Eye-catching black and whites

[DSdriver]

On 13/01/2026 at 20:11, lesapandre said:

I thought Belgium was supposed to be flat!

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Andrew353w said:

This gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "drink and drive"!

Just barrelling along...

[sheffcortinacentre]

3 hours ago, DSdriver said:

I thought Belgium was supposed to be flat!

Except thatbit

[Remspoor]

11 hours ago, DSdriver said:

I thought Belgium was supposed to be flat!

Where did you get that information?

 

 

[artdjones]

11 hours ago, DSdriver said:

I thought Belgium was supposed to be flat!

The part that joins Holland is, as you might expect. By the time you get anywhere near the German border, there are lots of upland areas. Highest peak is over 2000ft.

[D.E]

[D.E]

15 hours ago, DSdriver said:

I thought Belgium was supposed to be flat!

Luik is in the Ardennes. Plenty of hills there.

[DSdriver]

7 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Where did you get that information?

 

 

Clarkson! 😆

[Remspoor]

6 hours ago, D.E said:

Luik is in the Ardennes. Plenty of hills there.

D.E. The Bloody British say Liège, like the bloody French and I suppose the bloody Belgiums from the area. It is mainly French speaking  area of the country I think. 

[Remspoor]

[Bfg]

On 17/01/2026 at 12:53, D.E said:

This photo has just so much of interest, from the opening sunroofs of the buses, to the motive power to the train of trams, the details and quality of the coachwork,  the vented roof of those train / tram cars, the spare tyre on the back of the car (..not spare wheel), the canvas over ribbed hardtop of the car being stopped by the policeman, the chaps on the restaurant balcony of the hotel, the fashions ..and the ladies stockinged ankles !!

It's a superb capture of that place and moment in time, as travellers disembark from the train to 'politely queue' and embark on the waiting buses.

Thanks for sharing.  

[Rust Collector]

[Remspoor]

[artdjones]

6 hours ago, Bfg said:

This photo has just so much of interest, from the opening sunroofs of the buses, to the motive power to the train of trams, the details and quality of the coachwork,  the vented roof of those train / tram cars, the spare tyre on the back of the car (..not spare wheel), the canvas over ribbed hardtop of the car being stopped by the policeman, the chaps on the restaurant balcony of the hotel, the fashions ..and the ladies stockinged ankles !!

It's a superb capture of that place and moment in time, as travellers disembark from the train to 'politely queue' and embark on the waiting buses.

Thanks for sharing.  

Steam hauled trams were also used in London.

[Andrew353w]

.........And along the Quay in my home town of Bideford, north Devon, although this was part of a "proper" (albeit rather short-and short lived!) railway:

 

[Bfg]

2 hours ago, Andrew353w said:

.........And along the Quay in my home town of Bideford, north Devon, although this was part of a "proper" (albeit rather short-and short lived!) railway:

 

That's a very wide plough on the front of that engine.  I note too the tall ship masts / square rigger in the background. 

[Bfg]

2 hours ago, artdjones said:

Steam hauled trams were also used in London.

I don't know if I'd seen photos of these before. Water tank on top by the look of things.   Thanks. 

My Nan, God bless her in her heavenly woolly stockings, worked on the London trams during the second world war. My Mum (when she were but a girl) her sister and brother, were evacuated to Wales .. to living below quarters in a big home.  I went there many years later and the place was all but derelict.  Such was the mansion and inheritance tax even then. 

[lesapandre]

Birmingham - Spaghetti Junction - officially the Gravelly Hill Interchange under construction about 1970/71.

[Metal Guru]

45 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Birmingham - Spaghetti Junction - officially the Gravelly Hill Interchange under construction about 1970/71.

My Grandad was working on that when he retired around 1970. I’m not sure exactly what he did. My Dad (from a family of snobs, )called him a “navvy” but I think he was a foreman or similar.
 We went and collected him from a caravan on site near Walsall to go back to Kent. We hardly ever saw him as he worked away all the time,  (Fort William hydro plant that runs down Ben Nevis was always pointed out to us as “grandad made that”) and he died 6 months after he retired at 65. 

[D.E]

[Remspoor]

[Skut]

[D.E]

33 minutes ago, Skut said:

The earlier iteration of Jurassic Park wasn't a succes either, I see.

[D.E]

Rokin Amsterdam, 1938. The young boy definitely noticed the photographer:

 

[High Jetter]

15 minutes ago, D.E said:

Rokin Amsterdam, 1938. The young boy definitely noticed the photographer:

...and said "Go on, Daddy - jump!"

[Remspoor]

[D.E]

The Assen TT, 1927. The car driving towards the camera is presumably a Speedford/Speedsport, a Model T based speedster built in Belgium.

[Andrew353w]

1 hour ago, Remspoor said:

Cornering like that suggests you've fitted cross-ply tyres on the rear and radial tyres on the front, sir!

[Remspoor]

[sheffcortinacentre]

2 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Omg vehicles moving in life threatening blizzard conditions.