Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

This double helix effort is impressive

Vatican Museums Spiral Staircase 2012
© User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons, via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

No picture I'm afraid but the multi storey car park in Watford has a double helix ramp so that cars going in and out pass over and under each other, weird when you first experience it!

[NewcastleFalcon]

This one?
https://www.geograph.org.uk/ if you havent come across it has images for every km square in the UK contributed by the general public and all freely available under creative commons licence.

Watford: Church car park, Exchange Road

© Nigel Cox[/a], [url=http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/]cc-by-sa.

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

That isn't the actual one I was thinking of but it is the same design. Watford has Palace, Charter, Queens, Kings, Sutton Road, and Church multi storey car parks as well as one other I can't remember the name of (I lived in Watford from 1952 to 1997) off Upton Road. If my memory serves me correctly there are 4 of the spiral entry/exit ramps all together. Innovative when first built, just a concrete jungle now!!

[mickthemaverick]

An unexpected visitor when I was parked at the bodyshop yard:

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Richard W has supplied a very decent picture of the day on this thread

Follow it/join in with it

viewtopic.php?p=622135#p622135

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

My offering for today was snapped from the carriage of a steam railway train - the question is .... which one?

[NewcastleFalcon]

Now before I get too involved MIck is it the name of the location/the railway/ or literally the train it was taken from?

Waterfalls aren't that common. Without research, I would go for something like the line from Fort William to Mallaig, and the Jacobite Train, and you were probably hauled by a Black Five!

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

I'll be impressed if you can name the railway, and it wasn't a Black Five!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

I'll be impressed if you can name the railway,

Would that be because the railway is in Wales?
Little hint would be welcome....standard guage or something narrower?

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

A further pictorial hint!!

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

A further pictorial hint!!

That looks very much like Blaenau Ffestiniog station Mick



Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

That's probably because it is!! Well done Neil, now the OS Landranger will show you where the waterfall is, to the west of the line 2-4 miles from the northern end. Beautiful part of the world for railway nuts but not over scenic for the general traveller. Interesting to note that the mainline train in your picture is in a very similar position to the one in mine!!

[NewcastleFalcon]

This will be the waterfall then Mick. Near

FR TYG sign
Bud75 [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons


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NoelWalley [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons

Regards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

It certainly is!! Excellent researching Neil, I have another bunch of pics from that trip which I may put one or two of up in the future so file that in the grey matter and watch out!!