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When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
State/Province: Bavaria
Agency: Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Busservice Watzinger GmbH
Model: Mercedes-Benz 628.056 Citaro C2
Year: 2020
File Name: 4482
Ah, the hope and aspirations! The informative booklet issued by the West Yorkshire PTE and describing the planning, construction and operation of Bradford's new Travel Interchange in 1977. The scheme was a long held aspiration of the City Council's post-war plan to essentially bring together the city's once separate motor bus stances and coach stations on the side adjacent to Hall Ings that had been identified in the first City Plan.
The scheme grew to include other features; firstly the relocation, further back, of the adjacent British Rail platforms at the old Exchange station. This did allow bus/train/coach interchange but it did mean that the British Rail facilities were a little further back from the city centre and further away from the opposing platforms at the city's other station, Foster Square. That 'gap' in Bradford's railway network has long been a source of contention and there was, once, a plan to connect the two. The desire to cut the tracks back was largely due to BR's ability to save money replacingt he Hall Ings overbridge as well as enabling demolition and redevelopment of the station site - and this can be seen on the aerial photograph. It's useful to see that for public transport the land was already being used a s a car park to accompodate the main form of competition! The BR part of the work was first to be completed and the new railway station and platforms came into use on 14 January 1973.
The second rationale behind the plan was to integrate, in the basement of the building, a new central bus garage and workshops that must have been seen as a real achievement at the time - a city centre location for the garaging and maintenance of a part of the PTE's Bradford city bus fleet. A third bonus was the construction of Metrochange House above, an eight story building that gave office accomodation for the PTE as well as space for the National Bus Company whose subsidiary West Yorkshire still operated services in the area as well as the National Express coach operation that used Interchange. The bus and coach station came into use on 27 March 1977 and allowed the closure of various city centre street terminal points and the old Chester St bus and coach station.
The Interchange has seen various changes since opening - most notably the demolition in 1999 of the overall ridge & furrow roof and this was followed by a remodelling of the bus station's layout and facilities in 2001. Further changes are being considered to both the bus station, now operated by West Yorkshire Metro, and the railway station.
State/Province: Bavaria
Agency: Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Busservice Watzinger GmbH
Model: Solaris Urbino III 18
Year: 2012
File Name: 4829
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Busservice Watzinger GmbH & Co. KG is based in München and operate contract bus services for MVG>
Watzinger M-WA9556 is a 2012 Solaris Urbino 18, on route 62 at München Ostbahnhof on Wednesday, April 25th, 2018.
A colour, folding brochure giving details of the activities and services of the then nationalised National Bus Company and giving statistics as to bus and coach use. The NBC operated through a number of regional operating subsidiaries, grouped into a regional structure, alongside National Express coach services and National coach holidays.
The NBC was formed in 1969 to operate the various nationalised bus and coach operators in England & Wales but was broken up during the deregulation and privatisation of British bus and coach operations; the NBC ceased to exist in 1988. The brochure shows images of various service operations and 'behind the scenes' work that helped keep the show on the road.
Comings and goings at Bromsgrove and Redditch bus stations in Worcestershire - including the last day of Johnson’s ‘Excelbus’ services around Redditch.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
The decline of bus services has been measured out in gimmicks. Remember all the elaborately marketed off-peak concessionary fare schemes, the various "branded" services, with their excruciating names ...Shoppa Hoppa and suchlike... and, of course, the minibus brainstorm of the 1980s? Someone somewhere, probably a youngish managerial type brought in from outside the industry, came up with the idea of running low-capacity, flat-fare, close interval services on short city-centre routes where a heavy demand might have been expected.
The idea was much imitated, but this service linking Manchester's two extant mainline termini, Piccadilly and Victoria, was the first I think, and attracted a lot of attention within the industry. To me the idea always seemed a non-starter. Perhaps there were subsidies involved, but the arithmetic didn't add up. These buses had a seating capacity of nineteen and the fare was 8p. Maximum possible receipts per journey therefore £1.52. Let's say four trips per hour ...so the bus is bringing in about £6 an hour, probably just enough to cover the driver's wages at the pay levels of the time, if it was running full on every single journey throughout the day. Actually ...as I remember reading somewhere or other... bus operators, on average, employ something like 2.6 persons per vehicle owned. So every bus has to earn the keep of an unseen 1.6 individuals as well as the driver. And that's before you consider the capital cost of the vehicle, fuel, maintenance, overheads &c. Of course, buses will run with capacity loads for only a smallish proportion of their total revenue-earning mileage and, in fact, the three buses in the photograph ...it looks as though a fourth is coming up the station approach road... have not a single passenger between them.
It's remarkable how the photographs from an individual roll of film will have a distinctive "look". I have no way (without rummaging for the negative strip) of dating this photo, but it has the appearance of those I took on Thursday 12th October 1978. It was snapped outside Piccadilly Station ...or London Road as I prefer.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Parked alongside Amersham Garage, London Country Bristol LHS BN58 (TPJ 58S), rests in the sun.
I wonder if Dan Dan the Datsun man is still around.
SNCF French Railways, bus at Amsterdam station Sloterdijk, busservice iD Bus to Brussels-Lille-Paris.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Noordwijkerhout 31-03-2018. Leifs Busservice, Tune (DK), AL 94 105, MAN Lion's Coach new in 11/2015.
An innovation from Edinburgh City Transport in August 1971 was this new Service 6 City Centre Circle designed with shoppers in mind. The route was advertised to operate in both directions and operated every few minutes from 1130am, to 4.30pm, inday to Saturday only. The service was operated by single-deck, pay on entry buses. There was a flat fare of 3p (this was six months after decimalisation) and the handbill mentions that elderly persons with Concession Ticket paid 2 1/2p.
Such was Maidstone's love for the Bedford chassis that it had a number of older vehicles rebodied with Willowbrook Warrior bodies. On 26 July 1989, 245 is seen opposite Maidstone Town Hall on route to take up a service 59 departure for Ulcombe and Grafty Green.
laying over between runs at the Alton Bus Rally on 17th July 2022 was preserved London Country series B Leyland National SNB449 (YPL 449T), complete with Watfordwide branding
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
EAST YORKSHIRE MOTOR SERVICE
152 (XPD234N), a Leyland National 10351/1R/SC, DP39F, had been new in September, 1974, to London Country Bus Service.
It arrived with the Metro, Hull fleet, in September, 1992, when their owner, Houghton, sold out to EYMS.
After years of buying lightweight single deckers, Maidstone purchased a small batch of Leyland Lynx buses after the launch of deregulation. Boro'line 229 is seen in King Street with a service 29 journey to Marden in April 1991.
Zimbabwe.
There has been so much water, that the experience was a more-than-wet one. Mostly it ws very difficult to see something like a landscape or the mighty Zambezi River through the gusting spray. Most people did rent their raincoats at the entrance, but we didn't mind to get wet to the skin ..
actually one of the reason to have a good waterproof camera system :-)
We took a busservice from Kasane to Victoria Falls to avoid the hassles we would have had to drive ourselfes.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Manufacturer:
MAN, Ankara, Turkey (R071040, 2007)
Reg:
VJ 93 228 (2007-07-10)
Owner:
2007 (DK) Netbus A/S "Rønn 1"
2011 (DK) Nettbuss A/S #50 "Rønn 1"
2013 (DK) Leifs Bus-Service ApS
State/Province: Bavaria
Agency: Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Busservice Watzinger GmbH
Model: Solaris Urbino III 18
Year: 2012
File Name: 4819
Colorado Springs made sweeping cuts to its bus transit system, cutting operations by 100,000 hours a month. There’s no longer any bus service in evenings or on weekends – which is a problem in a city where 80 percent of transit riders have no alternate means of transportation.
For my video; youtu.be/88t1FvNXVS0?si=y_dJ95kv_-akKa9W,
Beached.
1990 Hino (BJB529)
Rainbow Heavy bus/service coach
6,720cc Diesel engine
Ngatiwhetu, Northland, New Zealand
Blackrock Castle is described as castellated fortification located at Blackrock, about 2 km [I suspect that it is closer to 6 km] from the centre of Cork city on the banks of the River Lee in Ireland. Originally developed as a coastal defence fortification in the 16th century to protect upper Cork Harbour and port, the site now houses an observatory, visitor centre and restaurant.
I have visited Cork every year since 2006 and almost ever visit it rained thus limiting the scope of my exploration of the city and nearby. This year I took a gamble and visited in September rather than May or June and this time I was luck because the weather was beautiful on the second day. I had decided that I would visit the Blackrock area of the city and initially I had planned to walk there but when I was passing the bus station I decided that it would make more sense to get a bus to Blackrock Castle and walk back to the City centre. I got on the 202A bus as the driver told me that he would leave me within walking distance of the castle. After a while I was beginning to get a bit worried because the bus had travelled a long way and there was no sign of the castle. We arrived at a shopping centre [I believe that it was Mahon Point Shopping Centre] and then the driver told me to transfer the the bus in front, a 202, and to explain to the driver that I needed to get to Blackrock Castle. The driver of the 202 brought me to Ferney Road at St. Luke's Home and when I asked the frequency of the return service he told me once every two hours and that struck me as being odd as my understanding was that the 202 was a frequent bus service [once every ten minutes during the day]. Note: not all 202 buses visit the stop at Saint Lukes and according to the timetable there is one per hour.
Anyway I was at Saint Lukes Home which was very close to the Castle. When I arrived at the castle I had a cup of coffee and scone and when I asked the waiter if it was practical to walk to the city centre he told me that it would take about thirty minutes [tip: when in Ireland assume that half-a-hour actually means an hour]. I took the riverside route and making a guess I would say that you would need to allow at least ninety minutes to walk from the Castle to the City Centre.
To be honest, I did not find the castle to be of great interest but I did not investigate the castle's observatory which houses an interactive astronomy center and has exhibits including a "tour of the universe" and a radio telescope that beams messages composed by school groups towards nearby stars.
Another succesful FoKAB Bus Rally & Running Day, and another day to catch up with many of my close friends and contacts. We were blessed with wall to wall sunshine, from early this morning right through to late afternoon. The scenery across Wiltshire and Hampshire, on a frosty, cold but sunny morning is breath taking but made for a great trip with the group, in a great vehicle ;-).
The VR was used a the X96 feeder to Winchester from Swindon via Marlborough & Andover, and was used on the three services during the day. Heartfelt thanks go out to Mark, Stu, Dave, Ian, Terry and Graeme for helping out with the driving, and also to Mike Ede and the Stroud RE group for allowing another session behind the wheel of 2062 on Park & Ride duties.
FoKAB do know how to organise a terrific Running Day, and I think that not enough is made of the effort that is put in by this great set of people especially Ruth and Keith Andrews who organise the schedule. Apologies for not being able to cover the extra journeys this afternoon, but one does have a fuel budget to stick to!
Here's to 2012, New Years Day 2011 at Winchester wont be happening in the Reynolds household, as I need a decent blow out for a change, and London is calling for an overnight bender!
Halifax Transit 2010 NovaBus LFS 724 is seen at Dalhousie University on route 10 headed out to Westphal.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
A one-year extension to the BC Bus North service has been granted, meaning people who live and work in northern British Columbia can continue to rely on inter-city bus service.
The service has become a crucial lifeline in the region as other transportation options have been limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Henderson Travel, Hamilton picked up some early tendered work from Strathclyde PTE.
One service was the M53 in Strathclyde Buses territory from Muirend to Shawlands which also incorporated a School Contract as part of the daily shift for the vehicle.
E635 LSF was a Mercedes-Benz 609D with Alexander AM B25F bodywork seen at the Muirend Terminus.
Painted in full National Express livery, Green Line TP30 (A130 EPA) is parked for the evening at the Torquay depot of Devon General, having worked down as a 700 duplicate.
This Plaxton bodied Leyland Tiger will work back the next morning.
The eye catching front cover to the Summer 1972 official timetable of CFL - Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois. This surprisingly chunky publication, given the relatively small size of the country and its rail network, also inlcudes international connection, Benelux rail routes and the nation's bus services.
Threatening: clouds gather over NX Coventry Volvo B7TL/Transbus ALX400, 4418, as it heads towards the City Centre from the Ricoh Arena on service 4 (covering for a Bendibus or being interworked with another route). I was parked up on Endemere Road after a brief visit to the 'Stag Industrial estate' on the same road.