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Transport for Wales liveried class 67 locomotive 67022 rests on platform 10 having worked in with the 1W55 06.46 Cardiff Central-Manchester Piccadilly (10.13), she will soon return with the 1V39 10.30 Manchester Piccadilly-Cardiff Central (13.49) Transport for Wales service.
10th February 2025
Myra waits for the train. Her main source of income these days is a job cleaning a client's house in Manhattan, which pays $300 a week. She will work three days there and then spend the rest of the week in the Bronx and on Staten Island, doing babysitting, housesitting, and cleaning for the friends who give her a place to stay.
I saw a girl wearing platform sandals like these in Penang, and I bought some for myself on Zappos last summer, thinking I would wear them when we went back to Malaysia.
Then we moved to Vancouver instead. But I hope to get lots of mileage out of them this summer. I never knew platforms were so comfortable! They won't be my last pair.
#yayom
Southern Railway steam locomotive # 4501, led railfan excursion train view taken from the observation car "Lookout Mountain's" rear platform while the train crosses over a mainline wooden trestle in Georgia, mid 1970's. A grade crossing with crossbucks and a block signal is seen in the background along with trailing smoke from the steam locomotive as it passes through this wooded area of Georgia.
I walk to the front of the station, past the long and snaking lines of people waiting to check in for the Eurostar, then along the crowded and litter-strewn pavement to Euston, past the usual sights, people having breakfast in the various hotels, and homeless people sleeping in shop doorways. Welcome to Brexit Britain.
Euston is a brutalist carbuncle, which will soon be swapt away as did the neo-classical station in the 1960s. The concourse is packed with people waiting for the platforms to be announced for their trans. Most, I knew, would be waiting for the same train as I was, the half ten to Glasgow.
I had had 35 minutes to catch the train, and after the route march along the Euston Road, to stand around waiting until seven minutes before departure time, then when platform 13 was announced, there was a stampede as half the passengers moved to make their way to the slope down to the train.
Then we had to stand in line to show our tickets, and then allowed onto the platform to our 11 coach Pendalino.
I had paid upfront for a seat in 1st class, so had a reserved seat, a nice seat with a table with the huge picture window that would be my source of entertainment for the next two hours and twenty minutes.
I love travelling by train.
The doors closed on time, and we quickly accelerated out of the station, into the tunnels taking us into and through Camden, then beside the huge freight yards out of London to Watford and into the rolling countryside beyond.
All the way to Birmingham, the line shadows the older Grand Union Canal, and occasionally I could see hump-backed bridges, or waterside pubs, and all the way, narrow boats chugging along, going nowhere fast. Which the more I thought about seems a very sensible thing.
The train tilts round the sharp bends of the West Coast Main Line, through the Trent Valley, bypassing Birmingham to Stafford, then up to Crewe and Warrington.
In first class, we were fed and watered. Not with an at table meal, but a box of snacks and two passes of the coffee cart, which for two hours wasn't bad.
Next stop was Wigan; my destination.
Home of the pie.
And my home for the next 24 hours or so.
Finally, the sun goes down the horizon, seeking its own path and increasing its distance to the greedy platform.
They're separe now and not bound to stay together. May be they will meet another day, who knows ?
What I know, though, is that any encounter with the sun is filled with light, beauty and joy.
Have a great day and let the sun brighten your day.
I invite you to view the whole sequence as a slide show.
The story (if you care about that...) starts here
58009 eases up to the single yellow near the South end of platform 5 at Nuneaton.
The train has got the number 1 flash, indicating that the route is set for the Leicester line, so one assumes that this would be a Daw Mill to Ratcliffe PS working?
The remains of Shooting Range Platform on the former Bodmin - Wadebridge line. It opened about 1880 and trains only stopped there with written permission from the army. It wasn't often used after World War 1 but it was maintained in usable condition until the 1950s.
It now provides a point of interest on the Camel Trail, a foot, cycle and bridle path that runs from Padstow to Wenfordbridge, as illustrated by Alexander Marks on the platform. 12th August 2012.
View from our ICE train at Liège-Guillemins station (Wallonia, Belgium) - one of Europe's newest and most spectacular larger railway stations.
We were on our return rail journey via Bonn and Brussels, at the end of our holiday in the Swiss Alps. We had we left Bonn on a local train, and changed at Cologne (Köln) for an ICE train to Brussels (Bruxelles Midi), Belgium, where we then took a Eurostar train for St.Pancras International, London. By coincidence, this gave me the chance to photograph (and contrast) the great arched canopies of different ages, of three famous railway stations all in one day - Cologne Central (Köln Hauptbahnhof), Liège-Guillemins and London St.Pancras. It also allowed me to add a few more shots of Liège-Guillemins to add to those I'd taken the year before when we stayed in Liège.
THE VIEW
This view shows how the entire station is open on the eastern side giving an almost uninterrupted and contrasted view with the older (?mostly 19th Century) city area (rue Paradis and beyond) outside the station. I have wondered though whether the openness of the station platforms makes them cold draughty places for passengers to wait for their trains. The view is framed by the main canopy of the station whose arch runs parallel to the platforms instead of across them as in most older and traditional station designs. The platforms are above street level on this eastern side of the station.
BACKGROUND NOTE ABOUT THE STATION
This is one of Europe's newest and most spectacular larger railway stations. It was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, and opened in 2009, to replace an older one, and to incorporate track alterations to accommodate international high speed train services. The architecture is best appreciated in the photos on the architect's own website (see above), but I've tried to capture it too in other photos in this series. On Google Satellite it appears as a large space-age blister.
TRAIN NOTE
Here is the German ICE train we were travelling on when I took this shot, and here is exactly the same train set (Tz 4607 Hannover) passing through Liège-Guillemins in the opposite direction, almost exactly a year before. (Also, compare the station canopies in these shots.)
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Various images taken of the disused Mayfield Train Station opposite Piccadilly in Manchester.
These were during a tour with Jonathan Schofield on 18th Feb 2018.
Across the platforms rests the old lady, a 1923 Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik, Vienna, built 0-10-0 which was used to pull the trains on the lines in the area almost to the end of steam era here in 1977
It's before dawn on the platform in Seymour, and SRHC's C501, T357 & P22 are getting ready for a trip West to Ararat via Brooklyn on their Western Daylight tour. The locomotives await passengers to board prior to departing on train 8698. 26/2/22