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On my way home from work on Friday 6th July, 2007 I just missed the action when this grey car skidded off the road through the wooden fence onto the railway tracks. This happens quite a lot. People drive too fast, but I can't work out how they manage to smash through the same bit of fence onto the railway at just the same spot.
The umbrella was shielding the injured woman driver from the rain until the ambulance arrived.
At March 2008, the County Council have at last erected crash barriers at this point.
OIA EAST DIVISION JV TRACK AND FIELD
Kaiser High School Stadium - March 30, 2012
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Taken at the end of the Piako County Tramway in Waiorongomai Valley. All of the forest around this tram track and back up the slopes of the valley were cleared back in the early 1880's in the hopes of mining the gold in the Kaimai mountain range. Didn't work out so well for the miners apparently. The rock proved too hard to mine effectively so it was all shut down in the early 1900's. Fortunately for us the forests have regenerated quite fast and we're left with all these mining relics strewn across a valley clad in native bush.
Two of the break heads and 5km of the track are still in tact. Well the bit in the photo is looking pretty rusted though. If you're reasonably fit and its not too wet you can walk/climb/crawl up Butlers incline, one of the three inclines on the track.
6 exposures (no idea why 6 instead of my usual 7 or 9)
Photomatix
Deghosted in Photoshop and fixed the sky.
Andrew loved Test Track, but he only got to ride it once. It's pretty clever for the 'on ride' photos to be linked to your PhotoPass.
I seek salvation,
At the end of a railroad track,
With an old blind dog,
And a beat up hobo pack.
I don’t know where the railroad will take me,
I haven’t the slightest clue,
I only hope that I can see,
The truth beneath the lie.
Aleksander Azrael
Running 100 minutes late, this Network Rail track maintenance machine had run from Stafford and was destined for Horsham. It is seen near Betchworth with the chalk cliffs of the North Downs behind.
Track plan for the layout. Created with Track Designer (an oldie but a goody) and edited in Photoshop.
The Kangarutha Track runs up over the bluffs and down into the coves for nine kilometres along the Pacific coastline through the Bournda National Park. It is rated at a Grade 4/6 difficulty by WildWalks, but the views make it worth the effort!
For the PhotoBlog story, please visit my website:
www.ursulasweeklywanders.com/travel/walking-the-kangaruth...
Autumn Falls, and so do the leafs.
Every autumn the Dutch rail-road managers hides themselves behind a remarkable excuse for schedule delays. The delays occurs in every season of course, and every season brings it's own excuse.
But in autumn it's the leaves!
It is claimed that fallen leaves stick on the rails, making them slippery and causes problems for the trains to brake. Thus speeds have to be reduced and trains have to brake earlier and slower.
For a couple of years I'm trying to find these famous "leaves on the line". Never found them though. Bright shiny tracks and nice Autumn colours, but no leaves whatsoever.
The search continues ;-)