tarboat's photos

The Brazilian company Votorantim Cimentos now owns the Cosmos Cement Mill at Bobadilla Station, Málaga. The works was begun in January 1999 and was an attempt to create self-sufficency in cement in the region.

Former Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway class 27 ('A' Class) locomotive 52322 is just outside Bolton Abbey on the Yorkshire Dales Railway with a permanent way train on a very wet day.

Leaving Arbaroba with a Mallet headed mixed train to Asmara on the Eritrea Railway.

Two oil wells not far from the River Trent at Beckingham, opposite Gainsborough. The site is operated by Island Gas Ltd. There continues to be extensive oil pumping across a large area of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Sign overload at the approach to Westbrecks crossing on the railway serving Cottam power station. That's a lot for drivers to absorb whilst avoiding other traffic and road junctions. I am sure they are all deemed necessary but I doubt that the average motorist will register everything. The gated crossing sign is incorrect as there are no gates or barriers on this level crossing.

Telephone opportunities in the Market Place at Ripon.

Unique Class 26 3450 was withdrawn in 2004 and it took a lot of effort to restore it to service in 2018. Whilst it has since hauled a number of passenger services it does not normally get a chance to haul freight. The FarRail tour in 2019 saw Derick du Toit, owner of the Ceres Rail Company, reach agreement for the locomotive to haul a train consisting mainly of wagons loaded with cement plus several vans giving a total weight of around 690 tons. It is seen here a reaching the 1212ft summit at Mowers, 14 miles east of Worcester on the former New Cape Central Railway on a run from Ashton.

The sanders are hard at work as a train of ore hoppers climbs the valley to Tiger Camp on the Burma Mines Railway. The locomotive is a rare surviving product of Stoke-on-Trent builders Kerr Stuart(Works No 2383/1914).

Window at Shakespeare's Ale House, Gibraltar Street, Sheffield. The Ward's Sheaf Brewery was on Ecclesall Road, Sheffield and was acquired by Septimus Henry Ward in the 1870s. In 1972, S H Ward & Co. Ltd was acquired by Vaux & Associated Breweries and continued to brew bitter as a subsidiary. Despite still being profitable, the brewery was closed in 1999. The Wards brand was bought by the Double Maxim Beer Company in 2003 and is run as a subsidiary called Ward's Brewing Company.

The Triumphal Arch at Shugborough is most likely to have been the first of the park monuments undertaken by Stewart and certainly the most prominent. Work started soon after 1761 and was completed in 1765. It is based on the Arch of Hadrian in Athens. In 1760, Thomas Anson suffered a huge loss, with the death of his close friend and sister-in-law, Elizabeth York, and again in 1762, with the death of his brother George. Thomas memorialised them both by adding their busts in the outer arches. In the central arch, Thomas added an ‘aplustre’, a commemorative plaque. It depicts naval trophies and other attributes linked to his Admiral brother’s illustrious life.

K1 is the original Beyer Garratt, which was supplied to the Tasmanian Government Railways in 1909 for use on the North East Dundas Tramway. After overhaul at the Statfold Barn Railway in 2020 it is seen here out on the line just after departing from Oak Tree Halt during a 30742 Charters event.

A pair of downdraught kilns at a brickworks at Qiaotou near Nanpiao. This is the only place where I have seen kilns built with a stone outer structure.

This corrugated iron building stands on the edge of Bristol Docks. I am unsure of its original purpose although it may have been related to operations on the dock railways.

Preserved sulphuric acid tank wagon at Bristol Docks. Built in 1940 by Charles Roberts & Co Ltd at Wakefield, it is painted as owned by the War Department and allocated to the Royal Ordnance Factory at Bridgwater.

Four Maerz PFR limekilns at the Tata Steel operated Hardendale Quarry at Shap. A PFR kiln (parallel flow regenerative shaft kiln) consists of two vertical shafts and a connecting crossover channel. Both shafts work with each other. While one calcines the product, the other preheats the stone. In the burning shaft the lime is calcined in parallel flow. The hot combustion gases are then transferred through the crossover channel to the non-burning shaft where they preheat the limestone in counter flow in the upper area of the shaft. The flow direction of the gases is reversed at regular intervals. This allows the regenerative preheating of the stone to take place (the stone in the preheating zone of the kiln acts as heat exchanger) and thus for the maximum use of the heat contained in the kiln gases. The principle of calcination in parallel flow is ideal for the production of high-reactive quicklime. A PFR kiln from Maerz processes up to 800 tons of burnt lime per day.

Charnwood Forest Brick Ltd is a component of Michelmersh Brick Holdings PLC. The Company produced approximately 3 milion facing bricks and special shaped bricks per annum from its manufacturing base at Shepshed, near Loughborough. Hand made facing bricks are here being manufactured and placed on rail trollies to go to the dryer before firing.

Not a service that one would expect to see departing from the 1960s chic of Hanley bus station. The Bristol RE was new to Crosville in May 1970 and has been in preservation since 1990.

The first train of the day departs from the station at Schierke and commences the long climb to the summit of the Brocken.