Fresh air & photos

[Martin Wynne]

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Dundalk. November 2004.

Martin.

 

[Lancastrian]

Today...

Ian

 

[Martin Wynne]

Today...
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Ian

Thanks Ian. https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:H34881/2023-01-16/detailed

Martin.

 

[Steve_Cornford]

Interesting cupola

Pity I managed to omit the weathervane, but I could not really see what was in shot in the bright sunshine!

 

[Martin Wynne]

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The Ribblehead webcam seems to have gone subscription only, which is a shame.

Here is the camera being installed.

 

[Steve_Cornford]

View of Seven Sisters from picnic bench above Hope Gap

 

[Martin Wynne]

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WDYTTF

Martin.

 

[Lancastrian]

Martin,

Interesting that the outline does not match the buildings window or door openings. It doesn't look quite high enough to have been a doorway.

Ian

 

[AndyB]

Someone flocked the trees

Lookout Pass on the Idaho/Montana border. Unfortunately the rails were lifted and the trackbed is now a cycle track.

 

[Martin Wynne]

I've posted this pic of Telford's Menai bridge before. It has been in the news recently.

It was suddenly closed to all traffic without warning on 21st October last year when problems were found with the steelwork. After temporary repairs it re-opened a few days ago with a weight restriction while a further significant repair process takes place.

It seems the problems are with the reconstruction work which took place in 1938-1941. Full details were posted yesterday:

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/la...-led-to-catastrophic-loss-of-life-06-02-2023/

Martin.

 

[Phil O]

Weird cloud formations in Oregon

Taken at stupid O'clock from the Coast-Starlight. Sorry for some of the fuzzy foreground, but the train was going at quite a lick, they usually did when I wanted to take a shot out of the window, when the scene outside was dull and boring the train would crawl along.

 

[Phil O]

Hi Martin,

I have just seen on the local news, that the farmer that cut down the trees and dug up the river bank in a protected area your neck of the woods, has been given a prison sentence, today.

 

[Daifly]

Weird cloud formations in Oregon
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Taken at stupid O'clock from the Coast-Starlight. Sorry for some of the fuzzy foreground, but the train was going at quite a lick, they usually did when I wanted to take a shot out of the window, when the scene outside was dull and boring the train would crawl along.

It’s called altocumulus lenticularis. Caused by standing waves of fast moving air associated with mountains. Rough as hell inside. As an airline pilot, they were watched for and avoided.
Dave

 

[Martin Wynne]

NATS Relay Station on Clee Burf

 

[Martin Wynne]

Out in the fresh air again at long last.

Martin.

 

[Steve_Cornford]

Blue sky at last

 

[Martin Wynne]

Cripplegate Park, Worcester, in the sunshine yesterday.

In the late 1970s, not far beyond those trees, I had my 85A Models workshop manufacturing pointwork kits and components. On summer lunch-times we would walk down to the park for a game of bowls. Nothing has changed, it looks today exactly as it did 45 years ago. I sat for a while remembering those days.

One day in the late summer of 1979 I walked back from here and began scribbling ideas for a computer program to generate some curved turnout templates which I needed.

I wonder what became of that?

Martin.

 

[Lancastrian]

Martin,

A little flat for "proper" bowls . It was crown green bowls for me in the late 70's at the park local to my grammar school during lunch breaks. I'll have to take a photo when I'm next back up north.

Ian

 

[AndyB]

Looks like it's Strictly Privet.

 

[Steve_Cornford]

River Clara, near Laragh, Wicklow mountains