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North Staffordshire Railway 2-4-2T 54 shunts the goods yard on the 7mm (0 gauge) Wolve Lowe model railway at the Festival of British Railway Modelling, Doncaster show, 8th February 2025.
We seem to have a bit of modellers license here as the North Staffordshire Railway owned only a few 2-4-2T locomotives, all rebuilt from old 2-4-0 tender engines around 1898 and none numbered 54. The number 54 was carried by a 2-2-2 built in 1851, a 0-6-0ST built in 1868, a 2-4-0 built in 1882, a 2-4-0 built in 1906 and a 0-4-4T built in 1920. The engine actually appears to be a London and North Western Railway Webb 5ft 6inch 2-4-2T, one hundred and sixty of the class being built between 1890 and 1897 at Crewe Works.
During a very cold but atmospheric 3 day visit to Corrour in February 2003. Stayed at the much-missed Corrour Station Bunkhouse near Loch Ossian. This view shows the rail tracks buried under the snow. The bunkhouse is in the centre of the picture and the restaurant is to the left.
Family-Friendly Pro Wrestling Returned To Winston-Salem, NC when AML Wrestling Presented: All For The Glory TV taping for the AML Wrestling Network. Featuring former WWE Superstar Tenille Dashwood (fka Emma) and the Stars of AML Wrestling!
Sunday, February 25, 2018 at the Benton Convention Center located at 301 W. 5th Street in Winston-salem, NC. First match at 4pm.
On this day in history in 1633 - Galileo Galilei, the Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory. This theory stated that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.
Galileo was born February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He entered the University of Pisa planning to study medicine, but shifted his focus to philosophy and mathematics. In 1589, he became a professor at Pisa for several years, during which time he demonstrated that the speed of a falling object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had believed. From 1592 to 1630, Galileo was a math professor at the University of Padua, where he developed a telescope that enabled him to observe lunar mountains and craters, the four largest satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Jupiter. He also discovered that the Milky Way was made up of stars.
Galileo's research led him to become an advocate of the work of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1573). However, the Copernican theory of a sun-centered solar system conflicted with the teachings of the powerful Roman Catholic Church, which essentially ruled Italy at the time. Church teachings contended that Earth, not the sun, was at the center of the universe. In 1633, Galileo was brought before the Roman Inquisition, a judicial system established by the papacy in 1542 to regulate church doctrine. This included the banning of books that conflicted with church teachings. The Roman Inquisition had its roots in the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, the purpose of which was to seek out and prosecute heretics, considered enemies of the state.
Today, Galileo is recognized for making important contributions to the study of motion and astronomy. His work influenced later scientists such as the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who developed the law of universal gravitation. In 1992, the Vatican formally acknowledged its mistake in condemning Galileo. I guess in 1992 the Vatican decided that perhaps, just perhaps, the Earth did indeed revolve around the sun after all.
A bunch of lovely Hyacinths and tulips...to keep me going till spring arrives!
textures thanks to Tóta