For coal to become an ember, you have to light it first ! Then let it die down quite a bit An ember becomes clinker when you can pick it up with bare hands and not go 'Gosh darn it, that was hot'.mickthemaverick wrote: ↑21 Jul 2020, 21:36 Philosophical question.... when does a coal become an ember and when does an ember become a clinker?
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Anyone got a photograph of a railway bridge, with the Engineers Line Reference and the Bridge Number clearly shown for anywhere other than the East Coast Mainline
In the meantime, there is more than one side to a clinker. Thought you may like to see the other side against the background of an original Nissan Micra Exhaust.
Now that channel in it has me thinking that could well have come from a Steam Loco's firebox
In the meantime, there is more than one side to a clinker. Thought you may like to see the other side against the background of an original Nissan Micra Exhaust.
Now that channel in it has me thinking that could well have come from a Steam Loco's firebox
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NewcastleFalcon wrote: ↑22 Jul 2020, 18:27 Anyone got a photograph of a railway bridge, with the Engineers Line Reference and the Bridge Number clearly shown for anywhere other than the East Coast Mainline
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Should be easy enough to locate
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I wonder if this is it
http://abcrailwayguide.uk/bridge-wph117 ... est-sussex
with a bit of artistic licence
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http://abcrailwayguide.uk/bridge-wph117 ... est-sussex
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Right county (but only just by the skin of your teeth), but wrong bridge by a country mile
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I have come to the conclusion that Network Rail do not maintain that Bridge....why? Because I suspect it is on a railway which has been closed for many years
This is where I think it is Somewhere between Midhurst and Pulborough
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You never said it had to be a maintained bridge
Yep - it's somewhere between Midhurst and Pulborough. Somewhere There's only a handful of bridges along that stretch, so shouldn't take you too long on Google Streetview
Yep - it's somewhere between Midhurst and Pulborough. Somewhere There's only a handful of bridges along that stretch, so shouldn't take you too long on Google Streetview
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Google streetview is absolutely useless at showing dismantled railway lines. So without an OS map of that particular area of West Sussex to hand I had to go for the extremely difficult to operate OS Custom Maps where you get a matchbox size of a map to move along the old dismantled railway inch by inch.
Then you go back to street view and try to get to the same place as the OS map...and then you come across the country lanes of Sussex, sweeping views and wide horizons you don't get. Anyway I got there eventually. I am heading for the fridge and a beer!
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9569052 ... 6?hl=en-US
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Marvellous, you deserved that beer
May I suggest, in future, you use something like https://www.bing.com/maps/ to get close to the desired area then use the drop-down to select Ordnance Survey maps - you get a much wider coverage.
May I suggest, in future, you use something like https://www.bing.com/maps/ to get close to the desired area then use the drop-down to select Ordnance Survey maps - you get a much wider coverage.
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Top tip, that would have made things much easier (Once the devious question setting had been rumbled of course but the challenge did make it more interesting so well done!)bobins wrote: ↑23 Jul 2020, 06:50 May I suggest, in future, you use something like https://www.bing.com/maps/ to get close to the desired area then use the drop-down to select Ordnance Survey maps - you get a much wider coverage.
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Shutter pressing invited
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Now, can I get the rest in?
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I'll quote that on the C5 Gallery Gibbo....nice pic of the C5's large mouth at the rear
Top work from Gibbo there....now did anyone else rise to the "press the shutter" challenge today
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Top work from Gibbo there....now did anyone else rise to the "press the shutter" challenge today
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The evening sky on the way back from Elstree:
and the sun in the other direction:
and the sun in the other direction:
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JUst seen a hedgehog, still in a photographable position but I'm sure it doesnt want a flash going off in its face so I'll not press the shutter on it and leave it to go about its business.
So one from earlier today
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So one from earlier today
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