Friday, 11 January 2019

West Lancashire

Here are images from Mere Sands Wood and from Martin Mere.


Canada Goose



Mallard




Canada Goose



Comma

Green Sandpiper



Greylag Goose

Grey Heron

Greylag Goose










Marsh Harrier


Black-tailed Godwit


Greylag Goose



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