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On loan to LT. 1953 Leyland Tiger Cub / Saunders Roe B45F out of Reigate(RG)Garage. LCCTT. (Collection)
The Fallowfield loop line was opened in 1892 and ran round the south side of Manchester, linking Sheffield Victoria with Manchester Central.
The large building in the background was Reddish MPD which was opened in 1954, to maintain the EM1 and EM2 locomotives that would operate over the 1500v DC Woodhead Line and also the 506 emu's which operated the Manchester-Glossop services.
The depot closed on the 30th July 1983 and the last freight train on the Fallowfield Loop Line was behined 47443 on a Freightliner from Trafford Park in October 1988.
This was the view from Station Road looking towards Hyde Road Junc a few months after the line had closed, the Fallowfield Loop line is now a cycle path.
9th February 1989
Operated by: Mountain Line
Built in: 2009
Manufacturer: Gillig Corporation
Model: Low Floor 35' Hybrid (G30B102N4)
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5384 seen turning onto S. Phoenix Ave en route to the DCC. The yellow bike racks on these older units look rather sharp.
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The Bee Line Buzz Company Leyland Atlantean AN68/1R Northern Counties 655 (GDB 172N) in Manchester, 10th September, 1991. It was back on home territory having been new to Greater Manchester P.T.E as 7525 before heading to London Country South West in 1987.
Another image from a recently digitized book found in our archives. The book is titled “Port of Manchester” and subtitled “Illustrated History of the Manchester Ship Canal 1708-1901."
The handsome volume contains around 50 full-page images and illustrations. The images include photographs of the canal under construction and in use, various locks and the dock areas and associated warehouses.
The illustrations are advertisements for many of the companies used the canal to operate their businesses. The companies include some of the giants of the cotton industry, heavy engineering and printing.
This plate has a maritime theme.
The Lamport & Holt Line was formed in 1845 by William James Lamport and George Holt. They operated sailing ships and carried cotton and marble from ports around the Mediterranean.
By the late 1850s the company had begun moving to steam ships. By the turn of the century they were much in demand as carriers of frozen meat and coffee from South America. The company also operated passenger ships.
Lamport & Holt ships played a major role in supplying the troops during the Great War.
Despite being bought out by the Royal Mail in 1911 and the Blue Star Line in 1944, the Lamport & Holt name continued to be used until 1974.
From the collection of the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives.
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Size : 10mm, male
This is comparatively a large spider with extremely long legs. The good thing about this guy is that it's relatively tame. Make my job easier. A handsome spider :)
Seen here showing its long fangs and hairy legs
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Unique Wickham Railbus no. 999507 (Laboratory 20) in British Rail Research Department livery on the Lavender line.
The “Elliott Track Recording Coach” was commonly referred to as the 'Wickham Railbus' and was built in 1958 by D. Wickham of Ware, Hertfordshire.
It was a self-propelled four-wheel railbus No: DB999507 with one driven axle and had a Meadows 97HP horizontal underfloor engine. It was used as a track recording car by the Chief Civil Engineer's Department from around 1958, before the BR Research Division was formed and was fitted with an early computer system supplied by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd (Elliott Automation).
The Wickham was sold to the East Lancashire Railway in 1997 and later moved to the Middleton Railway on 11th June 2003. It is currently based at the Lavender Line in Isfield, East Sussex and is now privately owned.
www.traintesting.com/wickham_car.htm
The Lavender Line formed part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway when it was opened on 18 October 1858. Within 12 months of its opening, the branch had been integrated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) to safeguard the company’s interests east of its London to Brighton main line. Ten years from its opening, Isfield saw through workings from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, via a new Uckfield–Groombridge link. The Bluebell Railway originally branched off the Lavender Line at Culver Junction, near Culver Farm between Lewes and Barcombe Mills. This junction closed in 1958 with the closure of the East Grinstead to Lewes line.
Following its closure in 1969 the track was removed in 1970 and the station at Isfield was neglected and became overgrown. After fourteen years of disuse, it was auctioned in June 1983 by British Rail and sold for £60,500 to Dave and Gwen Milham who restored the station and signal box and laid the first sections of track. Ownership of the station passed from the Milham family in 1991 and it is run by the Lavender Line Preservation Society.
The line was named 'The Lavender Line' with a historical connection in mind: A.E. Lavender and Sons were the local coal merchants who had operated from the station yard
Northbound Soo Line train #201 crawls through Kentland, Indiana on July 2nd, 1987 at 10:30 am with Soo 788-787-743, 113 cars and Soo caboose #52. Train had mixed freight on the head end, a block of loaded ATSF hoppers (which was odd) and trailers & autoracks on the rear.
In this photo, Soo Line cupola caboose #52 is bringing up the rear, along with the autoracks and trailers like normal.
I may not have seen the NYC's Egyptian train, but I got 5 solid years of Milw/Soo trains instead....
Unique Wickham Railbus no. 999507 (Laboratory 20) in British Rail Research Department livery on the Lavender line.
The “Elliott Track Recording Coach” was commonly referred to as the 'Wickham Railbus' and was built in 1958 by D. Wickham of Ware, Hertfordshire.
It was a self-propelled four-wheel railbus No: DB999507 with one driven axle and had a Meadows 97HP horizontal underfloor engine. It was used as a track recording car by the Chief Civil Engineer's Department from around 1958, before the BR Research Division was formed and was fitted with an early computer system supplied by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd (Elliott Automation).
The Wickham was sold to the East Lancashire Railway in 1997 and later moved to the Middleton Railway on 11th June 2003. It is currently based at the Lavender Line in Isfield, East Sussex and is now privately owned.
www.traintesting.com/wickham_car.htm
The Lavender Line formed part of the Lewes to Uckfield Railway when it was opened on 18 October 1858. Within 12 months of its opening, the branch had been integrated into the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) to safeguard the company’s interests east of its London to Brighton main line. Ten years from its opening, Isfield saw through workings from Brighton to Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge, via a new Uckfield–Groombridge link. The Bluebell Railway originally branched off the Lavender Line at Culver Junction, near Culver Farm between Lewes and Barcombe Mills. This junction closed in 1958 with the closure of the East Grinstead to Lewes line.
Following its closure in 1969 the track was removed in 1970 and the station at Isfield was neglected and became overgrown. After fourteen years of disuse, it was auctioned in June 1983 by British Rail and sold for £60,500 to Dave and Gwen Milham who restored the station and signal box and laid the first sections of track. Ownership of the station passed from the Milham family in 1991 and it is run by the Lavender Line Preservation Society.
The line was named 'The Lavender Line' with a historical connection in mind: A.E. Lavender and Sons were the local coal merchants who had operated from the station yard
Operated by: Mountain Line
Built in: 2013
Manufacturer: Gillig Corporation
Model: Low Floor 35' Hybrid (G30B102N4)
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5372 seen working the route 10. Typically this route runs with the New Flyer articulated units.
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“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.” (William Shakespeare)
Although the vast majority of the Illinois Central's "Gruber Line" through the center portion of Illinois has been removed, a short stretch still remains from Oglesby to LaSalle, IL. Lucky that this short segment features the largest bridge on the line, spanning the Illinois River valley. The bridge is easily visible just to the west of the I-39 highway bridge. I've been across that bridge numerous times, but never saw anything until this past Wednesday morning when I spotted empty cement hoppers strung out to the south--that could only mean one thing--the cement plant was interchanging cars in LaSalle, IL. A quick U-turn had me back in LaSalle to record the GE 80 ton switcher pulling a string of hoppers off the bridge in the early morning light.