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I've just about recovered from what turned out to be a rather gruelling day photting the Royal Ascot Ladies day coaches in an energy sapping 30 degrees heat! An amazing 225 coaches (including a few buses) arrived for the biggest day (Thursday 19th June 2025) at the Berkshire race course.
It's impossible to capture everything as there were 5 coach parking areas (#6, #8, #10N, #10S, #10E) in use today, although #6 now has very few visitors. Among those that caught my eye was a Van Hool Astrobel, a brand new Barnes Higer, a Volvo 9700 from Royal Motorways, and the unique in the UK King Long C9.
With Saturday expected to be even warmer, if you decide to visit the coach parks, then TAKE PLENTY OF WATER!!
Bova Futura MH06 YZM (Ex S14 RUT) is also seen at Little Walsingham on 15/07/2018.
Shows how its a small world when I pictured this coach with its original owner way back in 2011 in Trago Mills in Devon
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Wow, this is way harder than it looks!!! I have the utmost repsect and admiration for the ladies on this site who are doing amazing artistic work on cookies, cakes and cupcakes! I am a little embarassed to post these, but I worked so long and hard, I said what the heck!
A song bird and traditional tole painting designs decorate the cover of this vintage "Pennsylvania Dutch" cook booklet published by Luden's Products, circa late 1960s.
Cook is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around.
The town was created in 1917 when the railway was built and is named after former Prime Minister Joseph Cook. The town depended on the Tea and Sugar Train for the delivery of supplies, and is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 479 km which stretches from Ooldea to beyond Loongana. When the town was active, water was pumped from an underground Artesian aquifer but now, all water is carried in by train. Attempts have been made to introduce trees and other vegetation, but these have not been successful.
Today, it is said to have a resident population of four, and is essentially a ghost town. The town was effectively closed in 1997 when the railways were privatised and the new owners did not need a support town there, although the diesel refuelling facilities remain, and there is overnight accommodation for train drivers. Cook is the only scheduled stop on the Nullarbor Plain for the Indian Pacific passenger train across Australia and has little other than curiosity value for the passengers. The bush hospital is closed, and the shop is only opened while the Indian Pacific is in town. It has a few houses and fuel tanks for the locomotives. The crossing loop can cross trains up to 1800m long.