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Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan leads a team of officers making an arrest as part of Operation Valant, the Greater Manchester Police operation to bring those responsible for recent large scale disorder in the region, to justice.
Greater Manchester Police is continuing to arrest all those suspected of being involved in the disorder in the city centre and Salford.
Thanks to the launch of the Shop a Looter campaign, with pictures of those suspected of being involved in looting displayed on huge advertising vans, GMP has been inundated with information from members of the public.
Thanks to that support, police have been able to make a number of arrests on Thursday evening and overnight, bringing the total number of arrests since Tuesday’s disorder to more than 200.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of burglary.
A 17-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of burglary after he boasted on his Facebook site he could not be caught.
Another handed himself in after his friend saw his picture on the ad vans and called him to say his image was all over Manchester and had no place to hide.
ACC Garry Shewan said: "We said we would be coming for you, and we are. Within minutes of the ad van being launched in Manchester with the faces of some of those people involved, we have been inundated with information from members of the public about who these people are.
“These are just some of the good arrests we have made – I have been told of countless more by officers who are using every piece of information and every available avenue to find these people and bring them in.
"With the help of our communities we are identifying these people and arresting them. This is just the start - we will not rest until we have identified everyone involved."
For information more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
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To view the CCTV images and help us identify the suspects please see our GMP-Wanted site
Dr. Martin Luther King, center, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads parade of civil rights marchers to a rally in Lafayette Park, opposite the White House in Washington, Aug. 5, 1965.
The march capped two days of street corner rallies in Washington Aug. 4-5 where King called for voting rights for the city.
Dr. King predicted that with the voting rights legislation to be signed into law the following day on August 6, by President Johnson, that he hoped to register 900,000 blacks to vote in southern states.
King met with community leaders at Shaw Junior High, attended a fair housing meeting in Arlington, held street corner rallies at Stanton Road and Alabama Avenue SE, 48th St. & Deane Ave NE, 14th & Harvard Streets NW, 9th St. & Rhode Island Ave. NW, 1st & L Streets NW and at the Metropolitan Baptist Church at 1225 R Street NW.
Participants at the Metropolitan Baptist rally marched to Lafayette Park.
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CRC 901 leads the morning southbound Ohio Rail Experience "Quincy Cannonball" excursion across the diamond at Quincy. Two other railfans can be seen getting their photos and video as well.
4706 leads the stacks across the desert plain at Siberia. I'm on Route 66 and a good way from the tracks, watching the train snaking it's way round the 's' bend was quite something.
I get why this is my pal Chris's delticfan favourite location, it's an amazing sight.
7 April 2014
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4471 leads 44208 and 1101 through Clyde bound for Yennora. Yenorra is a location where alot of trip trains orginate bound for Botany
Just outside the picturesque village of Nieblum on a spring day, this pathway leads through pastures, woods and fields on the way to the wide North Sea beach on the island of Foehr.
Caroline Ketcham, left, and Katie Lowe ’24, speak during the Elon LEADS campaign wrap-up celebration held April 28, 2023, at the Schar Center on the campus of Elon University
Serpentine Gallery Pavillion 2017, text from website copyright of serpentinegalleries.org
Summary
Diébédo Francis Kéré, the award-winning architect from Gando, Burkina Faso, was commissioned to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2017, responding to the brief with a bold, innovative structure that brings his characteristic sense of light and life to the lawns of Kensington Gardens.
Kéré, who leads the Berlin-based practice Kéré Architecture, is the seventeenth architect to accept the Serpentine Galleries’ invitation to design a temporary Pavilion in its grounds. Since its launch in 2000, this annual commission of an international architect to build his or her first structure in London at the time of invitation has become one of the most anticipated events in the global cultural calendar and a leading visitor attraction during London’s summer season. Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and CEO Yana Peel made their selection of the architect, with advisors David Adjaye and Richard Rogers.
Inspired by the tree that serves as a central meeting point for life in his home town of Gando, Francis Kéré has designed a responsive Pavilion that seeks to connect its visitors to nature – and each other. An expansive roof, supported by a central steel framework, mimics a tree’s canopy, allowing air to circulate freely while offering shelter against London rain and summer heat.
Kéré has positively embraced British climate in his design, creating a structure that engages with the ever-changing London weather in creative ways. The Pavilion has four separate entry points with an open air courtyard in the centre, where visitors can sit and relax during sunny days. In the case of rain, an oculus funnels any water that collects on the roof into a spectacular waterfall effect, before it is evacuated through a drainage system in the floor for later use in irrigating the park. Both the roof and wall system are made from wood. By day, they act as solar shading, creating pools of dappled shadows. By night, the walls become a source of illumination as small perforations twinkle with the movement and activity from inside.
As an architect, Kéré is committed to socially engaged and ecological design in his practice, as evidenced by his award-winning primary school in Burkina Faso, pioneering solo museum shows in Munich and Philadelphia.
Serpentine Pavilion Architect's Statement:
The proposed design for the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion is conceived as a micro cosmos – a community structure within Kensington Gardens that fuses cultural references of my home country Burkina Faso with experimental construction techniques. My experience of growing up in a remote desert village has instilled a strong awareness of the social, sustainable, and cultural implications of design. I believe that architecture has the power to, surprise, unite, and inspire all while mediating important aspects such as community, ecology and economy.
In Burkina Faso, the tree is a place where people gather together, where everyday activities play out under the shade of its branches. My design for the Serpentine Pavilion has a great over-hanging roof canopy made of steel and a transparent skin covering the structure, which allows sunlight to enter the space while also protecting it from the rain. Wooden shading elements line the underside of the roof to create a dynamic shadow effect on the interior spaces. This combination of features promotes a sense of freedom and community; like the shade of the tree branches, the Pavilion becomes a place where people can gather and share their daily experiences.
Fundamental to my architecture is a sense of openness. In the Pavilion this is achieved by the wall system, which is comprised of prefabricated wooden blocks assembled into triangular modules with slight gaps, or apertures, between them. This gives a lightness and transparency to the building enclosure. The composition of the curved walls is split into four elements, creating four different access points to the Pavilion. Detached from the roof canopy, these elements allow air to circulate freely throughout.
At the centre of the Pavilion is a large opening in the canopy, creating an immediate connection to nature. In times of rain, the roof becomes a funnel channelling water into the heart of the structure. This rain collection acts symbolically, highlighting water as a fundamental resource for human survival and prosperity.
In the evening, the canopy becomes a source of illumination. Wall perforations will give glimpses of movement and activity inside the pavilion to those outside. In my home village of Gando (Burkina Faso), it is always easy to locate a celebration at night by climbing to higher ground and searching for the source of light in the surrounding darkness. This small light becomes larger as more and more people arrive to join the event. In this way the Pavilion will become a beacon of light, a symbol of storytelling and togetherness.
At the centre of the Pavilion is a large opening in the canopy, creating an immediate connection to nature. In times of rain, the roof becomes a funnel channelling water into the heart of the structure. This rain collection acts symbolically, highlighting water as a fundamental resource for human survival and prosperity.
In the evening, the canopy becomes a source of illumination. Wall perforations will give glimpses of movement and activity inside the pavilion to those outside. In my home village of Gando (Burkina Faso), it is always easy to locate a celebration at night by climbing to higher ground and searching for the source of light in the surrounding darkness. This small light becomes larger as more and more people arrive to join the event. In this way the Pavilion will become a beacon of light, a symbol of storytelling and togetherness.
No visitor to Salle church should ignore the spiral-staircase in the north west corner, for it leads to a charming room above the north porch complete with a vaulted ceiling richly adorned with carved bosses of angels & green men, all delightfully coloured, and for a change viewable from close quarters. The ceiling itself bears traces of more painted decoration with a tracery-like design. (I owe a big debt to Phil climbing up before me and being heard to exclaim 'Wow!' as he entered, thus making sure I didn't miss this well kept secret!).
SS Peter & Paul at Salle is church I've known about for years, having read the words of many who have waxed lyrical about this grand medieval edifice standing proud in near splendid isolation. The testimonies invariably praise this church as one of the highlights of Norfolk, if not one of the finest parish churches in the entire country; in my mind it thus had much to live up to now that I was finally to see it for myself.
Salle church lives up to all these superlatives and more, it is a magnificent building, first sight of it being something like finding a cathedral in the middle of a rural field! It is late medieval at its best, all of a piece 15th century architecture with many original furnishings to match. My initial impression of the interior was of a large, almost barn-like space filled with antique furniture, a place where the more one looks the more interest one finds in every corner, this being a church that requires very thorough exploration to see all it has to offer.
I fell in love with this church and could easily have spent much longer here (though thankfully didn't as this would have compromised seeing the other gems our generous hosts also had planned for us for the rest of the day!). Salle is a churchcrawler's dream and shouldn't be missed, it is happily normally open and welcoming to visitors.
37099 ....37175 Colas leads the 1Z97 13:08 GRANTHAM - DERBY R.T.C TEST TRAIN past ATTENBOROUGH NATURE RESERVE with 37099 Colas on the rear , Wednesday 28th April 2021
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SP352 leads a Pueblo bound coal train past the detector at Kobe (Colorado) on the east side of Tennessee pass, at lunchtime on 07/05/97.
All the other eastbound coal loads we saw, had three SP AC4400CW's on the point, but this one had a new UP high horsepower loco second & two older SD40's behind it, the first still retaining it's Chicago & North Western paint scheme.
The four unit "swing helpers" had been detached at the summit, but it still had two loco's on the rear, to assist with the braking, even though it was following the Arkansas river!
Hanging Heaton bowler Muhammed Rameez leads at Mirfield Memorial Park an appeal for leg before against a Moorlands batter during a second round tie in the Heavy Woollen District Challenge Cup. The left-arm spinner, unsuccessful on this occasion, took 3-30 as the Bradford League Premier Division high-flyers crushed by eight wickets their hosts from the Huddersfield League Premiership. Former Yorkshire batter Gary Fellows starred for Hanging Heaton. He struck an impressive 97 off 85 balls before being caught near the boundary after a slightly mistimed big hit. Hanging Heaton clinched victory - and a place in the quarter-finals - with a spectacular, down-the-ground six onto the adjacent A644.
Match statistics:
Admission: free. Programme: none. Attendance: 115. Moorlands won the toss and elected to bat. Moorlands 192 off 42 overs (Chris Stott 46 not out, Andrew Fortis 33, Jared Maxwell 27, Muhammed Rameez 3-30, David Stiff 2-33) lost by eight wickets to Hanging Heaton 198-2 off 29 overs (Gary Fellows 97, Richard Foster 35 not out, Nick Connolly 31, David Winn 2-42).
The present Moorlands Cricket Club were founded in 1884 as Dewsbury Moorlands Methodist Church Cricket Club. Initially, they played in a Sunday School competition, but in 1911 became founder members of the Dewsbury & District League. After a spell on a mill owner's field, they used a sloping pitch at Church Lane, in the Crow Nest Park area of the town, close to Dewsbury Moor, until the 1950s when the site was subject to a compulsory purchase order. Houses now stand on the site. They switched to a local authority pitch at Sands Lane before, in 1986, quitting Dewsbury for neighbouring Mirfield. The club moved into a ground at local authority-owned Memorial Park. It had been vacated by Mirfield Cavaliers CC upon their merger with Mirfield Parish Church. Moorlands agreed to take on a debt Cavaliers owed to a brewery, but were less enamoured with a council suggestion they incorporate 'Mirfield' in their name. In the end, they simply dropped the 'Dewsbury' prefix. Moorlands stepped up to the Huddersfield Central League in 1988. Since 2013, they have played in the Huddersfield League. After securing back-to-back promotions in 2013 and 2014, Moorlands are now members of the Premiership, the league's top flight.
NR97 leads a late running WB3 with NR's 49 & 101 seen here at Raleigh as they pour on the power and sand as they approach Repton bank
Campaign co-chairs Jack McMackin ’08, Priscilla Awkard ’95, and Christian Wiggins ’03 speak during the Elon LEADS campaign wrap-up celebration held April 28, 2023, at the Schar Center on the campus of Elon University
BNSF 5733 leads a monster westbound E-MHSBKM down Crawford Hill, seen near MP 418 on the BNSF Butte Sub in western Nebraska yesterday. BNSF has been running these, “super trains” quite a bit lately. They simply take 2 full sized coal trains that are already built with distributed power and smash them together as is. This train was over 14,600 feet long with 270 total cars and 8 engines in a 2x4x2 consist arrangement. I’d imagine the original trains were 2x1 and 3x2, as it is unlikely (though not impossible) that the two cream and green SD70MAC’s led the second train. The trains were likely mashed together in Lincoln and would be split up again in Donkey Creek before heading to the mines and return east as 2 separate loaded coal trains.
The Touchstone Leads team; Cassandra Hallam, Dan Kebede, Imogen Smart, Louise Swinbank, Kevin Ireson, Joe Carpenter, Mark Heslop, Ann Boyd and Lauri Hollis
NS 4000 leads L&C Unit Grain Train 10 past Knox on an extremely hot, high sun summer day in 2021. 4000 leading a Grainer on the L&C is about as close as you can get to a Springmaid Blue Widecab under G&O ownership.
CSXT 6921 leads local freight Y128-08 eastbound on the former C&O Cincinnati Division mainline at Brent, Kentucky, passing the the I-275 Bridge. CSXT 6921 was originally built in March of 1980 as Chessie System/C&O 4418, and she looks right at home on her old stomping grounds.
CP 8761 leads a loaded coal train up notch hill near Salmon Arm with CP 8888 and a rare SD40-2 CP 6062.
This is the corridor that leads from the main entrance of the Palacio Nik-An to the Plaza Ceremonial, the main plaza at this citadel.
The adobe city of Chan Chan was built by the Chimú culture starting around 850 CE and was a vibrant center until its conquest by the Inca Empire in 1470. It was the capital of the Chimú empire which extended 600 miles from southern Ecuador to central Peru. It covers 20 km² and had a dense urban center of 6 km². It is the largest adobe city in the world, much of it eroded now, and housed as many as 60,000 people at its peak. It is located very close to the Pacific coastline, a few miles from the center of the modern colonial city of Trujillo, in the fertile valley of the Moche river.
The city has ten walled citadels (ciudadelas), built by successive Chimú rulers, which contained palaces, living quarters, ceremonial rooms, burial chambers, temples, courtyards, terraces and reservoirs. It is surrounded by walls that are 15-18 meters (50-60 ft.) high. Numerous internal walls throughout the city create a labyrinth of passages. The walls were made out of adobe brick and had a smooth plastered surface into which intricate reliefs were carved. Realistic and stylized representations of subjects such as birds, fish, small mammals, crabs, turtle dominated, as well strictly geometric patterns.
Only one of the ten citadels is open to visitors, the Palacio Nik-An (Nik-An Palace), also known as Palacio Tschudi (Tschudi Complex), named after the Swiss naturalist and diplomat Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889) who studied and described he site in 1841. It is the best-restored and the only one that is set up to allow for significant numbers of visitors.
First lady Michelle Obama leads a reenactment planting of a Cherry Blossom Tree on the 100th Anniversary of The National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.
It was March 27, 1912, when First Lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two trees from Japan on the north bank of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park.
For the March 27th 2012 planting First Lady Michelle Obama planted her tree in West Potomac Park, the closest cross streets to this planting location would be Ohio Drive SW at West Basin Drive SW.
Remarks by the First Lady at the National Cherry Blossom Festival Centennial Tree Planting Ceremony
Tidal Basin
Washington, D.C.
11:22 A.M. EDT
MRS. OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you so much, it is a true pleasure to be here on this beautiful, little chilly day. (Laughter.) We planned it. This is the only cold day of the week, and we are here. But I am pleased to be here.
I want to start by thanking Secretary Salazar for that very kind introduction, and for all of his outstanding work as Secretary of the Interior.
I want to thank and recognize Ambassador Fujisaki, as well as Mrs. Fujisaki, who are here today. Thank you all so much, I know you're here somewhere -- oh, you're here. (Laughter.) It's good to see you both. And I want to thank all of you for taking the time to join us for this historic event.
We have come together to celebrate these beautiful cherry blossom trees -- and yes, they were blooming last week. We were so close. (Laughter.) But I think the tree we're planting will -- still has a few blooms, but they are beautiful. And we are here to honor all that they stand for. For so many years, these trees have served as a symbol of the great friendship between the United States and Japan, and as a reminder of our shared hopes, dreams and aspirations.
People from both of our nations worked together for years to bring these trees here to Washington. And over the past century, people of all ages from the U.S. and Japan and so many other nations have come to this Tidal Basin each spring to marvel at their beauty. And year after year, even after the coldest, darkest, stormiest winters, these trees have continued to bloom.
So on this historic anniversary, we don’t just admire the beauty of these trees, we also admire their resilience. And in so doing, we are reminded of the extraordinary resilience of the Japanese people. Over the past year, we have all witnessed their courage, unity and grace as they have come together and begun the very hard work of rebuilding their nation.
And I think that that more than anything else is the lesson that we can learn from these trees. They teach us about all that we can achieve together. And because people from both of our nations came together, this landscape was transformed. And for one hundred years, people from every background and every walk of life have come here to experience, truly, the magic of these trees.
No matter who you are, their beauty stirs our souls. No matter where we’re from, being here among these beautiful blossoms truly lifts our spirits. And that is why we invited all of these wonderful children to join us -- where are the children? There they are. (Applause.) They are here because we want them to learn this lesson as well; we want to pass this lesson onto them. We want to teach them about the great partnership between our nations and what that means for our shared future. We want to teach them to appreciate and learn from the traditions and cultures of others.
And we want them to be inspired by the example of our friends in Japan who have worked so hard and who have been so brave in rebuilding their lives. Because in the end it will be up to them, this next generation, to continue that great friendship. It will be up to them to carry these traditions forward so that one hundred years from now, their children and grandchildren will be able to come here to this very spot and see the tree that we will plant, full grown and in full bloom.
And I hope that on that day, the First Lady –- or the First Gentleman –- of 2112 will also have the privilege of joining with our friends from Japan, and planting another tree which will bloom for yet another one hundred years and beyond.
So with that, I want to once again thank you all for joining us today, and bearing the frigid cold. If you stick around for one more day, it will be 80 tomorrow, I guarantee you. (Laughter.) It's really nice weather here. But we are truly honored to have you here, and it's a pleasure to be able to join in this very special occasion.
And with that, I think it is time for us to plant a tree. (Applause.)
For more on The National Cherry Blossom Festival visit:
www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
For more West Potomac Park on visit:
www.npca.org/parks/west-potomac-park.html
For Remarks by the First Lady at the National Cherry Blossom Festival Centennial Tree Planting Ceremony visit: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/27/remarks-fi...
Photo by
Ryan Janek Wolowski
Washington, D.C. USA
03-31-2012
---- On plateau of Argimusco stands a complex of megaliths around which still lingers an aura full of mystery: the popular tradition leads these megaliths from work of prehistoric populations, but not everyone thinks the same way, with some geomorphologists and archaeologists who think a completely natural origin. The fact remains that these stones show signs that testify man's attention in antiquity to them, due to activity of observation of the sky and a few ritual practice perhaps linked to the cycles of the seasons and the most important astronomical events of the year.
Here a "profile" of rock identified as "the Face". ----
---- sull’altopiano dell’Argimusco si erge un complesso di megaliti intorno ai quali aleggia ancora un’aura densa di mistero: la tradizione popolare riconduce questi megaliti all’opera di popolazioni preistoriche, secondo tali credenze si tratterebbe quindi di antichi menhir e quasi irriconoscibili dolmen, ma non tutti la pensano allo stesso modo con alcuni geomorfologi ed archeologi che invece propendono per una loro origine assolutamente naturale. Resta comunque il fatto che tali pietre mostrano segni che testimonierebbero almeno una attenzione dell’uomo nell'antichità nei loro confronti, riconducibile ad attività di osservazione del cielo e a qualche pratica rituale forse legata ai cicli delle stagioni e ai principali fenomeni astronomici dell’anno.
Qui un "profilo" di roccia identificato come "il Volto". ----
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This is not a report, it can not be it .... all shots are only and slightly connected to each other only because they all are made along the way; they are stolen shots, portraits, still life, all expositions presented in the form of "collection" of photographs pulled out from inside a drawer; the last shots (the first to appear) were realized in the locality of the plateau of Argimusco, nicknamed the "Stonehenge" of Sicily .... ....
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Questo non è un report, non può esserlo poichè le foto sono solamente ed esilmente collegate tra loro solo perchè realizzate in strada; sono scatti rubati, ritratti, still life, tutte esposizioni presentate in forma di "collezione" di fotografie tirate fuori da dentro un cassetto; le ultime foto (le prime ad apparire) sono state realizzate nella località dell'altopiano di Argimusco, soprannominata la "Stonehenge" di Sicilia....
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Not complaining, but cool to see the "Old Dog" leading the New AC as this broadside at Oliver clearly shows.
We have now left the coast and driven up onto the long ridge that forms the backbone of the Gallipoli peninsula and leads north to Chunuk Bair. This is the cemetery at Lone Pine, which sits on a 'C' shaped hill top or plateau, known in 1915 as '400 plateau' (based on its height above sea level). The northern half of the plateau became known as Johnston's Jolly, and the southern half as Lone Pine, with Owen's Gully between them. It was for control of this ridgeline that the two sides spent most of 1915 fighting one another. Here at the southern end, the Anzacs generally managed to maintain a precarious toe-hold, while at the northern end, they were mostly unsuccessful.
The 400 Plateau was heavily fought for on the first day of the landings. Various Australian units, attempting to follow their original orders, pushed on across the plateau, down into Legge Valley and up onto Gun Ridge beyond. However, as Turkish reinforcements arrived, they were forced back and by the end of the day, the Anzacs were fighting to keep a hold on Lone Pine and the ridge either side of it.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission documents that 754 Australian and 147 New Zealand soldiers died on 25 April 1915.
Lone Pine was again the scene of heavy fighting in August 1915. By this time, the two sides were facing each other in lines of trenches across the top of the hill. An attack was planned as a diversion, to draw Ottoman attention away from the main assaults against Sari Bair, Chunuk Bair and Hill 971 to the north.
The Australians, at brigade strength (3 battalions), managed to capture the main Ottoman trench line from the battalion that was defending the position, after attacking from prepared tunnels. The fighting continued for the next three days as the Ottomans brought up reinforcements and launched numerous counterattacks in an attempt to recapture the ground they had lost. As the counterattacks intensified the Australians brought up two fresh battalions until finally, on 9 August the Turks called off any further attempts and by 10 August offensive action ceased, leaving the Australians in control of the position. While the 'diversion' was a tactical success, the main attack further north, was not.
The fighting here at Lone Pine is considered to be the most intense that Australian troops have ever been involved in, before or since. Most of the fighting, which took place under constant artillery fire and rifle and machinegun fire from the positions to north and south, occurred here, within the confines of what is now the cemetery. The original 'Lonesome Pine" was destroyed in the battle.
Ottoman losses were estimated at between 5,000–6,000, killed, wounded, missing and captured. Australian losses during the battle amounted to 2,277 men killed or wounded - almost half those committed to the battle. Much of the killing was done with grenades (or bombs as they called them then). All the Australian grenades were hand-made down on the beach from jam tins and gun cotton!
Seven Australians were awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions during the fighting at Lone Pine.
"Crazy" Leo Urlichich in car #3 on Stage A6 "Iron Bridge South" of the 2013 Rally of the Tall Pines.
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37218 leads the 11.38 Barrow - Carlisle past the part abandoned platform of this request stop.
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