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WDM3As in the back platform of the Morbi road at Wankaner Junction on Friday 2nd March 2018. Vatva 16841 dragging a dead Ratlam 16811 in their newish livery but with unique additional mural embelishments. Train 22951, the 23:55 Thursdays only Bandra Terminus - Gandhidham Jn Weekly SuperFast Express.
One of only a couple of loco hauled trains to go via Morbi, this was a whopping 23-coacher (with seven AC bogies included) weighing in at aorund 1500 tonnes. 16841 was a strong sounding engine but had to be worked very hard with such a load and a dead engine in tow - it was flat out for 25-minutes from Surendranagar to Vagdiya, although only a modest climb of 1 in 500 (average).
D1660 CITY OF TRURO on Platform 1 at Cardiff General working a Cardiff - Manchester service.
This picture is believed to have been taken between 1964 / 1965.
This pic is one of many photographs I've purchased for mere pennies or sometimes a few pounds over the years via different internet auction sites.
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I liked the colours, the structure of the image, the high viewpoint and the quirky detail of the station master seeming to be peering into a dustbin on this empty platform. That's why I took the shot.
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The Western Platform at Aldwych, still live and technically part of the tube network. The train in the Platform is 1972 Mark One Northern Line stock, used for training and filming purposes.
Taken in 2011.
Back Bay Station platforms (Amtrak, commuter trains, and Orange Line subway) seen through chain-link fencing on Columbus Avenue.
Camera: Leica M8
Lens: Voigtlander 35mm f1.4 Nokton Classic
A woman waits for the tube door to open after a night on the town
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Our day in the Danish Capitol, Copenhagen. People in the streets, sea ways, architecture.
A little blog: VSCO
Image made on the boarding platform of the SEPTA station in Warminster, Pennsylvania. (Scanned from a slide)
Platform 15 at Bristol Temple Meads was never normally accessible by the Public, however on occasions it was!
Here, we see Bescot's 31 167, dragging Bath Road's 56 031 'Merehead', and Old Oak Common's 50 024 'Vanguard' onto Bath Road, on a bitterly cold January 3rd 1985.
TOPS info:-
31167 BS 0 XA
56031 BR S M 0 AA
50024 OC E XA.
31 167 was built by Brush as D5585, entering service on March 25th 1960.
31B March 25/01/1960
30A Stratford 06/1961
31B March 06/1962
41A Darnall 04/1963
34G Finsbury Park 06/1963
41A Darnall 07/1963
41F Mexborough 09/1963
Allocated to Wath, sub-shed of Mexborough
41C Wath 11/1963
41A Tinsley 10/1965
41C Wath 01/1966
41A Tinsley 06/1966
Converted to Cl. 31 09/1967
55B York 10/1972
Allocation recoded 55B to YK 05/1973
TI Tinsley 09/1973
Renumbered 31 167 03/1974
IM Immingham 03/1974
TI Tinsley 02/1976
SF Stratford 05/1976
TE Thornaby 01/1979
Withdrawn 31/05/1981
Stored at TI 5/81 - 6/81, then to ZL (Swindon Works) on 19/6/81 for store. Left on 4/3/82 following re-instatement.
Reinstated 21/02/1982
TO Toton 21/02/1982
BS Bescot 05/1983
Withdrawn 27/09/1988
Stored at Tyseley until moved to Leicester Humberstone Road on 19/1/89, and into Vic Berry the same day. partly cut up by 19/2/89, and only bits remained by 15/3/89, which
were gone by 24/3/89.
56 031 was built at Doncaster, entering service on May 24th 1977.
TO Toton 24/05/1977
TI Tinsley 10/1978
HM Healey Mills 05/1980
BR Bristol Bath Road 04/1983
Named Merehead at Foster Yeoman's Quarry, Merehead Stone Terminal on 16/9/83
CF Cardiff (Canton) 10/1987
SL Stewarts Lane 09/1991
TO Toton 03/1992
SL Stewarts Lane 11/1992
TO Toton 01/1994
IM Immingham 03/1994
TE Thornaby 07/1995
The nameplates were removed at Thornaby TMD on 30/5/96
IM Immingham 01/1997
WQ EWS Headquarters Pool 26/11/1999
IM Immingham 02/03/2000
Returned to Service 02/03/2000
WQ EWS Headquarters Pool 02/07/2002
Store 02/07/2002
WQ as stored (S) 2/7/02, at IM, then to store (U) 8/8/02, and to store (S) 3/2/03.
To WQ store (U) 9/2/04, to WQ French Projects 21/ 1/05, and moved from Immingham to Toton on 21/1/05, to Bescot on 25/1/05 and then to Wembley 25-26/1/05, then delivered to Old Oak Common on 27/1/05 for preparation.
Freshly painted and outshopped in Fertis colours on 26/4/05, but was not released from Old Oak Common to Wembley until 27/6/05, to Dollands Moor on 28/6/05 and
through the tunnel to France later the same day .
56 031 Arrived back in the UK at Dollands Moor via the Channel Tunnel on 23/12/06 and then on to Wembley Yard later the same day. Next reported as returned to service 15/5/07.
TO Toton 15/05/2007
Returned to Service 15/05/2007
Store 15/05/2007
Hauled to Warrington on 4/11/08, then tripped back to Crewe EMD on 6/11/08 and then hauled round to the Diesel Depot and pushed inside the closed depot on 9/12/08.
Stored (u) (French Projects) 3/4/09, stored (u) 22/9/10
loco sold 7/12/11.
It remained inside Crewe DD until hauled from there to European Metal Recycling, Kingsbury on 14/9/12 and deregistered on 23/1/13
Reregistered 17/4/13 and sold to Ed Stevenson and moved from EMR to Burton-upon-Trent on 9/5/13 for overhaul, also TO (Nemesis Rail stored) the same day, to privately owned locos 14/5/13.
Moved to the reopened Leicester TMD on 3/12/13. Apparently transferred to HQ at some stage, date unknown
HQ Headquarters Pool 10/2013
LR Leicester 07/2015
Store 07/2015
PG Peterborough GBRf 07/2018
Sold to GBRf for its class 69 conversion programme and moved to EMD, Longport 6/7/18. Stripped body moved to Marcroft Engineering, Stoke-on-Trent 25/4/19, returned to
EMD, Longport 28/5/19. Deregistered 9/2/21
Converted to 69001, renumbered on 9/2/21.
50 024 was built by Vulcan Foundry as D424, entering service on May 21st 1968.
LMWL LM Western Lines 21/05/1968
D05 Stoke Division 17/06/1968
CE Crewe Diesel 05/1973
Allocation recoded CE to CD 12/1973
BR Bristol Bath Road 05/1974
Renumbered 50 024 08/05/1974
LA Laira 05/1976
Named Vanguard on 15/5/78.
OC Old Oak Common 03/1983
LA Laira 07/1990
Store 23/01/1991
Withdrawn 01/02/1991
Caught fire near Westbury while working a Waterloo-Exeter passenger train 23/1/91 and moved to Westbury.
Moved to Old Oak Common on 2/2/91, where all spares were removed, then it was broken up on site by staff from Coopers Metals Ltd., Cardiff between 25/6/91 and 6/7/91.
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British Railways Brush Traction Type 4 Co-Co class 47/0 diesel-electric locomotive number 47068 of Bristol Bath Road Traction Maintenance Depot stands on platform 8 at Manchester Piccadilly railway station after arrival with the 14:34 Yarmouth to Manchester Piccadilly (1M74). Saturday 11th June 1983
(1 minute, F22)
Note, 47068 was built to a Brush Traction design by British Railways at Crewe works in January 1965 as number D1652, being renumbered 47068 in March 1974. It was fitted with electric train heating equipment, being renumbered 47632 on 5th December 1985. It was fitted with long-range fuel tanks, being renumbered 47848 on 8th January 1990. It was transferred to the Porterbrook Leasing Company Limited on 1st April 1994 as part of the privatisation of British Railway, and was named Newton Abbot Festival of Transport at Newton Abbot railway station on 13th May 2000. It was sold to Riviera Trains Limited on 1st January 2005. The nameplates were removed in August 2006 to allow it to be named TITAN STAR without ceremony at the London And North Western Railway Company Limited’s Crewe depot on 30th August 2006. It was stored at Crewe from 24th October 2008 until 10th October 2014 and was sold to the Rail Operations Group in June 2016
And 47068 was carrying a LE sticker on the cabside, it was reallocated from Landore Traction Maintenance Depot to Cardiff Canton Traction Maintenance Depot in October 1981. It would later work the 00:30 Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston (1A01)
Ref no BM/03474
Iarnrod Eireann/Irish rail 071 retro liveried 071 leads the morning North Wall-Ballina IWT freight service past Platform 10 at Dublin Heuston Mayo bound.
February 2024
This immense structure consists of three terraces made up of cut stone walls with a central stairway. The inner sanctum, which consisted of a series of sunken court yards, cannot be seen from this vantage point.
I think the purpose of this platform was to create a well-defined sacred space and to impress the hell out of everyone who saw it.
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The Japanese archaeologist Yasutake Kato wrote:
"Behind the First Terrace rises an immense wall of 8.4 meters (27.5 feet) in height. In fact, this wall is made up of three segments, the first of which is 3.4 m (11 feet) high. The second is 2.9 m (9 feet) high, and the third is 2.1 m (6 feet) high. The distances between the sections are 2.8 m (9 feet) and 5 m (16 feet). This wall surrounds the entire Principal Platform that is about 47.5 m (145 feet) wide by 170 m (557 feet) deep."
"En el fondo de la Primera Terraza se levanta un inmenso muro de 8.4 m de alto que sostiene la Plataforma Principal. En realidad este muro está compuesto de tres gradas, la primera de 3.4 m de alto. La segunda de 2.9 m de alto, y la tercera de 2.1 m de alto. Las distancias entre cada grada son de 2.8 m y 5 m. Este muro de tres gradas rodea toda la Plataforma Principal que mide aproximadamente 145 m de ancho y 170 m de largo."
Source: YASUTAKE KATO "Resultados de las Excavaciones en Kuntur Wasi, Cajamarca," SENRI ETHNOLOGICAL STUDIES 37 1993.
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According to Wikipedia:
Kuntur Wasi (Quechua kuntur condor, wasi house, "condor house") is the name given to the ruins of a religious center with complex architecture and stone sculptures, located in the Andean highlands of Peru.
It is believed the inhabitants had a link with the Chavín culture.
Kuntur Wasi is located in the Northern Mountain Range of Peru, specifically at the headwaters of the Jequetepeque River, in the region of the city of Cajamarca near the small town of San Pablo. The Jequetepeque valley provided a transportation corridor between the coastal region and the highlands.
Kuntur Wasi was a center where people congregated.
It is thought to have been constructed around 1000-700 BCE, during the Initial Period. The architecture consists of a hill-top temple, quadrangular platforms, a sunken courtyard, and series of rooms.
In the floor of one room there is an anthropomorphic figure made of clay, about 30 inches (75 cm) in height. It is painted with cinnabar red, malachite green, and black, yellow, and pink. Its face has big square eyes and a wide mouth with prominent canine teeth. There are also stepped platforms and funeral structures.
Lithosculptures have been found, similar to the Chavín style.
Kuntur Wasi was occupied between the years 1200-50 BC.
It was first discovered in 1945 by Julio C. Tello. In 1989, scientists from the University of Tokyo excavated four tombs at Kuntur Wasi. Valuable items, such as pectoral necklaces (decorative breastplates), gold crowns, ornamental stone beads, earrings, sets of dishes and iconographies of people were discovered in the burial area.
Since the beginning of the University of Tokyo's archaeological mission, eight tombs have been found in the area.
The Kuntur Wasi Museum, managed by local citizens, opened in 1994.
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Según Wikipedia:
Kuntur Wasi es un sitio arqueológico que data del Formativo Inferior, se encuentra ubicado en el centro poblado del mismo nombre, en la provincia de San Pablo, en el departamento de Cajamarca, en el Perú.
En la lengua quechua Kuntur Wasi significa "Casa del Cóndor". Según el arqueológo japonés, Yoshio Onuki, estudioso principal de este sitio arqueológico, Kuntur Wasi es una expresión prechavín pero que posteriormente posee una gran influencia no solo de Chavín sino también de Cupisnique especialmente en la orfebrería y la cerámica.
Kuntur Wasi pasó por los siguientes periodos:
Fase Ídolo: Construcción del centro ceremonial con pisos enlucidos con cal de color blanco. En esta fase hay una cierta relación con Huacaloma y Pacopampa.
Fase Kuntur: Construcción de un nuevo complejo ceremonial en forma de U. Se desarrolla la cerámica fina y la orfebrería.
Fase Copa: Modificación del complejo arquitectónico ceremonial y la renovación del sistema de canales de drenaje.
Fase Sotera: Existe una relación con la Fase Layzón del valle de Cajamarca. Corresponde a la decadencia de Kuntur Wasi.
The next train to depart from platform 2 is the 23:10 Greater Anglia service to Clacton on Sea.
Calling at Witham, Marks Tey, Colchester, Hythe, Wivenhoe, Alresford, Great Bentley, Thorpe le Soken and Clacton on Sea.
The information screen is showing the number 1 board out of 2. The second screen will also dictate the train will be stopping at Thorpe le Soken then Clacton on Sea.. There's not enough room to fit it all in ;-)
The train arrived at Clacton on Sea on time at 00:07.
This trains headcode (train reporting number) is 1N32 and the service was operated by a 4 car British Rail Class 321 electric multiple unit (EMU).
Note the historic British Rail 'Rail Alphabet' font on the Platform 2 sign that dates back to 1965
Seen at Chelmsford Railway Station's ground level peak times only exit/entrance on Viaduct Road in the City of Chelmsford in the County of Essex (UK).
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With its usual Platform 3 not available due to engineering work at York , the 4M51 Tees Dock - Daventry is heading for Platform 10 for a crew change.
The distinctive Tesco train is headed by 66423.