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Our Daily Challenge 6-12 February : Texture.
A crustose lichen with more growing on it.
An ID would be most welcome
Our Daily Challenge 31st January - 6 February : Just a Little Bit.
A Ramalina species of lichen on a little twig
Mark I Brake Corridor First (BFK) M14024 is seen here at the Chasewater Railway on the 21st February 2015.
Vehicle History
M14024 is one of only twenty eight Mark I Brake Corridor First (BFK) vehicles built and is thus a rare type of Mark I coaching stock. The type was introduced in 1959 and the twenty eight vehicles were built in five batches with E14023 being the second vehicle of the final batch of five vehicles (14023 - 14027) built at Swindon works in 1963 to lot 30718. This batch of five differed from the earlier batches in that they were built with a revised roof pattern with a straight row of vents over the compartments, whereas the previous batches had the more typical zig-zag pattern of vents. Also the vents used were the latter scallop dome type. When built it was vacuum braked and steam heated but has gained both dual heating and dual brakes during its career. It is mounted on Commonwealth bogies which it was fitted with from new. It was renumbered 17024 during the early 1980’s. It was initially allocated to the London Midland Region but had transferred to the Scottish Region by 1978 and was allocated to Inverness in 1988. It entered preservation in 1990 and was based at Dairycoates until 1995 when it moved to the Great Central Railway. Following a spell at the Binbrook Technology Park, Lincolnshire (formerly RAF Binbrook) it arrived at the Chasewater Railway in 2002.
B1 Class 4-6-0 61264 approaches the demonstration platform at Barrow Hill working the passenger shuttle, 16th February 2008.
Locomotive History
61264 was built at the Hyde Park, Glasgow works of the North British Locomotive Company and entered traffic in December 1947 as 1264, allocated to Parkeston Quay. MPD. Following a general overhaul at Stratford works in November 1960, 61264 was transferred to Colwick in Nottingham. It was to remain there for the rest of its working life. In November 1965 61264 was condemned however it was transferred to the departmental fleet for stationary boiler duties and became Departmental Locomotive No 29. It remained on these duties until July 1967 and I use to see this engine as No.29 on Colwick when I was a lad. It was finally sold for scrap to Woodham Bros. of Barry, South Wales in March 1968. In 1973 a group of enthusiasts from North London, who later former the Thompson B1 Trust bought 61264 for £6325. It was the eighty third engine to leave Barry for preservation when it left for the Great Central Railway in July 1976. On March 6th 1997, 1264, for the first time in over thirty years, moved under its own steam
NG/G16 129 makes an impressive sight as it crosses the Monbulk Creek trestle bridge in February 2020.
....i seem to take a lot of pictures of puddles....it obviously rains a lot at the moment...& i'm obviously still walking around with my head down....i was trying to capture the circles frormed in the puddle by the falling rain. not entirely successful i think but you try photographing one handed while holding an umbrella....
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