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East Riding of Yorkshire Council News Release #5

Something to make you happy #1

Tower of Belm

 

 

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UX: Manchester Mayfield Street Station, Manchester

Earmarked for demolition last year which has now been postponed due to the Tory cuts. Someone should surely see sense to referb and reopen it. Piccadilly has been running at capacity for the last few years, Mayfield would be a wonderful (and much needed) overflow terminus. As it stands, it's one of the great ghosts of Manchester.

The London and North Western Railway’s (LNWR) busiest station in Manchester was London Road station. By the first decade of the 20th century it had become so busy that it could hardly cope with the levels of traffic being carried on the LNWR network. In particular the LNWR had great difficulty accommodating both main line long distance trains with local suburban services.

The answer was to build a new station to the south of Manchester London Road. This new station opened as Manchester Mayfield Station opened on the 8th August 1910. In effect it was really an overspill station for Manchester London Road (renamed Manchester Piccadilly in 1960).

The station was situated above street level the lines leading into it coming off a brick built viaduct. It was built out of red brick and had an imposing two storey frontage building that provided access from street level. Three platforms were provided which gave five platform faces, two of the platforms being island platforms. On the north site of the station a ramp led up from street level which allowed vehicular access to the platforms. An overall roof supported on iron columns was provided which covered all of the platforms. A footbridge connected

Manchester Mayfield station to Manchester London road to facilitate passengers who needed to change trains. Train services from the station operated to various destinations on the Buxton, Crewe and Macclesfield lines.

Mayfield Station became part of the London Midland Scottish Railway (LMS) in 1923 and that companies 18th July 1932 to the 11th September 1932 Summer timetable shows thirteen weekday departures from the station which called at all stations to Stockport. The weekday services ran mostly in the morning and evening rush hour. The situation seems to have altered on Saturday’s as more Stockport services appear to have operated from Mayfield throughout the daytime period. It is possible that this would have been because there would have been numerous holiday specials running from Manchester London Road on Saturday’s. The same 1932 timetable also shows a number of long distance arrival’s used Mayfield Station. 

For many years the station served Manchester’s commuters well but following electrification of many of the local lines in 1960 the station closed on 23rd August of that year. It lay derelict for nearly a decade but eventually it was converted into a parcel’s depot opening on 6th July 1970.

The parcels depot closed in the late 1980s and since then the station has stood idle.

The derelict interior was used in the Television Drama Prime Suspect 5 as a drug dealers haunt. As Manchester Piccadilly Station (formerly London Road) is once again running out of capacity there has been a proposal to reopen Mayfield Station. It will either be as terminus, as it was before, or lines will be extended through the station and join up with the existing line to Oxford Road.

 

Van de glijbaan op Utrecht Overvecht

Brilliant. Sometimes an idea falls out of my mind and into the real world. I have no idea how this happens but it always raises a smile. Here's one such example. I've not smiled this much since I saw a man holding sign which read, 'Needs Bigger Fish'.

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NOW there's no excuse to miss the train at the Overvecht Station in Holland.
The newly installed "transfer accelerator" allows commuters to quickly descend the station stairs and access platforms.


At night the slide is said to play music from Bach.

Like I said, brilliant. Oh, and there's videos! Of course there's videos!!!

Explain this to an American #6

Foggy persuades Compo to buy a new pair of trousers, and Clegg to buy a Metal Detector.

I hate art

THE TRUTH

WORST SEX STORIES #3
Look at yourself in the mirror. Think about what you did. Where is she now? Not with you, that's for sure.

Manhattanhenge

Manhattanhenge – sometimes referred to as the Manhattan Solstice – is a semiannual occurrence in which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The term is derived from Stonehenge, at which the sun aligns with the stones on the solstices. It was popularized in 2002 by Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History. It applies to those streets that follow the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which are laid out in a grid offset 29.0 degrees from true east–west. (The 29.0 degrees should be added to true east and west, making the western bearing approximately 299.0 degrees.) During Manhattanhenge, an observer on one of the gridded east-west streets will see the sun setting over New Jersey directly opposite from the street, along its centerline.

The dates of Manhattanhenge are usually around May 28 and July 12 or July 13 – spaced evenly around summer solstice. In 2011, Manhattanhenge occurred on May 31 at 8:17 p.m., and on July 12 (full sun) and 13 (half sun), both at 8:25 p.m.

The two corresponding mornings of sunrise right on the center lines of the Manhattan grid are approximately December 5 and January 8 – spaced evenly around winter solstice. As with the solstices and equinoxes, the dates vary somewhat from year to year.

The same phenomenon occurs in other cities with a uniform street grid. In Chicago, Illinois, for instance, the setting sun lines up with the grid system on September 25, a phenomenon known similarly as Chicagohenge. In Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the setting sun lines up with the east–west streets on October 25 and February 16, a phenomenon known locally as Torontohenge. In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, there may be a Montrealhenge each year on July 12.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council News Release #4

Cheats for 'Foo Fighters Album Reaction' game (Mega Drive only)

Foo Fighters - press up and C twice (High 5 and slight ball tickling)
The Colour and the Shape - Up, down, up, down, left, left, right, A, B then left (Joyful smug face with hint of disappointment at later track or two. Possible blow job inference)
There is nothing left to lose - Press start rapidly while crossing your eyes (Wank over lead single, faux headbutt at Taylor Hawkins)
One by One - Press control pad into gooch, press C then move vigorously between balls and arsehole whilst dancing like Oiliver Reed on Aspul and Co (Find Dave Grohls mum and tell her he "Needs to make changes")

In Your Honour - Up, Down, Left, Right, B, C and then shout "The 70's" (Do a dance to the lead singles whilst stabbing Norah Jones)
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Smash B into orbit (Don eyeliner and then take it off)
Wasting Light - put down pad and fist yourself (make tearful goodbye to Grohl and the boys and 'get into' Frampton Come Alive)
 

Nobody can cross it

++== THE FILM

In its entirety. Some clips are links as blogger.com won't allow links of copyrighted material.

PART 2: http://youtu.be/xXL1R6CaIy4

PART 19: http://youtu.be/At3sjl89uUw

PART 20: http://youtu.be/kjl3bdbGFxQ

East Riding of Yorkshire Council News Release #3

Brown Justice

WORST SEX STORIES #2
I was fifteen. My first boyfriend had talked me into giving him a blowjob, his and my first one. After some hesitation, I began and everything seemed to be going as he described it would be. Half way through, I noticed my chest felt really warm and wet. I looked down and to my horror, there was an indescribable amount of diarrhea covering my white shirt. To this day, I'm not sure what happened. Of course the real fun part was when I had to left my t-shirt over my head to get it off. - Kelly, Bognor