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Hans Florine and Alex Honnold speaking at Pipeworks about their recent record speed ascent on The Nose of El Capitan
Geothermal pipework in the lava fields in the Nesvegur area on the south west peninsula of Iceland.
17th February 2017
End of the line at Hepworth.
The railway continued for another 300 m along to the right.
HEPWORTH BRANCH INFO:
The Hazelhead and Hepworth branch opened in 1950 to connect the Woodhead GCR mainline route with the Hepworth ironworks in Crow Edge. It was one of two small 1.5 mile branches that existed along the route, the other being the Thurgoland and Stainborough colliery branch, a few miles further towards Sheffield.
The line was operated by small four-wheeled tank engines and open top wagons carrying goods transferred off mainline trains. The Hepworth branch splintered north eastwards, just near Hazelhead station, travelling sharply uphill on a heavily curved gradient, and also included a tunnel 1/4 long beneath the moorlands , since filled in and landscaped. As industry dwindled….and Dr Beeching did his thing, so the line suffered, shutting in 1964.
WOODHEAD ROUTE INFO:
The Woodhead line was the Great Central railway route from Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly.
It has - well had - a claim to fame as the first electrified main line railway in the UK, when it went live in 1953. Unfortunately, due to the evils of Beeching, the passenger services ceased to be on January 5th, 1970...along with Victoria itself.
Several small intermediate stations had already shut during the years up to its demise, with Neepsend, Wadsley Bridge, Oughtibridge, Deepcar and Wortley all having sold their last tickets by 1968. Wadsley remained partly open for football services until the late 80s, with loco hauled services which required retaining the loop at the western end of the station to change ends.
The line continued as a major goods corridor for several years, although the wires went in 1981. Passenger DMUs from Sheffield to Huddersfield used the route until 1983, reversing and travelling through Victoria, before being route through Barnsley instead. An also electrified branch from Wath near Rotherham brought coal trains up via Worsborough - this junctioned with the Barnsley-Huddersfield route near Oxspring.
The GCR track was lifted, from north west of Deepcar, to Hadfield near Glossop, between 1985-86. A surviving single track from Sheffield branches off left towards Stocksbridge steel works.
The trackbed from here continues as The Transpennine Trail today. This tranqil ten-and-a-half mile stretch passes west through Wortley, Thurgoland, Oxspring and Penistone where it junctions with the still current Sheffield/Barnsley-Huddersfield line. The Worsborough line was already lifted by 1981, and is now better known as the Dove Valley trail.
Beyond Penistone the former GC line leaves to head on through Millhouse Green, Hazelhead and eventually Dunford Bridge where the closed Woodhead Tunnel cuts the path short.
The climb up from Penistone was as steep as 1 in 100 and trains that travelled from the Wath line were push-pulled by up to two electric locomotives at each end.
Cyclists and walkers with the strength to continue can climb the near vertical Windle Edge left out of Dunford and then trek over the Pennines to Woodhead Station where the track remerged into daylight. This six mile section onward to Hadfield continues as the Longendale Trail.
I spent most of today at the hospital, this corridor stretches from one end of the hospital to the other, and is probably about 300metres long.
Grandson has been here mending some pipework for me, as he finished the job out popped this beast, this was lucky as members of the We're Here group are looking for spiders today.
A postally-unused postcard by C.V. of part of the interior of the church of St. Ouen, which is built on a similar scale to Rouen Cathedral. It is the largest Gothic church in France, and some people feel that it is even more spectacular than the nearby cathedral. The complex rosace, or rose window, is stunning.
Building of the church began in 1318 and, after an interruption for the Hundred Years' War, was completed in the 15th. century.
It measures 137m long under 33m high vaults. The central crossing is surmounted by an unusual lantern-style tower similar to the one in Ely Cathedral in England.
The photograph shows the church's famous organ - a large, unaltered four-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ built in 1890, which Charles-Marie Widor described as a "Michaelangelo of an organ".
The reference on the postcard to the "buffet d'orgue" refers primarily to the decorative exterior of the organ which not only hides the internal workings but also provides resonance for the organ pipes. Buffets were often retained when the organ interior was updated.
In fact Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899) created the present organ using the existing buffet which dates back to 1630, as well as older pipework from the former Daublaine and Callinet organ.
The St.-Ouen organ is the last in a great series of masterpieces from a man whom many would regard as a genius in the field of organ design and building.
The south rose window was designed and built by the architect Alexandre de Berneval, who was one of the foremost masons in Normandy in the early 15th. century. The church elders were so pleased with his work on the Église St.-Ouen that when he died in 1440, they buried him under it.
Alexandre's grave-cover depicts him life-size with a pair of compasses in his right hand, and a drawing of a quarter of a rose window in his left.
For an interesting century-old view of the village pond and villagers in Berneval in Haute-Normandie, please search for the tag 65BP87