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"The bronze crucifix by Rudolf Gröschel of 1963.
St Egidien on Egidienplatz is the former Benedictine Abbey of Saint Giles (Egidienskirche), now a church in the former free imperial city of Nuremberg, southern Germany. It is considered a significant contribution to the baroque church architecture of Middle Franconia.
The first church building was probably built in the years 1120/1130 on the site of the second, northern Nuremberg royal court. The royal courts administered royal possessions, agriculture and forestry. Thus, it had the status of a royal church.
Around the year 1140 Emperor Conrad III and his wife Gertrud raised the foundation to the rank of a benedictine abbey and endowed it generously. They made Carus, Abbot of the Scots Monastery, Regensburg, their royal chaplain and the first Abbot of St Egidien. The monastery was rich immediately and subordinate in secular terms only to the Holy Roman Emperor. The first monks came from the Scots Monastery, Regensburg and St. James's Abbey, Würzburg.
It was a three-aisled basilica in the Romanesque style. In 1418, the monastery was impoverished and in debt. The altar vessels were mortgaged, and the Scots Monastery, Regensburg no longer guaranteed the debt. The abbey was taken over by German Benedictines from Reichenbach After the take-over the monastery was partially rebuilt, and the church and chapels were renovated. The Irish monks had to come to terms with the new regime or leave the abbey.
At the Reformation in 1525 the monastery was dissolved, and the monastic estates transferred to the city authorities. After the Peace of Augsburg there were two unsuccessful attempts to recover the former monastic estates for the Benedictine order, firstly in 1578 by the Scottish Bishop John Lesley on behalf of Mary, Queen of Scots, and from 1629 to 1631 by a Commission for the Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg to implement a Roman Catholic Restitution Edict. On 6–7 July 1696 a fire destroyed the monastery and church.
The church was rebuilt in the baroque style. The foundation stone was laid on 14 October 1711. The architects were Johann Trost and Gottlieb Trost. It was the largest construction project in Nuremberg in the 18th century. The stucco decorations were done by Donato Polli. The frescos were painted by Daniel Preisler and Johann Martin Schuster.
The church was badly damaged during the Second World War in an air raid on 2 January 1945. The roof on the nave, crossing, transepts and choir collapsed and the outer walls were badly damaged. It was rebuilt between 1946-59 by Nuremberg architect Rudolf Gröschel in an economically interpretative way, as the costs to reconstruct the baroque interior with its ornate detail was unaffordable at the time.
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.
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Today's Talk of the Economic World. Shed your worry. This dynamic dubai will emerge victorious with an extra dose of dynamism.
This picture was shot from a running metro train from the driver's seat of a driverless train
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On our way to Tate Modern, Peter ushered Elsie and me to the front of the train . . . and as it is driverless, it was as if we were driving it. Fascinating! On the way back, Peter ushered us to the front of the train which, when the train pulled out of the station, was the back of the train and we watched, equally fascinated, as our journey disappeared behind us!
A Tallawong service navigates the s-bend out of Bella Vista before powering up onto the viaduct.
Taken: 26/5/2019
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street, Manchester were not pedestrianised (and there was no Metrolink tram system), so it was possible to ride straight up to the burger van. On some Saturday nights we would ride here on our motorcycles and "hang out" as they say now. After getting bored and full of hot dog and carbonated drink, we would often go to Jutland Street and some crazy people (not me of course) would see how far they could jump their bikes. I've never worked out a good way to photograph Jutland Street - but it's amazing. There were no 'luxury apartments' there back then, so nobody to object to a bunch of pimply youths risking life and limb.
Back in those days there wasn't a Starbucks in the area.
If someone had told us back then that people would be paying more for a coffee than a pint of beer, we would have laughed out loud.
The 'van' (is it still a van?) was next to Debenhams department store which was opposite Lewis's Department Store, neither of which exist any longer - another fact that would have been hard to contemplate back then. The changing face of retail.
I got a shot of a food delivery person next to the van - another concept that certainly wasn't common back then around here. Seriously you can't move for these guys now.
In 1981 I'd never even heard of McDonalds, never mind been in one, so if someone had said oh yes in 2022 you can go on your mobile phone (uh?), connected to the internet (uh?) use an app (uh?) to order some fast food (uh?) pay for it electronically (uh?) and a guy on a bicycle will drop your food off at your home / office / shop doorway, it would have been a bit hard to believe.
So moving on another 40 years what will it be like? Firstly more than likely there'll be no davekpcv around to find out. Driverless cars? Motorcycles "banned"? All home shopping? All the pubs shut down? No thanks.
Taken from underneath the Forth rail bridge on Sunday evening. What you can see is the old Forth road bridge and the new Queensferry crossing.
The Forth Road Bridge is a suspension bridge in east central Scotland. The bridge opened in 1964 and at the time was the longest suspension bridge in the world outside the United States. The bridge spans the Firth of Forth, connecting Edinburgh, at South Queensferry, to Fife, at North Queensferry. It replaced a centuries-old ferry service to carry vehicular traffic, cyclists and pedestrians across the Forth; railway crossings are made by the nearby Forth Bridge, opened in 1890.
The Scottish Parliament voted to scrap tolls on the bridge from February 2008. The adjacent Queensferry Crossing was opened in August 2017 to carry the M90 motorway across the Firth of Forth, replacing the Forth Road Bridge which had exceeded its design capacity. At its peak, the Forth Road Bridge carried 65,000 vehicles per day.
The Forth Road Bridge was subsequently closed for repairs and refurbishment. It reopened in February 2018, now redesignated as a dedicated Public Transport Corridor, with access to motor vehicles other than buses and taxis restricted; pedestrians and cyclists are still permitted to use the bridge. Starting in or before 2021, Stagecoach Fife will be carrying out the first driverless bus trial to carry passengers in the United Kingdom along a park-and-ride route which includes the Forth Road Bridge as its main section.
On a dull day at Marlborough Crescent bus station, Newcastle a potential passenger has a query for the driver of United VR WHN 814G. The adjacent VR (CHN 656H) rests, driverless. Both vehicles have blinds set for, in the city, Chapel House Estate and the slightly more distant Throckley. The background Mark 3 Cortina doubtfully survives to this day, nor the buses, definitely gone is the bus station which was replaced by something entitled 'The Centre for Life' I believe. Time moves on, bringing with it progress I guess - thank goodness there are many surviving views of the way things were at one time.
Docklands Light Railway A clear view for passengers with no driver's cab! When I was an 80s student I went for a ride with friends on the brand new driverless Docklands Light Railway (DLR).
The DLR is an automated light metro system serving the redeveloped Docklands area of London. It first opened on 31 August 1987. More on the DLR here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docklands_Light_Railway
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The new driverless Metro extension opened in August, 2024. Thought I'd check out the new station under Central. SWISH!
The 1955 edition of the British Cars issue of the popular Ian Allan ABC series of 'spotters guides'. This edition sports one of the many commissions from Ian Allan by the scraperboard illustrator A N Wolstenholme and looks to be a speeding, yet driverless, Daimler Regency II! (Thanks to Dave)
The Dubai Metro
is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Red Line and Green Line are operational, with three further lines planned.
These first two lines run underground in the city centre and on elevated viaducts elsewhere (elevated railway).
All trains and stations are air conditioned with platform edge doors to make this possible.
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Cruise has a fleet of autonomous car sharing cars in San Francisco. These are specially adapted Chevrolet Bot EV's. At this moment a driver is still needed, but Cruise aims to get a permit for driverless use in the near future.
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The Manœuvres video series is part of a body of works that I’ve been developing since 2016 based on observing the R&D of driverless cars and dash cam compilations.
La série Manœuvres fait partie d'un corpus qui s'inspire des technologies utilisées par les véhicules autonomes et des compilations d’enregistreurs de conduites (dash cams).
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The new driverless Metro extension opened in August, 2024. Thought I'd check out the new station under Central. SWISH!
The first production ADL Enviro200 MMC ever built - a development and testing vehicle - has now been converted into a completely autonomous vehicle with the help of Fusion Processing software, with a driverless bus trial now taking place within Stagecoach Manchester depots. The bus is able to take itself to fuelling points and the washing station, and then park up in the depot, without any further driver input than simply selecting the destination on an in-cab touchscreen. At this stage, the driver does remain in the cab to supervise, but doesn't have any input. A full-scale passenger-carrying driverless bus trial, also using Fusion Processing E200 MMCs, is expected on a new route across the old Forth Road Bridge next year.
UK Bus & Coach Show, National Exhibition Centre
3 October 2019
The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.
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www.youtube.com/channel/UCkNYo1uLNy67xCfeyc1h-ZQ?sub_conf... The purpose of creating and assigning 5G networks
Previous generation mobile communication networks had the following purposes and functionality:
1G: Analog Voice Service
2G: Voice over digital network services, low speed data services (GPRS, EDGE)
3G: High-speed data services (HSPA), with the ability to transmit voice over IP, mobile Internet access MBB (Mobile Broadband).
4G: LTE, LTE-A Mobile Broadband MBB, Voice over Voice (VoLTE)
5G networks greatly expand the limited functionality of previous generation mobile networks. The main functional features of 5G networks are as follows:
EMBB Advanced Mobile Broadband (enhanced MBB)
Ultra-Low Latency Reliable Communication (ULLRC) Massive IoT / IIoT, mMTC (massive Machine Type Communication)
Based on these three generalized types of functionality, the whole variety of services and capabilities of IMT2020 (5G) networks is built, the most characteristic of which are shown in the figure below:
The variety of functional capabilities of IMT2020 / 5G networks. Source: Emerging Trends in 5G / IMT2020, 2016, ITU
Gigabytes per second. 5G networks can significantly increase the speed of data transmission through various radio access technologies (RAT), and by using the new 5G NR radio frequency spectra (New Radio). The user gets almost unlimited bandwidth, both for home use of various services, and for the purposes of enterprises (Immersive Telepresence, Industrial IoT, etc.)
Smart House. A wide range of different Internet of Things (IoT) services will be available for the Smart Home and Smart Building solutions: video surveillance, control and automation of household appliances, security systems management, content storage, climate control, etc.
Smart city. The Smart City solution is a horizontal and vertical scaling of the functionality and range of Smart Home services. Main services of Smart City: Safe City, e-Government e-Government, e-Health e-Health, e-Education e-Education, e-Banking e-banking, Smart Meters utilities electronic collection, Smart Grid smart grids, etc. .
New 4K / 8K video services: Volumetric video, ultra-high definition (UHD) screen, presence effect option.
Work in the cloud. The service makes it possible not only to store data in a cloud storage and retrieve it from there, but also to use application programs that work directly from the cloud. Moreover, with the possibility of them but also use applications that work directly from the cloud. Moreover, with the possibility of them
use on any device and from any location. In addition, it is possible to use APIs through which cloud service providers can provide their services to subscribers of a 5G network operator.
Augmented and virtual reality (AR / VR). The virtual reality service VR (Virtual Reality) immerses a person in another world, influencing his senses, especially his vision (VR glasses). Augmented Reality AR (Augmented Reality) service combines a real environment for a user with virtual objects. These services are suitable not only for entertainment, games, virtual communication in the "telepresence" mode, but can also significantly improve the learning process, when students using VR glasses can, for example, visually see the internal structure of a person at a lecture on anatomy, a master in the workshop can study the assembly order of a complex unit, etc.
Industrial Automation. The 5G network, coupled with the technology of the Internet of things IoT, with the help of industrial sensors IIoT (Industrial Internet of things), as well as with the help of artificial intelligence, AI (AI, Artificial Intelligence) can significantly increase the degree of automation of production. At the same time, it becomes possible in real time to analyze large volumes of heterogeneous data (Big Data) both based on the findings (insights) and using machine and deep learning (Machine learning, Deep learning).
Business Critical Applications These applications may include, for example, electronic medicine (e-Health), emergency communications (Mission Critical Communication), tactile Internet (Tactile Internet) and others.
Unmanned vehicles (Driverless Vehicles). Unmanned transport can act as part of the Smart City service, however, it can be provided on its own platform. It includes not only unmanned vehicles (driverless cars), but also unmanned tractors for “smart agriculture” (Smart Agriculture), unmanned trains for the metro and suburban railways, drones and other types of public and special transport. In addition, on the 5G platform, the implementation of ADAS (Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems) driver assistance systems is possible.
It should be emphasized that the figure above shows only some of the services and solutions of the 5G platform. Unlike the networks of previous generations, the range of services of which was strictly limited and somewhat expanded in 4G, the services of the 5G platform are synergistic and scalable, and are not limited to once defined functionality. In fact, 5G plays the role of a platform for the development of new services and DevOps applications, when new functions are created by developers (Development) in close coordination with the teams who are responsible for their implementation and operation (Operation).
In general, we can say that the 5G network incorporates not only mobile, but also fixed communication services, as well as high-speed Internet access with low latency and, in addition, specialized and corporate networks for vertical industries.
5G / IMT2020 platform versatility
Due to the fifth generation networks, it will also be possible to improve the quality of the use of existing services where large volumes of traffic are involved.
Theodore Sizer, vice president of wireless technology at Bell Labs, noted that there will be a wide variety of devices running on 5G networks. Smartphones and tablets will not go anywhere, but besides them, a whole “zoo” of various devices will appear on the network, including CCTV cameras, weather sensors, sensors of “smart” electric networks, “smart” houses and cars.
Ericsson said that 5G will usher in the long-term development of the Networked Society:
South Korean operator SK Telecom, one of the first companies to demonstrate 5G technology in action, at the initial stage of deployment of new generation networks focuses on ordinary users as the main consumers of services, company representatives told TAdviser in February 2016. Thanks to 5G, users can watch 3D-TV without glasses, download in seconds or watch UltraHD video online at high speed.
It will also be possible to use virtual and augmented reality applications at a new level, according to SK Telecom. For example, include elements of augmented reality in the educational process, creating virtual museums and models of the universe in the classrooms.
In the projects of “smart cities” 5G will allow real-time transmission of information from a much larger number of sensors at various objects. Qualcomm's senior director of product management for mobile technology, Sanjeev Athalye, notes that it will be possible to deploy a thousand sensors instead of a hundred, for servicing which there will be a sufficiently smaller number of base stations than with existing networks. These can be, for example, sensors for monitoring the state of housing and communal services objects, sensors for “smart lighting” or sound sensors installed for safety and order in the city. In the latter case, the sensors can detect suspicious or too loud sounds, and this information will be automatically transmitted to law enforcement.
New services using 5G can also be implemented in medicine. For example, to organize remote monitoring of patients. The doctor will be able to quickly receive information from special sensors and monitor the condition of patients around the clock.
Thanks to its very low latency, 5G will also open up more possibilities for remote operations using the robot. Such a service is especially relevant for small settlements where there are no surgeons in the field: controlling the manipulations of the robot, the operation can be performed by a specialist located in a completely different place. Due to 5G, such a service can be deployed in wireless networks.
The low data latency that next-generation networks can provide is also important for the deployment of smart power networks. Using sensors will allow you to instantly detect damage on the power line and block the spread of the consequences of damage further along the line. Thus, damage will affect fewer consumers of electricity.
In large manufacturing companies, in retail, logistics, 5G will make it possible to use more industrial robots that perform various functions instead of people and drones. The latter are already used in some industries, but are most often managed using Wi-Fi networks. 5G will allow you to cover a greater distance than Wi-Fi networks, and due to the low latency - increase the stability of such systems. For example, Amazon has a project to deploy a system for delivering goods using drones.
An example of services for which 5G will have an advantage is urban surveillance systems. 5G will help simplify their deployment and use. Now traffic from thousands of cameras in cities is mainly transmitted via fixed networks. To deploy such an infrastructure is not an easy task, since it is necessary to lay many wires. With 5G, you can receive terabytes of high-quality video
permissions without the use of wires.
Another example is a vehicle monitoring service in companies. Qualcomm’s Sanjeev Atali believes that with the advent of a new generation of networks, operators who provide such a service will be able to reduce its cost. This will be possible due to the fact that the cost of one 5G base station will be lower than the cost of stations for existing networks, and also due to the fact that one base station can simultaneously serve more devices, respectively, less base stations will be required for the service.
Docklands Light Railway driverless train arriving at the station above the docks at Canary Wharf, London.
All our cities are changing and for some things, at some stage, you have to say "This is the end".
I am back on my primary hobby here, which of course is railways. This shot shows an isolated stub of the Pinkenba Branch railway in Brisbane
which ran, indeed, still runs (sort of) from Eagle Junction down to the industrial suburb of Pinkenba on the north side and towards the mouth of the Brisbane River.
Until a few years ago, this was a busy and important railway to the wharves and industries along the river, as well as being a bit of a humble passenger carrier.
The line passed close to some of Brisbane's more affluent suburbs of Ascot and Hamilton as well as the two main racecourses of Eagle Farm (opposite Ascot station) and Doomben. At Whinstanes, another branch headed towards the river and served several fuel and bitumen depots, Clyde (locomotive builders), Hamilton Yard, what was once the Butter Board, cold stores and wharves along the Hamilton Reach. This line has now well and truly gone with high rise apartments and some different light industry taking over. One day it will all be apartments.
The main branch continued past the old airport which it never really served, a slew of factories including the Ford factory, a defence supply depot (still there) and several other industrial premises over the years.
At Pinkenba proper, it served a fuel depot, a meatworks in years gone by, a large railway yard for grain wagons awaiting unloading at the main grain export terminal and the ACF & Shirleys fertiliser plant. There was the original station near the river and in later years, a new station on a separate line that veered over towards the main road. A meagre passenger service served industrial workers and the odd Pinkenba village resident - on weekends almost no trains at all except for the racecourses. From Pinkenba railway yard, a further line of several kilometres headed further down river serving more fuel, bitumen and LPG depots including the erstwhile Amoco Oil refinery, later BP and now no longer refining.
Industrial change, development of the new Port of Brisbane on the south side, increasing use of trucks and abandonment of rail for fuel saw change not only to the industrial landscape, but the withering of the need for a railway line at all. The section in my photo was on the long siding to the oil refinery opposite the Shell Depot but now entirely closed and lifted - this is just an abandoned and isolated left over, not connected to anything. The station and services left us in the early 90's and its site is now a resources recovery depot. The grain terminal became an ethanol plant and plans to rail grain there never came to fruition despite a new unloader being built. What grain is used is brought some 200 kilometres on busy highways and suburban roads by B double like tippers.
The railway became an instrument of its own death. Railways and fuel suppliers all over most of Australia appeared to jointly abandon rail for most fuel supply, even though it was a bulk traffic and safer by rail. The moribund sidings became depositories for surplus rollingstock, fuel tank cars and other wagons no longer required by the modern railway. Once they were scrapped on site, the rails themselves were torn up and scrapped. The Pinkenba line beyond Doomben where the passenger service now stops, once so busy with shiny rails is now little more than a rusty, weed grown siding with a balloon loop at the end around the ethanol plant that turns its back on the railway surrounding it. No regular trains polish its rusty rails.
It's happened at all Queensland coastal cities and major railway yards as in Sydney and New South Wales, Melbourne and Victoria and round the world. A sad indictment of misuse of infrastructure and a focus on road for nearly everything. Trucks have their place, don't get me wrong but with a will, rail could carry more. Ask the Tasmanians and New Zealanders, it can be done, rail can pay for shorter distances and more commodities. By the time we wake up, it will be too late. Rebuilding diverse rail freight will not happen in the same way we have rebuilt light rail for passengers. It's too expensive and the competition is waiting to let their driverless behemoth trucks loose on the open road. It's already started and it won't stop!
May I quote from the first verse of "This is the End" by Adele from Skyfall, the 007 movie.
"This is the end
Hold your breath and count to ten
Feel the Earth move and then
Hear my heart burst again
For this is the end
I've drowned and dreamt this moment
So overdue, I owe them
Swept away, I'm stolen"
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Songwriters: Adele Laurie Blue Adkins / Paul Richard Epworth
Skyfall lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
DRIVER LESS AND SPEEDING TRAIN SHOT FROM THE TRAIN COMING FROM OPPOSITE DIRECTION.
The fast moving train was shot from another fast moving train approaching train from opposite direction. I was standing in the front window of the train and very exiting and you can feel the speed,
The train is driverless, Passengers viewing window is in the front. See the earilie picture too.
This is my first fully autonomous car I have seen on the streets. I have seen many with drivers monitoring from the drivers seat. This is the first one I have seen driving down the road with no driver, and no passengers. I suspect its going to pick up a rider. Still amazes me even though they have been around Phoenix for a number of years.
Copenhagen Metro AnsaldoBreda Driverless Metro train no. B25 at Kastrup on Line M2.
The full gallery from this trip is here: mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2017/April-2017/Denmark-Swe...
A full flight video of my flight from Copenhagen to London Gatwick is here.
A travel vlog from Copenhagen is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLW7vLX0XmA
The Brecon Mountain Railway is a narrow gauge railway laid on part of the trackbed of the former Brecon and Merythr standard gauge line.
Their principal loco is No.2, a 47-ton Pacific tender locomotive built by Baldwin of Philadelphia in 1930 as Works Number 61269 for export to South Africa. No.2 spent all of its working life hauling limestone trains for the Eastern Province Cement Company based in Port Elizabeth. The loco suffered substantial accident damage as the result of a driverless runaway in 1973 and was later purchased by the Brecon Mountain Railway and shipped to the United Kingdom. The loco was painstakingly rebuilt between 1993 and 1997 and has been in regular service for some twenty years but is now in the Final few months of its boiler ticket.
Viewed from well above the lines terminus at Torpantau, 1313 feet above sea level, No. 2 is arriving with a chartered freight train.
Taking Ken on the Sydney Metro all the way out to Tallawong for lunch, and then back via Barangaroo.
Docklands Light Railway Bombardier B92 Stock train no. 86 leaving Limehouse for Tower Gateway.
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Mail Rail
London
19-10-2018
Londons unknown Tube
operated between 1927 and 2003
closed on 31 May 2003
2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge
400 Volts dc
Line length 6.5 miles
stations
Whitechapel Eastern Delivery Office
Liverpool StreetNational Rail
King Edward Street
Mount Pleasant / Postal Museum
New Oxford Street
Rathbone Place Western Delivery Office
Wimpole Street Old Western Delivery Office
Bird Street Western Parcels Office
Paddington Sorting OfficeNational Rail
www.postalmuseum.org/discover/attractions/mail-rail-ride/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Post_Office_Railway
London
England
On our journey, it was not uncommon to come across farm or pastoral properties where not one iota of metal or machinery had ever been thrown away. Nostalgia, parts, too busy, perhaps all of the above. Every now and then we would come across a roadside property where the equipment, unrestored was at least lined up so you could have a good look and even better, a good think about what each of these venerable units saw and did during its working lifetime. Bottomless stories no doubt. And in spite of age and the ravages of harsh environments, sometimes helped by those harsh conditions, they live on and we can admire and give thanks. I often give road transport a kicking because I think it has taken over many roles where rail would be far more efficient and environmentally friendly, but we could no doubt not live or exist and enjoy our way of life without them in the transport chain somewhere.
But change is coming, heading in from several directions. Significant progress is being made overseas with development of driverless heavy transport vehicles and in Western Australia, Rio Rinto is already operating massive iron ore trains without drivers. Now the computer operator takes the throttle! So you take the human from the driver’s seat.
So let’s give a thumbs up and more than a passing thought to these old trucks and the important part they no doubt played in a different world.
Wedderburn, Victoria
The upper part of the Brecon Mountain Railway rises to 1313 feet above sea level, and Baldwin No. 2 (Works No., 61269 of 1930) is approaching that point while working a David Williams photographers charter on 2nd November 2018. This point is near to Torpantau station, the northern terminus of the line. The views are spectacular, with Pentwyn and Pontsticill Reservoirs in the background (right). The locomotive was built for the Eastern Province Cement Co. of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It spent all of its working life there, but its career was brought to an abrupt end when in 1973 it was involved in a driverless runaway, which resulted in the locomotive being written-off. It, or the bits of it, were purchased by the Brecon Mountain Railway, and shipped to the UK, where restoration took place between 1993 and 1997. Copyright Photograph John Whitehouse - all rights reserved
6 car Majlis Park – Maujpur-Babarpur Metro departs Mayur Vihar-1 on the scenic Pink Line.
The Pink Line rakes were built by Hyundai Rotem and BEML under the RS-10 series, featuring driverless capabilities. Hyundai Rotem provided the design, while BEML manufactured them in Bengaluru as part of the Make in India initiative. With its elegant curves and gradients, the Pink Line stands as one of the most photogenic lines of DMRC.
Driverless, passengerless, useless in Inverness!!! The new driverless bus which is due to start operation around the University campus in Inverness is pictured awaiting the commencing of the work on 5/5/22.
A grab from videos I was shooting from the front of a train on the Dubai Metro. Since it is a driverless, fully automated metro we could go right to the front of the train. A great place to be to get a good if fleeting glimpse of the city. Sadly the glass was not too clean and that explains the dark streaks across the sky. We had halted at a station when this train approached us from the opposite side giving me a great chance to get some good footage. I framed the shot trying to get as much of the skyline as possible. Besides me there were tourists from all over the world jostling for space but since we had taken a day long pass and ridden up and down a couple of times I could get a comfy corner of my own.
winning the NYC Driver-less Future Challenge
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sketched using Mental Canvas
The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.
Because of the high demand for American presence in numerous regions across the globe, the United States Department of Defense (DOD) has continued to harp on the issue of fulfilling personnel numbers. With sizable deployments to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Central and East Asia, the United States' armed forces are being stretched thinner than anticipated. Moreover, the global trend towards greater urbanization means conventional fights against peer-level adversaries will swallow up tremendous resources as city blocks have to be cleared one-by-one and policed during an occupation. This sorry fact was more than alluded to by the two Eastern European Wars which saw extreme urban combat across the Balkans and Ukraine--and many of the cities involved pale in size when compared to those of East Asia. To cut to the chase, the DOD has become tremendously worried about fulfilling its security obligations should one--let alone two or more--corners of the world crank up the heat.
With this in mind, the various service branches undertook independent initiatives to circumvent personnel problems. As to be expected, many of these experiments revolve around automated systems to lighten the burden on existing personnel and augment existing forces. For example, the Army's Army Evolved 2040 initiative produced the Oshkosh Future (Autonomous) Cargo Truck [or F(A)CT] to reduce the number of men and women necessary to keep physical logistical lines operational. By slaving trucks to escort vehicles or giving the driverless vehicles completely digitized routes to follow, the Army can focus more on shoring up its forward presence.
The principles outlined above were continued under a similar program executed by the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Designed by the Missiles and Fire Control facilities, LockMart unveiled the Unmanned Modular Platform for Intelligence, Reconnaissance, and Engagement (UMPIRE) as a way to add more lethality and C4ISR redundancies to the Army Evolved 2040 initiative. Meant to be a cross between a patrol vehicle and an intelligence node, the UMPIRE is able to conduct both supportive and independent operations, particularly those within dense urban areas. Ideally, the UMPIRE is meant to replace sentries and vulnerable investigation crews via its abilities to traverse difficult terrain/obstacles and relay high fidelity spatial data with its assortment of optical and acoustic instruments. This reduces troop exposure to buried explosives, snipers, coincidental injuries, and other precarious traps that would otherwise attrite coalition forces in a given locale.
Early fielding experiments with the UMPIRE have proven overwhelmingly successful by Army Evolved standards. Although logistical setbacks have been encountered due to the need to learn how to maintain a new class of vehicle, the Army has been able to adjust and train skilled crews on how to properly care for the vehicle. Additionally, the UMPIRE's needs are relatively low compared to robotic platforms from other nations as the vehicle was heavily inspired by America's next generation of lunar and Martian exploration rovers. Indeed, the unique wheel setup not only gives the UMPIRE the ability to climb challenging terrain (e.g. the moon's surface or a collapsed building), but offers propulsion redundancies as each wheel is equipped with a hub motor. Furthermore, the entire platform uses hybrid energy sources, so it has a relatively high range and prolonged ability to loiter/stalk depending on the mission set. The modularity of the base unit also allows for various weapons to be mounted on the vehicle (the units demonstrated above are equipped with 20mm remote weapons stations), or non-lethal crowd-control devices, enhanced intelligence-gathering instruments, or anything along those lines. More or less, the UMPIRE is indeed a highly versatile and autonomous system--perfect for the growing demands placed upon the US military.
Taking Ken on the Sydney Metro all the way out to Tallawong for lunch, and then back via Barangaroo.
A Tallawong service approaches Kellyville railway station under the cover of darkness. Seeing as there's no crew on these trains, I thought I might try out the flash and this is the result.
Taken: 26/5/2019
The Mountain Dwellings in Copenhagen. 80 dwellings all facing south with multistorey carpark under. The aluminium plates in the facade form a reproduction of Mount Everest. Awarded best housing project in the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona 2008.
Built: 2008. Architect: BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group, Denmark.
The metro trains are driverless and automatic with panoramic windows in front.
The Dubai Metro is a driverless, fully automated metro rail network in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai.
This public art piece (Trans Am Totem) by Marcus Bowcott, a Vancouver-based artist, is a legacy of the 2014-2016 Vancouver Biennale thanks to a donation from Chip and Shannon Wilson.
If and when the viaducts come down, the piece will likely be moved from its Quebec Street location.
Looks like it might be in for a bit of cleaning with the forklift on site. Its a favourite perch for the rats of the sky and gets covered with pigeon shit.
Trans Am Totem is a 10-meter-high (33-foot), 11,340-kilogram (25,000-pound) sculpture. It is composed of five scrapped cars stacked upon an old growth cedar tree.
The artwork considers our consumer “out with the old, in with the new” culture in relation to the site.
The piece is located in a street triangle at Quebec Street and Milross Avenue in downtown Vancouver.
The SkyTrain is the oldest (1985) and one of the longest automated driverless light rapid transit systems in the world.
The Expo and Millennium SkyTrain Lines connect downtown Vancouver with the cities of Burnaby, New Westminster and Surrey
An evening everyday scene at Crewe station on May 19th 1981. A driverless Class 87 87021 -'Robert the Bruce' was stood with a London Euston to Glasgow Central service, whilst mail bags were being loaded into the Full Brake coach behind the 87, a young spotter complete with a parka jacket and rucksack, was peering through the gap between the BG and the 87 to see what was shunting the mixed rake of vans visible on the right.
87021 had been new from nearby Crewe Works in April 1974, it lasted just over thirty years in service and was scrapped in 2010.
Another exceptionally rare working saw Volvo B7TL/Plaxton President 930 once again escape its usual sphere of operation, and work the 1745 55 from Grantham to Saxby on Friday.
This came about following a number of occurrences which had seen the previous journey cancelled as the driver had to be borrowed to relieve another driver who had fallen ill whilst driving a service on the north side of the network. In the meantime, a bus swap was required elsewhere for various reasons, so for that, the easiest thing to do was take the now-driverless bus which should've been working the 55. All this left the last 55 without a bus and a driver - and when it came to time, with no other drivers available, I popped out the office and used the only vehicle available to get people home - which is, of course, the name of the game!
930 is seen here in Buckminster, having just dropped off the last passenger, and waiting for time before heading onwards. As for the brand name shown on the display, well this one isn't so little, and not so orange!