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As part of a shuffle round, that usually occurs whenever new vehicles arrive in the region, Grimsby is set to loose its five 'Interconnect' branded Scania/Enviro 400s during August. Mansfield received 11 new Enviro 400 MMCs for its Chesterfield-Nottingham 'Pronto' route back in May, which has seen 5 Enviro 300s released to Grimsby. These will replace 5 of the Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse-Urban vehicles, which will be branded up for the Interconnect routes enabling the Scania E400s to be replaced.
The first Urban to be repainted, 21270 (DK09 GYE), is seen parked on Grimsby depot on 6th August 2018.
The five E300s are now starting to enter traffic following repaint at Lincoln, with 27762-765/781 all moving across.
New to First Potteries, as their 69494, in 2009.
Interconnecting webs, angles, linear, twists and turns - but it all leads to the same place.
It's what you do with it that matters.
YX67VCO - ADL Trident 2 / ADL Enviro 400MMC
Stagecoach East Midland (Gainsborough) 10901 .
InterConnect service 100 Gainsborough to Scunthorpe.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 19196, a 2007 ADL Enviro 400, was seen in Lincoln City Centre, whilst operating a service 56 to Skegness. The destination blind was presumably broken, so this carried a paper blind. New to Stagecoach North East.
Stagecoach Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban 21224 AE09GYU is pictured at The Trolleybus Museum at Sandtodt during their Isle of Axholme Running Day & Rally in InterConnect version of the current livery on October 15th 2023.
And another Interconnect E400, these where intended to replace all vykings earlier this year. 4 of the the original Skegness vykings are still around, 2 in reserve at Scunthorpe and 2 in service at Scunthorpe. the rest are awaiting scrap.
After seeing it arrive down Broadgate on the 53A, I headed over to the bus station to catch another view of TwoFifty branded 26271 on the 53, and bumped into Lincs Trainspotter who was there for the same reason.
The blind on the MMC wasn't being friendly to my camera, so I had to reduce the shutter speed significantly for it to come out properly - slightly overexposing the rest of the photo. Photoshop fixes that to an extent, but it still looks slightly soft-focus.
The day before I uploaded this photo another TwoFifty MMC came into Lincoln with a 53A, but the weather was bad so I didn't go looking for it. It would have only looked like this one except with the fleet number ending '68' and considerably more wet.
15.6.23
NK57DWV Dennis Trident 2/Alexander Enviro 400.
Stagecoach East Midlands (Skegness) 19209.
Transfered from Walkergate, Newcastle in May 2020 and resprayed in Inter Connect livery but never received any logo.
Seen in Mablethorpe.
Gainsborough Enviro 400 MMC, normally on InterConnect service 100, is on loan to Skegness depot. It is seen leaving Lincoln bus station on 9.12.22 with a 56.
Stagecoach East Midlands - InterConnect liveried - Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 - FX12 BBN seen at King's Lynn Transport Interchange operating service 505 to Spalding Bus Station on May 27th 2025
Stagecoach east Midlands Envrio 400 19194 at Skegness interchange along with Stagecoach east 10870 from Peterborough on service X12 which was it's last week of operation for 2022 . Taken 29/08/2022
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
Oh dear, this was rushed. This was photographed just before i rode the bus to Immingham, i could've angled this better. I remember riding one of these eclipses last year, when one was on loan for Hull Fair, and they didn't disappoint.
Seen at Grimsby is 21273, a 2009 Wright Eclipse Urban new to First Chester numbered 69497, it was sold to Stagecoach in 2013 and transferred to Grimsby in 2016. This was given IC branding in 2019.
Here's one of the normal short 100s I tend to see leaving Lincoln around the early evening time, worked as it usually is by one of the InterConnect branded YX67 Enviro 400 MMCs. 10899 makes slow progress along Newland in among the bridge diversion traffic on 21.6.21
Stagecoach East Midlands 11742 is turning into Skegness Bus Station. It is an Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC which was new to Stagecoach Manchester in November 2023. It was transferred to Stagecoach East Midlands in January 2025 and has been repainted in the latest version of 'InterConnect' livery.
The busy market town of Spilsby lies on the southern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds and here we see Stagecoach Wright bodied Volvo B7TL type number 16940 as it passes along the B1195 whilst heading for the Market Place bus stop with the above Lincoln to Skegness journey on InterConnect service 56. There is quite a lot to see in this shot including, from left to right as we look, the Post Office, the George Hotel and the tower of Spilsby Church which is dedicated to St James.
Stagecoach East Midlands Dennis Trident/Alexander ALX400 18392 (YN55 ZZG), is seen at Riverhead Exchange in Grimsby on 8th December 2017.
Working 'Interconnect' 53 to Lincoln via Market Rasen.
New to Stagecoach Grimsby Cleethorpes during 2005. This is currently based out of Lincoln depot, having left Grimsby nearly 18 months ago.
Arriving here from Scunthorpe and Gainsborough is InterConnect MMC 10897. You can easily see in this view that the interior is the standard Stagecoach rancid blue and vile orange which, although probably comfy with the high backed seats, doesn't match with the exterior at all.
As far as I can remember, the 'new' interior to go with the new livery isn't so bad, but since they aren't updating vehicle interiors with each repaint I doubt we'll be seeing the new interior around here for a while.
16.11.20
Now here was my very first sighting of an InterConnect Eclipse 2 - and the new 2023 InterConnect livery as a whole. During its initial stint at Scunthorpe, largely unbranded 21224 brings a 103 into Lincoln down Pelham Street on 21.9.23
The roof has a great "ran out of paint" look to it, complete with some original busway livery showing.
AE09 GYU
NK57DWO and NK57DVY Alexander Dennis Trident 2/ ADL Enviro 400.
Stagecoach East Midland(Skegness) 19207 and 19195.
Interconnect livery.
It was raining, the town centre was starting to look empty, all the shops and buses where packed- you can just tell this was a rushed photo. I think these are the only InterConnect branded single deckers in the Stagecoach fleet. These replaced scanias for use on the 51 and 53 in 2018, let's be real here- they are never on said routes. These always do town services.
Seen ready to do a 9 to Pleasure Island is wright eclipse urban, 21270.
InterConnect 100s will typically wait outside Lincoln railway station and are usually operated by the batch of Enviro 400 MMCs that live at Gainsborough. This time around it's 10898 seen on St Mary's Street on 25.2.21
16944 is parked at the back of Lincoln bus station on 9.4.21 having run in on a 56. I think at the moment Lincoln still have this vehicle in their depot after they pinched it from Skeg, but after a couple of days it had in service with Lincoln it doesn't appear to have been out again.
(sod that it's 16939 that Lincoln have got)
If you look at the radiator grille you can see the remains of the old yellow and green Coastal Connect livery.
For a few days in a row there was a 'peak time' around 17:20 to 17:40 where several things would happen in a short space of time, with Stagecoach workings from other depots showing up (56, 100, 103, 107 and a NIS Gainsborough decker), the arrival of a Brylaine IC5, an Andrew's rail replacement, a JBT rail replacement, a couple of PC Coaches movements including one of their coaches over the flyover, two eastbound intermodal trains, an eastbound EMR unit plus all the variety that the standard Stagecoach Lincoln buses provided. I went out to get as much as I could each day, but with so much going on I never managed to get everything! Still, for the next couple of uploads I bring you what I caught amidst Lincoln's public transport 'rush hour'.
Gemini 16939 departs Lincoln bus station on 17.3.21 with a 56 to Horncastle and Skegness. It had what is likely to be an exhaust fault - maybe a muffler with holes in - which I've only ever heard Geminis do, so they have a bass-like roar upon acceleration. Had a go at filming it but it didn't work out too well in the end.
As one of the showpiece main rooms of Billilla mansion when male guests came to call, the billiard room is one of the grandest rooms in the house. With an interconnecting door between it and the adjoining dining room, whilst the women retired to the feminine surrounds of the drawing room, the men could retreat to this strictly male preserve with their brandy and cigars and discuss business over a game or two of billiards.
Although part of the original 1878 house and featuring some High Victorian detailing, the billiard room did not escape the 1907 redecoration, and as a result it also features some very fine Art Nouveau detailing.
The Billilla billiards room is also one of the most intact rooms in the whole house, as it still features its original and ornate Victorian carpet and the original walnut Alcock and Company billiard table and scoreboard.
A very masculine oriented room, the walls feature Victorian era dark wood dado panelling about a third of the way up the walls. Above that the walls are simply painted, and even to this day they still feature marks where chalked cues once rested. Original ornate Victorian gasoliers that could be swiveled into position still jut from the walls above the dado panelling. With their original fluted glass shades remaining in place, the gasoliers still have functioning taps to increase or decrease the gas supply.
The room is heated by a large fireplace featuring an insert of beautiful tube lined Art Nouveau peacock feathers, once again quietly underlining the fact that this is a man's room.
The Victorian era carpet of the billiard room is still bright and in remarkably good condition for its age. It is thick and dyed in bright colours in a pattern designed to imitate ornate floor tiles.
The ceiling of the billiard room is decorated with ornate stylised foliate Art Nouveau patterns and mouldings of leaves. Whilst Art Nouveau is often referred to as a feminine style, the ceiling of the billiard room shows how when applied in a particular way it could also be very strong and masculine.
Suspended over the walnut Alcock and Company billiard table the gleaming polished brass foliate style gasolier has subsequently been electrified and features five of its six green glass shades.
One of the few more feminine touches to what is otherwise a very masculine room are the stained glass lunettes over the billiard room's three windows. In keeping with other original windows of the house, they feature a single flower, in this case a red tulip.
Alcock and Company Manufacturers was established in 1853 when Melbourne was still a very new city of less than twenty years old. they still manufacture billiard tables from their Malvern establishment today.
Built in High Victorian style in 1878 for successful gold miner Robert Wright, Billilla mansion was originally a thirteen room mansion erected on seven and a half acres of land.
When economic boom turned to bust in the 1880s, the property was purchased in 1888 by wealthy New South Wales pastoralist William Weatherly who named it Billilla after his land holdings and established a home there for his wife Jeannie and their children Violet, Gladys and Lionel.
The house was substantially altered by architect Walter Richmond Butler in 1907, extending the house beyond its original thirteen rooms and adding the Art Nouveau façade seen today.
After William Weatherly's death in 1914, his wife, who was much younger, remained living there until her own death in 1933. She bequeathed the property to her daughter, Violet, who maintained the home with reduced staff until her own death in 1972.
The property was purchased in 1973 by the Bayside Council who subsequently used Billilla as a historical house with guided tours, a wedding and events venue, a school and finally in 2009 as an artist's precinct in the property's outbuildings. Billilla is a beautiful heritage property retaining many of its original features thanks to its long private ownership still incorporating a stately formal garden and the magnificent historic house.
Billilla, at 26 Halifax Street, Brighton, is one of Melbourne’s few remaining significant homesteads, built on land which had originally been owned by Nicholas Were. The house has a mixture of architectural styles, featuring a Victorian design with Art Nouveau features and has exquisite formal gardens, which retain much of their original Nineteenth Century layout.
Billilla retains many original Victorian elements and a number of outbuildings still stand to the rear of the property including the butler’s quarters, dairy, meat house, stable garden store and coach house.
Billilla was opened to the general public as part of the Melbourne Open House weekend 2022.
Billilla was used as a backdrop in the 1980 Australian Channel 10 miniseries adaptation of Sumner Locke Elliott's "Water Under the Bridge". It was used at the Sydney harbourside home of Luigi, Honor and Carrie Mazzini.
I forgot I still had several of Gainsborough's 55 plate ALX400s to spot, although somehow I still remembered I need their 05 plate. So when I saw this was a 55 plate I assumed I'd already got a photo of it before, but I was wrong and this is actually my first 'spot' of 18335. Had I known at the time I'd have taken a moment to walk down the road and get a better picture, but this will have to do for now.
Also never realised how much of a slope this road has until now.
St Mary's Street, Lincoln
16.1.21
While Skegness was busy churning out a miserable looking ALX400 for their InterConnect route to Lincoln, Gainsborough were doing a bit better with one of their 67 plate E400 MMCs on the 100 to Scunthorpe.
Sure, I'd still take an ALX over any sort of Enviro, but I bet the passengers for the 56 would be a bit annoyed if they learned the bus on the relatively comparable 100 was 11 years newer, much cleaner, had high-backed seating and was better presented overall.
18416 and 10897 are side by side at Lincoln bus station on 21.11.20
A warren of interconnecting beautiful narrow streets greets you in Rhodes old town, Greece.
A child plays whilst her Grandmother looks on.
New to Lincolnshire Roadcar in 2004, this East Lancs Volvo is seen at work carrying the Interconnect version of Stagecoach livery.
I quite like how this turned out actually...
The blind showed and it shows its horrible new livery, if i've not bragged about this new livery enough lmao.
Seen leaving Lincoln bus station is E300 27636 on a 53 to Market Rasen, then Grimsby.
Repainted in 'InterConnect' livery but without branding, Stagecoach East Midlands 15652 stands in March town centre on service 56 to Wisbech. It is a Scania N230UD with Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodywork, new in 2010 and fitted with high-backed seats.
YJ05 JXD leaves Lincoln for Boston empty on 9.4.21
I don't know if the InterConnect routes are run commercially or if they are a Lincolnshire County Council contract fulfilled by Stagecoach and Brylaine, but Stagecoach get away with using 67 plate double deckers on the 100 and Brylaine always use lightweight Optares.
Optare Tempo YJ57 EGY makes its way around Lincoln bus station as it sets off on its journey to Boston on the InterConnect 5, complete with 'low floor bus every time' sticker to reassure passengers Brylaine aren't going to unexpectedly spring a 25 year old Volvo B10M on them one day.
26.4.21
Skegness InterConnect 56 comes face-to-face with Gainsborough InterConnect 100 at the entrance to Lincoln bus station on 13.7.21 - not that there really was any real facing-off to be done; the 100 went in and the 56 followed it.
Vehs 16939 & 10899
I believe this is one of Gainsborough's vehicles? One of the more modern types of vehicle you will see around Scunthorpe is this batch of E400 MMCs for the 100 route.
Seen heading out of Scunthorpe Bus Station is E400 Interconnect branded MMC 10901 on its final run from Scunthorpe to Gainsborough.
Gainsborough MMC 10896 in Lincoln bus station having arrived with a 100. Usually the blind has the intermediate destination and then "connecting for" the main destination but this time it was just 100 to Lincoln, suggesting this journey originated in Gainsborough (and not Scunthorpe like most 100s).
2.3.21
The bridge up Broadgate isn't really something I've 'played' with up until this occasion, with a few vehicles crossing the gently humped section of road. One such here is Brylaine Optare Tempo YJ06 YSP, now on its return run to Coningsby and diverting away from the works you can just see in the background, with Pelham Bridge closed for ten weeks. It will climb out of the city to the north east before using the Eastern bypass to cross back towards its usual route, rejoining it just south of the city.
I didn't really feel like going to explore this part of the diversions in the recent heat, but this warm yet cloudy day on 14.6.21 was a decent opportunity to get out and see a few buses in a slightly different location to usual. I was hoping a Brylaine bus would drop by, but the appearance of this 06 plate was unplanned! I haven't seen it since March and today I ended up with my two best pictures of it.