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I was exploring abandoned railroad tracks near my home, when I looked over and saw this nicely textured tree, dead for decades, with a pole through its trunk. Walking railroad tracks, for Midwesterners, is like "beach-combing," an opportunity to explore, because you never know what you'll find!
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Explore: Highest position #132
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Neoplan Tourliner N2216SHDC with JNC Coaches of Yeovil. New as Cranberry OU22 ZYC and arrived here in late 2024 via a brief period with Wheelers. Rather unusual positioning of the wheelchair lift?
NS 34A back its long train into Enola Yard past the soon to be replaced position light signal bridge at STELL. Leading the way is former Santa Fe 618, still in original paint nearly 20 years after the creation of BNSF.
A corner house
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Fachwerkhaus, Obergasse 14, Ecke Kaffeegasse/Frölenberg, eines der stattlichsten Bürgerhäuser, erbaut 1596 in prominenter Situation: Kopfbau im spitzen Winkel von Kaffee- und Obergasse mit Sichtbezug zum König-Adolf-Platz; über gemauertem Erdgeschoss mit geländebedingt hohem Sockel erhebt sich das reichverzierte Fachwerk-Obergeschoss mit drei Giebeln, deren prächtigster sich nach Norden zur Unionskirche und zur Stadtmitte orientiert
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Album Description – Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
I visited somewhere so small I didn’t see any stoplights, so big it has 11 suburbs – eleven formerly independent villages absorbed in 1971 into Idstein, a splendid Town of Tradition with history dating to 1102 – a royal seat in the past and a modern city in the present!
My friends Dori & Siggi picked me up 2:00 at the crew hotel; Dori drove us north across the Rhine River, then 12 miles on further north, past Wiesbaden up into a magnificent town in the Taunus Mountains I have long wanted to tour. Highlights:
✓Castle Lane („Schloßgasse“):
• Tower of Idstein 'Bergfried', 'Wachturm', a 12th-century free-standing fighting-tower in Castle Garden 'Schloßgarten', a part of Idstein Castle a.k.a. the Witches‘ Tower 'Hexenturm'
• Idstein Castle, former fortress 'Burg Idstein', Castle Lane 'Schloßgasse', later palace 'Schloß Idstein' 1614, now school
• Fortress Gate, the massive 'Burgtor' 1497
• Heavenly Lane 'Himmelsgasse':
• Timber-frame 'Fotostudio Idstein Claudia Rothenberger' 18th century corner building, corner of Felix-Lahnstein-Street
• Timber-frame 'Gasthof zur Peif' 1615, at King Adolf Square
✓Upper Lane 'Obergasse':
• Hotel/Restaurant German House 'Deutsches-Haus' 1751
• Hotel/Restaurant house Henrich Heer built 1620 'Höerhof'
✓Martin Luther Street 'Martin-Luther-Straße':
• Parish Church 'Pfarrkirche' 1330
• Picturesque view at the church down a cobblestone lane to the Town Hall and the Tower of Idstein
✓King Adolf Square 'König-Adolf-Platz':
• Town Hall 'Rathaus' 1698
• Historic timber-framed houses 'Fachwerkhäuser, and most especially the gorgeous house ‘Killingerhaus’ 1615
✓Lopsided house 'Das sogenannte Schiefe Haus' 1727
✓Brewpub, the Idsteiner 'Alte Feuerwache' 1928, a converted old fire station, where we ate an early supper
Due to its well-preserved Old Town 'Altstadt', Idstein is on the German Timber-Frame Road 'Deutsche Fachwerkstraße', a tourist route through towns with fine timbered construction. It was so much fun visiting here with my friends Dori & Siggi; I am scheduled for FRA next week, when we plan to return!
The best of 524 photos from this layover are a 3-album set:
• Mainz, Germany – 2016APR06-08
• Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
• Roman Limes Tower at Idstein, Germany – 2016APR07
Hope you enjoy my favorite 27% of the 371 photos in Idstein!
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EN GARDE said the middle one…
Another year... THE RED TULIPS ARE BACK! What will they be up to this year? Lol!
Red tulips of the darkest kind.
En garde is a French phrase meaning 'on guard'. Used to warn a fencer to assume the position preparatory to a duel, or to warn an opponent in chess that their queen is threatened.
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Edinburgh Castle is a historic fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland from its position on the Castle Rock. Archaeologists have established human occupation of the rock since at least the Iron Age (2nd century AD), although the nature of the early settlement is unclear. There has been a royal castle on the rock since at least the reign of David I in the 12th century, and the site continued to be a royal residence until the Union of the Crowns in 1603. From the 15th century the castle's residential role declined, and by the 17th century it was principally used as military barracks with a large garrison. Its importance as a part of Scotland's national heritage was recognised increasingly from the early 19th century onwards, and various restoration programmes have been carried out over the past century and a half. As one of the most important strongholds in the Kingdom of Scotland, Edinburgh Castle was involved in many historical conflicts from the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 14th century to the Jacobite Rising of 1745. Research undertaken in 2014 identified 26 sieges in its 1100 year-old history, giving it a claim to having been "the most besieged place in Great Britain and one of the most attacked in the world".
Archaeological investigation has yet to establish when the Castle Rock was first used as a place of human habitation. There is no record of any Roman interest in the location during General Agricola's invasion of northern Britain near the end of the 1st century AD. Ptolemy's map of the 2nd century AD shows a settlement in the territory of the Votadini named "Alauna", meaning "rock place", making this possibly the earliest known name for the Castle Rock.This could, however, refer to another of the tribe's hill forts in the area. The Orygynale Cronykil of Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1423), an early source for Scottish history, names "Ebrawce" (Ebraucus), a legendary King of the Britons, as having "byggyd [built] Edynburgh". According to the earlier chronicler, Geoffrey of Monmouth (c. 1100 – c. 1155), Ebraucus had fifty children by his twenty wives, and was the founder of "Kaerebrauc" (York), "Alclud" (Dumbarton) and the "Maidens' Castle". The 16th-century English writer John Stow (c. 1525 – 1605), credited Ebraucus with building "the Castell of Maidens called Edenbrough" in 989 BC. The name "Maidens' Castle" (Latin: Castra or Castellum Puellarum) occurs frequently up until the 16th century.
Engineers position a 27.5-foot-diameter cylinder for the first full-scale Shell Buckling and Knockdown Factor Project test held at Marshall Space Flight Center in March 2011. From Dec. 9-13, engineers are conducting a second test, crushing a similar cylinder until it buckles and gathering data to develop new design standards for lighter rocket tanks. The test cylinder, built at the Marshall Center from panels used for external tanks in the space shuttle program, is speckled with markers used by a digital image correlation system. Cameras positioned around the tank monitor the movement of the dots during testing.
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Dawn light over snow covered peaks of Karakoram Range, with Baltoro glacier lies beneath, as seen from Urdukas on K2 Base Camp trekking route, located in CKNP (Central Karakoram National Park), Gilgit-Baltistan region, northern Pakistan.
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An old John Deere tractor sits in the powerful sun while on display at the Washington County Ag Center.
Illustration Sex (Photo: Johan Fatzry)
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Highest position #166 on Thursday, 11-06-08! Thanks everyone!!
Another stored loco at Radebeul in the same position as it was 3 tears ago. On the Lößnitzgrundbahn.
An eastbound Norfolk Southern stack train passes beneath the eastbound home signals for CP Leets on the Fort Wayne Line in Leetsdale, Pennsylvania.
General Mythrog looked down the length of the crossbow impatiently. He had been laying in this position, on this extremely uncomfortable branch, for hours, keeping the crossbow trained on the small patch of Cheese-Blossom flowers, colonizing a branch on the opposite tree. Cheese-Blossom was an endangered species of flower, named after it’s dark-yellow color……and the fact that it tastes like moldy cheese. It’s petals, are poisonous to all but a few creatures.
Mythrog was just about to change his position again, when there was a quiet flapping sound, and the Leafed Peacock landed on the branch, and began to eat the cheese-blossom. Like the cheese-blossom, it was endangered, but for a different reason. It was extremely healthy and delicious to predators such as the Swamp Wyvern, and when cooked properly, to humans and trolls. It lived only in the Sinking Basin. Finally, Mythrog thought, aiming the crossbow. As he looked down it’s length, he smirked. There where many in Roawia, who would try to capture it, rather than kill it, so they could increase its numbers. Mythrog shook his head. I’d rather kill and eat it after all the work it took to get here. And it had taken a lot of work. After hearing from one of his scouts, that a Leafed Peacock was in the area, Mythrog and his to closest companions, Carnox and Endrol, immediately began the hunt. After two fruitless weeks, they had stumbled
across the trail of a Moss-Squirrel, another creature that eats Cheese-Blossom, and they followed the tracks. The night before the tracks had led to the tree with the patch of Cheese-Blossom, Endrol shot the Moss-Squirrel, and they ate well that night. The next morning, they broke camp, and, after finding proper hiding spots, Carnox and Endrol hid, and Mythrog threw a rock into the patch of Cheese-Blossom. The patch of flowers was actually connected by thin roots, and when one flower was disrupted they all would release a noxious smell. Though it chased away most predators, it attracted the Leafed Peacock.
After throwing the rock, Mythrog climbed up a fallen tree trunk, found a strong branch, and hid. Now, after hours of waiting, the Leafed Peacock had finally arrived. Mythrog leveled his crossbow on the birds head and…….. was just about to pull the trigger when, “BRRRAFFFFFEEEEEeee” the call of a extremely annoying horn sounded. The Leafed Peacock froze, turned and flapped away. Mythrog stared at the spot where it had been in growing anger.
“Mythrog? General Mythrog, where are you?” Called out a loud and obnoxious voice. Mythrog turned and looked down to see who had called out. He spotted a Queen’s scout running through the trees. The scout stopped beneath the tree that Mythrog was hiding in, and was about to continue running, when Endrol stepped out from his hiding spot, with a arrow nocked to his bowstring, and pointed it between the scout’s eyes. Carnox stepped out from the bush he had hid behind.
“State your name and business.” he growled in a dangerously low voice.
“My name is Loudre, and I am here because Her Majesty, the great Queen Galainir, would like to make a alliance with General Mythrog.”
Mythrog glanced around, to make sure that it was not a assassination attempt, jumped out of his hiding spot, and slid down the fallen log.
“You will address me as High General Mythrog, and how dare you come walking out here blasting on that horn, scaring away my prey! ”
“Uh sorry,” Loudre quickly regained his composure, “what prey? I didn’t see anything.”
“Just because you didn’t see anything doesn’t mean that there wasn’t something there.” Mythrog said coldly.
Loudre cleared his throat. “Could you please have your troll remove his arrow from between my eyes?”
Mythrog nodded, reluctantly, to Endrol who lowered his bow, but kept the arrow nocked.
“How did you find us?” He asked.
“I ran into a fortune-teller who is a supporter of the Queen, and she told me that you were out here hunting some kind of rare creature. Did you get it?”
“What did you think you scared away?!” Mythrog replied shocked at Loudre’s stupidity.
“Uhh sorry, the great Queen Galai—” Loudre begin again,
“I heard. Tell me more about this so-called alliance the queen wishes to make.”
“Well, the great Queen Galainir has sent a small squad, led by Sir Flork. You are to meet with them at the ruins of Fort Stinking Tree three days from now to discuss the alliance. Oh and you can’t bring more than two men with you.” said Loudre.
“It’s Sinking Tree, you moron. Give us a moment to talk about it.” He watched Loudre take several steps back, than turned around to his companions. “Well do you think we should go?”
“It could be a trap” Carnox advised.
“I know, I don’t trust Galainir, but I want to hear what her men have to say, and we can always set up a ambush.” Mythrog replied.
“Its your choice Mythrog.” Endrol said.
Mythrog thought for a moment, “here’s what were going to do. Carnox and I are going to the nearest outpost. Endrol, you are going to go find that fortune-teller, kill that traitor, take any money you find, but nothing else, burn her hut to the ground, make sure her dead body is in it, and put a troll flag in the ashes. I want anyone who finds it to know who did it. After that, meet me, and Carnox at the outpost, than the three of us, and loud-mouth here, will go to Fort Sinking Tree. A small squad of Blood Legion will go with us, on the lie that their going somewhere else. Their going to take a short-cut, and get there before the queen’s soldiers do, and hide. That way we have back-up. Do not be surprised if I decide to kill the soldiers, and declare war with Galainir.”
“I’d rather it that way. It sounds like a plan.” Carnox replied.
Endrol nodded, “I agree with Carnox.”
Mythrog nodded, and called Loudre back over.
“I agree with your terms. Carnox and I will go to Fort Sinking Tree, and discuss an alliance with Sir Flork. Hopefully we will part as friends.” he lied.
Loudre smiled “Tha….” he never got to finish his sentence, as Mythrog lunged forward, and grabbed a fist-full of the scout’s armer-studded shirt, lifting him off his feet, one handed.
“But if this is an ambush you will not live long enough to see it fail.”
He dropped Loudre on the ground, and stepped back. Loudre jumped to his feet and was about to say something, when Endrol suddenly stepped between and held up his hand.
“Its back.” He whispered.
Mythrog did not need to ask to know what ‘it’ was. He slowly turned around and looked up at the patch of Cheese-Blossom. His assumption proved correct, as the Leafed Peacock had come back to the Cheese-Blossom.
He slowly raised his crossbow, and realized that he could not take the shot from his current position. The angle was all wrong, and he wanted a head shot so’s not to damage the meat and feathers, the former because he wanted it, the latter because he could fetch a good price for them. He waved Endrol over and silently whispered, “I can’t get the shot with my crossbow, you’re going to have to take it with your bow.” Endrol nodded, and silently stepped away, pulled back his bowstring, and was about to fire, when Loudre loudly called out from behind them,
“where is it? I can’t see anything, COME OUT WHAT-EVER-YOU-ARE!”
The Leafed Peacock froze and silently flapped away, and this time, Mythrog knew it was not coming back. A shocked silence descended, as all three trolls stared at the spot were it had been, longingly. Then, as one, they turned and glared at Loudre, who was completely oblivious. “Wow I feel like a great bird-watcher, seeing such a beautiful creat….” he never got to finish, as Mythrog drove his fist into the unsuspecting gut, hard enough to send him flying several feet.
“HOW DARE YOU CHEAT ME OUT OF MY PREY…..TWICE!!!!” he bellowed, loud enough to scare away every bird for hundreds of yards.
Mythrog took several deep breaths, hauled the still wheezing Loudre to his feet, and growled, “Come on, we have a meeting to keep.”
Details
Year Established
1816
Engineer
Robert Stevenson
Position
Latitude
56° 11.139'N
Longitude
002° 33.457'W
Character
Flashing (2) White every 15 secs
Elevation
73 metres
Nominal Range
22 nautical miles
Structure
Square gothic tower on stone dwelling, 24 metres high The lighthouse building is listed as a building of Architectural/Historic interest.
The island lies at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, 5 miles from the Fife mainland and 11 miles from East Lothian. The island's coastline is rocky; its surface covers 140 acres and slopes gradually from vertical 150ft cliffs on the west side to sea level on the east. Its history dates back to the early custom of founding Monastic settlements on small islands and it was manifest in the choice of St Adrian, when, in the ninth century, he and his brother monks established their retreat on the Isle of May. Later, in the twelfth century, King David I founded a monastery on the island which he granted to the Benedictine Abbey of Reading in Berkshire. This was on the condition that nine priests be placed there to celebrate divine service for the souls of the founder, his predecessors, and successors, the Kings of Scotland.
The Benedictine monks continued in peaceful occupation until the fifteenth century when the monastery was possessed by the sea of St Andrew. This act saw the disbanding of the settlement, and with the ravages of marauding invaders and the passage of time the buildings gradually fell into disrepair.
Today the only remaining evidence of the island's religious past is the fragmented remains of the chapel built in the twelfth century and dedicated to St Adrian.
The island is perhaps best known among naturalists for its bird observatory which was launched in 1934 under the auspices of the then newly formed British Trust for Ornithology. It was on similar lines to the famous German Observatory at Heligoland and was the first in Scotland and only the second in the British Isles, the other being on Skokholm Island off South Wales. The studies of bird migration, varied seabird breeding populations, the island's own breed of mice and the island plant communities are all added attractions for visitors, in addition to the geology, the history and the lighthouses.
The ledges of the West and South Cliffs carry a large breeding population of guillemots, shags, kittiwakes, razorbills and a few fulmars. Hundreds of puffins nest in burrows on the east and north of the island; the flatter areas of the island's surface are almost entirely occupied by herring and lesser black-backed gulls. The island was declared a National Nature Reserve in 1956. A lighthouse has been operating on the Isle of May since 1635 in which year King Charles 1st granted a patent to James Maxwell of Innerwick and John and Alexander Cunningham of Barnes to erect a beacon on that island and to collect dues from shipping for its maintenance. This light, however, was a crude affair and consisted of a stone structure, surmounted by an iron chauffeur in which there burned a coal fire to serve as the illuminant. The coals were hoisted to the fire by means of a box and pulley and three men were employed the whole year round attending to the fire which consumed about 400 tons of coal a year. In 1790 a lightkeepers' entire family was suffocated by fumes, except for an infant daughter, who was found alive 3 days later.
Despite the fact that the light was regarded in its time as one of the finest in existence, its value as an aid to navigation, judged by today's standards, must have been decidedly limited. The character of the light would naturally vary considerably with almost every change in weather conditions; One minute it might be belching forth great volumes of smoke and the next blazing up in clear high flames, while changes in wind directions would tend to alter its appearance. An easterly wind for instance would have the effect of blowing the flames away from the sea so that the light could scarcely be seen where it was most wanted. An instance of this occurred on the night of 19 December 1810 when two of HM Ships NYMPHE and PALLAS were wrecked near Dunbar because the light of a lime kiln on the coast had been mistaken for the navigation light on the Isle of May. In 1814 the Commissioners purchased from the Duke and Duchess of Partland the Isle of May, together with the old coal lighthouse which was built in 1816. It was converted to a Rock Station on 9 August 1972 and looks a bit like a small castle with its protective battlements.
About a quarter of a mile from the lighthouse and on the east side of the island stands the tower and domestic buildings of the "Low Light". A light was first exhibited from this small lighthouse in April 1844 to act, in conjunction with the main lighthouse, as a lights in line so that the mariner could avoid the treacherous North Carr Rock some seven miles north of the Island. However, when the NORTH CARR LIGHTSHIP was established in position in 1887, there was no longer a need for the Low Light and it was, therefore, permanently discontinued. The buildings are now occupied by members of the Ornithological fraternity.
There have been many improvements to the light since 1816. One September 1836 the light was changed to the first British dioptric fixed light, with an improved form of refractor made by Messrs Cookson of Newcastle.
Work began in June 1885 on the station on a elaborate scale. The ornate tower built in 1816 with its extra rooms for visiting officials, had accommodation for only three lightkeepers and their families. Dwellings were needed for three more, and an engine house, boiler house chimney stalk, workshop and coal store. These were built in a small valley containing a freshwater loch, 270 yards from the light and 175 feet below it, and the current led up to the tower by conductors. The two generators, each weighing about 4½ tons, the largest so far made, has a capacity of 8,800 watts, which could be controlled so that the whole or only part of the current was used.
The single automatically-fed arc lamp, with two spares in reserve used carbons 1½ inches in diameter. A core of soft pure graphite made these burn with great steadiness, and an average of 440 feet per annum was used.
The single automatically-fed arc lamp, with two spares in reserve used carbons 1½ inches in diameter. A core of soft pure graphite made these burn with great steadiness, and an average of 440 feet per annum was used. The tremendous current bridging the arc startled a stranger entering the lightroom by a sound like a circular was passing through exceedingly knotty timber, according to one visiting lightkeeper. A three-wick paraffin oil lamp, kept trimmed and ready for use in case the electric current failed, could be lighted and put in focus in about three minutes.
The new light, which was shown from December 1st 1886, gave four flashes in quick succession every half minute, It had an elaborate dioptric apparatus which enabled Thomas Stevenson's dipping plan to be adopted so that the strongest beam of light could be directed much nearer the shore in hazy or foggy weather. The light as about three million candlepower when on machine was in use, and double that with two, or about 300 and 600 times more powerful than the old fixed oil light. he geographical range was 22 miles, but the light was picked up and recognised by sailors at 40 and 50 miles off by the flashes lighting up the clouds overhead.
To ensure efficient working, the whole establishment required the services of a Principal Lightkeeper with technical experience as Engineer-in-Charge, four Assistant with no special training - two for lightroom duty and two to attend the engines and boilers - and an auxiliary whose main responsibility was looking after the station horse and the carting of supplies, which was no light task, with a special supply of 150 tons of steam coke for the engines 1888 - 1889. The total cost of the installation was about £22,000 including the lighthouse buildings already in use. Maintenance at not more than £1,050 per annum was about three time that for an oil light, but it was reckoned that the cost per candlepower produced was relatively small. Electrical power indeed proved to be the most penetrating form of light, although its superiority was much reduced in hazy weather. In really dense fog even the powerful light on the Isle of May could not be seen from the foot of the tower owing to the heavy cost of maintaining the generating plant and the greatly increased power of oil lights made possible by the incandescent mantle. The electric light was therefore discontinued at the Isle of May in 1924. The station then cost about £2,884 per annum to maintain compared with £1,031 for an oil light the original equipment had become unsafe, and then the question of renewal was raised by D A Stevenson who proposed reverting to an oil light, for which the Commissioners obtained Board of Trade sanction.
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution rewarded the lightkeepers on the Isle of May for saving lives when the MATAGORDA was wrecked in 1872 and the German Government sent a binocular field glass each to Robert Grierson and Laurence Anderson who helped the crew of the PAUL lost on Inchkeith in 1888.
In 1930 two young lightkeepers rescued four men by swimming off to the Aberdeen trawler GEORGE AUNGER wrecked on the North Ness and helping them ashore. In 1972 the lighthouse became a "rock" station which meant that the keepers' families no longer lived at the lighthouse but at the shore station in Granton.
The Isle of May was demanned on the 31 March 1989. The operation of the light is controlled by a photo electric cell which determines when darkness has fallen, and the light, which has a range of 22 miles, is automatically turned on. Monitoring of the light is by UHF Radio monitor to Fife Ness Lighthouse then by PSTN to NLB Headquarters in George Street Edinburgh.
Canon EOS 5D + Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0 E55
One of my all time favourite 4WD cars. A true classic.
I still don't know how this one came out in focus, especially at 1/30, from this position and using a manual focus lens. I think i was lucky.
I could have made a crop, but i never crop (only in a panoramic way, sometimes) and i prefer the wide angle effect.
Much better viewing large:
_3006609BW In Explore Highest position: 245 on Monday, April 20, 2009
Girovagando per le strade della Val d' Orcia capita di vedere dei ruderi, spesso in restauro, mi sono avvicinato con curiosità quindi, quando ho trovato quella che sembrava una fattoria praticamente abbandonata e distrutta.
mi domandavo come mai non fosse stata riattata a B&B:
scendendo dall'auto (vetri chiusi e aria condizionata) tutto mi è apparso chiaro: accanto ai ruderi c'erano due capanni destinati all'allevamento dei maiali, un odore insostenibile....che dalle foto, per fortuna, non traspare.
E' chiaro che a lavorarci ci si abitua ma...
io le foto le fatte ugualmente... in apnea!
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Highest position: 465 on Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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At The Philadelphia International Flower Show.
Please check out my set for the show.
This shot (as all of my Flower Show shots) was indeed taken on Fat Tuesday. This is such a festive looking image that I decided to name it in honor of the holiday. I also celebrated by having some amazing gumbo at the Reading Terminal Market, YUM!
A view of the medieval castle in Lewes shortly before a shower of rain. Originally called Bray Castle, it occupies a commanding position guarding the gap in the South Downs cut by the River Ouse. Constructed from local limestone and flint blocks, it stands on a man-made mount just to the north of the High Street.
31255 has just got the road for a shunt move (position light signal alight on the signal) to propel two parcels vans north from Peterborough station, 6th March 1976. Interestingly 31255 seems to have its steam heating boiler operating.
Locomotive History
31255 was built at the Brush Falcon works, Loughborough as D5683 and entered traffic on 19th January 1961, allocated to Darnall MPD, Sheffield. During a thirty eight year main line career it was allocated to a number of depots including Finsbury Park, March, Stratford, Bescot, Crewe and Immingham. Its longest allocation spell was at March from 1976 until 1987. 31255 was withdrawn on 11th January 1999 and stored at Toton. It was then used to test the new paint shop built at Toton and so carries English, Welsh & Scottish Railway's red and yellow livery. Following withdrawal it has been sold for preservation, being delivered to the Colne Valley Railway on 19th February 2000 and has been restored to working order.