Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: railway

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK Group. This is a south-easterly view over the Don valley from the western end of the Conisbrough viaduct near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The viaduct was built in 1906-07 to carry the Dearne Valley Railway across the Don valley, thus connecting the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the Great Northern and Great Eastern Railways. It is 528 yards in length with 14 arches on one bank and 7 on the other connected by an iron girder bridge 115 feet above the River Don. The last passenger train ran across the viaduct in 1951. It is now used as an impressive footpath and cycle track.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is the east portal of the Cadeby Tunnel near Conisbrough on the former South Yorkshire Junction Railway. The single track tunnel is 164 yards long, originally built about 1894, closed to freight in 1964. The tunnel is lined with brick and Magnesian Limestone quarried locally. It is an easy and safe walk through, mostly dry. The trackbed in the cutting just beyond the western portal has been partly filled in with soil and ?colliery waste.

This the Cadeby Tunnel near Conisbrough on the former South Yorkshire Junction Railway. The single track tunnel is 164 yards long, originally built about 1894, closed to freight in 1964. The photo was taken about 50 metres in from the west portal, looking through towards the eastern end. The tunnel is lined with brick and Magnesian Limestone quarried locally. It is an easy and safe walk through, mostly dry. The trackbed in the cutting just beyond the western portal has been partly filled in with soil and ?colliery waste. For this photo, the exposure was 30 sec at f/8 ISO 100; no flash. I also painted-in the foreground and middle distance with a LED head-lamp, which accounts for the blue-ish magenta colour cast. View large on black See where this picture was taken. [?]

Originally uploaded as No.2 of a jolly selection of Guesswhere UK puzzles. This is a view of the BOCM Pauls factory at Selby, next to the Selby-York railway line which bisects the BOCM site. BOCM stands for 'British Oil and Cake Mills' and dates back to the early years of the 20th century, when it was known as the 'Olympia Mills' at this location. The extraction of vegetable oils from seed and grain to make animal feeds has been a prime manufacturing process at this site and is carried out by Unitrition International, a subsidiary company of BOCM Pauls. The main process used is solvent extraction using hexane which is then recovered by distillation. The distillation condensers are cooled by groundwater pumped from the Sherwood Sandstone aquifer at a depth of about 60 metres. In the past, over-abstraction of groundwater has caused compaction of the overlying Drift sediments with subsequent ground subsidence and deformation.

Originally posted for the Guesswhere UK group. The Flying Scotsman No. 60013 pays a guest visit to the Llangollen Railway. Here it is at Glyndyfrdwy station waiting for the return run to Llangollen.

Originally posted for the Guesswehere UK group. It's the No.4 ventilation shaft for the Totley Tunnel, on the Sheffield-Manchester railway. At 3 1/2 miles long, it's the 2nd-longest railway tunnel in the UK (after the Severn Tunnel). It was driven from both ends - the two headings thirling through in 1892. The line opened for freight in 1893 and for passenger traffic shortly after. There are 5 shafts along the length of the tunnel. Nos 1 - 4 are all fairly close to each other at the Totley end; No.5 Shaft is high up on the moors nearer the Grindleford end.

The No.4 ventilation shaft for the Totley Tunnel, illuminated by shafts of the late afternoon sun. The Totley Tunnel is on the Sheffield-Manchester railway. At 3 1/2 miles long, it's the 2nd-longest railway tunnel in the UK (after the Severn Tunnel). It was driven from both ends - the two headings thirling through in 1892. The line opened for freight in 1893 and for passenger traffic shortly after. There are 5 shafts along the length of the tunnel. Nos 1 - 4 are all fairly close to each other at the Totley end; No.5 Shaft is high up on the moors nearer the Grindleford end. See where this picture was taken. [?]

The No.4 ventilation shaft for the Totley Tunnel, on the Sheffield-Manchester railway. At 3 1/2 miles long, it's the 2nd-longest railway tunnel in the UK (after the Severn Tunnel). It was driven from both ends - the two headings thirling through in 1892. The line opened for freight in 1893 and for passenger traffic shortly after. There are 5 shafts along the length of the tunnel. Nos 1 - 4 are all fairly close to each other at the Totley end; No.5 Shaft is high up on the moors nearer the Grindleford end.