tarboat's photos

Whilst chasing limekilns I found this lovely little corrugated iron building. The windows suggest that perhaps this was once an office for the nearby quarry.

Former main line shunter 08 865 trundles through the middle of the loading sidings at Hope Cement Works.Two different crossing signs and a 'Give Way' guard the scene.

Colliery loading facilities at the Xifeng Mine, on the Lishu section of the Jixi Coal Railway.

Class 20s numbered 3 and 82 at the Breedon Hope Cement works along with No.5 (Andrew Barclay 613 of 1977) during an Industrial Railway Society visit. The railway was very busy with cement being loaded and coal hoppers arriving and discharging.

Inside the coke car at the Monckton cokeworks on the way to the quenching tower.

This pit was sunk in 1894 and operated until 1983. The preserved headframe is of unusual design and replaced a wooden structure c1968. The winding house beneath contains a steam winding engine built c1896 by Grant, Ritchie and Co Ltd, Kilmarnock.

SY 1118 between duties at Pingang Mine at the north end of the Lishu system of the Jixi Coal Railway.

The newest furnace at the Baotou steelworks was blown in during November 2006.

Winnington soda ash works of Brunner Mond back in 2008. Soda ash production has since ended here but the works continues on a lesser scale producing other chemicals.

Seacombe floating pier on the Wallasey side of the Mersey. Ferries run from here daily to Birkenhead and Liverpool, a service that has run for many centuries.

Loading bunkers at this small coal mine near Jixi. The concrete arch of one of the drift entrances can be seen beneath the right hand pole in the middle of the shot. This mine was closed in early 2008 but was still in full production when I visited.

The Walker Club was formed in 1844 in Londonderry to perpetuate the memory of the Rev. George Walker, who raised a regiment under Lord Charlemount for the defence of Dungannon, and when Dungannon was abandoned he and his regiment made their way to Derry, to help in the defence of the City. He then became Joint Governor. He fought with King William at the Battle of the Boyne, where he was killed on the 1st day of July, 1690. The club forms part of the "Associated Clubs of the Apprentice Boys of Derry". There are a number of branches to be found in Ayrshire. I was out in Ardrossan when the sound of fifes and drums drifted up the main road and it was clear that the Ardrossan branch was parading within the town. As they passed someone spotted my camera. There did not appear to be many younger men involved.

Quarry cottage and limekilns at the Glenmuir Limeworks east of Cumnock in Ayrshire. The quarry and kilns here seem to have been disused in 1858 but by 1896 were back in use. The 1906 map shows them as disused again.

A train accelerates over the short viaduct at Arbaroba on the climb towards Asmara on the Eritrea Railway. A Mallet locomotive leads the way.

Old limekiln at Seawood Farm, near Baycliff.

73129 arriving at Swanwick Junction.

I reckon this used to be the Loughborough branch of Woolworths.

Kerr Stuart 13 works its way up the final climb into the yard at Wallah Gorge on the Burma Mines Railway.