Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: industry

An early Sunday morning photo session outside Tata's Port Talbot steelworks. No stunning sunrise just half-light gradually increasing. Morfa coke ovens closed in March, Blast Furnace 5 (on the right) closed in July and BF4 closed last weekend. This ends Port Talbot's ability to produce liquid iron from ore. Around 2,800 staff from Tata's 8,000 workforce stand to lose their jobs. HFF to everyone. Have a great weekend.

The salt industry has been a feature of the Torrevieja area for several centuries & these walls of salt have been collected from two large pink salt lakes known as Las Salinas de Torrevieja. HWW to everyone. Enjoy the day.

A snowy scene in Derbyshire. Class 56 diesel 56312 is heading up a trainload of limestone as it slowly fills at the works at Peak Dale alongside the former Midland Railway main line from St Pancras to Manchester. Fences near & far. HFF to everyone. Enjoy the weekend.

Inside the engine house which once housed a typical Cornish beam engine. Magpie Mine was the last working lead mine in the Derbyshire orefield and is one of the best surviving examples in the UK of a 19th century lead mine. HWW to everyone.

Now all the deep coal mines in the UK are closed the only way to go underground today is in a museum like The Big Pit National Museum at Blaenavon. The Big Pit used to be connected to the LNWR line to Pontypool by a steeply graded mineral line. Today Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST (Works No 544 1900) NCB No 10 stands on the truncated remains by the pit head coupled to a rail-mounted crane.

One less coal-fired power station. The cooling towers of the Thorpe Marsh Power Station which closed in 1994. The generator, control room, etc, were demolished some years ago but the towers lasted until 2012. HFF & have a great weekend.

A scene that has changed out of recognition in the last 50 years! The Trent & Mersey Canal meandered through Shelton Bar steelworks and many a splendid industrial vista could be seen from the tow path. The gas holder, cables, pipework and scrap piles cannot hide the impressive Wolstanton church on the skyline.

In 1982 the Eschweiler Bergwerks Verein (EBV) Alsdorf coke ovens and Grube-Anna mine (off right) north of Aachen were a hive of activity as was the DB main line in the foreground. The green-liveried steam engine is almost certainly Anna no 14 (later renumbered to Anna no 6) built by Krupp in 1940 for Dynamit Nobel. It has been preserved at the Westfälisches Industriemuseum in Dortmund. Unbelievably, gone today are the DB exchange sidings, the coke ovens and all the industrial plant of EBV Grube Anna. The mine closed in 1983 and the coking plant in 1987. The main line survives as does the signal box just seen top left.

This level crossing sign was very apt as we were being pulled by a steam engine! Taken from the brakevan of the Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society rail tour around the British Steel steelworks complex at Scunthorpe.

Preserved FS Class 691 4 cylinder Pacific 691022 was one of the 33-strong class which were the fastest and most powerful locomotives on the Italian railway. They were rebuilds of the 1911-14 Class 690 carried out by Ferrovie dello Stato and Ernesto Breda between 1928 & 1934. 691.011 of the class held the Italian steam speed record, recorded between Verona and Padova, of 150 kilometres per hour)

A Macchi MC 205 V used by the Regia Aeronautica Militare Italiana during the Second World War.

An unidentified Sandaoling coal railway JS 2-8-2 waits to enter the loading area with its train of empty wagons.

The sun shines on Halifax's ex-Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway station & its remaining island platform dating from 1886 while the industrial scenery beyond stands in the gathering cloud.

SY 2-8-2 1581 comes off shed as a diesel-hauled spoil train passes. Baiyin Non-ferrous Metal Company Railway.

GCR Loughborough shed. LNER O4 2-8-0 63601 footplate from the tender while getting steam up. I am trimming the coal forward before going off shed to pull our service train. The cab layout is simplicity itself & the engine steams on a candle. An excellent engine in many ways but perhaps not first choice for cold, wet winter days. Then again in 1912 when the locomotive was built designers didn't really care too much about the welfare of crews. Note the sheet in the tender - hooked onto the cab roof it's our only protection against the weather when running tender-first. She will be running her last trains for a while this coming weekend, 23rd-24th June 2012, as her boiler certificate runs out then. She did make it to 100 years old in steam though so come to the GCR to ride her for one last time.