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They say to create a good black and white image, you need a picture with a lot of color. The original sure did have a lot of color.
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Arriva Cross Country class 170 two car units 170117 and 170519 pass a snow covered Lenton South Junction, 5th February 2012. At first glance you would assume that these two units are heading away from Nottingham on the Up Main, however they are actually heading into Nottingham using the bi-directional route into Nottingham Platform 6. In 1969 when Trent PSB opened Nottingham station was reduced to five platforms and what had been Platform 6 became the Up Goods line. During the 1970’s a staple traffic flow on most Saturdays was football extra’s (Footex) however there developed a desire to segregate and marshal if possible the away football supporters when they arrived at the home sides station. To this end it was decided to re-open Platform 6 for “Footex” traffic and the Football Association provided funding to British Rail to undertake the necessary infrastructure changes. The platform itself was still in existence and the major infrastructure problem was that there was no readily available signalled access from the west end of the station. The solution was to provide a signalled bi-directional route from Beeston South Junction, where you crossed over from the Down Main to the Up Main, from where you continued “wrong road” through Lenton South Junction to Mansfield Junction where you crossed from the Up Main to the Up Goods and from there into Platform 6. The signalling design for this work was undertaken by myself and this is the first time in the thirty plus years since it was commissioned that I have seen it being used. Platform 6 these days is used as an ordinary platform fully integrated into the station however its usefulness is still restricted by the awkward west end approach. This will be improved when the station and its approaches are re-modelled and re-signalled in the summer of 2013.
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A weekend visit from my lovely friend Bella.
Friday we went out to Prince's Avenue and our usual haunts. We also met up with Charlotte with whom I went to lunch just recently. She is finding her way and I don't think she will have any problems at all!
It's a big ask for someone making their first steps to meet up in non-LGBT spaces but she did it without blinking and we had a lovely night in Hoi and 80 Days.
Forgetting to put the bins out, ha ha!
Very angular pose. My enormous black wool coat helped me out here. I like the touch of the floral socks as well.
The next picture of my last year's project. The 2014 calendar from the women's motorcycle club "Desmo Donna".
I did some volunteering at The Braille Institute today. I wish I could clone myself so I could volunteer more.
Sunrise from Kerry Park. Taken my birthday morning, it didn't look like it was going to much of a sunrise at first. The colors showed up for about 5 minutes. What I enjoy most about this shot is that I was the only one at Kerry Park this morning which is extremely rare, I consider it a birthday gift from the Big Guy! Hope you enjoy.