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Dazhuangkuang Colliery is one of the major production centres around Pindingshan in Henan Province, central China. It is located about 35km west of the city.

19D 3322 leads 24 3655 head away from Klipheuwel towards Malmesbury with a mixed train.

This kiln is high up on the fellside above the village of Gunnerside. The climb was steep and hot but the sight of this substantial kiln structure was reward enough for the effort.

Climbing away from Klipheuwel towards Malmesbury. 19D 3322 leads 24 3655.

Chemical works always have an interesting range of buildings and shaped. Synthite Ltd was founded in West Bromwich in 1920 to produce resins but soon became a successful manufacturer of formaldehyde. This is their Alyn Works at Mold where amino resins are also manufactured.

Situated 1km south west of Ruabon, and in the middle of a caravan business, is this vertical winding engine house, built 1855-6 as one of the original structures of the Wynnstay Colliery. It is listed Grade II* as an exceptionally good example of the building type which is said to be the oldest surviving architectural monument in the North Wales Coalfield. It is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

GE 35-457 leads a train from the cement works at De Hoek and the grain mills at Malmesbury past 19D 3322 in a loop south of Kalbaskraal on the line to Malmesbury and Klawer in Cape Province.

On the Klawer branch in Western Cape. 24 3655 and 19D 3322 between De Hoek and Moravia.

The Brooklyn Works were constructed in the mid 19th century for the firm of Alfred Beckett, manufacturers of steel, saws and files. Alfred Beckett & Sons Ltd continued to manufacture at the Brooklyn Works until the mid-1960s using the 'Matchless' trademark. In 1967 Alfred Beckett & Sons was purchased by the Tempered Spring Company Ltd of Sheffield. The building stood empty for a period of time and was listed Grade II in November 1985 to protect it from demolition. In the 1990s the Sheffield-based firm of AXIS Architecture turned the disused works into residential apartments and offices for small businesses.

The Hudson Avenue Generating Station (the Station) was constructed in 1922 and is currently serving as a steam and peak capacity electric generating plant that is owned and operated by Con Edison. The 13-acre facility, located in the Vinegar Hill section of Brooklyn, New York and fronting on the East River, manages over 10 million gallons of petroleum storage capacity including No. 6 fuel oil, No. 2 fuel oil and kerosene. The Station supplies nearly 3 million pounds of steam an hour to Manhattan, as well as electric power for customers throughout Con Edison’s service area.

RSH 7673, Stewarts & Lloyds No 62 'Ugly'charges up the bank from Foxfield Colliery with a rake of mineral wagons

The first snow of winter settles on the ground as Yugoslav built USA Tank clone 62-520 shunts at the Mittal owned Zenica steelworks. The use of steam at this location ended shortly after.

Bristol RE TFM 267K on the approach to Nantwich Bus Station during a Crewe and South Cheshire Running Day back in 2010.

Whilst heading for the station in Crewe I spotted this fine example of entitled parking. Never a parking warden when you need one. Quite likely to get scratched and damaged by passing bikes too.

To the right is the soon to be closed 2,000 Mw EDF owned coal-fired station opened in 1969. To the left is the Uniper 400 Mw combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) Cottam Development Centre power station.

Crossing Appenine Way, Leighton Buzzard. The locomotive No.778 is a British War Department loco built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia and delivered in 1917. It is one of only two survivors in the UK of the total of 495 delivered by Baldwin.

Doorstep mosaic in Caernarfon. This jewellers in Pool Street is still trading under the same name.

A long lost scene from the now closed Beipiao mining railway. Spoil from the washery at Yijing was taken a short distance to be tipped on this siding, whence it was removed by a loading shovel. The train is about to cross over before reversing into the tip which was off to the right. The usual quota of Chines poles is visible.