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4930 Hagley Hall and No 7325 at Bewdley, 21/07/2023
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"During my recent visit to Canada I had the chance to meet renowned scientist, broadcaster and environmental activist David Suzuki as well as his daughter and fellow-activist Severn Cullis-Suzuki. So I asked them a bunch of questions for the Juice Media Podcast. I hope you enjoy it.
This is the companion podcast to our latest Honest Government Ad about Canada 🇨🇦 "
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Marking a year since the passing of Her Late Majesty the Queen, and a year since these photos were taken, West Country class steam locomotive no 34027 Taw Valley, masquerading for the Platinum Jubilee as No 70 Queen Elizabeth II awaits its next turn of duty on Saturday 17 September during the Severn Valley Railway's Autumn Steam Gala last year. I have previously posted some more natural looking photos, but having quite a few shots from the day, I decided to put these two through a little experimental editing to add some extra variety of tone to the mix. All photos are of course on Flickr.
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Traintober | Day 17 - Holiday
Taw Valley takes a holiday to the Great Western. Chaos ensues.
For Nick. And our discussions about Taw Valley being the premier, desperate Wine Aunt of the UK heritage railway scene.
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“We need to talk about your sister.”
Braunton sighed as he heard the bark of a Black 5 coming up beside him. He looked over and found a polished black engine with red trim, the number, 5025 emblazoned on his cab and buffer beam.
“If anything the less talk about my sister the more she’ll cease being an insufferable flirt!” Braunton interjected. “I don’t know whether she does it for attention or she’s just that desperate to find an engine to settle down with.”
“I’ve struggled to find anyone who wants to go down to Severn for their winter gala,” 5025 stressed. “The main trouble being-”
“They don’t want Taw Valley to incessantly flirt with them while they’re there,” Braunton conceded with a frustrated sigh. “You don’t think I’ve been trying for decades to get her to stop Connor?”
The Black 5 gazed at Braunton sympathetically. He gave a thoughtful hum and tutted.
“I was actually thinking of sending her away for that weekend, maybe an exhibit or a visit to the NRM,” Connor suggested and Braunton gave a choke of a laugh.
“Flying Scotsman is tolerant but he’s not that tolerant,” the West Country scoffed. “The more famous they are the more she’s going to be extra… ah shall we say, insistent. Despite, well, you know.”
“The fact that Scotsman and Truro are a thing?”
Braunton snorted in mirth.
“Worst kept secret in existence, no thanks to Pendennis.”
Connor stared at the sheds in front of him for a long while, considering their options before a smirk appeared on his face.
“What?” Braunton questioned as he saw the devious look in the Black 5 eyes.
“Pendennis hmm? I was thinking, has Taw Valley ever experienced, ‘the Great Western Way?’” Connor asked of the Southern Engine.
Braunton smirked, knowing exactly where the LMS engine was going.
“Why, no, I don’t believe she has Connor.”
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“The Great Western’s?” Taw Valley was surprisingly unenthused by the prospect of meeting new engines she could mingle (or more accurately, flirt) with. “A bunch of prudes stuck in their ways, it’s incredibly undesirable!”
Braunton bit back his impulse to shout in frustration.
“That friend of yours though…” Taw Valley inquired suggestively. “Will he be there? I don’t think I’ve met him.”
Braunton looked back at his sister in surprise. He knew exactly who she meant and he was reluctant to throw his friend onto the tracks.
“I’ve told you to leave my friends out of your conquests,” Braunton hissed at her annoyed. “Yet you keep flirting with Scotsman!”
“Oh everyone flirts with Scotsman!” Taw Valley dismissed his concerns.
“That doesn’t mean he likes it!” Braunton snapped back. “There are boundaries you should not cross Dotti!”
Taw Valley sighed and huffed at him.
“You’re such a drag, little brother,” Taw Valley tartly chirped. “So Scotsman’s really with that pretty little Western hmm?”
“Will you at the very least entertain the idea of going to Didcot?” Braunton asked exasperated, ignoring her question.
“If it pleases you, little brother, I shall,” Taw Valley finally conceded.
“Please just leave Pendennis out of your conquests, he’s one of my best friends,” Braunton appealed to his elder sister.
To his surprise, Taw Valley smiled at him, her eyes kind.
“I promise, Braunton, I am, of course, not completely without scruples.”
Braunton however wasn’t so sure.
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Taw Valley did attempt to make good on her promise to her brother, however, it was all so tempting, but she kept strong and refused to even look at the Castle class who seemed to be there at every turn.
She was getting frustrated and tried to distract herself with the King Edwards but they were insufferably up their own tenders. They were always insisting upon themselves, always looking down on the other engines even though Taw Valley towered above them.
How irritating.
King George was marginally better but he seemed… well, he seemed old, to put it one way. She did not want to settle down with someone whose personality felt like a doddering elderly man. It was exceedingly poor form. Even if his Golden Bell was extremely charming.
That Clun Castle was the one she disliked the most. She was snivelling and she was crass, not a single rivet of class in her. Taw Valley had shooed her away, the irritating engine cursing her and calling her ugly.
Ha! Her? Ugly?
She was as blind as she was stupid.
There was a reason why she never really tried to flirt with the Great Western’s. They were all obsessed with work or with adhering to the ‘Great Western Way,’ whatever that meant. They were all so… boring.
“Is there any reason why yer avoidin’ me, you purple beaut?” A very Australian-sounding voice greeted her and to her surprise, she found the engine of the hour, Pendennis Castle himself idling up next to her.
“Oh, hello you!” Taw Valley shrilly exclaimed, flattered by the Great Western. “I’ll have you know that my brother does not approve of me ‘flirting’ with his friends.”
“Ah, I see,” Pendennis chuckled, his voice changing to a strange mix between Welsh and Australian which Taw Valley could only assume was his natural accent. “Well, we’re both adults, we can make our own choices.”
“Contrary to many people’s beliefs, I do actually want to respect the wishes of my little brother,” Taw Valley disputed, she eyed Pendennis with a wandering gaze. “No matter how hard such a thing may be.”
“I’ll take that as a compliment, My Lady in Purple,” Pendennis charmed her and Taw Valley blushed, she wasn’t used to being flirted at for once. “And if Braunton asks, I did approach and flirt first, so technically-”
“It doesn’t count,” Taw Valley chortled. “You’re a sly thing, Pendennis Castle. And here was I thinking that you Great Western’s were nothing but boring and tasteless!”
“Now, I’m technically an honorary Australian,” Pendennis laughed. “I suppose that’s where the ‘forwardness’ comes from. No nonsense over there, just straight to the point. Pendennis before Australia was just as boring.”
“Straight to the point is how I like my engines!” Taw Valley implored. “And here was me thinking you had a big crush on the Flying One.”
Pendennis simply chuckled at that.
“Once. A long time ago. But we discussed it and it was never meant to be I’m afraid,” Pendennis admitted regretfully. “I do adore Scotsman, but we just don’t… ‘click’ if you know what I mean?”
“I don’t,” Taw Valley bluntly replied. “But I’d like to find out if you ‘click’ with me, if you know what I mean.”
Pendennis gave her a smirk.
“I do believe I do, Taw Valley.”
“Please, it’s Dottie!”
“Charmed, call me Penpen or Rio Fe!”
Taw Valley couldn’t help but feel a little guilty at her interactions with Pendennis because of her promise to her brother. But then again, like he said, Pendennis had approached her. He couldn’t be mad at her for that.
Maybe this little Holiday would turn out to be a good one after all.
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Hey Nick, if you’re reading this then I want you to know that this is equally your fault as it is mine. Go say hi to Taw Valley and Pendennis for me if you see them again. <3
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4930 Hagley Hall
4930 Hagley Hall….a 4-6-0 Hall Class Locomotive of the Great Western Railway built in 1929. Hagley Hall belongs to the Severn Valley Railway and is now back in service after an extensive restoration.
July ~ 2023
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Join us at World of Eldritch County, a queer friendly and inclusive-of-all rp site, where you can explore Arkham through our many forums, take classes at Miskatonic, join a club (or a cult to an old god), and interact with other Arkhamites in our interactive chats!
Welcome to Essex County, Massachusetts, circa the early 1970s, where the cold winds bend the trees and strange eyes gaze out from the dark woods outside Arkham. You’ve just begun your tenure as a student at the prestigious but infamously unlucky Miskatonic University, a school known just as much for haunting tragedy as academic rigor. Things seem different here than they did in the main timeline…better in many ways, worse in others. How? You’ll have to explore. But be careful to not wander too closely to the shadowy woods or the coasts of Innsmouth.
You are not immune to horrors.
Welcome to World of Eldritch County, a 16+ text-based, literate horror rp, based on the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and his enduring legacy on genre fiction. At World of Eldritch County, we live for the quirky, weird, oddball, and terrifying in fiction. Do you love horror beyond just Lovecraft?
We have three class of characters on the creation screen:
➳ Townie: You were born in Arkham, and can feel its strange cosmic energy coursing through you. Where else would you go to school but Miskatonic?
➳ Prodigal: You left Arkham once, thinking you escaped your birthplace. But it called you back. It calls all of you back.
➳ Outsider: Whether through intellectual curiosity or unlucky stroke of fate, you were brought to Arkham from the Outside world…. Well. Enjoy your stay.
We are an inclusive rp site, open to all character types and all users (of the correct age). Come join one of our four Miskatonic dormitories! Are you courageous and clever? Join Dunwich! Driven by intellectual curiosity above all else? Join Innsmouth! Ambitious and confident? You’re perfect for Carcosa. Compassionate and loyal? Severn is definitely the dorm for you! Take our quiz after registering to find out which dorm will become your family, during your time at Miskatonic University.
Interested in diving a bit further into the student life? Miskatonic has plenty of interactive classes that offer homework, which allows you to earn points for rewards. Bring prestige to your dormitory by winning the dorm cup or yourself by earning the student cup!
More interested in the rp aspect? Wonderful! We have multiple forum locations for you to roleplay your time at Miskatonic, Arkham, and the other surrounding areas to your heart's content. Speaking of heart, you might want to hold onto that around here….
We have all this and more, including buyable and usable shop items, interactive notice board articles and contests, an active site blog, and multiple in-game chat rooms for short form rp! You can even fight against (or join) one of the dark cults to the old gods around town!
Tired of the normal life? Ready for something a bit more dark and wild? Join World of Eldritch County, and let us show you the cosmos!
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"Omaha" at Eardington. por curly42
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Preserved Baldwin "S160 Class" loco 2253 "Omaha" climbing Eardington Bank during the Severn Valley Railway Autumn Steam Gala - 15.9.23.
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Presenting the Great Western Railway 85xx Stone Circle class. This engine came from a discussion with a friend about a 'what if' next step for Great Western Express Locomotives had nationalization not occured. It's not a Cathedral, but a further design. Some history on these giants.
8500 Ring of Brodgar was the prototype, and would be purchased by a private owner before being officially being withdrawn from service. Upon her owner's death in 1982, she was donated to the National Collection.
8501 Mitchel's Fold was the first production 85xx. She would be rescued from Barry's Scrapyard in 1973 by a preservation group dedicated to saving and restoring her. While the group would go on to save other engines after her restoration, she remains their pride and joy.
8502 Avebury was included in the purchase of the Kingsbridge Branchline from British Railways by the Kingsbridge Preservation Group. She would serve as the line's main attraction until the late seventies, when she was withdrawn from service for overhaul. It wouldn't be until 1998 that she would return to service. Since then she has spent the majority of her time in service, although she is currently awaiting overhaul.
8503 Callanish Stones would be purchased directly from British Rails by the Great Western Society.
8504 Castleriggs Stones would be wrecked in 1965 on an embankment. British Rails determined it would cost more to recover the stricken engine then she was worth in scrap, so the engine was left abandoned. In 1968 the Severn Valley Railway Society approached BR for permission to recover the engine. After negotiations they were given a 24 hour window to bring Castleriggs Stones back to the rails. In the waning hours of May 13th, 1969, Wrexham Cathedral pulled her newly righted cousin back onto the rails. She was found to be in shockingly good condition, having been mostly sheltered from the weather by the embankment. She would steam for the first time in 12 years in 1977.
8005 Boscawen-Un was purchased for testing by the London North Eastern Railway. Upon Nationalization she remained with the Eastern Region. When Gywneth Amari purchased the former Great Central line in 1966, 8005 was allocated to the line, and transfered to her ownership. It is hard to say which angers Great Western purists more, that she is in LNER Apple Green, or that is historically accurate.
8006 Nine Ladies would the last withdrawn from service. The workers at Swindon hid her on unused sidings, moving her evertime she was discovered, until BR just gave up and donated her to the Dart Valley railway in late 1969 just to be rid of her. Donated her as in dumping her in their yard with ownership papers left in the cab.
8007 Merry Maidens was allocated to the Midland region in 1962, and was painted in their maroon livery. Less than a year later she was scheduled for immediate withdrawl, the first of the class to be withdrawn, only for the engine to disappear. In 1973 she would be found by volunteers on the Coleford Preservation Railway in an abandoned shed during an expansion project, hidden by her old crew
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name : Sabrina Inez Garcia
meaning : 'from the River Severn' 'holy' 'brave in battle'
hometown : Scarsdale, NY
family : Miguel Garcia (father), Hecate (divine mother) Katherine Garcia (stepmother), Archie Garcia (half-brother)
origin : Sabrina was born to the goddess Hecate and Miguel Garcia on 25th December. A Christmas miracle was what his family called her but it wasn't long before the pressure of raising a child alone got to him. Often Sabrina would see him come home from work completely wasted and it caused an uproar when her aunts and uncles found out she was being starved four out of seven days a week.
Sabrina encountered her first monster while returning home from elementary school, a full-grown manticore. Intrigued by the strange hybrid creature, the six-year-old stepped closer to touch it and it attacked. She was saved by her satyr protector and brought to camp half blood.
The camp was a foreign place and all she wanted was to go back home. But when Chiron successfully contacted him, Miguel was more than willing to let her stay there. Her aunt Sophia, a clearsighted mortal, insisted on Sabrina receiving a proper education and got custody of her instead.
From then on, it was back and forth between Long Island and Scarsdale every year. Despite her initial doubts about the camp, she came to love it and accepted it as her second home.
Sabrina rarely meets her dad anymore and even when she received an invitation for his wedding, she didn't care enough to show up. She heard he got rid of his addiction and turned his life around. The only time she saw him in over ten years was the day Archie was born.
Sabrina has nothing against him nor Katherine and keeps in touch with them. But her relationship with Miguel, that's one thing she's fine with leaving in the dust.
position : Vice Counselor of Heacte Cabin, Head Alchemist
weapon of choice : Metavlitôs {a bracelet enchanted to transform into whatever gun she desires by rubbing the serpent engraved on the charm}
trivia :
Sabrina is one hell of a troublemaker and gets along quite well with the Hermes Cabin. Chiron had to ban her from teaming up with the Stolls during camp activities lest they unleashed mayhem again. They swore they had nothing to do with the pest infestation in the strawberry fields!
Sabrina often helps out in the infirmary and supplies them with healing potions and whatever medicinal substance she can concoct.
Despite her petite figure (bless her, she is barely 5'5), she's known around camp for having a no-nonsense attitude when she's focused. Legend has it that she managed to scare a few Ares kids to the verge of crying when they kept interrupting her shooting class.
Sabrina can't, for the life of her, fight. Well, she can, but not hand-to-hand combat. This is one of the reasons why she chose a gun to be her primary weapon. When Hecate saw this, she gifted Sabrina the Metavlitôs.
Sabrina has a talent for painting and her dream is to have her own art gallery one day.
She adores shiny things and aesthetic knickknacks and has a hoard of them in her little storage trunk in her Cabin (a Harry Potter flair added for the sake of representation and all that shazam)
Nobody knows where she runs off to during Capture the Flag, she's just never seen. Don't tell them but she just curls up comfortably on the branches of a massive tree until the conch horn wakes her.
Sabrina's arms and legs are often convered in ancient runes because she's afraid they might fall off from the amount of running she does—both around camp and on quests. They are products of dry-erase markers.
She has two familiars—a blue and yellow Macaw named Pablo and an American Cocker Spaniel called Aspen.
Every camper adores them and Sabrina spoils them rotten with the finest toys, food and even jewelry for fun. And yeah, they can talk.
Sabrina has access to a joint bank account through which her father sends money every month. She spends almost all of it on clothes and on gifts for her friends.
Sabrina is an avid fantasy and sci-fi novel reader. She is a vernian.
She is not a morning person. Though, it's her own fault that her sleep schedule is so wacky, she stays up reading, building puzzles or trying (and miserably failing) to solve a Rubik's cube.
Sabrina's magic overflows more often than she would prefer. It's mostly when she loses her cool after a long day of touring new campers, spending hours on end overlooking sizzling cauldrons and supervising three activity divisions.
Thankfully, her siblings are there to help, as their magic resonates with each other's and they can absorb her outburst to minimize the damage.
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1369 at the Severn Valley Railway's spring steam gala, 20/04/2024.
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no but i'm sorry again i know this is nothing in the grand scheme of things but i literally had my political awakening while dusting the shelves in between giving lectures at that museum
picking up red shelley while standing on the old wooden ladder to reach the top shelf flanking the window in severn's room looking out onto the piazza. devouring it while black smoke billowed up from burning cars near the piazza del popolo in the early days of the occupy protests. suddenly having the refrain of the mask of anarchy to give a heartbeat to the anger i was feeling.
trying to inject a bit of that into lectures to students visiting on field trips - making sure they understood what i was only beginning to understand about the political context the house was steeped in...
it's just utterly enraging to see that space being devoted to obsequious celebration of these glutted leeches while the working class is literally being starved and you'd be arrested for having signs with shelley's poetry on them today
#it just feels like such a desecration of everything that museum should stand for#just smear shit on the walls it'd be less of a disservice
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RD23834sc. LADY OF LEGEND approaching Highley. by Ron Fisher
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RD23834sc. In April, 2022, the Severn Valley Railway held their annual Spring steam Gala – and a splendid gala it was too. Special attractions were GWR Churchward ‘Saint’ Class 4-6-0 2999 LADY OF LEGEND from the Didcot Railway Centre, Southern Railway Urie S15 Class 4-6-0 506 from the Mid-Hants Railway and LNER Gresley A4 Class Pacific 4498 SIR NIGEL GRESLEY. This is a screenshot from the video footage that I took whilst there and it shows LADY OF LEGEND approaching Highley on its way to Bridgnorth. To see the video, click here: www.flickr.com/photos/train-pix/52045979783/in/album-7215... or here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EehyXarneXo Sunday, 24th April 2022. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2022. ***For more videos of UK heritage railways see: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFsbViNeGSHnOuAr10FmQ85ao_...
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Celebrating 30 years of Class 50 preservation on the Severn Valley Railway , 50049 “Defiance“ arrives at Bewdley heading to Kidderminster 24/09/2022
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LMS Ivatt Class 4 43106 ~ Severn Valley Railway
2022
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