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Embankment Station, located in the City of Westminster, first opened in 1870 as part of the Metropolitan District Railway and was originally named Charing Cross. It played a key role in the development of London’s Underground network, eventually serving four lines: Bakerloo, Circle, District, and Northern. The station underwent several name changes and structural expansions, including the addition of deep-level platforms in the early 20th century. A notable feature is the northbound Northern line platform, where the iconic “Mind the Gap” announcement voiced by actor Oswald Laurence was reinstated in 2013 after a heartfelt request from his widow. Over the decades, Embankment has evolved into a vital transport hub, surrounded by landmarks like the River Thames, Trafalgar Square, and the London Eye
Joggers on the Embankment, for the monthly scavenger hunt: 'Lycra should only be for the very thin!'
I disagree. When I was sitting on the Embankment watching the joggers, I saw lots of lycra. The wobbly people looked really bad in it, but the worst was a lady who was so painfully thin it can only have been through illness (I assume anorexia). The lycra was hanging off her and accentuating all the hollow bits.
The lady in this photo isn't very thin (though she's thinner than me!), but she is nicely toned, and I think she looks fine in lycra.
Update: also added for MSH Jan '12 "Take the weight loss challenge"
This is an undivided back postcard published in Paris by Ernest Louis Desiree Le Deley using the Heliotype process which was invented by an Englishman, Ernest Edwards in 1870. The postcard was posted in March 1903 and shows the view from Hungerford Bridge looking downstream towards Waterloo Bridge. The Paddle Steamer just leaving Charing Cross Pier is the Thames Steamboat Company's "Alexandra", one of the ABC boats built for the company by Thames Ironworks at Blackwall in 1898. The other two boats were the "Boadicea" and the "Cleopatra". On Thursday 17th May 1900 the "Alexandra" was used to transport the King of Norway and Sweden, Oscar II on a trip down the Thames visiting the Thames Ironworks and the Royal Naval College at Greenwich. Whilst at Greenwich he also visited the Seamen's Hospital which at that time had thirty Scandinavian seamen as patients. Whilst at the Thames Ironworks the King inspected girders which were being made for a Bridge to be built in Norway. The "Alexandra continued in service on the Thames until 1912.
EDDIE BROWN, HELPERBY, NORTH YORKSHIRE
Also new in 1999 was T551EUB a Volvo B10M-62 with Plaxton Premiere 350 coachwork.
Victoria Embankment on a very wet day in 1931. The No.26 tram is making its way to Blackfriars Bridge and then Southwark Street near London Bridge. It had started its journey at Kew Bridge then along Chiswick High Road, Hammersmith Broadway then over Putney Bridge, Wandsworth High Street, Clapham Junction, Wandsworth Road, Vauxhall Station, Albert Embankment and Westminster Bridge. This route crossed the Thames three times on its way from Kew to London Bridge. Interesting to see the pedestrian refuge acting as a tram stop for the north bound trams.
District Line D78 Stock driving coach No. 7076 stands at Embankment at the rear of Train No. 007 to Upminster
Just a few update pics from my last trips to Richards, showing the embankment now it has all the grass stuck down.
Still not sure what to do about the joins yet?
Maybe overlap coarser grass over them, as I still need to put coaser stuff around the rock face next to the bridge.
50-50 atthe moment still if this will all be at AFOLCON this year or just a static display of engines and rolling stock?
The Dancing House, or Fred and Ginger, is the nickname given to the Nationale-Nederlanden building on the Rašín Embankment in Prague, Czech Republic. It was designed by the Croatian-Czech architect Vlado Milunić in cooperation with Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry on a vacant riverfront plot. The building was designed in 1992 and completed in 1996.
The very non-traditional design was controversial at the time because the house stands out among the Baroque, Gothic and Art Nouveau buildings for which Prague is famous, and in the opinion of some it does not accord well with these architectural styles. The then Czech president, Václav Havel, who lived for decades next to the site, had avidly supported this project, hoping that the building would become a center of cultural activity.
Gehry originally named the house Fred and Ginger (after the famous dancers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers – the house resembles a pair of dancers) but this nickname is now rarely used; moreover, Gehry himself was later "afraid to import American Hollywood kitsch to Prague", and thus discarded his own idea.
Information taken from Wikipedia
Just a few update pics from my last trips to Richards, showing the embankment now it has all the grass stuck down.
Still not sure what to do about the joins yet?
Maybe overlap coarser grass over them, as I still need to put coaser stuff around the rock face next to the bridge.
50-50 atthe moment still if this will all be at AFOLCON this year or just a static display of engines and rolling stock?
Just a few update pics from my last trips to Richards, showing the embankment now it has all the grass stuck down.
Still not sure what to do about the joins yet?
Maybe overlap coarser grass over them, as I still need to put coaser stuff around the rock face next to the bridge.
50-50 atthe moment still if this will all be at AFOLCON this year or just a static display of engines and rolling stock?
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High Peak Trail
Derbyshire
UK
9 April 2019
Minning Low embankment is part of the former Cromford & High Peak Railway. This Grade II listed structure was built in the 1820s from local earth and limestone.
The recently cleared embankment has opened up a shot at Millerhill. 66034 is seen at the rear of 6K19, Carlisle Kingmoor - Craigentinny Depot ballast train, as it heads into the empty Millerhill Yard with 66121 leading. The new Borders Line can be seen to the right of the photo. A food waste plant dominates the background on the 20th April 2016 at 0758