Days when you know why you live in the British Isles

[bike2steam]

Wastwater, to walk alongside, is reason enough to visit the Lake District. 

Edited October 29, 2019 by bike2steam

[martin_wynne]

Droitwich Spa. No particular reason to post this, just found it while sorting some photos on a very grey day here. Summers were always sunny in bullhead days.

 

 

Martin.

[Dave47549]

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Edited October 4, 2021 by Dave47549
Removed pointless guff

[melmerby]

To prove the sun does occasionally shine in Scotland:

 

[martin_wynne]

22 minutes ago, Dave47549 said:

'Where's Wally' - the Ruston 48DS edition 

 

Hiding behind the signal post. Do I get a prize?

 

 

Martin.

[martin_wynne]

After several rainy days the sun finally came out of hiding.


camera at SO 78453 68119 looking SE

Martin.

[NorthBrit]

[Killybegs]

Don't yo just love a nice drop of rain. It was great between the showers! Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Co. Kerry.

 

 

 

 

[NorthBrit]

Tynemouth Priory

 

[4630]

A beautiful sunny autumn morning in this part of the Pennines, with that initial coolness in the air that hints at the months to come.  Ideal for a walk in Greenhead Park, Huddersfield.

 

 

 

[Killybegs]

GWR Toddington

 

East Devon

[NorthBrit]

[Market65]

Today, I was out cycling in some uncharacteristically sunny and dry weather. I stopped for something to eat at a place called Little Brigham, to the SE of Driffield and saw this avenue of trees. I photographed it. Enjoy them, I did. 
 

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

[Phil Bullock]

On 11/10/2019 at 16:02, martin_wynne said:

Droitwich Spa. No particular reason to post this, just found it while sorting some photos on a very grey day here. Summers were always sunny in bullhead days.

 

 

Martin.

 

Cracking Martin

 

Just building a bracket of the same era for Norton Junction

 

 

[Kingzance]

57 minutes ago, Phil Bullock said:

 

Cracking Martin

 

Just building a bracket of the same era for Norton Junction

 

 

And I have the parts for an earlier square post signal of the same configuration needed on Kingzance. I just hope my construction skills are adequate.

[eastglosmog]

By the footpath running by Searcham Coppice, Lower Swell, Sunday before last:

[Phil Bullock]

On 03/11/2019 at 17:57, Kingzance said:

And I have the parts for an earlier square post signal of the same configuration needed on Kingzance. I just hope my construction skills are adequate.

 

Just be brave - and watch your finger tips on the soldering iron!

 

Phil

[Methuselah]

Last Sundays sunset from the Malverns ;- 

 

When I was a kid, my father used to bring me up here for walks and tell me of the Romans, the Mercians and Elgar, but I was always fascinated to see the trails of smoke and steam from trains that dotted the landscape. It was nothing to be able to see half a dozen or so at once. My greatest pleasure was to see locos dive into the tunnels, especially when it was under the Malverns - and I would rush to the other side to watch it emerge hundreds of feet beneath me with a dramatic gout of white steam. The whole landscape looked like a perfect diorama - and the trains were usually the only movement discernible. I can still see them crawling, worm-like through the wonderful Worcestershire landscape - and hear their distant whistles for attention. It looked like some vast model railway, wrought by a master modeller, for whom no detail could be omitted. Childhood memories linger - like wisps of steam that never quite evaporate....

[Killybegs]

Cold but dry this morning, just right for a wee bike ride.

 

[TheSignalEngineer]

Nothing like that in the Dark Peak. Just crossed several uncharted fords and navigated two hitherto undiscovered rivers driving to Grandad duty. Just hope I can get home tonight.

[Phil Bullock]

On 06/11/2019 at 15:36, Methuselah said:

Last Sundays sunset from the Malverns ;- 

 

When I was a kid, my father used to bring me up here for walks and tell me of the Romans, the Mercians and Elgar, but I was always fascinated to see the trails of smoke and steam from trains that dotted the landscape. It was nothing to be able to see half a dozen or so at once. My greatest pleasure was to see locos dive into the tunnels, especially when it was under the Malverns - and I would rush to the other side to watch it emerge hundreds of feet beneath me with a dramatic gout of white steam. The whole landscape looked like a perfect diorama - and the trains were usually the only movement discernible. I can still see them crawling, worm-like through the wonderful Worcestershire landscape - and hear their distant whistles for attention. It looked like some vast model railway, wrought by a master modeller, for whom no detail could be omitted. Childhood memories linger - like wisps of steam that never quite evaporate....

 

That looks like the view from The Kettle Sings......

 

Your memories of trains viewed from up here are mine too - very special

 

[Methuselah]

16 hours ago, Phil Bullock said:

 

That looks like the view from The Kettle Sings......

 

Your memories of trains viewed from up here are mine too - very special

 

Somewhat higher on what we always used to call 'The Saddle' -  52° 6'5.24"N -   2°20'17.50"W. On calm days - the sounds from the trains below used to float up, presumably reflected by the hillside. Halcyon days of Larksong, when, as kids, we used to stand, heads out of the sunroof and revel in the breeze and the smell of an old cars leather and petrol. Simple pleasures...!

[Killybegs]

Beautiful crisp afternoon, just right for a stroll up the lower slopes of Slieve League.

 

[rockershovel]

First frost! Woke up this morning to see the grass thickly frosted, and strewn with the leaves from the lilac, which had been dropped ..

 

[Kingzance]

2 minutes ago, rockershovel said:

First frost! Woke up this morning to see the grass thickly frosted, and strewn with the leaves from the lilac, which had been dropped ..

 

Not our first, and certainly not our last! Perhaps a chance to drag out the camera on another occasion.