Friday, 4 January 2019

Ribble Steam Railway

In the workshops

Buffet car

North British Diesel-hydraulic shunter



ex-Furness Railway 0-4-0

Hawthorn Leslie 0-6-0 ST (duty locomotive in service)


Rolling stock in service


Andrew Barclay 0-4-0



English Electric EE2098/1955 '671' (built at nearby former Dick Kerrs factory)


Andrew Barclay 0-4-0 ST

A footplate

Avonside 0-6-0 ST

Andrew Barclay 0-4-0

Fowler 0-4-0

Andrew Barclay 0-4-0

Travelling sorting office

Sentinel 0-4-0


Station props

Andrew Barclay 880/1902 0-4-0 crane

Bitumen tankers (museum locos shunt these for neighbours, Total Bitumen)



Service train arriving



Repositioning for next journey

Recoupling

Stoking up


Carriage interior

Brief Encounters ? (1945 David Lean film)

Preston marina from the train


Changing ends for the return journey

Friday, 28 December 2018

Quarry Bank Mill

A visit to Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire (National Trust).





Spinning wheel

Hand loom

Machine looms


Bobbin winder

Power loom



Spinning mule (unstrung for maintenance)


Output from carder

Carder

Small steam engine




Beam engine

Damp stairwell


Quarry Bank House

River Bollin



Mill and river bridge

Rear of mill

Looking down to the mill ...

... and the house

R. Bollin






Apprentice House