Perhaps Blackrod has never been a major location on the railway map, but it was once a junction station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with over 70 departures a day, three platforms, a goods yard and a manned ticket office. Now, just a couple of platforms and bus shelters, Blackrod Station was once much more. Blackrod in New Thriller Novel. The second novel by acclaimed author Geoffrey Seed includes action set in Blackrod and Chorley, centred around the railway.

Random Musings Of a Man From the Midlands. Saturday, 15 August 2015. Reggae on the Rocks - Live in Nottingham 2 August 2015. To their credit, the band was .

Firstly, it is becoming increasingly hard to ignore the fact that other people are involved in similar projects and doing them better. What is the point in simply repeating the work that others are doing? I recognise that people find my site a useful resource as it is, so I intend to retain everything as it is. However, from now on I will not be updating anything outside of th.

Friday, 20 May 2011. Two factors emerge as important in such legal matters - intent and impact. What marked the Phil Woolas case out was the fact the he deliberately and knowingly made a false statement about his opponent AND such statements given the closeness of the result were likely to have had an impact on the result. The Assembly must satisfy itself of two criteria. Monday, 9 May 2011. Plaid needs space to think.

FILM LIST - TITLES and PRICES. Slide show of film stills. Kemp Town branch line stills. Ordered to shoot on site. FILM LIST - TITLES and PRICES.

A trip down memory lane. Friday, May 8 2015. Cross-posted from Behind The Water Tower. Dyspozytor takes a trip down memory lane to his school days and reflects on the UK elections. Satellite view courtesy Google Maps. Click the image to open an interactive map of this area on Google Maps. Today, Parliamentary elections are being held in the United Kingdom. What have football and party politics got in common? Both are capable of generating enormous levels of pas.

Staff pose for the photograph at Sawdon. Forge Valley Station looking west. 1502 passes through Snainton in 1936. Ebberston Station clad with ivy. BTP Tank arrives at Snainton Station. A historical archive of the Pickering to Scarborough Railway. The Forge Valley Line, by J.

Forgotten Relics of an Enterprising Age. Have a look at what Four by Three could do for you. Yorkshire has something for everyone - industrial landscapes, stunning rurality and real people. If you need an image to illustrate a railway story, take a wander through our library of original pictures.

A blog from the UK about bridges and bridge design. The collapse of the FIU Sweetwater Pedestrian Bridge. As I am typing this, the recovery operation is not yet complete, and I think it is both difficult and inappropriate to speculate in too much detail on why the bridge failed with such awful consequences. There are even less likely culprits put forward o.