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Class 170 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 3472 words, 340 images and viewed 8,662 times.
Updated 9 days ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/170_front_170478.jpg Northern Class 170 No. 170478 Horsforth Railway Station]
Class 170 Turbostar is a class of Diesel Multiple Units (DMU's) that were built by Adtranz and later Bombardier Transportation at ...
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Descriptive words on OS maps
Article by David Hawgood, with 20399 words, 1,731 images and viewed 25,259 times.
Updated 9 days ago.
This is a work in progress. Through the Geograph discussion forum we are collecting examples of as many descriptive words as possible used on Ordnance Survey maps, and we want examples of others. We have also worked through OS Mastermap Real World Object Catalogue . This lists anything which can be ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2013
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4540 words, 2,839 images and viewed 4,022 times.
Updated 16 days ago.
A: A Thomas to Albert Bridge
A Thomas (38050) 1 ...
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Architectural features illustrated
Article by Adrian S Pye, with 6166 words, 899 images and viewed 3,111 times.
Updated 23 days ago.
Architectural features illustrated
Definitions from various sources primarily Wikipedia
All images used and reusable under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
Please feel free to add more images; up to nine per definition (page limits are 100 images)
Insert better ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2017
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4024 words, 2,600 images and viewed 2,945 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Reid
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Class 150 diesel multiple units
Article by JThomas, with 5410 words, 626 images and viewed 5,539 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
Introduction
[img=https://media.geograph.org.uk/files/1700002963a49da13542e0726b7bb758/150_front.jpg Class 150 No. 150119 Accrington Railway Station]
The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit trains. They were built by BREL, York between 1984 and 1987. A total of 137 ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2015
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4260 words, 2,667 images and viewed 2,959 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam C Snape to Alan Richards
Adam C Snape (122082) 1
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2014
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4245 words, 2,675 images and viewed 2,964 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to alistairG
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2012
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4638 words, 2,790 images and viewed 3,103 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A runningman to Albert Bridge ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2010
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4565 words, 2,621 images and viewed 2,893 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A Holmes to AlastairG ...
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2023
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3950 words, 2,632 images and viewed 2,882 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to AJD
A J Paxton (24602) 17
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2022
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3897 words, 2,620 images and viewed 3,710 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2021
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3946 words, 2,642 images and viewed 2,736 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: A J Paxton to Ajay Tegala
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2020
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 3979 words, 2,603 images and viewed 2,450 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to AJD
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Images shortlisted for POTY, 2019
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4102 words, 2,679 images and viewed 3,126 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan Hughes
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Images shortlisted for POTY 2018
Article by Oliver Dixon, with 4156 words, 2,698 images and viewed 1,988 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
A: Adam Ward to Alan O'Dowd
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Preserved diesel locomotives of British Rail
Article by Roger Cornfoot, with 3654 words, 1,031 images and viewed 9,313 times.
Updated 2 months ago.
Manufacturers in the United States and mainland Europe had started building diesel locomotives from the late 19th century and in large numbers from the 1930s onwards. In the UK, most of the pre-grouping companies experimented with them. The LMS produced a successful series of diesel shunting ...
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Nonconformist Chapels in Wales
Article by Robin Drayton, with 27486 words, 1,138 images and viewed 15,322 times.
Updated 5 months ago.
Introduction
This article started as a project to list the names of Welsh Nonconformist Chapels, with their meanings, and to show examples of each name with a picture from the Geograph website. (The list can be seen towards the end of this article via the menu on the right.) In browsing the website ...
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New Year's Day 2008
Article by Penny Mayes, with 484 words, 108 images and viewed 358 times.
Updated 20 months ago.
There were 'Happy New Year' threads in the forum in 2008, but no forum-based collection of photos taken on New Year's Day. However, 108 contributors took and submitted photos of their outings on the day.
It was murky in the north of the Union with one instance of snow in the east, some blue skies ...
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My 2022 Calendar
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 8 posts, 208 images and viewed 1,118 times.
Updated 37 months ago.
6805667 6449494 6858556 6199835 6000067 5813759 6663928 5981096 6618697 6325266 6704682 6134554 5699373 I've trawled through my back catalogue of 20,000 (yikes! I apologise to the hamsters and will leave a carrot or two for them) and chosen these. I have taken one from ...
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Tower Blocks - neglect and renewal
Article by John M, with 607 words, 39 images and viewed 402 times.
Updated 76 months ago.
Introduction
5475737 Grenfell Tower
The tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in London has highlighted a neglected area where high rise tower blocks and public housing have been transferred to Tenant Management Organisations. We wait to see the results of any Public Inquiry but recently installed ...
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Postal addresses: a little history and a lot of photos
Article by Chris Downer, with 52102 words, 2,760 images and viewed 42,108 times.
Updated 81 months ago.
INTRODUCTION
This article takes a little look back at the history of postal addressing, especially the period in the 1970s when the postcodes became national. We look at post towns, postal counties and postcodes and the way these have developed.
Following this, an album displays a photograph from ...
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Parliamentary Constituencies - Election 2017
Article by John M, with 11312 words, 958 images and viewed 3,616 times.
Updated 86 months ago.
East
The Eastern Region comprising East Anglia with Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire is overwhelmingly dominated by Conservative seats with 52 Conservatives, 4 Labour and 1 Liberal Democrat.
Cambridge
Cambridge only has one constituency. Overall the City has done well economically and has two ...
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Tweeted from @geograph_bi in October 2014
Gallery started by Robin Stott, with 9 posts, 185 images and viewed 860 times.
Updated 121 months ago.
A gallery of daily tweets is a way (a) for contributors who subscribe to email notifications to learn that one of their pics has been posted on Geograph's Twitter account ('tweeted'); (b) to show any viewer the quality and range of the photos tweeted without going to Twitter; (c) to ...