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Happy Fence Friday! 3F loco #47406 and Crab #13065 lead the first passenger train of the day to Leicester.

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

Fisheye und moderne Architektur gehen gut zusammen ... ... da werde ich noch so nach und nach weitere Aufnahmen hochladen!

Nach dem Nachtflug aus Taipeh morgens in Amsterdam angekommen - 9 Stunden Aufenthalt! Eine schöne Stadt, aber wir waren dann doch noch zu müde, um das alles zu würdigen ...

The Buxton branch had been blocked for two days after the recent snowfall and Network Rail finally got around to sending out the ploughs from Crewe with 56105 & 56087. The worked from Stockport to Buxton via Chinley and then came down the branch to Hazel Grove before returning to Buxton and ploughing the Hindlow line. I assume that they then returned via Chinley. I caught them at Norbury Crossing on the way down to Hazel Grove as the light was fading. In years gone by there were two large ploughs at Buxton and the branch was kept open by running them all night if necessary. These days there seems to be no appetite for keeping the line open when it snows. This is probably due to the beancounters telling them it is not cost effective. That's not much of a consolation to those trapped and unable to get to or from home/work. Whatever happened to the concept of public service?

Driver and fireman on ex Great Western Railway 4300 class 2-8-0 tank 4277 at Consall on the Churnet Valley Railway. They seemed to be enjoying themselves even if the loco was tired and off beat. Its 10 year boiler certificate expired a few days afterwards.

Shoufeng liegt am nördlichen Ende des "East Rift Valley", einem fruchtbaren Tal zwischen dem Küstengebirge und dem Zentralgebirge, das sich fast über die ganze Ostküste erstreckt. Die Blickrichtung ist hier nach Osten, also vom Abhang des Zentralgebirges über das Tal auf das Küstengebirge. Durch dieses Tal führt auch die Eisenbahnstrecke. Das PiP ist etwas weiter südlich bei Guangfu vom Zug aus aufgenommen (Belichtung 1/4000 sec, um die Bewegungsunschärfe zu minimieren) und blickt in die entgegengesetzte Richtung, also von Osten auf das Zentralgebirge.

A glimpse of the furnace line and chimneys of the sinter plant at the Baotou Steelworks.