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I forgot to post this one yesterday. We started our day on the Levels with a walk along the River Tone, near Ham.
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Freightliner Class 66 Co-Co 66416 with Class 70 Co-Co 70017 dead in-tow speed through Tamworth on 4O90 06.12 Leeds - Southampton liner.
14th December 2017
De Rotterdam is a building on the Wilhelminapier in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1998. The complex is located between the KPN Tower and Rotterdam Cruise Terminal and was finalized at the end of 2013. On 21 November 2013, the municipality of Rotterdam, as the largest user, received the keys. The design provides space for offices, a hotel and apartments. The 44 floors amount to a total floor space area of about 160,000 m², making it the largest building in the Netherlands.
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A minor level crossing near Worsbrough on the Worsbrough branch, that linked Wath with Barnsley Junction at Penistone, that was once part of the 1500DC Woodhead system.
This section of the Woodhead route closed to all traffic just after 1pm on 17th July 1981, after the passage of the Wath branch bankers which were 76012 and 76007.
The Worsbrough branch now forms the 9 mile Dove Valley Trail that runs from Silkstone Common towards Wombwell passing through Dodworth and Worsborough and forms part of the National Trans Pennine Trail.
5th October 1995
Although this is dangerous and not recommended, but this action just pure affection of how you love animal :))
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08:00, my son, James, and I left base-camp at Glen Brittle beach.
Ninety minutes in and the gentle foothills are behind us.
As we stare into Coire Lagan, Sgurr Alasdair looks awesome, impenetrable, and unclimbable.
As we summit the corrie’s smooth-rocked, ice-scoured lip to the corrie lake the basalt and gabbro wall of rock shows a thin grey streak of ice-shattered scree.
The two thousand foot, “Great Stone Shoot,” gives a narrow but climbable rocky desert.
Three hours in and we reach the col at the base of the summit.
One final scramble and this view south welcomes us at 11:22.
On top of the world, level with powder-puff clouds we peer down on a balmy Hebridean Sea, Rum, Soay, Rubha an Dunain peninsula, Loch Brittle and the beach campsite.
Further on the horizon the southern end of the Outer Hebrides, as far as Barra, can be seen, over fifty miles distant.
How this feels like a God-like throne –
Shared by us
– mere mortals.
Panorama from Sgurr Alasdair, 993 m. (3,258 feet), Isle of Skye.
Poem.
A seat with the Gods.
Brush the clouds.
Touch the sky.
Nigh on one thousand metres up on precipitous ridges of gabbro, basalt and bands of quartz.
On the serrated, pinnacled, fragmented remnant ridge
of a long-time extinct and exploded super-volcano.
Having clambered past the Fairy Pools,
The Cioch, Coire Lagan, the Inaccessible Pinnacle and two thousand foot of sharp, shattered scree making up the Great Stone Chute and the final summit arête, this is the view southwards.
To stand here.
And see this.
It is surreal.
Spiritual.
An honour.
A privilege.
A sight that relatively few have seen.
But those that have seen it, will not forget.
To see for 80-100 miles in all directions.
To see Ben Nevis, An Teallach,
Ben More on Mull,
Canna, Rum, Eigg, Muck and Soay.
And to see a large part of the incredible Isle of Skye, itself,
and the Outer Hebrides.
It is too much to take in, too much to believe.
I shall have to return and confirm that it was real,
not, merely, a wonderful dream!
The level crossing uses an Arduino controlling two micro servos and an MP3 player to play the “ding-ding” sound.
Features:
* Five distance sensors to detect trains – outer and inner approach from each direction and one to detect if the crossing is occupied (inner approx. 6 baseplates from crossing, outer approx. 12 baseplates away).
* Lights flash and ding sounds when any sensor detects a train.
* Booms lower a few seconds after lights start or immediately when inner sensors are triggered.
* Booms raise a few seconds after inner sensors are clear; lower again if inner sensors are reoccupied.
* Lights stop a few seconds after all sensors are clear.
* Five indicator lights show status of each sensor.
* Volume button to change volume of ding.
* Sensor button to change sensor threshold or disable outer sensors.
These are the original booms from my childhood 4.5V trainset. I think from set 146. Any tooth marks are mine!
Six Mile Creek was really rushing. Stormy conditions made for muddy water but the leaves were still on the trees.
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For the 114 in 2014 Group - #40 Level
A play on the phrase "Level pegging" - being in an equal position in a game or contest. ;o)
I know the phrase from the game of Cribbage, which uses a peg-board for scoring (a peg-board shot is in the first comment field). Online definitions suggest it could originate from Darts.
My 114 in 2014 set is here: Elisa 114 in 2014
Dedicada a un amigo y a las tres personitas que tanto quiere.
♪ Música para niños - Mozart ♪
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