tarboat's photos with the keyword: north

Wuppertal Schwebebahn train eastbound after leaving Varresbecker Strasse station. In the background stands the Bayer pharmaceutical plant. The company was founded here in 1863.

Dourie is a trade mark of P and M Hurll, Gartliston Brickworks, Glenboig and was used for firebricks made with a mixture of poorer quality Ayrshire clay and local fire clay to provide a cheaper product for less demanding applications.

When I started school at the age of 5 I had to travel by bus four times a day (we came home for lunch in those days). The fare was 2d each way. This is typical of the transport provided for us by the North Western Road Car Company Ltd from their Stockport, Charles Street garage. This is a Leyland Tiger Cub PSC1/1 built in 1957 with Weymann 44 seat bodywork. Of the thirty buses supplied in this batch all but this one were converted for one man operation during the 1960's. Conversion appeared to comprise fittings for a ticket machine and coin tray at the driver's side and an illuminated sign which read 'One Man Operation' below the windscreen on the nearside.

Glint with everything including the wires as he Great Marquess runs round its train at Froghall on the Churnet Valley Railway. The sunny weather was a bonus for the running in visit by this locomotive before it headed for Scotland.

LNWR Super 'D' approaching Cheddleton whilst running in on the Churnet Valley Railway.

Churnet Valley Railway. Consall station sees a dmu depart past the newly restored second platform andwaiting shelter.

Output from the washing plant at the Maes-y-Droell Quarry of J Stoddard & Son at Llanarmon, Denbighshire.

Beach huts at Llanbedrog near Abersoch on the Lleyn Peninsula.

The Ynysypandy slab mill only had a working life of 10 or 11 years as the Gorseddau quarry that supplied it with slate closed in 1867. This massive structure is now a scheduled ancient monument. The distant remains of the quarry can be dimly seen above the tramway embankment to the right of the building.

This engine house once provided electric power for the pumps on Taylor's shaft and elsewhere on the Hendre lead mine. It was erected in 1917 and has laid derelict for many years.

B1 61264 crossing the Caldon Canal at Consall Forge on the Churnet Valley Railway.

04/1 63601 departing Cheddleton on the Churnet Valley Railway