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19 July 2023, High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
USA – New York - July 2023
© European Union / Leandro Pereira Montero
This is an uncontrolled pedestrian crossing over the Swanage Railway heritage line, where it passes near Corfe Castle (seen on the ridge in the background).
Housewives' favourites Level 42, taken from the relative safety of the Mixing Desk. Processed using Aurora HDR Pro.
Level crossing near Heggedal station on the Spikkestad line. The crossing has since been replaced with a bridge further south.
Planovergang nær Heggedal stasjon på Spikkestadlinjen. Planovergangen er senere erstattet med en bro lenger sør.
UN High-Level Luncheon.
Tuesday, April 24, 2018 High-Level Luncheon held at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, NYC.
Two days of meeting, April 24-25, 2018 between world leaders and UN representatives is being held at the UN, marked as High-Level Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace.
photo credit: Paul Martinka ,Cia Pak and, UN photos
The World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025 (WTDC-25)
H.E Abdullah Al Mubadel, Deputy Governor, Telecommunication · Communications, Space & Technology Commission (CST)
17 to 28 November 2025
Baku Azerbaijan
ITU/D.Woldu
THe WLF purchased from fellow RFFer finally arrived at sis' place. Someone will have to bring it back for me. Looks nice..
R761 passes through Berwick with a Transfer Train to Bairnsdale.
The train is passing over the bridge that carries the line over Clyde Road.
Steamrail Victoria - The Gippslander - October 2024.
Inside the engine room
From the Behind-the-Scenes Tour around Tower Bridge: Towers, high-level Walkways and Victorian Engine Rooms down to its hidden depths, normally out of bounds to the public...views from the Glass Floor and high-level Walkway, then the original steam engines, accumulators and boilers in the Victorian Engine Rooms...the Bridge’s operational areas including the Control Cabin, Machinery Room and the immense Bascule Chambers, which house the 422-ton counterweights.
Built between 1886 and 1894, the Bridge has spent more than a century as London's defining landmark, an icon of London and the United Kingdom.
A huge challenge faced the City of London Corporation - how to build a bridge downstream from London Bridge without disrupting river traffic activities. To generate ideas, the Special Bridge or Subway Committee was formed in 1876, and a public competition was launched to find a design for the new crossing.
Over 50 designs were submitted to the Committee for consideration, some of which are on display at Tower Bridge. It wasn't until October 1884 however, that Sir Horace Jones, the City Architect, in collaboration with John Wolfe Barry, offered the chosen design for Tower Bridge as a solution.
It took eight years, five major contractors and the relentless labour of 432 construction workers each day to build Tower Bridge under the watchful eye of Sir John Wolfe Barry.
Two massive piers were built on foundations sunk into the riverbed to support the construction, and over 11,000 tons of steel provided the framework for the Towers and Walkways. This framework was clad in Cornish Granite and Portland Stone to protect the underlying steelwork and to give the Bridge a more pleasing appearance.
When it was built, Tower Bridge was the largest and most sophisticated bascule bridge ever completed ('bascule' comes from the French word for 'seesaw'). These bascules were operated by hydraulics, using steam to power the enormous pumping engines. The energy created was stored in six massive accumulators, meaning that as soon as power was required to lift the Bridge, it was always readily available. The accumulators fed the driving engines, which drove the bascules up and down. Despite the complexity of the system, the bascules only took about a minute to raise to their maximum angle of 86 degrees. Find out more about this process.
Today, the bascules are still operated by hydraulic power, but since 1976 they have been driven by oil and electricity rather than steam. The original pumping engines, accumulators and boilers are now on display within Tower Bridge’s Engine Rooms.
[TowerBridge.org.uk]
Markings on the stone indicate the water level during pre- and post-war floods that passed through Malczyce, a small town with a shipyard on the Odra River.
The region has faced several floods, but the most devastating was the 1997 Millennium Flood. It submerged 40% of Wrocław, damaged 2,583 residential buildings, and took 56 lives. Across Poland, it left at least 7,000 people with nothing and damaged or destroyed 680,000 homes, with losses estimated at 63 billion PLN.
The 1997 flood also marked a turning point for Lower Silesia, seen as the moment when locals fully embraced the region as their own, over 50 years after it became part of Poland. The collective response – mobilizing 300,000 to 480,000 sandbags, mostly by volunteers – symbolized a deepening bond with the land.