Caption Contest?

Man standing right in front of goods train loaded with ballast, Sudbury Hill Harrow, 29 March 2025

Depleted Earth Site?

Electricity substation, Wood End Road, Harrow

What does "Depleted Earth Site" mean? Google doesn't seem to know exactly. This is outside a local electricity substation.

Radio Harrow information poster

Radio Harrow poster at Northwick Park hospital. See about volunteering. Link: www.radioharrow.org

Northwick Park station

View to the back of Northwick Park Station from the northwest corner of Northwick Park, March 2025

Sudbury Hill Harrow station

Small station on the Chiltern Line, 15 March 2025

Trains stop here about every half hour only during peak hours and only on weekdays. The platforms are short, so only trains with a small number of carriages can use this station.

Review: "Anora" - a snorer

Sarah Hegarty's damning review of Anora, winner of the Oscar for best film, 2025

Harrow Cricket Club and Apple Tree Montessori Nursery

View of Harrow Cricket Club and Apple Tree Montessori nursery buildings, 28 Feb. 2025 

Affinity Water - leak at Sudbury Hill for several days

Water leak at Greenford Road near Sudbury Hill, 27 February 202

This leak has been running for several days. According to Affinity Water’s “report a leak” map, the leak was reported on 19 February and has been investigated and located by one of their technicians on 25 February. (See details below.)

Screenshot of the leak on the “report a leak” page (detail)

Update Friday 28: Still bubbling up, water spreading across the road etc.

Update, 1 March: Still the same. To call it a puddle is a bit of an understatement, it's spreading across Greenford Road. Video today: 

Broadway Living, Ealing: What is happening?

Site of Wood End Children's Library

Site of the former Wood End Children's Library, 23 Feb 2025

Note: The display states "Work is due to be completed by late 2023. There has been no visible activity on the site for several months. The development is supposed to include a new community library. The library was demolished in February 2022. See  Wood End Library and Children's Centre demolished (photos). 

Question for Ealing Council, what is happening here? The website link given leads to "Sorry page not found." 

Bald Cypress

Bald Cypress, Whitton Avenue West, 23 Feb 2025

Trainspotting

Piccadilly Uxbridge Line train spotted at Wood End, November 2015

Watching Miss Austen?

Jane Austen's memorial and gravestone

Perhaps you might like to see Cassandra’s sister Jane Austen’s memorial and the inscription on her gravestone over at on that moonlighting hack Moran’s private website. What price loyalty? (Red)

Mpox clinic self check-in screen

Corner of First Avenue and Harrow Road, W10

Queens Park street scene, Monday, 6 January 2025

Digging out sheep from under snow

Extraordinary video from Carlow Weather on Bluesky