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Due to weeks with storms and heavy rain and the absence of daylight on the 62 latitude in December, I gave my camera some days off. But suddenly the wind stopped and we went out to visit this beautiful spot in the neighborhood.
With the 2016 rail head treatment season finished Direct Rail Services 20305 is stabled at York waiting its fate (most likely nine months in store), 16th December 2016.
Locomotive History
20305 was originally D8095 and was built by English Electric at the Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn works, Darlington. It entered traffic in October1961, allocated to Eastfield for Scottish lowlands and Fife coalfield duties. It was renumbered 20095 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme and remained in Scotland until transferred to Immingham in December 1978. The next nineteen years were spent predominately allocated to either Immingham, Tinsley, Thornaby or Toton although it returned to Eastfield in May 1984 for a two year spell. In 1997 it was sold to Direct Rail Services who refurbished and renumbered it 20305. Recently it has spent long periods in store with its spells in traffic on rail head treatment trains.
Prudhoe Signal Box on a grey and wet winters day, 30th December 2023, The box was built by the North Eastern Railway and opened in 1872 It is a rather tall, three storey example of the then “standard” North Eastern Railway Northern Division signal box design. It is fitted with a 45 lever mechanical frame.
Before I let you down again
I just want to see you in your eyes
I wouldn't have taken everything out on you
I only thought you could understand
They say every man goes blind in his heart
And they say everybody steals somebody's heart away
And I've got nothing more to say about it
Nothing more than you would me
Send me your flowers of your december
Send me your dreams of your candy wine
I got just one thing I can't give you
Just one more thing of mine
They say every man goes blind in his heart
They say everybody steals somebody's heart away
And I've been wondering why you let me down
And I been taking it all for granted
My 1000th upload to flickr since I joined in February. Without the inspiration i've got from everybody else on flickr, I would have only taken a small fraction of this number, so thankyou to you all.
Rotterdam Elektrische Tram museummotorrijtuig 523 aan het eindpunt Carnisselande van lijn 9 in Barendrecht.
Rotterdam Electric Tram museumcar 523 at the terminus Carnisselande from line 9 in Barendrecht.
On Boxing Day evening it snowed heavily for a couple of hours and the following day was quite sunny and I was able to get out for an hour or so amongst the Christmas holiday festivities. East Midlands Trains 156473 passes over Barton Lane crossing with 2L60, 10:36 Lincoln – Leicester, 27th December 2014.
Unit History
156473 was built in 1989 and spent the majority of the next twenty two years allocated to Neville Hill or Newton Heath on West Yorkshire and North West local duties. At the end of 2011 there was a shuffle of Diesel Multiple Units’s between Train Operating Companies and East Midlands Trains gained four class 156 units (156470/73/97/98) from Northern Rail. 156473 arrived at Etches Park in October 2011 and entered service with East Midlands Trains shortly afterwards.
I wasn't carrying a macro lens today (it's December for goodness' sake!) so I had to shoot this unexpected hoverfly with the big tele-zoom. Luckily it focuses pretty close and the light was good. It's one of a group of similar-looking hoverflies in the Syrphidae family, either Epistrophe or Syrphus sp.
A morning drive over Birkrigg Common near Ulverston on the edge of the Lake District.
Fujifilm X-T3, Fujinon 100-400 f4.5-5.6 @ 190mm, f=5.0, 1/150th Second, ISO400
It's always a pleasure to find a rose blooming in the garden in the depths of December. I suspect the hard frosts of the past few days will have put an end to them now. Raindrops on petals have become something of a trope with all the rain we've also had.
my version of jean's pic.
raw milk bought at the local feed store. or rather, exchanged. bring in an empty gallon jar, leave it with $4 inside it on top of the fridge there, pick out a full jar from within, and bring it home.