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Wrinkley added: "All new masts are by the Down (northbound) line, almost complete between Ladybridge and Dean Clough, two missing near Dean Clough Bridge. Also two missing just before Ladybridge, but they are on the ground waiting to go in. The next four north of Ladybridge are in position waiting to be erected. There are also three more masts by the Down line at Ladybridge. Three types of mast have been used.
No masts visible from Dean Clough looking towards Mayor Street and some piles are still well out of the ground.
There is also a new base next to Dean Clough bridge near the concrete anchor point base that has been there for some time.
I took a photo of one of the many small white bags which happened to be open, can’t work out what it is, but it’s not stone."
Copyright Wrinkley 2017
Electrification of Allahabad - Itarsi section has been initiated with I phase of work kicking off on b/w Iradatganj Outer and Shankargarh Outer. Iradatganj is 16 kms from Allahabad and Shankargarh is 55 kms from Manikpur Jn (Sorry for the poor pic).
Aboard : Mathura - Howrah Chambal Exp
Location : Iradatganj Outer, Allahabad - Manikpiur section, Allahabad, UP
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Day 2 of the weekend's track renewal.
Copyright ALX400 2017.
Paul Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
A reminder of the striking "bows".
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2017.
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Electric trains started passenger-carrying services on several diagrams between Manchester Victoria and Blackpool North on Monday 11th February 2019.
Not all possible services were electrified, nor were the Salford to Euxton Junction speed limits raised, but nevertheless on that day the line jumped from zero electric services to several electric services in a middle sized bang. All such trains were composed of a single four car Class 319 EMU.
This shot shows one service waiting to set off northwards from Manchester Victoria.
Copyright Wrinkley 2019.
Graham Howarth kindly gave this photo for publication.
A train for Preston heads towards the camera.
No sign of any electrification works yet. Graham took this shot from Bridge 12 which was rebuilt as preliminary work.
Copyright Graham A Howarth 2016.
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In the early hours of Thursday 13th December 2018 a Pendolino made two southbound then northbound passes along the Preston-Bolton-Salford Crescent-Manchester Piccadilly route receiving power from overhead wires. This test train was the first to do so.
This shot shows Bolton station from the unit's rear driver's window.
Copyright Sans Hache 2018.
Verdun, Quebec. Bronica GS-1, Kodak TMAX400 rated at 200, Ilfosol 3 timed at rated use, Canon dslr digitized, Photoshop levels contrast adjust no other edting.
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A new pile has been partially driven in on each side of the crossing in Adlington. Each one is only feet from concrete bases which were installed months ago.
Copyright Bill Morton 2017
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He added: "I went for a walk along the line yesterday. A lot of plant and materials, but no activity, it must be a night job as they are very close to the track.
They are replacing or putting in new drainage starting at the existing ditch that runs towards Bolton from just west of Ladybridge on the north side of the line. It then goes under the line to the south side and and they are currently about 100yds short of Beaumont Road bridge. It looks like it will go all the way back to Lostock station, judging from the amount of material. Murphys have set up camp just past the station car park.
They have pulled all the old concrete cable ducting to one side, so they must be replacing that as well. There’s some minor tree trimming, but that’s just to get their plant down the track.
You will see from the photos that there are now bollards at each end of the Ladybridge."
Copyright Wrinkley 2016
Reg kindly sent this photograph for publication.
There has been discussion about the coding and numbering scheme for electrification masts and their relation, if any, to the Engineers' Line Reference (ELR) of the stretch of line next to which they stand.
The Mast references from Deal Street Junction, Salford to Euxton Junction are of the form MG nn xx where "MG" mnemonically refers to the Manchester-to-Glasgow line (Manchester to the WCML). nn and xx are typically pairs of numbers, so "MG13 21" means mast 21 in section 13 of the line MG". The ELRs for Deal St to Euxton Jct are MVE1 as far as Bolton then MVE2 the rest of the way to Euxton.
The debate then extended to the overlaps along branching lines, notably north west at Salford Crescent, north east at Bolton and west at Lostock.
The ELR of the Blackburn line north east from Bolton is BBB, but the few hundred yards of overlap wiring do not differ from the "parent" MG nn xx format, except, perhaps, by the suffix "A" as shown here.
Copyright Reg 2018.
Twyla, I am very disappointed she has marks on her face, little dots and I don't think they are freckles, I thought they were just hairs and I could wipe them off, I should have paid more attention and grabbed a different one, and I paid full price too, apart from that I do like her, her hair though like the others not perfect but what Twyla doll is? her outfit is very cute too, I noticed her shadow things on her legs are gone and she only has a bit on her arm the dark she has only one dark arm, that's a bit of a shame, her pet thing is cute, she's awesome just can't get past the marks I don't know what to do, her hair is gonna need some care anyway on top of it all, Clawdeen also has a mark what is going on? loving the new sister body though.
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The lift over, the lifting gear is dismantled and taken away.
Wrinkley added: "I counted eight lorries plus the crane to move all the parts plus the counterbalance weights."
Copyright Wrinkley 2017.
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Progress not very obvious to the lay observer.
Copyright Gralistair 2017.
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Over the weekend f 6-8 April 2018 the HV switching station was brought to Lostock and craned into position on the "ziggurat" off the station platform's eastern end.
This sequence of shots shows the crane being assembled.
Copyright Wrinkley 2018.
Paul Gaskell kindly gave this photo for publication.
This metalwork will be the horizontal cross-beams which will separate the two bows' upper sides. They can be seen on the artwork in Photo 6280c. They are not the bows' "strings" which will be fixed between bows and deck.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2017.
I have a batch of photo albums I've had for years - going back to round about age 7 or 8. This is the first photograph in those albums.
Don't know the year, but it's definitely Christmas. The subject is my new Lego castle, which I'd decided to enhance with true care and attention to historical detail, by adding the electric lights from my Lego train set.
I think we can't deny that it's a serious improvement over the original design and I'm stunned Lego didn't think of it first.
The photograph incidentally wasn't taken by me, but by my dad. He had a lot more photographic talent than I had back then. And a far superior camera! The person in the background with a balloon is my Granddad - my mum's dad - who is still going to this day
FGW 180104 passes the mast foundations as it passes Manor Farm Bridge, at Cholsey. Not long to go now.......
16 July 2014
It seems it has done nothing but storm here for the past two months. I finally decided to try to capture my first lightning shot. This is shot right out my window while I was flickring. I caught quite a few bolts, but this one was extra charged.
Please view it here to see the complexity of the bolt View On Black Thanks
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ALX writes: "The new track looks great, new subway in with work on the new platform ongoing."
Copyright ALX400 2016
The end platform carriages shunting into end platform 3, provide steam hauled passenger service to Menangle -Picton and further south.
Official opening of electrification from Liverpool to Campbelltown. Taken on Kodak Panatomic X film.
Paul D Gaskell kindly sent this photo for publication.
On Monday 16th March 2015 and Tuesday 17th March the Network Rail test train 'MENTOR' ran a series of passes over the Wigan Branch and Ince Moss Chord to test whether the wiring and track were fit for juice and use.
The southbound run on the Tuesday was an hour later than timetabled, but nevertheless it ran in sufficient light for Paul to capture it running through St Helens.
The test coach has 'Pan Up' as it passes under Corporation Street bridge.
Paul took this shot from the northbound platform looking north.
Copyright Paul D Gaskell 2015
ALX400 kindly supplied this photo for publication.
Bridge works at Blackrod. A road-railer hauls what appears to be a skipful of spoil between Blackrod station's northbound platform and the Station road bridge.
ALX400 took this photo from.Station Road looking northwest.
Copyright ALX400 2015
This is brilliant! When you land on certain squares, your piece completes a circuit and lights up LEDs.
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The first bases in sight of Bolton station.
A pair of Northern DMUs head south past the first two mast bases installed near Bolton station. Reg took this shot from Lever Street footbridge looking south, the station is behind him
One base is approx alongside the middle of the nearest carriage, the other can just be made out beyond the further end of the train.
Out of sight in the left distance is the electrification workbase which Reg described as looking busy with lots of piles ready for installation.
Copyright Reg 2017
Hello there folks,
How are you?
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I didn't see this idea around anywhere on Flickr and i searched alot for these things so if i am right i might set a new trend here.
Here's the thing: a friend of mine showed his new 23inch apple monitor and talked about how bright it whas and how it almost functioned as a lamp to light his room with, and demonstrated it to me in the dark.
I had my new Canon 30D with me and all the sudden i thought, yup, it's big, it's bright... Hey! it's a great candidate for a ringlight.!
So we quickly created some white shapes on black backgrounds and played around with these and we had some GREAT results!
Later on when i whas alone at my moms place, i whas sitting behind her old 15inch CRT monitor and thought: would the same trick work with this small thing? Well... here are the results of that session and of other sessions too, so judge for yourself.
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There are some things you must know first though.
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A fast lens, with a minimal F2.8 will help you here as well, and a good lowlight autofocus too, there is always manualfocus ofcourse.
Then when you match the most of these requirements there is only one thing left to do:
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So have fun, it's the easiest way to find out what a ringlight will do to your pictures.
Greetings,
Sebastien,
the netherlands
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Mast base activity north west of Bolton station.
Copyright Reg 2017.
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Mast with arm in the Middlebrook Valley
Copyright Gralistair 2017.
The initial plan was to catch sunset from a 40 storey block at bishan, but I left house late and it suddenly stormed while on the bus, so I got down at ang mo kio instead and decided to randomly explore the area which I am so familiar with. The winds were blowing strongly, causing micro tripod movements and blur images, the rain reduced visibility so I couldn't shoot much.. and I was super disappointed that I couldn't take anything good. Then suddenly, I saw lighting in the distance! swopped to my wide angle and made this image. MY FIRST EVER PHOTOGRAPH OF LIGHTNING! In the end, I couldn't be more thankful for the bad weather. And I was really lucky to have a train pulled into the station during the exposure! And so I learnt, there's something good in every storm:)
Ang Mo Kio, Singapore.