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I was actually catching a train at Wimbledon when I heard a familiar sound as I went through the barriers and there they were on Platform 9. Apologies for the quality. Taken on my phone.
Looking over the buffer stops at Balloch station towards the former Balloch Central station, closed on 23 April 1988. This allowed the level crossing over a busy road to be closed. The station building has been converted into the Tourist Information Centre, which was open on this dark, wet mid-winter day.
The railway continued on for half a mile to Balloch Pier, on the southern shore of Loch Lomond, this electrified section closed on 28th September 1986.
The Railway End at Wilderspool, home to Warrington RLFC between 1898 and 2003, when the club relocated to the Halliwell Jones Stadium. Wire's youth teams have since been using the ground. The final fixture at Wilderspool, the pitch apart very much a naked ruin, is scheduled for May 15th 2014. The ground's record attendance - 34,304 - was established in 1949, for a league game against Wigan.
During a Replenishment at Sea (RAS), Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) VANCOUVER’s Chief Boatswain or “The Buffer”, Chief Petty Officer Second Class (CPO2) Chad Horne communicates with Her Majesty’s Australian Ship (HMAS) Success, during OPERATION PROJECTION Asia Pacific (OP PROJECTION AP), at sea, South Pacific Ocean, on 19 June 2018.
HMCS VANCOVER is on the final leg of OP PROJECTION AP sailing for Hawaii for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in concert with HMAS SUCCESS, HMAS ADELAIDE, HMAS MELBOURNE, and Her Majesty’s New Zealand Ship (HMNZS) TE MANA.
Photo: Lieutenant (Navy) Tony Wright, HMCS VANCOUVER Public Affairs Officer
©2018 DND-MDN CANADA
Buffer fitted 43068 at Exeter St Davids on the rear of the 09:25 from Penzance to Edinburgh - led by 43065.
22-01-1994
Thanks to a rail diversion via Crewe (and a 1 hour wait there for a connecting service) a couple of days ago, it allowed me to wander around parts I hadn't wandered on for forty years or so.
The trainspotting Mecca of earlier times is no more, the loco depot and nearby fuelling point and stabling lines are now littered with a variety of carriages (some interesting looking Mk1's).
Platform canopies (some) have gone, fences erected, tracks lifted etc etc.
Anyhow, I couldn't help but notice the above buffers still in-situ, I think this is the platform that was utilised for the South Wales Cross-country service using those "mish-mash" of fascinating DMU's sets in the early to mid 70's.
I wonder what will happen to those splendid buffers....and why haven't the nearest pair sprung back out ?
Date: 11th January, 2017.
This is a high speed buffer located on the 2nd floor of plant 2.It is enclosed,with a conveying system on the outside to load goods to polished.There were two of these side by side,with a Torit&Day vacuum system close by for dust cleanup.
Transporting your Buffer could Not get any easier.
The size of your wheels Does matter. Steps are a breeze.
BN GE's 5730 and 5734 roll reefers S approaching Newport, MN on 02-16-1974. Two of 66 U33's built for the Burlington Northern, this pair makes a great image rolling hot reefer loads to Chicago for eastern connections.
Custom lights. Made of jewelry magnetic locks, 12V band of LEDs and other stuff. The only harm to Lego bricks : 2 small holes in buffer frame plus a bit of 10secs glue to connect magnets to magnet coupler.
Since first setting my eyes upon the lines of red buffer stops at Waterloo station as a young lad of about 4 years old, I have had an affection for what was once such a widespread part of railway infrastructure. I personally couldn't think of a better pairing in Carlisle station than a 'Royal Scot' class 4-6-0 and the remaining hydraulic buffers in the north bay platforms 7 and 8. 46115 'Scots Guardsman' sets back towards Upperby depot having just arrived with the 'Waverley' from York on Sunday 29th July 2012.
© Copyright Gordon Edgar - No unauthorised use
Rainbow parts, modified slightly from the original design.
Test train is the power unit of the Berkshire (4 PF motors, 4 train weights, PF LiPo battery) plus the baggage car of the Polar Express, loaded with 10 train weights.
Train run at full throttle, though probably not top speed due to the short lead track.
The old buffer stops for the sidings to the east of Merchiston Station on the old Caledonian Mainline from Edinburgh Princes Street to the west. These sidings served a timber yard and the Edinburgh and Dumfriesshire Dairy.
On the old route of the Caledonian Mainline from Edinburgh Princes Street to Carstairs and Glasgow Central in the west. The line remains open as far as Slateford Yard, where it now diverts north to Haymarket and Waverley stations.
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Catalan: Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Spanish: Parque Nacional de Aiguestortes y el Lago San Mauricio) is one of the fourteen Spanish National Parks, the second in the Pyrenees and the only one in Catalonia.
A wild mountain region in the Pyrenees, with peaks rising to 3,017 m (Besiberri Sud) and with nearly 200 lakes, many of them of glacial origin, the park comprises the core area (141 km²) and a peripheral or buffer zone surrounding the park (267 km²).
The park has an elevation range from 1,600 to 3,000 metres and contains four major vegetation zones: lower montane, upper montane, subalpine and alpine. It has a great variety of alpine vegetation, including dark-coniferous mountain forest (fir, mountain pine) and subalpine pine forest.
The fauna includes Pyrenean chamois, marmot, ermine, roe deer, among other mammals and numerous birds (Black Woodpecker, Common Crossbill, Lammergeier, Golden Eagle).
The park was created in 1955 after Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, first spanish National Park in the Pyrenees in 1918. Its administrative seats are in Espot and Boí. The park is mainly located in the comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Alta Ribagorça.
(Wikipedia)
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Pyrenees in early spring are a completely magic place: empty, silent, with spring blossoms in its lower parts and still with amounts of snow covering the peaks and upper areas.
We did a nice hike from the village of Boí to the Lake Llong and back; whereas spring was already at its best in the valleys, the upper part of the path was still covered by snow, causing an unusual but lovely hiking combination.
Here the view is taken at the very beginning of our hike, in the village of Boí.
On the rear of 6G49 London Euston to Bescot Up Engineers Sidings, 66755 Tony Berkeley OBE passes the green bridge at Water Orton, next to a wagon conveying tow buffer stops.
Buffers to Bushland program planting - with volunteers from Playford Greening and Landcare and the Playford Field Archers - at the Field Archers site, Uleybury Balefill facility.
City of Playford, South Australia.
My second LEGO moc on flickr.
Inspired mainly by this By Karwik
Not quite as elegant but it was fun to build and it's fairly robust.
It just slot's onto the end of a track section.
Adorned with plants by my wife.