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Olympus OM-2n with Olympus Zuiko 35/2.8 shift lens and Arista EDU 400 film processed in Rodinal and scanned on an Epson V500.
In November 1980 there were still Hants & Dorset FLFs between Bournemouth and Burley - not to mention one between Lymington and Hythe. This is en-route from Burley to Christchurch.
Very little goes this way now.
This 1974 Bristol VRT/ECW was new to West Riding and passed to Bristol Omibus in April 1983 and on to Cheltenham & Gloucester in September 1983. It is seen here in NBC green and Swindon & District fleetnames on Fleming Way, Swindon on 13 October 1984. It would be withdrawn for scrapping in 1991.
Elsewhere in the 1976 Plaxton finishing shop at the time of the visit recently referred to was this quartet of 'Derwent' service buses. They were built on Ford R1014 chassis for NBC subsidiary Maidstone & District at the time when the former's accountants had decided that purchasing buses with a lower capital cost was the way to go. Needless to say, ongoing costs, a shorter working life and general staff dissatisfaction were not part of their calculation.
Nothing much else in shot that I recognise, but the Supreme on the left is an AEC Reliance.
This is the second common fruit bat (Cynopterus brachyotis) foetus that I've come across at the same place ( www.flickr.com/photos/_husky_/4796519010/ ), under the batty corner of the office block where the bats hang from the rooftop ceiling beams by day. Looks freshly-aborted, unlike the first one ( www.flickr.com/photos/_husky_/4075192334/ ) which was being over-run by ants by the time I got to it.
This one was in a more advanced stage of development, somewhere between Stages 20 and 22 according to this - embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/OtherEmb/bat1.htm. Its placenta is still attached.
Mule Gala 2019 set
TUO 497 is passed by AFJ 727T at Axminster Station, on the evening of the second and final day of the Mule Gala.
1st Sep 2019
I understand the bus station at Salisbury ...was it called Endless Street? ...is no more, having been closed, if not redeveloped. In happier times I enjoyed a few vending machine coffees and cheese rolls in the staff canteen down there on the right. Hants & Dorset no. 836 (but new to Wilts & Dorset), a dual-purpose MW6G loads up for Marlborough on Friday 23rd January 1976. The NBC poppy red appears to have faded to a kind of carmine pink. I had a red Sierra that did the same thing. Two green Bristol Omnibus Co. vehicles on the left. As far as I remember Bristol operated into Salisbury at this time only on the service from Bath. Was there another?
