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Monochrome version of a shot of a docked boat, at the Renton Landing Southport dock. The owners had popped across the lake from Seattle for dinner at the Hyatt Regency.
At 1338hrs on Thursday 30 January 2025, DB Cargo loco no. 66656 departs Portbury Dock in Bristol at the head of 6Z53, the late running Portbury Automotive Terminal (1243hrs) to Margam loaded steel working. The backdrop is the M5 Avonmouth Bridge. A rare sunny day day hereabouts this month.
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Set number P466 which comprised 51308-59475-51323 is seen passing Teignmouth docks on 2nd October 1983 with the 1740 Exeter to Paignton.
The railings are still in situ where the branch used to enter the docks.
This was a class 118/2 set powered by two leyland 6 cyl 150 hp engines under each power car.
I recently dug this one out of my archive and cleaned it up. hope it is passable.
An hours photography down at Clarence Dock or Leeds Dock as its now known. Looking for shapes, shadows and any thing else that took my fancy through the camera
Istanbul, Turkey
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Very active today in the warmth, although this one sat happily whilst I took a photo!
Upton Magna - Shropshire
The dock was opened in 1852. It was named after the road it runs alongside and which also gave its name to the Wapping Tunnel.
Liverpool
I had a hard time getting this shot to look the way I wanted it to. Composing was a struggle because there was another dock out of frame on the bottom and there really wasn't anywhere else I could stand to get the angle I wanted. At least the morning light hitting the mist turned out nice. For reference, this dock was out of frame on the right of this shot.
Sunset shot in Moorlough, Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
As I stood for an hour photographing the sunset, the images were not just coming out as well as I was hoping for. I was just about to give up but decided to take a few steps back and capture this image of the dock I was standing on instead and here is the outcome! I was standing on top of the Image I was looking for the whole time and didn't realise it! lol
In this area there were many working boat yards, or docks, like this one, where boats were built and repaired. They were busy, cluttered places not unlike a modern scrap yard as it was common practice to break wooden boats, salvaging the ironwork.
Castlefields boat dock is typical of the many on the Black Country canal system of the period and is equipped to build new working craft and to repair those of iron or composite construction. The dock can accommodate three boats, drawn sideways out of the water by winches onto the slip. There are a number of different buildings on the boat dock each serving a specific purpose.
President on the opposite quay is a historic, steam-powered narrowboat, built in 1909 by Fellows Morton and Clayton (FMC) at their dock at Saltley, Birmingham, England. It is now owned by the Black Country Living Museum, where it is based. President is registered by National Historic Ships as part of the National Historic Fleet.
The 71 feet (22 m) long[1] President was constructed in 1909 at FMC's company dock in Saltley, and cost £600. She was registered on 23 June that year. Her riveted, wrought iron hull is shaped in the 'Josher' style, named for FMC director Joshua Fellows.
In 1925, the Ruston, Proctor and Company steam boiler and engine were replaced by a 15 hp Bolinder crude oil engine.
Ernest Thomas, a director of FMC, and a Walsall-based coal carrier, acquired the boat in 1946. She was sold to George and Matthews of Wolverhampton in 1948, but that year the UK's canals were nationalised and she finished her working days as part of British Waterways' northern maintenance fleet, on the Trent and Mersey, Macclesfield and Shropshire Union canals, from a base at Northwich.
President was bought by Nicholas Bostock and Malcolm Braine in 1973, as a derelict hull. They restored the hull and constructed a replica cabin and boiler room. A 1928 Muir and Findley "Scotch" return boiler, similar to that originally used, but operating at 100 PSI was acquired and fitted, as was a twin cylinder steam engine, originally used in a Thames launch. The boat returned to service in 1978.
President was purchased by the Black Country Living Museum in January 1983. The boiler was replaced by a Cochran dryback return flue boiler in 1990. A major refit took place from 2001–2003, including the provision of a new steam engine, pipework and cabin, plus major hull repairs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(narrowboat)
3 Hufeisen-Azurjungfern docken an einem kleinen Ästchen an, fotografiert am Ellbach in Bad Tölz
3 Azur Virgin dragonflies dock to a small twig, photographed at the Ellbach brook in Bad Tölz, Upper Bavaria
with Tamron 70-300mm VC USD
Using the power for the next evening's road train, an Alabama & Gulf Coast yard crew is making a Saturday interchange run to the neighboring Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks yard. These former BNSF Dash 9s look pretty sharp in the G&W scheme, even if they elicit groans from much of the railfan masses. They're also back on home rails down here on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, with the AGR leasing this former Frisco route from BNSF in the late 1990s.
️💧 Quand je vous disais que ce n’était pas un été de tout repos… Nous accueillons un nouveau cargo à peine deux semaines après Cygnus ! Même principe à l’aller (ravitaillement et équipements scientifiques), mais pas la même méthode : le docking d’un Dragon est entièrement automatique, et on le surveille donc, prêts à réagir et à envoyer des commandes, mais sans manipuler le bras robotique. Autre différence au retour : il ramènera sur Terre des échantillons et du matériel, dans à peu près un mois. Donc branle-bas de combat et tout le monde sur le pont, pas question de retarder les expériences concernées… ⏱️ L’amarrage a (malheureusement) eu lieu lorsque la Station était dans l’ombre de la Terre. La vue depuis notre Crew Dragon était idéale, mais difficile d’éviter les reflets des feux de navigation dans le hublot. Ça reste très cool de voir les propulseurs fonctionner !
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️💧 No summer holidays in space! Today we welcomed a new cargo ship – just two weeks after the Cygnus. Same principle (replenishing our stocks and delivering new scientific experiments), but not the same method: docking of SpaceX vehicles is automated, so we monitor them without the need to manipulate the robotic arm. Another difference: this spacecraft will leave in one month to return samples and equipment to Earth. Unfortunately docking was during the night, and though the view from our crew dragon docked at zenith was great, there was no way to avoid reflections of the navigation lights in the windows (too many panes). Still cool to see the thrusters firing though.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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A panorama of the heavy machinery at the Millhaven ferry dock. It's there to build new docks so cars can load from the front and back of the ferry, instead of loading from the side.