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Northern Trains operated “Pacer” 142050 waits to depart from Middlesbrough on a grey December afternoon, 15th December 2007.
Re-edited 1st December 2016
NS dieseltreinstel 3408 arriveert in het station van Swalmen.
NS dieselunit 3408 aproaches in the station from Swalmen.
view on the Seine river , the Anjou pier on the Saint-Louis isle from the Henry IV pier , Paris , France by a cold winter day
60040 Territorial Army Centenary passes through Beeston station with 6M00, Lindsey - Kingsbury oil tanks, 6th December 2014.
Locomotive History
60040 was built at Brush, Loughborough at the beginning of 1991 and was eventually accepted into traffic on the 6th February 1992, allocated to Stewarts Lane MPD for construction traffic duties. I first saw 60040 at the Brush works on the 12th April 1991. Between June 2005 and September 2011 it was in and out of store on a regular basis. However in June 2008 it was selected for repainting into a promotional livery for the Army and lost its Brecon Beacons nameplates in favour of The Territorial Army Centenary, which were unveiled at the National Railway Museum, York. In November 2011 it entered the class 60 overhaul programme at Toton and was released back into traffic in June 2012 repainted into Standard DB Schenker red livery.
Standing in the platform at Grimsby is 180130 waiting to depart with a late running 1B66, 06:55 Manchester Airport – Cleethorpes, 9th December 2016. The last time I stood here was on the 14th August 1976, just over forty years previously photographing station pilot/trip loco 08242. No need for a station pilot or local trip engine these days I am afraid.
Great Western Railway Mink A 125814 stands in the yard at Buckfastleigh, South Devon Railway, 2nd December 2017. For some reason this vehicle carries the number of a British Railways diagram 1/203 12 ton van.
Vehicle History
125814 is one of three thousand and ninety seven diagram V23 10 foot wheelbase, vacuum braked Mink A vans built t between 1933 and 1941. 125814 was built at Swindon in 1934 and was one of two hundred and sixty five V23 vans modified to a diagram V26 “Parto” van in the late 1930’s by the addition of internal partitions. These V26 vans were generally labelled for specific traffic flows throughout their lives until in their declining years, “Partos” became part of the general van fleet.
The Bonnie Prince Charlie monument in Arivruach, Lochs on the Isle of Lewis. The inscription reads:
"On 4th May 1746 Charles Edward Stuart landed here while on the run having sailed from Scalpay. It was 18 days after the disastrous battle of Culloden where over 1200 highlanders had died. He travelled on foot from here to Arnish where he was given shelter by Lady Kiloun. He then sailed south to Eilean Lubhard with a massive price of £30,000 on his head. It is to the eternal honour of all Hebrideans that regardless of their loyalties he was not betrayed to the authorities".
This has been on my list to photograph since I first saw it, but I have always been in too much of a hurry to get somewhere else to stop. I set off on this particular occasion with enough time spare to create a panoramic if the weather decided to play nicely (this is by no means assured on the Outer Hebrides in December!). I am pretty happy with the result, the big and angry sky adds a certain depth and gravitas to the end result I think!
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A recent arrival at the Great Central Railway to complete its thirty year restoration is British Railways Standard 2MT 2-6-0 78018 and it is seen here at Loughborough, 16th December 2012.
Locomotive History
This British Railways Standard class 2MT, 2-6-0 design was derived from the LMS Ivatt class 2MT 2-6-0 with a reduced cab to enable it to fit into the composite BR loading gauge and other standard fittings, most notably a taller chimney. They were all attached to a BR3 tender. With a low axle loading of just 13 ton 15cwt. it allowed the class to operate on most lightly laid routes and secondary lines. Darlington works was responsible for building the entire fleet of sixty five engines with the first being completed in December 1952 and the last in November 1956. 78018 entered traffic on the 3rd March 1954 allocated to West Auckland MPD in County Durham. A month later it transferred to the nearby Kirkby Stephen where it would be a frequent visitor to the Stainmore line across the Pennines to Tebay. In February 1955 it featured in the British Transport film “Snowdrift at Bleath Gill” when it was trapped in a snowdrift and took two days to dig the frozen engine out. With the run down of the Stainmore line 78018 was transferred to Chester in April 1960, Workington June 1962, Willesden May 1963, Nuneaton October 1965 and finally Shrewsbury in April 1966 from where it was withdrawn in November 1966. Following withdrawal it was sent to Dai Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales arriving in June 1967. In 1978, a group of preservationists from the Battlefield Line, based at Market Bosworth, rescued 78018, but it sat untouched until sold in 1981 to the Darlington Railway Preservation Society and moved to Darlington.
Museumseisenbahn Ammerland-Barßel-Saterland e.V. 798 659 + 996 304 + 998 822 Sedelsberg - Ocholt near Elisabethfehn. December 2003
Bones of deer and goat inscribed with runes used for divination.
Photos taken in the snow of December 2010.
Three days after it had snowed there are still quite a few areas of snow on the ground as East Midlands Trains 153384 and 153385 depart Attenborough working 2A42 14:20 Nottingham – Matlock, 29th December 2014.