Loose_Grip/Pete's photos

New Walk back in the brief lull between Covid lock downs! HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start to the new week.

British Railways Standard 2 2-6-0 78018 cruising up the recently cleared embankment at KInchley with the 11.55 ex-Loughborough train. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend!

A part of Starry Night over the Rhône projected onto the wall (and floor!) of All Saints church in Leicester. Van Gogh - The Immersive Experience. HWW to everyone. Have a great day.

The Severn Valley Railway with Ivatt 2 2-6-0 46443 and Hunslet WD 0-6-0ST 193 Shropshire simmering away in the engine shed yard at Bridgnorth. Fifty years ago the station was very quiet and no-one was enjoying a rest on that even older, probably Victorian wooden railway bench. HBM to everyone on Ipernity. Enjoy the start of the new May week

MAN 2500 series diesel railcar 2509 on the 16.22 tram/train service to Denia approaches Altea's 1911 station on the Alicante - Denia narrow gauge line. Today this route is L9 of FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana) and interfaces with the main Alicante overhead electrified tram system at Benidorm Intermodal station several kilometres to the right. We took the tam/train from Calpe & in both directions it was packed with passengers. HFF everyone! Have a great weekend.

Petra, the Rose City. The Treasury/Khazneh is one of the best-known rock-cut tombs in Petra. In the 2nd century BC Petra was the capital of the Nabatean Kingdom and as with most of the other buildings in this ancient town this structure was carved out of a sandstone rock face. Most people may recognise it from the final scenes in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which its façade is represented as the entrance to the final resting place of the Holy Grail. The elaborate interior shown in the film doesn't exist. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

On holiday in Jordan we drove out of Aqaba to Wadi Rum about 60km to the east towards the Saudi Arabian border. This is effectively the gateway to the Arabian desert and a wadi made famous by Lawrence of Arabia who passed this way several times during the Arab Revolt of 1917-18. It also featured in the 1960s film.

I just enjoyed a ride on this old bus between Quorn & Ruddington in Nottinghamshire but my bus-enthusiast friend tells me that rather than a standard Routemaster this bus RM121 is: "...known as a 'Dartmaster', one of the buses that were refurbished by Marshalls of Cambridge for TfL a while back for route 13 and maybe some others. The engine is probably a four-cylinder something and not an AEC six with a new Allison auto-gearbox and not the four-speed original, and the winding windows have been replaced by hopper type". (Quite a comfortable) HBM to everyone. Enjoy the start of the new week.

One of the marble minarets of the Taj Mahal.