The Best Attractions In Fuxin County

Riding the Trolley at PA Trolley Museum - Washington PA

Wulong chongqing

Fairy Mountain

Trains at Conington Level Crossing, ECML | 14/10/17

A quiet and sunny evening visit to Conington Level Crossing on the East Coast Mainline on a early Saturday evening.

Mileage: 69 miles 29 chains

Conington info:

Conington is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Conington lies approximately 10 kilometres (6 mi) south of Peterborough and 3 kilometres (2 mi) north of Sawtry, within earshot of Ermine Street, now called the Great North Road. Conington is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

History:

Conington was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Normancross in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Coninctune in the Domesday Book.[2] In 1086 there was just one manor at Conington; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £9 and the rent was the same in 1086.[3]
The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 27 households at Conington.[3] There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household.[4] Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Conington in 1086 is that it was within the range of 94 and 135 people.
The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acres (49 hectares); this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family. By 1086, the hide had become a unit of tax assessment rather than an actual land area; a hide was the amount of land that could be assessed as £1 for tax purposes. The survey records that there was 15 ploughlands at Conington in 1086.[3] In addition to the arable land, there was 40 acres (16 hectares) of meadows at Conington.[3]
The total tax assessment in the Domesday Book for the manor at Conington was nine geld.[3]
By 1086 there was already a church and a priest at Conington.
The Cotton Baronetcy of Conington was created in the Baronetage of England on 29 June 1611 for the antiquary Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), who also represented five constituencies in the House of Commons.[5] The novelist and editor Henrietta Maria Bowdler was born in Conington in 1750.[6]
In the Second World War, Conington was located next to Royal Air Force Station Glatton. RAF Glatton was constructed to Class A standards to support heavy bombers in 1943 with the intent of being used by the US Army Air Forces. The 457th Bombardment Group (Heavy) arrived on 21 January 1944. The recognisable tail code of the 457th was the triangle U painted on the vertical stabilizers of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses which operated from the air base. The 457th Bomb Group operated RAF Glatton from January 1944 until 20 April 1945, when it completed its 237th and last combat mission at the conclusion of the war. In All Saints Church, Conington is a memorial to the 457th Bomb Group.

Rail incident:

The Connington South rail crash occurred on 5 March 1967 on the East Coast Main Line near the village of Conington, Huntingdonshire, England. Five passengers were killed and 18 were injured.
The 22:30 express from King's Cross to Edinburgh, hauled by a Deltic locomotive, was travelling along the Down Fast line at around 75 mph when the rear portion of the train was derailed to the left. The last four coaches came to rest on their sides and two
others were derailed. This was cause by a signalling error (likely deliberate)

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Wee Georgie Wood

An autumn trip to Tassie. Dropped into Tullah to savour some extra narrow gauge steam.

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| ROMANIA | Salt mine, steam train and Merry Cemetery |

Hey there everyone! Last month I went on a trip to Maramures County in Romania(which is where I live) and I've had an amazing time. We had some stops along the way too so I got to visit a lot of places and film it all so I can make this video. I'm pretty happy about the way it turned up and if you guys like this kind of videos I might be posting some more. I always film the places I go to and I have a lot of clips from last years as well. Do let me know in the comments if you want to see that. But that's pretty much all I had to say. I'm listing below the places that are shown in the video. Make sure to check out my instagram for more travel pictures.

IN THE VIDEO:
Mocanita Steam Train
Sapanta Merry Cemetery
Alba Carolina Fortress
Turda Salt Mine
Barsana Monastery (short clip - sorry)



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My room in Taichung

Taichung city, Taiwan

Hotel ONE, 38 F

Taichung has a vibrant, diverse economy that incorporates traditional businesses, small family-run shops and factories, large industrial areas, and a thriving commercial sector.
The heart of Taichung's economy has long been the small business. The small business sector still thrives in the city and is in most evidence in the downtown area with small eateries, traditional markets, and other various family businesses. Taichung's Chun Shui Tang teahouse (春水堂) is where bubble tea was invented, by a teahouse owner, Liu Han Chie (劉漢介).[26] Taichung is most famous for its suncakes (taiyang bing).
Taichung is an important center for a number of key industries. The city is a major manufacturer of bicycles and related parts, and sporting goods. Small metalworking, mold and die enterprises abound. During the heyday of the Taiwanese Miracle, the city hosted the famous Shoes Nest, hundreds of small firms involved in the shoe industry, which has since moved to China. Nike's Asian design center is located in Taichung.
Xitun District is the home of Taichung's Industrial Zone. Taichung's World Trade Center Building is the symbolic heart of the zone, where various trade shows and exhibitions are held throughout the year. Most of Taichung's traditional manufacturing base is in this area, which is the area of Taichung City that is nearest the port. In the northeast part of Xitun District, along the border with neighboring Taichung County, there is a science-based Industrial Park.
The growing prosperity of Taichung residents has resulted in the explosive growth of the upscale retail sector, with the opening of massive up-market department stores, as well as the construction of several luxurious condo complexes in the rapidly developing areas near a newly constructed government complex, as well as the growth of up-market neighborhoods in Beitun District.