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broadband interconnect cables, these cables are all colour coded to assist with making the correct connections. This also makes it easier for fault finding when there is an issue with broadband.
A welcome visitor, from me, to Scunthorpe was 18029. It was rarely operating a service 100 to Gainsborough and Lincoln, whilst one of their MMCs gets MOT'd. This might be first time this has done the full run, from Scunthorpe to Lincoln, but i'm not sure. This has done the school days only run, before, though.
New to Stagecoach Manchester in 2003, this transferred from Stagecoach Manchester to Stagecoach Hull in 2008. It then stayed in Hull for the next twelve years, until a batch of ex Manchester Enviro 400s pushed the Dennis Tridents out the city. Stagecoach Lincolnshire 18029, a 2003 Transbus Trident Plaxton President, was seen passing through Scunthorpe Bus Station on a service 100. This is based at Gainsborough, and has been for the last 12 months.
Now being delivered are six ADL Enviro 400MMCs, 10896-10901. They are for Gainsborough but will receive PDI checks at Scunthorpe. The two delivered so far carry Inteconnect colours. Also now at Scunthorpe, and in corporate livery, is Enviro 200MMC 26177 YX67 UZA.
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.
I don't ever remember seeing one of the Pronto liveried MMCs on the 53 before, but on 4.2.23 I came across 11274 making its departure from Lincoln bus station with a working to Market Rasen and, presumably, onward to Grimsby.
Lincoln currently have three of these transferred (or long-term loaned) from Mansfield, so while it's fairly commonplace to see a Pronto in Lincoln at the moment, a Nottingham - Mansfield - Chesterfield branded bus in Grimsby would've been a sight to see!
Due to the fair not being on this year, let's have a little look back at the loans and wacky allocations Hull Fair 2019 had to offer. This is pretty much day 1 of my bus spotting and i most of the photos aren't great or took from a moving vehicle.
Seen whilst on the 14, helping out with the fair, is Grimsby wright eclipse urban, 21274.
Gainsborough-based InterConnect Enviro 400 MMC 10897 spent a few days working from Lincoln depot in the middle of October, and worked a variety of routes during its stay including the 1 to Grantham! I suspected it might be an error on Bustimes with some other vehicle tracking as 10897, but decided to investigate anyway on a day it was working 2s and 5s, and was pleasantly surprised to find it really was 10897!
Somewhat reminiscent of this photo, showing another depot's E400 MMC on a Lincoln route in the same location, it descends Lindum Road with a 5 towards the bus station on 15.10.22
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 15612, a 2010 Scania N230UD ADL Enviro 400, was seen in Spalding on a service 505. New to Stagecoach Oxfordshire as a "Gold" vehicle. Since i last saw this in March, it has had the headlight panels replaced or painted white. Looks unusual, but it fits.
Stagecoach Grimsby-Cleethorpes 21274, a 2009 Volvo B7RLE Wrightbus Eclipse Urban 1, was seen at Grimsby Riverhead Exchange, whilst operating a service 10 to Pleasure Island. New to First Chester & Wirral, as their 69498, in 2009. This operated with Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire previously. This carries "Interconnect" branding, although use on Interconnect routes are not guaranteed.
Stagecoach East Midlands ADL Enviro 400, 19302 (AE07 KZC), is seen on an arriving 'Interconnect' 53 from Lincoln at Riverhead Exchange in Grimsby on 30th November 2017.
New to Stagecoach East in 2007.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 10896, a 2017 ADL Enviro 400 MMC, was seen dropping passengers off in Scunthorpe Bus Station, whilst operating a service 100 to Gainsborough and Lincoln. This is allocated to the Gainsborough depot.
It's Tempo time everyone! Brylaine's YJ09 MHY sets off for Boston with an InterConnect 5 on 3.6.21
Seen at Lincoln bus station.
Pictured outside Lincoln station on St Mary's Street is InterConnect 100 Enviro 400 MMC 10897, which had arrived into Lincoln on a school service and was now forming the final 17:35 107 to Gainsborough. Usually this working is undertaken by one of the ALX or President Tridents from Gainsborough depot, but occasionally one of their MMCs will crop up like it has here.
7.6.23
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 10901, a 2017 ADL Enviro 400 MMC, was seen in Scunthorpe Bus Station, whilst out of service. New to Stagecoach Lincolnshire Gainsborough depot for the 100 service.
The first of the former Stagecoach North East Enviro 400s numbered 19210 entered service from Skegness depot on 26th February 2020. It's inaugural service in Lincolnshire was the 12:00 pm 56 Skegness - Lincoln route. At the same time it was heading towards Lincoln, the oldest of the Volvo B7TL Vykings numbered 16902 was making it's very last journey with the company sadly, on the return leg of the 11:50 am 57 Boston - Skegness.
It is intended to replace all of the Skegness allocated Vykings with twelve Enviro 400s from the same source, over the early Spring period. The bus has been named Josh after an autistic enthusiast who lives near to the InterConnect route of the 56 and is a really nice touch by the company.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 19200, a 2007 ADL Enviro 400, was seen in Boston on a service 57 to Spalding. New to Stagecoach North East.
It seems to be no lie that the Interconnect brand in Grimsby is dying out, with the new livery brand coming in and these Urbans rarely allocated onto IC routes. It is a shame but ah, time moves on. This photo now means i have the full IC batch of Eclipse Urbans photographed, finally.
Seen in Grimsby operating a 7 to Grange Estate is 21272, a 2009 Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse Urban new to First Manchester as their 69496.
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.
Last Saturday, a relatively unusual occurrence on the 100 saw a single decker out on one of the regular all-day boards, in place of one of the E400 MMCs. This is quite rare as the 100 is almost always a decker, usually one of the branded MMCs (of which there is an excess number for the route) and occasionally some kind of Trident.
Setting off on its trek all the way through to Scunthorpe, via its home town of Gainsborough, Enviro 300 27795 passes in front of Lincoln bus station along St Mary's Street/Oxford Street on 4.2.23
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 15620, a 2010 Scania N230UD ADL Enviro 400, was seen in Spalding on a service 505 to Kings Lynn. Why they haven't put Interconnect vynals on yet is a mystery to me.. New to Stagecoach Oxfordshire as a "Gold" vehicle.
Photographed on the only short run 56 of the day which travels to Wragby at 8:35 AM from Lincoln is 11742 with a friend Graham at the wheel.
It was given the new InterConnect livery in April '25 after an absence in service since 16th January with a major mechanical issue. It saw 9 days active use in 'Local' livery at the seaside resort since being transfered from Manchester.
Much to the anoyance of the photographer, the prime poster had only been applied on the Sunday, the day before the view was taken in Langworth. Thankfully, a prior sunny pic was taken on the Saturday in Lincoln with the decals between the deck in full glory.
We had been around the block several times and as we made our way through one of the many arcades that interconnect the streets of Melbourne I caught a glance of a brown-eyed girl sitting at the outdoor tables of a small café. I smiled at her and continued to walk by when my wife turned to me and motioned that she would make an interesting portrait. So I doubled back and made my way over to their table. Introducing myself I apologised for interrupting her meal which was a rather delicious bowl of ice cream. To my surprise she immediately agreed to a portrait and said that she was fine to let it melt.
Martina and her sister Sara have been in Australia on a working holiday trying to improve their English language skills. At home she works as a Dental assistant. They are from the Italian region of Abruzzo, which is located in the centre of the country and being that I am of Italian heritage myself really helped to make the encounter a more relaxed one. Our brief conversation was a mix of very poor Italian on my part and very good English on hers.
Martina was a real natural in front the camera and I really enjoyed directing her to the get right shot. As luck would have it, a gentle breeze came through the arcade right on time which provided the perfect movement in her beautiful, wavy hair.
I think she has a rather glamorous “model” look in this shot which I guess is what I was looking for.
I finished up by taking a photo of both girls together.
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This picture is #206 in my 3rd round of The 100 Strangers Project.
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Stagecoach Grimsby depot's ex First Eclipses 21270-4 were repainted into InterConnect livery last summer as replacements on services 51 and 53 for five Scania E400s which were transferred to Worksop. As I have detailed in various uploads, usage of the repainted vehicles on these routes is not guaranteed even though the services concerned are the only two operated from Grimsby depot which fall under the InterConnect scheme.
Happily, at the sixth time of asking, DK09GYH (21273) appeared before my camera today at Nettleton whilst operating the 10:40 Grimsby-Lincoln 53. The working it is seen on is Grismby's 'all day' full route 53 duty; otherwise a Lincoln vehicle provides the short workings between Lincoln and Market Rasen, another Lincoln vehicle the other full route duty, and a vehicle each peak fills in various odd workings from Grimsby.
Backbone of the post-B7TL decker fleet at Skegness depot are 12 InterConnect-liveried former North East ADL Enviro 400s, supplemented by various Scanias with the same bodywork which tend to swap around with the outstation at Long Sutton. NK57DVX (19194) is seen here in Burgh le Marsh with the late-running 12:00 Lincoln to Skegness 56. The lengthy 56 was previously a flagship route normally worked by fairly new vehicles, however for the past three or so years it has been allocated mid to late life buses.
On Monday 29 January, the three Stagecoach ‘InterConnect’ routes serving Skegness were renumbered into the 50 series. The 6 to Lincoln is now the 56, 7 to Boston now the 57 (though the Brylaine workings retain the number IC7), and 9 to Louth 59. These changes were probably motivated primarily by ‘Simplibus’ service revisions in Lincoln which have seen local routes renumbered 1-19, a numbering pattern which would of course otherwise mean two number 6s in Lincoln. Alongside services to Grimsby, it does, however, bring the majority of the ‘InterConnect’ network into the 50 series.
B7TL Gemini FX06AOD (16942) is seen as it heads down the lane from Hogsthorpe to Chapel St Leonards with the 11:50 Louth-Skegness 59. The bus was one of a batch of six Geminis new to Skegness depot for service 6 to Lincoln as the final vehicles new to Roadcar. The Geminis initially carried green, yellow, and red ‘Coastal Connect’ livery which was subsequently replaced by Stagecoach/Lincolnshire CC ‘InterConnect’ livery, which itself is seemingly being usurped by Stagecoach beachball as repaints once again take place. Five remain at Skegness, with 16943 having been converted for open top usage in Lincoln in 2015.
Another loan, this was actually in service.. I think this is still on loan to Scunthorpe but is due to go back to Gainsborough soon, get it while you can. Stagecoach Lincolnshire 10900, a 2017 ADL Enviro 400 MMC, was seen leaving Scunthorpe Bus Station drop-off point, on a service 8 to Skippingdale Retail Park. This is branded for "Interconnect" services, to operate on the service 100.
Stagecoach Lincolnshire 16939, a 2006 Volvo B7TL Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini 1, was seen near Butlins on an unknown route. New to Lincolnshire RoadCar as their 921. I think thats the full batch of Geminis done, now all in different liveries. It's a shame i never got that last Gemini which went to scrap in 2020!
Stagecoach East Midlands Alexander Dennis E40D / Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC YX67 VCJ (10896) , in the Interconnect c/s, passing through Gainsborough bus station, 11/07/20
An alternative to conventional circuit boards, these ‘3D-molded interconnect devices’ add electrical connectivity to the surface of three-dimensional structures.
The aim is to combine mechanical, electronic and potentially optical functions in a single 3D part, allowing the creation of intricate, precisely aligned designs using fewer parts while delivering significant savings in space and weight compared to conventional electronic manufacturing.
“These prototype interconnect devices were produced using injection-moulded plastics incorporating electrical metallisation,” explains ESA’s Jussi Hokka. “In principle, however, other materials can also be used, allowing the incorporation of sensors or the integration of shielding or cooling systems.”
They were produced for ESA by Art of Technology AG in Switzerland, through the Agency’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme.
Credits: ESA/Art of Technology AG
Description
Wind power from the project would interconnect to the Avista 230 kilovolt (kV) Benewah-to-Shawnee transmission line. A wind farm of 100 MW would be the largest renewable energy facility in Whitman County with the capacity to generate enough clean, renewable energy to power about 25,000 homes each year.
The Palouse Wind project is between the town of Oakesdale and State Route 195 on the hills surrounding Naff Ridge. Given the orientation and elevation of this area, it is situated perfectly to capture the prevailing Southwest wind.