End of the line
Fuxin as was
Sunset and steam
Didao shunt
Afternoon prep
Steelworks
Dazhuangkuang colliery
Narrow gauge at Klenovic
Norchard
Qiupigou
On the footplate
Approaching Apesford
Alongside the Churnet
Shunting in the snow
Consall crossing
Servicing point
Passing the gallery
SY at Xifeng
Coal picking
Snowploughs
4277 on the climb
Loading
On the bank
Railway tower
New kid on the block
Uphill to the Burma Mines
Bristol bound
Amgoorie Tea
Didao
Bridges old and new
Haulage
Petrol tanks
Mine No.3
B1 freight
London Northwestern
Mytholmes viaduct
Under the loading hopper
Traffic stop
The view from my room
Chasewater minerals
Shunting
Minerals at Chasewater
Slag ladle
Back to Asmara
Waiting for torpedoes
Waiting at Temple Meads
Running round
Up to the mines
Old and new
Nanpiao passenger
Consall
Blue John
Catici
Snowy Catici
Funicular
Steel on the move
Uphill push
Watersplash and train
On the curve
Lorry at the crossing
Middlewood Station
Caiziba
Well Tank
Diaobingshan departure
Chinese Steam
Narrow gauge fun
Passing
Apesford Bank
Dust storm
Colliery branch line
Rhyl Voyager
Consall Arrival
No.5 Mine
Ammonoosuc
Diaobingshan
Above Novat
Bukinje reflections
Pingzhuang coal
Indian Pacific
Cheddleton Yard
Colliery passenger service
Huangjia departure
Burma Mines
On Hengshan bank
Kings Cross- Grand Central
Pingzhuang
Lounge
Double departure
Liaoning hills
Bridge building
Leaving Daban
Making rainbows
Track gang at rest
Leaving Dalu
New Street
Bi Shui
Yamenmiao
A wet start
4a
Pumping station
Freight on the move
Alpha
Branch line
Threlkeld
Almost there
Steaming at Threlkeld
Damems loop
Minninglow embankments
Biomass and semaphores
More empties for the pit
Rail Freight 2017
Banking the empties
On Oakworth bank
At Oxenhope
B1 and box
Oakworth glint
Mytholmes
Meihekou sunset
Buxton bound
Gulumanhan
Heading for the colliery
Shift change
Banked
Eagle Mouth Rock
Coal Power
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Sliding Bridge
The sliding bridge at Keadby was constructed in 1925 by Sir William Arrol of Dalmarnock (Glasgow) and rebuilt in 2004. The original rail crossing here was a swing bridge with its pivot located at the other side of the canal to the drawbridge. Its replacement with a sliding bridge was to minimising disruption to rail services during construction. It is battery operated using a set of 64 submarine type batteries which are trickle charged when not in use. The railway passes over the Stainforth & Keadby Canal on a skew. In the railway opened position it is supported on the nose abutment, the front wedges and the rear wedges. Control of the bridge is by the signalman from the adjacent signal cabin. An interlock with the railway signalling system ensures that the bridge cannot be opened unless rail traffic is prevented from crossing the bridge. The main actuators of the bridge are a set of hydraulically driven lifting jacks, two sets of electrically driven wedges and an electrically driven winch haulage drive which operates through an open gearbox with a six foot diameter differential gear.
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