Author: ChrisC

A Viaduct for Staithes

A little more from my trawl through “The North Eastern Railway – Its Rise and Development“ – this time it’s a nice (and, as far as I can tell, unique) shot of the Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway’s viaduct over Staithes Beck, just south of the village itself.

Map extract from ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952 – Yorkshire XIX.NW (circa 1895)‘. CC-BY-NC-SA by the The National Library of Scotland. Download here.

Described as a ‘light iron viaduct of novel construction’, it has an almost American feel to it and looks very out of place look to the modern eye. Given the failure of that particular line – even before the car and the van out competed it – It’s certainly not something we’ll ever see rebuilt again.

York Snaps – April 2025

A few little pictures of York in the April sun – including the now obligatory shot of the Bile Beans sign.

The Bile Beans sign on Lord Mayor’s Walk.

Bile Beans and York Minster

The west end of York Minster.

The west end of York Minster with College Street.

The west end of York Minster with College Street.

York Minster from Low Petergate.

York Minster from Low Petergate.

Gallery: 2025 Misc.

Your Name In Landsat

NASA’s ‘Your Name In Landsat‘ is neat; it attempts to spell your name – or any other word you provide – in land features from satellite imagery as recorded by the Landsat satellite network.

It also has a nice little function where it’ll provide you with a clean-cropped image that you can easily download.

‘Malton’

‘York’

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Sadly, however, it doesn’t do punctuation.