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Steam Train 🚂🚃7029 Clun Castle 🏰 seen leaving Bath Spa against a Christmas nightscape including lit up Bath Abbey on the return of 🎄The Merchant Venturer from Solihull to Bath Spa/Bristol on Saturday 11th December 2021.
Heading into the night - The 1823 Portsmouth Harbour to Cardiff
Central 25.5.20 seen leaving Oldfield Park near Bath heading into the
last sunset light of the night with the crescent moon present
Hauling the return of @Steam_Dreams excursion from Clapham Junction to Bath, Black 5 45212, returning south for the first time in 2 years.
D0280 FALCON departs from Bath Spa for the west, in 1967. The original slide (now sold on) has the trees/bushes extending above the parapet and blocking parts of the loco - the wonderful software that is Photoshop has allowed some digital pruning to uncover the train.
PR Collection.
This and some of my other Green diesel shots from my collection, can be seen in the May issue of Railways Illustrated.
I can highly recommend jumping on the open top Bath city tour bus, you can get on and off as you go around and of course you have some great vantage points up high. I was disappointed with the second route that’s available on the ticket, it sweeps out of the city and around the outskirts but most of the views are blocked by trees. So my advice would be do the city route once, get an idea of what you want to photograph then go a second time jumping on and off along the route
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LSL Private Charter from Llandrindod - Weymouth Jersey Siding is hosted by D6817 (37521) + 37688 'Great Rocks' The pair are seen doubled up & making there way through Oldfield Park
1Z65 Llandrindod - Weymouth Jersey Siding 22/05/2022
Former Great Western Railway 4073 Class No. 7029 'Clun Castle' arrives at Bath Spa station with a Vintage Trains charter.
Saturday saw two steam excursions through Bath. The first was black 5
44871 fresh from its Great Britain stint. It is seen here accelerating through Oldfield Park.
71000 "Duke of Gloucester" passes the gallery at Bridge 99,Crofton on 02/Dec/25 working (From Hanwell Bridge Loop) ,1Z31 05.57 Rugby to Bath Spa....The Christmas Express.
1Z48 powering unassisted through Sydney Gardens Bath on Saturday 11th May 2024.
The tour marked 60 years since 'Clun Castle' achieved the then fastest non stop steam run between Plymouth to Bristol, only bettered by sister 'Castle', No.5043 'Earl of Edgcumbe' during the 50th anniversary recreation in 2014. Sadly, the challenging Devon banks foiled a reprised record run, with No.7029 ‘Clun Castle’ stalling on Hemerdon bank. Luckily the tour recovered with the shadow diesel assisting, which could then detach once again at Bristol.
We therefore see Clun Castle here in Bath on time, and powering through Sydney Gardens unassisted.
Class 50 locomotive No. 50018 powers away from Bath Spa station with the diverted 10:55 London Paddington to Paignton service on Thursday 16th March 1978. This locomotive would later receive the name Resolution.
I think this is the longest break I've ever had from Flickr. In early October I was away for a while but then had a medical emergency from which I'm still recovering. It's not as bad as it possibly sounds though and I'm optimistic about a good outcome.
LMS 'Black 5' 45231 'The Sherwood Forester' passes Corston Farm, Bath, with Saphos Trains' Solihul-Brstol Temple Meads 'Great Western Christmas Envoy' on 5 December, 2023
Jubilee Class 45690 'Leander' 🚂🚃 heads'The Essex Avon Express' charter service from Shoeburyness - Bristol Temple Meads on Wednesday 23rd August. Leander was captured in the scenic parts of Newton St Loe in beautiful summer evening light, you can see the locomotive set against a sunflower field, taken from the A4 dual carriageway.
BR Standard Class 8P No. 71000 'Duke of Gloucester' powers along the Berks & Hants line, nr Crofton, with the special Saphos Trains Christmas service from Rugby-Bath Spa.
Steam taking over from Diesel in the London area.
Beautiful weather conditions alongside the Kennet and Avon Canal.
LMS 'Black 5' 45231 'The Sherwood Forester' passes Corston Farm, Bath, with Saphos Trains' Solihul-Brstol Temple Meads 'Great Western Christmas Envoy' on 5 December, 2023
Saturday 27th April 2024 saw two steam excursions through Bath. The highlight was the 50th anniversary special of Merchant Navy 35028 'Clan Line' returning to mainline service 50 years after her first tour in preservation. The Bulleid was destined for Bath and is caught at Sydney Gardens for both the arrival and return and with a bonus accelerating under Brougham Hayes.
44871 fresh from its Great Britain stint also passed through Bath on its way to Gloucester. The black five is first seen accelerating through the Oldfield Park before returning through Sydney Gardens.
After William Wordsworth. Daffodils not available so oil seed rape offered a colourful substitute. The lake and trees are just out of shot.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
With the helicopter overhead keeping an eye on proceedings, the first of 2 excursions down the B&H on 13/Dec/25 ,pass Lock 60 at Crofton with 47805 "Crewe Diesel Depot" T&T 47805 working 1Z46 05.05 Hull to Bath Spa....The Bath Christmas Statesman.
"...a shit smelling foulness that I can't even imagine, or maybe I just don't want to."
I always wish it had ended with Red on the bus.
Nikon D40 | Sigma 10-20@10mm | ƒ8 | 42s | ISO200 | Sand bag
8.12.20 at 13:35 as the Royal train departs Bath Spa train station with The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on board. The couple had just visited Cleeve Court Residential Care in Twerton, Bath.
Bath Abbey, St Jonhs Church, the Empire Hotel and Pulteney Bridge can be seen in the background.
Pair of class 67's 67006 'Royal Sovereign' and 67005 'Queens Messenger' top and tail
The roof top bath is probably the most spectacular element to the Themae complex. You arrive at the roof top Bath either via lift or by coming up the stairs (I'd recommend the stairs as the lifts take ages!)
The water is cooler than you expect (particularly if you have visited the Roman Baths museum and felt the water there). 1,170,000 litres (that’s 240,000 gallons) of Bath water rise from the ground every day at a temperature of 46C but here is it cooled to 35C with the tiniest amount of chlorine added apparently for public health reasons. Its a shame they reduce the temperature - particularly for the roof top pool where the water undoubted cools quickly.
We booked the 2 hour spa session which cost £19 which was plenty of time to visit all the main public areas (roof top bath, steam rooms and ground floor Minerva Bath.
Strongly recommend taking your own flip flops as there is quite a lot of walking between the various facilities. If you are just a day visitor you can hire a towel for £2.50, slippers for £1.50 and a robe for £3.50
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The Grade I Listed Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset.
The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath falls as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 and 4,300 metres (8,900 and 14,100 ft) where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 69 and 96 °C (156.2 and 204.8 °F). Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. This process is similar to an artificial one known as Enhanced Geothermal System which also makes use of the high pressures and temperatures below the Earth's crust. Hot water at a temperature of 46 °C (114.8 °F) rises here at the rate of 1,170,000 litres (257,364 imp gal) every day, from a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault).
The statue of King Bladud overlooking the King's Bath carries the date of 1699, but its inclusion in earlier pictures shows that it is much older than this. The first shrine at the site of the hot springs was built by Celts, and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional Historia Regum Britanniae describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first Moorish baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure legend was given great prominence as a royal endorsement of the waters' qualities, with the embellishment that the spring had cured Bladud and his herd of pigs of leprosy through wallowing in the warm mud.
The name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sulis"). The temple was constructed in 60-70 AD and the bathing complex was gradually built up over the next 300 years. During the Roman occupation of Britain, and possibly on the instructions of Emperor Claudius, engineers drove oak piles to provide a stable foundation into the mud and surrounded the spring with an irregular stone chamber lined with lead. In the 2nd century it was enclosed within a wooden barrel-vaulted building, and included the caldarium (hot bath), tepidarium (warm bath), and frigidarium (cold bath). After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle suggests the original Roman baths were destroyed in the 6th century.
The baths have been modified on several occasions, including the 12th century when John of Tours built a curative bath over the King's Spring reservoir and the 16th century when the city corporation built a new bath (Queen's Bath) to the south of the Spring. The spring is now housed in 18th-century buildings, designed by architects John Wood, the Elder and John Wood, the Younger, father and son. Visitors drank the waters in the Grand Pump Room, a neo-classical salon which remains in use, both for taking the waters and for social functions. Victorian expansion of the baths complex followed the neo-classical tradition established by the Woods. In 1810 the Hot Springs failed and William Smith opened up the Hot Bath Spring to the bottom, where he found that the spring had not failed but had flowed into a new channel. Smith restored the water to its original course and the Baths filled in less time than formerly.
