tarboat's photos

Running fast and a few minutes late, 45407 brings the Crewe - Altrincham train past Plumley on the first run of the Mid-Cheshire Rail Day in May 2008.

One of the entrances to the Salvation Army Citadel at Royston, Barnsley. They knew how to use an apostrophe when this was built.

Built c1830, the building is now The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, a centre for the arts and performance and a gallery. It is listed Grade II.

Wuppertal Schwebebahn train eastbound after leaving Varresbecker Strasse station. In the background stands the Bayer pharmaceutical plant. The company was founded here in 1863.

A 1968 Leyland Atlantean formerly with Devon General leaving the old Hanley bus station shortly before it was closed for redevelopment.

Drum for the self-acting Bodwyddog Fawr incline at the Rhiw manganese mines. Ore was taken down to the pier at Nant Gadwen until the end of the First World War. There were two more inclines before the pier was reached and a long section that was eventually worked by a steam locomotive.

Three QJ class locomotives under the sand towers at Daban depot on the Jitong Railway.

A genuine US (Davenport) built 62-020 on a shunt at the Catici coal washery, Kakanj.

Seville has a short 2km MetroCentro line using the Urbos 3 tram built by CAF. These have battery capacity to allow them to run in areas without catenary around the cathedral.

Large Prairie tank 4144 with a train at Little Rock on the Severn Valley Railway.

43924 hurries a short passenger train part Northwood on the Severn Valley Railway.

The Halifax Flour Society was formed on 1st May 1847 to provide a co-operative corn mill following discontent against the Corn Laws, corn dealers' prices, and because much flour was adulterated. The Society sold to the public through agents. Initially 2,800 people bought £1 shares, and the Society bought a mill at Bailey Hall from where the first batch of cheap flour was sold in 1848. When the Bailey Hall mill became too small, a new 6-storey Bailey Hall was built in 1862. This was one of the most modern grain mills at the time and was opened with a party for 1,400 people on April 7, 1863. Later the Society bought more land at Bailey Hall and a new mill was opened in 1880. This is the building seen here. The Society was sold to the Co-operative Wholesale Society in 1915 and the Bailey Hall mill was sold to Paton & Baldwin. This mill eventually closed for flour production in the 1930s. It is now occupied by Nestlé.

Slag pots in the new smelter at Namtu, Myanmar which was constructed after the Second World War when the old smelter was destroyed. It processed lead, silver, zinc and copper from the Bawdwin mines but has been out of use for some time. It was suggested that it would reopen in 2012 but I have not heard anything of this since my visit.

There was never any doubt as to which locomotive you were seeing at Dahuichang because the number was daubed on the tender cab and front in messy white paint. No finesse and no fancy number plates here. A down to earth limestone carrying railway with the tiny trucks. No.3 is here heading back to the loading tunnel.

This former shoe shop in Tavistock is now Specsavers. Samuel Lennard began shoe manufacture on his own account in Leicester in 1876. Working with his brothers to retail shoes they traded for many years as varous incarnations of the Public Benefit Boot Company. The business was acquired by Great Universal Stores in 1973 and eventually disappeared into the now defunct Easiphit shoe shop business. History of the business here: www.publicbenefitbootcompany.co.uk/lennards-ltd-foundation-history

Drakewalls Mine 26in Whim Engine House. This mine mainly produced tin, but also some copper, wolfram, arsenic, molybdenum, lead, & silver.

Shillamill viaduct was built in 1889 by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway, engineers Galbraith and Church, with J.W. Szlumper for the London and South Western Railway. It is constructed of squared rock-faced granite with ashlar quoins, dressings and arch-rings. It is a double-track viaduct with twelve 50ft arches built almost in a straight line and is about 700 ft long with its greatest height at about 100ft. Although the line was closed south of Lydford in 1968 there are regular proposals for reinstatement to provide a second railway link to Cornwall. It is listed Grade II.

Staffordshire Miners' memorial at Apedale. The wheel came from Annesley Colliery in Nottinghamshire.