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Myponga trunk main Onkaparinga crossing. Placing hydraulic jacks for removal of bogies.
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In the mid to late 1960s I used to take the train from Doncaster to Sheffield on a regular basis and this was the view from the train between Rotherham & Sheffield. Blast furnaces, gas holders, massive pipework, industrial scenery, etc.
Today there is very little of it left and what is there is hidden behind wild undergrowth so this journey from Guangyuan to Hami was quite nostalgic! This is a large steelworks complex just to the east of Lanzhou.
LEE WARBURTON of Bury in Lancs was called by an electrician who had discovered a lead gas pipe in a wall he was working on. He had noticed the end where it terminated was covered with a finger from a rubber glove, siliconed in place! A tightness test showed there was no leak but when the rubber finger was popped it dropped 2mbar over two minutes. Lee says it’s the worst thing he’s seen in his 20 years as a gas engineer. The installation was made safe, all the lead pipework was removed and replaced with copper pipe.
A bottle of Last Kiss Wee Heavy from Pipeworks Brewing Company from Chicago, Illinois, at Olympen in Oslo.
Pipeworks Last Kiss Wee Heavy is a 9.5% abv scotch ale brewed as batch #51 in 2012. It poured a dark, opaque brown color with hardly any head. It had a rich, sweet smell of nuts, honey and muscovado sugar, a bit like Thornbridge Bracia. Delicious. It had a medium heavy mouthfeel with a soft carbonation. The flavor started out malty and sweet, like a good scotch ale should, with more nuts as it warmed up and hints of chocolate. It finished with a long aftertaste of toasted malt and som lingering muscovado sugar.
For being only their 51st batch, Last Kiss Wee Heavy is an awesome beer from Pipeworks Brewing Company. It's complex and sweet yet really well balanced with a long aftertaste. This is high quality brewing!
Artwork is by Karolina Faber.
I enjoy craft beers from all over the United States. Mini Unicorn is an American India Pale Ale from Pipeworks Brewing Company in Chicago Illinois. It weighs in at 5% alcohol by volume.
Pipework of the 1885 Father Willis organ acquired in 1996 from St. Swithun, Bournemouth. The instrument was purchased, dismantled and moved to Lavenham by the Rector, Revd Derrick Stiff with volunteer help and assistance from Lance Foy, organ builder, and Daniel Campbell, former organist of St. Swithun's, under the guidance of John Bailey of Bishop & Son; Father Stiff did much of the rebuilding work, with help from parishioners as necessary; the only changes made during rebuilding were to move the Swell Tremulant to the Choir, and to replace the old relays with solid state switching.
The tradition continues: the current Organist and Director of Music, Stephen Hogger, is undertaking the present restoration.
Recently, the Choir Organ has been modified by the removal of pseudo-Baroque ranks and the addition of pipework from the organ by Godball, last in Hadleigh Baptist Church and from elsewhere.
The back side label on the bottle of Pipeworks Pastrami on Rye listing its batch number as 61 and saying this about the beer:
Pastrami on Rye is out tribute to the classic Kosher deli sandwich. This rich dark ale incorporates rye and smoked malts to represent smoked brisket and soft rye bread. A myriad of spices enter the boiling wort including coriander, mustard seed, carraway, allspice, and peppercorns. All of the traditional spices that go into making pastrami are used. The result is a surprisingly smooth spiced ale perfect for sipping during the colder months.
Picture from a shoot with Vasanthi, Vicky and Rachel from the Actual Size Dance Company taken in Ewhurst, UK on the 2nd March 2013 by Andrew Tobin - www.tobinators.com. Copyright all rights reserved.
Interior of the room currently called the Yarra Room, second floor of the Town Hall Administrative Building. Foundation stone on 27 August, 1908.
Construction of the existing Melbourne Town Hall began in 1867 on the site of the first Town Hall at the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets. Architects Reed and Barnes won a competition for the design of the new Town Hall, and the firm was responsible for the portico which was added to the Swanston Street facade in 1887. An Administration Building was constructed to the north of the town hall in Swanston Street in 1908, and various alterations were made after a fire in 1925.
Reserved by the government in 1837, the site at the corner of Swanston and Collins Streets was issued as a Crown Grant to the Corporation of Melbourne in June 1849 as a site for a town hall. Designed by the City Surveyor, James Blackburn, the first Town Hall was subsequently completed c 1854. By the early 1860s it was already of insufficient size and the foundation stone of its successor was laid by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1867.
The new Town Hall included a public hall, administrative offices, Lord Mayor's rooms and council chambers. Built in a French Renaissance style with slate mansard roofs, this freestone building consists of a rusticated bluestone plinth, a two storey section of giant order Corinthian columns and pilasters, an attic storey and a corner clock tower. The main Swanston Street facade is divided into five parts, with a central and two end pavilions. The central portico, added to this facade some twenty years after the initial construction to provide a grand entrance and balcony, is of a pedimented, temple form, with materials and details used to match the existing building.
From the mid-1880s to the late 1890s, the Town Hall was the venue for several important meetings on the question of Federation. These meetings marked significant advances in the progress of the Federation movement and were attended by many prominent individuals who were intimately involved in the issue. Among the critically important meetings held at the Town Hall were the January 1890 Australian Natives' Association Inter-Colonial Conference on Federation, the series of meetings in mid-1894 to found the Australasian Federation League of Victoria, the public meeting attended by three colonial premiers in January 1895, and the large public meeting of May 1898 that marked the climax of the pro-Federation campaign in Victoria for the first Federation referendum.
In 1888 the Melbourne Council bought the adjacent Police Court building from the government, therefore securing a site for future offices. In 1908 a building was erected on this site to accommodate the administrative staff, including the office of the Town Clerk, and also incorporated committee rooms and a new council chamber. The exterior was designed by J. J. and E. J. Clark, emulating much of the detail of the adjacent building, and the interior was completed by Grainger, Little and Barlow. The council chamber has been the meeting place of the City Council since 1910 and its design displays a post-Federation pride in Australian materials.
A fire in 1925 effected the first changes made to the Town Hall building. The main hall, together with the organ, was destroyed and as a result a new hall, designed by Stephenson and Meldrum, was built. By extending to the adjacent site in Collins Street, a larger hall was constructed and the existing Collins Street facade was extended. An additional, lower hall was also created, a new organ was built by British firm, Hill, Norman and Beard and decorative murals, featuring larger than life size figures, were installed in the main hall, to designs by Napier Waller, in conjunction with J. Oliver and Sons.
The Melbourne Town Hall is of architectural significance as a distinguished and important work by the prominent Melbourne architects Reed and Barnes, who designed a number of significant Melbourne buildings. It is also important as a prototype for numerous suburban town halls that were built in the late 1870s and 1880s. The Administration Building is of architectural significance for its functional and stylistic relationship to the Town Hall, which results in a coherent civic centre.
The Melbourne Town Hall is of historical significance as the civic centre of Melbourne since 1867 and for its association with the Federation movement in Victoria.
The Melbourne Town Hall is of scientific (technical) significance for its organ which is an intact, large and rare example of 1920s British organ-building craftsmanship. As the second largest organ built in the British tradition between World War I and 2, it is now the third largest organ in Australia, those at the Sydney Town Hall and the Sydney Opera House being larger. Few organs of this size are intact from this period, particularly of a secular/concert hall design. As part of the 1925 rebuilding, the intact case, grilles, pipework and console of the organ are architecturally integral to the main hall.
The Melbourne Town Hall is of aesthetic significance for the murals by Napier Waller, which provide an example of this important artist's work.
Charlotte UPVC pipe / fittings and Asahi Type 21 Ball Valves supplied and installed by Fusion. Find out more about Fusion here: www.fusionaus.com
A commendably clean British Railways Standard Caprotti 5 4-6-0 73129. They even had a young cleaner in the cab who came out at station stops to sweep down any char on the running plate.
This is a zoom into the vacuum brake ejector & pipework alongside the driver's side of the boiler. The large bore copper pipe is not actually connected to the top of the ejector as this photo suggests. It is in fact the water pipe up to the boiler top feed & connects to the horizontal copper pipe which takes water under pressure from the injector beneath the cab.
When the driver opens the ejector valve in the cab the brake is created by passing steam through the ejectors (small or large) generating a partial vacuum across the mouth of the brake pipe which exhausts the air from the system up to a pressure equivalent to 21" of mercury (approx 10.5psi) on non-GWR engines. The air & steam is then fed into the smokebox.
73129 is the only survivor of 30 engines built in 1956 with Caprotti valve gear instead of the more normal Walschaerts gear. It was withdrawn in the 1967 & sent to Barry scrapyard in South Wales from where it was saved in 1973 & restored at Butterley. It first steamed again in 2004.