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Performing engine runs at home base. Brand new aircraft for SaxonAir.
Operator: SaxonAir Charter
Aircraft: Leonardo AW109SP Grand New
Registration: G-KLNA
Callsign: GKLNA
Location: Norwich (NWI / EGSH)
Peter runs into Eddie Brock... "Hey, Parker. I saw you took pictures of that attack with 'The Shocker', hmm?" Eddie asks, with an angry expression... "Oh... Umm..." Peter stutters, worryingly smiling... Eddie suddenly grabs Peter's shirt... "Listen, kid. If this happens again... We're not friends anymore. Got it?" Eddie asks... "Y-...Yeah..! Sorry..." Peter states... Eddie drops Peter, before going upstairs, Peter going in the opposite direction.
~Scarecrow
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Class 40 40127 passes a Dmu as it runs past Chester Depot. 21/07/1979.
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Sometimes my imagination runs wild when I think about writing a post. The first time I saw these barns, I immediately thought to myself that they looked like smiley faces. The windows near the top were the eyes with square noses and open mouths. As I sat down to write this, the was going to be the topic. Then my imagination kicked in. Taking them as a group, I started to think that maybe it was a barn family. To the right is the papa barn, big and stout. To the left is the mama barn, dressed in red with a Sunday hat. Finally we have the baby barn, still a youngster that is not yet old enough to have grown a mouth.
Okay, I have taken some liberties with this post. The Palouse has tons of barns that are all different from one another. Some are old and weather beaten. Others are new with shiny new paint of differing colors. Some are falling down (we lost three barns since our last August's scouting tour) and all that remains are skeleton remains. They make very cool subjects to photograph.
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase 'explosive diarrhoea!'
This Su-30MKI bomb run was one of the more impressive ones on the wrong side of the sun that day, but I like how this shot turned out.
My grandfather was a lover of women. In the most respectable way mind you. He found them beautiful and inspiring just as I do. Anyway, he had a lot of art in the house that was classy and sexy at the same time. The were all paintings or old photographs that had this sort of painting feel to it. Its an effect I have been meaning to recreate for a while now. This is pretty close... and I assure you, Gramps would approve of this one.
Colorado Model Dorota S
Dimboola.
Pastoral runs here were taken up quickly as they had frontage to the ever flowing Wimmera River and the first in this area was Horatio Ellerman’s Antwerp Station taken up in 1846. These stations attracted an itinerant salesman who set up a small store here in 1859 at Nine Creeks which was the original name for Dimboola. The town was surveyed along the Wimmera River in 1863 and named by the surveyor after a place that he had lived in Ceylon called Dimbula. A Post Office service was started near the general store in that year and Dimboola became the administrative centre for Lowan Shire in 1875. The old Shire Offices built in 1877 in Horsham brick which have been converted into the town library are one of the heritage listed buildings of Dimboola. Other significant old buildings include the quaint wooden Courthouse 1875, the railway station built around 1887 and the Victoria Hotel built in 1924(replacing the 1893 wooden hotel). The first settlers were mainly German Lutherans from SA who here came between 1871 and 1873 when most farm land was selected. The first flourmill opened in 1876. By 1879 Dimboola had three hotels, a newspaper, a bakery, several stores and a blacksmiths. In 1882 the railway line from Melbourne was extended to Dimboola and then in 1887 it was extended beyond Dimboola to Serviceton and the SA border. A few years later a line was built from Dimboola northwards to Jeparit and eventually Rainbow. This cemented the future of the town. Like SA the state of Victoria introduced communistic Village Settlement Schemes in 1893 as the 1891 great depression took hold. One scheme was set up along the Wimmera River just south of Dimboola. Like SA the blocks were too small to be viable but the Victorian Scheme was less communistic and landowners had their own individual plots to farm but they had community rules and regulations to follow. The scheme near Dimboola finally closed in 1915. By the 1890s Dimboola was well established with five churches, three schools, two hotels, stores, banks and an Oddfellows Hall etc. Once the gold mining era started to fade in the Central Goldfields Dimboola became home to some Chinese market gardeners who farmed along the Wimmera River. After Federation and the introduction of the White Australia Policy in 1903 conditions for the few Chinese men who remained around Dimboola worsened. They were not allowed to bring wives or women into Australia, even for a holiday, and unless their occupation as approved by the government they had to return to China. They were prevented from becoming naturalised and they had no social rights. After 1903 the Chinese population of Australia (mainly Victoria) fell from 29,600 to 9,100 by World War Two. Those that remained could usually “pass” for Europeans because of their mixed blood ancestry. The Moy family of market gardeners were one Chinese family group who stayed on at Dimboola until the repeal of the White Australia Policy in 1975. They survived because they could grow vegetables when European settlers could not as they tended each plant individually. The family pigs and poultry provided the manure for the vegetables. Later generations of the Moy family moved into footwear retailing, pig farming and school teaching. During World War Two a young soldier named Sidney Nolan was stationed at Dimboola in 1942 to guard Army supplies and stores. Whilst moving around between Dimboola Horsham and Nhill he developed a series of paintings of the Wimmera in a very abstract style. This led to a turning point in his painting career and Sidney Nolan went to become one of Australia’s great interpretive artists after the War.
Lutherans from SA moved to the Dimboola in 1871 and had their first church and a full time pastor from 1874. The current Lutheran is a very modern structure on the outskirts of the town towards Horsham. The Anglicans built their first slab log church in 1861 before the town was even surveyed. Their brick church was completed until 1885. It was extended in 1927 and again in 1957. Dimboola also has a Catholic and two Methodist (now Uniting) churches. The original Wesleyan Methodist church in wood was erected in 1883 and the fine red brick tower church was competed in 1939. The wooden Catholic Church was built on site in 1906. Apart from retail and farm services the major employer for Dimboola is the rail freight changeover facility which was constructed in 1991 near the highway bypass.
The EA-18G Growlers ran through a couple of practice runs today along the Brisbane River, awesome stuff.
Class 40 40019 runs down the centre road at Chester station with a empty stock train, i first photographed this loco in 1973 and it had no nameplates on then. Chester 01/09/1979.
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The Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, 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 (51 km) 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. As built, the canal had 92 locks. Whilst the traditional lock numbering has been retained on all restored locks, and on the relocated locks, the canal now has 91. Locks 3 and 4 have been replaced with a single deep lock, Tuel Lane Lock, which is numbered 3/4.
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. Brindley proposed a route similar to the one built, and another more expensive route via Bury. Further progress was not made until 1791, when John Rennie was asked to make a new survey in June, and two months later to make surveys for branches to Rochdale, Oldham and to a limeworks near Todmorden. Rennie at the time had no experience of building canals.
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 attempt to obtain an act was made in 1792, but was opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. Rennie proposed using steam pumping engines, three in Yorkshire, eight in Lancashire, and one on the Burnley Branch, but the mill owners argued that 59 mills would be affected by the scheme, resulting in unemployment, and the bill was defeated. In September 1792, William Crosley and John Longbotham surveyed the area in an attempt to find locations for reservoirs which would not affect water supplies to the mills. A second bill was presented to Parliament, for a canal which would have a 3,000-yard (2,700 m) tunnel and 11 reservoirs. Again the bill was defeated, this time by one vote. The promoters, in an attempt 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 on 4 April 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and authorised 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. The estimate was for a narrow canal, whereas the act authorised a broad canal, and so the capital was never going to be adequate. The summit tunnel was abandoned in favour of 14 additional locks saving £20,000. Jessop proposed constructing each lock with a drop of 10 feet (3.0 m), resulting in efficient use of water and the need to manufacture only one size of lock gate.
The canal opened in stages as sections were completed, with the Rochdale Branch the first in 1798 and further sections in 1799. The bottom nine locks opened in 1800 and boats using the Ashton Canal could reach Manchester. Officially, the canal opened in 1804, but construction work continued for more three years. A 1.5-mile (2.4 km) branch from Heywood to Castleton opened in 1834.
Apart from a short profitable section in Manchester linking the Bridgewater and Ashton Canals, most of the length was closed in 1952 when an act of parliament was obtained to ban public navigation. The last complete journey had taken place in 1937, and by the mid 1960s the remainder was almost unusable. Construction of the M62 motorway in the late 1960s took no account of the canal, cutting it in two.
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
The Rochdale Canal Society 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 Ltd, who leased the canal from the owning company. The MSC-funded restoration was approaching Sowerby Bridge, where planners were proposing a tunnel and deep lock to negotiate a difficult road junction at Tuel Lane, so that a connection could be made with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The entire eastern section from Sowerby Bridge to the summit at Longlees was open by 1990, although it remained isolated from the canal network.
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 from the Rochdale Canal Company. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and in order to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal. As restoration proceeded, boats could travel further and further west, and the restoration of the sections through Failsworth and Ancoats were a significant part of the re-development of the north Manchester districts. The restored sections joined up with the section in Manchester below the Ashton Canal junction, which had never been closed, and on 1 July 2002 the canal was open for navigation along its entire length.
is a Panorama Express train connecting Chur to Tirano in Italy by crossing the Swiss Engadin Alps. For most of its journey, the train also runs along the World Heritage Site known as the Rhaetian Railway in the Albula / Bernina Landscapes
My partner runs a Silk Wedding Flower websites (C&L Floral Designs). Needless to say product images are everything but it is a nightmare getting digital cameras to get the perfect colour. What we need is a studio / light tent setup but until then we just push on. Now and then we get a photo that is just spot on and looks like a work of art in its own right.
Oh and of course you can buy it if you want :)
It looks as though coal has just arrived at Abrams as the crew is still on the MP15DC wearing Reading paint.
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church is a Roman Catholic church located in the Antakalnis neighbourhood of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Construction was begun in 1688 and the decorative works were completed in 1704.
It is the centerpiece of a former monastery complex of the Canons Regular of the Lateran.
Its interior has masterful compositions of some 2,000 stucco figures by Giovanni Pietro Perti and ornamentation by Giovanni Maria Galli and is unique in Europe.
The church is considered a masterpiece of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Baroque.
The interior of the church changed relatively little since that time.
The major change was the loss of the main altar. The wooden altar was moved to the Catholic church in Daugai in 1766.[4]
The altar is now dominated by the Farewell of St. Peter and St. Paul, a large painting by Franciszek Smuglewicz, installed there in 1805.
The interior was restored by Giovanni Beretti and Nicolae Piano from Milan in 1801–04.[11]
At the same time, a new pulpit imitating the ship of Saint Peter was installed.
In 1864, as reprisal for the failed January Uprising, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky closed the monastery and converted its buildings into military barracks.[11]
There were plans to turn the church into an Eastern Orthodox church, but they never materialized.[11] In 1901–05, the interior was restored again. The church acquired the boat-shaped chandelier and the new pipe organ with two manuals and 23 organ stops.[12]
The dome was damaged during World War II bombings, but was rebuilt true to its original design.[12]
When in 1956 Vilnius Cathedral was converted into an art museum by Soviet authorities, the silver sarcophagus with sacred relics of Saint Casimir was moved to the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church.[13] The sarcophagus was returned to its place in 1989.
Despite religious persecutions in the Soviet Union, extensive interior restoration was carried out in 1976–87.[11]
About the Decorative Scheme
St. Peter and St. Paul's is one of the most studied churches in Lithuania.[19]
Its interior has over 2,000 different decor elements that creates a stunning atmosphere.[20]
The main author of the decor plan is not known. It could be the founder Pac, monks of the Lateran, or Italian artists.
No documents survive to explain the ideas behind the decorations, therefore various art historians attempted to find one central theme: Pac's life and Polish–Lithuanian relations, teachings of Saint Augustine, Baroque theater, etc.[19]
Art historian Birutė Rūta Vitkauskienė identified several main themes of the decor: structure of the Church as proclaimed at the Council of Trent with Saint Peter as the founding rock, early Christian martyrs representing Pac's interest in knighthood and ladyship, themes relevant to the Canons Regular of the Lateran, and themes inherited from previous churches (painting of Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy and altar of Five Wounds of Christ).[21]
The decor combines a great variety of symbols, from local (patron of Vilnius Saint Christopher) to Italian saints (Fidelis of Como),[22] from specific saints to allegories of virtues.
There are many decorative elements – floral (acanthus, sunflowers, rues, fruits), various objects (military weapons, household tools, liturgical implements, shells, ribbons), figures (puttos, angels, soldiers), fantastical creatures (demons, dragons, centaurs), Pac's coat of arms, masks making various expressions – but they are individualized, rarely repeating.[23]
The architects and sculptors borrowed ideas from other churches in Poland (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków, Sigismund's Chapel of Wawel Cathedral) and Italy (St. Peter's Basilica, Church of the Gesù).[22]
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From the Church's Brochure
The church was erected after the Russian invasion that devastated Vilnius in the mid-17th century.
Barely a dozen years passed, and the capital of Lithuania began to recover.
In 1668 Mykolas Kazimieras Pacas, Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and wojewode of Vilnius, embarked upon the Antakalnis.
The church is decorated by the stucco mouldings of two excellent Italian sculptors, Giovanni Pietro Petri and Giovanni Maria Galli.
The interior of the church consists of the main nave, six chapels on both sides, and the transept.
Henryton State Hospital is a now-closed hospital complex in Marriottsville, in southern Carroll County, Maryland, just across the Howard County line. The complex is located within Patapsco Valley State Park and along its southern end runs CSX's Old Main Line Subdivision and is very close to the Henryton Tunnel. The Henryton State Hospital center, or the Henryton Tuberculosis Sanatorium as it was called, was erected in 1922 by the Maryland Board of Mental Hygiene. It was established as a facility to treat African Americans suffering from tuberculosis.[1] This was one of the first such facilities in Maryland erected to provide African Americans with the same level of treatment as whites.
The original complex opened in 1922 and consisted of 6 main buildings and one utility plant. These buildings were erected between the years of 1921 and 1923. The establishment of the Henryton Sanatorium was one of the final steps in Maryland’s program to treat all of the state's tubercular patients. In the late twenties and early thirties the tuberculosis rate among African Americans in Maryland was quadruple what the rate was among whites.[1] This placed a heavy burden on the hospital to deal with the increasing number of patients. In 1938 the hospital was budgeted $270,000 for the construction of new buildings to house 200 more patients.[1] The new buildings roughly doubled the size of the overall facility, and several more municipal buildings added even more space to the complex. However, by the time the new buildings were completed in 1946, the tuberculosis rates had dropped, leaving much more room than was necessary.
In the decades since the facility’s closure, the Henryton State Hospital complex has become a haven for vandals, drifters, and drug addicts. The façade of most of the buildings have been extensively damaged and are covered in graffiti. Most of the windows have been broken out, making the grounds around the hospital very dangerous. The doors to all of the buildings have been broken in, allowing access to the inside. Although the furnishings and equipment were removed before the facility closed, there is still remarkable damage from people going through. Henryton has been the site of many suspicious fires since its closure, the most well-known of them taking place in the early morning of December 19, 2007.[citation needed] Henryton caught fire on April 28, 2011.[2] Initial speculation of this fire was believed to be suspicious in nature, but after fire marshalls conducted their investigation, it was believed to have been sparked by a lightning strike in the roof area.[citation needed] Firefighters arrived on the scene with heavy fire throughout the roof. Severe storms had passed through the area during the time that the fire was reported.
Henryton has suffered from extensive damage over the years
In this incident, the auditorium and cafeteria sections of the complex were engulfed with flames. The blaze took 80 firefighters from 3 counties to extinguish. The burned areas have since been demolished and removed. The 2011 fire affected the Physician and Nurses Cottage, destroying the roof. Visiting the Henryton State Hospital complex without the expressed written consent of the Maryland DHMH is trespassing, but the possible charges and fines seem not to deter most vandals. However, the decades of wear on the buildings without maintenance and the presence of large quantities of asbestos make Henryton a dangerous place to explore.
Since its closing, many attempts to purchase the land have been made, but most potential buyers, after having been approved to buy, have had their proposal for usage vetoed by local government and the like.[citation needed] The land on which the old Henryton Center rests goes on the market occasionally (every 5–6 years or so) and then is removed from the market. The state of Maryland spends a large amount of money to maintain the property minimally and occasionally patrol, and it is an expense that the state seems eager to be rid of.
my flickr will be a bit quiet for a while as very busy, i m off to normandy tommorow till friday then i go away for the weekend straight away friday as going to showbus sunday..So the last shot for now was taken today. Parked on Water street Manchester for the Corrie tour was Evobus demonstrator BX13EVH as Mercedes Benz Tourismo C49FT working for a firm doing travelstyle. Photo taken 14/09/14
This picture was for a split second to see on tv in a item about record most naked roller coaster runs, i hit the pauze button and lol with my girlfriend about the man in front.
It was almost exactly two years ago that i uploaded the first images of Kingdom Hardy that i'd shot. It's no surprise to me that it remains one of my most popular photos. This diptych is from a recent shoot, one of the last i did before leaving Atlanta.
Kingdom is still phyne. ;-)
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Shell Junction 2-3-03 (SUN) 56099 passes Shell Junction as it runs alongside Lackenby Steelworks on loaded Potash hoppers from Boulby for Tees Dock
7820 Dinmore Manor heads the first train of the day from Broadway passing Didbrook
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The Salt River runs through it. Kayak Bend downstream of Coon Bluff. Autumn in southern climes.
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Magdala Gully,
Springwood, NSW, Australia.
Springwood Bushwalks - Sassafras Gully/Magdala Gully.
The Victory Track.
The Victory Track is arguably the best bushwalk in the lower-mid Blue Mountains.
It runs from Faulconbridge to Springwood and is about 12km in distance.
Other candidates for the crown would be the Jack Evans track in South Glenbrook or the Empire Pass/Dante’s Glen track at Lawson or even the Terrace Falls circuit at Hazelbrook.
The track follows Glenbrook Creek downstream through Sassafras Gully before a turn-off at Perch Ponds where it heads up Magdala Gully towards Springwood.
There are three waterfalls along the Victory Track with a fourth one that can found on a rough side track.
From the headwaters of Sassafras Creek you descend fairly steeply. The vegetation starts off as dry sclerophyll, before becoming wet sclerophyll downstream.
About a kilometre along the track you arrive at the pretty Clarinda Falls.
Like all the waterfalls in the lower-mid Blue Mountains, it requires decent rain to be at its best.
About half a kilometre past Clarinda Falls is a small clearing that is a good spot for a break or could be used as a campsite.
To the right is a rough track that leads to Numantia Falls and also an Aboriginal cave.
Further downstream, two tracks enter from the north, 1st is the Sassafras Gully Rd track about a kilometre from the clearing.
The 2nd track is the Wiggins track about half a kilometre downstream.
These two tracks along with Martin’s Lookout provide shorter options of this walk that are between 6 and 8 km in length.
If using one car or public transport, the Sassafras Gully Rd track requires much less of a road walk.
Some of the upper sections of the Victory Track are a bit rough in parts and have become a bit overgrown.
About a km from the Wiggins track you reach the junction of Sassafras Ck and Glenbrook Ck.
This is a good place for lunch and a great campsite and also has large, deep swimming holes that are great in warmer weather.
As you descend deeper into Sassafras Gully you encounter more rainforest.
There are some majestic trees growing in the more fertile soil including Sassafras, Turpentines, Coachwoods, Lilly Pilly, and the gnarly, twisted Water Gums.
Under the canopy of the tall trees the temperature is cooler and the vegetation more lush with ferns & vines.
The area is alive with wildlife including birds, lizards, and yabbies.
About 1.5kms brings you to Perch Ponds with more swimming holes, a meeting of two creeks (Glenbrook & Magdala), and a junction of the track.
The Victory Track turns left up Magdala Gully and heads towards Springwood.
The other branch of the track leads to Martin’s Lookout or beyond for the adventurous.
At the base of the quite steep climb up to Martin’s Lookout is another good campsite amongst giant Sassafras trees.
After approx. half a km of gradual uphill walking along Magdala Gully, you arrive at Martin’s Falls.
It’s possible to scramble down to access a few different viewpoints of the falls for photography.
A few hundred upstream is Blue Pool (which usually looks more green), followed by Magdala Falls.
Magdala Falls is now tricky to photograph - before it was possible to scramble down to a rock ledge to get some shots.
Now there is quite a bit of vegetation that blocks the waterfall from view.
The only good access is to come down to creek level further downstream using a spur, and rock-hopping and wading through the creek to reach the falls.
From here it is about an hour or 3-4kms to reach Springwood.
Further along a large open area is found at the junction of two creeks. The main track veers to the left along Magdala Gully.
The right fork leads to a rarely used rough track that ends at the park on Farm Rd.
Extended bushwalks (experienced walkers only):
Faulconbridge/Springwood to Glenbrook or Lapstone.
There are two options for this route - both require a full day:
1. Via Glenbrook Creek.
It is possible to follow the creek all the way to Glenbrook or to even the Nepean River and Lapstone.
This is a long day and involves off-track walking including rock-hopping and getting your feet wet.
On older versions of topo maps for the area, a track is shown along Glenbrook Creek east of the Martin’s Lookout area - there isn’t one!
There is a brief section of track between Warrimoo and Blaxland along the Florabella Pass walk.
2. Via Bunyan’s Lookout and St Helena’s Ridge.
This version requires a steep climb up to the lookout, but then there is a track along the ridge that takes you to Glenbrook.
St. Helena’s Ridge eventually brings you to the Duckhole about 2kms upstream from Blue Pool.
Exit at Glenbrook or continue further on to Lapstone via Glenbrook Gorge.
Wildfires rage across California. A horse runs from burning grasslands of the Long Valley fire near Doyle, California. Crews battling dozens of wildfires across parts of the parched U.S. West will face tinderbox conditions that could stoke more blazes on Friday and through the weekend, forecasters said. Lassen County Sheriff's .Office/Handout via R.E.U.T.E.R.S
Thursday, July 13, 2017
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185126 runs past the rather dilapidated station building at Cleethorpes with a service from Manchester Airport. The buildings are occupied by a pub now. 30.6.16.
Commentary.
This is one of five skiing centres in the Highlands,
the others being the Nevis Range, Glencoe, Glenshee and The Lecht.
Aviemore, a town a few miles to the west is almost totally devoted to providing accommodation and facilities for the Winter Sports enthusiasts.
A funicular railway and several ski-tows enabled skiers to get within 500 foot of the summit.
There are 35 runs down the mountain.
The restaurant, at 3,600 foot is the highest in the U.K.
Although the railway closed in 2018, in need of renovation and upgrade, it should be realised that wildlife trails, kayaking, mountain-biking, water-sports, hiking and beaches make the Cairngorms National Park one of the most popular “Outdoor Pursuits” areas in the country.