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The Red Arrows, in their usual impressive form and back in a 9-man formation, displaying at the Bournemouth Air Festival
Video available: youtu.be/luHcHAESt8M
The millennium falcon is still the coolest spaceship in the galaxy! This is why I have always wanted to build my own version! Inspired by Mikes, WIP-images, I was encouraged to start my own project.
It took me a whole year to accomplish this build (including planning and collecting bricks). Net building time 240 hours.
My main goal was to present the model in a flying position, which was a huge task. Due to its internal framework it was not possible to include an interior, but I was able to fully lighten the model. And there was still enough space left to include a detailed cockpit (with 4 seats), gunner’s platform and a lowering ramp. Credits to EB member ScottishDave for his original design of the radar dish.
Measuring: 82 cm x 54 cm x 18 cm
Weight: approx. 9.2 kg
Parts count: approx. 7500 pieces
I am proud how this creation came together – I hope you like it as well.
Thanks MB
aka Common Peafowl, Blue Peafowl, Peacock
Those of you who have lived in the Orlando area for many years probably went to see the peacocks on Genius Drive in Winter Park at some point. The property is now closed to the public but the peacocks are still roaming free there. I help out with monthly bird surveys on the property and I took this photo during one of our counts.
Indian Peafowl are not native to North America but they do breed at Genius Preserve and many other places in Florida and the U.S. If they continue to maintain or expand their populations, it is possible that they would eventually be accepted as "countable exotics" by the Florida Ornithological Society.
Canon Rebel XSi and Canon 75-300.
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” —J.K. Rowling
Odette Lake of Tears, posing in front of artist’s paper from Somerset Studio magazine.
Constructed between 1847 and 1849 by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, (MS&LR - later became the Great Central), this is Torksey railway Viaduct, which crosses the River Trent between Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire, roughly half way between Lincoln and Gainsborough. Designed by John Fowler (1817-1898), who later was one of the two engineers for the Forth Rail Bridge, Torksey Viaduct is a rare, and early surviving example of a tubular girder bridge.
There are two 130-foot spans over the River Trent, each consisting of two massive wrought iron girders - as seen here.
These are supported on stone piers - one in the centre and one at each side. On the Lincolnshire side is a 570-foot approach viaduct of 20 spans, and the bridge proper starts over a small natural island in the river. The position of the Bridge was chosen to use this island to simplify the task.
Captain Lintorn Simmons, the Board of Trade’s inspector, refused to grant permission for the viaduct to be opened, having “entertained doubts as to the ultimate security” of the bridge. After much argument, Fowler, supported by the Engineering profession, won the day, and the first train passed over in April 1850.
The bridge was twice strengthened - in 1877 & 1897, because increasing traffic and train loads. A conventional steel lattice girder (again, seen in this photograph) was inserted centrally into both main spans in the 1897 works, whilst the northern girders were moved out to maintain track clearances.
The "Leverton Branch", as this line (which ran between Sykes Junction near Lincoln and Clarborough, just West of Gainsborough), was known, was closed on November 3rd 1959, with Lincoln-Sheffield trains taking the only slightly less direct route through Gainsborough Lea Road. However, the line to the West of the Trent was reinstated in 1969 to serve the new power station at Cottam's need for coal, whilst on the Lincolnshire side, the line was run from Sykes Junction to the Shell petrol depot at Torksey. Only the viaduct itself remained closed.
The Oil traffic ceased in the late 1980s, and the track is now all lifted (and the road bridge on the Gainsborough-Lincoln road was removed).
Until the early 1990s it was possible the walk across the viaduct - this was no longer possible by the 1990s as the track bed had been removed on the bridge itself, and that part was fenced off. Happily, this was resolved during the las 12 months. The cycling and footpath charity Sustrans have installed the required safety fencing and reinstated the bridge bed on the North side. There is now a fine footpath over the impressive bridge to the riverbank on the Western (Nottinghamshire) side of the river. This shot shows the (still without a track bed) South side of the bridge.
The viaduct is rightly covered by a Grade II* listing but worryingly, also features on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register.
Camera: Nikon F5
Lens: Nikkor 28-80mm zoom
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Taken at Beijing airport waiting for my flight to Thailand. Shot with Nikon d90 using a Tamron 17-50mm edited in Lightroom 3.
Lean out to see the world
From every possible spot
Lean out to see the world
From each and every perspective
Lean out every day to look at the world
And never ever you´ll stop marveling...
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El mundo detrás de tus ojos
Asómate a ver el mundo
Desde todos los rincones posibles
Asómate a ver el mundo
Desde todas las perspectivas
Asómate cada día a mirar el mundo
Y nunca jamás dejarás de maravillarte...
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A great opportunity, a fresh start, everything is possible... so why I feel myself so freaky? This whole new year is like this 52 week challenge for me: both a source of opportunity and blockage. Today is the last day of the first week, the last day for posting a picture. I almost failed to produce anything. But at the very end, I think this blank page is really what I got today. With all its good and bad sides.
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Syndrome de la page blanche (thème: nouveaux départs)
Une belle occasion, un nouveau départ, tout est possible ... alors pourquoi je me sens si bizarre ? Cette toute nouvelle année est comme ce défi des 52 semaines pour moi : à la fois une source d'opportunités et de blocage. Aujourd'hui est le dernier jour de la première semaine, le dernier jour pour poster une image. J'ai bien failli ne rien réussir à produire. Mais à la fin, je pense que cette page vierge est vraiment ce que j'ai maintenant. Avec tous ses bons et mauvais côtés.
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This picture is a part of the 52 weeks : 2016 challenge => www.flickr.com/groups/2914058@N22/
Cette image fait partie du défi 52 semaines : 2016 => www.flickr.com/groups/2914058@N22/
The awful window coverings, peeling paint, crude foundation, decaying and dysfunctional wooden step and assorted hideous decorative items suggest man cave.
E-30 + 50-200mm SWD @ 117mm, f7.1, 1/10sec, -1.0EV, ISO100, tripod. 30 March 2011 @ 6:56PM (EXPLORE)
This is separate from the house and other outbuildings on the property.
I am not sure whether this is a man cave but it is rather shabby and, more important, has that bad-ass face on the gable.
I several more possible man caves in queue for posting.
I was asked a question about man caves in one of my recent posts. Here a Wiki post on the concept. I generally agree with most of what I read but know that there are areas of controversy. I am not interested in man caves that are in rooms of the house.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_cave#:~:text=The%20first%20know....
Aldenham Works Open Day to celebrate 50 years of London Transport 25 Sep 1983
RM1009 (9 CLT) seen here in a sorry looking state, parked up in a corner of Aldenham Works, awaiting its fate. Surprisingly, considering its dilapidated look, the bus was overhauled, and eventually got preserved in 1987!
Aldenham Bus Overhaul Works, along with Chiswick, were the 'Holy Grail' of bus spotters in my day, with huge numbers of brand new buses to be seen as well as those awaiting overhaul or even scrapping. It was quite a challenge to try and see as much as possible from the perimeter fence.
So, when it was announced that there would be an open day in 1983, I jumped at the chance of a visit.
Bus History
RM 1009 (9 CLT)
11/61 new to Aldenham: 8/5RM5/8, Leyland O.800
11/61 HL new to store (Hanwell)
3/62 HL into service
12/73 HT to Aldenham overhaul
12/73 Q from o/h, (Camberwell)
*/74 Q in service on 68 to Norwood Garage
9/78 PR to Aldenham overhaul
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12/78 SW from o/h (Stockwell), body B1078
3/79 SW into store
9/79 SW ..and out
81-82 SW
9/83 SW to Aldenham overhaul
11/83 PM from o/h (Peckham), still body B1078
11/85 TC transfer (Croydon)
10/86 TC in service on 68 to South Croydon Garage
10/86 CA transfer (Clapham)
6/87 AK withdrawn
7/87 change store to AEC Southall
10/87 sold for preservation, Blue Triangle, Rainham
2/96 stored
4/01 in store, Blue Triangle
12/17 in store, London Bus Company
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera.
You can see a random selection of my bus photographs here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/southallroutemaster/random/
Good to get back to Museums.
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco is hosting a collection of items from the aftermath of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79CE. Well worth viewing.
This mosaic was flat on the floor as you entered a rich merchants foyer. Like walking over the Mediterranean Sea and viewing the marine cornucopia below.
The mosaic identifies edible species including an octopus, a lobster, squid, shrimp, anchovies, eel and other fish.
Worth viewing as large as possible, to better see the
detailed work in colored stone. Two thousand year old pixels.
Made Explore, with highest of 363. Thanks, everyone!
Assignment: PCA122 – Frames within the Frame
Deadline: September 26, 2010
Image Tag: pca122
From: gfpeck (Wes)
Mission from gfpeck
This assignment is directed toward creative composition where an element of the image frames the focal point of photograph.
Description
This compositional technique is also referred to as natural framing. The natural frame elements can be anything (natural or man-made ) as long as they are visible in the image and were part of the original scene with the subject
Links
www.flickr.com/groups/naturalframes/
What it Took (WIT)
This is a pic taken from the Blue Ridge Parkway south of Asheville, NC. I was at at conference this week in Asheville (not too shabby!), and was trying to think of what to capture for the assignment. On top of the mountains, at the overlooks, often there were pine trees lining the edges, which gave me the idea of how looking out between pine trees created natural framing. A frame within a frame. The morning this shot was taken the sky was so, so blue. And the fog made the tips of the mountains bluer and more pronounced. I liked the way the sun was illuminating the fog and mountains.
For this assignment I cropped to make the trees more like bookends of the shot, removed a bit of sunflare, and upped the contrast (which darkened the trees). I also increased the saturation and vibrancy a little, and adjusted the blue channel a touch.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T1i
Lens: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Filter: CPL
ISO Speed: 100
Focal Length: 24mm
Exposure Value: 0
Aperture: f/10
Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec
Flash: Off, did not fire
Post-processing: See above
20181118_7826_7D2-100 First Strawberry of the Summer (b&w)
Mucking around with possibles for this week's Macro Monday challenge "Back to Square One", a square crop, centered, black & white macro shot.
#10187
A view towards the Trough of Bowland from Sunderland Point Lancashire. I do wish they'd remove these tatty boats they are forever getting in the way ;))
Lindisfarne sat on the Banks of the magnificent and tranquil River Lune.
Nice viewed Large
Taken from Here
My reason for disappearing over the Summer was again work related as like last Summer and the one before. My internet life is very limited during the Summer months and I've not been on flickr (not sure I like the new Flickr set up) since March so I apologise to my friends and contacts. I do hope to try and catch up with you as much as possible before next Summer :)))))
Los Tayos Rocket Frog (Hyloxalus nexipus) - Cordillera Escalera, Peru
This is a great little frog that on first impression the casual observer may not place into the Dendrobatidae family. However this is a close relative of the colorful frogs known as poison dart frogs (more on why that name is not accurate later). This species is tied very closely to streams and rivers flowing through forest, despite having seen many I have yet to observe a single individual more than a few meters away from the flowing waters of a stream/river. The populations of these frogs are quite visible and in certain areas along the river it is possible to see many individual frogs hopping over the rocks near the waters edge. With a little patience its also possible to see them pick a point to call from and defend their territories against other males, attempting to chase or wrestle them away. Unlike many other Hyloxalus these are aposematic and do sequester toxins that make them unpalatable to predators, they are also swift frogs capable of a quickly jumping away and they seem to be strong swimmers when I have seen them fall into the flowing water. A very charismatic frog and one of my favorite dendrobatids here despite how common it is.
My submission for the Recording Images group. This week’s theme is “strangers”. I don’t think I’ve done a great job of this, but it’s been one of those weeks where I didn’t get out to see enough people! Anyway, this will have to do for now.
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"The day when it will be possible for a woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not to renounce herself but to affirm herself, on that day love will become for her a source of life and not a mortal danger."
Bald Eagle.View Large ..Immature --balancing end of branch pulling off pine cones one by one.and then dropping them to the ground below. .strange behaviour IMG_8757
We’ve crossed the border into Mexico on my Pan-American Trek using Google Street View. The border town of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, is very different from its cousin town of Laredo, Texas, but the cultural crossovers are still very evident. Nuevo Laredo is a key logistics hub in Mexico.
It’s been 8800 km from Dead Horse, Alaska, to Laredo, Texas, and it will be about 2400 km from Nuevo Loredo to Tapachula, at the Mexico-Guatemala border. Unfortunately, Google Street View isn’t available in the rest of Central America, so we’ll be doing a virtual flight from Mexico to Columbia, South America.
Some initial thoughts about the trip from Alaska to Texas:
* Google Street View is one of the most important photographic endeavors of history, and Street View drivers are photography pioneers. Really.
* A drive in Alaska can be the most boring imaginable or the most glorious.
* Alberta Highway 93, otherwise known as the Icefields Parkway, or Promenade des Glaciers, is heavenly.
* Towns really do have archetypal layouts; the “other side of tracks” is literally true.
* Decaying brick, wood, and metal are sustainable art.
* The US is a visibly Christian country.
* Grain and livestock businesses still exist in Grain Belt, but fewer people are needed for labor, so almost everyone has migrated, leaving modern ghost towns.
* Signage is often purposefully quirky, an artistic brand expression.
* No one is outside in the US, they’re only visible getting into, inside, or getting out of cars.
* Wall art falls into three categories – gang or random graffiti, “endorsed” wall art (by a town or business), and “unendorsed” wall art, the latter being typically the most intense and artistic.
* More old buildings exist as you go south, probably because of increased density and less harsh weather.
* The Texas Panhandle looks like it’s been standing up to a strong wind for a long time.
* Texans use trees purposefully to frame their houses.
* Mexican-Hispanic influence increases nonlinearly as a function of closeness to the Mexican border.
* Abandoned buildings are a luxury of a rich society; the US can afford to build structures that last and afford to leave them to decay without stealing their materials or re-using them in some intelligent way.
* Is it possible that there’s a “Law of Conservation of Interestingness”? In awesome landscapes the buildings are boring and aren’t made to last; in boring landscapes (dry landscapes?) the buildings are made to be more interesting and last a long time, which in turn makes them even more interesting.
* Is virtual photography a new field?
The active nucleus and some glowing outflows associated with it in the galaxy Markarian 78. I worked together with Dr. Mitchell Revalski on this one. Together I feel like we were able to pick the right datasets to really eke out as much detail as possible for the ionized (glowing) outflows, which are shown in blue. There were some old FOC data in the archive that I myself was too skeptical to try using, but after some encouragement from Mitch it turned out it was actually the best. Other noticeable features include dark dust, shown here in dark brown and orange colors.
Anyway, this may seem like a meager offering compared to other imagery from Hubble, but it's safe to say it's currently the best image (as of this writing) of Mrk 78's nucleus.
An arXiv link to the paper on this object is here!
Data from the following proposals were used to create this image. Two proposals from the late 90's and one from 2019. Glad the archive is so well maintained that it is possible to easily combine chronologically disparate datasets.
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
This ended up being a two color orange/cyan image, and the cyan channel is a bit unusual, comprised of data combined from the STIS/CCD 50CCD filter and FOC/96 F502M filter. Neither dataset provided full coverage, so each image makes up for what is missing in the other, and what features showed up in both were similar enough to create a smooth and coherent image despite being from totally different instruments and not quite similar filters.
Orange: ACS/WFC F814W
Cyan: STIS/CCD 50CCD + FOC/96 F502M
North is up.
Everyone always asks whether it’s possible to see the Great Wall of China from space. It is not (sorry to disappoint) . But, if you know where to look, you can take a picture of it. It is impossible to see it in the tiny viewfinder of the camera (imagine the picture below in the size of a camera viewfinder), but using geographical features, you can navigate to where you think it should be and shoot it blind!!! With good guidance from our NASA instructor and with a bit of luck I got a few shots of it. The shots aren’t great, there was a lot of fog, but it’s still very visible in the middle. Zoom in and see if you can find it yourself in this collage made of 10 pictures: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2021/05/Great_Wall_of_C...
On me demande de temps en temps si la Grande Muraille de Chine est réellement visible depuis l’espace, c’est une question classique à poser à un astronaute apparemment (parmi d’autres 😇). Au risque de vous décevoir : non… Mais quand on sait exactement où pointer son objectif, on peut la prendre en photo . On ne voit rien dans le viseur de l’appareil, mais en observant bien les détails géographiques des environs, on peut se repérer, pointer son appareil vers ce qu’on pense être la bonne direction et la photographier à l’aveugle. Avec les bons conseils de notre instructeur de la NASA, quel ne fut pas mon bonheur lorsqu’en regardant les photos sur un écran plus grand je me suis rendu compte que j’en avais capturé certains segments !! Les photos, avec une météo brumeuse, ne sont pas exceptionnelles, mais on distingue bien le mur qui serpente sur les crêtes. Je peux enlever ça de ma liste de lieux à photographier 😊
Vous pouvez explorer le collage en détails et vérifier si vous trouvez la muraille ici : www.esa.int/.../05/Great_Wall_of_China_from_space
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
532A4974 Edited to show the wall in red
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A pair of 1/9 plate tintypes of two good ol' boys or possibly two young Confederates wearing blue infantry hat cords around their necks in lieu of uniforms early in the Civil War..
Last July, the Webb telescope released its very first image: the deepest and sharpest image ever seen. Zooming in on the data, scientists found 3 young, distant galaxies similar to rare, small galaxies called “green peas” in our cosmic backyard. Because the light has traveled so far to get to us, we’re seeing these 3 galaxies as they were up to 13.1 billion years ago.
Specifically, the galactic trio share chemical characteristics — oxygen, hydrogen, and neon signatures — with “green pea” galaxies. (“Green peas” resembled green dots in their discovery images.) Due to their similarities, researchers may be able to study nearby “green peas” in detail to learn more about distant early galaxies.
While Webb’s infrared vision is incredibly sensitive, in this case Webb had some help from space’s “magnifying glass.” The effect of gravitational lensing meant that the mass of the galaxy cluster in Webb’s image actually magnified these tiny, distant galaxies by up to 10 times.
The farthest of the 3 galaxies contains only 2% the oxygen found in a galaxy like ours. This suggests the galaxy is extremely young, as it contains very few heavy elements (like oxygen) recycled from earlier stars. Learn more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/nasa-s-webb-telescope-r...
In this image: The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph captured the chemical fingerprints of selected galaxies behind SMACS 0723, including three faint, distant objects. When corrected for the wavelength stretch caused by the expansion of space over billions of years, the spectra of these galaxies (shown in red) exhibit features emitted by oxygen, hydrogen, and neon that show a stunning resemblance to those seen from so-called green pea galaxies found nearby (in green). Additionally, the Webb observations made it possible to measure the amount of oxygen in these cosmic dawn galaxies for the first time. The spectral lines have been stretched vertically in order to clarify these relationships.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Rhoads et al. 2023
Image description: Two different sets of spectral data, comparing the chemical fingerprints of green pea galaxies with young, distant galaxies observed by the Webb telescope. On the top is the green pea galaxies data, shown in two squiggly horizontal lines of bright green, and below that is the Webb data, shown in three lines of red. The data sets share remarkably similar line patterns representing the elemental signatures of oxygen, neon, and hydrogen. From left to right, both data sets generally start off with a high frequency of peaks and dips, which gradually taper out into just occasional peaks by the end.
Disclaimer— I am in NO WAY making money from this video. ALL rights go to the owner of the song. I really like it but I don’t want to use it because of the song and I don’t want to get copyright strikes put onto my YouTube account. Anyone know anything about copyright issues/things??
In 1982 it was still possible to “bunk round” depots and on 9th May 1982 I am doing just that my local depot, Toton. Amongst a line of Class 08 shunters stabled in the yard is 08021.
Locomotive History
08021 was originally 13029 and then later under the 1957 renumbering scheme D3029. It was built at Derby Works and entered traffic October 1953. For the first half of its career it was based in the West Midlands with its first Allocation being Tyseley. In August 1960 it transferred to Stourbridge Junction and then to Bescot when Stourbridge closed in April 1967. It transferred to Toton in July 1968 (one of the Class 10 replacements) where it remained until withdrawn in December 1986. Following withdrawal it has entered preservation and is the resident shunter at the Tyseley Locomotive Works, its first home in 1953.
Toton Diesel Shunter Allocation – 1967/68
In the 1950’s and early 1960’s British Railways built/purchased around two thousand diesel shunters which replaced considerably more steam shunting engines. By the middle of the 1960’s changing operating methods and the reducing size of the network lead to a surplus of diesel shunting locomotives. Withdrawal commenced with the classes containing only a few locomotives however as the surplus grew a start was made on the larger less reliable classes.
I first started visiting Toton MPD in the summer of 1966 and in November 1966 Toton MPD had an allocation of twenty five diesel shunters. Over the next two years this fleet would be totally replaced and was also reduced to fifteen locomotives. The diesel shunter allocation in November 1966 consisted of four types of locomotive:
Class D2/2 - (TOPS class 03) –204bhp diesel mechanical shunter built by Swindon and Doncaster works between 1957 - 1961
Class D3/3 – 350bhp diesel electric shunter (mechanically a class 08) fitted with a Crossley ESNT6 engine and Crompton Parkinson electrical equipment, built by Derby Works in 1955.
Class D3/4 - (TOPS class 10) –350bhp diesel electric shunter (mechanically a class 08) fitted with a Blackstone ER6T engine and GEC electrical equipment built by Darlington and Doncaster Works between 1953 and 1962.
Class D3/8 (TOPS class 11) - 350bhp diesel electric shunter (the prototype for the class 08) fitted with an English Electric 6KT engine and English Electric electrical equipment built at Derby Works between 1945 and 1952.
Those allocated were as follows
Class D2/2 (class03) – D2116
Class D3/3 – D3117 – D3126 (complete class)
Class D3/4 (class 10) – D3476/93/95/97-99, D3500-02, D3632
Class D3/8 (class 11) – 12038/55/63/82
Of note is D2116 which had officially arrived in September 1966 but despite regular visits at this time I can not personally ever recall seeing it at Toton.
The first change was the transfer of the four D3/8 locomotives in November/December 1966 (with 12038 going to Speke Junction and 12055/63/82 going to Crewe) and the withdrawal of four of the class D3/3 locomotives D3122-24/26. These were replaced by eight class D3/4 locomotives, D3446/47/48/49/50 from Peterborough, D3452/75 from Tinsley and D3473 from Doncaster.
In April 1967 a further class D3/3 locomotive was withdrawn D3121 and in July 1967 the remaining five class D3/3 locomotives D3117-20/25 were withdrawn.
In September 1967 the class D2/2 locomotive D2116 was transferred to Barrow
In November 1967 the first two class D3/2 (TOPS class 08) locomotives D3400/02 arrived from Cardiff
In December 1967 two further class D3/2 locomotives D3050 and D3997 arrived from Willesden and Bescot respectively as did two class D3/4 locomotives D3442/89 from Colwick however a start was made on withdrawing the D3/4 locomotives with the withdrawal of D3449.
So the situation at the end of 1967 was an allocation of twenty five diesel shunters (the same total as November 1966) of only two types:
Class D3/2 (class 08) - D3050, D3400/02, D3997
Class D3/4 (class 10) – D3442/46-50/52/73/75/76/89/93/95/97-99, D3500-02, D3632.
This was to be the high point as over the next nine months twenty of the class D3/4 locomotives were withdrawn with the remaining one D3497 being transferred to Colwick. As replacements eleven class D3/2 locomotives arrived, D3021/25/29/34/36/37 from Bescot, D3026 from Tyseley, D3039 from Derby and D3340/45/90 from the Scottish Region (Thornton Junction, Dunfermline and Eastfield respectively). One class D3/4 D3490 also arrived from Colwick but was withdrawn one month later.
So by September 1968 in less than two years the Toton diesel shunter allocation was totally replaced initially by additional class D3/4 (class 10) locomotives which were in turn quickly withdrawn and replaced by class D3/2 (class 08) locomotives. Also in the first nine months of 1968 the fleet was significantly reduced, being reduced from twenty five to fifteen locomotives as follows.
D3/2 (class 08) – D3021/25/26/29/34/36/37/39/50, D3340/45/90, D3400/02, D3997
As a young spotter this meant plenty of new “cops” on a regular basis.
Praktica LTL, Boots Colourslide 5
The Rochdale Canal in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first two attempts to obtain an act failed after being opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. The promoters, to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and in 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and its construction. Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974.
The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park. They worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal.
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