Rear end of Pendolino 390 020 forming the 20:15 Virgin Trains departure for London Euston at Manchester Piccadilly on 14th March 2015.
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Tags: Class 390 Pendolino Manchester Piccadilly Railway Station Virgin Trains 390020
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Something that seems inconceivable now since DB Cargo ceased using class 92's on general freight other than for HS1 and Channel Tunnel traffic, A class 92 on the Clitheroe Cement empties !
92 001 sits in Carlisle Kingmoor Yard having arrived with 4M00 the 01.35 Mossend Down Yard to Carlisle Kingmoor Yard. The train is formed of 13 yet to be lettered Castle Cement JPA 'Presflo' tanks still in their as manufactured brushed alloy finish. This traffic had just resumed in the spring of 2008 using 15 brand new wagons leased from VTG to Castle Cement. It had been a 15 year gap when traffic ceased between Clitheroe and Gunnie, Coatbridge in 1993. Castle Cement signed a 10 year contract with EWS to serve a new terminal built in P.D. Stirling's Freight depot at Mossend and in the early months of the new service a class 92 featured on the overnight southbound leg to Carlisle.
Tags: Class 92 92 001 EWS 4M00 Carlisle Network Yard Kingmoor Yard Castle Cement
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In the last of the light, a JS Class 2-8-2 tender steam locomotive laden with coal leaves the loading point at the western part of the open pit at Sandaoling destined for the wash plant. Xinjiang Province, North-West China. Re-processed image.
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92 012 named 'Thomas Hardy' sits in Beattock Summit down goods loop with 4S65 the 09.12 SX Carlisle Kingmoor Yard to Mossend Down Yard 'Enterprise freight' on this occasion formed entirely of empty OTA wagons which would have originated at the Kronospan factory, Chirk and been tripped to Warrington Arpley Yard before being attached to 6C73 16.15 Bescot Yard to Kingmoor Yard trunk service. This leg of the journey will see them returned to Scotland for distribution from Mossend to various loading points in the Highlands. Many of the vehicles still carry the green livery associated with Shotton Paper Co. although EWS had be this date put the entire OTA fleet in a common user pool.
Tags: EWS Class 92 92 012 4S65 Beattock Summit
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A visit to Abbey Gardens in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
It was Trendell's Gardens, created by E J Trendell. He bought Abbey House and the gardens in 1853. He developed the gardens around the abbey ruins in the 1870s.
You can find some of the ruins of Abingdon Abbey here.
Scheduled Ancient Monument
Fragments of Monastic Buildings in Abbey Gardens
Grade II listed building
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1. 752 ABBEY GARDENS
SU 4997 1/351 Fragments of Monastic buildings in Abbey Gardens II
2. Salvaged architectural fragments of the Abbey. Two window heads, one late C13, the other Decorated style. An artificial ruin with three bay arcades running north to south, piers and arches similar to those in St Helen's Church and large east and west window frames.
Listing NGR: SU5000097098
Tags: Abingdon Abingdon-on-Thames historic market town Vale of White Horse Oxfordshire England United Kingdom Great Britain Abbey Gardens Abingdon Abbey Trendell's Gardens E J Trendell ruins Scheduled Ancient Monument Fragments of Monastic Buildings in Abbey Gardens Grade II listed building Grade II listed