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Not sure if you can trust driverless cars to stay on the road yet. :-)
Ok, something different. :-) Noticed some guys running their remote control 4WD cars through rocks near at creek a the park. Surprised how easily they traversed the big rocks, had to grab a few photos from a distance.
Depicting the changing engines and rail cars used over the years.
Sometimes referred to a London's secret railway, The Mail Rail was an underground rail line designed to bypass London traffic. Opened in 1927 the driverless trains efficiently transported mail below the busy streets between multiple stations, until 2003, when demand had been dropping due to technological advances such as e-mail and cost issues.
The tunnels and stations can now be visited by members of the public. Even though the tunnels and trains are way smaller than the well known underground system it is such an adventure, albeit quite a tight fit into the carriages! There is a postal museum over the road too with a great exhibition on mail delivery through the years.
You will need to book a ticket for the train ride. More information available here:
61 cm x 61 cm
24" x 24"
2016 - 2019
Urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water, dry iridescent pigments and resin on panel.
Sold
Tree of Life is painted on a 1 1/2" hollow core panel panel . The paint layer is 1/8 " thick.
Tree of Life was originally a commission from a car company to make several films of my paint spreading on two foot panels. The films were to be used as source material for touch screens in driverless cars. They wanted the human touch. I suggested setting me up with a studio in Paris for a year would yield some good source material. I've not heard back, The films can be seen on my website. www.bruce-riley
I got to keep all but one of the paintings per contract. This painting sat around for several years until 2019 when I reworked it. The paint layer is built up from the original commission with a loose, accidental hand. On top of the dried paint I applied a thin coat of resin. Another paint layer was applied on top of the dried resin surface. The final resin layer was poured using a tape dam. The resin does not roll over the edge. It is squared off with a block plane.
"The Ferrari 458 Italia (Type F142) is an Italian mid-engine sports car produced by Ferrari. The 458 is the successor of the F430, and was first officially unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show. It was succeeded by the 488 GTB (Gran Turismo Berlinetta) in 2015.
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
The Buses of Scotland - Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive
In 1980, Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive (GGPTE) began trading as Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive (SPTE). That it had changed its name was no surprise as it was the transport arm of Strathclyde Regional Council (SRC), created in 1975. The change of name better aligned it with its new responsibilities and masters.
When GGPTE was created, it became responsible for Glasgow’s bus fleet as well as operation of the Glasgow Subway, both of which it inherited from Glasgow Corporation Transport. It also became responsible for subsidising the provision of rail services throughout the region. A not well known fact is the the local rail network in and around Glasgow is the most extensive in the British Isles outside London. It also ran the Renfrew Ferry.
Under SRC, the PTE sphere of influence expanded enormously. People sometimes don’t take into account just how massive Strathclyde was. It extended from Girvan in the south, across to Moffat and Harthill in the east and as far north as Oban, as well as taking in most of the Clyde basin and the Islsnds in the Firth of Clyde. It covered around a fifth of Scotland’s overall land mass and at least around the same in terms of population.
In terms of spheres of interest, British Rail was the most cooperative of partners as it was locked into a funding agreement and as long as it got SPTEs money it pretty much did as the PTE wanted. However the Scottish Bus Group was not. The Group had very much been top dog in terms of buses in the country but all of a sudden there was this new player in town. The Group had looked on in England and seen other PTEs expand and take over parts of the National Bus Company, such as in the West Midlands and was fearful of the PTE taking over its profitable Greater Glasgow operations leaving the Group without its most profitable heart. Had the PTE expanded to take over all the services run its area, the Group could have lost parts of Western SMT, Alexander’s (Midland) and Eastern Scottish plus all of Central SMT. Central’s profits sustained most of the Group. As such relations with the Group were at best strained bordering on downright hostile. Cooperation was very limited.
SPTE continued its predecessor’s purchases of Leyland Atlanteans however by this stage the problems of earlier PTE panoramic windowed bodied buses were becoming clear and the last major batch arrived with short windows and an updated passenger interiors. However SPTE by this stage was looking to the future and the end of Atlantean production by trying trial batches of other buses such as Volvo Ailsas, MCW Metrobuses and Leyland Olympians. It also received the first Volvo Citybuses. The Ailsa subsequently became the most numerous type purchased under SPTE, with smaller amounts of Olympians and Metrobuses also being ordered. Standardisation was now out the window.
To reflect the change in the trading name in 1980, the bus livery began to change. Initially the yellow was extended up and the green extended to cover the lower windows. White was reduced to a narrow band between decks, as seen here on LA927 (JUS774N) seen here. This was known as PTE2 livery. The fleet name continued as Trans-Clyde
Shortly after the introduction of this livery PTE3 livery appeared on the prototype Alexander R-type Leyland Olympian for SPTE which appeared at the 1980 Motor Show. This was one of several such prototypes given to key customers by British Leyland and as the largest single continuous purchaser of Leyland Atlanteans, it deemed the PTE’s business massively important. It also carried the first Alexander R-type body. But back to liveries….On this new design of bus at the show, yellow again covered the middle and upper deck with green lower decks. The colours were separated by black window surrounds. A black skirt completed the effect. This latter PTE3 livery ultimately became the fleet standard. Although this prototype Leyland Olympian - LO1 - also carried a ‘Strathclyde’ fleetname, using the same font as Trans-Clyde. This new fleet name wasn’t subsequently adopted - well at least initially. A few buses did in fact carry it but the Trans-Clyde name continued on newly repainted buses.
By the early 1980’s, the orange and black livery of the Subway had begun spread to the rail services that SPTE supported, along with the Strathclyde Transport name to highlight SPTE’s support. With the forthcoming closure of the Glasgow - Kilmalcolm railway, a replacement bus service was planned to take its place. The SPTE buses, branded as ‘Strathclyde Link Line’, that used were repainted in orange and black and carried ‘Strathclyde Transport’ as a fleet name but in the same style as Trans-Clyde. Also repainted orange and black were the single-decker Atlanteans used for the inter-station rail-link in Glasgow, plus a back-up Leyland National. These just carried a Strathclyde’ fleet name.
In June 1983, SPTE secured permission to repaint all the buses in orange and black. At a stroke, a distinctly Glaswegian identity was removed from the fleet which would now embrace the ‘Strathclyde Transport’ moniker, which incorporated a new font and a stylised map of the region as a logo. However confusion reigned as there was now four different colours for the fleet as some buses were still even in GGPTE livery. Indeed the last one wasn’t repainted out of that livery until 1984 but by the end of the following year, all of the fleet was orange and black. Bus stops and train stations had the new logo attached to them. The Scottish Bus Group was also asked to repaint its buses within Strathclyde in the PTE’s new colours. It declined - obviously - but instead agreed to affix ‘Strathclyde Transport’ stickers on its vehicles, as it had previously when ‘Trans-Clyde’ was launched. Where they appeared on the Group’s vehicles depended on where the night cleaners put them on when the buses were being cleaned.
However, SPTE did try and innovate. It launched the new Microbuses in 1983. These were minibus services which the PTE hoped would win back custom in the large postwar housing schemes in Glasgow such as Easterhouse and Drumchapel. These were the schemes built to deal with population being decanted due to the demolition of the inner-city slums in Glasgow. However the schemes had very little public amenities such as pubs, libraries and shops and taxis were a real way of getting about for people in these areas. Larger buses struggled in the narrow streets. These new Microbuses would run from shopping centres and then drop passengers off as close to their homes as possible. Some of the new services even offered Group Fares for multiple passengers. These were genuinely innovative services and although the Group Fares were dropped -mainly as they were discovered to be illegal - and the vehicles were basically panel vans with windows and seats and were quite crude, they were very successful and expanded. Remember this was well before the minibus boom of the late 1980s post deregulation. SPTE was almost at the nucleus of it. Almost.
The PTE also tried to improve disabled access. It converted Leyland Atlanteans with tip up seats, a large area for wheel chairs, repositioned hand rails and a second staff member to enable boarding through a hinged door on the side of the vehicle. It stemmed from the International Year of the Disabled and tried to remove the virtual apartheid that prevented disabled people from using public transport. The buses were rotated around various services to enable as many potential passengers to be picked up and advance booking was recommended but some disabled people disliked the offside ramp which made them feel quite conspicuous. That issue was resolved when the first purpose built Volvo Citybuses arrived, along with MCW Metroliner coaches, arrived into the PTEs fleet, which at least accommodated a wheelchair lift in the entrance. This all may seem quite primitive by today’s levels of accessibility but every journey starts with a first step. SPTE should be commended for that.
The biggest change under SPTE was the scrapping of the monopoly. This has been inherited by SPTE under the Glasgow Corporation Act (1930) and basically deferred a monopoly for SPTE buses on picking up and setting down passengers within the 1938 city boundaries. With the introduction of the Transport Act (1980), this introduced more commercialism into the bus business and several operators- including the Scottish Bus Group (SBG) - testing their new found freedoms and the earlier Act was looking increasingly outdated. With SBG looking to link up services within the city centre as a result of the 1980 ScotMap surveys, pressure was on SPTE to reach some sort of agreement and accommodation. Eventually, the earlier Act was scrapped and SBG was able to compete for city traffic and several SPTE services were extended into Lanarkshire, Monklands, Renfrewshire and Dumbartonshire. At the time it looked that SPTE had got the worse of that deal but history shows it very definitely didn’t. But that’s another story…..
In preparation for deregulation, SPTE was required to separate its bus arm into an arms length company, still owned by SRC and called Strathclyde’s Buses, with its headquarters at Larkfield Depot. It retained the same fleet colours and style of fleet name, which gave a sense of continuity almost. What was left of SPTE would now be responsible for the provision of tendered services, the Subway, Renfrew Ferry and supporting rail services. It was widely regarded that the high-cost high-subsidy Strathclyde’s Buses stood little chance against the new Clydeside and Kelvin Scottish subsidiaries created by SBG as well as the existing Central and Western subsidiaries. It confounded its critics. Freed from the PTE, it cut costs and saw off the challenge. But that’s another story too….
SPTE continued in this role until SRC itself was abolished by 1996. Section 40 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 created a new statutory corporation, the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority (SPTA), which took over "all of the functions, staff, property, rights, liabilities and obligations of Strathclyde Regional Council as Passenger Transport Authority" on 1 April 1996. The Executive was reincorporated as a body consisting of councillors drawn from the 12 Council Areas which succeeded Strathclyde Region:-
Argyll and Bute
West Dunbartonshire
East Dunbartonshire
North Lanarkshire
South Lanarkshire
City of Glasgow
South Ayrshire
East Ayrshire
North Ayrshire
Inverclyde
Renfrewshire
East Renfrewshire
In addition to these, nine transport experts appointed by the then Scottish Executive now known as The Scottish Government. To highlight its new image, it began then painting its subway, ferry and trains into new colours, replacing the orange and black. This was burgundy and cream, similar to British Rail colours of the 1950s and known as ‘blood and custard’.
On 1 April 2006 - following the passing of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 - Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive (and Authority), along with the WESTRANS voluntary regional transport partnership, were replaced by the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport. The new national agency Transport Scotland was created at the same time. At this latest reorganisation SPT gained responsibility for planning for all regional transport (not just public transport) though it lost a number of specific powers relating to rail franchising and concessionary fares. Repainting of the trains out of blood and custard into the new Transport Scotland ScotRail colours began but at the same time it also began repainting the subway trains back into an orange based livery, albeit with some grey and white this time. New trains for the Subway are now arriving, the first since the 1970s and will later introduce driverless operation at some point in the future. Although the ferry still is with us, it’s been scaled back and is now run by a private company rather than directly by SPT. However, there are plans for it to be replaced by a permanent crossing.
SPT is one of the few constants still with us in the transport history of Scotland.
A few happy snaps taken on a very quick visit to the new fully automated (driverless) Sydney Metro which opened on 26 May 2019.
This is a northbound service to Tallawong at Macquarie University station. This section of the Metro (Chatswood to Epping) was originally part of the Sydney Trains heavy rail suburban network, but was converted to driverless Metro operations as part of the project.
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System: Docklands Light Railway
Builder: Bombardier
Type: B2K
Fleetnumber: 08
Location of Photo: Canary Wharf
Other Notes: N/A
"Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
I'm not sure why this driverless Green Bus bus was parked in Robin Hood Lane, Hall Green but none the less is was well lit. P929 RYO is a Volvo YN2RV18Z4 and it is fitted with a Northern Counties H47/27D body, it was new to London General in June 1997 being NV129 in the fleet.
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Algorithmic Drive and The Iterative Roundabout from the Manœuvres series | Conduite algorithmique et Le Rond-point itératif de la série Manœuvres
Big Brother is watching!
Luckily, I was able to quickly hide my face with my camera. ;D
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"Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof (German for Nuremberg main station) or Nuremberg Central Station is the main railway station serving the city of Nuremberg in Germany. It is the largest station in north Bavaria and belongs to the 20 stations in the highest category of importance allocated by DB Station&Service.
It is a through station with 22 platforms and lies on major north–south and east–west transportation axes. It offers connections to the major German cities of Leipzig, Berlin, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Munich, Würzburg, Frankfurt and Regensburg, as well as Linz and Vienna in Austria and Prague in the Czech Republic. Over 450 trains stop here daily and more than 200,000 passengers use the station on average every day. It is also a major hub for public transport in Nuremberg.
The Hauptbahnhof is located on the southeastern perimeter of Nuremberg's Altstadt, immediately opposite the Königstor (King's Gate) where the streets of Marientorgraben, Frauentorgraben, and Bahnhofstraße meet. The DB Museum, the corporate museum of Deutsche Bahn AG (formerly the Verkehrsmuseum), is close to the station, as is the Staatstheater Nürnberg opera house.
Nürnberg Hauptbahnhof, which had been originally built as in the neo-Gothic style, was rebuilt by the architect, Karl Zenger, in 1900 largely in the Neo-Baroque style. The most striking feature is the muschelkalk which characterises the exterior façade. The portals to the individual halls are richly decorated and primarily depict symbols of technological progress, for example a winged wheel above the portal in the Mittelhalle. The lounge, in which the present-day travel centre is located, was built in 1904/1905 by Bruno Paul in the Jugendstil. Sections of the walls are decorated with fine mosaics, the roof is ornamented with unobtrusive stucco. The Jugendstil lounge is one of the few areas of the station, which has survived the destruction of the Second World War. Above the main portal is an advertising column from the early 20th century.
In 1950 plans were made to change the neobaroque style to a neogothic style. Shortly before work began, however, it was stopped, so that only a few areas were changed.
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Metro Taipei Circular Line Driverless 110
台北捷運環狀線電聯車 110
Circular Line Banxin Station 環狀線 板新站
Banqiao District, New Taipei City 新北市板橋區
Since 2015 Navya is building a driverless electric bus for up to 15 passengers. Some 30 buses are now in use with transport companies in France and elsewhere.
Since it’s one of the most popular classic movies ever, many people have seen Jurassic Park already. Or perhaps its modern follow-up movie, Jurassic World.
In Jurassic Park, tourists visit a theme park with dinosaurs that the scientists managed to bring back to life. The Ford Explorer was the most memorable vehicle that the tourists used for off-roading around the park.
Spoilers ahead (for this decade old movie):
When the T-Rex breaks free of its enclosure, it starts attacking people in the Ford Explorer. The cool thing is that this 1993 Explorer was heavily altered to enable this scene to work its magic.
The Explorer was modified to be able to be driven from the trunk! This created a driverless illusion.
A large chunk of the roof was also replaced by a special full-length sunroof. This allowed for the iconic shot of the T-Rex peering into the car, where the two movie characters screamed in terror.
Along with the Explorer, the Jeep Wrangler was also featured in the film. Interestingly, in the original book series, the vehicles were a set of electric Toyota Land Cruiser vehicles.
The director Steven Spielberg had a deal with Ford Motor Company, though, hence the appearance of Ford cars instead.
Funnily enough, the Explorer vehicles in the movie weren’t exactly the best cars to drive when escaping from a T-Rex. At a measly 12 mph max speed, the T-Rex would definitely catch up.
Chomp chomp!
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sculpture by Nikola Zaric in the Rôtillon district near the Café du Soleil, beneath the pont Bessières and beside rue Centrale.
Seen on my Thursday walk (which was on Friday). I called in at Jallut to see if they had any stretched canvas in the size I want, and discovered this companion to the man-horse I found a week or so back; with her suitcase she reminds me of Helvetia on the bridge in St-Gall, Above her head you see our driverless metro M2. I took several photos and can't decide which one I like best.
Metro-style interior.
Sydney Metro has stolen the show at this years Sydney Royal Easter with a mock-up of a typical carriage soon to be carrying passengers on the Sydney Metro - Northwest.
We got there early on the first Friday to photograph the event.
22 six car trains have been ordered. Trains are due to start running early in 2019
For the European Weel of Mobility, a driverless bus was showcased in Dublin, to show tge public what the future of transport may or will look like.
Date: 23-08-2017
Location: Altenessener Straße, Essen, Germany
Last one: EVAG 5221 + 5230 on U11 in Altenessen on the Zweigertbrücke across the Rhine-Herne canal.
These trams date from 1989 and were first used by London Docklands light railway. They came to Essen in 1996 (nos 12 and 21). 20 trams in total came to Essen and were rebuilt before use, including driving cabs (Docklands used driverless system) and pantographs.
I think this picture might be finished.
I've written a little story to go with it...
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Moonset Flight
Asleep between emerald and lavender, she lay
A night of sweet dreams, an end to the day
But deep in her sleep, her soul heard a strange thing
A song of Moon-love, did the jade bird sing.
For the Moon had conspired with the whispering breeze
To carry the song to the soul, a mischievous tease,
To tempt the soul out from its deep hidey hole
Into the darkness of night, would come the soul.
And as the melody wrapped around her beating heart
The soul separated from slumber, with a start.
Rising out and over, to watch the sleeping girl
Above and below, a swirl and a twirl
Around and around and around the room
Then without hesitation, flew out toward the moon.
Over sitar strings and past curious cat
Through walls and windows, just like that
Around palace domes, with hills afar
A forget me not garden and driverless car.
But despite the wonders of this beautiful place
The soul sought only one thing, a beloved face.
By the flower embroideries and giant fern frond
There, in the courtyard, sitting by the lotus pond
Was he...
61 cm x 61 cm
24" x 24"
2016 - 2020
mixed paint media on panel
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Electroweak is painted on a 1 1/2" hollow core panel.
Electroweak was originally a commission from a car company to make several films of my paint spreading on two foot panels. The films were to be used as source material for touch screens in driverless cars. They wanted the human touch. I suggested setting me up with a studio in Paris for a year would yield some good source material. I've not heard back. The films can be seen on my website.
I got to keep all but one of the paintings per contract. This painting sat around for several years until 2019 when I started reworking it.
One time First Capital VN37951, now WVN53 with the Go Ahead group, waits driverless at London Euston bus station. Route 476 operates; Northumberland Park - Tottenham - Stamford Hill - Stoke Newington - Newington Green - Islington - King's Cross - Euston.
"The medieval church of St. Sebald in Nuremberg, also called Sebalduskirche (after the hermit Sebaldus, who probably lived in the Nuremberg area in the 8th century), is the oldest parish church in Nuremberg and, along with the Frauenkirche and the Lorenzkirche, one of the city's outstanding church buildings. It stands on the way to Nuremberg Castle, north just above the main market and just west in front of the town hall. The furnishings inside have been surprisingly rich. Since the Reformation, the Sebalduskirche has been one of the two large Protestant city churches in Nuremberg, along with the Lorenzkirche, both of which now belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
La Jaguar farà circolare 100 auto senza pilota sulle strade inglesi entro il 2020 via ---> www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1546023
Algorithmic Drive. Daïmôn. October 2018.
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Conduite algorithmique. Daïmôn. Octobre 2018.
I treni della metro di Torino sono driverless, dunque è possibile sedersi proprio in punta al vagone e scattare in completa comodità. Figata.
Ho fatto qualche scatto di prova, cercando di catturare un po' di mosso e qualche scia, ma niente di soddisfacente. Poi, smanettando con diaframmi e tempi mi sono trovato questi scatti. Ampiamente sovraesposti rispetto alla luce ambiente disponibile, mi hanno colpito subito per la ricchezza e la forza dei dettagli.
E mi è balzata in mente una parola: Morlock!
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Trains in the Turin metro are driverless. So you can confortably seat and take a lot of photos. That's too cool!
I was playing with apertures and shutter speed when I shot this serie of pictures. They are clearly overexposed, but so rich in details. And suddenly a namen came to my mind. Morlock! Do you remember?
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Future passengers chat to a Metro staff member about their new trains,
Sydney Metro has stolen the show at this years Sydney Royal Easter with a mock-up of a typical carriage soon to be carrying passengers on the Sydney Metro - Northwest.
We got there early on the first Friday to photograph the event.
22 six car trains have been ordered. Trains are due to start running early in 2019
"The Spittlertor is an old gate in the southwest of the Nuremberg city walls. The name refers to the nearby St. Elisabeth Hospital of the Teutonic Order.
In addition to the Spittlertor tower, the Spittlertor includes the Spittlertor kennel. The associated road led in the direction of Schwabach, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Donauwörth. The building was rebuilt in 1557 by Jörg Unger into the round tower that still stands, and a new gate was built next to it - this complex forms today's Spittlertor kennel. To the west of it, the Ludwig Gate was later built into the city wall because of the growing traffic. At the end of the 19th century the facility was rebuilt and adapted to the requirements of growing traffic; more arches were built and the ditch was dammed. The archway that was built was destroyed in the Second World War.
The wall area between Spittlertor and Westtor is called “Spittlertormauer”. The alley inside the wall was then named “Spittlertormauer” and the main road outside “Spittlertorgraben”. Both lead north. To the east of the gate, Nuremberg's red light district stretches along the western part of the Frauentormauer. Outside the city wall lies the Plärrer.
Car traffic is routed through the Ludwigstor to the west of the Spittlertor - the Spittlertor is only for pedestrians.
Nuremberg (/ˈnjʊərəmbɜːrɡ/ NURE-əm-burg; German: Nürnberg [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]; in the local East Franconian dialect: Nämberch [ˈnɛmbɛrç]) is the largest city in Franconia, the second-largest city in the German state of Bavaria, and its 545,000 inhabitants make it the 14th-largest city in Germany.
Nuremberg sits on the Pegnitz, which carries the name Regnitz from its confluence with the Rednitz in Fürth onwards (Pegnitz→ Regnitz→ Main→ Rhine→ North Sea), and on the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, that connects the North Sea to the Black Sea. Lying in the Bavarian administrative region of Middle Franconia, it is the largest city and unofficial capital of the entire cultural region of Franconia. The city is surrounded on three sides by the Reichswald, a large forest, and in the north lies Knoblauchsland (garlic land), an extensive vegetable growing area and cultural landscape.
The city forms a continuous conurbation with the neighbouring cities of Fürth, Erlangen and Schwabach, which is the heart of an urban area region with around 1.4 million inhabitants, while the larger Nuremberg Metropolitan Region has a population of approximately 3.6 million. It is the largest city in the East Franconian dialect area (colloquially: "Franconian"; German: Fränkisch).
Nuremberg and Fürth were once connected by the Bavarian Ludwig Railway, the first steam-hauled and overall second railway opened in Germany (1835). Today, the U1 of the Nuremberg Subway, which is the first German subway with driverless, automatically moving railcars, runs along this route. Nuremberg Airport (Flughafen Nürnberg "Albrecht Dürer") is the second-busiest airport in Bavaria after Munich Airport, and the tenth-busiest airport of the country.
Institutions of higher education in Nuremberg include the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Germany's 11th-largest university, with campuses in Erlangen and Nuremberg and a university hospital in Erlangen (Universitätsklinikum Erlangen), Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg. The Nuremberg exhibition centre (Messe Nürnberg) is one of the biggest convention center companies in Germany and operates worldwide.
Nuremberg Castle and the city's walls, with their many towers, are among the most impressive in Europe. Staatstheater Nürnberg is one of the five Bavarian state theatres, showing operas, operettas, musicals, and ballets (main venue: Nuremberg Opera House), plays (main venue: Schauspielhaus Nürnberg), as well as concerts (main venue: Meistersingerhalle). Its orchestra, the Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg, is Bavaria's second-largest opera orchestra after the Bavarian State Opera's Bavarian State Orchestra in Munich. Nuremberg is the birthplace of Albrecht Dürer and Johann Pachelbel. 1. FC Nürnberg is the most famous football club of the city and one of the most successful football clubs in Germany. Nuremberg was one of the host cities of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍]; Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its culture and Franconian dialect (German: Fränkisch).
Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking, South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian— and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.
Those parts of the Vogtland lying in Saxony (largest city: Plauen) are sometimes regarded as Franconian as well, because the Vogtlandian dialects are mostly East Franconian. The inhabitants of Saxon Vogtland, however, mostly do not consider themselves as Franconian. On the other hand, the inhabitants of the Hessian-speaking parts of Lower Franconia west of the Spessart (largest city: Aschaffenburg) do consider themselves as Franconian, although not speaking the dialect. Heilbronn-Franconia's largest city of Heilbronn and its surrounding areas are South Franconian-speaking, and therefore only sometimes regarded as Franconian. In Hesse, the east of the Fulda District is Franconian-speaking, and parts of the Oden Forest District are sometimes regarded as Franconian for historical reasons, but a Franconian identity did not develop there.
Franconia's largest city and unofficial capital is Nuremberg, which is contiguous with Erlangen and Fürth, with which it forms the Franconian conurbation with around 1.3 million inhabitants. Other important Franconian cities are Würzburg, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Ansbach and Coburg in Bavaria, Suhl and Meiningen in Thuringia, and Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg.
The German word Franken—Franconians—also refers to the ethnic group, which is mainly to be found in this region. They are to be distinguished from the Germanic people of the Franks, and historically formed their easternmost settlement area. The origins of Franconia lie in the settlement of the Franks from the 6th century in the area probably populated until then mainly by the Elbe Germanic people in the Main river area, known from the 9th century as East Francia (Francia Orientalis). In the Middle Ages the region formed much of the eastern part of the Duchy of Franconia and, from 1500, the Franconian Circle. The restructuring of the south German states by Napoleon, after the demise of the Holy Roman Empire, saw most of Franconia awarded to Bavaria." - info from Wikipedia.
Summer 2019 I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Now on Instagram.
Scan of a print taken on an early morning in June 1984 after detouring to Rolvenden on route to the coast: No. 1466 was another 1980s visitor, arriving from Didcot for the 1984 late May Bank Holiday and the following weekend. According to Tenterden Terrier No. 34 (Summer 1984) initially "... a few problems were encountered ... "caused by this being the loco's ... first proper run for 15 to 20 years ....the fire bed clinkering up .... [and that] Great Western locos maintain a vacuum of 26 ins, as opposed to the S.R.'s 21 ins leading to the brakes binding." It seems these problems were resolved and the loco went on to perform "... very well". Incidentally this was the first Great Western steam on the line since the WD Dean Goods back worked over the K&ESR in 1944.
Now is that No. 23 or No. 24 that is also in shot? No 23, I think.
A history of No. 1466 can be found on the GWS website:
"95 of these 0-4-2T's were built to replace the somewhat similar 517 class which, by 1932, were being scrapped in large numbers. Essentially a 19th century design with detail improvements, they were fast and popular, if somewhat ancient in appearance. They served the GWR and BR well, only being withdrawn when their particular branch line closed or was dieselized. The first 75 were fitted for auto-train working, whereby the train can be driven from a cab in the leading coach when the engine is working in the pushing direction. Nos. 4800-4874 were re-numbered 1400-1474 in 1946, to make way for 28xx class engines being converted to oil-burning, which required their numbers.
Built at Swindon in February 1936, 4866 was a particularly strong, free-running member of the class. It was based at Newton Abbot almost all its working life, transferring to Taunton at the very end. Selected for preservation, it was bought in April 1964 for £750, and delivered to the Society's Totnes depot. Here it again became popular, this time with the local children, who would flock to see it operating. The Society's first engine, it has generally been in working order all its life, and ran under its own steam to Didcot from Plymouth in November 1967, on establishment of Didcot Railway Centre.
Shortly before the second world war, 4866 achieved some notoriety. Whilst standing in Newton Abbot station its crew saw a train bearing down on them on their track. They set the engine in motion, the fireman jumped and the driver was flung off with the impact. 4866 did not hang around, and was routed driverless on to the Kingswear line where it ran on for seven miles until purposely derailed between Torquay and Paignton.
4866 has spent all its life since 1946 running as No. 1466. Following light repairs during 1998 it was repainted to its original livery and re-entered service at Easter 1999 as 4866.
1466 was withdrawn from service in 2000 due to the condition of its foundation ring, and is now in the queue for its third major overhaul in preservation.
In June 2013 1466 was repainted into BR black livery in connection with a series of photo-charters. "
The Post Office Railway was a 610 mm narrow gauge, driverless underground railway that was built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices.
The line ran from Paddington Head District Sorting Office in the west to the Eastern Head District Sorting Office at Whitechapel in the east (shown foreground in the graphic), a distance of 6.5 miles. It had eight stations, the largest of which was underneath Mount Pleasant, but by 2003 only three stations remained in use because the sorting offices above the other stations had been relocated.
It opened in 1927 and operated for 76 years until it closed in 2003.
Nuremberg U-Bahn Siemens Class DT3-F driverless EMU 788 at Hauptbahnhof on a line U2 service to Flughafen.
14th April 2016
61 cm x 61 cm
24" x 24"
2016 - 2020
Urethane and acrylic binders, pigments in dispersal water, dry iridescent pigments and resin on panel.
Purchase inquiries to bruceriley@bruce-riley.com
Seamount is painted on a 1 1/2" hollow core panel panel . The paint layer is 1/8 " thick.
Seamount was originally a commission from a car company to make several films of my paint spreading on two foot panels. The films were to be used as source material for touch screens in driverless cars. They wanted the human touch. I suggested setting me up with a studio in Paris for a year would yield some good source material. I've not heard back, The films can be seen on my website. www.bruce-riley
I got to keep all but one of the paintings per contract. This painting sat around for several years until 2019 when I started reworking it. The paint layer is built up from the original commission with a loose, accidental hand. On top of the dried paint I applied a thin coat of resin. Another paint layer was applied on top of the dried resin surface.
R24 departs Rosehill Gardnes for a racecourse special service to Clyde. This was one of the last time R Set trains did this before retirement later in 2011.
Hmm. Not sure what was happening near Pt. Fermin Park in San Pedro, California this day. There's a driverless Chevrolet Suburban stopped in the middle of the road with its front end crunched. A lone bicycle is parked in the foreground in an area not meant for parking bikes. There are three emergency vehicles in the distance and two uniformed men walking past the end of the road. In the distance is the Pacific Ocean.
Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
Learn more about this pilot project here: www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/automated-shuttle-pilot...
NPS / Jacob W. Frank
Nissan Serena, il minivan a guida assistita che circolerà in Giappone ad Agosto via ---> www.diggita.it/v.php?id=1546204
Sleepy little old Perth took part in Driver-less vehicle development back in 2014.
Video taken by my Missus with her point and shoot camera - South Perth, Western Australia. 12/July/2014
A few happy snaps taken on a very quick visit to the new fully automated (driverless) Sydney Metro which opened on 26 May 2019.
This is the rear of a Tallawong to Chatswood service taken at Epping on 5 June 2019.
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Rétroviseur and Algorithmic Drive. Sporobole, November 2018.
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Rétroviseur et Conduite algorithmique. Sporobole, novembre 2018.