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Another narrow gauge engine, a Hughes Falcon 0-4-2ST. Obviously reflecting Sir Handel's model and colour
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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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15ins gauge 2-6-2 no. 7 'Spitfire' awaits departure from Aylsham on the Bure Valley Railway in 1995. The loco, built by Winson Engineering at Penryhn in North Wales, was delivered to the railway at Whitsun, 1994.
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Metre gauge Alsthom - 9004 runs over the short section of dual gauge track at Regua as it heads for Vila Real with a private charter on Saturday 21st November 1998.
OSE 6501 Man/Hellenic Shipyards IC set by the Gulf of Corinth, on the meter gauge Piraeus - Corinth main line, now replaced. June 2003.
Maine Narow Gauge Railroad 2' gauge Plymouth 9 Tonner no. 11 on the coast at Portland, Maine.
The full gallery from the second half of this trip is here: mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2017/June-2017/Boston-New-E...
A flight report video of my flight from Pittsburgh to New York LaGuardia is here.
Hi All!
After playing around a lot with LDD, I finally came up with the final version of this beauty. Some passanger cars and additional rolling stock with PF motor are under WIP as well.
It was very important for me, to get as realistic and detailed as possible, yet looking ok with standard 6wide TLG trains on the same layout.
For comparison: www.flickr.com/photos/erno-rakmanyi/8430918648/in/set-721...
Pls, let me know, if you like it :)
I need to check my notes, but from an answer to my query elsewhere I think this is the 1250hrs Adelaide to Port Pirie express passenger waiting to depart Adelaide Station on 22 October 1982.
Broad gauge passenger services to Port Pirie and Peterborough were only a month or two away from finishing as the result of standardisation of the route from Adelaide to Crystal Brook.
GAUGE MAGAZINE, issue 19 INSTINCT
for the article COITUS ANIMALIUM
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for the full article & more illustrations, pick up a copy !
2011
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The first time the OC Auto Show threw open its doors, the Beatles dominated radio, hamburgers cost 19 cents and the Ford Mustang had just come on the market.
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Do I get the record for the smallest photograph of a narrow gauge steam train? This is of course the 800mm gauge 4.5 mile rack & pinion Snowdon Mountain Railway You can see Halfway Station and a bit further down a steamer on its way down (or maybe up). Slide was taken in 1983, I do remember taking the train up and walking down so I could take pictures of the trains. No4 ‘Snowdon’ brought me up, so my guess is that it was the same on its way down, but I can't be sure.
Historic narrow gauge coaches deteriorate in the depot at Pocinho. This one may have been damaged by a partial collapse of the shed roof. There were once four metre-gauge branch lines in the Douro valley - all are now abandoned.
This is how I build ballasted narrow gauge curves using Lego 12V rails (blue rails used here for demonstration). The rails are held to gauge with 1x2 or 2x6 plates. This puts some tension on the Lego rails, so clearly not a legal technique, but it works well enough.
Note there is one inside rail on the outside of the curve to get a stud alignment at the end of the curve. By mixing inside and outside rails you can change the angle and length of the curve.
Small gaps can be filled using 1x2 or 1x8 door rail mounted on its side – or for the non-purists by cutting a rail to length :-)
Henschel outside-cylinder 4-6-0 No. 291 leaving Lanhelas on 15 Sepember 1971 with the 08.11 Porto - Moncao.
Per raggiungere le officine TPF di Planchy dove erano attesi per alcuni lavori, la HG 3/4 3 (vaporiera prodotta da SLM nel 1913 per BFD - Brig-Furka-Disentis-Bahn, ora proprietà della ferrovia museo Blonay - Chamby) e il bagaglio CEG FZ 36 hanno dovuto percorrere i binari della MOB tra le stazioni di Blonay e Montbovon. Presentando il suddetto tratto pendenze del 73‰, è stato necessario l'ausilio della GDe 4/4 6002 “Rossinière” (“Izy”, prodotta da SLM e BBC e in servizio sulla MOB dal 1983). La foto, scattata lo scorso 2 novembre, mostra la particolare composizione nei pressi della stazione di Les Sciernes.
Feve Metre gauge Electro-Diesel class 1900 locomotives nos 1903 & 1911 head a westbound train of steel slabs across the street crossing in Ribadessela, Northern Spain on 6th July 2013.
The 3' Gauge of the US Gypsum narrow gauge line from Plaster City to near Ocotillo Wells, looking north as the loaded gypsum train appears out of our focus. This is the same gauge as the Cumbres and Toltec, Durango and Silverton, and White Pass and Yukon railroads.
RENFE (Spain) motor 1003 rests in the yard at Puigcerdá, Spain, New Years Day, 1966. Puigcerdá is on the French border; the beautiful Pyrenees Mountains dominate the background.
While the bigger boys get the lion's share of the attention, these smaller steamers were no less popular with visitors