tarboat's photos

764-421 sorting the loaded timber bogies at Botizu on the forestry line above Viseu de Sus. There's not much winter sunlight to be found here in the deep valley bottom. Photo by Tarboat junior.

Jefferson is heading for the Isle of Man as he hurtles across the beach near Kirkcudbright. Photo courtesy of Mrs Tarboat

Niamh takes time out to explore the beach at Southerness on our recent Scottish trip. Southerness Point lies on the Solway Firth to the south of Dumfries. The lighthouse was originally erected in 1749 as a marker to aid ships entering the Nith Estuary and was raised in 1795. A light was added in about 1800 and the tower was raised again in 1843-44. It is now disused, the light having been taken out of use in the mid-1930s.

It was only a short stroll across the road from our hotel to the depot at Wernigerode and it would have been a great waste not to record the night time scenes whilst the lights were still on.

Morning empties passing the triangular junction with the Novat branch on the Wassertalbahn, Viseu de Sus.

The owner of the brickworks was R.P.Barker. After Blaguegate Colliery, Skelmersdale closed in February 1933 the site was developed by Ralph Platt Barker from c1936 as the Lathom Brickworks. This rather worn dated example was lying on the beach at Crosby.

This brick came as a complete surprise as I had no idea that Pope & Pearson, the well known West Yorkshire colliery proprietors, had an interest in brickmaking at Newhey south of Rochdale.

A product Accrington Brick & Tile Company works that also produced the famous NORI bricks. This example was lurking in a boundary wall of a demolished school in Chadderton.

There were two brickworks in Carfin and I believe that this is a product of the one operated by Andrew Jeffrey's Carfin Coal Co, Carfin, Motherwell, Lanarkshire, between c1859 and c1939. The other was William Dixon's Jenny Lind brickworks .

Standard tank pulling into the station at Consal on a dull February afternoon.

The midwinter sun sets fast and early in central China and this makes afternoon photography an interesting prospect in the deep valleys threaded by the Baiyin Mining Railway. I wanted to catch the uphill passenger in sunshine well up into the hills and this restricted the possible locations. Having chosen my spot and perched myself on a rather precarious hillside I waited for the action. The sun was slipping behind the hill and the shadow was encroaching on the line. I could hear the train in the distance, but would it reach me before the shadow covered the tracks? When SY 2008 finally arrived the sunny gap was just big enough for the locomotive and a bit of the first coach. It had been a close run thing but the result was worth it.

A bleak foreground landscape as a pair of JS class locomotives start the midday empties away from Liushuguan on the Sandaoling Coal Railway. This is already an unrepeatable scene as the exchange traffic here is was dieselised a few weeks later.

Crewe & South Cheshire Running Day saw Leyland Leopard PHA319M skirting the square in the town centre shortly after leaving Crewe bus station.

Crewe and South Cheshire Running Day sees our very own Renown at the wheel of former St Helens Transport / pretending to be Berresfords Motors AEC Swift EDJ244J shortly after leaving Crewe bus station.

It may be a bit incongruous but this Routemaster outside the White Lion in Weston makes a fine sight during the Crewe and South Cheshire Running Day.

The Tinsley cooling towers were 76 metres high and the last remaining features of the former Blackburn Meadows power station. They were demolished in August 2008 and now there is even less of interest to be seen from the M1 (seen here on a viaduct in front of the towers).

The two shafts at Daw Mill Colliery are just over 550m deep. All coal is now brought out through a drift.

The Anchor Mill of 1881 stands on Daisy Street in Oldham. Built to the design of Joseph Stott for the Anchor Spinning Co. Ltd, it ceased production in 1929 and was used as a cotton waste warehouse for many years.The 720hp engine was by Benjamin Goodfellow of Mottram Road Foundry, Hyde. The building has recently been refurbished as industrial units and a hall for events.