tarboat's photos

Kerr Stuart 3063 bursts out of the steam as it runs round on the Chasewater Railway.

Sign on the clifftop above Wick Harbour. Someone really doesn't want birds landing on it. I think it could do with a few more spikes to make it effective.

This was built as the Breadalbane Hall which opened 1911 and later became a cinema run by the Caledonian Associated Cinemas Limited. It was seriously damaged by fire in 1933 and internally rebuilt 1935-6. Cinema use ceased in the 1960s and it later became the Dounreay Social Club. The building has been abandoned for some years and is suffering serious deterioration.

More signs than you can shake a stick at. What the hell does all this mean? What is the point of it all?

Greig Street footbridge, Inverness, was built in 1881, probably to the design of C R Manners. Rose Street Foundry of Inverness was the contractor. The bridge is listed grade B.

It has become a regular occurrence to see paper waste being spread on land as a soil conditioner. This mountain was being loaded into spreaders for application onto the fields on the uplands of Lyme Handley.

On the platform at Bristol Temple Meads station. The comfortable IC125 stock is already being replaced by uncomfortable bi-modal units on some services. The new units are unable to match the performance of the 40 year old 125s when away from the overhead wires. Such is progress.

Sums up everything about Northern Rail at the moment. I grabbed this shot from the Hull to Scarborough train at Cottingham. The train subsequently failed at Bridlington which resulted in my getting home nearly three hours late after the "journey from hell". Thanks Northern.

The National Coal Board spared no expense whilst capping the open shafts on Bakestonedale Moor, Pott Shrigley during the 1980s. The indentation once held a sign stating "Danger Old Shaft, Keep Out".

The yard of monumental masons John Hood & Son at Wick.

Waiting for a couple of torpedoes containing molten iron to be brought from under the furnaces at Scunthorpe steelworks.

There are extensive remains of the surface structures at the New Engine lead mine near Eyam. In addition to the winding/capstan engine beds underneath the tree there is the arched boiler house and the building that housed a Cornish type beam pumping engine. The shaft is sunk through sandstone and shale and ultimately reached 1092 feet in depth. The pumping engine was made in Sheffield by Davy Brothers and installed in 1863. It had a short working life, being stopped in 1868. It is said to have been removed in 1884.

Light is fading and the sun is setting as a pair of Mallets head for Asmara having completed the main climb from Arbaroba on the Eritrea Railway.

Haig Pit at Whitehaven was sunk in 1914 and closed in 1986. The surviving buildings at the pithead were incorporated into a mining museum but this closed in 2016. At the time of my visit on a very wet afternoon the visitor centre was being used by West Cumbria Mining as offices for their project to establish a new mine for coking coal nearby.

Kerr Stuart 3063 with the slag ladle on the Chasewater Railway at Brownhills West.

High Chapel limekiln, Dentdale.

Kerr Stuart 3063 of 1918 out on the line on the Chasewater Railway.

Hope cement works viewed from the top of Pindale.