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Battle of Britain 34067 'Tangmere' with Northern Belle 'S&C Steam Special' 1Z70 York - Carlisle passing over Docker viaduct, Saturday 2/4/22.
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After lunch the sun came out and the mood at the shipyard brightened, colours and scenes once again dominated this magnificent location.
Standing alongside the Salisbury Dock in Liverpool the "Victoria Tower" built aid ships in dock along the River Mersey
20227 & 20188 departing from Gloucester with the "Sharpness Docker" railtour on 17th September 1989. This was one of a series of short shuttle railtours that were operated in conjunction with the Horton Road open day.
New Year and a new freight operator on the China Clay, as GBRf take over. 92032 glides effortlessly towards the Lune gorge at Docker with the first working on the 6S94 2-03 Dollands Moor - Irvine Caledonian paper Mill on Wed 4th Jan 2017 @ 11-05
I have to admit being a tad disappointed that the Large Logo tractor wasn't leading but never mind the weather made up for that. 37521(D6817)+37409 sounding brilliant at Docker this morning with 5Z84 08.28 Crewe HS - Carlisle Upperby C.E. Sdgs. Thursday 30 November 2023.
50050 tnt 45118 powering the The North Western Wanderer (Inter-City)1Z45 0802 Crewe to Carlisle, over Docker Viaduct. 10th August 2024.
Even units aren't bad in these conditions, 185139 races south at Docker with 1M96 11.09 Glasgow C - Manchester Airport, Saturday 2 February 2019.
It is hammered and sanded, patched and repainted in bright colors at the shipyard in DHAKA. Hard work, for photographers a perfect location!
Back to full health after work at Carnforth, West Country Pacific 34067 'Tangmere' makes a splendid sight romping through the North Lancashire countryside on a test run round the Carnforth - Hellifield - Preston - Carnforth circle. The line here turns through 90 degrees before dropping down to Wennington having passed over Arkholme viaduct and through Melling tunnel.
Still remarkably 60 foot jointed Bullhead rail here and great to hear the Mk1's singing as she passed through at speed.
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A change of motive power for the Great Britain XII excursion on day 4 as it headed north from Preston to Edinburgh. 60009 Union of South Africa and Black Five 44871 are seen crossing Docker Viaduct from my perch up on Lambrigg Fell.
In lovely light, 45690 'Leander' passes the gallery at Docker heading up Grayrigg bank. This was 'The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express', 21/01/17
Caribbean Governor's Residence
The Governor of Port Brickale's house - with wharf and a small pier.
The governor and his assistant are working on some documents on the terrace. Governor's wife is having a tea with her friend officer in the gazebo at the back.
Meanwhile, Captain Roger and his monkey are coming to save their captured parrot.
In addition, ordinary life goes on - a gardener looks after the lawn, an applicant is going to visit the governor and dockers are transporting stuff.
With the Lakeland Fells in the background we see the daily Freighliner operated Intermodal head north in Cumbria. Grey liveried 90044 leads 90047 on 4S44, 1213 Daventry - Coatbridge fully loaded Intermodal , on the 5th September 2018. It is seen at Docker at 1551 caught in late afternoon sunshine.
Docker's Rest, by Terry Bradley and Friz. Located at Hickson’s Point in Titanic Quarter
A painting to represent the strong ties that the men of Belfast’s Harland & Wolff shipyard built between each other as they walked and drank together around Belfast’s shipyard and the terraced streets that surrounded it.
The port of Belfast was the major port of Ireland in its day, an important stopping off place for sailors from across the world. The men worked hard and played hard. This piece was commissioned by Titanic Belfast to be reproduced outside their on-site bar and restaurant ‘Hicksons Point’ as a large wall mural and recreated by well known local muralist Friz.
Still in mint EWS livery 90029 "The Institution of Civil Engineers" rolls through Docker at pace whilst in charge of 1Z70 Carstairs-London Euston. This was the return of UK Railtours four day tour of Scotland.
It would be nice to see this loco return back into DB livery one day!
Dockers pulpit, Wapping, 1981
29g-31:,street, shelter, viewpoint, Tower Hamlets,
I asked one of the old men who sat in the park looking out across the river about this structure; he was a former docker ande told me it was the "docker's pulpit" where union leaders addressed large crowds of workers.
The park, Waterside Gardens, is still there, off Wapping High St opposite Reardon Path, but this structure is long gone, probably demolished when the gardens were enlarged around 1989. There is now just a small decorative gazebo which might provide a little shelter from rain.
The building behind has been replaced by an uglier modern building which goes right to the edge of Reardon Path (in the 1890s Red Lion St), while the derelict range further down the path was converted in 2018 into Red Lion Court, 'Luxury Warehouse Apartments and Penthouses'. Further down the street, Willoughby House, the first of a number of council blocks built by the LCC with the Commercial Gas Company as a part of their 1926 Wapping Housing Estate slum clearance scheme.
The gas company as well as laying pipes and installing meters, also fitted 824 cookers, 138 heaters, 324 brackets and a number of gas coppers. The brackets were presumably for gas lighting and the coppers to boil your washing. We had one in the kitchen at home when I was a boy, along with a mangle outside and a washing line down the garden path. The Wapping flats had "excellent facilities for drying the household washing", lines outside in tar-paved couartyards, and there were also "a number of flower beds, interspersed with patches of green turf".
Willoughby House was one of 12 blocks containing altogether 824 flats. Each block was named after a famous explorer who sailed from the area. According to material from Tower Hamlets Local History Archive put on-line by Harry Mernick originally published in 1932 in "The Copartnership Herald:
'Sir Hugh Willoughby was appointed captain of a fleet of three ships, which set out in 1553, with the object of discovering a north-eastern passage to Cathay and India. Two of the three ships reached the coast of Lapland, where it was proposed to winter. Soon after January, 1554, Willoughby and his companions died of starvation, and a few years later their remains were found, together with Willoughby's Journal, which is printed in the first volume of Richard Hakluyt's famous Principal Navigations.'
One of my favourites from holiday, due to the ever changing light on this evening. With the Howgills in both sunshine and dark shade, the southbound 'Tesco' passes Docker. 68018 leads 68021 with the Sunday 4M48, Mossend - Daventry. Formed of a uniform rake of containers it is seen at 1751 on the 4th September 2016
“That looks like an interesting day trip, lets do that next weekend”
The Liverpool Overhead Railway ( known locally as the Dockers' Umbrella ) was an overhead railway which carried passengers from one end of Liverpool Docks to the other. It opened in 1893. The railway had a number of world firsts: it was the first elevated railway to use electric power, the first to use automatic signalling and was home to one of the first passenger escalators in a railway station.
At its peak almost 20 million people used the railway every year. In its later years it was promoted as a tourist attraction, “See giant ocean liners and 13 miles of the finest docks in the world”
In 1955, a report into the structure of the many viaducts showed major repairs were needed that the company could not afford. The railway closed at the end of 1956
( thanks to Jeff Wharton for re enactor photo, geheugen.delpher.nl for background photo and Bing for poster artwork )
I couldn't resist putting another shot of the 'Tesco' from Docker ( I seem to put this shot up after every time I have been on holiday in Tebay ! )
In morning sunshine 66's, 66305+66426, power up Grayrigg with 4S43, the Tesco train from Daventry - Mossend, on the 4th September 2015 at 0952
Docker Viaduct - with a touch of pole.
Avanti West Coast "Pendolino" 390130 rolls over Docker Viaduct with the 08.38 Glasgow Central - Euston.
Taken with a pole.
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It's all getting a little too uncertain with cloud as TransPennine Express "Nova 2" set 397004 heads south at Docker with the 08.12 Edinburgh - Manchester Airport.
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Painters and Dockers headlined a coomunity music festival in Yarraville today to help celebrate Australia Day
West Coast Railways Class 47 47832 passes Docker Park on the Little North Western on 5z57 0629 York Holgate Sidings - Carnforth WCRC Depot Empty Stock Move on 31/03/2025
66431 crosses Docker Viaduct with the daily 4S44, Daventry - Coatbridge Intermodal. Seen on the 19th May 2015 at 1556. This train will be looped at Tebay, giving me enough time to get north of Tebay to get another shot.
Docker Viaduct, crossed on 20 December 2007 by GBRf mail 1M40, formed by class 325 EMUs but hauled by 87022.
With a fresh dusting of early spring snow covering the Howgate Fells, 68021 is seen passing Docker on 23.03.17, while working the 6K05 11.03 Carlisle Yard - Crewe engineers trip working. Having a missed a class 68 on this train in similar conditions last year thanks to it running very early, it was pleasing to finally get the shot this time around. Just a pity that normal service was soon resumed with 37025 on the S&C test train later in the day!