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Comboio: CIMENTO 64381 (R.ALH.CIMPOR > Setúbal-Mar).
Material Circulante: CP 4706 + 4712 + 16 Rlps + 1 Rgs.
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Morning cement freight train at Pegões.
GWA001 is basically new out of the wrapper - Downer Motive Power Centre at Dry Creek , South Australia - 25 October 2011.
One of seven Model GT46C ACe locomotives being manufactured for Genesee & Wyoming by Downer in Newcastle, New South Wales with 4300hp available for traction.
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Hier zu sehen sind EBS 140 811 und 140 815 mit einem unbeladenem Holzzug in Düsseldorf-Rath, in kürze erreicht der Zug seinen Zielbahnhof Düsseldorf-Eller.
Calton Hill
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Calton is a hill in central Endinburgh,Scotland,just to the east of the New Town and included in the city's United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization World Heritage Site.Views of,and from,the hill are often used in photographs and paintings of the city.
Calton Hill is the headquarters of the Scottish Government,which is based at St.Andrew's House,on the steep southern slope of the hill;with the Scottish Parliament Building,and other key buildings,for example Holyrood Palace,lying near the foot of the hill.The hill also includes several iconic monuments and buildings:the National Monument of Scotland,the Horatio Nelson Monument,the Dugald Steward Monument,The Old Royal High School,The Robert Burns Monument,The Political Martyrs Mounument and The City Observatory.
Etymology
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In 1456,King James II of Scotland granted land to Edinburgh by charter whereim Calton Hill is referred ar to "Cragingalt" from the Gaelic for "rock or hill of the hazel".This points to "calltuinn", the Gaelic for hazel grove or cope",as being the derivation of Calton.The hill is referred to as Cragge Ingalt on the Petworth map of the Siege of Leith in 1560.Other,conjectured,derivations are"choille-dun" (forested hill) or "cauldh-dun" (black hill),both also from Gaelic.Mention is made of Caldtoun in the records of south Leith Church in 1591 and this or similar spelling remained general until 1800 with,for example,the Armstrong's map of 1773 still using Caldtoun and Ainslie's map changing Caltoun in 1780 to Caltoun in 1804.
The anglicised derivation of Calton is "cold town".
Earl History
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By his charter of 1456,King James II of Scotland granted the community of Edinburgh the valley and the low ground between Calton Hill and Greenside for performing tournamonts,sport,and other warlike deeds.This war part of his police of military preparedness that saw the Act of 1457 banning golf and Soccer and ordering archery practise every Sunday.This natural amphitheate was also used for open-air theater and saw performances of the early Scot play "Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Their Estaitis" by Sir David Lyndsay of the Mount.In May 1518 the Carmelite Friars (also known as White Friar and locally based at South Queensfarry),were granted lands by charted from the city at Greenside and build a small monastery there.Monasteries were suppressed following the Scottish Reformation of 1560,and this stood empty before conversion in 1591 into a hispital for lepers,founded by John robertson a city merchant.So severe were the regulations that escape,or even the opening of the gate of the hosital between sunset and sunrise,would incur the pentalty of death carried out on the gallows erected at the gate.The manastery would appear to have been located at the north-east end of Greenside Row and is shown there on the 1931 Ordnance Survey maps.
The Calton area was owned by the Logan Family of Restalrig but their lands were forfeited in 1609 following the posthumous sentence of treason on Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig.The lands of Restalrig and Calton,otherwise known as Easter and Waster restalrig,passed to the Elphinstone Family.Sir James Enphinstone was made 1st Lond Balmerino in 1604 and in 1673 the lands of Restalrig and Calton ware erected into a single barony.In 1725,Calton was disjoined and sold to the Royal burgh of Edinburgh.Calton remained a burgh of barony (although it was not administered as such)until it was formally incorporated into Edinburgh by the Municpality Extension Act of 1856.
In 1631,the then Lord Balmeriono granted a charter to The Society of the Incorporation Trades of Calton forming a society or corporation.This also gave the Society the exclusive rights to trade within Calton and the right to tax others who wished to do so.Normally the trades of burghs were separartely incorpated,for example in the Canongate there were eight incorporations,but the Trades of Calton allowed any tradesman to become a member providing they were healthy to their work was of an acceptable standard.This lack of restrictive practices allowed a thriving trade to develope.
The village of Calton was situated at the vottom of the revine at the western end of Calton Hill,hence its early name of Craigened.It was on the road from Leith Wynd in Edinburgh and North Back of Canongate to Leith Walk and also to Broughton and thence the Western Road to Leith.In the village,the stret was variously known as St.Ninian or Low Calton.
Calton was in South Leith Parish and Calton people went to church in Leith.The churchyard there was inconveniently situated for burials from Calto and ,in 1718,the Society bought a half acre of land at a cost of $1,640.00 from Lord Balmerino for used as a burial ground.This become known as Old Calton Burial Ground.Permisson was granted for an access road,originally known as High Calton and now the street called Calton Hill,up the steep hill from the village to the burial ground.
Buildings and Structures
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The Old Calton Burial Ground was the first substantial development on Calton Hill and lies on the south-western side of the hill.Te philosopher David Hume is buried there.His tomb is engraved only with the year of his birth (1711 and death (1776),on the "simple Roman tomb"(a relatively larger monument) which he prescribed.The Political Martyr's Monument is also in the burial ground.This is in memory of five admirers of the French Revolution who were convicted to sedition and sent in 1793 to Botany Bay,Australia.
On the Wesat side of Calton Hill is the street named Calton Hill.Agnes Maclehose,beter known as Rebert Burns's Clarinda,lived at number 14 and died there in 1841.Robert Burns,Scotland's national pote,sent Clarinda many verses over several years in unsuccessful (it is belived) attempts to suduce this beautiful lady.
Calton Hil was the location of the notorious Calton Jail a complex comprised a Debtors' Prision,the Bridwell (1791-1796) by Robert Adam (later replaced) and a Falons'Prison of 1815-1817 by Archibald Elliot.The jails were replaced by Saughton Prison and demolished in 1930 providing a site for St.Andrew's House,home to Scotland's senior civil servants.The sole surviving building is the castellated and turned Governors House by Archibald Elliot.The lower curtain walls of the prison are still visible on the south side of St.Andrew's House,above Calton Road.
The eastern end of the orante Regant Bridge is built into the side of the hill,crossing a deep gorge (at the bottom of which the opening scene from Transpotting was shot)to connect the hill with Princes Street,now Edinburgh's main shopping street.The engineer in charge of building Regent Bridge in 1815 was Robert Stevenson,grandfather of the auther Robert Louis Belfour Stevenson.
The renowned Scottish architect William Henry Playfair was responsible for the elegant throughfare the encircles the hill on three sides.Comprising Royal Terrace,Calton Terrance,and Regant Terrace,the largest of the townhouses can be found on Royal Terrace.William Henry Playfair's plan is dated 1819 and the first house was built at what is now 40 Royal Terrace.The gardens that cover over one half of the summit of the hill are privately administered by the local Residents Association.
Most of the properties on the terrances are occupied as houses but on Royal Terrace there is a number of hotels by the largest being the Royal Terrace Hotel while on Regent Terrace is located the United States Consule.Royal Terrace Hotel with its fine views over the Firth of Forth was known affectionately in the 19th-century as Whiskey Row.This is said to be a reference to the amount of Spirt merchants,who bought the new properties,and for their supposed abilities to see their ships return from trading trips.Another explanation is that it was so named because of the large number of wine merchants who used to live there.Louis Antoine of France Duke of Angoule`me (the elder son of King Charles X of France,last of the Bourbon kings)and his wife Marie The're`se Charlotte Madame Royale,(the daughter of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette),moved into what is now 22 (then 21) Regent Terrace in 1830.Princess Carline Ferdinande Louise the Duchesse be Berri,sister in law of the Duc d`Angoule`me also lived at what is now 12 (then 11) Regant Terrace at that time.Her young son Henri,the Count Comte de Chambord,is said to have wept bitter when his family left for Austria in 1932 as he had become very attached to Scotland.The painter Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell one of the Scottish Colourist lived in 30 Regan Terrace from 1930-1935.The Western end of Regan Terrace was closed to traffic because of security concerns about the United State Consulate.The City of Edinburgh Council proposeed closing the Royal Terrace Blenheim Place enterance to the Calton Hil because of the Edinburgh Trams Project.
William Henry Playfair was responsible for many of the monumentsal structures on the summit of the hill most notably the Scottish National Monument.This monument was intened to be another Parthenon and to commemorate Scottish Soldiers killed it the Napoleonic Wars 1803-1815.Construction started in 1826 but work was stopped in 1829 when the building was partially built due to lack of money.It has never been completed.For many years this fairure to completed led to its nickname "Scotland's Disgrace" but this name has waned given the time elapsed since the Napoleonic Wars 1805-1815 and its now accepted for what it is.
Political Symbol
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For a number of years,while the Royal High School was earmarkedfor the future Scottish Assembly,and subsequently as a potential site for the Scottish Parliament,Calton Hill was location of a perment vigil for Scottish devolution,however,Donald Campbell Dewar,then Secretary of State for Scotland,considered the site a "national shibboleth",and the nearby St.Andrew's House buildins (which at the time were based of the Secretary of State for Scotland and the former Scottish Office) to like "Nazi" like Dresden (sic).It was also the venue for the Declaration of Calton Hill which outlined the demands for a future Scottish republic.
Events
----------Calton Hill is the venue for a number of events throughout the year.The largest of these is the Beltane Fire Festival held on April 30 each year,attended by over 12,000 people.This is a ravial of the ancient Celtic May Day Festival of Beltane that was held on Calton Hill.The Dussehra Hindu Festival also takes place on Calton Hill the beginning of October each year.
[PT] Allan 0365 após chegada ao Entroncamento, vinda de Badajoz, com o indicador de destino a apresentar uma estação que já há muito viu o seu ultimo comboio partir, Serpins, relembrado os tempos em que estas automotoras serviam o agora desativado Ramal da Lousã.
[EN] Allan 0365 after arriving at Entroncamento from Badajoz, displaying at the destination indicator a station that saw it's last train many years ago, Serpins, remembering the time when this railcars served the now deactivated Lousã branch line.
182 505 passiert auf dem Weg Richtung Ruhrpott frisch foliert, die Einfahrt zum Gbf Mainz-Bischofsheim