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God i didn’t expect to see you here! what you doing in Hull? you should be in Gainsborough. Anyways, i’m glad to off documented this rare event.
Seeing these outside of fair time is a treat!
Great Gonerby has been the talk of the depot in the last week as the InterConnect 1 has been extended there on two journeys per day, after Stagecoach won a school contract from Sleafordian.
The extension sees the service come off of the normal route at Grantham Hospital, turn on to, and do a loop of Alma Park, go back to normal in to the bus station, then head off west to Barrowby, before going back to the centre of Grantham to head north to Great Gonerby.
Although the route started last week, I wasn't off out there until Great Gonerby was included on the destination blinds - and that has now happened. So here's 15651 in Great Gonerby, having completed the 1435 1 from Lincoln. (Which in turn is the 1615 1G from Grantham.)
If you look at the last photo of this upload, there's a little more info on the service.
Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 300, 27638 (FX10 DUU), is seen awaiting departure at Riverhead Exchange in Grimsby on 21st October 2017.
About to work the 1720 'Interconnect' 53 to Lincoln via Market Rasen.
New to Stagecoach East Midlands 2010.
15509 (FX09CZZ) An Interconnect 100 branded Enviro400 Scania N230UD leaving Gainsborough for Lincoln april10
Up until the mid-2010s, this was a branch and interconnect between Xcel Energy's line running east from Rowena, SD and Alliant Energy's line running west from Hills, MN (the intersection is the SD / MN border).
This was once Interstate Power's line out of Hills to serve the last few towns in Interstate's SD system (Rowena, Brandon, and the Valley Springs muni). About the same time Interstate finally left South Dakota, two of the towns ended up going with Sioux Valley Energy as their provider, leaving NSP with the customers at Rowena and rural Brandon / Valley Springs.
In the mid-2010s, Alliant Energy (Interstate's successor) decided to leave Minnesota as well, selling their entire system to a consortium of 12 electric cooperatives, the Hills-area system going to Sioux Valley Energy.
It is at that point Xcel likely went "NOPE", removed the interconnect, and stripped the next 4 miles going west down to 7200V singlephase. They have had ongoing territory disputes with Sioux Valley where the two companies' lines are in close proximity. (see the next pic over for a 'before' view)
South of the river Humber are the seaside towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes, one a former fishing and one a seaside town. Two towns were brought together under the council-owned Grismby-Cleethorpes Transport (GCT for short) formed in 1957, by the end operating a fleet of Dominators similar to cross-river KHCT, eventually being bought out by Stagecoach in 1993 and standing alone in Lincolnshire until RoadCar's purchase and merger with Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes to form the greater Stagecoach in Lincolnshire operations. Under SiL in 2019, Grimsby-Cleethorpes operate fleet that is at times interesting but at times very dull.
Though the destination blind did not capture this time - I was still getting to grips with my new camera then - pictured here as one of Grimsby-Cleethorpes' more interesting operations is their 'InterConnect'-branded 21270, a 2009 Wright Eclipse Urban new to First Chester & the Wirral as their 69494 before being transferred to Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire, observed here by the Cleethorpes beach road.
Stagecoach East Midlands Enviro 400 MMC 10897 (YX67 VCK), is seen laying on Town Hal Square in Grimsby on 4th February 2025.
Working a service 8 to Cleethorpes Pier via New Waltham.
New to Stagecoach East Midlands 2017.
One of the Skeg-purple E400s which I've only seen once before, in the dark so it's good to get a shot of it in the sun. This is one of the very few to actually carry full InterConnect branding, complete with the latest Stagecoach logo and the rather awkward InterConnect logo which - I believe - is a Lincolnshire County Council thing since it appears on bus stops and other operators' vehicles.
The glass on the second door leaf has been replaced at some stage by one which was designed for the leading leaf, as it has the black masking on the bottom.
Lincoln bus station, 11.5.21
Stagecoach East Midlands 15176 is a Scania N230UD with Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodywork, new in 2014 in InterConnect livery. It is leaving Grimsby on Service 51 to Louth.
Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 400 19298 (AE07 KYY), is seen heading along Weelsby Road in Grimsby on 15th January 2018.
Working the 1240 'Interconnect' 53 from Grimsby Riverhead Exchange to Lincoln City Bus Station.
New to Stagecoach East 2007.
Stagecoach East Midlands Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro 400 15808 (FX12 BAV), is seen heading up Broadgate in Lincoln on 3rd February 2018.
Working 'Interconnect' 56 (formerly 6) to Skegness via Horncastle.
New to Stagecoach East Midlands 2012.
Stagecoach Grimsby and Cleethorpes 21270 DK09 GYE passes St James Church while working the 51 service to Louth. 5 urbans have been repainted into the Interconnect livery to replace the 5 Interconnect Scania's. I took a photo just like this early last year of a Scania Enviro 400 passing the church.
Stagecoach East Midlands 15809 is standing in the parking area of Skegness bus station. It is a Scania N230UD with Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodywork, new 2012. Fitted with coach seats, it is painted in the latest version of 'InterConnect' livery.
Not really much to add onto this one.
I guess i could talk about this batch then.
In 2017, a batch of 67 E400 MMCs replaced a few 10 plate E400s at Gainsborough, and the E400s where transferred to i think Mansfield and Worksop?
Painted in Lincolnshire InterConnect livery.
Stagecoach East Midlands
Scania N230UD/ADL Enviro400
FX12BAV (15808)
King's Lynn bus station
20 June 2021
This vehicle has since returned to Hull, but was on loan to Skegness and frequently turned up on the 56 to Lincoln via Horncastle. Here it is on Pelham Street making its way around to Lincoln bus station. Skegness have done a better job than Lincoln with the 'contactless preferred' blind as even though the destination is replaced for a short while the route number is still visible.
25.2.21
The main bus route in Mablethorpe is the long InterConnect service 59 which operates about every hour on Mondays-Saturdays between Louth, Mablethorpe and Skegness. A two-hourly service also operates between Mablethorpe and Skegness on Sundays between April and October.
Typical fare on the route are East Lancs Lolyne-bodied Volvo B7TLs that were new to Lincolnshire Road Car when it was part of the (Yorkshire) Traction Group. Several of these are painted into a two-tone purple "InterConnect" variation of Stagecoach livery, however this particular journey was being worked by standard-liveried 16190. Having picked up a good load at the Seacroft Road bus stop, it is seen heading off to Skegness, over an hour away.
Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay":
Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.
On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions.
Transferred from the United States Air Force.
Manufacturer:
Date:
1945
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 900 x 3020cm, 32580kg, 4300cm (29ft 6 5/16in. x 99ft 1in., 71825.9lb., 141ft 15/16in.)
Materials:
Polished overall aluminum finish
Physical Description:
Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft fuselage and serial number on vertical fin; 509th Composite Group markings painted in black; "Enola Gay" in black, block letters on lower left nose.
Most buses working on Brylaine’s Monday to Saturday InterConnect Boston - Lincoln service 5 pass each other between Langrick and Anton’s Gowt. In this shot taken in the latter village, which was only possible as the bus running the other way was a tad late, we see their Optare Solo YJ05 JXH on a gloomy October afternoon whilst heading for Boston with the above journey.
Anton’s Gowt is situated at the point where the Witham Navigable Drain system is connected to the River Witham by a lock gate. At one time a loop of the Great Northern Railway passed over the end of the lock and today the former track bed forms part of the Water Rail Way, a foot and cycle path between Boston and Lincoln. The Navigable Drains primary function is the drainage of the fenland around Boston and they are controlled by the Witham Fourth Internal Drainage Board. The Board actively support leisure uses of the system which, subject to prevailing weather conditions, is maintained at a navigable depth from May to September inclusive. For further information, check out the Inland Waterways website.
Stagecoach East Midlands Inter Connect livery FX54AOE 16915 in Mablethorpe.
2004 Volvo B7TL / East Lancs.
Neil Forrest uses various systems of interconnecting nodes that spread in a matrix. These are generated as dimensional field ornament that corresponds to the distinctive curved space produced by arabesque and muqarna of Islam. Forrest’s work presents a detached ceramic ornament in response to the changing typographies within contemporary architecture - expanding systems intended to modify the psyche of space that is distinguished by lightness and openness. Forrest’s architectural ceramics are porcelain scaffolds, resembling coral environments and truss-like vertebrae.
Working from Gottfried Semper’s analysis that the dressing or decorative surface perform the spatial essence of the wall, and emphasizing the architectural significance of the ‘joint’, Forrest presents a tectonic and nomadic ceramic ornament. The project of ‘colonizing architecture’ is a theory of connectedness enabling close independence, which embraces the principle of non-hierarchical pattern behaviors that largely underpin the decorative arts.
Here ornament is understood as the libido for contemporary architecture, and can be tasked as having increasing utility to the organism of architecture, ready to engage an elegantly engineered world.
Neil Forrest has exhibited and lectured in North America, UK, Europe and Asia, and is currently Professor of Ceramics at NSCAD University. His most recent exhibitions were Wurzelwerk, Scaffs and Thicket. His ceramics have been published in books, craft magazines and architectural journals. Forrest studied at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Alfred University and Sheridan College of Crafts and is involved in several research collaborations that examine ceramics for architecture.
The 56 has, yet again, been seeing single decker appearances on an almost daily basis, with sometimes two saloons out on the same day! Considering the loading seen here, departing the Lincoln terminus nearly full with standees, I don't know why they've been putting saloons on the 56 so much when there's clearly demand for more space? Nobody wants to stand for an hour to Horncastle, or get turned away somewhere along the route because the bus is full.
Unless of course everyone gets off at the hospital or somewhere and it runs the rest of the way nigh empty. What do I know?
Anyway, the fact of the matter is that there are single decks on the 56 a lot, and the benefit for me is spotting more Eclipses as well as this E300 which I haven't seen in Lincoln before. 27794 is leaving Lincoln bus station with a service for Horncastle and Skegness in 11.1.23, and has gained a new Stagecoach logo on the front.
Approaching the bus station in Skegness is one of the six Volvo B7TL, East Lancs bodied Vykings that were painted in this livery. This one is the oddity amongst them because it never received the interconnect lettering on the body sides and front. Instead a ridiculously oversized Stagecoach fleetname and logo was applied to the front and an equally amusing name in white on a white background can be seen, but only just visible above the doors!!
Seen in Wisbech town centre bus station on east Midlands Scania E400 15811 FX12BBV on local service 56 to Manea.
Early January 2025 brought about a mass influx of vehicles from Stagecoach Manchester to the East Midlands, in connection with Transport for Greater Manchester's 'Bee Network' franchising of bus services. In connection, Gainsborough received six Manchester Enviro 400 MMCs releasing their six Interconnect branded MMCs to Grimsby and Skegness.
Enviro 400 MMC 10896 (YX67 VCJ), is seen climbing Trinity Road in Cleethorpes on 14th January 2025.
Working a service 12 from Bradley Park to Waltham (continuing as a service 11).
New to Stagecoach East Midlands 2017.