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On Sundays down by the canal, Doug and Dave love to ride ‘hands free’ on the locomotive veranda and speed past PC Rob Banks. The driver of the loco crouching down to give the impression of a driverless engine. PC Banks has no jurisdiction over the railway, and anyway at a whopping 17 mph they’re hardly speeding, but it doesn’t stop him waving his arms around whilst shouting ‘you can’t do that’.
They’re having so much fun, this is their fifth run past, and hopefully the over zealous copper will go and do something more worthwhile like apprehend moonshiners or stop Nasal Nigel from messing about in public with sticky objects in his special pocket at the local bus station.
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When you spend more than an hour at the same spot with trains running at a five minute frequency, your shots get pretty repetitive. Thanks to the design of the Kellyville carpark I was able to walk down the spiral and got a wide-angle shot of a Metropolis heading towards Tallawong.
Taken: 30/5/2019
Griffin, Georgia
Well there is actually a driver. It is more like a drone since it is operated with a hand held controller.
Shot with my Fuji K-28 Construction Camera on Portra 400 film. Developed with FPP C-41 kit.
Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London, England, UK
The Docklands Light Railway is an automated 34 km tram network, running on reserved track, with minimal staffing, that opened in 1987. It serves Stratford to Lewisham, north-south, and Bank to Woolwich Arsenal east-west. It runs on 750v DC with the positive supplied by a third rail outside the running track. A central signal cable transmits bidirectional telemetry to the trains.
Within a year of opening, passenger numbers approached 17 million. Today, that is more like 110 million.
The DLR fleet consists of:
22 – 44: Bombardier B90, built in 1991
45 – 91: Bombardier B92, built 1993–1995
92 – 99, 01–16: Bombardier B2K, built 2001–2002
101 –155: Bombadier B07 built 2007–2009
The one shown here is an example of B90 stock.
Signalling and train control is a moving block system developed by Alcatel. The same technology is in use at other mass transit networks worldwide. It is currently employed on the Jubilee and Northern lines of the London Underground. Driverless trains will be the way forward, much to the disgust of the rail unions who wish to maintain drivers' jobs. However, there is still the need for staff to oversee the system, not only at the control centre but also on trains.
Photographic Information
Taken on 27th June, 2016 at 1322hrs with a Canon EOS 650D digital still camera, through a Canon EF-S 18-55mm (29-88mm in 35mm terms) ƒ/3.5-5.6 zoom lens, post processed with Adobe Photoshop CS5.
© Timothy Pickford-Jones 2016
Red light... Stop! Wait... it's a green light... Go! But... what?!?
Lucky for passengers, subway trains on Singapore's North East MRT line that goes through Chinatown are controlled by an automated driverless system - no human error when it comes to interpreting the signals...
According to Terminator lore, SkyNet attained self-consciousness on August 29 1997, and proceeded to wipe out most of the world's human population - remember "I'll be back"? 17 years later, the bots seem to be behaving themselves... for now!
The series 1300 of HTM were ordered in the seventies of the 20th century. Later a second batch came to The Hague, the series 2100. They were simular to the 1300 but they didn't have a cabine for the driver. The front end is the same as the rear end. They operated as cow and calf combinations. Here a pair is seen during the celebration of 150 years of tramway operation in The Netherlands.
De PCC-serie 1300 is in midden jaren 1970 besteld door HTM. Daarna kwam nog de serie 2100, een stuurstandloze versie van de 1300; kop en kont zijn hetzelfde. Deze twee typen reden vaak paarsgewijs. Hier is zo'n koppel te zien bij de viering van 150 jaar tram in Nederland.
"The Nuremberg Palace of Justice (German: Justizpalast) is a building complex in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. It was constructed from 1909 to 1916 and houses the appellate court (Oberlandesgericht), the regional court (Landgericht), the local court (Amtsgericht) and the public prosecutor's office (Staatsanwaltschaft). The Nuremberg Trials Memorial (Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse) is located on the top floor of the courthouse. The International Nuremberg Principles Academy is housed on the ground floor of the east wing since 2020.
The building was chosen as the location of the Nuremberg trials (1945–1949) for the main surviving German war criminals of World War II because it was almost undamaged, was large enough, and included a large prison complex. The choice of the city of Nuremberg was symbolic as the Nazi Party had held its large Nuremberg rallies in the city.
The trials took place in courtroom number 600, situated in the east wing of the palace of Justice. The courtroom was used until 1 March 2020, especially for murder trials. At the end of the Nuremberg Trials the courtroom was refurbished, and is now smaller. A wall that had been removed during the trials in order to create more space was re-erected. In addition, the judges’ bench was turned 90 degrees and is no longer situated in front of the window, but stands where the witness box was placed during the trials.
From the year 2000 on, courtroom 600 could be visited by tourists, during weekends. In December 2008, the courtroom was closed to the public due to construction works creating a permanent exhibition. The Nuremberg Trials Memorial hosted by the Nuremberg Municipal Museums was opened in November 2010. Since 2022, a media installation creates a virtual illusion of the courtroom at the time of the Nuremberg Trials.
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.
A trailing shot of a Chatswood service as it approaches Bella Vista railway station.
Taken: 26/5/2019
The Brecon Mountain Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Mynydd Brycheiniog) is a 1 ft 11 3⁄4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge tourist railway that runs through the Brecon Beacons along the full length of the Pontsticill Reservoir and uphill passing the nearby upper (Pentwyn) reservoir to Torpantau. It is located three miles north of Merthyr Tydfil.
A narrow gauge railway (or narrow gauge railroad) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) of standard gauge railways. Most existing narrow gauge railways are between 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) and 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm).
The line runs along part of the trackbed of the northern section of the former standard gauge Brecon and Merthyr Railway from Pant to a new station at Torpantau, via Pontsticill and Dolygaer Loop, over a total of 5 miles (8.0 km)s in length.
With this, it has taken it just short of the southern entrance to the 667yd long Torpantau tunnel, the highest railway tunnel in Great Britain, that carried the original line through the hills along the side of Glyn Collwn to Brecon.
One of the benefits of the line, and a condition of the planning permission, is that tourists can access and experience remote parts of the Brecon Beacons National Park without driving their cars through it. Car parking for railway passengers is only available at Pant Station, outside the National Park.
The railway is a member of the Great Little Trains of Wales.
This locomotive No.2 was built by Baldwin of Philadelphia, USA in 1930, (No. 61269) for the Eastern Province Cement Co. Port Elizabeth, South Africa where it spent all its working life hauling limestone. In 1974 it ran away driverless de-railed and was wrecked. It was treated as an accident write-off by the South African insurers and was purchased by Brecon Mountain Railway as salvage. Shipped back to the UK as deck cargo to Liverpool, rebuilt at Pant between 1993 and 1997 this 4-6-2 tender locomotive weighs 47 tons and is capable of hauling the heaviest trains to Torpantau.
The Brecon Beacons National Park was established in 1957, the third of the three Welsh parks after Snowdonia in 1951 and the Pembrokeshire Coast in 1952. It stretches from Llandeilo in the west to Hay-on-Wye in the northeast and Pontypool in the southeast, covering 519 square miles (1344 km², 332 100 acres) and encompassing four main regions - the Black Mountain in the west, Fforest Fawr (Great Forest) and the Brecon Beacons in the centre, and the confusingly named Black Mountains in the east. The western half gained European and Global status in 2005 as Fforest Fawr Geopark. This includes the Black Mountain, the historic extent of Fforest Fawr, and much of the Brecon Beacons and surrounding lowlands.
The entire National Park achieved the status of being an International Dark Sky Reserve in February 2013.
Most of the National Park is bare, grassy moorland grazed by Welsh mountain ponies and Welsh mountain sheep, with scattered forestry plantations, and pasture in the valleys. It is known for its remote reservoirs, waterfalls including the 90 foot (or 27 metre) Henrhyd Waterfall and the falls at Ystradfellte, and its caves, such as Ogof Ffynnon Ddu. The Brecon Beacons Mountain Centre was opened in 1966 to help visitors understand and enjoy the area.
Activities in the Park include walking, cycling, mountain biking, horse riding, as well as sailing, windsurfing, canoeing and fishing, rock climbing, hang-gliding, caravanning, camping and caving. A long-distance cycling route, the Taff Trail, passes over the Beacons on its way from Brecon to Cardiff, and in 2005 the first walk to span the entire length of the Brecon Beacons National Park was opened. The 100-mile (160 km) route, called the Beacons Way, runs from the foot of Ysgyryd Fawr east of Abergavenny and ends in the village of Bethlehem in Carmarthenshire.
Due to the relative remoteness and harsh weather of some of its uplands, the Park is used for military training. UK Special Forces, including the SAS and SBS hold demanding selection training exercises here, such as an exercise called the Fan dance. The infantry regiments of the British Army train at Sennybridge, where NCO selection also takes place.
In 2006 and 2007, controversy surrounded the government decision to build the South Wales Gas Pipeline through the Park, the National Park Authority calling the decision a “huge blow”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brecon_Mountain_Railway
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow_gauge_railway
A driverless Plaxton President bodied Dennis Trident,ofTravel West Midlands,stands outside the Bullring shopping mall at Birmingham,assigned to route 37.
If I can obtain a duplicate model in my collection cheaply, I'll usually do a bit of detailing, mainly adding passengers and a driver as there's nothing worse than having a layout / diorama with driverless buses. I'll keep the as issued version for depot scenes and the ones with figures added to be dotted out and about working for a living.
This is the Wright Eclipse Gemini in First Leicester guise that was issued in Corgi's OM99186 A Route Through Time (Corgi 50th Anniversary Gift Set) set that comprised of aUnited Welsh Bristol Lodekka FS, this Gemini, and Northampton Corporation Daimler CVG6. This model was purchased separate split from the set and has had the figures added to it.
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.
@Wikipedia
A short handheld long exposure of the viaduct that spans between Bella Vista and Tallawong.
Taken: 26/5/2019
Bohn was a Detroit-based manufacturer of metals and alloys with a reputation for union-bashing. In the 1940s they invested heavily in a long series of adverts that looked forward to a future utopia where human ingenuity would triumph over the constraints of space, time and gravity, grandly presented in full page and full colour streamlined visions. The presiding genius behind the campaign was local illustrator, Arthur Radebaugh (1906-74) who described a world where monorails, flying cars and torpedo-shaped ocean liners battled the elements to conquer time and space. It was an ingenious effort to combine the after-imagery of the Streamline era with the galactic vision of Astounding Science Fiction to project forward into an imagined future of unlimited connectivity. Vast aviation hubs, multi-level cities, high speed trains, towering cruise ships and driverless cars have all, to some degree come to pass - only the monorail has stubbornly failed to catch on. Later attention turned to more prosaic consumer products (lawnmowers, telephones, motorcycles, kitchen storage). It seems that Radebaugh himself already inhabited the future he was busy imagining for the rest of us. He would travel the nation in a 1959 Ford Econoline van that he had customised into a mobile studio complete with futuristic styling. As for Bohn, post-War optimism decayed into anti-Communist paranoia, shelling out for ads that would tear the mask of peace from the hard vicious face of Communism.
Date: 16-08-2019
Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park station, Essen, Germany
Ruhrbahn 5226 in the futuristic station Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park in the north of Essen. The station opened in 2001. It is called on by U11 and U17. 5226 is a former London Docklands light railway vehicle. Built in 1989, they came to Essen in 1996 (nos 12 and 21). 20 trams in total came to Essen and were rebuilt before use, including installing of driving cabs (Docklands used driverless system) and pantographs.
Unbeknown to him, a loan passenger runs to catch a driverless GMPTE 5890 on a quiet day in Stockport Bus Station in April 1981. The bus, an East Lancs bodied Leyland PD3/14 had been new to Stockport Corporation in January 1969. It's incredible to think that half-cab, exposed radiator front engined buses, with rear open platforms were still being produced at the end of the 1960s, but what a handsome looking vehicle it is.
The Bus Station had not long been rebuilt in 1981 and still as an air of newness about it, however, plastering part of the of the blue-bricked viaduct in concrete was just plain wrong and looked awful to my eyes.
15th April 1981.
A few happy snaps taken on a very quick visit to the new Sydney Metro which opened on 26 May 2019. First use of driverless trains in a passenger environment in Australia and first use of platform screen doors.
This is the terminus of the line at Tallawong.
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Bohn was a Detroit-based manufacturer of metals and alloys with a reputation for union-bashing. In the 1940s they invested heavily in a long series of adverts that looked forward to a future utopia where human ingenuity would triumph over the constraints of space, time and gravity, grandly presented in full page and full colour streamlined visions. The presiding genius behind the campaign was local illustrator, Arthur Radebaugh (1906-74) who described a world where monorails, flying cars and torpedo-shaped ocean liners battled the elements to conquer time and space. It was an ingenious effort to combine the after-imagery of the Streamline era with the galactic vision of Astounding Science Fiction to project forward into an imagined future of unlimited connectivity. Vast aviation hubs, multi-level cities, high speed trains, towering cruise ships and driverless cars have all, to some degree come to pass - only the monorail has stubbornly failed to catch on. Later attention turned to more prosaic consumer products (lawnmowers, telephones, motorcycles, kitchen storage). It seems that Radebaugh himself already inhabited the future he was busy imagining for the rest of us. He would travel the nation in a 1959 Ford Econoline van that he had customised into a mobile studio complete with futuristic styling. As for Bohn, post-War optimism decayed into anti-Communist paranoia, shelling out for ads that would tear the mask of peace from the hard vicious face of Communism.
Saw this in Coventry.
The new electric version of the iconic 'London Taxi' being road tested in Coventry city centre.
Pretty sure this model is known as the TX5, built by LEVC (formerly LTI, someone bought them out)
I think the driver is hidden behind the window pillar in this shot - we ain't got driverless taxis just yet!
Also, a hairdressing/phone shop combo??!
The distinctive Kobe Ohashi (bridge) supports a double-deck, four-lane highway, train (driverless) line and pedestrian access connecting the city with the reclaimed Port Island. Constructed in steel this through arch-style structure spans 522m.
"Four-story sandstone block building in a corner location with gables, a two-story, three-sided floor bay window and a three-story corner choir with an onion dome, rich in Neo-Renaissance forms, marked “1894.”
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.
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last Friday we took Elsie out for the day and took a trip on the DLR. A driverless train, and Elsie being savvy saw us at the front as pretend drivers. Elsie took control of the camera and I steadied Elsie and we consulted as to what to take. We saw this train coming towards us, hence the now, now . . . NoW
‘Scene’ at ‘Coach & Bus UK19’ Part 3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
It took me a while out work out that ‘Autonomous Technology’ means that the bus can navigate its way around without the need for a driver.
Working within a fenced area with a van parked fairly awkwardly it quite happily navigated its way round the circuit without fuss or hesitation.
It looks like an ordinary bus but there are number of sensors and
‘black boxes’ (painted dark blue) particularly at the front.
According to one of the team with the bus. The technology is particularly useful in the depot where at night, the bus can park itself up without the occasional scratch or scrape it might acquire with a human driver.
I think that we are a still long way from regularly catching a driverless bus to the shops but I think that it is coming.
Detail of the front panel showing some of the control sensors etc.
More tomorrow!
Seventeen new trains will be built: these will feature the potential for driverless operation, as well as wider gangways for wheelchairs. The new trains will be the same length and size as the current trains, but will be made up of 4 carriages rather than the present
Corsa in tarda mattinata da Lodi verso Pantano, in entrata a Torrenova.
PS: perdonate la nuvola inopportuna.
A late morning service from Lodi to Pantano, approaching Torrenova.
PS: sorry for the unwanted cloud.
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:
Taken with my digital Fujifilm X20
"Come gather 'round people where ever you roam
... For the times they are a' changin'! "
Coming to London in a few months,
and soon after that Austin, Texas
and other cities
Illustration from
New Scientist, 14 May 2016
Aerial view of a Sydney Metro service from Sydenham to Tallawong via Central Station departs Bella Vista on Nov 8, 2024.
(24W.0057_BellVistaDepartWt)
A driverless Alexander ALX 400 bodied Dennis Trident of Stagecoach London,sits at Bromley North,ready to work service 269 to Bexleyheath.
Byton Semi-Autonomous Electric Vehicle.
Produced in China (not yet available in North America or Europe)
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
If I can obtain a duplicate model in my collection cheaply, I'll usually do a bit of detailing, mainly adding passengers and a driver as there's nothing worse than having a layout / diorama with driverless buses. I'll keep the as issued version for depot scenes and the ones with figures added to be dotted out and about working for a living.
This is EFE 28817, A Leyland Titan in London Buses livery which has benefited from a driver and passengers being added.
Having pulled into a designated stop, the autonomous electric bus being trialled in Dunedin FL by Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority steers its way back into the Douglas Street thoroughfare.
"The city walls are the medieval defensive mechanism surrounding the old city of Nuremberg, Germany. Construction started in the 12th century and ended officially in the 16th century. They measured 5 kilometers (with about 4 kilometers still standing) around the old town. The Nuremberg Castle together with the city wall is meant to be one of Europe's most considerable medieval defensive systems.
The city wall is one of the most important art and architectural monuments in the city of Nuremberg. In the north, the extensive castle complex is fully integrated into the fortification.
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.
A rare appearance only because of the abominable amount of traffic everywhere…
This bus, whilst the display board is blank, showed “25 Basildon Bus Station (ON DIVERSION).”
Because everywhere today has been completely gridlocked, especially the A127, 33574 decided to divert along the A13 to join on at Rayleigh High Street, where it could continue as normal.
It left Southend at 16:50, and ended up getting to Rayleigh Weir at 17:55, when it was due at the Travellers Joy at 17:35. However, as per bustimes.org, it made it to Basildon only 2 minutes late.
Elsewhere, c2c also experienced problems, with a signal fault at Shoebury leaving 4 trains driverless at Fenchurch Street at 17:30. Absolutely fantastic.
‘Scene’ at ‘Coach & Bus UK19’ Part 3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
It took me a while out work out that ‘Autonomous Technology’ means that the bus can navigate its way around without the need for a driver.
Working within a fenced area with a van parked fairly awkwardly it quite happily navigated its way round the circuit without fuss or hesitation.
It looks like an ordinary bus but there are number of sensors and
‘black boxes’ (painted dark blue) particularly at the front.
According to one of the team with the bus. The technology is particularly useful in the depot where at night, the bus can park itself up without the occasional scratch or scrape it might acquire with a human driver.
I think that we are a still long way from regularly catching a driverless bus to the shops but I think that it is coming.
More tomorrow!
"Look - no driver!"
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
I have been a bit remiss about uploading this set of photos. They are images I've captured myself, and turned from still driverless cars, into action induced comic scenes. The general inspiration was my enjoyment of Initial D, the anime series. They bare resemblance to the manga of the series aswell. I'd love to start doing more, for each of my photoshoots. Let me know what you think of them, and if I should continue. Please share them if you like them! Thank you!