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B.R. Shreeve & Sons (Lowestoft)
Just Go Holidays
YR61 RVO
Scania K400EB4 Lahden OmniExpress.
Lodmoor Coach Park, Weymouth.
Looks like she's had a close encounter on the front nearside!
Algo borrosa; pero se destaca la velocidad permitida por tramo gracias al sistema ATP // Interestación Chorrillos - El Salto.
Rosslyn and Courthouse at sunset, Arlington VA
HDR
Aperture: f/8
Shutter: 25" to 3.2"
ISO 125
Relative exposure: -2 EV to +1 EV in 1-stop intervals
Tone-mapping in Photomatix.
LAB processing in Photoshop.
Tunes by Chapterhouse.
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my written permission.
© Toni_V. All rights reserved.
B.R. Std Class 4MT 2-6-0 No 76017 at Tenbury Wall with the 13.20 Bridgnorth to Kidderminster service
© photo by Paul Wright
R.E.M playing at the Marquee Club, London, 30 April 1984.
Nearest to the camera in the white shirt is guitarist Peter Buck, in the middle is singer Michael Stipe, and furthest from the camera is bassist Mike Mills.
This was only R.E.M’s second trip to the UK. They were slowly becoming more popular, but were still largely unknown at this time. Before the gig I interviewed guitarist Peter Buck for a fanzine, and I asked him how he felt about their reception in the UK:
Paul Wright: You’ve had quite a lot of exposure this time, and some airplay.
Peter Buck: Last time, we got some good reviews, no-one knew who we were and we only sold like 2,000 records or something. This time we're actually selling records and we’re in the charts, although not really high – I think we’re like number 85 with an anchor or something. There’s a little bit more of a knowledge of us and we’re not a completely unknown quantity anymore. I’ve actually heard us on the radio over here, on the BBC late at night, that’s great.
Paul Wright: And to sell out The Marquee on both a Monday and Tuesday night is quite a feat.
Peter Buck: Yeah, I’m very excited.
Read more here: www.flickr.com/photos/paulwrightuk/8718513856/in/photostr...
Marquee Club
90 Wardour Street
London
W1F 0TQ
GBRf'' s latest addition to my photographs in Blackburn of the sub-class is 66782 working 6S94 Wembley-Irvine loaded China Clay Slurry Tanks. Note the 'Buck Eye' swing hook which imediately gives away it's former identity of 66046 recently purchased from DB Schenker.
Ile de Brehat, Bretagne (France)
objectif/lense : Nikon 18-105 mm f/3.5-5.6
post-traitement : Adobe Lightroom Classic 10.0
Route trans-canadienne près de la Ville de Québec, Qc juillet 2015.
T-Can highway near Quebec City region, Qc, July 2015.
RD24571(vid). Over the weekend 14th - 16th October, 2022, the Bluebell Railway in Sussex held their annual 'Giants of Steam Gala'; visiting for the occasion was B.R. Standard 2-6-0 76017 from the Mid-Hants Railway and 4-6-0 73156 from the Great Central Railway.
I went along on the Friday and had a thoroughly enjoyable day riding on the trains and videoing from the stations. This is part 5 of the video footage I took and it was taken at Sheffield Park Station where B.R. Standard Class 4MT 2-6-0 76017 was waiting to take the next up train to East Grinstead. Before it can do so however, a down train from East Grinstead is seen arriving behind GWR ‘Modified Hall’ Class 4-6-0 6989 WIGHTWICK HALL which is on loan from the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton Road.
***More videos from the Bluebell Railway can be seen here:
www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLFsbViNeGSHnW5INzmkndlC3EU_....
Friday, 14th October, 2022. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2022.
Videoed in 4K using a Sony Handycam FDR-AX53 camcorder.
R667 type bunker with Pak43 88mm gun - Omaha Beach - Widerstandsnest 72 - Vierville sur Mer, Dog Green sector, Normandy
Omaha Beach
Omaha was divided into ten sectors, codenamed (from west to east): Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog Green, Dog White, Dog Red, Easy Green, Easy Red, Fox Green and Fox Red. On june 6, 1944 -D-Day - the initial assault on Omaha was to be made by two Regimental Combat Teams (RCT), supported by two tank battalions, with two battalions of Rangers also attached. The RCT's were part of the veteran 1st Infantry division ("The Big Red One") and the untested 29th ("Blue and Grey") , a National Guard unit.
The plan was to make frontal assaults at the "draws" (valleys) in the bluffs which dominate the coast in Normandy , codenamed west to east they were called D-1, D-3, E-1, E-3 and F-1 . These draws could then be used to move inland with reserves and vehicles.
The Germans were not stupid; they knew the draws were vital and concentrated their limited resources in defending them. To this end they built "Widerstandsneste" with AT guns, mortars, MG's in Tobrul's, trenches and bunkers, manned by soldiers of the German 716th and - more recently - 352nd Infantry Division, a large portion of whom were teenagers, though they were supplemented by veterans who had fought on the Eastern Front. All in all some 1100 German soldiers defended the entire Omaha beach sector of over 5 miles.
Preliminary bombardments were almost totally ineffective and when the initial waves landed at low tide they met with fiece opposition of an enemy well dug in and prepared.
Casualties were heaviest amongst the troops landing at either end of Omaha. At Fox Green and Easy Red, scattered elements of three companies were reduced to half strength by the time they gained the relative safety of the shingle, many of them having crawled the 300 yards (270 m) of beach just ahead of the incoming tide. Casualties were especially heavy amongst the first waves of soldiers and the gap assault teams - at Omaha these were tasked with blasting channels through the beach obstacles. German gunfire from the bluffs above the beach took a heavy toll on these men. The demolition teams managed to blast only six complete gaps and three partial ones; more than half their engineers were killed in the process.
Situation at Dog Green and on Easy Red on the other end of Omaha by mid morning was so bad with nearly all the troops essentially pinned down on the beach gen. Eisenhower seriously considered to abandon the operation; in "First Wave at OMAHA Beach", S.L.A. Marshall, chief U.S. Army combat historian, called it "an epic human tragedy which in the early hours bordered on total disaster."
As the US first waves assault forces and combat engineers landing directly opposite the "draws" were pinned down it was up to forces landing on the flanks of the strongpoints to penetrate the weaker German defences by climbing the bluffs. Doing this they had to overcome the minefields and barbed wire as well as machinegun fire from German positions but they did and they were able to attack some key strongpoints from the side and the rear, taking them out by early afternoon.
This happened on several spots at Omaha and essentially saved the day: individual acts of initiative by lower ranked officers and courage like that of First Lieutenant Jimmy Monteith, who led a group of men to take one of the key German widerstandsneste and was killed in action, succeeded where a flawed plan failed.
WN 72:
Widerstandsnest 72 is part of the "Atlantic Wall". It guarded the "Dog-1" exit towards Vierville-sur-mer and was built in 1943-44 . It lies in the Dog Green sector which saw some of the heaviest fighting in the morning of june 6, 1944.
The reason why this particular spot on Omaha Beach was so heavily defended is the famous "Vierville Draw": a road through the bluffs leading directly to the town of Vierville-sur-Mer and then connecting to the Route Nationale. In other words: an ideal spot for a breakout after the landings and of course the Germans realised this too, making the Dog-1 exit a deathtrap for anyone trying to take it.
The Defenses
The Draw was defended by three German "Widerstandsneste" numbered WN 71, WN72 and WN73 and manned by members of the veteran 352nd division . WN72 consisted of two H-667 type casemates, which are directly overlooking the beach with one of them housing a formidable 88 mm. PAK43 gun.
Both casemates are guarded from fire from the sea and have gun positions enfilading the beach, their muzzle flashes were not visible from the sea. In 1944 these bunkers were protected by barbed wire, minefields and trenches.
The hill behind also had several strongpoints of WN 71 and 73, with at least nine MG positions , two mortar positions and a light fieldgun on top of the bluffs over a stretch of some 200 metres these defenses were the best the Germans had to offer in the entire Omaha sector. To top it off an anti-tank wall 2 metres high was erected to block any vehicle.
D-Day
When A-Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry of the 29th "Blue & Grey" division landed here (an old Virginia National Guard Unit with a long tradition harking back to Stonewall Jackson's Brigade) it was "H-Hour" on D-Day: june 6, 1944: 06.30 hour. They were coming in exactly on the right spot opposite the draw (a lot of units in other sectors drifted away from their designated areas due to the strong current) in six Royal Navy LCA assault boats. The soldiers could see the German bunkers in the distance and the beach seemed to be untouched by the preliminary bombardments. They had to cross a large stretch of beach (some 250 metres) towards the Vierville draw. The germans waited until the landing craft were all empty and then opened fire with their MG 42's, mortars, and guns.
It was carnage. A-Company was virtually wiped out within the first minutes of the landing; no one knows exactly what happened with the 30 men in LCA 1015 but all of them were killed, and most of their bodies were found on the beach, commanding officer captain Taylor Fellers among them. In fact all all but one officers were killed in action within the first minutes, as were more then half of the soldiers and NCO's. Those who did survive the initial onslaught could do little more then stay in the water or press them self against the sand hanging on to their lifes. The shingle bank offered a little bit of protection to the happy few which made it that far, but most survivors had to stay in the water, creeping forward with the rising tide.
Incredible acts of heroism were performed by men trying to help their wounded comrades out of the water only to see them cut down by enemy fire or get shot themselfes. A-Company was reduced from an assault company to a small rescue party within 15 minutes. The follow up troops of the second wave didn't fare much better and subsequent waves landed more to the east of this WN where resistance was less heavy.
Among the casualties in A-company were 19 men from Bedford, VA. Bedford’s population in 1944 was about 3,200, and proportionally the Bedford community suffered the nation’s most severe D-Day losses.
Note: Some Ranger units also landed here, just to the west of Dog Green on Charlie sector, and this was the inspiration for the famous first scene of the 1998 movie "Saving Private Ryan".
On the Photo:
The R-667 type casemate prominent in the picture is the main defensive position of WN72; it houses a formidable 88 mm. PAK43 gun (which is still there behind the steel framework) and it;s positioned so that it enfillades the beach and is guarded from naval gunfire by an extra wallsegment (to the right). On top of the casemate now rests the National Guard memorial. To the left is the road which exits the beach to Vierville-sur-Mer, in june 1944 an anti-tank wall was erected between the bunker and the base of the bluff (far left). Sidenote: in 1944 this bunker was built into the remnants of a hotel which served as camouflage.
See my other Omaha beach photo's for more viewpoints, panorama shots and notes on the fighting
Tonemapped using three (Handheld) shots made with a Nikon D7000 and a Tamron 28-75 mm f/2,8 XR Di, augustus 2012.
• اللهم لا تجعل الدرجات أكبر همي و مبلغ علمي و رضني بما قضيت لي..اللهم سهل علي ما صعب حفظه و يسر لي ما استغلق فهمه واجعل هذا العلم حجة لي لا حجة علي. اللهم بارك لي في وقتي و أصلح لي شأني ولا تكلني إلي نفسي طرفة عين .
i'm always jotting on my hand XD
well not always ,
but when i had a pen automatically i'll start to drawing on my hand :S
my father always yell at me if he sees drawing in my hand [ sometimes he can be really a cleaning freak :D ]
well , i know it's not very clean for me to do that but i love it
umm i'll be away for 2 weeks for exams :S
so you'll see a lot of hand drawing :D
wish me luck <3
My Mix:
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri:
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri Pants
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri Shirt
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri R ForeArm
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri L ForeArm
::: B@R ::: Mahamayuri L Shoulder
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::: B@R ::: Undine: Original in black, but I edited in world (tinted and looks great in green too)
::: B@R ::: Undine Gloves
::: B@R ::: Undine L UpperLeg
::: B@R ::: Undine R UpperLeg
::: B@R ::: Undine Skirt
::: B@R ::: Undine (MermaidLooks) Fin (L LowerLeg)
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scenery
::: B@R ::: Sirens Lounge
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Hair: Laqroki ~ Volcano - 06
Skin: Cupcakes
Earrings: $GaNKeD$ Mermaid Earrings
Lashes: Miamai
On 31st August 1971 'Amazon' raises the echoes across the valley towards Distington as it slogs away from the B.R. exchange sidings at Bains with four loaded hopper wagons of coal from Solway Colliery, Workington, for washing at Harrington Coal Preparation Plant. Built by Vulcan Foundry, works No.5297, and delivered new to the Longmoor Military Railway in August 1946 as Ministry of Supply No.75307, it was sold the following year to Richard Evans & Co. Haydock Colliery, Lancashire as 'Amazon'. After use at Haydock and Sutton Manor Collieries up until the mid-1960s, it moved north to Harrington where it worked up until closure of the washery in May 1973. A move to nearby Ladysmith serving Haig Colliery, Whitehaven proved fateful and it was derelict by the following May, eventually being scrapped on site by T.W.Ward during May 1976.
Halina 35mm Kodachrome 64
© Copyright Gordon Edgar - No unauthorised use.
BrickFair VA 2019
Here is the second of Jimmy Fasano's trio of microscale sports complexes / arenas.
What was really nice about this MOC is that he could change out the center portion to make it a concert venue (the configuration shown) or a football field. I thought that was a slick approach to show a multi-purpose facility.
He told me that the concert stage setup was based on a couple of real ones...but I have forgotten which bands / tours they were.
Due to family matters. I will be of Flickr for some time. Wish you all the best.
P1140489
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7CcHS15-oQ
Large View Then type F11, and F11 again to exit.
Taken @ Advanced Contact Solution, Inc. Araneta Center Cubao Bus Terminal Station, Cubao, Quezon City - June 11, 2011
RSL (REGINA SHIPPING LINES) BUS TRANSPORT, CORP.
> Under BICOL ISAROG TRANSPORT SYSTEM, INC. which includes the companies: RSL Bus Transport, Corp., Isarog Line Express Transport, Inc., and Peñafrancia Tours and Travel Transport, Inc.
Bus number: 892
Classification: Airconditioned Provincial Operation Bus
Coachbuilder: Suzhou King Long United Automotive Industry Company, Ltd. (Higer Bus)
Chassis: Higer KLQ6120E3 (LKLR1KSJ)
Model: Higer H92B - KLQ6125BA
Engine: YuChai YC6L330-30
Displacement: 513.948 cu. inches (8,424 cc / 8.4 Liters)
Cyliners: Inline-6
Aspiration: Turbocharged
Power Output: 325.48 bhp (330 PS - metric hp / 242.72 kW) @ 2,200 rpm
Torque Output: 943.95 lb.ft (1,280 N.m) @ 1,400 rpm
Transmission: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
Maximum Speed: 77.67 mph (125 km/hr) - [estimated]
Brakes (Front): Drum Brakes
Brakes (Rear): Drum Brakes
Layout: Rear-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Airconditioning Unit: Overhead Unit
Suspension: Air-Suspension
Seating Configuration: 2x2
Seating Capacity: 36 Passengers
Fuel Tank Capacity: 105.560 Gallons (400 Liters)
Overall length: 39.37 feet (12.00 Meters)
Overall width: 8.37 feet (2.55 Meters)
Overall height: 12.47 feet (3.80 Meters)
Wheel Base: 21.18 feet (6.15 Meters)
Ground Clearance: 8.66 inches (220 Millimeters)
Body Overhang (Front): 8.04 feet (2.45 Meters)
Body Overhang (Rear): 11.15 feet (3.40 Meters)
Body Inside Height: 6.88 feet (2.10 Meters)
Tread (Front): 6.66 feet (2.03 Meters)
Tread (Rear): 6.00 feet (1.83 Meters)
Curb Weight: 30,272 lbs. (13,710 kg)
> Front: 10,400 lbs. (4,710 kg)
> Rear: 19,872 lbs. (9,000 kg)
Gross Vehicle Weight: 39,744 lbs. (18,000 kg)
> Front: 14,352 lbs. (6,500 kg)
> Rear: 25,392 lbs. (11,500 kg)
Fuel Consumption: 9.06 mpg (3.85 km / Liter)
* Specifications are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice...
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Antes de que llegue el nublado
antes de que se oculte el sol
se derrite el cuerpo humano
jugando, paseando o tumbado .
Antes de que acabe el día
nadie se ha quedado parado
para ser su cuerpo bronceado
por los cuatro costados .
Tumbona, sombrilla o toalla
no hay lugar libre en la playa
donde estar con libertad
sin que nadie te pueda molestar
¿ por qué, no darles
una pequeña ración ?
¡ no sea que les haga daño !
y, tengan un " subidón ".