View allAll Photos Tagged Operator

** This is an 8.5 minute video so has to be downloaded to see the full version as only 3 minutes are shown in the Flickr interface.

** For non-Pro Flickr users, the download limit appears to be 3 minutes on download as well, and so there is a link here-

www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Barrow_Hill_&_Stavely_Ca...

 

* Barrow Hill

So, on Saturday May 28th, just before moving on to the Canal Basin at Staveley and the weekend celebrations there, a small diversion was made to call in at the Barrow Hill Shed, to see what was to be seen.. In the first 22 pictures in the video, taken during the normal Shed opening times on the Saturday morning, a series of traction can be seen, and in order this is-

* BR class 40, D212/40012 'Aureol', Works No. 2669/D429, built by The English Electric Company Ltd & The Vulcan Foundry Ltd

* EWS class 37, 37521 & class 08, 08685 plus others behind these two which were not noted

* a line of 5 or more DRS class 20s, numbers unreadable from the angle taken, tut tut, no notebook!

* D5054/24054 'Phil Southern', built in 1959 by British Railways at Crewe Works with Power Unit, Sulzer 6LDA28, see-

www.elrdiesel.info/fleet-24054.php

* D4092, 'Christine', a class 10 0-6-0, diesel shunting locomotive built at Darlington in 1962.

* class 45, 45060, 'Sherwood Forester, more details here-

pioneer-diesels.co.uk/blog/?tag=45060

* Some Harry Needle class 20s with a grey diesel shunter in the foreground

* IEMD 01 shunter

* class 20 GBRf, 20905

* Ruston Diesel Shunter, D2996, 07012, was at Scunthorpe Works, as stated on Wikipedia, but not any more/

* D5814 class 31, 31414, see-

www.brdw.co.uk/class31/class31-414.html

* E3035, class 83, 83012, English Electric/Vulcan Foundry Works numbers 2941/E277, built in July 1961, withdrawn in March 1989

* EWS class 08 shunter, 08685

* Virgin Trains, class 82, 82101

* GCR 506, 'Butler Henderson'

* BR Scot Rail class 37, 37403, 'Isle of Mull', earlier numbers were D6607 & 37307

and with two of the younger enthusiasts, Casper & Oscar, attempting to drive off with one of the diesel locomotives, Casper clearly watching the gauges as he eases the throttle open whilst Oscar engages 'primary drive'... Another BR shunter can be seen in front of 'Butler Henderson', on the form of class 03, 03066. With a few of the innards of Scott Rail 37403, 'Isle of Mull' on the platform at 'Roundhouse Halt' at the region's iconic and the UK's only surviving Roundhouse Locomotive Shed, coded 18D by the LMS and 41E by BR, time to move off to the festivities at the Staveley Canal Basin, in the 2nd part of the video.

 

* Staveley Canal Basin

Along with the pictures taken here during the afternoon festivities, which were very good, more information can be found relating to the Canal Trust and its partners from, The Chesterfield Canal Trust-

www.chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk

along with the IWA, the Inland Waterways Association with the Water Recovery Group being part of the IWA-

www.waterways.org.uk/

 

The trust held its 2016 Canal Festival at the newly refurbished and just recently completed, Staveley Basin, over the weekend of the 28th-29th of May, now, last year. Fortunately the weather was with them and it turned out to be a very successful weekend, see-

chesterfield-canal-trust.org.uk/general-news/

 

These 2nd set of pictures in this 8.5 minute video, taking up over 6 minutes of the total time, shows the various activities going on at the Canal Basin, some of the attractions of which, I have to say, 'The Urban Gypsies' to my mind were the best. Shots of the various activities, the canal cruisers and folks generally having a good time on and off the water and finally a short excursion along the as yet unfinished section along to where the canal will go under the track-bed of the now denuded 'Seymour Branch line', the canal then following the route alongside the GCR's old London Extension line towards the Rother Valley Country Park. From there the canal will rise up the hill to the western portal of Norwood Tunnel where it will eventually join up with the end of the other section of the canal at Kiveton. For details of this end of the work and a view inside Norwood Tunnel, 164Mby, 10m 28sec, see-

www.rail.tightfitz.com/Video/Norwood_Tunnel_2016-conv.mp4

 

At present the Canal water flows out of the basin through the town lock and ends up running through a pipe, over-flowing into a rough catchment area where it is finally diverted back from whence it came; the River Rother. This is as far as the navigation goes at the present time and the 1st shot shows 'Seth Ellis', built by Soar Valley Steel Boasts Ltd, having come about and moored up just this side of the temporary dam wall, waiting for its return journey through the lock. Much of the space still looks like a building site but the Canal Trust had made a great effort to make the event safe and look good with plenty of folk about to ask for information.

There were boats a-plenty of one sort or another, cruisers, canoes and more traditional craft. An evening event was the 'Parade of the Illuminated Boats', an after-dark saunter down towards where the Staveley Iron & Chemical works used to be located, opposite Mill Green. More antics from the Urban Gypsies as they 'frolic' about the place and the odd partial view of the Morris Dancing brigade.

There are several interesting characters to see here and there around the lock side and just before the excavator operator, Mr. Oscar A. Aujla, takes the final shot, a look at the yet to be completed route along from the basin overflow to around the corner under Hall Lane and then on to where the canal used to pass under the railway line.

This line, took freight moves from the Midland Line, off to the left, across the canal here and on to Seymour Junction at Poolsbrook, where it branched, the north-east line, with another branch, Oxcroft Junction, to the Oxcroft coal depot at Mill Lane, passing through Clowne, Creswell, Langwith & Shirebrook, the latter with its own branch to the colliery at Thoresby, and then through to Mansfield and points south. The other branch line went south-east to the large pits at Markham & Bolsover, on the east side of the M1 motorway at right next; this once derelict space is now being developed for contemporary industrial use and there was talk of some of this being rail connected again ... but that looks to have come to nothing.

All the tracks from Poolsbrook along to Clowne, Oxcroft Colliery and Markham Colliery have now been lifted, some of it, unofficially, in addition, the signal box at Seymour Junction, still visible on the 1999 and 2007 Google Earth views, was burned down after 2007 and the site has now been cleared. The Canal Trust, I was told, was in negotiations with Network Rail regarding the canal passage under/across the Poolsbrook branch line trackbed, which can be seen towards the end of the video, and as I understand it, NR wanted to maintain the availability of the track bed for future use but this now appears not to be the case. If so it will mean the canal trust does not have to dig another, rather deep, lock to pass under the railway line, though in a way it would be good to keep the layout as it is with a new lock under the track-bed, just in case! but that's a lot of effort if trains are never to run along here again.

The views at the end show the aspect facing towards the canal basin and looking along the now denuded track-bed towards Seymour Junction with, at that time in May, a profusion of wild flowers growing at either side of the track with the canal bridge visible at lower right where the palisade fence, zigzags into the picture; hardly worth having it there anymore! There is a shot of the rusting footbridge over the track-bed the bridge now not really needed and who knows what its fate might be once the canal passes though here with its towpath.

Closer to the basin, on the walk back from the railway formation, a shot of the point at which the canal waters flow back down to the River Rother, the exit from the muddy canal bed being below the large rectangular structures which can be seen on the left in the picture.

Coming to the end of the walk back from the point at which the canal will take its course up along the GC's old London Extension trackbed from Staveley to Killamarsh, an end on view looking into the canal outlet on this side of the town lock, with two of the cruising barges moored up and the 'Ice Cream Man' doing a brisk trade. Finally, Mr. O.A Aujla takes charge of the mechanical digger for the final shots at the canal basin, the Waterway Recovery Group instructing him on how to manipulate a road cone into the air and deposit it somewhere else.

Finally, a look back at the scene along the Poolsbrook Branch from a similar location seen in the earlier shots today. The last two shots show the scene as it looked in February, 2014, just over two years before today's festivities. The 1st looks west, towards the canal basin, with not much in the way of the canal excavation having taken place at this time; though rainwater is accumulating in the course of the canal bed. The track-bed, though weeds are everywhere, is still in its original double-track form and it wouldn't have taken much effort at this stage to re-open this line. The 2nd, and last picture in the video, is the view looking in the opposite direction and south of east towards Poolsbrook and Seymour Junction and again, the lines are in reasonably good condition and could be brought back to life for container use along to the land once occupied by the Markham and Bolsover Collieries; now sadly, it seems, not to be.

 

Here endeth this 'End-of-Year' piece, though there is another part to follow next in relation to developments with the route of the HS2, and I hope it provides some enjoyment and viewers feel its worth down-loading and taking a look. A very Happy and Prosperous, and hopefully less turbulent, New Year to one and all. Many thanks for your continued interest, remarks, additional information and other comments over last year, I appreciate it all...

So I have had time to look at some of the pictures I have taken in the last couple of days. I decided to post these six as they kinda' cover all the action of the work. Hope you like my rendition of waves in action.

Date Taken: November 23, 2014

Location: National Highway, Barangay Magsaysay, Naguilian, Isabela

 

Operator: NLBL (Northern Luzon Bus Line)

Bus Number: 2125

Route: Santiago-Tuguegarao

Bus Model: UD Nissan Diesel Euro

Alpha Recovery, Weetslade, Dudley, Cramlington

Colchester, 8 July 2014.

 

Still wearing the colours of its previous operator, Damory Coaches.

Operator: Sweden Air Force

Aircraft: Saab JAS 39C Gripen

Registration: 39210

C/n: 39210

Time & Location: 01.06.2023, EFTP, Finland

Remarks: Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023.

3500h flight hours sticker.

 

We were taken up into the CSXT Control Tower in Groups to prevent overcrowding and to prevent any interruption of the Tower Operator Duties.

 

In November 2005, I took an AMTRAK Train from Tampa Union Station in Florida to Hamlet, North, Carolina to attend a Summer Convention of the ACL/SAL Historical Society in and around the Hamlet Area Hamlet Metro Area, One of the sites we visited was CSX Hump Classification Yard Hamlet.

 

Tower Mailing Address: 127 CSX Drive, Marks Creek, NC 28345

 

This Yard is relies on Gravity, a Ladder of Switches and Speed Retarders to assemble trains destined for all parts of the US and Canada on an assortment of tracks, one track for each destination. or Intermediate Yard.

 

This particular photograph shows CSX Locomotive Number 2758 (former CONRAIL Locomotive), a rebuilt EMD Model GP38-2 which located next to the Fueling Station in Hamlet Yard.

I wasn't going to post this, as this is considerably below my standards of quality. I do so for a historical, and a learning context.

 

I had a busy day, and topping it off was chasing the CN M338 job on this day from Genoa, IL to East Dubuque, IL. After I got the shot at Galena, I rushed to East Dubuque. I wanted this to be my signature shot of the day. I didn't beat him there by much, until he was stopped by two BNSF "Z" trains, and then it took quite along time for the bridge tender to close the bridge over the Mississippi River. By this time, it was 10:45 PM. And I was getting tired.

 

But he showed up, and with a minute to spare, I turned on my flashes, and checked my focus. Unfortunately, I didn't set the exposure time back to what it should have been. I set the exposure time to 1 second to get my focus, because most cameras can't focus in darkness; you have to do focus in the dark manually. In short, I forgot to set the exposure back to 1/250 of a second, instead of the 1 second exposure I used to focus on a nearby street light. That mistake cost me an excellent shot.

 

I know that when I am very tired, I can make mistakes. I reminded myself after this frustrating moment to review everything a second time to make sure everything is set properly when I am feeling subpar. I make fewer mistakes now that I have had experience chasing trains, but this one was a real "Grrrrr!" moment when I realized what I had done. Although I am now very good at not making critical errors, every great now and then, something like this happens, and I blow the shot. The last time I did something like this, I *was* able to recover and get the shot. But I probably won't see the Norfolk Southern "Virginian" heritage unit come into the tunnel at East Dubuque ever again. Lesson learned!

Operator: Stagecoach Devon

Fleet Number: 10460

Registration: SN65NZT

Body/Chassis: Alexander Dennis Enivro400MMC

Chassis No: SFD932BR2FGX18643

Seating: H45/32F

New: January 2016

Ex: --

Livery: Plymouth Park & Ride

 

Date: Saturday 3rd June 2017

Location: Royal Parade, Plymouth

Route: 100 (George Junction P&R via Milehouse P&R)

 

www.norwichbuspage.com

Operator: Reading Buses - (Thames Valley)

 

Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 CITY

 

Registration Number: SN66 WLK

 

Fleet Number: 795

 

History: Courtney Buses

Operator: Arriva

Livery: Arriva

No: 57315

Service: 1V31 Holyhead to Cardiff Central

Location: Llandudno Junction

Seen here when freshly out of the Greenway programme on a Summer's evening in August 1995 is Leyland National DPW 782T which had been new to Eastern Counties and was unusual in that as a Greenway it returned to it's original operator - most vehicles that came out of the programme passed to different operators than they had come from. The vehicle was later registered NIL 3964 and survived with First Eastern Counties until the early 2000's, it being scrapped by the traditional ECOC scrapyard of Jordans of Coltishall in 2004.

 

Scanned from an acquired slide.

Operator: Victory Liner, Incorporated

Bus #: 1606 and 8061

Classification: Airconditioned Provincial Operation Bus (both)

MMDA OBR Classification: Bus P (both)

Body Manufacturer: Almazora Motors Corporation (1606), Kia Motors (8061)

Model: Almazora MAN Lion's Coach 16.290 (1606), Kia Granbird (8061)

Chassis: MAN (1606), Hyundai (8061)

Engine: MAN (1606), Hyundai D6ACY (8061)

Engine location: Rear (both)

A/C system: Overhead (both)

Seating Configuration: 2x2 (both)

Seating Capacity: 49 passengers (1606), 45 passengers (8061)

Route: Area of Service

Shot Location: Victory Liner Kamias terminal, EDSA, Quezon City

London-Gatwick Airport - EGKK - Lowfield Heath

Operator: United States Air Force (USAF)

Aircraft: Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules

Registration: 16-5856

C/n: 382-5856

Time & Location: 25.06.2022, EFTP, Finland

Remarks: 317th Airlift Wing based at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, USA.

Operator: Swiss Air Force

Aircraft: de Havilland DH 112 Venom FB50

Registration: J-1648

C/n: 858

Location: Fricktal-Schupfart Airfield (LSZI)

Date: 16-8-2019

Trolley operator adjusting power cable.

captured with Heinz Kilfitt München Makro-Kilar D 2,8 4cm

Unknown Operator ?.... but god knows what they were sniffing when they decided to purchase it... OMG its bloody ugly

Operator: GBRf

Livery: Two-tone grey

No: 92044 'Couperin'

Service: 1S25 London Euston to Inverness

Location: Crewe

RAE Farnborough - EGUF : SBAC Airshow 1992

Operator: Kalitta Air

Aircraft: Boeing 747-4B5F

Registration: N716CK

C/n: 26408/1163

Location: Liège Airport (LGG/EBLG)

Date: 28-1-2019

Previously: N60659 Boeing Co., HL7403 Korean Air Cargo

Haley operator Clee Sprague copies down departure times from the operator at MY in Indianapolis on a dreary Sunday morning in November of 1987.

Operator- Select Bus Services Penkridge

Operating Area- Staffordshire & Shropshire

Make- ADL

Model- Enviro 200

Chassie-

Fleet No-

Reg- YX65RHJ

Location Seen- Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale Car Park

Service- 96 to Shrewsbury

Info- Reays of Wigton

 

Seen- 15/2/23

Operator: Stagecoach South Wales

Branding: Standard Livery

Depot: Aberdare

Route: 60 Pontypridd via Fernhill, Mountain Ash & Abercynon

 

Manufacturer: Alexander Dennis

Model: Enviro 200

 

Location: Aberdare Bus Station

Another new entry to the York Pullman fleet is former Go-Ahead London General PVL 386, Volvo B7TL Plaxton President PJ53 NLC still in the former operators livery but with new destination blinds fitted bearing the TfL 'Johnson' font and with Pullman destinations. Pullman did buy a PVL in 2017 and the boss told me that would be the last double decker purchase for quite some time - but things at the company don't stay still for long, and the addition of new routes acquired from former operator Just Travel has now increased the vehicle requirement for the company.

 

This gave me a chance to finally have a look at what routes and destinations were on the blinds. The usual school routes were on there as well as Leeds (for the Leeds Festival), 197 Racecourse and 198 Yorkshire Marathon, and 748 Pocklington; stagecarriage service 36 and X36 are on the blinds too with Pocklington, Sutton on Derwent, York and York rail station as available destinations..... but there are also one or two unexpected routes such as the 13 and 13A (Haxby-Copmanthorpe), 16 (though there's no 'Acomb' destination) and also 44 and 44X (York-University).... As Pullman have recently gained extra work and routes, it is yet to be seen if these blinds will be swapped out for further updated ones - if so, I'd like to see the 37 route added to the list as well as for a few tendered services in York to futureproof these in case Pullman win any contracts (service 10, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26... perhaps also put on services 11 and 12 in case First ever decide to give them up). These blinds are blank on the inside with no markers as to what is showing, so I had to set up my tripod with the camera in front of the bus and then flip my camera screen round so I could see it (even though the image is flipped) and work out what was showing.

Operator: JKJ Express

Bus #: 608

Classification: Airconditioned City Operation Bus

MMDA OBR Classification: Bus A

Body Manufacturer: Santarosa Philippines Motor Works Incorporated

Model: Nissan Diesel NV SR 620

Chassis: Nissan Diesel JP251PSN

Engine: Nissan Diesel FE6C

Engine layout: Rear-engined

A/C system: Overhead

Seating Configuration: 2x3

Seating Capacity:

Route:

This young man is obviously playing his cards right because she is "ALL SMILES"...

Not a better feeling in the world at that age when you are able to put a smile on a girls face!!Well,Maybe a few feelings lol but stil...

Operator: TUI fly Netherlands (lsf SmartLynx Estonia)

Aircraft: Airbus A320-214

Registration: ES-SAQ

C/n: 984

Location: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS/EHAM)

Date: 3-7-2021

Previously: F-WWDI Airbus, B-2205 China Northwest Airlines, B-2205 China Eastern Airlines, EI-FMN Aviation Capital Group, YL-LCR SmartLynx

Country: GREAT BRITAIN

Operator: BR Western Region

Item: DMU

Class or Maker: -

Wheel Arrangement or Type: Diesel Pullman train

Number: -

Place details: SLOUGH by Trading Estate

Additional notes: Date is only approximate

 

Original source material: 35mm Kodak slide

Photographer: Eric H. Gaskell

Copyright: Photographer's estate

 

Library locator reference: EHGA0002

30937 Transport Photograph Database

1961AUG00EHGA001cs

 

In the background right:

 

H. Tyson Chambers Ltd

Operator: Arriva London

Route: W4 - Tottenham Hale, Ferry Lane - Oakthorpe Park

Fleet number: ENN53

Registration: YY67HCX

Model: Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC

Chassis: ADL E20D

Location: Tottenham Hale Bus Station

Seen here in operation with an unknown operator at Chesham Broadway in August 1995 is former West Midlands Dodge S56 / Reeve Burgess D566 NDA operating on Service 373. Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to whom it was operating with at the time. To the right can be seen Luton and District Mercedes 811 K203 FEH which I had arrived on from Tring via rural service 49 via St Leonards and Cholesbury.

Operator: Swiss Global Air Lines

Aircraft: Bombardier CS100

Registration: HB-JBA

C/n: 50010

Name: Kanton Zürich

Location: Geneva Airport (GVA/LSGG)

Date: 22-5-2017

Previously: C-FPAI Bombardier

Operator: GBRf

Livery: Royal Scotsman

No: 66746 & 66743

Service: 1Z76 Chester to North Llanrwst

Tour: The Royal Scotsman

Location: North Llanrwst

Operator: Go North East

Fleet Number: 5405

Registration: NK15 ENU

Vehicle: Wright Streetlite Micro Hybrid

Livery: Coast and Country

Location: Chester-Le-Street

Route: 78- Consett - Sunderland

Depot: Chester-Le-Street

Year New: 2015

Mullanys, Watford.

Setra S415GT-HD C52Ft, new in 2011.

Photographed n Winchester, September 2016.

Operator: Chiltern Railway

Location: London Marylebone

Platform: 2

Class: 82

Number: 303

Type: Driving Van Trailer

Origin:Kidderminster

Destination: London Marylebone

Date: 8th November 2014

Operator: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro)

Manufacturer: Transportation Manufacturing Corp. (TMC)

Year/Model: 1992/RTS T80-206

Location: Daly St., Los Angeles, CA

Line: Training Bus

Operator: Cut Oy

Aircraft: Cameron Sport-80

Registration: OH-BTL

C/n: 12467

Time & Location: 05.09.2021, Hämeenlinna, Finland

Remarks: "Lifa Air"

Registered on 01.09.2021

2nd flight.

Inkala Balloon Meeting 2021.

[Regista Ed Operatore]

 

Location: Salzburg (Austria).

 

Subject: Modern tourism's photographic escalation.

 

◉ ◉ ◉

 

Gianluca Vecchi

Consulente Web e Comunicazione ● Web and Communication Consultantwww.gnetwork.it

 

● Per ulteriori informazioni: consultate il mio profilo

● For more information: check my profile

 

License my pictures ● Acquista i diritti delle mie foto ⇒ 500Prime

1 2 ••• 11 12 14 16 17 ••• 79 80