tarboat's photos

Water tank at Quorn on the Pichi Richi Railway, South Australia. The South Australian Railways seem to have made the most of selling advertising opportunities on their water tanks across the state.

Production at the Rasp Mine in central Broken Hill has a long and profitable history. Development ceased in 2008 when metal prices fell but has since resumed and the mine currently employs c160 people. Annual production is planned to average 34,000 tonnes of zinc metal in concentrate, 28,000 tonnes of lead metal in concentrate, and 1.1 million ounces of silver in the lead concentrate.

Water tower at the Celsa steelworks in Cardiff. This is the site formerly operated by Allied Steel & Wire.

The Cardiff market hall was designed by the Borough Surveyor, William Harpur, and opened in May 1891. The clock (by Smith of Derby) dates from 1963 and was restored at a cost of £25,000 in 2011.

USA tank 62-020 is passing the Kakanj cement works as it draws the empty coal wagons to the Catici washery, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Chemical storage vessels at the LyondellBasell plant at Carrington, Greater Manchester. Polythene and polystyrene production here was originally by Shell and it was on this site that polythene was first created.

USA (Davenport) built 62-020 stands outside the enginemens' cabin at Catici coal washery, Kakanj.

Eddisbury Hill Colliery was operated by J T Brocklehurst & Sons Ltd of Hurdsfield Mills, Macclesfield, presumably to provide coal for boilers although some fireclay was also worked here. It seems that the pit was sunk soon after 1918 and in the last year of coal winding (1923) employed 3 men underground and 2 on the surface. This is the magazine for the pit which was a landmark from the Buxton Road until demolished a few years ago when the pit spoil heap was also levelled.

The three remaining Irish peat fired power stations are to be closed in December 2019. This is the old West Offaly power station at Shannonbridge. It was out of use when this photo was taken in 2008, having been replaced by the new station seen at the centre right edge. The old station was demolished during the following year.

Water tower at Halberstadt, Harz. A quick grab shot from a passing train.

Storage for the wood pellets burned at Drax power station. Quite how these are 'green' is beyond me as they are brought from the west side of the USA.

The Shibanxi Coal Railway is nowadays largely a tourist operation with little or no freight. On my 2017 visit we were lucky enough to find a short freight working which had been carrying bricks and sand for the construction of photographic viewpoints along the line. The train is approaching Caiziba having dropped of its load nearer to Mifenyang.

Inside the boiler house at Ratcliffe power station.

Ferrybridge 'C' power station was closed in 2016. Operated by Scottish and Southern Energy plc this 2000 megawatt power station first generated electricity in 1966.

A remote single limekiln on a Northumberland moor.

19D 3322 and 24 3655 on the big horseshoe curve between Malmesbury and Moorreesburg on the Klawer branch in Western Cape.

Terracotta detailing on a former school, Bond Street, Cromer.

19D 3322 a short distance from Het Kruis on the Klawer branch of South African Railways in the Western Cape.