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The rising sun lit up the foreground while the thick spring fog rising from the Piscataqua River in Portsmouth Harbor dominated the background. Shot taken from Fort McClary in Kittery, ME.
An early morning shot from Bamford Edge looking down on Ladybower Reservoir and the Upper Derwent Valley.
Taken with an Olympus XA2 on Agfaphoto Precisa CT100 film.
Stanier 'Black 5' 45407 works upgrade through the Lime Street cutting on the approach to Edge Hill station this morning.
This was the Day 8 of the Great Britain XVI tour, Liverpool Lime Street to Swansea.
* 44871 went light engine from Preston to Chester where it was later attached to the tour to tackle the Central Wales line.
This is a shot of the EDGE East Side Tower, a 36-storey (142 metres) skyscraper in Berlin, Germany. It is currently the tallest multi-story building in the city and is right next to the East Side Mall and close to the East Side Gallery. The office space amounts to around 65,000 sqm and the main tenant currently is amazon. The first two floors are open to the public with restaurants and cafés and apparently there was also a bar planned on the roof of the tower.
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Terracotta army area
Linton province
Xi'an
China
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The cutting-edge technology that keeps the Silverstone motor racing track in tip-top condition could be coming to Croydon. John Bownas spoke to the team hoping to bring it here.
Pot holes – we all hate ‘em, and Croydon certainly has its share.
But now, the borough’s highways team is taking a lead from the people responsible for maintaining Silverstone’s grand prix circuit.
New technology that is good enough for the world’s top racing drivers is being tested in Croydon to see if it is up to the council’s exacting standards.
If trials are successful, the infrared-powered Nu-Phalt repair system could become invaluable to Croydon’s road repair crews who would be the first in London to realise its potential benefits.
Apart from a significant possible cost saving, the biggest advantages that the new technique has over traditional methods are:
•speed: a typical 1 square metre repair can be completed in just 20 minutes; currently, the same job takes considerably longer, and would be only a temporary fix;
•durability: the infra-red triggered thermal bonding means that patch repairs are far more permanent and blend seamlessly into the surrounding road surface;
•environmentally friendly: the process starts by recycling the existing macadam and needs only a small amount of new material to top off the repair.
The council has recently announced a multi-million pound investment project to resurface many of its roads.
However, there will always be a need for fast and efficient repairs in those cases where small patches of tarmac work loose.
This can happen at any time of the year – although it is usually after spells of wet or cold weather that these small holes open up to create a real headache for motorists and cyclists.
In total, the council’s emergency repairs operation currently costs about £560k every year in manpower and materials – and that’s not including the money that is budgeted separately for the major road resurfacing schemes that we will be seeing a lot more of over the next few years.
Steve Iles is the council’s head of highways, and he knows better than anyone else in the borough just how big a task it is to stay on top of the thousands of road repairs that his teams have to carry out every year.
Talking to Your Croydon about this mammoth job and his hopes for the promising high-tech solution, he first ran through some of the big numbers involved.
“We’ve got nearly 3,000 roads in Croydon, and these all get inspected by the council at least twice a year.
“We look out for any problems that might have arisen since the last visit – and particularly any new holes or cracks that could pose a hazard.
“Since January our system’s logged nearly 5,000 new reports from both streetscene inspectors and those members of the public who phone or email to tell us about possible problems.”
In that same time we’ve managed to fill in or repair about 9,800 – but there’s still around 8,600 that we know about waiting to be fixed.
“That takes a lot of doing,” continued Steve, “I’ve got six full-time staff who spend the majority of their day out doing this sort of work.
“And when they can’t do road repairs, because of snow and ice, they drive the gritting lorries to try to keep the roads clear.”
Tony Whyatt is the highways engineer whose research into improved technology solutions has led to the trial of the Nu-Phalt system.
“I’m really optimistic about how this will save us time and money.
“We reuse most of the existing road material on-site and need to add only a small amount of fresh material to each repair.
“There’s no noisy compressors, and the system cuts the number of vehicles and staff involved in each repair.
“We also minimise disruption to traffic – which is good for drivers – and these repairs can be driven over again almost immediately they’re finished.”
Indeed, driving away from our meeting with Tony we drove over a number of holes that had just been filled – and the first thing we noticed was that we didn’t notice them at all.
The repaired road was as smooth as the day it was originally laid.
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Some fences keep us from just going on the edge. The edge here is huge, this is The Center of the Universe in downtown Tulsa. www.youtube.com/watch?v=74sFW_4IY2Y
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Location: Beveren-Waas Belgium
Date: 2025/04/29-30
Edge of the Strzelecki desert. Great to travel thru the outback after heavy rains over the last year. 80km west of Windorah QLD
Harland Edge Edge, Beeley Moor, Peak District, UK
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It's been around 12 years since I photographed Harland Edge,
It's a beautiful place that feels remote and untouched.
The Dark-edged Bee-flies were making the most of some spring sunshine and spring flowers at Stow Maries Halt Nature Reserve today! Happy Wing Wednesday everyone!
Taken during that curious Spring period of glowingly warm temperatures and little or no rainfall...you can see the 'parched' earth in this picture, which occured between some of the wettest spells for decades, ultimately making 2007 the wettest year since the 1920s in the Norwich area as with many other parts of Norfolk.