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Enjoying the wait on the Shin-Osaka platform, while passengers and crew prepare for the arrival of the Hikari Shinkansen which would take us to Tokyo.
The off-center diamond as well as the side lines are made of ash and the inlays from the diagonal points are rosewood
This railway station reminded me of Jolimont (which, for you non-Melburnians, is kinda leafy, just off Fitzroy Gardens). This one, Wiessenbrücke U-BahnHof (also near a park, called Humboldhain) is in the old West but quite close to East, between Mitte and Wedding (an area still v.cheap to rent due to being close to where the wall was, but if you ask me it's million dollar views everywhere you look).
A World War Two Pillbox variant constructed in 1940 within the Anti-Aircraft Training Camp at Weybourne, a large square emplacement, approximately measuring 21ft 3in, built from brickwork shuttering and poured concrete, with chamfered corners. There is a combination of embrasures / loopholes, stepped embrasures suitable for light machine gun use, and narrow loopholes for rifle use. The rear sandbag lined entrance is off-set to the right, this had overhead protection and a loophole to the left. There were slit trenches and other defences constructed around the fixed defences. I've not visited the pillbox close, but the condition looks fair, with some of the brickwork falling away.
The site of the World War Two and post war Weybourne Anti-Aircraft Training Camp located alongside the cliffs at Weybourne to the north west of the village. The camp originally started out as a temporary summer camp for the Anti-Aircraft Division of the Territorial Army in 1935. At first the majority of the camp consisted of wooden and tented structures, although in 1937 it was decided to make the camp permanent and more fixed structures and defences were erected. The camp closed in 1959. During World War Two the camp was surrounded by a perimeter Anti-Tank Ditch and defended by a system of Gun Emplacements and Barbed Wire obstructions. The interior of the camp consisted of groups of Nissen huts and barracks and other military buildings. The cliff top to the north was covered by a line of Heavy Anti-Aircraft Guns and Batteries, Slit Trenches and Pillboxes.
RAF Weybourne was a World War Two Anti-Aircraft Establishment, ''X'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based at the station between 16th May and 14th September 1939, with ''T'' Flt, No. 1 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit there between 25th February and 29th April 1942. No. 6 Anti-Aircraft Co-Operation Unit were based there between 7th December 1942 and 30th November 1943. Associated with the Anti-Aircraft Gunnery, the station operated the De Havilland DH-82B Queen Bee target drone aircraft, a radio-controlled target tug version of the Tiger Moth II.
Although the published closure date known for this airfield relates to the World War Two airfield, the Army maintained an Anti-Aircraft Training Camp across from RAF Weybourne using Bofors 40mm Anti-Aircraft Guns linked to AA4 Mk.7 Gun-Laying Radar. When that closed in 1958 the radars were transferred to the RAF. A very small permanent detachment was maintained there using the obsolete radar into the 1980's for cross-tell training, decoy work and to extend low level coverage. In the late 1980's, after the obsolete radars were removed, trials were carried out to confirm the site's suitability for deployment of the new mobile radars that were coming into service.
A Marconi Type 91 ''Martello'' radar was moved from RAF Trimingham to Weybourne in September 1996, operated by 432 Signals Unit acting as a Ready Platform (along with RAF Hopton and RAF Trimingham) for the IUKADGE Series II (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment) Radar System controlled from the R3 Underground Control Centre at RAF Neatishead. In October 1997 the Type 91 at RAF Weybourne was de-built, replaced when the Type 93 at RAF Trimingham became operational.
Information sourced from -
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Weybourne
www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
The Savaria Delta inclined platform lift carries a passenger with wheelchair up and down a single flight of straight stairs by travelling along a rail system mounted alongside the stairs. Suitable for home or commercial applications, this lift is well suited to environments where an elevator or vertical lift cannot be easily accommodated.