tarboat's photos with the keyword: silhouette

Sunset behind the Goole docks water towers that are known locally as the Salt and Pepper pots. The 1885 cylindrical tower is of good quality red brick, laid in English bond. It supports a 30ft diameter cast iron header tank inside its upper drum, capable of storing 30,000 gallons of water. The maximum water level of the tank is 143ft above ground level. It is listed Grade II. The 1927 reinforced concrete water tower was designed by engineer Edward John Silcock (1862-1953) of 10 Park Row, Leeds, to replace the supply from the neighbouring "pepper pot" tower. The new tower was constructed by Harold Arnold & Sons Ltd of Printing Office Street, Doncaster, for Goole Urban District Council. Its tanks hold 690,000 gallons of high quality drinking water for supplying the population of Goole (estimated around 20,000 people, 2017). It cost £21,310 to construct and went into service on 23rd February 1927 and was Grade II listed in September 1987.

On the platform at Bristol Temple Meads station. The comfortable IC125 stock is already being replaced by uncomfortable bi-modal units on some services. The new units are unable to match the performance of the 40 year old 125s when away from the overhead wires. Such is progress.

Reflections on the Mersey estuary behind the Ineos Fluor, Castner Kellner plant at Runcorn.

Duke Street Wharf on West Float, Birkenhead. Not heavily used these days.

Duke Street Wharf on West Float, Birkenhead. A good day out but rather windy.

The steam heating is on and the sun is shining for the first train of the year 2005 on the Churnet Valley Railway. It was a magical morning and with the sound of the 8F up front it was a great journey too!

Colourful lighting at sunset as a spoil train climbs the high tip at Sandaoling opencast coal mine.

Two of the blast furnaces at Xuanhua viewed from a passing train.

Ghosts of Roe Street past at the back of the T J Hughes shop.

The sun is rapidly setting as JS 8076 pushes another spoil train onto the tips at the western end of the opencast coal mine at Sandaoling.