tarboat's photos with the keyword: horse

There isn't much wasted when it comes to the Chinese coal industry. Here at the Beichang washery the slurry from the separators is run into lagoons to dry out and is then dug out and loaded into small trucks or, in some cases, into a horse drawn cart. It is used to make briquettes which are often burned in small specially made stoves.

Action on the Danes Moss peat tramway in Macclesfield. This 'railtour' took place on 26th October 1962 and was punctuated by several derailments on the grassy tracks. Here the passengers scramble back aboard after rectifying a derailment whilst the motive power patiently watches. The gauge was 3ft 0ins and the motive power was named 'Star'. In the background can be glimpsed Macclesfield Moss signal box and wagons on the sidings adjacent to the building belonging to the British Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd which built and operated the tramway. I am very grateful to Alan Brackenbury for giving me permission to post his photograph and consult his notes made on the day of the railtour.

Late afternoon and another train of empty coal wagons is approaching Xiahua on the Huanan Coal Railway. The parallel road has a cart upon it pulled by a pair of horses who panicked as it was overtaken by the train and attempted to set off cross-country. The couple with the cart are seen here attempting to control their motive power before it escapes. I was surprised to see this as I would have expected the local horses to be well used to passing trains.

I had a good mooch around Leek today and really enjoyed the wealth of interesting and whimsical architecture to be found around the town. This keystone is in the entrance arch to a former stables in Leonard St. The adjacent buildings dated from the 1880s and this is almost certainly contemporary.

The millet is being loaded from the fields as a QJ heads west towards Lindong on the Jitong Railway.