tarboat's photos with the keyword: rails

An unusual railway is that to carry the machine for clearing debris from the screens over the turbine intakes at the Ardnacrusha power station on the Shannon. The machine is very broad gauge with the other rail just visible along the fence on the left. The centre two rails are for the wagon that carries the detritus.

Mandalls Slate Co Ltd worked a number of quarries on the slopes of Coniston Old Man. The main processing area was the mill at Saddlestone to where the slate 'clogs' were brought down by an aerial ropeway and sawn in the shed seen here. There were also a number of riving or dressing sheds on this level. The worked stone could then be sent further down the ropeway towards the Coppermines Valley for outward transport by road. Remains of the ropeway are still evident right up the hill with both fixed and moving ropes lying on the ground. The collapsed wooden framework was the start of the next flight of the ropeway.

Behind the admin building at the locomotive depot at Baotou steelworks. I wonder how long it will be before these old tank locomotives are recycled through the furnaces.