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We all had to have our nails painted pretty for New Years Eve, here's a photo of the finished product. Fiona has orange with glitter tips, Amaya has purple with glitter tips, Kylia has pink, and mommy has cotton candy pink with glitter tips.
Working the 2R11 Lichfield Trent Valley to Redditch is London Midland Class 323, 323204, seen making a quick stop at Shenstone.
The Class 323's were among the last British Rail designs to be built prior to privatisation of the railways in 1994. The main purpose of such units was to provide ample motive power for the newly electrified Cross-City line from Redditch to Lichfield. During the 1980's the route had undergone many changes in an attempt to improve this busy but highly underfunded commuter link between the north and south of the city of Birmingham.
Prior to the electrification in the early 1990's, Regional Railways operated services using the ageing Class 116 Derby Lightweight units built in 1957. Services were operated hourly and trains were noted for their unpleasant ride and travelling conditions. By a quirk of fate, in order to win a bi-election in Mid-Staffordshire, the Conservative Government promised electrification of the route, complete with new trains and refurbished stations along the line. The go-ahead was given in 1990, and implementation of the wires was carried out between 1991 and 1993, with Redditch, Alvechurch, Aston and Blake Street stations also being rebuilt.
In addition, Regional Railways turned to Hunslet of Leeds for their new units. At the time Hunslet was something of an odd choice seeing as their primary products were the humble shunting engines of the UK industrial world. However, many ex-Metro Cammell engineers and designers were called in by the newly formed Hunslet Transportation to design the 323's. The plan called for 26 sets of three-car trains with a top speed of 90mph. Initial prototypes and mock-ups were tested extensively between 1990 and 1991, before the production fleet was manufactured.
The units were built at Leeds, and began to enter service on the Cross-City route in 1992, displacing the many heritage units operating this route. These units were an immediate success with commuters, gaining a swift reputation for reliability and excellent travel conditions on what was a hugely successful route refurbishment, changing what was an almost forgotten line into one of the most successful commuter chords in Britain. The units also gained a novelty factor with their passenger base due to their very strange three-phase Traction Motor noises that make them sound like an alien spaceship from a 1950's B-Movie!
The popularity of these units resulted in the construction of an extra 17 units for the Manchester area, these being built up until 1995, and put to work on commuter services out of Manchester Piccadilly to Alderley Edge, Stockport, Manchester Airport, and along the former Woodhead Route as far as Glossop and Hadfield. West Yorkshire PTE were also interested in purchasing a set of 14 units for services on the newly electrified Leeds to Skipton and Bradford Line, but instead purchased a selection of heritage Class 308's from the Great Eastern Mainline which provided stop-gaps until the introduction of the Class 333's in 2000.
Since then the Class 323's have proven highly reliable machines in both Manchester and the West Midlands, comfortable, reliable and endlessly flexible for the services they provide. The units have been refurbished numerous times during their years of operation. Today they continue to operate in the areas they worked originally, but plans are in progress by Northern Rail to send their entire fleet of 17 Class 323's south to Birmingham, replacing them with Class 319's being displaced from Thameslink. This will result in all Class 323's being placed in the hands of London Midland, therefore allowing them to create a much more intensive service for the West Midlands operations, which, aside from their Cross-City roots, include trains to Wolverhampton, Walsall and Birmingham International.
This is nothing amazing, jewellery wise. It cost twenty quid. No diamonds, no sapphires, and yet for something so 'unremarkable' in modern terms (no bling, it's simple and tiny and didn't come with a big price tag) it's the most precious thing I own.
My mum bought it and it was too big for her so she handed it to me in 1999 in Oadby Asda car park. And that is exactly what makes it so special; it never leaves my finger and I would be devastated to lose it because it's irreplaceable.
My mum is awesome and I don't tell her or show her that enough.
"Hands" by Christian Moeller, San Jose International Airport. More information about the work and how it was made at the San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs.
analog photomontage.
used camera - Pentacon Six TL.
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Actually I wanted something more in background, i'm not very satisfied with the composition of the photo.
A few months ago I purchased the remote control of self-timer and I am completely satisfied with purchase.
Obviously you're not watching horrible way in which I have given the enamel.
I hope you can spend a long full weekend like will probably be as mine.
Have a nice time to all!
wasnt going to upload this pic but thought id let you know why im not visiting
your streams and commenting as much as id like to....
ive suffered with carpel tunnel for years and its real bad at the mo....
im having to wear hand braces .....to see if they will ease it up...
while i wait to see a specialist to arrange to have the op...
but under the wonderful uk national health system it could be months...
so bear with me and wish me luck....
later im going to post my first pics taken wearing the brace lol....
i dont have to wear them all the time and hopefully it will ease up in a couple of weeks......
A super girlfriend, she is my second hand in this photo
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