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Dutch liveried Class 37 pairing of 37254 + 37175 head through Powderham, on a bright sunny day with an unidentified freight working.
With the Class 50 fleet well in decline, it was a feature of 1990 to see a number of these locomotives used on departmental work on the Western Region. A rather grubby 50008 'Thunderer' trundles along the single line section from Okehampton to Crediton with a train of loaded ballast, the 7C53 09:05 Meldon Quarry to Exeter Riverside Yard.
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The Calder and Hebble Navigation, a canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield. The aim of the Calder and Hebble Navigation was to extend navigation west (upstream) from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge near Halifax.
Construction started in 1759, with Smeaton acting as engineer. By 1764, the navigation was open as far as Brighouse, some 16 miles (26 km) from Wakefield. Having borrowed £56,000, factions arose within the Commissioners, with some wanting to stop at Brooksmouth, where the Rivers Hebble and Calder meet, and others wanting to raise more money and complete the scheme. The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.
The Commissioners felt unable to borrow more money, and so a second Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 April 1769, which formally created the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. This consisted of all the 81 people who had loaned money to the original scheme, and these loans were converted into £100 shares. Additional shares could be issued, and the Company could borrow up to £20,000, with the future tolls used as security.
The Navigation prospered, with dividends rising steadily from 5 per cent in 1771 to 13 per cent in 1792. Under the terms of the Act of Parliament, tolls were reduced when the dividend exceeded 10 per cent, and the first such reduction occurred in 1791.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841. It followed the line of the canal and that of the Rochdale Canal. A year later, with canal shares having lost 66 per cent of their value, the canal company approached the railway, who agreed to lease the canal for £40,000 per year for 14 years, commencing on 25 March 1843.
The Aire and Calder Navigation objected to the lease, and in 1847, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General ruled that it was illegal and must cease. Soon afterwards, the Aire and Calder offered to lease the canal itself, and the agreement started in September. After the Aire and Calder's lease expired in 1885, the Navigation Company again took charge, rebuilt many of the bridges, and established the Calder Carrying Company. Shareholders continued to receive dividends until the canal was nationalized in 1948, and the canal was used by commercial traffic until 1981.
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A Saturday morning in early June 1990 and BR 47364 was seen on the Down Relief near Cholsey heading towards Didcot with an civil engineers' train of ballast.
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6W10, the early running 0531 Bescot Up Engineer's Sidings - Shrewsbury led by EWS liveried 66 186, passes the site of the former New Hadley Halt, Telford shortly before 6am on Saturday 25th June 2016.
31459 is photographed in charge of 6M21 a Civil Engineers working between Toton and Castleton.
Canon EOS 1DS
80/200mm/F2.8
250/F11
Fuji Provia 100F
7 minutes after 1Q55 had passed, Colas Rail's 70 802 runs through Telford Central on civil engineers 6D37, the 1200 Abbotswood Junction - Bescot Engineering Sidings on Friday November 4th 2016.
66087 is in charge of the morning infrastructure 6O26 Hinksey - Eastleigh working as it passes through Moreton Cutting
Load Hall 56085 passes under Calder Road and behind the disused station at Ravensthorpe on route to Healey Mills with a Civil Engineers working.
Contax 645
150mm/F4
250/F6.7
Fuji Provia 100F
A C-17 Globemaster III takes off into the mountains at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Oct. 23, 2014. Since 2006, the annual airfield traffic count has increased from 143,705 to 333,610 as support for Operation Enduring Freedom nears its end. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Evelyn Chavez/Released)
EWS 60053 eases through Llandudno Junction with the loaded ballast boxes forming the 6P22 11:00 Penmaenmawr Quarry to Crewe Basford Hall CE [Civil Engineer's] Ballast Terminal.
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Recorded passing Lea Marston in May 1989, BR 20051 & 20055 had an assortment of Departmental wagons in the consist of the 8D15 13:10 Bescot to Toton.
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The Calder and Hebble Navigation, a canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield. The aim of the Calder and Hebble Navigation was to extend navigation west (upstream) from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge near Halifax.
Construction started in 1759, with Smeaton acting as engineer. By 1764, the navigation was open as far as Brighouse, some 16 miles (26 km) from Wakefield. Having borrowed £56,000, factions arose within the Commissioners, with some wanting to stop at Brooksmouth, where the Rivers Hebble and Calder meet, and others wanting to raise more money and complete the scheme. The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.
The Commissioners felt unable to borrow more money, and so a second Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 April 1769, which formally created the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. This consisted of all the 81 people who had loaned money to the original scheme, and these loans were converted into £100 shares. Additional shares could be issued, and the Company could borrow up to £20,000, with the future tolls used as security.
The Navigation prospered, with dividends rising steadily from 5 per cent in 1771 to 13 per cent in 1792. Under the terms of the Act of Parliament, tolls were reduced when the dividend exceeded 10 per cent, and the first such reduction occurred in 1791.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841. It followed the line of the canal and that of the Rochdale Canal. A year later, with canal shares having lost 66 per cent of their value, the canal company approached the railway, who agreed to lease the canal for £40,000 per year for 14 years, commencing on 25 March 1843.
The Aire and Calder Navigation objected to the lease, and in 1847, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General ruled that it was illegal and must cease. Soon afterwards, the Aire and Calder offered to lease the canal itself, and the agreement started in September. After the Aire and Calder's lease expired in 1885, the Navigation Company again took charge, rebuilt many of the bridges, and established the Calder Carrying Company. Shareholders continued to receive dividends until the canal was nationalized in 1948, and the canal was used by commercial traffic until 1981.
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The problem with the 'Information Super-highway' is you can spend years thinking you made a great move on a certain day only to have your ego shattered by the collective input of a milllion cranks. I just went on the Class 37 Group's most excellent 'Fleet History' section to check the headcode & find out that on the same day 37040 worked the 1526 Edinburgh-Liverpool between Carstairs & Preston, hmmm-Beattock & Shap was still required track for me back then-I'm finished.
But I digress; a resplendent pair of Darlington built, Dutch liveried 37s top the additional 0947 Leeds-Carlisle 'Crankex' with 47479 along for train heat on a fine but crisp Saturday morning running in the path of the dated 0946 starting in April 1992. The 1318 return over the S&C was entrusted to the capable hands of 37049+37095.
Recorded at Standish Junction in October 1989, BR Civil Engineers 37141 was working the WO 8B26 15:02 Brstol Engineers to Gloucester Departmental.
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Civil Link 'Dutch' liveried Class 47/3 47315 ambles along the Down Relief line at Acton with a Civil Engineer's equipment working.
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Type 2's in multi on Mermaids - does it get more 1980's?!
The class 25's depart the posession, bound for Bescot
3.5.2021.
In pouring rain, GBRf liveried Class 66 No's 66714 'Cromer Lifeboat' and 66764 approach Retford with 6G62, the 11.07 Belle Isle - Doncaster Belmont Down Yard Civil Engineers working.
Stabled at the southern end of Warrington Bank Quay station sporting its new replacement cab following collision damage on Arpley yard the previous year.
In 'Coal Sector' markings, No 31217 partners 'Civil Engineers' livery class mate No 31306 pass Huyton Quarry with a Penmaenmawr - Tuebrook Sidings 'Ballast' train. The foreground area was two sidings and also the link to the Willis Brancg to Cronton Colliery. The r/h background trees hide the old station masters house to the closed station. This line is now electrified and where I am standing is a small housing estate! 11th May 1993. (DE080
Copyright: Doug Birmingham (8A Rail) )
The George Washington Bridge (known informally as the GW Bridge, the GWB, the GW, or the George) is a suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting the Washington Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City to Fort Lee in New Jersey. Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1/9 cross the river via the bridge. U.S. Route 46, which is entirely in New Jersey, ends halfway across the bridge at the state border.
The long abandoned ZCV 'Tope' engineers wagon No.970159 has been part of the furniture at Ince Moss Junction for many years now. Since electrification of the route between Springs Branch and Huyton the siding it rests on has been completely severed leaving just the short section of track under the wagon and the Ince Moss engineers tip sidings are also long since closed and abandoned although many of the sidings are still clinging on among the bushes.
The wagon wears the "Dutch" livery of British Rail civil engineers and is believed to be the last intact TOPE wagon.
The Highland Line, in September 1997.
New to Landore depot in June 1963,
37153, wearing a faded BR Civil Engineers 'Dutch' livery with 'Transrail' branding and then owned by EWS, departs Blair Atholl with a diverted Inverness to Mossend 'Enterprise' mixed freight on 10.09.1997, a good two years before withdrawl from Bescot in December 1999.
This has to be one of the strangest workings that I have ever photographed. 60046 "William Wilberforce" is seen in charge of 6D66, Immingham Reception Sidings to Doncaster Belmont Yard. The 4 56's in tow are Loadhaul 56118, CE liveried 56031, Loadhaul 56110 and Loadhaul 56090. To left of the train are the quarries and works of Birch Chemicals. The company was founded in 1815 by William Singleton Birch and today is a world renowned supplier of calcium hydrated lime powder. William's Grandson Lionel Martin Singleton became a Director of the company in 1915 and used part of his income to found the Aston Martin car company.
Civil Link liveried Class 37/0 37254 had a good load of Machen Quarry ballast in tow when recorded at Ebbw Junction, Newport. The train had just come off the chord from Park Junction and was crossing the main lines to access the Down Relief line from where it would set back into Alexandra Dock Junction Yard, visible on the right of the frame.
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Bescots' ETH fitted Dutch liveried 31468 propelling Rudd and Clam ballast wagons on a Sunday morning.
Taken with my camera phone.
During a brief stop-over at Wigan Wallgate station, Class 37/0 37117 appeared with an engineers' train comprising ZHV spoil wagons and [out of view] YCV turbots loaded with ballast. The Eastfield based locomotive carried the then revised blue livery with large number and full height BR logo complete with a West Highland Terrier.
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On the final day of the diesel gala at the Severn Valley Railway, after a trip on the rear of a train to Bridgnorth, Class 33 loco 33108 takes the lead of a train south to Kidderminster. After previously sporting BR Blue livery, the loco approaches Barbel Alley crossing north of Hampton Loade now in Civil Engineers 'Dutch' livery, complete with the yellow stripe.
On a glorious Good Friday morning Freightliner 66 520 passes Ketley,
Telford, hauling civil engineer's 6Y92, the 0646 Crewe Basford Hall - Stafford Doxey Junction on March 25th 2016.
A productive day out in North Wales back in May 1988 included this frame of BR large logo 47456 at Llandudno Junction on civil engineers duty hauling the 7D03 09:44 Tuebrook CCE Sidings, Liverpool to Penmaenmawr, a train of ZDV 'Catfish' ballast hoppers for loading.
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Direct Rail Services 66424 "Driver Paul Scrivens" and Freightliner 66559 pass through Settle Junction with a couple of empty JNA Bogie Ballast Wagons on a Network Rail CE working out of Carlisle.
Two Air Force Lieutenant entering a smokehouse as part of Officer Field Education at Tyndall AFB. This training serves to familiarize Civil Engineering officers with the various activities their enlisted Airmen perform.
*I was really glad that the challenge this week was people...I had a lot of opportunities this past week to take pictures of those :D
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37408 "Loch Rannoch" passes through Mirfield with a Civil Engineers train returning to Healey Mills. The loco was built in June 1965 and originally numbered D6989. Based in Glasgow for much of its life it bears the West Highland Terrier logo of Eastfield TMD.
Nikon 801
35/70mm/F2.8
250/F8
Agfachrome 200RS
An evening Civil Engineer's service from Radyr to Gloucester Yard (8B01) approaches Newport in the care of Class 37/3 37372.
Delivered from Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn Ltd., Darlington in June 1963, D6859 was allocated to Cardiff Canton. Under TOPS re-numbering it became 37159 in 1973 by which time it had spent six years in Scotland. It was re-numbered again in June 1988 by which time it was back working in South Wales. It was withdrawn after over 41 years in service and purchased by the Baby Deltic Project for re-building at Barrow Hill as a Class 23.
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Freightliner 66 622 leads another Stafford bound civil engineers passed Wombridge, Telford, on the evening of Good Friday March 25th 2016. This one, the 1644 from Crewe Basford Hall, 6Y93, was taking ballast & new concrete sleepers to Doxey Junction for the works taking place at Norton Bridge during Easter.
6W10, the early running 0531 Bescot Up Engineer's Sidings - Shrewsbury led by EWS liveried 66 186, passes the site of the former New Hadley Halt, Telford shortly before 6am on Saturday 25th June 2016.
The Packard Motor Car Company plant in Detroit on West Grand Boulevard was constructed in 1903. The Packard company was purchased by a group of Detroit entrepreneurs and moved from Warren, Ohio, to this new plant in September 1903.
The factory was designed by Kahn and Kahn, Architects and Engineers, the two Kahns being Albert and his brother Julius, a civil engineer. Kahn and Kahn was the first architecture firm in Detroit--and one of the first in the nation--to offer both architecture and engineering services. Albert Kahn realized at the time that increasingly complex manufacturing facilities would likely be designed by engineers rather than architects and he reoriented his practice to meet that need.
This photo shows the original 1903 Packard plant just as it was being completed. These buildings were standard brick and timber construction (mill construction) designed to minimize construction costs and reduce fire insurance expenses. Construction of the factory was completed within just 90 days.
In 1905, Packard decided to have a reinforced concrete factory building constructed (known as building number 10). It was the second reinforced concrete automobile factory, following the Cadillac Motor Car Company building at 450 Amsterdam in Detroit. Packard was pleased with the new building and subsequently had all buildings constructed of concrete; by 1917 the buildings seen here had been replaced by concrete structures.
The original photograph is at the National Automotive History Collection, Skillman Branch of the Detroit Public Library. It was colorized in Photoshop.
For more information see the Albert Kahn Legacy Foundation website at AlbertKahnLegacy.org. For more information on Packard building number 10 see "The First Concrete Auto Factory: An Error in the Historical Record" by Michael G Smith at doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2019.78.4.442.
Departmental loco 97 405, formerly 40 060, pauses at Chester with a civil
engineers on Saturday 17th May 1986.
Built by English Electric, it entered service as D260 in February 1960 & was originally withdrawn in January 1985. It was then reinstated in April '85 as one of four class 40's used on engineering trains during remodeling work at Crewe, before being withdrawn a second time in March 1987. It was finally scrapped at Vic Berry's in March 1988, the only one of the four not to survive into preservation.
Sunday infrastructure work was being undertaken nearby when I visited Ystrad Mynach in mid-February 1994. Canton based South Wales & West Infrastructure Class 37/0 37263 was spotted stabled at the station.
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A brace of 37s at King's Lynn on Network Gala Day having earlier worked the 1440 ex Cambridge. The previous years final train had been worked by three 37s so the plan this year to to better that by making it four, this pair plus 031+252 which followed us from Cambridge. Unfortunately the booked riot ensued, quoted variously as shunter error or the station supervisor simply not being able to cope. Whatever the real reason, a fantastic opportunity was lost that day & we returned rather disappointingly with 2x37+2x31. 37245 proved to be the last original Monastral Blue 37 I had.
Civil Engineers Class 47/3 47308 had charge of a rake of empty ballast hoppers (probably from Bescot Yard) when recorded heading north at Lea Marston.
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Civil Engineer Western allocated Class 37/0 37038 drops down from Gaer Tunnel and was about to cross to the Up Relief at Gaer Junction with an assortment of loaded ballast wagons forming the 7B61 SX 08:00 Machen Quarry to East Usk Yard Departmental working.
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The Calder and Hebble Navigation, a canal in Halifax, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
By the beginning of the 18th century, the Aire and Calder Navigation had made the River Calder navigable as far upstream as Wakefield. The aim of the Calder and Hebble Navigation was to extend navigation west (upstream) from Wakefield to Sowerby Bridge near Halifax.
Construction started in 1759, with Smeaton acting as engineer. By 1764, the navigation was open as far as Brighouse, some 16 miles (26 km) from Wakefield. Having borrowed £56,000, factions arose within the Commissioners, with some wanting to stop at Brooksmouth, where the Rivers Hebble and Calder meet, and others wanting to raise more money and complete the scheme. The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.
The Commissioners felt unable to borrow more money, and so a second Act of Parliament was obtained on 21 April 1769, which formally created the Company of Proprietors of the Calder and Hebble Navigation. This consisted of all the 81 people who had loaned money to the original scheme, and these loans were converted into £100 shares. Additional shares could be issued, and the Company could borrow up to £20,000, with the future tolls used as security.
The Navigation prospered, with dividends rising steadily from 5 per cent in 1771 to 13 per cent in 1792. Under the terms of the Act of Parliament, tolls were reduced when the dividend exceeded 10 per cent, and the first such reduction occurred in 1791.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841. It followed the line of the canal and that of the Rochdale Canal. A year later, with canal shares having lost 66 per cent of their value, the canal company approached the railway, who agreed to lease the canal for £40,000 per year for 14 years, commencing on 25 March 1843.
The Aire and Calder Navigation objected to the lease, and in 1847, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General ruled that it was illegal and must cease. Soon afterwards, the Aire and Calder offered to lease the canal itself, and the agreement started in September. After the Aire and Calder's lease expired in 1885, the Navigation Company again took charge, rebuilt many of the bridges, and established the Calder Carrying Company. Shareholders continued to receive dividends until the canal was nationalized in 1948, and the canal was used by commercial traffic until 1981.
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