Overhead live wires

Bitton Station is a heritage railway, part of the Avon Valley line. In the yard: overhead wiring strung between posts, heavy metal machinery and chains heaped in gravel, weathered wooden crates stacked against structures, timber piles, a rust-covered cart. The operational side of preservation — the gear you need to keep old things running.

A rusted yellow electrical housing with a danger warning sign, the metal corroded down to bare substrate in patches, the yellow paint holding only where the surface stayed smooth. Vintage railway headlights clustered against that same oxidised housing and wiring. A weathered electrical control panel with yellow paint peeling from the metal rim. These are working components, not display pieces.

Storage bags of coal and gravel in weathered containers. A white forklift beside a gas bottle, next to metal fencing and rusted railway structures. An orange industrial barrel. Abandoned household furniture somewhere in the yard — a sofa, probably, the kind of thing that accumulates at working heritage sites because nobody quite knows whose job it is to remove it.

A close-up of a carriage identification plate, corroded down to near-illegibility. The plate's still on the carriage. The carriage still exists.

The analogue frames are the reason I was there. These are the record I made while waiting.