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He has got pipe bending down to a fine art has Paul as can be seen here -i could only wish mine was anywhere near his standard of restoration but like this it was last another 40+ years!
Still working on these, need a little more pipework and I need to get new rods sorted out for them, too.
My Coos Bay engines were definitely not the most dated locos in my fleet, but they're the ones I most wanted to rebuild. I've made several improvements to the shaping and details and I think once they're done they should be right on par with my #2926, or better.
I'm very glad to finally have the proper size wheels for the trucks. They make a tremendous difference.
The engines have been updated from PF+M Motor to PUp+L Motor. This gives them a pretty huge power upgrade.
ODFJELL Tankers MV BOW SAGA (IMO: 9215309) is a Oil/Chemical Tanker that was built in 2007 and is sailing under the flag of Norway.
Seen here crossing The Solent on her way to Esso's Fawley Oil Refinery, Hampshire UK
The installation of new pipework on Aigburth Rd in Liverpool has uncovered some of the old tram lines beneath the road
South Hames based JGP Group Scania coupled to a three axle tipper trailer unloading at the Nestle Purina pet food factory at Sudbury
A maze of pipework snakes it's way round a set of massive refinery storage tanks. Difficult lighting.
Sunderland, Jan 2010
Pipework at the Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania seen on July 20th, 2025.
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Created for the opening of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church in 1880 by Melbourne stained glass manufacturer Ferguson and Urie, the Burning Bush window appears in the southern transept of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church. It gleams in rich hues of purple, blue and olive green above the Thomas C. Lewis of London organ which was installed in the south transept in 1882. The organ was designed to blend with its architectural setting, with pipework styled to avoid the obstruction of windows. This is fortunate for us so that we see the Burning Bush window in its entirety.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was constructed on a plot of land reserved in Chapel Street for the Presbyterian Church of Victoria in 1866. Initially services were held in a small hall whilst fundraising efforts advanced the erection of a church. The architect Albert Purchas was commissioned to design the church and the foundation stone for the western portion of the nave was finally laid in April 1877 by Sir James McCulloch. The first service was held in the church on the 1st of October 1877. The first clergyman of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was the Reverend John Laurence Rentoul (father to world renown and much loved Australian children's book illustrator Ida Rentoul Outhwaite). However, the swelling Presbyterian congregation of St Kilda and its surrounding districts quickly outgrew the initial Saint George's Presbyterian Church building, so Albert Purchas was obliged to re-design and enlarge the church to allow a doubling in capacity. Robert S. Ekins was the contractor and his tender was £3000.00. It is this imposing church building, reopened in 1880, that we see today. The "Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil" noted that the total length of the building was 118 feet and 6 inches (36 metres), by 40 foot (12 metres) wide and that the striking octagonal tower to the north-west was 110ft 6 in high. It perhaps reflected better the wealth and aspirations of the congregation.
The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is constructed on bluestone foundations and is built in an ornate polychromatic Gothic Revival style in the tradition of English designers like William Butterfield and John L. Pearson. Built of red brick building, it is decorated in contrasting cream bricks and Waurn Ponds freestone dressings. It features a slate roof with prominent roof vents, iron ridge cresting and fleche at the intersection of the nave and transepts. The front facade of the church is dominated by the slender, banded octagonal tower topped by a narrow spire. The entrance features a double arched portal portico. The facade also features a dominant triangular epitrochoidal (curved triangular form) rose window. The church, like its bluestone neighbour All Saints Church of England, is built to a T-shaped plan, with an aisleless nave, broad transepts and internal walls of cream brick, relieved with coloured brickwork. The former Saint George's Presbyterian Church was one of the first major church design in Melbourne in which polychrome brickwork was lavishly employed both externally and internally.
The inside of the former Saint George's Presbyterian Church is equally as grand as the exterior, with ornamental Gothic Revival polychromatic brickwork, a lofty vaulted ceiling, deal and kauri pine joinery and pulpit and reredos of Keene's cement. The building originally contained a complete set of Victorian stained glass windows by well known and successful Melbourne manufacturers Ferguson and Urie, all of which remain intact today except for one of the non-figurative windows which was replaced by a memorial window to Samuel Lyons McKenzie, the congregation’s beloved minister, who served from 1930 to 1948, in 1949. The earliest of the Ferguson and Urie windows are non-figurative windows which feature the distinctive diaper pattern and floral motifs of Fergus and Urie's work, and are often argued to be amongst the finest of their non-figurative designs. The large triple window in the chancel was presented by Lady McCulloch in memory of the ‘loved and dead’. Another, in memory of John Kane Smyth, the Vice-Consul for the United States of America in Melbourne, has the American Stars and Stripes on the top ventilator above it. An organ by Thomas C. Lewis of London, one of the leading 19th century English organ builders, was installed in the south transept in 1882. It was designed to blend with its architectural setting, with pipework styled to avoid the obstruction of windows. The action of this organ was altered in 1935, but the pipework, and the original sound, have been retained.
Over the years many spiritual and social activities were instituted at Saint George’s, Presbyterian Church some of short duration such as the Ladies’ Reading Club which operated between 1888 and 1893. There were segregated Bible classes for young men and women, the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, formed in 1892, a cricket club and a floral guild. Guilds teaching physical culture for girls, boys and young men began in 1904. They were entirely financed by John Maclellan and the idea extended to other denominations throughout Victoria. John Maclellan died in 1936 and the guilds ceased at Saint George’s Presbyterian church through lack of funds although in 1977 the members of the girls’ guild were still holding bi-annual reunions and raising money for charity. Sadly, the Presbyterian congregations may have been large in the Nineteenth Century, but by St George's Presbyterian Church's 110th centenary, its doors had already closed during the week due to dwindling numbers and an ageing congregation as a result of the general decline in church attendances after the Second World War exacerbated by the changing nature of St Kilda and the decrease in numbers of residents living in the vicinity of the church. So it stood, forlorn and empty and seemingly nothing more than a relic of a glorious but bygone religious past. However in 1990, Saint Michael's Grammar School across the road leased the Victorian Heritage listed building during weekdays, and it was eventually sold to them in 2015. It now forms part of the school's performing-arts complex, and it has a wonderful new lease of life.
St George's Presbyterian Church is sometimes hired out for performances, and I had the pleasure of receiving an invitation to hear Handel's Messiah performed there in 2009. The ecclesiastical acoustics made the performance all the more magnificent. I remember as I sat on one of the original (hard) kauri pine pews, I looked around me and admired the stained glass and ornamental brickwork. I tried without success over several subsequent years to gain access to the church's interior, settling for photographs of the exterior instead, but it wasn't until 2018 that I was fortunate enough to gain entry to photograph the church's interior. The former St George's Presbyterian Church was opened up to the public for one Sunday morning only as part of Open House Melbourne in July 2018. It was a fantastic morning, and I am very grateful to the staff who manned the church for the day and watched bemused as I photographed the stained glass extensively and in such detail.
Albert Purchas, born in 1825 in Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, was a prominent Nineteenth Century architect who achieved great success for himself in Melbourne. Born to parents Robert Whittlesey Purchas and Marianne Guyon, he migrated to Australia in 1851 to establish himself in the then quickly expanding city of Melbourne, where he set up a small architect's firm in Little Collins Street. He also offered surveying services. His first major building was constructing the mansion "Berkeley Hall" in St Kilda on Princes Street in 1854. The house still exists today. Two years after migrating, Albert designed the layout of the Melbourne General Cemetery in Carlton. It was the first "garden cemetery" in Victoria, and his curvilinear design is still in existence, unaltered, today. In 1854, Albert married Eliza Anne Sawyer (1825 - 1869) in St Kilda. The couple had ten children over their marriage, including a son, Robert, who followed in his father's footsteps as an architect. Albert's brother-in-law, Charles Sawyer joined him in the partnership of Purchas and Sawyer, which existed from 1856 until 1862 in Queens Street. The firm produced more than 140 houses, churches, offices and cemetery buildings including: the nave and transepts of Christ Church St Kilda between 1854 and 1857, "Glenara Homestead"in Bulla in 1857, the Melbourne Savings Bank on the corner of Flinders Lane and Market Street (now demolished) between 1857 and 1858, the Geelong branch of the Bank of Australasia in Malop Street between 1859 and 1860, and Beck's Imperial Hotel in Castlemaine in 1861. When the firm broke up, Albert returned to Little Collins Street, and the best known building he designed during this period was Saint. George's Presbyterian Church in St Kilda East between 1877 and 1880. The church's tall polychomatic brick bell tower is still a local landmark, even in the times of high rise architecture and development, and Saint, George's itself is said to be one of his most striking church designs. Socially, Albert was vice president of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects for many years, before becoming president in 1887. He was also an inventor and philanthropist. Albert died in 1909 at his home in Kew, a wealthy widower and much loved father.
The stained glass firm of Ferguson and Urie was established by Scots James Ferguson (1818 – 1894), James Urie (1828 – 1890) and John Lamb Lyon (1836 – 1916). They were the first known makers of stained glass in Australia. Until the early 1860s, window glass in Melbourne had been clear or plain coloured, and nearly all was imported, but new churches and elaborate buildings created a demand for pictorial windows. The three Scotsmen set up Ferguson and Urie in 1862 and the business thrived until 1899, when it ceased operation, with only John Lamb Lyon left alive. Ferguson and Urie was the most successful Nineteenth Century Australian stained glass window making company. Among their earliest works were a Shakespeare window for the Haymarket Theatre in Bourke Street, a memorial window to Prince Albert in Holy Trinity, Kew, and a set of Apostles for the West Melbourne Presbyterian Church. Their palatial Gothic Revival office building stood at 283 Collins Street from 1875. Ironically, their last major commission, a window depicting “labour”, was installed in the old Melbourne Stock Exchange in Collins Street in 1893 on the eve of the bank crash. Their windows can be found throughout the older suburbs of Melbourne and across provincial Victoria.
The present organ dates back to an instrument built by Henry Willis in 1857 (containing pipework of Samuel Green from 1786). This was enlarged by Harrison and Harrison in 1910 and was substantially rebuilt by them in 1973/4. It now consists of 67 stops – five divisions spread across four manuals.
Wells Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Wells, Somerset, dedicated to St Andrew the Apostle, and is the seat of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. Built as a Roman Catholic cathedral from around 1175 to replace an earlier church on the site since 705, it became an Anglican cathedral when King Henry VIII split from Rome.
#3720 - 2018 Day 67: Redecorating a room can unearth a load of surprises. When the heating was replaced eighteen years ago, the plumbers left all their offcuts of copper pipe under the floorboards. The heating system works, but their workmanship on those floorboards and leaving their crap was extremely shoddy, and unnoticed until now! Still, gives me another photo prop ...
Old pipework along Blyth beach.
Seemed just the right subject for the LE take in mono.
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Still working on these, need a little more pipework and I need to get new rods sorted out for them, too.
My Coos Bay engines were definitely not the most dated locos in my fleet, but they're the ones I most wanted to rebuild. I've made several improvements to the shaping and details and I think once they're done they should be right on par with my #2926, or better.
I'm very glad to finally have the proper size wheels for the trucks. They make a tremendous difference.
The engines have been updated from PF+M Motor to PUp+L Motor. This gives them a pretty huge power upgrade.
The street gas main and all its connections to the homes need to be replaced. The majority of the pipework was installed in 1926 when the street was built - no plastic pipes then!
We are lucky as we have a yellow plastic pipe connection to our home, so disruption will be minimal. The pipe must have been replaced before we bought the house in 1996, as the original pipe would have been metal.
Some neighbours are nervous as they have just installed expensive new driveways. However, it is highly unlikely this will get disturbed as they 'sleeve' any existing pipe where they can. But try telling that to 2 doors down who have just had a £4k driveway. He’s probably standing there with a pitchfork right now…
The man over the other side of the street started a argument with the workers over how he was thought he was being spoken too. “I want all your names and head office number…”. I left them to it.
Me thinks he missed the advice leaflet, or the nice Cadent public relations lady who visited the other day.
In any case the work needs to be completed. A few years ago a nearby gas leak resulted in a house explosion with the loss of life. Nobody wants that.
A small chemical factory at Leek, Staffordshire. I believe they make perfumery and food-additive products.
Exhaust pipework alteration by the very talented Martin at www.maxtorquecans.com/
Highly recommended bloke.
Stanton Pipeworks sept 02 A BR green 08 is in charge of the trip from Toton to load a train with pipes and return to Toton.It's seen in the pipe-loading bay TAKEN FROM THE TOP OF A VERY PRICKLY THORN BUSH. Could be why I never noted the number down?
Maybe its coincidence but the work to replace pipework and valve equipment at Carr Mill Dam has come just after the failure of Toddbrook Dam in Derbyshire. Good news for the wildlife and leisure users of Carr Mill is that the initial plan to drain the lake was amended to just lower the level of the water by a foot or two. This is the modern concrete spillway with the old brick-lined one still in use and coming in from the left by the railway bridge pillars. The new spillway removed most of the grassy bank of "Happy Valley" once enjoyed by weekend picnickers.
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View of what I assume is an access point to the underlying pipework and controls for water regulation.
"Talybont Reservoir (Welsh: Cronfa Ddwr 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."
You wouldn't know it, but the art of pipemaking is still alive, albeit in a very small number who have the skills and knowledge to make clay pipes in the time honoured way. Luckily I was able to witness the process at the recent heritage day at Broseley Pipeworks.
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 run of pipes or conduits on the outside of the soon-to-be-decommissioned Holly Street Power Plant near downtown Austin, Texas.
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..and inside too - pipework for the underfloor heating system was covered in snow (windows yet to be fitted). Another new build in progress at Scarista, Isle of Harris. Great views westward, across the sand and machair towards the Atlantic.
Looks more impressive when viewed LARGE
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On my most recent trip to visit the real 2355 at the part, I made sure to take some more pictures of the pipework and other details and fittings - as well as some measurements with my tape measure.
I haven't changed much about the core build of the engine, other than adjusting the tender drawbar position, but I've added in another layer of detailing.
The pipework around the smokebox stand has been filled out, with the line from the driver's side tank pipes now traveling all the way down to the pilot area. There's a new pipe fit around the steampipe on the fireman's side piston, as well as another pipe behind that from a t-junction on the back of the smokebox stand.
I've also added in the brake rigging along the bottom of the engine, which is... well, it's a very hard detail to see. I've still got some refinement to do, but it's there and runs the length of the driver set. Once I get the brake rigging detailing a little more matured I'll post some shots of the underside of the loco - otherwise nobody except me is ever going to see it. I almost don't know why I bother - but I just like doing it.
The small PL2 'Prairie' class of Japanese design employed at Anshan Steelworks invariably worked beneath the labyrinth of pipework in the blast furnaces area in extremely inhospitable conditions. They were therefore difficult to capture and required devoting precious time waiting for any movement to take place, as indeed was the case with the 'YJ' class employed on similar duties. On 18 November 1999 PL2 No.244 heads away from the blast furnaces through the unforgivably choking conditions. This loco emerged from Tangshan Works in August 1958, possibly a rebuild of an example originally supplied from Japan circa 1941. This is believed to be the last PL2 to have worked in industry in China, being retired in February 2000, just a couple of months after this photo was taken.
A fascinating history of the class can be found here:
www.railography.co.uk/info/cn_steam/profiles/pl2.htm
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