tarboat's photos

The pointsman waits for a shunt at the Beichang washery in Jixi. It's a pity his feet were hidden by the mound of earth.

A freezing day on the Jixi Coal Railway. The sun has almost set as SY1058 starts up the bank at Nanchang with a train of loaded tipper wagons.

Monochrome sheep in a green landscape. Parkhouse Hill viewed from above Earl Sterndale.

The brewery tower peeps over the buildings. No doubting ownership here!

Power station at Shaguotun, Nanpiao.

Almost like a castle with battlements, this is the Hoffmann Kiln at the Craven Limeworks, near Settle. Abandoned since 1939 the kiln is now in the care of the local authority.

Winter morning shift change at Tianzhuang depot on the Pingdingshan Coal Railway.

Limekilns at the Buxton Lime Industries Hindlow Quarry. The stone for burning is brought in by rail from Tunstead as quarrying has ended here.

Shades of the DDR as a Trabant and a Lada wait for a train to cross the road outside Drei Annan Hohne.

You wouldn't want to tangle with the rest of the beast upon which this is usually attached. This claw alone is about 3 metres high! Cutacre Opencast Mine, Little Hulton.

A train of standard gauge mineral wagons on transporter wagons bursts out of the forest and into the sunlight approaching the tunnel above Steinerne Renne on the Harzquerbahn. It was still early and there was only just enough sun on the line to cover the loco and first wagon.

Work has now started on removing the Cutacre spoil tip which was once notable as the largest colliery tip in Europe.

Pitheadgear leads the troops into battle with the machines. Cutacre opencast mine, Little Hulton.

Hot asphalt plant at a disused limestone quarry.

At the Park Pit site brickmaking recommenced in 1937 after the closure of the Poynton collieries. A private company, the Poynton Brick Co. used shale from the colliery tip to make bricks using an open topped kiln of the Scotch type. In a 1939 trade directory the works is described as run by the Vernon Brick Co., and soon after was taken over bv J & A Jackson. The machinery was situated in the old colliery power house and the bricks with "Vernon Poynton" on the face could still be found in the press until the works was demolished in the early 1970s. The plant was electrified in 1956 and the kiln had a top put over it, but production ceased in 1958. Maximum output was 65,000 bricks per week.

Packwall and roadway in one of the Cracken Edge stone mines.

Morning service departing from Consall on the Churnet Valley Railway.

Churnet Valley Railway winter service is ready for departure from Cheddleton on a cold winter morning.