tarboat's photos with the keyword: wilmslow

Alan Keef No.4 in the shed at the Lindow Moss peat farm in May 1985. At the time the site was being operated by Country Kitchen Foods Ltd with the peat being used for growing mushrooms. I never saw this locomotive out on the line. It arrived new in 1979. In the background is Lister 52528.

Typical habitat on Saltersley Moss at Wilmslow. This is great for Black Darters and Four-spottted Chaser and the occasional Common Hawker if you are lucky. Just off to the right the peat is being extracted, but no longer using the narrow gauge railway of yore. Nowadays a tractor and tracked trailer do the job of moving the peat to the mill.

A male Brown Hawker Aeshna grandis tucks in to a breakfast fly on Saltersley Moss this morning. His wings may be a bit battered but this has not affected his flying and catching abilities. He was keeping a close eye on me and was off before I could venture any closer.

Female Black Darter Sympetrum danae taking the morning sun on a piece of ancient bog wood at Saltersley Moss. There were still plenty of these about today.

Lindow Moss peat railway with loading underway on a typical train. The unstable nature of the surface and trackbed is evident in the varying angles of wagons, excavator and locomotive. May 1985.