Rusting railing on ramp

Hoylake , Wirral

Ageing Merseyrail electric unit 507001 pauses at Brunswick on a Hunts Cross to Southport service, 22nd June 2023

Vauxhall Velox

Corroding statue in a "reclamation yard" in Wells, just outside Bath

Ageing 313-201 (-001) rattles at speed through Wivelsfield on a running-in turn (well run in, I'd say)

Happy Birthday, my dear Jerbear 6/6/15

Crusty on the outside but still young at heart.

Looking at my Flickr stream, I can see I have posted very little this year (comparatively).

2019 seems to have been a rather lupus-filled year (struggling with the illness and struggling to keep my little editing business going through yet another major flare). Now, having just turned 60, with my family somewhat in disarray, and winter light over Pembs that is flat and not at all inviting, I'm looking forward to a change of perspective.

So here's to 2020 - and a better year for photography, swimming, getting back to all the people who've emailed me and all the things I still want to achieve.

"Mosca" (a Fly) is a Muscovy Duck (Pato Mudo or mute duck - Cairina moschat), petted like a dog by everybody who passes by Rua da Madalena nowadays most likely known as "Rua do Pato" (Duck's Street) in Faro. He poses at his owner's (a shoemaker) door just like a "Club Bouncer".

Location: Rua da Madalena - Rua do Pato - Faro - Algarve - Portugal - Pt - Europe - EU

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Always Learning... Critiques are very welcome.

Unlike this photographer.

Ageing male common darter perched on dead leaf, Brockholes, Lancs.

Sally is 75, but has the verve of teenager. Unbeatable

Ageing Beauty - even at it's end, this flower remains a beauty.

Own image and textures

Press "F" if you like it.

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EXPLORE: Aug 15/11 #456

Yashica FR1 with Yashica DSB 50mm 1.9

Kodak TRI-X 400 shot at 320asa

Enlarged on 8x10" TETENAL Vario Matte paper

It is important not to take ourselves too seriously

Ageing Without Clause 220724

Harbouring few views is the one you see, your loungeroom furniture threadbare like the lawn you

look out at, your tilting naval-ship wallpaper as disorientating as the pale ceiling-ed sky, those masts

and chimney stacks background behind the wire

baskets that hold your things, the knickknacks and souvenirs, the incidentals so that you wonder if your weeping eye can unstick its barnacle gaze, smelted against a crystal-love that has surely

disturbed the rain. You listen for the shrill call of plovers, sigh as you

fight against long seconds, your children teetering

in you like a shiver, their incandescent selves glowing like a hologram. And pillow-hardened, tooth-ground,

you don’t speak of wanting—when once you would

have mentioned so much now there’s nothing you

know, except that uncertainty parades, pure and unmitigated, swirling at your feet.

photos in response to a poem

from the wonderful sj finn

www.sjfinn.com

Canon EF 70-300mm IS II USM

Ageing Merseyrail electric unit 507017 at Sandhills with a Southport to Hunts Cross service, Sunday 21st April 2024

Early morning walk.

My photo of the Grass Path near Pitstone Hill given a vintage feel.

This shot was taken on my way from Delhi to Gwalior.

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A very old River Red Gum at Mt Ridley reserve in Craigieburn, victoria. Development all around this area is gradually leading to the loss of many of the stands of these old old trees - it breaks my heart. But at least a few of them will survive in reserves like this. EXPLORE May 24, 2009 #209

Arachtober 29th. A female Leiobunum rotundum, minus 2 legs. Looks like she has a few stories to tell.

1092 (B10YKW) Route 22 at Blackburn Bus Station

Formerly PO51MUU

Tavira, Portugal

Ageing is a natural process. Everyone must undergo this phase of life at his or her own time and pace. In the broader sense, ageing reflects all the changes taking place over the course of life. These changes start from birth—one grows, develops and attains maturity. To the young, ageing is exciting. Middle age is the time when people notice the age-related changes like greying of hair, wrinkled skin and a fair amount of physical decline. Even the healthiest, aesthetically fit cannot escape these changes. Slow and steady physical impairment and functional disability are noticed resulting in increased dependency in the period of old age.

Sunday morning breakfast, not looking forward to the "housework" today.

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Hej Charlyn W ! :-)

I broke my Pouva for her! :-(

As the country develops and the birth rates fall, the number of old people increases and this is happening here too.

Class 40 Indian Summer

Class 40 40099 takes a break at Skipton station on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds in the summer of 1984. Yours truly was on for the ride. Happy days on the Settle & Carlisle railway. The ageing Class 40 takes a short rest after her exertions over the Pennines :)

'A day in the life' - log book update:

Saturday 11th August 1984 - 40099 on 1E23 10.40 Carlisle - Leeds.

CARLISLE

Armathwaite

Lazonby

Langwathby

APPLEBY

Kirkby Stephen

Ais Gill Summit

Garsdale

Dent

Ribblehead

Horton-in-Ribblesdale

SETTLE

Hellifield

SKIPTON

Keighley

Shipley

LEEDS

113 miles

Followed by:

40091 on 1M54 13.24 Skegness - Man Picc

RETFORD (Low Level)

Whisker Hill Jnct

Worksop

Shireoaks

Kiveton Park

Darnall

SHEFFIELD

Dore

Hope

EDALE

New Mills Central

Romiley

Reddish North

Ashburys

MAN PICC

65 miles

Between 1982 and 1984 I spent many happy hours with my friends chasing around the North of England after the remaining Class 40s. At the beginning of 1984, there were still 50 members of the fleet in service, but this had already reduced down to 31 by the time I had 40099 in mid-August. By the end of the summer timetable, just 25 remained in service, and only 17 of the class survived into 1985, all but 3 being withdrawn over the weekend of 21st/22nd Jan 1985.

D200/40122, 40118 and 40012 were kept on just for rail tours, although D200 had a second Indian summer :)

Nearly all of the last Class 40s in service that year acquired some or other distinguishing marks, from hand-painted nameplates to original numbers. 40099 was no exception, having had her discs removed in 1980. The sharper-eyed amongst you will also notice one of the horn grilles is on sideways!

Locomotive History

D299 / 40099

D299 was built by the English Electric Company at their Vulcan Foundry Works, Newton-Le-Willows, Lancashire and entered traffic in Oct 1960.

24/10/60 - Date in traffic allocated to 5A (Crewe North)

01/11/60 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)

01/06/62 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)

01/09/62 - Transferred to 1B (Camden)

01/02/63 - Transferred to 5A (Crewe North)

01/11/64 - Transferred to 1A (Willesden)

01/12/65 - Transferred to 2F (Bescot)

01/04/66 - Transferred to WL (Western Lines D01, D02, D05)

01/06/68 - Transferred to D01 (London Western Division)

01/07/68 - Transferred to D05 (Stoke-on-Trent Division)

01/09/68 - Transferred to D10 (Preston Division)

26/05/72 - Painted into BR Blue

01/11/72 - Transferred to D08 (Liverpool Division)

01/05/73 - Transferred to SP (Wigan Springs Branch)

01/09/73 - Transferred to KM (Carlisle Kingmoor)

01/05/74 - Renumbered as 40099

01/01/75 - Transferred to KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

01/05/75 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)

01/10/75 - Transferred to HA (Haymarket)

01/05/78 - Transferred to LO (Longsight)

01/07/80 - Discs and water tanks removed

22/10/84 - Withdrawn at KD (Carlisle Kingmoor)

25/01/85 - Towed to Doncaster Works for scrapping

Cut up at BREL Doncaster works by 08/05/85

My interest in the railways waned permanently with the demise of the Class 50s, initially from the Paddington-Oxford route in 1990, and finally when they retired from the Waterloo-Exeter services in 1992.

As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share. ;)

Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/

'Indian Summer' - a period of happiness or success occurring late in life...English Electric Type 4 1958-1984

Ageing Merseyrail electric unit 507028 pauses at Brunswick with a Hunts Cross to Southport service, Sunday 21st April 2024

From the Trefor Granite Quarry tramway to the Breakwater. The Pier looks rougher with each storm that passes.

EMC8 (LK15FKH) Route 312 at Norwood Junction

A quick one.

Ageing Merseyrail electric unit 507001 pauses at Brunswick with a Hunts Cross to Southport service, Sunday 21st April 2024

Today the Hereios of the We're Here group are shooting Alleyways.