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Taken around 12 years ago this has long gone from fields to a small set of residential roads. As seen on a walk.
Saw this Painted onto the rear of a big old Portacabin style building that has a Boxing and MMA gym inside. Had to walk over all sorts of horrible stuff to capture this one!
59005 passing Hungerford Common with the 12.15 Wembley - Merehead on Wed 10th August 2022.
Note the passing Chinook which didn't quite achieve perfect timing with the passing train, but adds an extra point of interest.
I can't say I'm too keen on having the car/van park in this shot but we were too late to relocate elsewhere. Maybe in about 40 years time the road vehicles will become interesting in their own right, although I won't be around to check!
A couple of portacabins, etc have been removed from the background area of the pic' in Photoshop.
Sitting on the PAD at the back of the west yard. The lads in the yard were very helpful. Turning the yard light on for me but the image was worse so the lights went off again. Instead the loco light have been switched on giving a far more pleasing image. I tried first at ground level but in the end opted for a shot from the steps of a portacabin. Camera clamped to railings. A 30 sec exposure has resulted in some movement from the flags still attached to the front from the locos recent re-naming ceremony. If I had spotted the movement during the exposure I would have made an effort to stick them down. But considering the lack of light the image is ok.
31224 - 6G14 (1200 Tilbury Riverside - Hythe, which was formed of 8l ZDWs & 5l ZRXs) - Stratford - lunchtime - 24/01/92.
Tarbat Ness Lighthouse from behind the wall. Some construction works are going on at the moment so a composition that didn't show the portacabin's and equipment was needed. The blades of grass were very cooperative.
150222 approaches the vintage gates at Godnow bridge with the2P16 1448 Scunthorpe to Doncaster.
The gates remain manually operated by a signaller. Although the original box here was demolished some years ago the replacement building has been quite sympathetically designed incorporating some elements of the original structure - so much nicer than the usually grey portacabin style offering.
20th January 2023.
Steam on for the hardest climb on the line to Beasdale summit, K1 62005 whisks the morning Jacobite over Loch Nan Umnh viaduct on the first Thursday of the Jacobite 2021 season.
Please note I have removed an ugly portacabin on the right in post processing.
59103 passing Hungerford Common with 6V18, the 11.20 Allington - Whatley Quarry empties on Wed 10th August 2022.
Note: a couple of portacabins, etc, have been removed from the background during processing.
Still standing twenty two years following closure are the remains of Castleford Gates signal box, 31st October 2019. The box was built by the North Eastern Railway and opened in the 1870’s. It is a North Eastern Railway type S1a design and was extended at the west end in 1900. When the signal box closed it was fitted with a 32 lever reconditioned McKenzie & Holland mechanical frame that had been installed in 1927. On Saturday 13th September 1997, Castleford Gates and nearby signal boxes at Castleford Station, Methley Junction, Altofts Junction and Whitwood closed, being replaced by a new 2 story high portacabin “Turn and Push” N-X panel signal box, located diagonally opposite Castleford Gates signal box
Restoration project anyone?
The Boeing Collection
From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
Stansted Airport in the 1970s
When I first started to visit Stansted, about the time I took this photo, the airport had an amazingly laid-back atmosphere. The main airport terminal was basically a Portacabin! A car ride around the perimeter revealed a varied collection of old aircraft, in various states of disrepair. I believe some of them were used for fire practice before eventual disposal. This old Pan Am Boeing 707 was approaching the end of its life, having been bought by British Midland for spares.
N716HH c/n 17594 - Boeing 707-321 was delivered new to Pan Am as N716PA in 1958 - an early build 707 No. 58 off the production line. The aircraft was leased to THY (Turk Hava Yollari) as TC-JAN in 1972, then returned to Pan Am as N716PA and was then leased to JAT as YU-AGH, returning back to Pan Am in 1973. The aircraft was sold to Aeropa as N716HH in 1974. Reposessed by Pan Am in 1975, the aircraft was then stored at Stansted, and finally sold to British Midland for spares in 1977, and was slowly scrapped over the next couple of years. In the background is another retired Boeing 707 - N702PT of the wonderfully named Perfect Air Tours :)
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and standard lens. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.
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An unidentified class 40 sits in the down loop at Hellifield on a Novembers day in 1976. In the distance a class 25 heads north with a train of Presflo hoppers. At this time, it was common for trains to change crews at Hellifield, but the station building had been abandoned in favour of portacabins out of sight on the left of this shot.
The station had been run down through neglect and the withdrawal of various passenger services over the years. The broken clock with no hands and the grand architecture, hint of past glories at Hellifield.
Part of the fishpl8 collection.
Above what looked like a power input on an abandoned portacabin at Botany Marshes, Northfleet.
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47366 "The Institution of Civil Engineers" (SF - DCAA) - 8C23 (1040 SX Leyton Engineers Depot - Bow Depot, which was formed of 7 empty YHA Whale wagons, ZUW Shark Brake Van & 6 empty YHA Whale wagons) - Stratford - morning - 10/01/91.
56043 (CF - FAWK) - 6V28 (1100 SX Ripple Lane - Acton Yard, which was formed of 14 empty PTAs) - Stratford - morning - 12/10/90.
The only train I regretted missing in 4 years at Stratford was a "Hoover" (Class 50) on this train, as I had to attend a planning meeting on a Monday morning & the train was just passing through the station, as I got back to the "portacabin"!
Bus stop 'GC' at Golders Green Bus Station is probably the best one for a sunny shot, but in this view the bus is dwarfed by the background, the former Hippodrome Theatre, originally a music hall until the BBC took it over. It was then home of the BBC Concert Orchestra between 1969 and 2003. It’s now a Grade II listed building and used for an unknown purpose.
Nothing special about the bus which I probably wouldn't have photographed anyway.
Those portacabins on the left ruined a nice sunny morning photo spot for the 246 or 226; about the same time the portacabins on the rail line ruined the nice view of the tube depot as you come out of the tunnel approaching the station.
LNER Azuma Class 801 No 801229 approaches Grassthorpe Lane LC on the ECML with the 1100 Edinburgh - London Kings Cross service on 15th April 2025
Grassthorpe Lane Level Crossing has manually controlled gates - opened by request and only has very light useage! The crossing-keeper occupies a portacabin on the east side of the East Coast Main Line.
Copyright Photograph Robin Stewart-Smith - All Rights Reserved
Not long delivered and operating from a portacabin in Bristol Airport car park, the late evening sun just captures the two Paramount MD-83's.
Paramount ordered two new McDonnell Douglas MD-83 airliners, the first was delivered on 24 April 1987 to allow operations to start on 1 May 1987. During the European winter the airline operated charter flights from Gatwick Airport to Goa.The airline acquired two more MD-83s for the 1988 charter season.
In 1989 the company entered administration with debts of £11 million, it was also under examination by the Serious Fraud Office over the loss of £13.5 million by the Eagle Trust which it had close links and shared a chairman.
The first MD-83 to enter UK register. Taken from the log gone airport viewing deck.
Natural light portrait of a model & photographer friend in Dakar, Senegal.
Taking natural light portraits in Dakar, Senegal
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Taken not long after the start of electric services to Largs. A few years after this, on 11th July 1995, one of these units failed to stop and crashed through the front of the station onto the street. This gave BR the excuse to demolish the whole station, eventually it was rebuilt after a few years of operating out of portacabins, but these canopies have gone for ever.
This time at Ruddington’s bus event I really committed to going for rides of stuff. The first bus I rode on was NABS’s open top Atlantean ORC 545P in its faux Trent livery, which is also the Notts TV bus used for broadcasting at Splendour. Because they ran out of timetables I had no idea where this was going, so by complete surprise it took us to Rushcliffe Halt station, in East Leake.
Normally buses to here would connect with the heritage trains, but seeing as the trains weren’t running it just ended up being a visit to the station for a look around. A small portacabin was serving tea and snacks, and there was a piece of artwork showing different trains at Rushcliffe Halt made by artists in East Leake. The station itself seems to look different to when I last saw it, though that’s possibly just down to the vegetation being cut back. There’s two platforms and a small wooden waiting shelter on each side, decorated with period parcels, suitcases and a bicycle. Inside one of the shelters was a 00 scale model of the station.
Since I visited trains have begun running at GCRN again, but as far as I can tell they’re only able to use the short spur between Ruddington Fields and the 50-steps footbridge a few hundred yards down the line. Hopefully when trains are back to running the full length of the line, they can run the intense timetable (which I think they used to before?) where two service trains cross in the loop at Rushcliffe Halt.
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These two Scanias are parked up awaiting their next duties.
I had to ask in that kiosk where the toilets were as,as can be seen from the other pics the old station building has been knocked down to be replaced.The lady directed me to some portacabins alongside the railway station and behind the Burger King.Behind the BK was a line of drunks,females assessing male passers by (Look at im Jacqui,Ee's cowen lush Ee is!"and males just being out and out abusive.Then the cops came,lights flashing,though they U turned,to cheers from the drunks.Around the corner two middle aged men had been pulled for being abusive to an Aisian student type.I noticed an off licence at the end of the bus station.How did that get by the board I wonder?
Another problem which was very evident in Cardiff was begging,notably a very old Indian lady(80 plus I'd have thought.).There seems to be a big need for street wardens or rangers as there are in Swansea.Nowhere near the trouble there nowadays either...........
Met up with Mick for a great fun, but photographically uninspired morning down on the Chemical Beach @ Seaham this morning. I wasn't entirely happy with anything from the morning, so nipped into town last thing at night when I saw what I hoped was an interesting sky developing.
In the end, there was a little bit of colour, but in all the wrong places (I've got a cracking shot of the sage, but didn't notice the enormous construction portacabin until I got home!) so I settled for a quick shot of the bridge and headed home for tea.
EOS 50D / Sigma 10-20mm / Hitech 0.9 ND HE