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Temenos Sculpture, The Clock Tower, Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge and Able UK's Gate Guardian.
And not forgetting a Sun Pillar.
Two shunters including 08899 in action dealing with JGA polyhalite wagons at the unloading/export terminal.
The fertiliser is being loaded into the ship on the left.
Hopefully more details will be added in due course.
Two of my favourite subjects here, bridges and puddle reflections. This is the famous Transporter Bridge, over the River Tees in Middlesbrough.
The 1P79 15.00 Manchester Victoria to Saltburn TPE service, thanks to Andrew Shenton for taking us to this interesting viewpoint of the lifting Newport Bridge which opened in 1934 and performed its final lift in 1990.
A final look at the 6E43 10.05 bitumen empties from Ribble Rail in Preston.
The loco ran round its wagons a short distance from here and pushed the tanks back to the loading area.
My understanding is that this service last ran on November 1st 2024, the traffic reverting to road haulage.
This line used to continue to Hartlepool Docks which can be seen a few miles further north. The branch to Port Clarence, Seal Sands and here has no booked workings.
Middlesbrough College at Middlehaven Dock, with the Transporter Bridge in the background.Taken at sunrise.
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On the left is Hartlepool, the dark shape below a crane is an oil rig that is being scrapped - the Brent Charlie.
On the right is the most iconic structure in Middlesbrough - the Transporter Bridge. It has been out of action since 2019 but hopefully will be restored to working order in a few years.
To the right is the hydraulic clock tower.
In an area where there has been huge industrial decline, it is good to see a thriving business. Dawsons handle a large volume of polyhalite and road salt from the mine at Boulby, as well as steel and other bulky goods.
Sine the summer in 2024 they have been importing steel coils destined for the Corby tube works.
66035 is being loaded as the 6M62 departure which will leave nearby Tees Yard in the night and arrive at its destination in Northants the following morning at around 7am.
On 4th October 2000, EWS 'Dutch' (Civil Engineers) liveried 56048 heads away from Middlesbrough Goods sidings at 10:50am with a rake of hopper wagons following their discharge of rock salt product at A.V. Dawson's Ayrton railhead. The Doncaster Works-built 'Grid' was to be withdrawn from service in August 2002 and was disposed of by EMR at Kingsbury.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tees_Transporter_Bridge
Taken with DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone, not from a great height, in fact the drone was just a metre or so above the water. Included in groups as an aerial photograph.
The building to the left, is Webb House. This is believed to be the only commercial building designed by the father of the arts and craft movement, Philip Webb.
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The building to the right is the Zetland Hotel. This is a Victorian pub that has recently been refurbished and has the most fabulous tiled interior in the bar.
Under leaden skies and the light failing rapidly, 'B1' class 4-6-0 61264 makes a spirited departure from Middlesbrough station, attempting to recover some of its 11-minute down time, heading the 1Z47 16:30 Whitby to York 'Whitby Flyer' charter at 6.20pm on Saturday 18th March 2017.
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Middlesbrough Town Hall is a Grade II listed building located in Middlesbrough, England. It was built between 1883-1889 to replace the older and much smaller Old Town Hall. The architect was George Gordon Hoskins of Darlington and the project cost £130,000. The official opening took place on 23 January 1889 and was performed by the then Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra).
This National Trust property is a delight and made more so by virtue of the fact that it is but little more than a hop, skip and and jump from the centre of Middlesbrough!
The Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge is the furthest downstream bridge across the River Tees. It connects Middlesbrough, on the south bank, to Port Clarence, on the north bank. It is a transporter bridge, carrying a moving 'gondola', suspended from the bridge, across the river in 90 seconds. The gondola can carry 200 people, 9 cars, or 6 cars and one minibus. It carries the A178 Middlesbrough to Hartlepool road.
Following a 1907 Act of Parliament the Bridge was built at a cost of £68,026 6s 8d (equivalent to £6,490,000 in 2015 values), by Sir William Arrol & Co. of Glasgow & Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company of Darlington between 1910 and 1911. A transporter bridge was chosen because Parliament ruled that the new scheme of crossing the river had to avoid affecting the river navigation. The opening ceremony was performed by Prince Arthur of Connaught on 17 October 1911 and was Grade II listed in 1985
The Bridge has an overall length (including cantilevers) of 851 feet leaving a span between the centres of the towers of 590 feet the beam of the bridge being carried at a height of 160 feet above the road. The bridge is the longest remaining transporter bridge in the world. The bridge is currently owned by Middlesbrough Council and Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. Middlesbrough Council has control of the day-to-day operations and maintenance. In 2011 the Tees Transporter Bridge received a £2.6m Heritage Lottery Fund award for improvement and renovation work to mark the Bridge's centenary.
A wonderful piece of engineering built in 1910 spans the River Tees in Middlesbrough and carries both vehicles and pedestrians. This photo was taken on the south bank of the river.
26th Sept 2020.
The iconic Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge across the river Tees on an extremely wet April morning! The Grade II-listed structure, which opened in 1911, is one of only six of its type still operating in the world and the only one in England. Refurbishment of the 104-year-old structure, which closed in August 2013, had been expected to last eight months. However, a string of problems meant the reopening date was repeatedly put back and costs rose from £3.1m to £4m. It eventually reopened on 7th March 2015.
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On 26 May 2003, 56088 runs light through Middlesbrough station as 156488 awaits departure on the 1730 Saltburn - Bishop Auckland.
Middlesbrough College, located on one campus at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, is the largest college on Teesside. Wikipedia
Address: Dock St, Middlesbrough TS2 1ADe
60074 hauling another heavy fly ash at Middlesbrough working 6D15 14:26 Redcar B.S.C Ore Terminal-Scunthorpe Trent T.C. 20/04/2017.
GBRf 66711 'Sence' heads around the curve at Cargo Fleet, Middlesbrough. 6C11 13:04 Redcar Bulk Terminal-Eggborough P.S. 14/09/2017.
DB 60001 is seen approaching Metz Bridge, Middlesbrough working 6D15 14:26 Redcar B.S.C Ore Terminal-Scunthorpe Trent T.C. 11/04/2017.
Peppercorn 'K1' 2-6-0 62005 makes a brief stop at the historic Middlesbrough station during its positioning move from Fort William to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, the the 5Z09 15;17 Carlisle High Wapping Sidings to Grosmont shortly after sunset on Monday 16th September 2019. The eastern wing of the station, designed in a Gothic style by William Peachey and opened in 1877, were originally the refreshment and dining rooms. The station originally had two splendid overall roofs, for the trainshed and booking hall, which were sadly destroyed during a bombing raid in 1942. The trainshed overall roof cam up to the edge of the refreshment rooms, beihind the loco chimney.
The following website describes the former station in detail:
www.railwayarchitecture.org.uk/Location/Middlesbrough/Mid...
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