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985 (WK11APV) is seen turning into London Bridge Bus Station while working as an extra on the Route 521, due to a bus strike. I believe this bus was being used by Ensignbus as its currently awaiting a new owner and they had no other vehicles available hence the Western Greyhound branding. (05/02/15)
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La Pantera 985 di InRail è qui immortalata in testa al nuovo servizio merci misto InRail/ISC (loco InRail e traccia ISC), in transito in orario nell'ultima stazione della Napoli-Roma via Formia. Qui infatti vediamo il TME 67098 NOLA INTERPORTO-BOLOGNA INTERPORTO in transito a Torricola. Un saluto al PdM!!!!!! Ringrazio per la compagnia Luigi E. e Alessandro V.
(TORRICOLA 28-11-2014)
The Medilink service as operated by CT4N provides a bus every ten minutes across Nottingham from Queens Drive and Wilkinson Street park & ride sites to QMC and City Hospital. A fleet of nine BYDs are the backbone of the service, complimented by various Solos and Versas. LJ16NNA (985) is seen here in the grounds of City Hospital with the 10:25 journey to Queens Drive.
Here's an upload featuring photos I took on 8.1.22, in an incredibly impromptu session of south Nottingham bus spotting where I didn't even have my DSLR with me. Given the dull conditions, the compact managed admirably given how much of a POS it has become over the last year, as it tends to wilt in anything other than favourable lighting nowadays. Trying to counter either gross underexposure or blurring for every single photo I took with it was annoying, but definitely worth it.
I imagine the window of opportunity to get NCT's remaining Omnidekkas, with this shiny new section of Broadmarsh as a backdrop, isn't going to be massive - particularly when it comes to the ones on the 34. The ones that are left, that is. I definitely wasn't going to pass up the opportunity when 985 came along Canal Street, against the massive brown structure that is the new Broadmarsh car park which, as the sign says, has been open since the beginning of November.
By the start of the new academic year, I reckon these will be gone in favour of the E400s off the 35 (or perhaps even sooner?) and the only Omnidekkas you will be able to see down here are spare ones, assuming the spares actually last that long. All of the Omnidekkas are old by NCT standards now, and they do have a habit of withdrawing stuff out of the blue. Half a dozen Enviro 200s for example; who saw that one coming?
For an hour, my friend Sylva Kelegian was following this terrified stray dog. I was on my way to rescue a DIFFERENT dog, when I got the call from Sylva. I detoured, and joined her. By the time I got there, the dog (we named her Heidi) crashed on someone's yard. Sylva helped me secure the area quickly, and Heidi went into a panic mode. She charged towards me, showed me her teeth, but I was faster than her :-)
From there, the three of us continued to save Dolly. You can see her story on my personal page: www.facebook.com/eldad75
LNER Y7 Class 0-4-0T 985 arrives at Brockford Station on the Mid-Suffolk Railway during a 30742 Charters event.
Compare with 721 to see the new breed entering service on the 17 in 2014. Ex-77 N230UDs were gradually displacing the old stock onto the 34. I'm not sure whether the passengers actually noticed that their ten year old buses were replaced by four year old ones, since it was quite a subtle upgrade, but I do know this was pretty much the only good photo I got of 985 in brown.
If you check the branding against the N94s, tiny changes have occurred to pretty much everything. On the body side, the route branding has been reversed, the > shapes are narrower and now purple and the Go2 logo is bolder, and bigger. Above the door, the "17 brown line" key-shaped thing has a slightly different shape and is now fully on the brown part. The Nottingham City Transport lettering below it is white on the N230 version instead of purple on the N94s.
All the "from every 7 mins" text has changed font, with the ones on the side also changing from brown to white. One of the more noticeable changes is the repositioning of the front NCT and Go2 logos to the bumper, which in my mind looks rather silly. As far as I can remember, the 17 was one of the first routes to get its buses repainted from the white-based Go2 livery to the silver-based one, so it got an earlier version of the 'new' branding.
The N230UDs are about 30cm longer than the N94UDs, most (if not all) of which appears to be part of the front overhang. The livery is slightly different as a result, cutting closer to the front wheel arches. The actual shade of brown appears to be different too - it looks a bit 'ickier' than the old version.
Hucknall Road, Nottingham
5.7.14
A 20 shot day.
That is, 20 keepers with no editing.
No editing that is, if you can excuse blanking a single license plate, or a single distant billboard.
(What are the odds that "Assassins Creed" advertising shows up in a favorite shot?!)
So, 2 edits. 10 percent. Oh crap - I rotated one too! (sounds worse already..)
Yet; often I feel challenged to find a shot..
So all in all a surprising experience.
Feel free to critique!
(Not sure it will do any good, my arm is in ice from patting myself on the back! :)