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The cycle path on the route of the former Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway, outside Skellingthorpe, North Kesteven, Lincolnshire.
Like most new railways of the time its purpose was the carriage of coal. The project's leading light was William Arkwright, a descendant of Richard Arkwright who had made the family's fortune by mechanising the spinning of cotton. William Arkwright had settled at Sutton Scarsdale Hall near Chesterfield and with the land came extensive deposits of coal.
The rail network in the vicinity provided by the Midland Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was still in its infancy and would not meet his requirements. In 1887 the Chesterfield and Lincoln Direct Railway was proposed independently to join with Midland lines at each end. It would cross his land but received insufficient support.
Arkwright decided to promote an independent line to provide through roads to opposite coasts of the country. In time it became known as "The East to West". It would be sufficiently large to maintain itself in the face of competition from other railways. There were several lines already approved but not carried forward which could be incorporated. 1884, gave Arkwright his route and support from the various landowners involved.
There was initially a deal of opposition from landowners and other railway companies but, in the end, the main opponent was the MS&LR because the line would bypass its own line from Sheffield to Retford and thence to London. The Great Eastern Railway turned from opponent to supporter, realising that the line could give it an entree to the Midlands coalfields.
Due to lack of investment, only the portion from Chesterfield to Lincoln was built. To have continued west of Chesterfield would have required some extremely expensive and difficult engineering works. It was an ambitious undertaking, with some extremely expensive engineering works, crossing the Peak District which had always been a major headache for railway builders.
From Lincoln the line would continue eastward over the Lincolnshire Wolds, with a junction near Stainfield as it crossed the GNR Louth to Bardney line. Proceeding well to the north of Horncastle it would cross the East Lincolnshire Railway to the southwest of Alford passing to the south. It would then join that line's loop (at that time known as the Willoughby Railway) near Thurlby turning north east to Sutton on Sea, where the North Sea port would be built. Passenger services over the line to Lincoln finished in September 1955.
Information Source:
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Direct scan of the graphic used to illustrate the back cover of the book and the Advent calender included with "The Story of Christmas," adapted by Kathryn Jackson, illustrated by Augie Napoli, 1973.
I found this book in a used bookstore in California, with the stand-alone fold out calendar. It has a Scripture-based reading for the 24 days before Christmas, and lavish illustrations. I read from this book to each of my two kids for years and years as part of our family's Advent devotions.
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37402 'Stephen Middlemore 23.12.1954 - 8.6.2013' diesel-electric locomotive at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C41 the 14:37 Barrow in Furness to Carlisle service. Class mate 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots' is on the rear of this train.
Sometimes you live dangerously as a football photographer...the ball can be seen blurred on the photo before it hit my face. As a result there was a black eye and i had to have a wound over the eye stitched in hospital emergency. My glasses and lens hood didn't survive. My eyes, my brain and my camera and lens remained unharmed. That's why you should always use a lens hood...
HIER op lijn 25 in Duffel, had de TML-charter moeten passeren !?
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Direct Rail Services class 57/3 no. 57309 'Pride of Crewe' stands at Birmingham International with Virgin Trains class 390 no. 390118 'Virgin Princess' dead in tow working 9G41 London Euston-> Wolverhampton. The Pendolino had a fault with its drivers door, usually this would necessitate the train being cancelled, but, control were a little more imaginative and this was the result. Well, if you can use a 66 and 67 on the sleeper, you can drag a Pendolino down the London-Birmingham! The working arrived into Wolverhampton 40 minutes down and ran ECS to Oxley Car M.D. as 5G41 before the snatcher returned light locomotive to Rugby as 0A60. For the return working, 1B45, 390118 was substituted with another Pendolino that arrived ECS from Liverpool Lime Street as 5B45. A great evening.
The first Class 57s were built in 1997 for Freightliner, a Class 47 bodyshellwas taken, stripped, rewired and then fitted with an EMD engine. In 2002, 12 further Class 47s were converted to 57s for Virgin Trains, these were numbered 57/3 and fitted with ETH. In 2003, four additional locos were ordered for dragging Pendolinos, these were fitted with Dellnercouplings from new and the remainder of the fleet was retrofitted with Dellnersin the same year. DRS now operate the majority of the class 57/0 and 57/3. First Great Western operate the Class 57/6 fleet and West Coast Railways operate a fleet of 57/0, 57/3 and 57/6.
Staircase to a clothes shop which name I forgot. Not my kind of fashion, but they do have neat staircases. the other is strikingly yellow, but I don't like the pictures I make of it so much. Another day.
Laowa 7.5mm f/2 probably @ f/2.8
Thank you everyone for your visits, faves and comments, they are always appreciated :)
Well, I woke up at about 4:00am and could not sleep anymore so I jumped in the Accent and off I went to the Forks of the Credit to watch the sunrise. It was warm and very quiet as no one bothers to get up that early. Unfortunately, i felt a bit sick as the roads were too curvy for my stomach to handle so that cut my trip down a bit.
Which of the three photos shown (one above and two below) do you think is best?
First one is like "okay eyes wide open into the rays of the sun"
Second one is like "okay eyes hurt now so i will look down"
Third one is like "i should not have stared directly at the sun"
Like i said in my previously uploaded photo, I hope everyone has a great Sunday and a great week!
Direct Rail Services Class 37/4 37423 'Spirit of the Lakes' diesel-electric locomotive at Nethertown on the Cumbrian coast railway line with Northern's 2C33 the 05:46 Barrow-in-Furness to Carlisle passenger service. Class mate 37409 'Lord Hinton' is on the rear of this train.
Direct Rail Services Class 66, 66434 leads 6X41 00:29 Dagenham Dock Reception to Garston Car Terminal through Hartford on miserable autumn Saturday morning.
MPD motorcop directing traffic on 14th Street, NW in advance of a May Day protest march proceeding from Meridian Hill Park to the White House.
Washington, DC / May 1, 2014
Direct Rail Services 57308 passes Acton Main Line working a London Euston - South Ruislip train. Presumably route learning?
My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 Scotland.
Day fourteen .. making our way to Inverness, where we are staying the night.
Glenfinnan is a hamlet in Lochaber area of the Highlands of Scotland. In 1745 the Jacobite rising began here when Prince Charles Edward Stuart raised his standard on the shores of Loch Shiel. Seventy years later, the 18 m Glenfinnan Monument, at the head of the loch, was erected to commemorate the historic event.
Glenfinnan lies about halfway between Fort William and Mallaig on the picturesque West Highland Railway. Along with a regular rail service by Abellio ScotRail, the line is used by the Jacobite steam train. A small, privately-owned railway museum operates at the station, utilising the former booking office, the disused signalbox and some stored coaches.
Sir Robert McAlpine had the Glenfinnan Viaduct constructed between 1897 and 1898. The structure, which is built entirely out of concrete, has 21 arches with spans of 15 m (49 ft) and reaches a height of 30 m (100 ft) above the valley. To commemorate the viaduct's centenary in 1997, a plaque was unveiled at the base of one of its arches.
The landscape in which the viaduct is located has made it popular with film producers. In 1969, it was used in Ring of Bright Water, starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna. It has since come to prominence in the cinematic releases of the Harry Potter series. The Hogwarts Express, is filmed crossing the viaduct in several of the films beginning with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002. The train filmed is the Jacobite Steam-Locomotive Train, a tourist train.
Framed by spectacular Highland scenery at the head of Loch Shiel, the Glenfinnan Monument is a striking tribute to those who fought in the Jacobite Risings.
Less than a year before the Battle of Culloden, Prince Charles Edward Stuart raised his father’s Standard at Glenfinnan, marking the start of the 1745 Jacobite campaign. An army of 1,500 rallied to join Bonnie Prince Charlie – they marched as far south as Derby before the retreat began that would seal their fate.
In 1815, the 18m-high monument was built here, with the lone, kilted Highlander at the top providing a poignant reminder of the clansmen who gave their lives to the Jacobite cause.
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenfinnan
De intercity direct neemt nog een sprint voordat ie met 160 km/h de Moerdijkbrug opgaat
The intercity direct takes another sprint before it goes up to 160 km/h on the Moerdijk bridge
La Ópera Estatal de Viena (en alemán: Wiener Staatsoper), ubicada en Viena, Austria, es una de las más importantes compañÃas de ópera mundiales. Hasta 1920 se llamó Teatro de la Ópera de la Corte Imperial y Real de Viena (k.k. Hof-Operntheater). Es el centro neurálgico de la vida musical vienesa y uno de los polos de atracción del mundo musical.
El teatro original de la Ópera Estatal (conocido entonces como K. (Kaiserliches) k. (königliches) Hof-Operntheater, Teatro de la Ópera de la Corte Imperial y Real), un edificio neorrenacentista muy criticado por los vieneses cuando se construyó entre 1861 y 1869, según un proyecto de los arquitectos vieneses Eduard van der Nüll y August Sicard von Sicardsburg. Ambos arquitectos fallecieron antes de ver terminado el edificio (van der Nüll se suicidó y su compañero Sicardsburg murió poco después de un ataque al corazón). En la decoración interior participaron otros renombrados artistas, particularmente el pintor Moritz von Schwind, que pintó los famosos frescos del foyer y la terraza. El teatro fue inaugurado el 25 de mayo de 1869 con la ópera de Mozart Don Giovanni.
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el edificio fue bombardeado por la aviación el 12 de marzo de 1945 y posteriormente un incendio destruyó totalmente el escenario y la sala de espectadores. Casi todo el decorado para más de 120 óperas con cerca de 150 000 trajes resultaron destruidos. Sólo se salvaron la fachada principal, la gran escalinata y el vestÃbulo con los frescos de Schwind. La Ópera Estatal se albergó temporalmente en el Theater an der Wien y en la Volksoper.
Justo después del final de la guerra, en mayo de 1945, se anunció que los trabajos de reconstrucción se iniciarÃan inmediatamente. El proyecto contemplaba la reconstrucción de la sala con un diseño similar al original, pero con decoración más acorde con las tendencias de diseño de la época, si bien se mantuvieron los colores tradicionales, rojo, oro y marfil. Toda la sala se recubrió en madera, con el fin de recuperar la brillante acústica original. Se redujo el número de asientos del patio de butacas y se reestructuró el cuarto piso para eliminar las columnas, que reducÃan la visibilidad. La fachada, el vestÃbulo y el foyer de Schwind se restauraron en su estilo original.
El teatro reconstruido, con 2284 plazas (en lugar de las 2881 originales), se reabrió el 5 de noviembre de 1955, poco después de la firma del tratado que restableció a Austria como Estado independiente, con la representación de la ópera de Beethoven Fidelio dirigida por Karl Böhm.
Actualmente, la Staatsoper de Viena es uno de los teatros de ópera más importantes y de mayor prestigio y tradición del mundo. La programación sigue el sistema de "repertorio", en el que la compañÃa residente, apoyada por los más importantes cantantes de ópera del mundo, representa un cierto número de obras del repertorio de la compañÃa, que se van rotando o alternando durante toda una temporada, en la que se pueden alcanzar las 300 representaciones, entre ópera, ballet y ópera infantil, desde principios de septiembre hasta finales de junio.1 En una misma temporada se pueden alternar alrededor de 53 tÃtulos de ópera y 9 de ballet, de los cuales alrededor de ocho serán estrenos de nuevas producciones.
Desde 2010, la Ópera Estatal de Viena ha sido pionera en la transmisión en directo de sus espectáculos a través de internet. Mediante un sistema de vÃdeo bajo demanda y por subscripción, el teatro ofrece hasta 45 espectáculos (ópera y ballet) por temporada, a través de navegadores de internet, o diferentes aplicaciones para dispositivos de reproducción.
En mayo de 2019, la Staatsoper celebró el 150 aniversario del edificio de la Ringstrasse, con una serie de actos y exposiciones conmemorativas en el edificio, que culminaron con el estreno de una nueva producción de Die Frau ohne Schatten el 25 de mayo, y con un gran concierto al aire libre, en el exterior del teatro, el dÃa 26.
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The Vienna State Opera (German: Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, and designs by Josef Hlávka. The opera house was inaugurated as the "Vienna Court Opera" (Wiener Hofoper) in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It became known by its current name after the establishment of the First Austrian Republic in 1921.
The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from the Vienna State Opera's orchestra. The building is also the home of the Vienna State Ballet, and it hosts the annual Vienna Opera Ball during the carnival season.
The Vienna State Opera is closely linked to the Vienna Philharmonic, which is an incorporated society of its own, but whose members are recruited from the orchestra of the Vienna State Opera.
The Wiener Staatsoper is one of the busiest opera houses in the world producing 50 to 60 operas in a repertory system per year and ten ballet productions in more than 350 performances. It is quite common to find a different opera being produced each day of a week. The Staatsoper employs over 1000 people. As of 2008, the annual operating budget of the Staatsoper was 100 million euros with slightly more than 50% as a state subsidy.
I have always liked cameras with direct vision viewfinders. I do use SLRs too particularly for close up photography and their versatility.
Since I was young I was fascinated by the viewfinder on our family camera, a boots Instamatic which took 126 film. I like a clear bright viewfinder and an uninterrupted view when the exposure is being made.
These cameras use range finders, autofocus or distance estimation. My prefference is either rangefinder or single point AF where I can identify the point of focus and hold the focus until the exposure is made.
Befoer this photograph was made I had just finished a roll of Portra 160 in the Super Isolette, the last frame being a portrait of my son at St Albans Abbey.
Most of these cameras are Olympus, my favourite camera maker. I have OM SLRs too. Any Olympus camera from the Maitani years I find a delight to use and I can rely on it havong a good lens. I Prefer the MJU-1 over the MJU-II, MJU-1 is so smooth and ealy to use, just lift it to my eye and make a photograph.
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Introducing my studded reflectors! They are just the thing you need to complete your look.
Defined thin rims, with sexy studds cornering the frames.
They will be featured with both silver and gold metallic stud options.
I've moved my brand opening for tomorrow along with the NYC's campus crawl event.
Here is MY hunt item! - www.flickr.com/photos/censoredphotography/9632057394/
Read about the EVENT!- www.newyorkcitysl.com/events/campus-crawl-hunt/
(18 mm, 20 secs, f/22, ISO 200, White balance: Direct Sunlight, 0.0, RAW)
This is taken during the outing with Dashuki, Seme, Nik Fahmi, Hilmy, Wan Husmie, Rizal, Faim, Kymioflario, and Bazuki (Reuters) in Putrajaya on Feb 9th, 2009.
Just when I thought I had had enough intimidation with the show of force on their colossal machines and all the rage photography gadgetry, the intimidation seems to prolong with the images produced.
It virtually has given me trembling knees to put this image up in the showcase as it has been an awestruck seeing what Dashuki here and Hilmy here had magically done with their shots – simply jaw-dropping. We were on the same mission with the same scenery to seize, at almost the same time of capture, and yet worlds of difference as far as results are concerned. Go check Kymioflario’s too here and Seme's, here
No, that’s not true, I am not intimidated. Am actually more than happy with what I got knowing what my machine is capable of doing (….another way of concealing my lack of skills).
The thing that I remember most about this capture is when we had to leave Bazuki all by himself in the dark of the night waiting for the moon to eclipse while it was time for the rest of us to depart.
unscientific comparision of paper negatives, left Harman Direct Positive Paper - right Imago Direct Positive Paper RC
Both images are metered on a gray card with a spotmeter, for Harman i assumed an ISO of 1.5, Imago is around ISO 12 for me.
Personally, i prefer the RC of the Imago, but i'm having big difficulties getting real blacks. Tried diffferent developers (Adonal, Neutol and Rodinal 1:25) and extended dev time a significant amount, but still no real black.
Please share your experiences with Imago and Harman :)
Morning direct sunlight partially silhouettes and rim-lights the people waiting for the train. Long shadows are cast across the frame from the low angle of the light source. The primary light source has a strong colour cast which makes the image almost monochromatic. Light flares are visible from the sun and its reflection on the train track. A train travels into the distance in the background.