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Serving 为人民服务 by Spring Land (大地春)

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serving.jpg by Barbara Reiner

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Cake serving tool by Alex Photographs

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Serving the Masses by Mondmann

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Food vendors at the Kwang Jang Market in Seoul, Korea

Venus Williams Serving at Wimbledon by John Hallam

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Morning at Clarabelle Mill by MemoryJct

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Looking in a southwesterly direction from Elm Street/Regional Road 35 in Greater Sudbury is this iconic view that anyone familiar with the area should recognize. The impressive Clarabelle Mill is the first point of processing for ores brought in from the various mines in the surrounding area. Clarabelle is also the name of the junction that serves as an access point to Vale property for CP and CN for interchange purposes. Out of view to the left runs trackage leading back to downtown Sudbury via CP's Nickel Spur and CN's Sudbury Spur, and to the right runs the spur connecting to Creighton Mine. In the upper left background is the yard serving the mill itself as well as trackage leading further in to Vale's sprawling Copper Cliff complex. The track with our subject heads under Elm St and branches off 2 ways, with one way leading to CP's Cartier Sub at Sprecher, and the other heading up to Frood Mine and the now shuttered Stobie Mine. This was for me perhaps the largest of several small victories 2019 brought to me. This was one shot I had always wanted to do from a young age but the opportunity just never materialized. Eventually, SD40-2s stopped becoming commonplace on Sudbury locals and my sense of urgency to pull it off evaporated. It became one of those shots that I figured I would get around to eventually when the time was right, but never did I think the chance would come to do it with a matching pair of 40s again.

In 2019, a steady stream of SD40-2s were coming back online after years in storage to be used on work trains. All I really knew was that this pair had arrived in Sudbury a couple of days prior with ballast empties for re-loading and that power from such trains sometimes ended up on the locals based here. On one of those chilly October days when you don't know if its going to snow, rain, or be sunny, I arrived at the CP yard and shop tracks in downtown Sudbury dark and early to find nothing. I took this as a good sign and headed west of out town. It wasn't long before I could hear train U57 switching on the radio and did a double take when seeing this perfect multimark pair (6055/6069) slowly rolling up out of Clarabelle Yard heading for Sprecher and onward to Levack. One questionable parking job later and I was hoofing it across the busy road to machine gun the shutter button for quick minute and then book it back out as it's hardly a safe spot to hang around. Had I been 5 minutes later I would have missed the move and would probably still be cursing it to this day. Such fortuitous circumstances can make or break this "hobby" (I've never thought that was an adequate word to describe this interest we have but that's a topic for another day) and they don't come often. Every time I look at this picture I'm reminded to be grateful for the times that things just work out alright.

Serving Dr. Faustus by Axel Eckenberger

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24936 by Ben Abel

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Gainsborough Lea Road railway station, Gainsborough, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire.

The first station at Gainsborough was the current Gainsborough Central station, which opened in 2 April 1849 by the Manchester Sheffield and Lincoln railway. Initially a terminus this became a through station when the line was extended to Woodhouse and Retford on 16 July 1849. On 9 April 1849 a single-track line built by the Great Northern Railway (GNR) from Lincoln to west of the station and GNR trains serving Gainsborough reversed here. Following the opening of the MSLR line to Retford, GNR services then ran to Retford although the reversal into Gainsborough Central was still required.

The GNR was keen to extend their line from Gainsborough to Doncaster and parliamentary approval for this line was received on 25 July 1864. As part of this scheme the existing Lincoln to Gainsborough line was also to be upgraded. On 1 December that year the line from Lincoln to Doncaster was closed and doubling took place. At this time the new station initially called Gainsborough was built and trains started calling there on 15 July 1867. On 1 March 1871 a line was opened from north of the station to the bank of the River Trent serving Ashcroft Saw Mill and an iron works.

In 1879 the GNR and the Great Eastern Railway (GER) formed a committee to build a line linking the coal fields of south Yorkshire to London. This saw the building of a new line from Spalding North Junction to Pyewipe Junction near Lincoln which opened in stages in 1882. The station was transferred to the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway committee.

Passenger facilities were improved in 1883 and 1884, and goods facilities expanded in 1886 and 1891 with a number of rail connected businesses operated in the station area. In 1909 the joint committee was abandoned and although the station remained in Joint ownership, it was managed by the GNR.

The GNR amalgamated with several other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway on 1 January 1923. On 9 July the station was renamed Gainsborough North although this name was short-lived as the station was renamed Gainsborough Lea Road on 1 December.

In the Second World War the joint line saw significant freight traffic and passenger services were reduced as a result. Following nationalisation of the railways in 1948 Gainsborough Lea Road became part of the Eastern Region of British Railways. The goods yard remained active during the 1950s but falling traffic saw closure on 1 April 1967.

Compared to Gainsborough Central, Lea Road is very inconveniently sited, being around a 20-minute walk from the town centre. Whilst there is a bus between the station and the town centre, this is not timetabled to connect with train services.

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