EAW050235 ENGLAND (1953). Prince of Wales Dock and environs, Workington, 1953

EXTENDED DEFENCE OFFICERS POST: e46660

2ndWW pillbox. Possibly a picket for the camp.

Sultra....aka the "Fur Factory"

Walter Irvings, slaughter house, aka the Knackers Yard!

83, Back Row (approx.) where I lived for the first 14 years of my life

The "Old West"

Cumberland Cloth Co.

WWII XDO - 'eXtended Defence, Officers' (Mine-Watcher's) post. Demolished 1978. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/defence/hgcb.htm#watc

Site of the encampment and assault course of the 406th Coast Battery, 561st Coast regiment, RA. http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rwbarnes/defence/hgcb.htm

Tug

Bucket dredger

Because of it size, steel slab was one to few products to be carried by the railway on large, 8 wheeled bogie wagons. Even here there are small 4 wheeled wagons marshalled in between the large ones, to allow for the overhang of the load. There are other large wagons in this picture including bogie iron ore carries and long wheelbase mineral wagons and low side steel wagons. How much more efficient the railway could have been if such larger wagons had been adopted for wider use. But in the same way as the unions are blamed for British industrial decline, the nationalised railway is blamed for not investing in bigger wagons. In both cases it could be suggested it was the failure of the private heavy industry and the private railways pre 1948 to invest in new equipment that was the cause of much of Britain's industrial inefficiency. By 1953, indeed by 1923, nearly all European freight wagons were longer wheelbase with great capacity both in terms of load and speed of travel. Indeed the French returned many small mineral wagons shipped to France after WW2 as being too small to be of any use. We just added them to our stock of ridiculously small wagons. Also see EAW050238 EAW050244

Bogie Iron ore carries.

Long wheelbase mineral hopper wagons.

Piers of a railway viaduct where the steel girders have been removed. Also see EAW050244 The removal of this bridge is part of the rationalisation of the railway network in this area of industrial change.

Piers of a railway viaduct where the steel girders have been removed. Also see EAW050244 The removal of this bridge is part of the rationalisation of the railway network in this area of industrial change.

This bridge was weakened in the floods back in Nov 2009. because it was unsafe and there were not enough funds torepair it the bridge was removed.