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R155NPR which has seen some white paint applied on the advert livery it carried with Wilts & Dorset. It was originally purchased by Lynx buses in Kings Lynn but moved down the A47 last year and is now in regular use on schools, seen in Emneth. The village was once home to The Reverend W.V. Awdry famous for Thomas the tank engine books which apparently were written in the old vicarage during the 1950 & 60s ( listening to the odd Gardner trundling by maybe ! )
The view runs across from left to right across Pike o' Blisco, the valley of Oxendale, The Band, the valley of Mickleden, to the Langdale Pikes containing Pike o' Stickle, Gimmer Crag, Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark. In the far background are Bow Fell and Crinkle Crags.
About a week ago, I got a text from fellow Flickrite Matt Batryn-Rodriguez, asking if I would like to accompany him on a photo safari. Matt was looking to go after the Portland & Western's Toledo Patch, which runs from Toledo, Oregon to Albany on Saturday mornings. It is the only weekend operation on PNWR's line to Toledo west of Corvallis. I thought it sounded like a great way to spend a Saturday.
When Genesee & Wyoming started operating on the former Southern Pacific Toledo Branch in 1993, service over the 75-mile-long line ran daily. Aside from some 35 mph running in the Willamette Valley between Albany and Corvallis, the vast majority of trackage over the Coast Range and down the Yaquina River watershed had a 20 mph speed limit. Crews regularly made the roundtrip in 9-10 hours on duty.
Today, outside of 25 mph limits in the valley, most of the trackage on PNWR's Toledo District is carded at 10-12 mph. The train to Toledo only runs five days a week now. It is called at Albany around 8 pm on Monday through Friday evenings. Since the crew can't make the roundtrip on their hours of service, a patch crew is called around 4 am to bring the train back to Albany. The Saturday morning Toledo Patch is a railfan staple, as it usually gets out of Toledo between 6/7 am and makes a daylight trip to Albany.
Matt and I met in downtown Vancouver, Washington at 5 am on Saturday morning for the drive to Toledo. We intercepted the train near Elk City at 7:30, and chased it all the way to PNWR's ex-SP yard in Albany. These are the photos from the trip.
In this image, the Toledo Patch gets a roll-by from a couple of local residents at MP 743 near Eddyville. This location on the Toledo District was nicknamed "Carverville" by train crews in honor of the landowner. The train is crossing Eddyville-Blodgett Road, which was US 20 once upon a time.
In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.
As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.
Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.
On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?
The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.
The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.
In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.
The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.
The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.
Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.
Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.
The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.
The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.
As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.
Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.
This boat runs between Montreux, Switzerland, and some village on the french side of the Geneva lake.
Seen is the 32s at 125th street on the D line. Unfortunately, I only ended up attending one day of the final runs as I was out of town or had COVID for the others. These cars were a huge part of my youth as a railfan, as I would ride them up and down the C and J/Z lines. As myself, I know many are sad to see them go.
Number 36 for 2017 Weekly Alphabet Challenge : J is for Joy.
Rosie at the river, being studiously ignored by a pair of swans.
Black Hill on the Malvern Hills ridge which runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.
The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.
The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.
Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.
J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills. Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.
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“Dungeness, a strange land of extremes, one of the most valuable and yet vulnerable nature conservation sites in Great Britain”
Firth, 1984
Dungeness is unique – no boundaries, a desolate landscape with wooden houses, power stations, lighthouses and expansive gravel pits. Yet it possesses a rich and diverse wildlife within the National Nature Reserve in one of the largest shingle landscapes in the world.
IT IS A FRAGILE HABITAT
The communities of plants and animals living at Dungeness are unique, precious and exceptionally fragile. The diverse wildlife, complex land form and sheer size of Dungeness make it one of the best examples of a shingle beach in the world, home to many uncommon plants, insects and spiders. It is also a great place to see migratory birds in the spring and autumn.
NATIONAL NATURE RESERVE
Dungeness has been designated as a National Nature Reserve (NNR), Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC). It is home to 600 species of plants which is a third of all plants found in the UK. The National Nature Reserve stretches across Dungeness to encompass the vast RSPB reserve and is intended to help protect the landscape and its wildlife.
To find out more about National Nature Reserves in Britain you can visit the Natural England website.
If you come to visit please help look after Dungeness by only driving on the roads, not on the shingle and walking on the established footpaths and roadways.
Click here if you would like to contact the Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership. If you’d like to find out more about what the project does you can also visit our website.
LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Reserve and Visitor Centre
The RSPB reserve is important for many migrant birds and a haven for breeding and wintering birds. The RSPB manages the reserve not only for birds but for the many plants and invertebrates that make their home there. There are hides, nature trails and a visitor centre. To find out more information about this and details of the visitor centre visit the RSPB website.
Dungeness Bird Observatory
The Dungeness Bird Observatory aims to share information about the natural history of Dungeness and has be running for over 50 years. The observatory run a website for people to access information on flora and fauna which is updated daily.
Lifeboat Station
The lifeboat station at Dungeness is home to the RNLI’s ‘The Morrell’ lifeboat, which regularly assists those in distress at sea off the coast of Dungeness. There are events at the station throughout the year visit the station website for more information.
Water Tower
The water tower at Dungeness is not open to the public but is a distinctive landmark. The tower was built alongside a gravel pit in the 1900s to provide water for New Romney, Littlestone, Greatstone and Lydd.
Old Lighthouse
The Old lighthouse is a Historic Grade II building and was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1904. If you would like to visit from April to October or find out more information your can visit the Old Lighthouse website.
Trinity House
The new lighthouse at Dungeness was officially bought into operation in November 1961. This lighthouse is unusual as the whole tower has been flood lit, this has been shown to reduce the bird mortality rate. The lighthouse is not open to visitors but if you want to find out more you can visit the Trinity House website.
Power Stations
Dungeness A power station ceased to produce electricity on the 31st of December 2006. When it was operational on a typical day it supplied enough electricity to serve the energy needs of the South East of England. Dungeness B power station is still operational and due for closure in 2018. To find out more about Dungeness A visit the Magnox website. Dungeness B station began generating power in 1983 and is capable of producing enough electricity to power 1.5 million homes. To find out more about Dungeness B you can visit the EDF website.
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway
The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway terminates at Dungeness and is a popular tourist attraction for the region. This narrow gauge railway was built in 1927 and claimed to be the smallest railway in the world. The track was extended from New Romney to Dungeness in 1928, where there is now a café and gift shop at the holt. To find out more visit the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway website.
The Pilot Pub
As well as parking and fine views The Pilot offers real ale and is well know for its local fish and chips. The Pilot is said to have been built in the 17th century from the remains of a Spanish ship looted by local smugglers. You can find out more at The Pilot’s website.
The Britannia Pub
The Britannia is a few minutes walk from the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway. There is disable access to the beach opposite and the pub has its own garden. The Britannia serves food and specialises in local fish. You can visit The Britannia Inn's website to find out more.
M & M Richardson
This family owned fish supplier have run a fish shop for over 70 years. Their fresh fish is caught by local Dungeness boats. To find out more you can visit their website.
SURROUNDING AREA
Romney Marsh
When walking on the Romney Marsh it is easy to get a feeling of remoteness that is difficult to find elsewhere in the south east of England. The farmland of the Romney Marsh has hundreds of miles of footpaths which, together with the quiet country lanes and bridleways, make it simple to organise walking and cycle routes that suit you. Alternatively the Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership has produced a pack of self guided walks and a pack of self guided cycle rides. To find out more about the area you can visit the RMCP website.
Royal Military Canal
Whatever the weather or season there’ll be something to see or do along the canal. You can walk the Royal Military Canal Path which runs for 28 miles along the entire length of the Royal Military Canal from Seabrook, Kent to Cliff End in East Sussex, there also a pack of self guided walks available. A five mile stretch of the Royal Military Canal Path has been surfaced and makes an excellent cycle route along the canal banks. To find out more about the wildlife and history you can go to the Royal Military Canal website.
New Romney Warren Country Park
The country park is home to a number of rare species such as the great crested newt and great diving beetle. Habitats for these and many other species are managed by the Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership. There is a Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, run by the Kent Wildlife Trust, based in the grounds of the Country Park. At the visitor centre there is a shop and an exhibition where you can find out more about the local area. To find out more about the centre you can visit the Kent Wildlife Trust website.
Rye Harbour Nature Reserve
The Rye Harbour Nature Reserve and bird hides are open to visitors at all times. There are a network of footpaths and entry is free. To find out more about this reserve and the rare plants and animals that thrive here you can visit the Rye Harbour Reserve website.
Camber Castle
Camber Castle was built to protect the towns of Rye and Winchelsea. The main structure of the castle remains largely intact. There are footpaths that run alongside the castle which you can use at any time. To see inside the castle itself details of opening hours are available on the English Heritage website.
WILDLIFE
Dungeness is a hostile landscape but it has many distinctive plants which favour the pebble habitat close to the sea. Blackthorn grows in a prostrate form as do the yellow flowered broom bushes which hug the shingle landscape. The blackthorns in particular can be smothered in lichens due to the clean air.
Dungeness is rich in an array of insects, notably its moth species. One speciality is the Sussex emerald moth, which is a night flying green moth which appears in July. The caterpillar feeds on wild carrot which is a relatively common plant in Britain. However, Dungeness is the only place in Britain where this moth is found. Another rarity is the pygmy footman moth which is supported by the lichen community at Dungeness. To find out more about the moth population you can look at The Moths of Dungeness website.
If you would like to find out more about recent wildlife sightings at Dungeness, from the latest migrant bird or the complete plant list, to butterfly and moth sightings, visit the Dungeness Bird Observatory website or the RX wildlife website which includes sightings from Hastings to Romney Marsh, both websites are updated daily.
PLANTS
Sea kale Crambe maritima
This plant is similar to cabbage both in it’s appearance and in its properties. Sea kale grows in clumps of waxy grey-green leaves similar in shape to cabbage leaves. In the past people used to blanch the leaves by piling shingle on top of them, then cooking and eating them as we would cabbage. This plant produces dense clusters of white flowers from June to August.
Viper’s bugloss Echium vulgare
The name ‘bugloss’ is Greek in origin meaning ox’s tongue and the likeness can be easily seen. Not only are the leaves of similar shape but they are rough like an ox’s tongue . This plant is particularly useful for some invertebrates as its hollow stems provide a place for them to over-winter. Humans have found uses for this plant including boiling the seeds in wine, the resulting concoction was said to ‘comfort the heart and drive away melancholy’.
Nottingham catchfly Silene nutans
The Nottingham catchfly is no longer in Nottingham, but Dungeness does support a large community of this rare plant. Nottingham catchfly’s habitat is limestone rocks and shingle and was famous for growing on the walls of Nottingham castle until the 19th century. The fragrant drooping white flowers of this plant open at night between May and August.
Wild carrot Daucus carota
Wild carrot is a common plant growing in various habitats and is an ancestor of the cultivated carrot. The plant produces no edible root but has been used for medicinal purposes for centuries as it is believed to have diuretic and stimulant properties. The scientific name is suggestive of this as Daucus originates from the Greek ‘dais’ meaning to burn.
INVERTEBRATES
Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator
The adult male emperor is bright blue and the largest dragonfly in the UK. It is one of the fastest flying insects and can often be seen patrolling over the gravel pits at Dungeness. With it’s delicate wings beating 30 times a second, the male emperor is rarely still as he fiercely defends his territory.
Small copper Lycaena phlaeas
This small butterfly can be seen from late April to the end of October and is common at Dungeness. The small copper is also very territorial and the adult male can often be seen perching on or near the ground ready to purse any passing butterfly.
BIRDS
Common Tern
A summer visitor to the UK, it breeds on the islands at the large gravel pits on the RSPB reserve and feeds offshore diving for fish.
Smew
Dungeness is one of the best places to see this striking white duck which arrives for the winter months. The smew is a small duck and can be seen diving to search for underwater food such as fish and insects.
Wheatear
One of the earliest migrants returning from Africa, the wheatear can be seen from March to October. It is a small bird that spends much of its time on the ground where it nests and hunts for insects and larvae.
RSPB
The RSPB manage large areas of gravel pits, reed beds and shingle habitats which have strong colonies of seabirds, breeding duck and wintering wildfowl.
To discover more and explore the Dungeness RSPB reserve, why not visit the reserve with its visitor and education centre. Facilities include a large car park and toilets. You can also explore a number of nature trails and hides around the gravel pits of Dungeness.
Contact the RSPB on 01797 320588. email dungeness@rspb.org.uk or visit their website.
AMPHIBIANS
Great-crested newt
This is the rarest and largest of the three species of newt found in the UK. Many of the flooded pits at Dungeness hold healthy populations. Up close these creatures look almost prehistoric with warty skin, a shaggy crest and large tail and a bright orange belly.
ANNELID
Medicinal Leech
The largest of the leeches in Britain, it feeds on the blood of fish, amphibians, birds and mammals. The medicinal leech is the only leech in this country able to suck blood from humans. The belief that these leeches could extract bad blood and leave the good behind lead to over collecting across Europe and a severe decline in the leech populations. Dungeness is now one of the best areas in Europe to find them.
HISTORY
Geology
The pattern of shingle ridges have built up at Dungeness over 5,000 years. The height of a shingle ridge can be used to determine the sea level at the time it was formed. Across Dungeness the ridges have been used to produce a series of records showing how sea level has changed naturally over the past 5,000 years.
Gravel extraction
Dungeness has attracted the gravel extraction industry for generations. Today, the legacy of this extraction can be seen in the number of gravel pits across the landscape. These pits are home to a plethora of wildlife from breeding seabirds, wintering wildfowl, to the rare great-crested newt and blood sucking medicinal leech.
Lydd Ranges
The vast Lydd Ranges have been owned by the Ministry of Defence since 1881, with the Royal Irish Rifles forming the first garrison there. The first permanent buildings were erected in 1906 in what are today very busy firing ranges stretching from Camber to near the power stations.
Lighthouse
There have been five lighthouses built at Dungeness over the centuries. Today, the Old Lighthouse which was built in 1904 still stands adjacent to the Round House, which once had a lighthouse on the top of it, the round house was built in 1792. The New Lighthouse (the stripy one) was built in 1961 to aid shipping further out to the Point. The New Lighthouse remains operational, while the Old Lighthouse is a tourist attraction.
Concrete Mirrors
At the back of two gravel pits at Lade on an island are the three concrete listening mirrors, built in the 1920’s and 1930’s to detect enemy aircraft as they approached Britain. This is the only site in Britain where all three designs are situated in one place. This early warning system with a range of 20 miles became obsolete by the outbreak of the Second World War. The site is now managed by the RSPB. Please see here for details of guided tours.
Houses
There are nearly 100 homes across the Dungeness Estate of many different shapes and sizes. Some near to the lighthouses originate from old railway carriages dragged across the shingle nearly one hundred years ago. Houses near to the Lifeboat Station are larger and are inhabited mainly by local fishermen, which are able to dry nets in the loft spaces.
CONTACT
Romney Marsh Countryside Partnership
Romney Marsh Day Centre,
Rolfe Lane,
New Romney,
Romney Marsh,
Kent. TN28 8JR,
Telephone & Fax: 01797 367934
Mobile: 07770 670316
Email: mail@rmcp.co.uk
Website: www.rmcp.co.uk
MAIN OFFICE
White Cliffs Countryside Partnership,
c/o Dover District Council,
White Cliffs Business Park
Dover,
Kent. CT16 3PG
Telephone & Fax: 01303 241806
Email: wccp@whitecliffscountryside.org.uk
Website: www.whitecliffscountryside.org.uk
Tshi-zun-hau-kau, or He who runs with the deer, is a Winnebago warrior, of remarkable genius and singular character. He unites the characters of the conjurer and medicine-man with that of the brave, without losing any of his reputation for manliness and courage.
Henry Inman (1801-1846) was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter. He excelled in portrait painting and was an accomplished lithographer copying more than a hundred oil paintings of Native American leaders.
Inman created this portrait of Tshi-Zun-Hau-Kau in 1832. It was seen and photographed on display at San Francisco's M.H. de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
Solo SSR101 runs a short rake of BGSY wagons through Menangle with 1341 empty grain from Weston's mill to the Riverina.
2024-07-29 SSR SSR101 Menangle 1341
"Blood Runs Deep"
39" H x 15" w x 11" d
by Diane M. Kramer
aka SheWolf
Mixed media: cloth, fur, hair, leather, buttons, paint, metals,
First test runs of hybrid H-alpha-continuum solar imaging system :)
Left - the setup in operation. The shot is Photomatix-fused HDR of three subexposures of 1/250, 1/60 and 1/15 seconds taken with Canon 60D through EF-S 17-55 f/2.8 IS USM @17 mm f/14.
Right - full-disk image of the Sun @07.06.2015 11:15 MSK taken through Meade 6000 (EFR = 960 mm, f/12). 6 panels of 180/1000 frames, stacked, deconvolved, wavelet-sharpened and manually stitched in PS using difference blending. ICE failed :(
Inset right - H-alpha fulldisk taken through piggy-backing PST with DMK23 (400 mm, f/10). 180/1000 frames, deconvolution, high-pass filtering. Orientations of images are matched.
Some considerations and observations.
1) I thought QHY5L-IIm would be good for white-light imaging of the Sun. Nope. The images show distracting vertical banding of obviously electronic nature. I'll give it yet another chance but I have doubts.
Upd: defocussed flat-field image clears the stripes very effective.
2) All these look imposing but it is effectively 20 kg so I have dismounted PST and gave it personal mounting plate. Advantage: now both tubes work with the same small counterweight - I just need to move it along the shaft when remounting.
3) Use of 2x Barlow lens gives 2,1 pixels per the unit of resolution - 1,75 arcseconds here.The use of 2,5x lens would be just fine for Nyquist sampling.
4) Cameras have difficulties reaching the focus without use of Barlow lens on 6000. Even with the diagonal. But I think that the empty casing of Meade Barlow would make a good extension tube.
Upd: proven!
EN: When the train runs next to the line: One of the craziest railway projects of modern times is the fast line Hannover - Berlin between Oebisfelde and Rathenow. The fast line tracks can only be used by fast trains, as there are no loops for slower trains to be passed by faster trains and as there are only few signals so that it only can be used by trains with LZB. For all other trains they built a slow line next to the fast one. Unfortunately they had no money to buy an electrification or a second track for it. So the slow line can only be used by diesel trains. Heavy diesel freight trains have to stop every "few" kilometers for an oncoming local DMU. That's possible, because they spent a lot of money for crossing stations with many signals... Because of all these reasons there is of course not much freight traffic on this line. Freights without LZB have to use the parallel line via Helmstedt - Magdeburg. - We see the mixed freight from Magedeburg Rothensee to Seelze right before reaching Mieste loop, where the train has its next crossing stop for a DMU.
DE: Wenn der Zug neben der Strecke fährt... Eines der absurdesten Neubau-Bahnprojekte ist die Schnellfahrstrecke Hannover - Berlin zwischen Oebisfelde und Rathenow. Die Schnellfahrstrecke kann praktisch nur von schnellen Zügen genutzt werden, denn auf Überholgleise hat man weitestgehend verzichtet und Züge ohne LZB haben hier keine Chance, hat man doch weitestgehend auf die Installation von Blocksignalen verzichtet. Für alle anderen Züge hat man daher eine weitere Strecke neben die Neubaustrecke gesetzt. Unglücklicherweise hat das Geld da aber nicht mehr für eine Elektrifizierung oder ein zweites Gleis gereicht. So kann diese Strecke also nur von Dieselzügen genutzt werden. Schwere Diesel-Güterzüge müssen wegen der Eingleisigkeit immer wieder an die Seite, um einen entgegenkommenden Triebwagen kreuzen zu lassen. Das ist nämlich möglich, da diese Strecke alle paar Kilometer einen voll signalisierten Ausweichbahnhof spendiert bekommen hat. Aus den genannten Gründen hält sich der Güterverkehr auf dieser Strecke sehr in Grenzen. Die meisten Güterzüge müssen auf die weiter südlich gelegene Strecke via Helmstedt - Magdeburg ausweichen. - Wir beobachten den Wagenladungszug von Magdeburg-Rothensee nach Seelze, der gerade für einen weiteren Kreuzungsaufenthalt im Bf Mieste abbremst.
From last week (Thanksgiving) when I went out to my parents'. Bailey loves autumn and she loves to run and play. She is 11 years old (born in 2000).
The Montego was launched in 1967 and offered over three generations. It was the successor of the famous Comet-Series.
8 cylinder engine runs on LPG,
2248 kg.
New Dutch license number: April 26, 2001.
Production Montego 2nd generation: 1972-1976.
Seen at the premises of Fiction Factory.
Amsterdam-N., Toetsenbordweg, Nov. 15, 2014.
© 2014 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
The Walsall Canal in Wednesbury, Sandwell, West Midlands.
The canal runs from Ryders Green Junction where it meets the Wednesbury Old Canal and the Ridgeacre Branch and immediately drops through the eight Ryders Green Locks to the 408 foot Walsall Level.
At Doe Bank Junction (Tame Valley Junction) it meets the Tame Valley Canal and the very short Ocker Hill Tunnel Branch, now private moorings, which fed water to the Ocker Hill pumps to replenish the Wolverhampton Level. It passes northwards, past the junction of the derelict Gospel Oak Branch and under the Midland Metro line, passes the short Bradley Branch at Moorcroft Junction.
In this area it passes the huge iron gates of the Patent Shaft factory, which remain despite the factory's closure in 1980. It then passes the short Anson Branch (which once led to the Bentley Canal, abandoned 1961) and under the M6 motorway just south of Junction 10. The very short Walsall Town Arm at Walsall Junction leads into Walsall itself while the main canal rises through eight locks to meet the Wyrley and Essington Canal at Birchills Junction. The canal starts at the Birmingham Level, descends 45 feet to the Walsall Level, then rises 65 feet to the Wolverhampton Level.
The canal was built in four distinct stages. It started life as the Broadwaters Extension to the Wednesbury Canal which opened in 1785 to serve collieries in Moxley. This section was authorised as a detached part of the Birmingham & Fazeley Canal under that canal's original Act.
What was by then known as the Birmingham, Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Company was authorised by the combined company's sixth Act of Parliament on 17 April 1794 to extend the canal from Broadwaters to Walsall. It allowed the Company to borrow £45,000, with which to construct the canal to Walsall and three branches to serve iron-stone and coal mines in the locality, all to be completed within three years. Construction began at Broadwaters and reached Darlaston by May 1798. The second phase of construction began in April 1798: excavation was completed in 1799 but the job remained unfinished in 1800. The canal was mapped by John Snape (1737–1816) in 1808 and this was to be his last known map.
The small gap between the Birmingham Canal Navigations line to Walsall and the Wyrley and Essington Canal's Birchills Branch was of concern to businessmen to the north of Walsall, whose access to the south was by a very circuitous route. An independent canal to link the two was planned, but in 1839 the BCN agreed to build a connection. The Walsall Junction Canal was completed in March 1841, its 0.6 miles containing eight locks and completing the through route.
'Fantasy Faire' opens today and runs until the 9th May.
Part 2 - of the exclusive Council Table sets.
This is the smaller one!
There are 3 table sizes in the pack, pre-configured for 1-8 seats, but the choice is yours!
There are 2 table bases, and 6 Mid Oak table top options via a texture changer.
It also comes with 2 different chairs, a Leader Chair with a higher back and a Member Chair.
Each has 21 different seat pad fabric options, and 46, Male, Female, and Unisex, animations including a custom 'Toasting Ceremony'.
The sets are viewable now at the Laminak Main Store and later today at the Fantasy Faire, LM's to both are in my in-world profile pics.
Hope you all have an amazing time exploring the Fairelands!
Thanks in advance for any donations via the kiosks, and purchases of the 100% donation items, RFL provides a lot of help and support to people going through, who have been through or know people who have had or currently have Cancer.
The cause is one that's very very close to my heart, so thank you xxx
Love and hugs to you all
Casey
xxx
...I'll be our light, your match, your burning sun,
I'll be the bright and black that's making you run.
I got my mind made up and I can't let go.
I'm killing every second 'til it sees my soul.
I'll be running, I'll be running,
'til the love runs out, 'til the love runs out.
And we'll start a fire, and we'll shut it down,
'til the love runs out, 'til the love runs out....
Details: My Second Closet
NS Southbound Freight Train A20 passes through Powderly, AL. with 3 classic SD40-2’s in charge, I don’t know what the deal is behind why the A20 crew is running south, usually A20 runs north & A21 runs south
Aurizon runs two mineral sands trains for Tronox out of Broken Hill, a once weekly long distance service to Perth (WA), and an as required service to Port Adelaide.
On 5 September 2023, GE model C44aci locos 6032/6023 haul train 1501, the empty return of the Port Adelaide movement, upgrade at Huddlestone, South Australia.
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The Douro line follows, as the name suggests, the Douro river. The railway line runs out of the northeast of Porto and goes through the hills east of the city. At Ribadouro it meets up again with the Douro, from where on the railway follows the river up untill and across the border with Spain. In the past the trains ran all the way to Salamanca, but these days the trains only go as far as Pocinho. A shame because even though it's a largely rural area, it is a beautiful railway line in an area that very well could connect the city of Porto with Spain.
The service between Porto and Pocinho is nowadays taken care of by CP1400 diesel loco's and older coaching stock. The main reason for this is to give the many tourists to the valley a comfortable and unique experience. The trains might not be particulary fast, but I have to admit it's a whole lot better than the diesel units that run the regional trains that run only up to Regua. During an afternoon in march I was able to catch one of the IR trains returning from Pocinho to Porto. The river is well visible as the trains runs just above the banks of the river, tightly hugging the slopes of the hills that make this valley.
Selkent route 672: Hawksmoor School - Woolwich Arsenal Station
Approaching Plumstead Road / Plumstead Station (WM)
School route 672 runs from Hawksmoor School on Bentham Road, near Thamesmead, to Woolwich. It only runs in the afternoon and has a PVR of 3, although I've only been aware of 2 buses in service.
The interesting thing about the 672 is that it exposes the longevity of every other route between Plumstead and Thamesmead. The 177 and 472 run via Abbey Wood (the former) and Crossway; a map view of each route looks as if they are competing for the longest diversion to Thamesmead Town Centre.
Meanwhile, via Eastern Way, where the 380 terminates at Belmarsh Prison, and Central Way, the 672 offers a more direct alternative, albeit only operating towards Woolwich for PM duties. I haven't looked at the South East London Consultation yet, but perhaps this direct routing should be addressed beyond the school service.
©London Bus Breh 2017.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919
Portrait of Madame Monet (Madame Claude Monet Reading) c. 1874
Oil on canvas
During the early 1870s, Renoir and Monet often painted side by side, producing images of the same subject and sometimes using each other—and other family members—as models. In Renoir’s informal portrait of Camille Monet, the painter’s wife sits on a comfortable sofa reading a paperback boot. Small touches of color cover the canvas like stiches in a tapestry. A blue line runs down the middle of Mme Monet’s dress, echoing the angle of the Japanese fans on the wall.
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1933
1955.612
From the Placard: The Clark
this is my first try of a scan. haha
it's so fun! my mum was watching me and said that i should learn instead.
i said: i'm trying new things. that's learning, mum :D
today i was in Linz with my friends pauli and julia! it was soo cold but it was still a lot of fun. haha
i bought this watch today - i never wear real watches and i kind of like this one :)
i'm not sure about this photo at all. so i might delate it later.
what do you think?
....actually i wanted to make a stop motion video from yesterday, but it seem if my programm doesn't like me so i couldn't manage to get a video.. i'm sorry! i'll try a second time and i'll search for a better programm.
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Decided to go to Lake Berryessa to have our picnic, and what good idea it was....finally...we were in a nice warm place...something we haven't had down here this summer.
That wine we enjoyed that afternoon is a Rose made with Sangiovese grapes and was very tasty.
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Sir Nigel Gresley at Railfest, National Railway Museum, York, North Yorkshire, England
A little bit of an unconventional image this morning. I'm still not sure if I like it as to what I had in my mind at the time hasn't really come out in post processing. It took a lot of processing to get this to how it is but maybe its one of those photos that will grow on you, we all have them don't we?
I do have a colour version and maybe this would be better to use than B&W? I want you to be as honest as possible with your views and comments on this image.
This was taken at the National Railway Museum in York where they were holding a celebration of the railways called Railfest. It had trains and locomotives from all around the UK where you could go in the cabs of them. It was really nice to get up into the cab of the Sir Nigel Gresley and have a chat with the driver, I was lucky enough to get this photo when everyone else had left the footplate. Sadly the weather wasn't on our side and I was ducking out of the rain every 5 mins, oh well you can't win them all can you?
Photo Details
Sony A700
Samyang 8mm F3.5 MC Fisheye
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f/11
8mm
ISO200
1/3s exposure
Software Used
Lightroom 4.1
Silver Efex Pro 2
Photomatix 4
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Withdrawn from service by British Railways on 1 February 1966, it was targeted by the A4 Preservation Society, which was soon renamed the A4 Locomotive Society, to rescue the locomotive from the cutter’s torch. This was achieved, and the ‘Streak’ was moved to Crewe for refurbishment. Fellow A4 No 60026 Miles Beevor also subsequently visited the former LMS works after its own withdrawal, and its three pairs of 6 ft 8 in driving wheels were transferred to No 60007 because they were in a far better condition than those on the newly saved engine.
For a long period of her preservation, Sir Nigel Gresley was kept at Steamtown Carnforth, at the old locomotive depot. This was a prime location for her mainline operations, being the only mainline A4 after 1973 other than Union of South Africa. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Mallard's record run, on 3 July 1988, the National Railway Museum assembled 3 of the 4 UK-based A4 Pacific locomotives at the museum, the first time this had ever been done in preservation. Early in July 2008, SNG joined her three sisters extant in the UK for a display at the National Railway Museum in York.
By 1994, Sir Nigel Gresley stayed at the Great Central Railway, before spending some time at the East Lancashire Railway. The locomotive is now preserved at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, and is in daily operation, following a 10 year overhaul to working order. It is owned by Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Preservation Trust Ltd. and operated by the A4 Locomotive Society Ltd. on behalf of the Trust.
In 2010, Sir Nigel Gresley was under repair at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway after its winter overhaul in 2009/10 revealed that extensive work and repair was needed on the tubing. However, in November 2010, repairs had been completed, and the locomotive is now running in regular service again. The first rail tour after this repair was The Great Britain IV, 16th April 2011.
However, in May 2011, during the routine annual boiler exam, small cracks were detected in the firebox. Initially it was thought that a repair could be performed using copper welding, but further inspection showed a more extensive repair would be needed and 60007 will not be operational until late October at the earliest.
The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British National Museum of Science and Industry and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It has won many awards, including the European Museum of the Year Award in 2001. It is the home of the national collection of historically significant railway vehicles, as well as a collection of other artefacts and both written and pictorial records.
The NRM in York displays a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 200 other items of rolling stock, virtually all of which either ran on the railways of Great Britain or were built there. Also on the 20 acres (8.1 ha) site are many hundreds of thousands of other items and records of social, technical, artistic and historical interest, exhibited mostly in three large halls of a former motive power depot next to the East Coast Main Line, near York railway station. It is the largest museum of its type in Britain, the largest in the world being La Cité du Train in the French town of Mulhouse. It also has more visitors than any other British museum outside London.
The NRM was established on its present site, the former York North locomotive depot, in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city; since then, the collection has continued to grow.
The museum is a short walk from the railway station in York, either on the road or via a staircase from the rear of the platforms. A "roadtrain" runs from the city centre (near York Minster) to the museum on Leeman Road. York Park and Ride also serve the museum from the car park entrance, on Line 2 (Rawcliffe Bar-York). Admission to the museum has been free since 2001. It is open daily from 10 am to 6 pm.