tarboat's photos

It may look like a long distance working but this is actually the morning mixed train on the Yuanbaoshan Coal Railway as it heads for the mine at Fengshuigou. The empty coal wagons were at the rear on this occasion.

Six-spot Burnet Moths ( Zygaena filipendulae ) at Bennerley, Notts. Attached to the other side of the stem is the empty chrysalis case from which had emerged one of the abundant examples of this species seen at this site.

Ruddy Darter ( Sympetrum sanguineum ) at Bennerley, Notts.

Harrington Mills, Long Eaton. It was really good to see this mill still in industrial use and the hoists being used.

Top of the four Maerz limekilns at the Corus operated Hardendale Quarry at Shap.

The message is superfluous these days.

Dunaskin Brickworks, near Dalmelington, Ayrshire. Closed 1976 by the Scottish Brick Corporation.

Hednesford brickworks was originally owned by the Cannock Chase Colliery Company. It was taken over from the NCB in 1974 by the Butterley Brick Company and closed some years later.

The brick, tile and fireclay works at Prestongrange Colliery in East Lothian opened in the 1890s and was operated by the Summerlee Iron Company, NCB to 1969, and the Scottish Brick Corporation until 1975.

The brickworks at Roslin Colliery was established by the Shotts Iron Company in 1937. It continued in NCB ownership until 1969 and then under the Scottish Brick Corporation until 1977.

Early NCB brick from Dunaskin Brickworks near Dalmellington. This one uses a modified stamp from Dalmellington Iron Company days.

Night time at Buckley Wells depot on the East Lancashire Railway in Bury.

This is closer to the shot I wanted at the Barrow Hill roundhouse, but has the disadvantage of the mass of orange jackets and vests around the Class 03 shunter under the sand hopper. Oh well!

Memories of a visit to the Barrow Hill roundhouse a few years ago. The guy keeping an eye on us was trying to rush me along, whilst I wanted to take shots without loads of orange jackets everywhere. In the end this is a hurried snap which doesn't have the composition I wanted and the water column and Class 45 diesel intrude at the left, rather than being an integral part of the shot of the Class 03 under the sand hopper.

Current excavation of this sand filled passage has been interrupted by high water levels. West Mine, Alderley Edge.

A remnant of the landsale wharf at the Waterside washery site near Dalmellington.

On this particular morning the second train of empty bolsters was heavily delayed and this allowed a chance to catch 764-421 leaving Botizu in sunshine during the brief time that the sun reached the valley bottom.

Fiddler's Ferry from across the Mersey just before the rains came.