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This morning starting out clear and sunny, and a temp of 17 degrees. At mid-morning clouds had rolled it and it was still 18 degrees. Found quite a congregation of birds drinking from this mudhole in a pasture. A truck had driven through and broken the ice and the birds were drinking. Was quite the honeyhole-- bluebirds, woodpeckers, yellow-rumps, juncos, robins.
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I pulled in a couple of nice size Bream out of this little honey hole on Friday. I had no intentions of taking any photos while here, but the clouds were telling me other wise. I do believe that I am going to catch a 1lb + Bream out of this pond this summer ...
Honeyhole for this Acorn woodpecker. He fed there for at least a half hour. Del Valle regional park.
Look at that silly smile on my face. No wonder, with her and that beautiful smile by my side.
I mean, talk about standing out in the crowd. And it's not just because of the bright red shirt she's wearing in a literal sea of colorlessness, or even the beautiful smile. If you look closely you might notice she's the only girl in the picture.
Considering she was walking through a crowd of young men fired up at the prospect of watching girls in bikinis and wet t-shirts, you might expect her to be a little nervous - like dragging a sweet, shiny topwater lure over a bass honeyhole in early spring..
But she wasn't worried. She was well protected by her running buddies (me and Adam, among others..). And as far as I know she didn't get so much as a pinch or a pat on the butt.
Not counting me, of course..
Can't help it if we both like very similar shots today. Dario (seated) and his unnamed co-worker (not pictured here) were pretty friendly about letting a couple of strangers with cameras in to take some pictures. Obviously, Matt and I had the same idea, just different vantage points.
'Yorkshire' has rattled past with a crew of 3 on-board and is about to pass the local sidings containing a number of DBS/DBC 'liveried' flat-bed billet/bloom wagons over on the right. Some with steel blooms on-board awaiting rolling in the TATA steel mill ahead, behind the camera, others already rolled to the required size and awaiting the trip back to Parkgate on one of the nightly moves, 6J58, normally but while the on-going NR Tram/Train work is proceeding this schedule has been shifted to the early morning around 02:00. The corresponding in-bound moves being 6J57 at 18:15 or at the moment, after a week of the normally timed paths, the working is 6J52 timed at around 23:00. The load usual;l;y consists of 20 wagons amounting to 1500 tones but I was told there is a move to try and increase this to 24 wagons, each with 70 tonnes of steel, not a bad haul considering the grade up from the old Sheffield Victoria site is, on average 1 in 100. The material is brought to the Ellen Wood sidings along the track here, visible in the background in the lower left picture where two of the crewe have walked back to my locale awaiting the arrival of the shunter and allowing us to have a good gossip about the state of the works and what is happening; TATA have still not found a buyer for the works, here or at Parkgate, the other side of Rotherham. Some more pictures of diesel Shunter #35, taken here before the site was redeveloped by Dransfield Properties Ltd, into a shopping centre and housing estate, can be seen here-
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and here
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and with the 'blooms', having been being brought up from Parkgate, arrive at the Ellen Wood sidings behind DBC class 66, 66151, in April 2013-
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The Dransfield housing estate occupies the whole of the site along the river, the course of which has switched sides again and is now running alongside the site over on the far right, seen to the right of the shunter in the lower right picture. In the lower left picture, the land along to the corner where the rail bridge is situated over the river, it having switched sides once more to run along into Deepcar on this side of the Ellen Wood sidings, the land here deemed to be 'Private Property', the blue sign is visible on the left, and its future use is unknown. As a matter of interest only, on the right, in the lower right picture, standing prominent on the hill, is one of the Super-grid pylons striding along the top of the Don Valley and making its way to the Woodhead Tunnel area where the half-million volt cables are brought down to pass through the 'new' Woodhead Tunnel and on into Longdendale; the tunnel now owned by the National Grid... its just possible that the objection made at the time, to the pylons path over the top of Woodhead, spoiling an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the subsequent solution of putting the cables in one of the _old_ Woodhead Tunnels, may just have been part of the problem when the cables were switched to use the 'New' tunnel, of it ever being used for anything else, Rail or otherwise. One can't help but feel that some concession should have been made, as tax payers originally footed the bill for this tunnel in the guise of the nationalised British Railways, for walkers and cyclists to use the new tunnel, the alternative is a walk alongside the horrendously busy A628, Manchester Road, or over the top, a bit of a detour at the best of times. The presence of half-million volt power cables would of course be seen as something of both a danger and security risk, if this had been possible.
Friends…be patient with me for posting this entire set…I couldn't help myself. The determination of nature to reproduce itself given the proper conditions for growth is overwhelming to me.
These might be bypassed as weeds, but to me are inspiration!
I shot these on Honeyhole Road, one of my favorite places to take a ride when I only have an hour or so. The plants were backlit by the sun, I was relieved that there was room to get off the road.
Friends…be patient with me for posting this entire set…I couldn't help myself. The determination of nature to reproduce itself given the proper conditions for growth is overwhelming to me.
These might be bypassed as weeds, but to me are inspiration!
I shot these on Honeyhole Road, one of my favorite places to take a ride when I only have an hour or so. The plants were backlit by the sun, I was relieved that there was room to get off the road.
I'm impatient…waiting for new spring grout. Everything is late this year so bear with me while I remember past springs.
Open since July this year with the shopping area now in full swing, though there are still units to be filled, it has made given the centre of Stocksbridge, on land once occupied by the Samuel Fox Steelworks, somewhat of a new lease of life, I guess. There is currently a medium size housing development going on at the eastern end, see
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which shows the development of the shopping area in July 2015 with the housing area off to the left in the middle picture and at that date no work had been done. Well, things have moved on a bit and now, the space which was once festooned with Steelworks related matters has been cleared and rebuilt on, the more important items of materials, i.e. the stockyard, belonging to the Steelworks, having been accommodated on the main Samuel Fox site over to the far right of that picture. To the right of that central picture from last July 2015, the rail track into the Steels works can be seen, running now between the outer perimeter road of the Fox VAlley development on the left and the River Don, in its 'cutting', just over on the right. Today's somewhat serendipitous picture, though I did have the camera with me, was taken looking back towards the place where the July picture was taken from, last year, now things have changed. The area has been landscaped, there is a proper road running along the line out of the works to the sidings behind the camera, see next mosaic picture for the details, and all looks nice and tidy and clean! The Samuel Fox, now, for the present, TATA steelworks shunter, #35, 'Yorkshire' was just rumbling along out of its hidey-hole where it crosses the Rover Don in the background, the shunter then passing under the road to access the line alongside the Don, just at the other side of the yellow fence on the left, seen here. A local recycling truck was temporarily parked on the access road and this had to be taken advantage of, as yellow diesel shunter 'Yorkshire' came by, heading to pick up some wagons from the sidings behind the camera and attach them to the raft of wagons further down the line at Ellen Wood, this for the evening run back to the steelworks at Aldwarke. I was told that during the floods in 2007, when persistent July weather cased severe flooding in the South Yorkshire area, and beyond, mass of water, released from the Underbank reservoir, beyond the Steelworks, the level being perilously high, caused a flood here which took away all the ground underneath the line; the rails being left hanging in mid-air. THe tracks are supported by ground which has been built up from the materials from the Steelworks, primarily of the slag and asphalt type which does not have the structure to support a flooded railway line, so it didn't and the lie was left hanging, cutting off the steel bloom deliveries from TATA's works at Aldwarke in addition to being able to send rolled material back the the steelworks on the nightly steel train run up at bout 6pm, returning about 9pm.
Darcy downing a martini at The Honey Hole, and posing with a cigarette (she's a non-smoker), Seattle, Washington. View it In-Motion
'Yorkshire' has rattled past with a crew of 3 on-board and is about to pass the local sidings containing a number of DBS/DBC 'liveried' flat-bed billet/bloom wagons over on the right. Some with steel blooms on-board awaiting rolling in the TATA steel mill ahead, behind the camera, others already rolled to the required size and awaiting the trip back to Parkgate on one of the nightly moves, 6J58, normally but while the on-going NR Tram/Train work is proceeding this schedule has been shifted to the early morning around 02:00. The corresponding in-bound moves being 6J57 at 18:15 or at the moment, after a week of the normally timed paths, the working is 6J52 timed at around 23:00. The load usual;l;y consists of 20 wagons amounting to 1500 tones but I was told there is a move to try and increase this to 24 wagons, each with 70 tonnes of steel, not a bad haul considering the grade up from the old Sheffield Victoria site is, on average 1 in 100. The material is brought to the Ellen Wood sidings along the track here, visible in the background in the lower left picture where two of the crewe have walked back to my locale awaiting the arrival of the shunter and allowing us to have a good gossip about the state of the works and what is happening; TATA have still not found a buyer for the works, here or at Parkgate, the other side of Rotherham. Some more pictures of diesel Shunter #35, taken here before the site was redeveloped by Dransfield Properties Ltd, into a shopping centre and housing estate. The Dransfield housing estate occupies the whole of the site along the river, the course of which has switched sides again and is now running alongside the site over on the far right, seen to the right of the shunter in the lower right picture. In the lower left picture, the land along to the corner where the rail bridge is situated over the river, it having switched sides once more to run along into Deepcar on this side of the Ellen Wood sidings, the land here deemed to be 'Private Property', the blue sign is visible on the left, and its future use is unknown. As a matter of interest only, on the right, in the lower right picture, standing prominent on the hill, is one of the Super-grid pylons striding along the top of the Don Valley and making its way to the Woodhead Tunnel area where the half-million volt cables are brought down to pass through the 'new' Woodhead Tunnel and on into Longdendale; the tunnel now owned by the National Grid... its just possible that the objection made at the time, to the pylons path over the top of Woodhead, spoiling an area of outstanding natural beauty, and the subsequent solution of putting the cables in one of the _old_ Woodhead Tunnels, may just have been part of the problem when the cables were switched to use the 'New' tunnel, of it ever being used for anything else, Rail or otherwise. One can't help but feel that some concession should have been made, as tax payers originally footed the bill for this tunnel in the guise of the nationalised British Railways, for walkers and cyclists to use the new tunnel, the alternative is a walk alongside the horrendously busy A628, Manchester Road, or over the top, a bit of a detour at the best of times. The presence of half-million volt power cables would of course be seen as something of both a danger and security risk, if this had been possible.
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This 1st piece in two 'digressions' from freight traction and its history in the area, was taken last week on a jaunt with Adrian Wynn after the passage of the NR Test Train with its two class 37s in charge, taken along the Stocksbridge branch at Deepcar Station, see-
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Then over to what was a large tract of land at the east end of the site of the ex-Samuel Fox Steelworks, now TATA of course, to take a look at how things were progressing on the new 'Fox Valley Development' site; nothing to do with the other Fox I might quickly add. Originally there was a large steel stockyard over on the right beyond the traffic lights with colourful appendages below and the stockyard has been moved to the main TATA site at centre right, just beyond the sand-coloured building at the end of the new shop arcade. Some buildings, behind the right-hand end of the new shop arcade, which were next to both the river and the Steelworks branch line, were also demolished and their function moved onto the main site. The branch line at the rear of the new building is used to convey the steel billets, brought up by the nightly freight from Aldwarke, and then brought over into the steelworks for rolling down to smaller size; the resident shunter moves the steel billets up the branch from the sidings and over into the works.
All this will still carry on and it should be interesting to be able to get onto the new site close to where the shunter operates as there are also sidings over to the left beyond the new building. A view along the track at the back of the building, looking towards the sidings with the River Don here actually under the construction site on the left, can be seen in the inset picture at right; the River Don re-appears within the works about 1km behind the camera. The site plan at left, taken from the 1950s shows the full extent of the vast area used by the old Steelworks when in its heyday with all the various 'shops' responsible for the different aspects of the steel-making process. All the buildings to the right of the 'Main Entrance' seen along Manchester Road at the bottom, have now all gone to make way for this new development; the camera for the inset photograph was where the road is onto the site next to what was the 'Special Cold Rolled Strip Dept.' and looking east along the line. This change of use, removal of a lot of 'time-expired facilities and materials', has clearly left a large site for this new, 46million pound redevelopment, the main website for information is-
with 'Dransfield Properties Ltd', see-
leaders in Urban Regeneration, in charge of the residential side of the new development. The lower picture is from a segment of an old Ordnance Survey map, from around the same time, 1955 and shows more detail of the railway and its connections east and west; at the right, eastern side, the MSL/LNER's Woodhead line can be seen heading off north-east but then to curve round and head for the Woodhead Portal about 10 miles to the west, as the 'line flies'. In the west, to the top left of the map the lines coming into the works can be seen trailing up and, once, during the building of both the Underbank and Langsett Reservoirs so that material could be conveyed to and from the sites. The vacant space where the lines fan out was once occupied by a Gas Works next to a small reservoir which separated the western end of the Steel Works from an interesting item, 'Honey Hole' beyond which was the Gasworks, a more dramatic change of usage would be hard to imagine in such a location. The line coming through the Steelworks fanned out into sidings and then the line continued on and ran into the Gasworks; here a network of lines ran to and fro into the Gasworks finally emerging to join the line at the western end. It was from here that the lien continued on westwards along the side of what is now the Stocksbridge Bypass to form the connection into the works at Underbank and Langsett Reservoirs; the line from the west end of the Samuel Fox site, close to Segg Hole, over to the construction site of the reservoirs, was known as the 'Sheffield" Corporation Railway'; the trackbed of this line is still extant and walkable, and visible on modern OS maps; however, the walk is very noisy due to the thunderous traffic on the A616 to A628 trunk roads over Woodhead; these roads carrying a large amount of heavy goods vehicles; the sort of thing that could be carried quietly, on the railway just off to the north, if it still existed. The Fox Valley Development may or may not revive the fortunes of Stocksbridge, and I have heard mixed views about all that. It has to be said however, that not planning for, or actually putting a passenger station in at the development, on the Stocksbridge Branch line to Sheffield Victoria, and rejuvenating the Stocksbridge line for passenger use, as well as the nightly steel freight working to the TATA steelworks, appears to be somewhat of a grave oversight. If the recent news of the redundancies to be made at TATA in Rotherham affect the steel facilities here, there may well be either a 'moth-balling' of the Stocksbridge branch line or, worse still, the whole lot may be lifted. I can't help but believe in that case, that a great opportunity for a local transport connection with almost all the infrastructure still present, along the very pleasant, quiet, upper Don Vally into Sheffield, may well be lost.
Open since July this year with the shopping area now in full swing, though there are still units to be filled, it has made given the centre of Stocksbridge, on land once occupied by the Samuel Fox Steelworks, somewhat of a new lease of life, I guess. There is currently a medium size housing development going on at the eastern with the development of a shopping area and a housing area off to the left, in July 2015 at that date, no work had been done. Well, things have moved on a bit and now, the space which was once festooned with Steelworks related matters has been cleared and rebuilt on, the more important items of materials, i.e. the stockyard, belonging to the Steelworks, having been accommodated on the main Samuel Fox site over to the far right of that picture. To the right of that central picture from last July 2015, the rail track into the Steels works can be seen, running now between the outer perimeter road of the Fox VAlley development on the left and the River Don, in its 'cutting', just over on the right. Today's somewhat serendipitous picture, though I did have the camera with me, was taken looking back towards the place where the July picture was taken from, last year, now things have changed. The area has been landscaped, there is a proper road running along the line out of the works to the sidings behind the camera, see next mosaic picture for the details, and all looks nice and tidy and clean! The Samuel Fox, now, for the present, TATA steelworks shunter, #35, 'Yorkshire' was just rumbling along out of its hidey-hole where it crosses the Rover Don in the background, the shunter then passing under the road to access the line alongside the Don, just at the other side of the yellow fence on the left, seen here. A local recycling truck was temporarily parked on the access road and this had to be taken advantage of, as yellow diesel shunter 'Yorkshire' came by, heading to pick up some wagons from the sidings behind the camera and attach them to the raft of wagons further down the line at Ellen Wood, this for the evening run back to the steelworks at Aldwarke. I was told that during the floods in 2007, when persistent July weather cased severe flooding in the South Yorkshire area, and beyond, mass of water, released from the Underbank reservoir, beyond the Steelworks, the level being perilously high, caused a flood here which took away all the ground underneath the line; the rails being left hanging in mid-air. THe tracks are supported by ground which has been built up from the materials from the Steelworks, primarily of the slag and asphalt type which does not have the structure to support a flooded railway line, so it didn't and the lie was left hanging, cutting off the steel bloom deliveries from TATA's works at Aldwarke in addition to being able to send rolled material back the the steelworks on the nightly steel train run up at bout 6pm, returning about 9pm.
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We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
Friends…be patient with me for posting this entire set…I couldn't help myself. The determination of nature to reproduce itself given the proper conditions for growth is overwhelming to me.
These might be bypassed as weeds, but to me are inspiration!
I shot these on Honeyhole Road, one of my favorite places to take a ride when I only have an hour or so. The plants were backlit by the sun, I was relieved that there was room to get off the road.
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00
We went to Maffra Motor Museum. They display European, American, Aussie cars and motor cycles! Entry fee is $10.00