tarboat's photos
Cartouche
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Terracotta cartouche with the construction date on a building in Greyfriars Road, Cardiff.
Approaching Huanan
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A motley collection of loaded coal wagons is hauled into the outskirts of Huanan town on the Huanan Coal Railway with C2 041 in charge.
The pink bunkers
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Pingang coal mine at the north end of the Lishu system of the Jixi Coal Railway. The coal here is brought up a drift. The bright colours are typical of the larger Chinese mines.
Lane End Colliery Enginehouse
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The Lane End Colliery opened at the end of the 18th century and operated until 1893. There were four shafts and one was used for pumping water using submerged electric pumps until relatively recently. Today the remains of the Cornish type enginehouse and chimney base can still be found amidst the ever increasing woodland. This view is towards the bob wall across the shaft capping.
Pavement Lights
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Vault Lights, also known as Pavement Lights, in a Cardiff arcade. The St Pancras Ironworks Company was established by Henry Bessemer c1854 and was wound up in 1916. In the early 1900s the company was involved in the manufacture of steam road vehicles.
Into the sunlight
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The second runpast outside Malmesbury was just as spectacular as the first. 19D 3322 and 24 3655 burst into the early sunshine with their mixed train on the Klawer Branch in Western Cape.
Shap Blue Quarry
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Graded stone and asphalt plant at the Cemex operated Shap Blue Quarry. The ‘blue’ quarried granite rock is used exclusively for hardcore purposes, and as aggregate for tarmacadam and concrete plants. This stone is found to be superior to other chippings use in road making, because it does not break easily and therefore does not require replacing so frequently.
Telephone Buildings
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This Grade II listed building was the former telephone exchange and associated offices for the Hanley area. Erected for the National Telephone Company in 1899-1900 it served until a new exchange building was built at the rear in the 1970s. In 1904-5 the number of telephone subscribers in the Potteries and district was about 2,200. It is now a trendy bar.
Big K
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Britain's last deep pit for the time being. Kellingley Coliery was still in full production when this was taken in 2010.
Starter kit
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Gas oil tanks for when the kiln requires lighting up at the Clitheroe cement works. The tilting chimney on top of the preheater tower is obvious from here. It was damaged in a storm but has now been reseated.
Malmesbury
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Early morning and 19D 3322 and 24 3655 are awaiting departure from Malmesbury onto the Klawer branch. The buildings on the left are a large grain mill.
Jet engines
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British engineering at its best. Rolls Royce BR710 left and Trent 800 right at the Rolls Royce heritage museum in Derby.
Broken Hill central
Daw Mill gateway
Parked
Hatfield
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The distinctive stubby latticework headgear at Hatfield Colliery in March 2011. At the time the colliery was producing lots of coal.
Cottam at work
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The now closed power station at Cottam was hard at work on a cold winter day in January 2019.
Calvert Street
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Former corner shop in a block of Midland Railway housing in the centre of Derby.
