Rusty riveted steel steam engine locomotive boiler, in scrapyard

Rusty riveted steel steam engine locomotive boiler, in scrapyard Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

2AGMNY6

File size:

58.9 MB (3.3 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

5496 x 3744 px | 46.5 x 31.7 cm | 18.3 x 12.5 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

4 May 2014

Location:

Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1

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. Recorded at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 in 2014, the image fixes a particular place, use and appearance for later comparison as buildings, businesses, signs and public activity change. The view centres on Rusty riveted steel steam engine locomotive boiler, in scrapyard. The image connects the immediate subject with rail modernisation, place identity, station environment, commuter travel, community identity, railway heritage, local history, historic manufacturing, industrial archaeology, labour history, manufacturing heritage, traditional building materials, historical comparison, and contemporary social history. Today's wider story includes public ownership, reliability and the practical question of making rail simpler and more dependable. For contemporary context, embodied carbon and factory closures are closely related themes, especially where the issue becomes the reuse or loss of former production sites. For later comparison, the scene fixes local appearance, occupation, access and public activity around Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1. A second layer of the scene includes engineering heritage, public transport network, factory history, visual archive, local character, archival record, regional rail, and historic context. References to riveted, locomotive, boiler, steel, and engine help fix the photograph to its own subject and period rather than reducing it to a generic view. The surrounding context at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1 matters because ordinary visual details often provide the strongest evidence of how a place actually looked and functioned. The wider significance includes public ownership and linking trains more effectively with other transport when considered against later change at Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1. Another strand within the photograph is manufacturing history and recording industries that shaped northern towns without losing the local specificity of Crewe , Cheshire, England, UK, CW1.