tarboat's photos

The steam age meets the electronic era on the Eritrea Railway where the line crosses the road above Embatkala.

A lot of detail to like in the boys entrance to this former school on Great Moor Street in Bolton. The fencing and the arc in the wall top on the right are wonderful. The County Grammar School was built in 1897 and is listed Grade II including the gates and fencing alongside.

Transpennine Express service to Glasgow calls at Bolton.

This beast lurks within a small quarry near Hazelbadge Hall abover Bradwell.

The large prairie tank 4144 at Northwood as it heads back to Bewdley on The Severn Valley Railway.

I spotted this Nissen alongside the canal close to Keadby power station. Tremendous rust. I suspect this is being used as a store for a rowing club.

Water tower on Chapel Lane, Keadby.

Edward VII is referenced on this 1905 rainhead attached to the old post office building on Guildhall Street in Lincoln. The building is now a pub known as The Mailbox.

As the sun sets behind the mine buildings at Sanjiazi, SY 0366 shunts the loaded coal wagons for despatch on the Nanpiao Coal Railway.

The UPM Caledonian Paper mill at Irvine in North Ayrshire produces up to 235,000 tonnes of coated magazine paper annually. It has been in operation since 1989.

SY 1299 at the head of the afternoon passenger service on the Sanjiazi branch of the Nanpiao Coal Railway. This is the stop at Shaguotun where access to the platform requires walking alongside the track and crossing a siding. On this day it was running as a mixed train with two wagons of rails immadiately behind the locomotive.

Pylons and autumn colours during my morning stroll around the parish.

Co-operative Sundries Manufacturing Society offices on Greenside Lane, Droylsden. This was known as the Beehive Works and a hive with industrious bees is represented on the central gable. It has proved tricky to find what the sundries were, but after a bit of research it has become clear that in the early 1900s it included mincemeat and mixed peel in barrels. The was also a reference to the manufacture of syrup of violets.

Midland Railway Company's station at Leicester was rebuilt to the design of Charles Trubshaw in 1895. This is the departure section of the frontage with terracotta ornamentation and the initials of the company in the wrought iron over the side gates.

Red van alongside the Macclesfield Canal.

Birkwood Limekiln, Thorntonhall, Lanarkshire. This is a big draw kiln with a 1790 datestone.

I think the cold had slowed down my brain as I stood on the top of a colliery spoil heap to photograph the empty coal wagons to the Xinghua mine on the line from Zhengyang on the Jixi Coal Railway. My fingers were in pain from the extreme cold and I didn't notice the wire running across the locomotive as it neared the summit. Oh well, nearly nailed it.

Orme Mill at Waterhead in Oldham was built in 19089 by the Orme Ring Mill Ltd for cotton spinning. Initially it housed 62,000 ring spindles. It was designed by architects F. W. Dixon & Son. The Lancashire Cotton Corporation took over in the 1930s and production finished in 1960. The mill was passed on to Ferranti in 1964, and is now in multiple usage.