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West Coast Railways Class 33 No. 33029 and single coach No. 3143 pass West Ealing working the 5Z00 Southall to Carnforth empty stock movement
The world famous Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, Ealing, London, England, UK.
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Rail Operations Group Class 37800 Cassiopeia is seen passing through a very autumnal looking West Ealing on the 28th of October 2019, working the 10:19 5Q78 from Ilford EMUD to Newport Docks (Sims Group).
Transport for London EMU No.315842 was the unlucky recipient this time around, joining the many Class 313 units that have already made the journey west to be scrapped at Newport to accommodate the new units being introduced in and around the London area by TFL.
Taken with the aid of a pole.
Carrying an obviously incorrect reporting number, Brush type 4 no. 1641 (without he 'D' prefix), still in a very grubby two-tone green livery, passes through Ealing Broadway with a short freight on 29 December 1972. The loco was later renumbered as 47057 & 47532. Following withdrawal, it was cut up in February 2001.
Warring neighbours on Mount Avenue, North Ealing. (the legal bill over a contested fence exceeds £70,000)
During an Industrial Railway Society visit, Rolls Royce Sentinel 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic DL81 (W/No.10278 of 1968) is viewed under maintenance at LTE Ealing Common Depot on 7th August 1976.
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Former LU D Stock, now GWR D Train Class 230 001 leaves West Ealing and enters the Greenford Branch on the last test run of the day. The branch is single track at each end where it enters its respective terminus platforms. The GWR Mainline can be seen behind, left to London and right to Reading and the West.
Bole's Bridge, over the River Brent, Hanwell, Ealing, London, England, UK.
Taken with a Canon 5DMkII converted to infrared (830nm) and a Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM lens.
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An engineers train heads eastbound through Ealing Broadway on 29 December 1972 with Brush type 2 no. 5632 in charge. Built at Loughborough Works, the loco entered traffic in July 1960 based at Stratford. Renumbered as 31208 in 1973, it was withdrawn in March 1990.
GB Railfreight Class 66 No. 66795 'Bescot LDC' passes West Ealing working the 6V04 07:43 Grain Oil Terminal to Colnbrook BAA loaded bogie tanks
Sexual Ealing; A funny sign outside a butchers shop, half quoting a Marvin Gaye song. Daily life around Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, London. June 18, 2016. Photo: Edmond Terakopian
60103 'Flying Scotsman' passes through West Ealing with her support coach, on the 08.30 Orton Mere - Southall WCR, move prior to working an Ealing Broadway - York RTC charter the following day.
With no District Line service west of South Kensington between 26th and 30th December 2013, the Piccadilly Line provided a special service, with trains serving stations between Hammersmith and Acton Town. These are normally served by the District Line, with the Picc. using the fast lines of this four-track section. Three Rayner's Lane branch trains an hour were also diverted to Ealing Broadway, with a spare Acton (District) driver acting as a pilotman, as Picc. drivers do not sign the route between Hangar Lane Junction and Ealing Broadway.
Track-bashers like myself were also able to 'do' the Barons Court crossovers and the east and westbound 'local lines' between Northfields and Acton Town.
In this photo, 1973 stock east end DM 193 leads an eastbound service from Ealing Broadway platform 7.
D Stock 7030 enters Ealing Broadway (District Line) beneath a bird on the gantry who isn't all that fussed. This scene will be changed in a couple of months time when the D Stock is gone for good.
In Hollywood, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer may have had its roaring lion, 20th Century Fox its roaming searchlights, and Paramount its lady holding the sparkler… but here in ‘40s and ‘50s England, was there anything more understated and evocative than the simple, still, silent, unfussy ‘Ealing Studios’ logo on the opening credits of its wonderful films? No, of course not.
So, this morning quite by chance when I was driving through Ealing in west London, what a thrill it was for me to see the original logo on White Lodge, the historic and celebrated listed building where this great film-making era was launched.
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The Vanguard Building, Western Avenue, Ealing, London, England, UK.
Taken with a Canon 5DMkII converted to infrared (830nm) and a Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM lens.
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Ealing Road, Wembley on 16th March 1985. LTE Metrobus M322 (EYE322V) is followed by M220 (BYX280V) as they pass Alperton Bus Garage on the 83 service, the driver of M322 is already braking for the Ealing Road, Bridgewatter Road junction just ahead of him.
The view today:
At 1138hrs on 13 March 1989, 47063 heads a loaded ARC stone train eastward through West Ealing. After consulting The Oracle (Marra Man) I'm fairly sure it's 6O53 MWFO 08.10 Whatley Quarry to Ashford West Yard.
"It used to be unloaded in Powell Duffryn's coal depot at Ashford where there was a hopper discharge. Although it appears to only run three days a week it was actually an "either / or" working. On Tuesdays and Thursdays it ran to Sevington supplying roadstone for Channel Tunnel terminal construction. On the days it didn't run to Ashford (Mon, Wed, Fri) it could also run as 6Z06 08.10 Whatley to West Drayton ARC Terminal. So the fact your picture is east of West Drayton and on a Monday makes me 99% sure its going to Ashford."
DCR 'Tug' no. 60029 heading for Acton and a run round with 6V37 09.53 Quainton Railhead - Tytherington Quarry stone empties.
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Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London. It comprises two individual power stations, built in two stages in the form of a single building. Battersea A Power Station was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to its east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to an identical design, providing the well known four-chimney layout.
The station ceased generating electricity in 1983, but over the past 50 years it has become one of the best known landmarks in London and is Grade II* listed. The station's celebrity owes much to numerous cultural appearances, which include a shot in The Beatles' 1965 movie Help!, appearing in the video for the 1982 hit single "Another Thing Comin´" by heavy metal band Judas Priest and being used in the cover art of Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, as well as a cameo appearance in Take That's music video "The Flood."
In addition, a photograph of the plant's control room was used as cover art on Hawkwind's 1977 album Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
The station is the largest brick building in Europe and is notable for its original, lavish Art Deco interior fittings and decor. However, the building's condition has been described as "very bad" by English Heritage and is included in its Buildings at Risk Register. In 2004, while the redevelopment project was stalled, and the building remained derelict, the site was listed on the 2004 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund. The combination of an existing debt burden of some £750 million, the need to make a £200 million contribution to a proposed extension to the London Underground, requirements to fund conservation of the derelict power station shell and the presence of a waste transfer station and cement plant on the river frontage make a commercial development of the site a significant challenge. In December 2011, the latest plans to develop the site collapsed with the debt called in by the creditors. In February 2012, the site was placed on sale on the open property market
through commercial estate agent Knight Frank. It has received interest from a variety of overseas consortia, most seeking to demolish or part-demolish the structure.
Built in the early 1930s, this iconic structure, with its four distinctive chimneys, was created to meet the energy demands of the new age. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott – the man who also designed what is now Tate Modern and brought the red telephone box to London – was hired by the London Power Company to create this first of a new generation of ‘superstations’, with the building beginning to produce power for the capital in 1933.
With dimensions of 160 m x 170 m, the roof of the boiler house 50 m tall, and its four 103 m tall, tapering chimneys, it is a truly massive structure. The building in fact comprised two stations – Battersea ‘A’ and Battersea ‘B’, which were conjoined when the identical B section was completed in the 1950s, and it was the world’s most thermally efficient building when it opened.
But Battersea Power Station was – and is – so much more besides. Gilbert Scott lifted it from the prosaic into the sublime by incorporating lavish touches such as the building’s majestic bronze doors and impressive wrought-iron staircase leading to the art deco control room. Here, amongst the controls which are still in situ today, those in charge of London’s electricity supply could enjoy the marble-lined walls and polished parquet flooring. Down in the turbine hall below, meanwhile, the station’s giant walls of polished marble would later prompt observers to liken the building to a Greek temple devoted to energy.
Over the course of its life, Battersea Power Station has been instilled in the public consciousness, not least when Pink Floyd famously adopted it for its Animals album cover and launch in 1977. As a result of its popularity, a great deal of energy has been expended in protecting this landmark.
Following the decommissioning of the ‘A’ station in 1975, the whole structure was listed at Grade II in 1980 before, in 1983, the B station was also closed. Since that time, and following the listing being upgraded to a Grade II* status in 2007, Battersea Power Station has become almost as famous for plans heralding its future as for its past. Until now, that is.
The transformation of Battersea Power Station – this familiar and much-loved silhouette on the London skyline – is set to arrive, along with the regeneration and revitalisation of this forgotten corner of central London. History is about to be made once more.
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Hanger Hill Park, Ealing, London, England, UK.
Taken with a Canon 5DMkII converted to infrared (830nm) and a Holga lens.
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Network South East liveried Pressed Steel built Class 117 DMU set L407 stops at Ealing Broadway on its way to Paddington with a local Thames Valley service on 13 March 1989.
Class 345 EMU 345003 is pictured on Platform 4 at Ealing Broadway, on a short Hayes & Harlington to Paddington, working on July 13th 2019.
DM10012 brings up the rear of the LTM heritage 1938 stock at South Ealing, working the railtour to Upminster.
West Coast Railways Class 57 No. 57601 'Windsor Castle' passes West Ealing working the 1Z59 07:08 Cardiff Central to Windsor & Eton Riverside Northern Belle rail tour.
West Coast Railways Class 57 No. 57313 'Scarborough Castle' is on the front of the train.
The churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Perivale, Ealing, London, England, UK.
Taken with a Canon 5DMkII converted to infrared (830nm) and a Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM lens.
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