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#wdys #travel looking out of a terminal window watching the raindrops hitting the glass drops in a race towards the iron drain while those hanging round watched them pass your carriage to the place thats new sat at the boarding gate with its sign of blue but the captain’s decided the weather is fowl so…
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#train #manchester #chester packing a bag for a day out where i’m off to see a diva of a city travelling by wheels of steel following the rail to destination about to the roman town a lot less gritty taking in another museums things the engine so quick it doesn’t seem real but this flight…
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Theres a place nearby where things from over the seas are brought by big boats they pass quietly through the deep waterway carrying their cargo stopping by a spot where a very tall crane lowers its grappling hook and boxes big or small rise through the northern skyline before landing on the wharf While seabirds…
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#Transport #Steam #Vintage No Exhibit piece Rolling down steel lines it moves Station to station Steam clouds signalling to the platform observers its ready to move Giving animals on local fields a friendly toot as it passes by Obsolete stations given a new lease of life by the steam express As passengers have a wonderful…
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#octpowrimo #transport #rumble as you sleep soundly in your bed the long distance driver is travelling to make those stops he needs to make delivering foodstuffs, breads and cake and tins of spaghetti, soup, beans and peas so visitors to the supermarket are instantly pleased rolling down the neon coloured road at night So the…
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#octpowrimo The path of water is a little bit larger than your average puddle That’s why the vans with the bricks and the steel turned up at the weekend and while you had to go a different way than usual something bright and shiny was being built soon you can get from point a to…
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#Metrolink #Rail #Manchester The Lines of Iron wait for the wheels to come in as the tram travels in from North South east and west into the centre The Lines of Iron Twist and bend Rising and falling as the tram travels in through Green trees and and Glass Towers into the centre And whether…
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The wheels pass over the road reality is it sounds like the wind although this wind is coming from something metallic note the rush as it passes by your ear sailing down the road solitary perhaps its because its the middle of the night or maybe its weekend rumbling noises get noiser towards monday morning…
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#WDYS With a Nod to Mr Gavlak for the image The rail carved its way through heather and limestone in order for the engine to get from Sheffield to Manchester Travelling over conifers where once a large lake would be providing views of hills and dales Steam clouds travel through the sky as powerful pistons…
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#writephoto Great Scott! proclaimed the narrowboat captain over the years he’d seen many a thing traversing the network of canals in the northern english county doubt must have set in when an italian gondolier was seen on the River Irwell, looking to land his paying customers by a local tourist hotspot, green and lush and…
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