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In the depths of the junk drawer a washing machine etc. tap for 15mm pipework.Been in there for years. I'll need it one day.
Macro Modays theme 'Junk Drawer'.
6J37 Carlisle - Chirk logs backs into Kronospan. A shot that exceeded my expectations for industrial pipework, shame the 56s that worked this the last two times weren't there. But I got more dregs of the sun than I expected. Rendered to monochrome I think it works better than the colour, drawing the eye to the centre, rather than colours in the landscape accentuating the corners. I effectively used an orange filter in the conversion, pulling down the blues and bringing up reds and yellows.
The organ in the Augustinerkirche in Zürich. This was installed by Orgelbau Th. Kuhn AG in 1959. Behind it, stained glass executed by August Wanner in 1965.
The Augustinerkirche in Zürich, located at the south-west of the Münzplatz in the Lindenhof area of the city centre. It is now home to the Old Catholic congregation in the centre of the city.
It was originally one of the five main churches in the old town of Zürich, together with the Fraumünster, Grossmünster, Predigerkirche and St Peter’s.
First built around 1270 as a Romanesque church belonging to the Augustinian abbey, worship in the church was discontinued at the Reformation. The church was rebuilt by Ferdinand Stadler for the Roman Catholic community of the city in 1843-4, a growing minority at the time. The majority of Zürich’s Catholics, however, rejected the decisions of the First Vatican Council of 1870, and consequently the whole community was excommunicated. The Augustinerkirche remains an Old Catholic congregation to this day.
In 1958-9, the church was rebuilt by Max Kopp in accordance with the original and more ambitious plans and with the Gothic Revival elements removed, leading to a much starker modernist aesthetic, a combination which I find very interesting.
Macro Mondays theme Bathroom
A small section of the shower hose in our en suite bathroom. It was a bit of a tight squeeze in the shower with the tripod! Hubby was wondering what I was up to 😁
HMM!
Just a few of the clay pipes on display at the former Crown Pipeworks in Broseley.
The Crown Pipeworks, makers of clay tobacco pipes were abandoned in 1960, and as the buildings and equipment had not changed in 80 years the pipeworks became a true time capsule. In the years that followed the buildings slowly began to crumble however they were saved from demolition in the 1980s and were grade II listed. Open days are few and far between however, save for two heritage days when they are once again open for the public to enjoy.
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I took this photo last year during a city walk at night and have tinkered with it in various ways since. The almost "Menorah-esque" pipework is visually intriguing to me.
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Copper pipework dominates this section of Standard 5MT 4-6-0 73156 standing in the shed yard at Loughborough, Great Central Railway, 12th March 2022. Above the running plate in front of the cab are the two injector steam valves and below the cab are the injector water valve (top), and live steam injector.
The theme this week is Monochrome. I processed this entirely in the phone with Snapseed. The shot was taken using the phone's Night Mode setting to create a bit of long exposure. Cutting a steel 3.5" pipe so I could take a piece with me to the civil engineering shop... massive water leak to fix on an identical version.
Having recently put up a couple of industrial backdrop shots I thought I'd go for the hat-trick with this offering captured at Warrington Bank Quay a couple of weeks ago.
Freightliner Shed 66531 tentatively makes her way through the complex steel maze that is the Unilever plant, and even more tentatively past the Fatty Acids tank, as she heads the 9.30am Fiddlers Ferry Power Station - East Use Yard (4V22) discharged coals.
I'd just arrived from Frodsham for a day's photography with Mr Woolley and noticed this possible departure in the schedules. With a train having gone in earlier I figured there was a good possibility this working would run, but also knew it required being positioned camera-ready given the proximity of the power station. Thankfully the Fiddlers Ferry signaller updated the reporting system quickly after departure giving us 4-5 minutes notice of its arrival - in the end quite a comfortable capture.
Quite a challenge being the plumber here I should imagine.
9.41am, 5th March 2019
47308 passes alongside Tinsley yard with this train of loaded 21 ton coal hoppers, 17th March 1983.
British Railways basically continued to build the London and North Eastern Railway 21 ton coal hopper with detailed differences until the end of the 1950’s by which time around 26,350 had been built. By the end of the 1960’s the bodies of many were in poor condition and British Rail commenced a rebodying program using a simplified welded body. All bar one of the wagons in this photograph are rebodied examples with the third wagon being the exception, still retaining its original body.
Locomotive History
47308 was originally D1789 and was from a batch of eighty locomotives to be built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-172-50 Mk1 main generator and Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in an all parallel arrangement. Although all the fittings. pipework and water tank were provided for a steam heating boiler it was not fitted and was replaced with a concrete block for balancing purposes. It was built with dual brakes and fitted with slow speed control for Merry Go Round coal duties. It was renumbered 47308 in November 1973 and had its vacuum brakes removed in June 1998.
D1789 entered traffic in November 1964, allocated to Tinsley MPD and would spend the vast majority of its career allocated to Eastern Region coal field freight depots (Tinsley, Thornaby, Knottingley, Healey Mills). In March 1994 it transferred to Bescot and was stored unserviceable in July 1995. During April 1998 it was overhauled at Toton and reinstated to traffic by Freightliner however nine months later it was again stored unserviceable with collapsed main generator bearings. This proved fatal and it was withdrawn and eventually broken up by Sims Metals, Nottingham during March 2004.
Canon AT1, Agfacolour CT18
Just after this picture was taken the fountain was shut down apparently for a leak in the pipework. it is still not repaired.
6J37 Carlisle - Chirk logs backs into Kronospan. A shot that exceeded my expectations for industrial pipework, shame the 56s that worked this the last two times weren't there. But I got more dregs of the sun than I expected.
The 4M96 10.02 Southampton Maritime to Birch Coppice containers, a few miles north of Fenny Compton and a few miles south of Leamington Spa.
Greaves /Blue Circle Cement Works stood on the right here, where the new housing estate has been built.
The quarrying operation was so vast it once had two different narrow gauge railways to bring the limestone to the works.
On the left edge of the image you can see the footpath/bridleway that me and often my mates would ride on our bicycles from Southam to spot the trains.
Often on summer Saturday afternoons we would play football using some conveniently shaped pipework in front of the silos as a goal.
The whole area was caked with cement and limestone dust, our hair would be like straw ........
The Atlas Fountain and formal garden. The fountain is out of order pending restoration of the old pipework from the reservoir that feeds it.
47306 The Sapper drifts into Bodmin General working a passenger duty, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, 13th August 2022.
Locomotive History
47306 was originally D1787 and was from a batch of eighty locomotives to be built at Brush, Loughborough. It was fitted with a Brush TG-172-50 Mk1 main generator and Brush TM64-68 Mk1a traction motors connected in an all parallel arrangement. Although all the fittings. pipework and water tank were provided for a steam heating boiler it was not fitted and was replaced with a concrete block for balancing purposes. It was built with dual brakes and fitted with slow speed control for Merry Go Round coal duties. It was renumbered 47306 in April 1974, had its never used boiler water tanks replaced with long range fuel tanks in March 1992 and had its vacuum brakes isolated in February 1992, removed in May 1995 and restored by April 2001.
D1787 it entered traffic in November 1964, allocated to Tinsley MPD and would spend virtually its whole career (apart from short spells at Toton, Crewe and Kingmoor in the early 1980’s) allocated to either Tinsley or Immingham until its final transfer to Bescot in April 1998 prior to its withdrawal ten months later in February 1999. Following a period stored at St Blazey it entered preservation at the Bodmin and Wenford railway in September 2007.
Copper pipework dominates this section of Standard 9F 2-10-0 heavy freight locomotive 92214 standing in the station at Quorn, Great Central Railway, 1st April 2023. Above the running plate in front of the cab are the two injector steam valves and below the cab are the injector water valve, exhaust steam injector and live steam injector.
This overgrown cutting was originally an ironstone quarry, then planted with trees to create the woodland, and then a railway to further quarries out toward Geddington. I have a book showing steam engines pulling loaded wagons through this rural wooded landscape, all a far cry from express trains pounding along the nearby main lines. The brickwork originally carried something over the line, probably some form of pipework or other.
The misty conditions on this Winter's afternoon added some dark, mysterious atmosphere to the scene, enhanced by the predominantly blue and green colour scheme.
A photo taken earlier in the evening during my photo walk of Dublin last week. Likely to be the less aesthetic end of the building but I liked the tanks and pipework.
The Crown Pipeworks, makers of clay tobacco pipes were abandoned in 1960, and as the buildings and equipment had not changed in 80 years the pipeworks became a true time capsule. In the years that followed the buildings slowly began to crumble however they were saved from demolition in the 1980s and were grade II listed. Open days are few and far between however, save for two heritage days when they are once again open for the public to enjoy.
Central Thermique
A huge abandoned plant in Luxembourg in the process of demolition building by building.
Nik Silver Efex Pro.
There has to be a name for the earthenware containers that the pipes are stored in at Broseley's Pipeworks Museum, but I didn't ask. Suffice it to say, there are many such containers, most brimming with pipes.
The Crown Pipeworks, makers of clay tobacco pipes were abandoned in 1960, and as the buildings and equipment had not changed in 80 years the pipeworks became a true time capsule. In the years that followed the buildings slowly began to crumble however they were saved from demolition in the 1980s and were grade II listed. Open days are few and far between however, save for two heritage days when they are once again open for the public to enjoy.
A forty year old tank passes it's NDT radiography thickness test and receives a much needed facelift before re-commissioning and a return to service.
New cladding, insulation and trace heating with a lick of paint for the pipework.
Watching the contractors work on this gave me goosebumps.
Talybont Reservoir (Welsh: Cronfa Ddŵr Tal-y-bont) is the largest stillwater reservoir in the central Brecon Beacons at 318 acres (1.29 km2). Talybont-on-Usk is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) downstream of the dam.
Construction of the current dam started in 1931 by Newport Corporation, and in 1939 the reservoir started supplying Newport with treated water.[1]
The reservoir is now owned by Welsh Water. In 2019 a £10 million modernisation took place, including upgrading the pipework inside the dam