in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1973 just before her fortieth birthday, she announced her retirement. She chose to use her fame to promote animal rights. In 1976 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and many personal belongings. For this work, she was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1984. During the 1990's she became also outspoken in her criticism of immigration, interracial relationships, Islam in France, and homosexuality. Her husband Bernard d'Ormal is a former adviser of the far-right Front National party. Bardot has been convicted five times for 'inciting racial hatred'. More fun is that Bardot is recognised for popularizing bikini swimwear, in early films such as Manina/Woman without a Veil (1952), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photoshoots. Bardot also brought into fashion the 'choucroute' ('Sauerkraut') hairstyle (a sort of beehive hairstyle) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her. Time Magazine: "She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films."
Sources: Denny Jackson (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Craig Butler (AllMovie), James Travers (Films de France), Films de France, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Direct Rail Services (DRS) 57303 'Pride Of Carlisle' and 57304 'Pride Of Cheshire' rumble through Stafford working the ECS movement of 5Z39 1555 Kidderminster S.V.R. to Crewe H.S.
Enjoying the sunset on the dune near the edge of the Earth. The nearest road is 3 days of hiking away, the next beach to sail to or to land on with a small plane is 5-7 hours of hiking away. This is truly a remote place, and the calmness of the place is only disturbed by the crashing waves. One of my favourite places.
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Trois jours de rando sur Rakiura (l'île Stewart) au sud de l'archipel néo-zélandais mènent à un refuge en haut d'une colline, noyé dans la végétation dense, entouré de troncs comme une cabane perchée dans les arbres, recouvert par la canopée des arbres qui se battent pour obtenir une place au soleil pour leurs feuilles.
Depuis le refuge, à travers la baie vitrée, le balcon donne sur cette forêt dense d'arbres de jungle, de fougères... Et au fond, au loin, en bas dans la vallée, une plaine sans fin et un désert vert. Pas un humain dans cette direction, ou seuls quelques randonneurs et chasseurs de passage qui traversent la plaine chaque jour et retrouvent un refuge le soir venu près de la côte. Si on trace une ligne droite, c'est le bout de l'île dans 50 ou 100km puis l'océan, jusqu'à l'Antarctique. Seuls les oiseaux, les cerfs, et quelques autres animaux vivent dans cette jungle.
À côté de ce refuge, une dune qui complète ce lieu isolé et confortable, une dune depuis laquelle on peut apprécier le coucher du soleil sur la mer de Tasmanie, le soleil illuminant de ses rayons orangés l'île Codfish, et notre île Stewart.
On voit les rochers se découper dans la mer, attaqués par les vagues qui s'y écrasent. Je ne me lasse pas de voir les vagues venir et repartir, hyptonisantes. Je ne me lasse pas de contempler le sable doré par le soleil, ponctué de rochers affleurant, sur cette dune à 100m au-dessus de la mer. Je m'y sens si bien.
The National Cycle Route 647 on the disused Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway, in between the former Clifton-on-Trent railway station and Doddington and Harby railway station, in Nottinghamshire.
Like most new railways of the time its purpose was the carriage of coal. The project's leading light was William Arkwright, a descendant of Richard Arkwright who had made the family's fortune by mechanising the spinning of cotton. William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
The rail network in the vicinity provided by the Midland Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was still in its infancy and would not meet his requirements. In 1887 the Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway was proposed independently to join with Midland lines at each end. It would cross his land but received insufficient support.
Arkwright decided to promote an independent line to provide through roads to opposite coasts of the country. In time it became known as "The East to West". It would be sufficiently large to maintain itself in the face of competition from other railways. There were a number of lines already approved but not carried forward which could be incorporated. With the Newark and Ollerton there was the Macclesfield and Warrington Railway and the Lincoln and East Coast Railway. A number of other lines had been considered but not formally proposed and these, together with plans for dock works at Sutton on Sea which had been approved in 1884, gave Arkwright his route and support from the various landowners involved. The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company was formed at 27 George St in Westminster and published its plans in 1890.
There was initially a deal of opposition from landowners and other railway companies but, in the end, the main opponent was the MS&LR because the line would bypass its own line from Sheffield to Retford and thence to London. The Great Eastern Railway turned from opponent to supporteer, realising that the line could give it an entree to the Midlands coalfields. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Act authorising building the line was given Royal Assent on 5 August 1891.
Due to lack of investment, only the portion from Chesterfield to Lincoln was built. To have continued west of Chesterfield would have required some extremely expensive and difficult engineering works. It was an ambitious undertaking, with some extremely expensive engineering works, crossing the Peak District which had always been a major headache for railway builders. Even to the east it crossed lines of hills running north and south. In addition it would conflict with the lines of a number of other railway companies.
From Lincoln the line would continue eastward over the Lincolnshire Wolds, with a junction near Stainfield as it crossed the GNR Louth to Bardney line. Proceeding well to the north of Horncastle it would cross the East Lincolnshire Railway to the southwest of Alford passing to the south. It would then join that line's loop (at that time known as the Willoughby Railway) near Thurlby turning north east to Sutton on Sea, where the North Sea port would be built.
Passenger services over the line to Lincoln finished in September 1955.
First you get out one of those long dresses you haven't been able to wear for five years, but can't yet let go of because you keep telling yourself that maybe all the weight you've packed on is just a bad dream and surely any day now you are going to wake up and be that skinny size 6 you used to be again. Bring the dress into the kitchen and lay it out on your counter, and look around for something tall that you can drape part of it up over. As an example, one of those big coffee cans work pretty well. Be carefull of the excess fabric that is piled over onto your stove. Try not to cuss to loud when you knock over some of the other stuff (on the one and only tiny little counter) that you didn't move out of the way because in your tiny little kitchen, there really isn't anywhere else you can put it. Remember, it is late at night and your doors are still open. Where applicable, take a moment to shoot a dirty look at the stationary excercise bike that is now parked in your already crowded living room, and to date has served no purpose other than something to stub your toe on. Breathe... you are on a mission, don't lose track. Go back to the closet / pantry room and get out your handy-dandy flexible gooseneck desk lamp. Stop thinking about those damned Cheetos, also in the closet / pantry area. Bring the lamp in the kitchen and set it up on the TV tray that you've placed over half of your double sink. Pat yourself on the back for having come up with that bright idea for additional counter space.
Rewind to the little yellow flower that you picked earlier in your landlord's yard, a reward to yourself for having once again made it back and forth through his dangerously cluttered back yard and driveway without falling down and killing yourself, and try not to be too ticked that that is the only possible route to your mailbox, which doesn't seem to bother him in the least... just be grateful that you don't get much mail, and depending on whether or not your last TV Guide was a double issue, you only have to go to your mailbox once every week or two... and that besides your mailbox and all his piles of junk, he also has flowers in his yard. Having already placed said stolen flower in a pretty, but impractical, salt shaker that doubles as a vase, move the arrangement from atop your microwave to the fabric draped countertop, positioning it just so in front of the also draped coffee can. Turn the lamp on and squiggle it around till the light is directed right. Be careful of the cord, which is dangling atop the sinks faucet, a stretch to the nearest electrical outlet. Whisper a quick prayer that nothing slips and makes a big mess while you quick grab your camera from your purse, which hangs conveniently from a nail in the doorway, just a couple of feet away. Don't you dare go back into that little room with the Cheetos in it. Go instead to the macro setting of your camera, take aim, and... CLICK!!!
Well, that's how I did it. From there on out, you are on your own. After just a little tweaking with my ACDSee photo edit program, I went to Picnik for mirrored frames, three of them... I love the look of depth that they give. Oh, and I returned the lamp and dress to the closet / pantry, while still avoiding those Cheetos. I'm sure I'll have use for the lamp again. And the dress... well, you just never know.
Note: Author / Photographer does not advise picking flowers out of other people's yards, without their prior knowledge and permission. Usually. LOL
Life's a hoot if you let it be :))
~kplf
Direct Rail Services Class 88 88009 Diana working 4S44 Daventry International Reception Sidings to Mossend Down Yard
Mexican postcard by Sello, no. 216. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
On 25 November 2020, Mexican singer and actress Flor Silvestre (1930-2020) passed away. She was one of the most prominent and successful performers of Mexican and Latin American music and was a star of classic Mexican films. Famous for her melodious voice and unique singing style, she was nicknamed "La Sentimental" (The Sentimental One) and "La Voz Que Acaricia" (The Voice That Caresses). Her more than 70-year career included stage productions, radio programs, records, films, television programs, comics, and rodeo shows.
Flor Silvestre was born Guillermina Jiménez Chabolla in 1930 in Salamanca, Guanajuato, Mexico. She was the third child and second daughter of Jesús Jiménez Cervantes, a butcher, and María de Jesús Chabolla Peña. Her sisters Enriqueta and María de la Luz also became singers. Guillermina was raised in Salamanca and began singing at an early age. Her parents, who were also fond of singing, encouraged her to sing. She loved the mariachi music of famous Mexican singers Jorge Negrete and Lucha Reyes, and also sang songs that belonged to the pasodoble, tango, and bolero genres, which were popular in Mexico in the late 1930s. Her family moved to Mexico City and there she began her singing career. In 1943, when she was 13 years old, she debuted at the Teatro del Pueblo. Her next performance at the Teatro del Pueblo was in the play 'La soldadera' (The female soldier), directed by López Santillán. She played a girl who comes out of a railway wagon and sings 'La soldadera', a song written for her by José de Jesús Morales. The play was also broadcast by Mexico's national radio station, XEFO, and 'La soldadera' became the first song she performed on radio. XEFO announcer Arturo Blancas chose the title of Dolores del Río's film Flor Silvestre (Emilio Fernández, 1943), as the young singer's new stage name, so Guillermina Jiménez became Flor Silvestre, which means 'wild flower'. In 1945, she was announced as the "Alma de la Canción Ranchera" (Soul of the Ranchera Song), and in 1950, the year in which she emerged as a radio star, she was proclaimed the "Reina de la Canción Mexicana" (Queen of Mexican Song). In February 1950, she was a part of the "numerous, hybrid, but useful cast" of '¡A los toros!', a revue about bullfighting staged at the Teatro Tívoli. It was written and presented by announcer Paco Malgesto, who would become her second husband. In the revue, she sang Mexican musical numbers associated with bullfights. Also in 1950, she signed a contract with Columbia Records and recorded her first hits, which include 'Imposible olvidarte', 'Que Dios te perdone', and 'Pobre corazón'. In 1957, she began recording for Musart Records and became one of the label's exclusive artists with numerous best-selling singles, such as 'Cielo rojo', 'Renunciación', and 'Gracias'. Many of her hits charted on Cashbox Mexico's Best Sellers and Record World Latin American Single Hit Parade. She also participated in her husband Antonio Aguilar's musical rodeo shows.
Flor Silvestre made her film debut in 1949 singing in Te besaré en la boca/I will kiss you on the mouth (Fernando Cortés, 1950). In 1950, Flor signed a five-film contract with Gregorio Walerstein, a leading film producer known as "the Tsar of Mexican films" She made her acting debut in his production Primero soy mexicano/First I am Mexican (1950), co-starring Joaquín Pardavé (who also wrote and directed the film) and Luis Aguilar and featuring Francisco "Charro" Avitia. She was reunited with Luis Aguilar and Francisco Avitia in the film El tigre enmascarado/The masked tiger (Zacarías Gómez Urquiza, 1951). She then appeared as the leading lady of actor Dagoberto Rodríguez in a film trilogy, El lobo solitario/The lonely wolf (Vicente Oroná, 1952), La justicia del lobo/Wolf justice (Vicente Oroná, 1952), and Vuelve el lobo/The wolf returns (Vicente Oroná, 1952). Between 1950 and 1990, she appeared in more than seventy films. Beautiful and statuesque, she became one of the leading stars of the 'golden age' of the Mexican film industry. In 1955, she appeared in her first color film, La doncella de piedra/The stone maiden (Miguel M. Delgado, 1956), one of the first Mexican CinemaScope productions. An adaptation of Rómulo Gallegos' novel 'Sobre la misma tierra', the film features Flor Silvestre in the role of Cantaralia Barroso, the mother of the novel's protagonist, Remota Montiel (played by Elsa Aguirre). Silvestre played opposite famous comedians, such as Cantinflas in the Eastmancolor comedy El bolero de Raquel/Raquel's Shoeshiner (Miguel M. Delgado, 1957). She received for the first time top billing in Pueblo en Armas/People in arms (Miguel Contreras Torres, 1959) and its sequel ¡Viva la soldadera!/Long live the female soldiers!(Miguel Contreras Torres, 1960). Director Ismael Rodríguez gave her important roles in the Mexican Revolution epic La cucaracha/The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (Ismael Rodríguez, 1959) opposite María Félix and Dolores del Río, and Ánimas Trujano/The Important Man (Ismael Rodríguez, 1962) with Toshiro Mifune, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won a Golden Globe. In 1960, she starred opposite the popular comedy duo Viruta and Capulina in Dos locos en escena/Two Crazy Ones on the Scene (Agustín P. Delgado, 1960).
In 1973, Flor Silvestre played one of Pancho Villa's lovers in La muerte de Pancho Villa (Mario Hernández, 1973), and played Felipe Carrillo Puerto's wife, Isabel Palma, in Peregrina (Mario Hernández, 1974). She sang 'La palma' in Simón Blanco (Mario Hernández, 1975) and played the female leads in Don Herculano enamorado/Don Herculano in love (Mario Hernández, 1975), El moro de cumpas/The Moor of Cumpas (Mario Hernández, 1977), and Mi caballo el cantador/My horse the singer (Mario Hernández, 1979). She made her final film, Triste recuerdo/Sad memory (Mario Hernández, 1990). She was also the star of the comic book 'La Llanera Vengadora'. In 2013, the Association of Mexican Cinema Journalists honored her with the Special Silver Goddess Award. In 2015, her documentary 'Flor Silvestre: su destino fue querer' premiered at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. The 24-minute documentary features interviews with Flor Silvestre, who recounts her life and career; her five children, Dalia, Francisco, Marcela, Antonio, and Pepe; and singers Angélica María and Guadalupe Pineda. Flor Silvestre married her first husband, Andrés Nieto, in the 1940s. She gave birth to her first child, singer and dancer Dalia Inés Nieto, when she was 16 years old. Around 1953, Flor Silvestre married radio announcer and bullfighting chronicler Francisco Rubiales Calvo "Paco Malgesto", who would later become a famous presenter and pioneer of Mexican television. They had two children, translator Francisco Rubiales and singer and actress Marcela Rubiales. They lived in a house in Mexico City's Lindavista neighborhood. The couple separated and began divorce proceedings in 1958. Flor Silvestre's third and last husband was singer and actor Antonio Aguilar, who died in 2007. He was the love of her life. Their relationship began when they made the film El rayo de Sinaloa in 1957. They married in 1959 (or 1960, according to some sources) and had two sons who also became singers and actors, Antonio "Toño" Aguilar and José "Pepe" Aguilar. Aguilar built her a spacious home and ranch, El Soyate, northeast of Tayahua, Zacatecas. Flor Silvestre died on 25 November 2020 at her home in Villanueva, Zacatecas. She was 90.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 Nos 37409 'Lord Hinton' t&t 37424 (558) 'Avro Vulcan XH558' pass the gallery at Oulton Marsh Pastures with the very last 2J85 1648 Lowestoft to Norwich 'Short Set' on 21.9.2019.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/0 37218 and Class 37/6 37612 diesel-electric locomotives approach Carlisle Citadel railway station on the West Coast Main Line with 6K73 the 08:49 BNFL Sellafield to Crewe Coal Yard nuclear flask train.
Direct Rail Services 68016 'Fearless' and 68017 'Hornet' run top and tail to provide the traction for the Northern Belle Railtour. Seen thundering through Taunton with Pullman coaching stock working 1Z31 0705 Swindon to Par on Saturday 4th June 2016.
The disused Fledborough Railway Station on the former Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway, approaching, in between Fledborough and High/Low Marnham in Nottinghamshire.
The station was opened by the LD&ECR in March 1897 and closed by British Railways in 1955. The station and the stationmaster's house were built in the company's standard style. From Tuxford the line fell gently past Marnham, where in 1960, High Marnham Power Station was built. The junction to the power station was about 500 yards west of Fledborough Station, which was, in turn, just be-fore the line crossed the River Trent by means of the Fledborough Viaduct.
Like most new railways of the time the Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway's purpose was the carriage of coal. The project's leading light was William Arkwright, a descendant of Richard Arkwright who had made the family's fortune by mechanising the spinning of cotton. William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
The rail network in the vicinity provided by the Midland Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was still in its infancy and would not meet his requirements. In 1887 the Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway was proposed independently to join with Midland lines at each end. It would cross his land but received insufficient support.
Arkwright decided to promote an independent line to provide through roads to opposite coasts of the country. In time it became known as "The East to West". It would be sufficiently large to maintain itself in the face of competition from other railways. There were a number of lines already approved but not carried forward which could be incorporated. With the Newark and Ollerton there was the Macclesfield and Warrington Railway and the Lincoln and East Coast Railway. A number of other lines had been considered but not formally proposed and these, together with plans for dock works at Sutton on Sea which had been approved in 1884, gave Arkwright his route and support from the various landowners involved. The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Company was formed at 27 George St in Westminster and published its plans in 1890.
There was initially a deal of opposition from landowners and other railway companies but, in the end, the main opponent was the MS&LR because the line would bypass its own line from Sheffield to Retford and thence to London. The Great Eastern Railway turned from opponent to supporter, realising that the line could give it an entree to the Midlands coalfields. The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway Act authorising building the line was given Royal Assent on 5 August 1891.
Due to lack of investment, only the portion from Chesterfield to Lincoln was built. To have continued west of Chesterfield would have required some extremely expensive and difficult engineering works. It was an ambitious undertaking, with some extremely expensive engineering works, crossing the Peak District which had always been a major headache for railway builders. Even to the east it crossed lines of hills running north and south. In addition it would conflict with the lines of a number of other railway companies.
From Lincoln the line would continue eastward over the Lincolnshire Wolds, with a junction near Stainfield as it crossed the GNR Louth to Bardney line. Proceeding well to the north of Horncastle it would cross the East Lincolnshire Railway to the southwest of Alford passing to the south. It would then join that line's loop (at that time known as the Willoughby Railway) near Thurlby turning north east to Sutton on Sea, where the North Sea port would be built.
Direct Rail Services Class 47, 47805 "John Scott 12.5.45 - 22.5.12" is seen passing Causeway Lane foot crossing near Retford with a light engine move. 0Z47 08:06 Norwich C.Pt. T&R.S.M.D - Doncaster West Yard.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/0's 37259 and 37069 diesel-electric locomotives power away from St. Bees on the Cumbrian Coast railway line with 6M22 the 12:17 Hunterston to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train.
Seen on 2P29 1718 Great Yarmouth - Norwich running on time.
It left Great Yarmouth on time.
It arrived at Norwich on time
Dublin Bus E400/Volvo B9TL EV3 is seen with this simple ad for Canadian Airline Westjet and the commencement of their direct flights from Dublin to Calgary starting Sunday 2nd June using a B787 Dreamliner
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"Once more unto the breach," the Henry V statue directs the traffic at Rosebird island in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Direct Rail Services Vossloh/Caterpillar UK Light Class 68s 68033 and 68002 'Intrepid' diesel-electric locomotives at Seascale on the Cumbrian coast railway line with 6C53 the 06:25 Crewe Coal Yard to BNFL Sellafield nuclear flask train.
Direct Rail Services/Scotrail class 68 No.68006 "Daring" passes through Haltwhistle Railway station working 6C89 Mountsorrel - Carlisle New Yard ballast train.
Thanks for looking at this photo, Kyle
Direct scan of the graphic used to illustrate the back cover of the book and the Advent calender included with "The Story of Christmas," adapted by Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Augie Napoli, 1973.
I found this book in a used bookstore in California, with the stand-alone fold out calendar. It has a Scripture-based reading for the 24 days before Christmas, and lavish illustrations. I read from this book to each of my two kids for years and years as part of our family's Advent devotions.
The Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway's 'new' locomotives - 'Whillan Beck', a Pacific built by Krauss of Munich in 1929 was on display at Kingmoor along with Traction Engine 'Providence'.
The new locomotive was built for the Ibero-American Exposition in Seville and following it's move from Spain to the UK it is completing it's restoration before being brought into full time use later this year. The display with 'Providence' was a nod to the 50th anniversary of the delivery of River Mite which was moved from Leeds to Ravenglass behind the same traction engine.
Behind can be seen 37424 'Avro Vulcan XH558', one of the large logo 37's rostered for Cumbrian Coast loco hauled duties.
22nd July 2017.
Sometimes you live dangerously as a football photographer...the ball can be seen blurred on the photo before it hit my face. As a result there was a black eye and i had to have a wound over the eye stitched in hospital emergency. My glasses and lens hood didn't survive. My eyes, my brain and my camera and lens remained unharmed. That's why you should always use a lens hood...
Palazzo Canavese ( TO ). Piedmont - North Italy.
28 Juny 2015.
Fotocamera: Canon EOS - 1D Mark III
Obiettivo: Canon EF 500 mm. f/4 L IS USM extender Canon 1,4 X.
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