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Guide Bridge. A few months before I joined the railways. Ended up working with Ken a few times, and have the odd pint with him. His nickname was 'The Destroyer', not because of driving technique or any incident - he was always 'after a sub'!
I think the type 2 is 25197, not that it matters at this distance! Ken is the main subject! He suffered from the right hand 'iron claw' from many years driving the Hadfield units with their awful deadman's device in the power handle.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
作者： 道格拉斯‧亞當斯 Douglas Noël Adams
譯者：丁世佳
出版社：木馬文化
出版日期：2016/02/03
一齣單純的科幻廣播喜劇，如何紅到所有人期待它的續集——
★出版3個月內狂銷25萬本
★Google的加州總部取名自它
★IBM的超級電腦命名繆思
★Siri用它回答永恆的大哉問
★英國BBC「大閱讀」票選百本最受讀者喜愛的小說第四名（僅落後《魔戒》等、打敗《哈利波特4》）
★圖書館把它列為青少年必讀書單……
【暢銷的誕生】
年輕時帶著「歐洲便車指南」遊歐洲結果大迷路的道格拉斯‧亞當斯（被書迷暱稱DNA），有天喝醉了躺在路邊的草地上，看著天空胡思亂想：如果有一天要到銀河去旅遊，也該要有一本旅遊指南吧，所以創作了這系列的小說。
【史上最暢銷書籍簡介】
《銀河便車指南》：不是地球上的書，從來沒在地球出版過，即便如此，這不只是本極為出色的書，同時也是超級暢銷書——《銀河便車指南》已經取代了偉大的《大銀河百科全書》，成為所有知識和智慧的標準寶庫；雖然它有不少疏漏和謬誤，卻仍在兩處要點上勝過那陳舊且乏味的大百科。第一，它稍稍便宜一點點；第二，它的封面上有兩個友善的大字：別慌。
○貼心的叮嚀：
印著「別慌」（Don’t Panic）的小儀器，當然就是電子書了！整個宇宙這麼大，如果印成書，那會是好幾棟房子那麼多的書；因此「別慌」也很貼切，在陌生的國度與星球，不管發生什麼事——都不要慌。
【故事大綱】
福特•派法特（Ford Prefect）是一位漫遊研究員，來自參宿四附近的小行星，受僱於《銀河便車指南》——如今他已受困於地球15年，直到某天，為了興建一條超空間快速通道，渥罡人受命負責摧毀地球（編按：這場景是否很似曾相識？），福特終於藉機搭上渥罡人的便車，順便救走了他的地球朋友亞瑟•丹特。
脾氣不好的渥罡人發現了兩個不請自來的搭便車客，決定將兩人從太空船拋出氣閘——一般人在真空的環境下，無法存活超過三十秒，而在三十秒被另一艘太空船救起的機會更是數億萬分之一——前一刻剛偷走了以突破非或然率技術打造的太空船「黃金之心」的銀河總統柴法德•癟頭士和他的地球女朋友崔莉恩，剛巧駛經並救起了兩人。
四人駕著「黃金之心」朝傳說的星球馬格西亞出發。傳說中，馬格西亞是個替富人興建人造星球的星球，然而宇宙經濟過度膨脹，引發全宇宙的經濟破產（編按：這場景是否又很似曾相識？），馬格西亞的生意亦因此一落千丈，從此成為傳說。
亞瑟•丹特在馬格西亞上得知，地球其實只是一個實驗：在許多百萬年前，老鼠這種超智慧生物建造了一部超級電腦「深思」，想知道「生命、宇宙及萬事萬物」的終極答案是什麼；經過一段長時間的計算，深思告訴老鼠的後人，答案是42——「深思」解釋，它只能計算出答案是什麼，但答案的原因必須由另一部更高智能的電腦負責解釋——而該部電腦就是地球。
在計算出「原因」前的5分鐘，地球卻被渥罡人毀滅了、全部資料銷毀——老鼠認為僅有的資料寄存在最後離開地球的亞瑟•丹特腦中，於是決定打起亞瑟•丹特的腦的主意……
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One of several former SYPTE Roe bodied Atlanteans used on Guide Friday's Airport Express service which ran from 1992 - 1996 initially with various former Nottingham Atlanteans, then SYPTE Atlanteans, and finally some former London Titans. Although the Nottingham buses were afforded 'proper' single door conversions with a window and seats, the SYPTE and London buses, including this one, had the door panelled over and a leaflet rack fitted between the door bulkheads.
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Driving towards Kerala, we were passing Bandipur forest. Just then I saw this streak of light and could not help reverse the car to capture this. I was lucky with a group of tourists stopped right in the path of the sunlight...
This little Chipping Sparrow was my trail guide for the day. He would fly from Trail marker to Trail maker. When I got closer off he would go to the next marker.
Southeastern, Connecticut
May 17, 1997. Foldout cover (pieced together from two scans). Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny, Nicholas Lea, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Dean Haglund, Bruce Harwood, Chris Carter, and Tom Braldwood of Fox's "The X-Files."
Some 'sad bags' on the quayside, the exec case (containing timetable, notes and four cans of beer) is mine! Just arrived at Mallaig by train from Glasgow and about to board this on the twice weekly direct service to Kyle that meant you could do the Mallaig line and the Kyle line in one day!
tenugui guide: cute, fun, new, welcome to 'the world of tenugui'
this is a sweet little guide to tenugi towels made by many different designers and companies. it includes photos of the towel's designs, as well as projects you can make using the towels, and ingenious ways to use and fold them. there is also a guide to shops the sell tenugui towels, with their address and websites. all text is in japanese, but you can thuroughly enjoy this book through the pictures.
Gas filling station. Zabolotiv, Ukraine.
SLR Camera: Minolta Dynax 404si
Lens: Minolta Maxxum AF 50mm f1.7 RS
Film: Kodak ColorPlus 200
Filter: Hoya UV(0)
Film was processed and scanned by "Mark" Studio Lab. in Chernivtsi. I am happy with the results.
To see the pictures taken with this camera click here.
Thank you for your comments and Fav's.
The snap is none too good but is evidence that there was once a frequent (possibly hourly) service between Stockport and Stalybridge, calling Reddish South, Denton and Guide Bridge stations on the way.
For many years between the 1960s and 1980s two-car dmus were frequently to be found on this service. Here one such 2-car set comes under the wires of the 1500v dc Woodhead route as it crosses Stockport Junction (signal box in the background) to enter Guide Bridge station before heading off via Guide Bridge North to Stalybridge.
Guide Bridge overview with Class's 25 & 76 on view. 17th August 1974. The back end of 76032 is just getting into shot with an unidentified white roofed 76 behind it and 76010 to the right of that. The two 25's and the 76 to the left of them remain unidentified.
Originally known as "Ashton and Hooley Hill", it was renamed "Ashton" in February 1842 and became "Guide Bridge" in July 1845. It was built by the Sheffield, Ashton-Under-Lyne and Manchester Railway on its new line from Ardwick Junction, near to the Manchester and Birmingham Railway's terminus at Store Street, (now Piccadilly) to Sheffield, opening on 11th November, 1841 as far as Godley Toll Bar and finally reaching Sheffield on 14th July, 1845.
The station originally had a 4 platform configuration with a large office on the southern side. However, this (along with 2 platforms and associated tracks) was removed after the 1980s. Today the area has been covered and used as access for the southern platform, but some evidence remains of the previous 2 tracks.
With the electrification of the Manchester–Sheffield (via Woodhead) line in the early 1950s, Guide Bridge, already a major centre of railway operations, increased in importance. Express trains called here, as well as EMU trains between Manchester London Road and the north Derbyshire towns of Glossop and Hadfield. There were also Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) services from Manchester London Road (Piccadilly) to Macclesfield, Stockport Edgeley to Stalybridge and to Oldham (via the Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge Railway, which closed to passengers in 1959).
The station was also where Express Trains to and from Manchester Central on the London Marylebone route, changed locomotive. Drawn by a Bo-Bo or Co-Co Electric Locomotive from Sheffield, a Steam or in later years Diesel Locomotive would take the train the final few miles to Manchester Central and vice versa. The Woodhead Line was busy with freight traffic, especially with coal traffic from South Yorkshire to Lancashire power stations. The station also accepted freight under British Railways "Passenger" freight service and had a licensed Buffet.
There was a large marshalling yard about a mile east of Guide Bridge at Dewsnap. There was also a stabling point immediately to the east of Guide Bridge station where engines could be fuelled. Guide Bridge was also where the local Retail Coal Merchants transferred Coal from British Rail Coal wagons, carefully weighed into One Hundredweight sacks for delivery to homes around Ashton, Audenshaw and Denton. Express passenger trains via the Woodhead line ceased operation on 5 January 1970, but Dewsnap sidings and Guide Bridge stabling point were busy until the final closure of the Woodhead Line (east of Hadfield) on 20 July 1981. The Class 76 electric locomotives were a frequent sight here, along with Class 25, Class 40 and numerous others classes of diesels.
The former TransPennine Express operator, Arriva Trains Northern, had plans to establish Guide Bridge as a major interchange station, coupled with hopes that the Woodhead line might re-open. Such aspirations seem to have fallen by the wayside, however, since First/Keolis took over the TransPennine Express franchise
On 22nd October, 2006 a fire gutted the waiting room, footbridge and ticket office. The fire has subsequently been attributed to arson and caused around £1m of damage to the station, necessitating the demolition of the footbridge. This has not been rebuilt, necessitating a lengthy walk out of the station and along the adjacent main road to change platforms.
January 21, 1984. Pat Sajak of NBC's "Wheel of Fortune"; Monty Hall; Bob Barker of CBS's "The Price Is Right"; Jack Barry of the syndicated "The Joker's Wild"; Bill Cullen of NBC's "Hot Potato"; Wink Martindale of the syndicated "Tic Tac Dough."
Ginger turned out to be unsuitable as an assistance dog so I've been allocated Marley as one of my sponsored guide dogs in training now.
Killing time on a Sunday ballast, we had an 08 shunter, so the rail was more comfortable than sitting on the loco! Note Frank is sitting on his 'driver's cloth'! Had many a pint with this gent in my first years at Guide Bridge.
TV Guide wrapped up 1969 with a look back at that year's TV events. Among those mentioned were Nixon sworn in as 37th President, Eisenhower's funeral, Smother's Brother's last show, Armstrong's first step on the moon, Senator Kennedy's talk about the Chappaquiddick incident, NY Met's 5 game victory, Seseme Street's debut, Angnew's attack on news commentaries.