Pete S

=> #Vapeur en chauffe ou à l'entretien au => #dépotdeLaVillette de Paris-Est avant l'électrification de 62. Les locos (=> #241A reconnaissables) sont prêtes à aller se mettre en tête des rames par une marche arrière.
Auteur non identifié, source : challenger60.over-blog.com

Hardwick House, Bury St. Edmunds, UK, wrought iron, sunlight and mist, scattered leaves on pathway, atmospheric

Edwin Smith

Hardwick Park
entrance gate

A photo of a sandy bay. Light-coloured sand, water of varying shades of blue, and a blue sky with light clouds.

Whitemill Bay, Sanday, Orkney. My photo Jun 2010.

An evening photo looking towards the setting sun. A field in the foreground and a house with smoke rising from a chimney. Looking out over a loch (Boardhouse loch) with a hill in the background and a tower (Kitchener Memorial) showing on the skyline.

Birsay, Orkney. My photo 2009.

Thank you.

I don't know this engine at all. Where is it, please, so I can look up more about it.

Is it being turned for demonstration purposes by an electric motor on the other end of that big chain drive, so it's compressed air doing the screaming?
I don't think a steam engine would make that noise normally.

Sunset reflected onto Liverpool.

A misty rural landscape at dawn with a dirt path curving through grassy fields, a bare tree in the center, and warm golden sunlight filtering through the fog under a clear blue sky.

#inside the stillness of dawn.
#blueskyartshow

Oil Painting of the head and shoulders of a white man whose age difficult to estimate, maybe early middle age, dark haired with a short neat style, with a receding hairline, he is dressed smartly in dark jacket, white shirt with rounded collar and khaki tie. He is looking down and to the right with a pensive expression and is seated against a greenish, yellow background with some terracotta strokes hazily brushed in. The style of painting, clothes and hair suggest the work is from or represents the early twentieth century

Here’s fun: just bought this old painting from a charity shop as I liked the style & pensive expression.
After I paid, the lady at the till told me the person who donated it said they think it’s is maybe of the guy those books by the door are about.
As I left, I looked at the books: it’s John Buchan

Farewell Petersfield, Haslemere and Farncombe signal boxes, with signalling being passed to Basingstoke ROC. Farncombe box will be demolished this weekend.

7-5-5 🫡

Steam loco (ex Great Central Railway 'Butler Henderson') in the foreground, with some blue and white coaches behind. Part of a factory building is in the background with a painted sign on its wall.

Ex Great Central Railway loco 'Butler Henderson' at Loughborough. My photo 1984.

Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Define your music taste in eight artists:

Laura Marling
Shostakovich
Jehan Alain
Sandy Denny
Mahler
Neilsen (Carl)
Tori Amos
More Laura Marling

Include 'Breathe' as well - see 'When Brave Bird Saved' on YouTube.

A summer countryside scene. Fields and trees and a railway line running near left to far right. The yellow front of a diesel loco and the train's coaches stretching back into the distance.

Near Claypole, Lincolnshire. 55003. My photo Jul 1978.

A Vincent Rapide.

A road heads off into the left hand distance. A Vincent motorbike in the foreground and a train approaching.

Near Tamworth, train approaching Coton Crossing. The wires are raised to give clearance at the level crossing. My photo July 1977.

Eugene Robert Richee's iconic portrait of Louise Brooks, 1928.

Circulation historique d'une => #Ae66 (Ae 6/6) HLP sur la rampe nord du => #SaintGothard (Uri) en #Suisse au niveau de => #Wassen en 09-14.
📷Georg Trüb, source : railpictures.net

Detail of modern buildings, La Défense, Paris.

Buildings at La Défense, Paris. My photo 2012.

Colour image of the glass and steel frontage of 8 Bishopsgate and 22 Bishopsgate reflected in 1 Leadenhall Street in London taken in June 2025. These buildings, amongst the tallest in London, range from 158 to 278 metres in height Camera : Fujifilm X-T5 Lens : 23mm f1.4 Viltrox Aperture/speed/ISO : f8 1/420s ISO125 Simulation : Classic Chrome

Leadenhall Street, City of #London June 2025 #fujifilm #photography #street

Frontage of a cheese shop in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a cheese shop. My photo 2012.

"Our Round Earth in Space" A great vintage map from 1935. I love the simple visual on the bottom explaining how we knew the earth to be round. As an aside, I believe that most Flat Earthers are simply internet trolls and aren't really that silly. Source: buff.ly/FlpcRvy

sidewalk chalk drawing of a hamster breaking victoriously through a hole in a flagstone walkway, surrounded by rubble

When big breakthroughs are required, Hattie can't be stopped.

'From an Office Window' (1918) by Christopher RW Nevinson

(Private collection)

L'espace public n'est pas cloisonné à => #Dieppe-Maritime (76) tout à la fois marché, rue, gare, parking. La => #vapeur => #231G va pouvoir quitter le quai pour Saint-Lazare simplement précédé d'un => #cheminot. "Tout va bien" !
📷Yves Broncard, source : laviedurail.com

I was hoping someone would tell me! I feel I should know - maybe I did in those far-off days.

A partly demolished station building. An interior wall with bare bricks, and remains of notices and pictures. More of the buildings and structures at the left hand side.

A scene during the demolition of the old Birmingham Snow Hill station. My photo 1977.