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Nearly two weeks ago, the spineless council at York suddenly caved in to the selfish shouting from the vociferously vocal minority in the motoring brigade, and reopened Lendal bridge to all vehicles thereby ending the setup where the bridge was a Bus Lane and all unauthorised vehicles had to use either Skeldergate Bridge or Water End... though because our council seems to have come straight out of some poorly-written TV comedy where the main characters bumble from one embarrasing cockup to the next, the traffic light sequencing has not been altered to match; and so as traffic has built back up to summer 2012 levels to choke all the tourists visiting York over the next few months, it is now even more clogged than before as the traffic lights at certan junctions (station Avenue and Leeman Road in conjunction with Lendal bridge and Rougier Street being the main concern) are no longer synchronised and so capacity has been reduced by about 30%... As a knock-on effect of our bungled councils decisions, bus service reliability is now going down the toilet. Here leaving York rail station is Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban YJ08 XYF on the Red Line 7 P&R service to the Designer Outlet, followed immediately by sister YJ08XYB on exactly the same service - and this isn't even the afternoon peak. The number 1 service was running in double formation, as was the2, the 4 and some number 6 services. The 5 was running up to 15 minutes late on every journey, and Coastliners were at least 10 minutes late on every journey.
Apparently "there has never been a better time to catch the bus" if you believe council-generated hype - but seeing as a bunch of monkeys could do a better job, or at least not make up so many conflicting schemes that contradict other schemes, this would seem to no longer be the case.
It takes years of experience and an impeccable sense of timing to screw up a shot on this scale ! :-)
Sometimes you just have to laugh !
1972 Marshall bodied Leyland Leopard in Bridge St Northampton. This shot is a cockup as I could have let the bus come fully into the sunshine but was worried about the rubbish bin in the lower corner being in the way...Sep 11 2016.
hütte eines deutschen siedlers aus dem 19. jh. - aus verwaltungsrechtlichen gründen darf sie nicht abgerissen werden. der käfer stammt definitiv nicht aus dieser zeit. glaube ich.
old hut brought by german settlers in the 19th century. due to adminstrative objections she is damned to stay a little bit longer. the beetle is definately younger, i reckon.
.. and a complete cockup at my end. Was planning on being up and out for the 07-something to Bristol and set the alarm to wake me at 0545. What I didn't do was plug the phone in, so it died overnight (thanks Samsung) and I woke just as the train was pulling away from PMS.
So ... popping into Southampton to have a pint with a mate instead. Much more relaxing!
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Laid the crankshaft on the vice to take a photo, noticed the light wasnt shining right,
That light should be the same for each web? - yes - OH NO!!
I'm not sure how I managed the twist, but I did.
One totally knackered Crankshaft :-))
Great Cockup is a fell in the northern region of the English Lake District, one of the four Uldale Fells (the others being Longlands Fell, Great Sca Fell and Meal Fell). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Cockup
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The story so far:
TfGM bus stop flag had been attached to street lamp.
Tameside Council/TfGM/Whoever came along and constructed a Kassel kerb - one of several being fitted in the area to improve kerbside access to low floor buses.
Just over a week ago, Tameside Council came along and cut down the lamp post, leaving just a stump in the ground.
Consequently there is now no longer a bus stop at the newly constructed Kassel kerb.
Also, the lamp post had already been marked with its condemning blue cross before the kerb crew turned up and delicately paved around it.
In an ideal world, I'd like to think that TMBC would at least give TfGM a call to say that they now had a superfluous 346 bus stop flag in their possession; perhaps they could even post it to them. Or that maybe it will only be a matter of days before a man in a TfGM van turns up and erects a new pole and flag; or perhaps someone from the Council to plant a new street lamp into the ground, along with said detached sign. But I'm not holding my breath.
The major irony is that the bus stop had previously been sited on the next lamp post down to the left; but it was moved one space along several years ago when - you guessed it - the street lamp ended up cut down at the base.
Hyde (Newton), Victoria Street, 15/05/2021. Posted 22/05/2021.
under the flight path. City Airport is less than three miles away heading west. The area, particularly the newer developments to the west, stands to be affected adversely by plans to increase the number of flights to/from the airport by 40%. It was up to Newham Council to grant permission, but Greenwich and Bexley contain the areas where people will suffer for it.
Thamesmead has been shafted by successive governments when it comes to transport provision - it has always been so. The 472 bus is the best link the area has, putting the area within one bus trip of the tube, albeit a 40 minute one. A surprising number of people do it - many for the low-skilled 'invisible' jobs that exist around Canary Wharf.
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On route 142 to Ripon is Scania L94UB Wright Solar YN05GXB with Eddie Brown in Piccadilly passing Arriva Yorkshire Transbus Dart Plaxton Pointer 2 SN55HTY working route 24 to gibberish. The destination is strange on this one, as it only does this with the 24/26/27 routes, but is completely fine with every other service worked from Selby depot. One possible reason for this destination cockup is that it was programmed using the setting for a Dot Matrix flipdot type display - however this is unlikely as I don't believe Selby actually has any buses with flipdot displays left.
To sum up what happened, I got up at 05:30 to see 6X43 St Pancras to Kingsbury EMR, which was booked to pass Tamworth at 07:19. This train consisted of GBRF 66 66704 hauling Eurostar Class 373 373006/005 but due to the fact that it ran late, I had to miss it. Before all that happened, London Midland Class 323 323202 is seen at University with the 16:20 2N02 Birmingham New Street to Longbridge.
I sold bucket loads of new Hoover Vacuums at the time, This is one of the promo tickets you attatched to the item.
Yes you really did get TWO free flights for New York or Orlando if you purchased a hoover over £100. you had to take the dates they provided. A few Hoover bosses losts there jobs & cost Hoover £40 million!
Local paper classifieds where bunged up with dozens of brand new 'unwanted gift' Hoovers for sale!....all so funny!
One of the original Great Western County class which were 4-4-0..This is County of Worcester and all were withdrawn in the 1930s..a class of 40 locos built from 1904 ten of which carried the names of Irish counties.the other 30 were named after counties the GWR had lines running through but in true GW fashion an almighty cockup saw 3821 named County of Bedford a county nowhere near the Western...this mistake was rectified years later on the Hawkesworth 4-6-0 counties when County of Northampton was rightfully used instead of Bedford.
From the centre of Trusmadoor, looking NW. Two walkers I had just passed, now making their way up to Great Cockup. I saw them again a couple of hours later, atop Great Sca Fell.
All of the images on my pro account that have made it to Explore, thanks guys :)
1. Scaleber Force, 2. Blackpool, South Shore, 3. Ullswater from Arthur's Pike, 4. Blencathra, Wild Camp., 5. Threlkeld from Hall's Fell, 6. Scafell Pike from Hardknott Castle, 7. Castlerigg Stone Circle, 8. Wild Boar Fell,
9. Coniston Old Man from Brown Pike, 10. High Street from Harter Fell, 11. 45,000 Mirrors, 12. Derwent Water, 13. Wast Water from Middle Fell, 14. Take A View: Landscape Photographer Of The Year 2011 Awards Exhibition, 15. Ingleborough from Norber, 16. Ingleborough from Smearsett Scar,
17. Pen-y-ghent & Ribblesdale from Giggleswick Scar, 18. East Cairn Hill, 19. Scald Law from Allermuir Hill, 20. High Seat, 21. High Seat, 22. Ingleborough above Crummack Dale, 23. Great Cockup, 24. Derwentwater,
25. Derwentwater, 26. Ullswater, 27. Howgill Fells from Cow Dub, 28. Howgill Fells from Cow Dub, 29. Ashness Bridge, 30. Bassenthwaite Lake, 31. Tewet Tarn, 32. Tyne Bridge,
33. Bassenthwaite Lake, 34. Gateshead Millennium Bridge, 35. Derwentwater from Grange Fell, 36. Edinburgh Castle, 37. Hangingstone Scar, 38. Aira Force, 39. Morton Loch & Castle, 40. Grey Squirrel,
41. High Crag above Buttermere, 42. Wast Water from Middle Fell, 43. Blea Tarn, Eskdale
Team:
Lee Collett
Lee Chapman
Steven Clark
Adrian Tavener
Robert Britton
Neil Dexter
We started the night at the Armoury as it was a home tie but due to an alley booking cockup we ended up giving away home advantage and played at Stoke WMC top alley.
After settling down to our new surroundings and having kickout the band which was practicing the game got underway about an hour late.
The game had it all, ducks. missed spares and drama.
After 6 hands a piece we were tied and an extra hand had to be played. We hit a 37 and they managed a 40.
Well time to focus on the league (or is that too late aswell)
Twitter: @Skittlers
- Taken at 9:06 AM on February 24, 2010 - uploaded by ShoZu
Right back in June, on an errand out to Harefield, returning on a 331 to Northwood and on the met back in. I avoid 'farewell runs', not really being the social type when it comes to these things, I prefer to let firsts and lasts come and go naturally.
My enduring memory of these will be their permanent state of low level vandalism and the faint smell of urea, but the high backed seats and lack of announcements gave you a sense of your own space on the longer journeys out, an experience which leaves London completely with the departure of these trains. The mostly longitudinal seats and walk-through layout on the new S stock makes for a totally different experience, but one London Overground users like myself will be well used to by now.
A more irritating development to come out of this apparent 'rebirth' of the Met is the withdrawal of all semi-fast/fast trains outside of rush hours, which has added ten minutes to journeys between central London and north of Moor Park. I presume the idea was to give a better service to the local stations between Moor Park and Wembley Park but that has come at a high price. Perhaps LU's guiding principle here was one of 'operational simplicity' - less switching of points and pathing and repathing between fast and stopping trains along the line provides less scope for infrastructure failures and human cockups, and less likelihood that those delays would spill onto other services. But other mainlines manage it well enough - it is what a railway should do. I wonder how travellers in from Epsom and Leatherhead would have reacted if South West Trains had made their semi-fast trains call at all shacks into Waterloo - like on the met, the intermediate stations are already offered a very good service.
Hard on the heels of my "Waterloo to Yarm Special", here is another railway related location howler, which I first spotted on Friday too.
Showing a fare to London of £11.60, this ad is obviously meant to be posted in a specific town, but since London Midland don't operate to Woking or anywhere nearby, the agency have obviously cocked this one up !
Maybe it was meant for Watford or somewhere that way?
Woking, Surrey
30th January 2011
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Seen recently in Sheffield by light blinded for A1X. Total cockup of a shot which I managed to recover.~
*https://bustimes.org/services/a1x-amazon-iport-sheffield
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"Todays Low will be -48° Centigrade with a High of 10° Centigrade." Would you believe a Forecaster who said that ?
It's -35° Centigrade now but within 2 hours the temperature will be 10° Centigrade; so that OK then.
I cannot remember where i was when this occurred, but it sure as hell was nowhere near -35° C.
At least there was no precip anywhere near.
PS i was not at Barkway, i have never been there and do not even know where it is !!
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
Here's my wheelie bin, nice isn't it, these new smaller bins are looking quite smart with that graphic printed on the front, nothing wrong with a bit of civic pride, I applaud it, the image is however THE WRONG WAY AROUND .... the City of Bristol coat of arms, has, since it's inception always depicted the ship sailing away from the castle and pointing westward, in this new incarnation it is approaching the castle from the east .....
Taken with a Vivitar "Ultra Wide and Slim" camera, this cheap simple camera has developed something of a cult following, it has a 22mm lens and a fixed shutter speed.
Shot on Maco Eagle developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 12 minutes.
I messed this up fine style, the lid came off the developong tank shortly after I poured the developer in! Although I replaced it immediately, severe fogging was inevitable, I've done what I can to rescue the negs in the scanning, but the results are pretty poor.
In York Piccadilly, having just changed from a route 27 working, is Transbus Dart Plaxton Pointer 2 SN55HTY working route 24 to gibberish. The destination is strange on this one, as it only does this with the 24/26/27 routes, but is completely fine with every other service worked from Selby depot - I'd like to see 260 or 262 work these York routes to see if the destination on those does the same thing. What makes this funnier is the destination actually scrolls - who is that for?! One possible reason for this destination cockup is that it was programmed using the setting for a Dot Matrix flipdot type display - however this is unlikely as I don't believe Selby actually has any buses with flipdot displays left.
o'Skiddaw region is an area of wild and unfrequented moorland to the north of Skiddaw and Blencathra. Tops in this region include High Pike, Carrock Fell, Brae Fell, Meal Fell, The Knott, Longlands Fell, Great Cockup, Great Sca Fell and Great Calva. The fell's slopes are mostly smooth, gentle, and covered in grass, with a few deep ravines.
The Guard appear to be wearing Beaver Hats. This brings to mind the song "Cock Up Your Beaver" by Robert Burns, written in 1792. It is written in Scottish dialect and the beaver refers to a kind of hat.
Cock Up Your Beaver
When first my brave Johnie lad came to this town,
He had a blue bonnet that wanted the crown,
But now he has gotten a hat and a feather -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush!
We'll over the border and gie them a brush:
There's somebody there we'll teach better behavior -
Hey, brave Johnie lad, cock up your beaver!
Robert Burns 1792
Here shooting more golf instruction all week in not-so-sunny-Spain, and after an annoying day being mucked around by the sun dodging behind clouds every 30 seconds, and continually waiting for old duffers, sorry, golfers to get a bloody move on, I started getting a bit cavalier.
I wasn't using my awesome new softbox, as I needed a bit more punch, and there was quite a breeze up. I assumed that with only a flashgun on the stand I wouldn't need the help of The quietest assistant I've ever had.
It would appear I was wrong, as the above photo would prove. The blur on the flashgun was NOT added in photoshop.
Luckily my fairly new SB900 was intact, the only thing to suffer was the sync cable, which was quickly repaired with the help of a leatherman. It did make me swear like a trooper for a good 30 seconds or so.
Also see here, for what my flashguns have to put up with.