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A series of photos from a walk up and over Coniston Old Man, a hill (or fell) in the English Lake District National Park on a bitterly cold day in late winter 2023.
It's pretty obvious where this is, Sandgate which is a suburb of Brisbane in SE Queensland. I am coming out in support of railway stations, not the modern vernacular of train stations though they may be. Sandgate is the second last station on the Shorncliffe Branch and both locations are bayside suburbs of Moreton Bay.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgate_railway_station,_Brisbane
This station is of particular interest to me as my family used it regularly up until 1972 as two of my maternal aunties lived at nearby Brighton and we used to visit very regularly. A lot of steam trains back then, at least until about 1968. Ah yes! We used to take the train and then taxi, bus or even walk to their place. I don't know how we did that, it was quite a long way as the crow doesn't fly and Mum had a serious heart condition.
Back then, life was slower and different. On the left side of this view and across the tracks was the Sandgate Gas works with its distinctive smell. The station had refreshment rooms in those days but they weren't always continuously open. If I remember rightly, about ten minutes before the train, the ladies would lift up these wooden windows with a bang, probably to let everyone know that they were opening. I wonder what they sold? Malted milk shakes and Jaffas for sure! Whatever else, we never bought any despite obviously being able to consume food on the train in those days. I guess a bit of spilled food was no worse then getting covered in soot and cinders from the steam locomotives. Ah yes!
Outside, the distinctive green and cream Hornibrook Highway buses would wait in a number of different "platforms" to depart for various destinations over the Hornibrook Highway bridge to Redcliffe. They never stopped anywhere to pick up passengers on the southern (Sandgate) side of the bridge, that was the responsibility of Black and White buses which ran the largest number of run down rattletraps anywhere in the south east. They did have one advantage, their timetables were very basic and unreliable and if you caught a bus that was supposed to connect with a train (didn't they all?), you could remind the driver and he would put the foot down like Phar Lap in the Melbourne Cup*.
The station was also a bit unusual in railway terms. It was the end of the double track and had two platforms but the inbound one (known as the new platform as it was a more recent build) was only used for a couple of morning peak trains. Otherwise all trains used the outbound platform which made it easier. With many more services these days, city bound trains always use the inbound platform and you either have to trudge over the stairs or use a lift, a totally modern facility that you can see in the left of the photo. The station also had a number of points and semaphore signals but was not afforded a proper signal box. It had a small corral on the platform near the station masters office and with a train due, the staff would fly out importantly moving the levers to change those points and signals, followed by a walk to the old fashioned gated level crossing on the city side to close the gates manually. And someone else would stand by the one exit door to collect tickets. Ah yes!
The station has had a number of makeovers over the years and as you can see, while the fundamental architecture has been retained, new fonts on the sign, solar on the roof, lifts, ticket barriers etc - the lever corral is gone, as is the refreshment room and the gasworks. It's now a site still waiting for full remediation (apparently).
Buses still connect to Redcliffe but not as many and Redcliffe now has its own railway. And those rattlers of Black and White Buses, they are long gone.....they merged with Red and White Buses and they continue a long line as Red and White Coaches (naturally smoother) and are still based at Sandgate for hire and tours.
Wow, that was a memory mouthful.
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Jordan Valley Fishery, in northern Michigan. This place is HUGE! and is home to a katrillion billion zillion baby brook trout. It was a really awe-inspiring space to be in, and I was there by myself which was even better!
Trans issue's have come on a lot in recent years but there is still much more to do in order to ensure we are fully accepted in society. Why should I be a victim of hate or ridicule simply because I do not look or behave like my birth gender. Raising awareness is critical and if we all do a little to achieve that then it will be such a great help for future transgendered people.
Part of the infrastructure, thousands of these on the network and rarely given a second glance.
A Pendolino travels south at Cathiron, north of Rugby on the WCML, seen through the catenary support, Saturday 24.1.15
ACT created a play to support the Quest for a Cure Team with their RFL efforts.
In the play, an elven boy wanders alone, before he finds and befriends a human lady and hunter.
The dragon is at first upset that they are there, but eventually invites the little party into his home. They learn he is old and alone.
(to be continued....)
Why oh why doesn't this sort of thing happen on a nice sunny evening? 37515 in Trainload Metals livery tows a failed 47787 'Victim Support' near Scorrier on 1C92, the 19:30 Penzance – Bristol Temple Meads TPO on Monday 10th May 1999.
Le sentier des Douaniers, également connu sous le nom de GR 34 était autrefois utilisé par les douaniers pour lutter contre la contrebande. Ce chemin relie le port de Ploumanac'h à la plage de Trestraou et est l'une des balades les plus prisées des Côtes d'Armor.
A view of the support cables of El Puente de l'Assut de l'Or bridge which is found in the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia.
I took this shot immediately after this one:
String Theory
You can see more shots of this amazing complex in my Valencia set.
The support for our launch was outstanding, and I want to thank each of you for the #GoodLuckTim messages. From the schoolchildren who watched the launch in class, people watching on the underground, and viewers outside of UK, your messages have shown how much interest there is in space and they mean a great deal to me. A big thank you to those who attended launch celebrations up and down the country and especially the school kids who attended the event at the Science Museum. We are very busy up here but I promise to start sharing more of our life in space soon.
Credits: ESA/NASA
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Hello from Hart Bricks! We are made up of a couple of brothers that love building Mocs passionately enough to write this description, which took a lot of effort :)
What is it? - This project started out as a whirlpool and a ship, which turned into a collection of the four seasons (which we don't have in Arizona) in one Moc that can be built as a 4 seasons showcase or individual season showcase!
Why did we build it? - Well, to be honest, sets are fun to play with, and we almost always start a project by just messing around with a few pieces. That turned into a whirlpool, which became a replaceable vignette, which morphed into something much better! FOUR Seasons!
Why would this make a great set? - Because it just looks cool. And it would be fun to build! Set quality seems to go down and down, but this would definitely interest everyone! Think about it: a desk model, or maybe bedroom shelf book-end. Who knows? The seasons move individually from each other, and there is a group base and an individual base that allows for seasons to be taken out and showcased on their own or together as a whole. You decide!
Anyways, just support it if you've read this far!
37679 Seen at RSS Railway Support Services at Wishaw
I first seen this locomotive back in 2018 stored in the yard at Bury Baron Street home of the East Lancs Railway.
Since then she was moved by road (low loader) to RSS at Wishaw in Sutton Coldfield near
Birmingham
The locomotive first entered service on 25th April 1963
Allocated to 88A Cardiff Canton as pre TOPS D6823
Built by English Electric Vulcan Foundry
The loco worked just short of 38 years service for British Railways
She was withdrawn from service on 1st December 2000
Allocations...
88A Cardiff Canton - 1963
87E. Landore. - 1963
91N. N/ Eastern Region - 1966
50A. York. - 1966
52A. Gateshead. - 1966
51L. Thornaby. - 1968
41A. Tinsley. - 1971
Numbers Carried by the locomotive
Pre TOPS - D6823 in 1963
TOPS. 37123 - 1974
TOPS. 37679-1986
NS 4771 brings a set of helpers westbound through Keystone, West Virginia, along the NS Pocahontas District.
An old wooden stool left in a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. Built in 1829 and closed in 1971 remaining abandoned for several decades before being re-opened to the public as a tourable historical attraction.
Technical details:
Bronica SQ-A medium format film camera with a Bronica Zenzanon 80mm F2.8 PS lens.
Kodak Tmax 400 shot at ISO 400.
1/2 second at F16.
Developed in Diafine for 4 minutes (part A) and 4 minutes (part B) @ 20 degrees Celsius in Paterson 3 reel tank. 5 seconds initial agitation with swizzle stick followed by 5 seconds of additional agitation ever minute thereafter.
Negative scanned with Epson 4990 on holders with ANR glass.
Support teams work around the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Shannon Walker, and Victor Glover, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, Sunday, May 2, 2021. NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission was the first crew rotation flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket with astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)