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40 km from the Chinese border, Nepal: October 1975
One evening in Kathmandu, we were in the bar of one of the hotels when a local man asked if we'd be interested in taking some tourists, in one of the buses, for an early-morning trip to see a Himalayan sunrise. It turned out that there was a group of Europeans staying in Kathmandu that night only and he'd promised some of them a 'trip to remember', on the following day. Apparently, these people were on a Round-the-World-in-Seven-Days package deal – and, obviously the local man was a travel guide working on commission, and had done this before with tourists. Anyway, a time and price was agreed, on condition they paid, in cash, before we left at five o'clock the next morning. We were going to drive along the old road from Kathmandu up to the Chinese (Tibetan) border, there were several places on that road to witness the sunrise over the Himalayas.
At five o'clock sharp the next morning, the new passengers were waiting outside their hotel – all fifteen of them. A few seemed to be not fully awake yet, but they were there in body. The first few miles up the old dirt road was easy but gradually it deteriorated to not much more than a mountain track – it soon became clear why the large bus wouldn't have got far. We were climbing all the time, the road often running alongside the rapidly flowing Bhote Koshi River, which eventually joins the Ganges. This was the time of year following the monsoon season so there had been numerous landslide and rockfalls onto the road, sometimes we were able to get round them but there were occasions when we had to wait for an ancient bulldozer to clear a path through all the mud and rocks. When we got to the place our guide recommended for a sunrise viewpoint the cloud had come down and we didn't see the sun until a few hours later.
We continued up the road as far as we could go – that was the Friendship Bridge at Kodari. The bridge was the border crossing point from Nepal to Tibet, and it had been closed for many years, ever since the Chinese had invaded Tibet. We were forbidden from using cameras by Nepalese soldiers so I was unable to photograph the bridge – or all the Chinese soldiers on the other side of the Bhote Koshi River. I had originally co-driven this bus from Ostend to Istanbul, where the owner asked me to take over the larger, 45-seater bus for the remainder of the trip to India, and then Nepal.
Loco AN3 in red Ghan livery powers the Melbourne-bound Overland through Belair in the Adelaide Hills on the morning of 24 December 2005.
The use of an AN-class locomotive on this train was highly unusual, and was due to a major delay to the incoming train from Melbourne that day, causing a desperate rush at Keswick Terminal to assemble suitable rolling stock and motive power for the return Christmas Eve service.
AN3 operated only as far as Tailem Bend, where a more conventional NR-class loco was substituted.
The Dal Lake at Srinagar in Kashmir. Laying in the bow of the boat is Peter. In the shade of the canopy is Sylvia, Marie and Hillary.
Back from a two week trip to Colorado and New Mexico and starting to go through over 25GB of images. My hard drive on my old computer can't handle all the images, so I have to go through my old files and delete the obsolete and redundant in order to accommodate the new. It will be an ongoing process so I've decided to select and upload the pictures in roughly chronological order.
Special note to Simon K: this is the picture I was making when you and Jenny rolled up at the motel, :-).
Not many names like that now in the coach industry and not a bad coach either YD05KBT a Daf SB4000 / Berkhof Axial C53FT seen at the Ricoh Arena . Photo taken 29/09/18
Overland 20 is the latest incarnation of the original Terrahawks supply delivery vehicle..
Built onto Hot Wheels chassis.
Inspired by the Gerry Anderson Series.
Seen here at EMAD base working 3 pods full of supplies.
Vehicle and Diorama scratchbuilt,
Not a very high falls but quite beautiful and powerful. Located in Mount Robson Regional Park in British Columbia, Canada. A short hike from the highway. I will have limited internet access for the next six weeks, so I probably won't be able to respond to comments as I would like to.
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. In the front of the tonga are Hillary and Sylvia; in the rear are Marie and Alan — this was on a tour of Lahore, Pakistan.
There might have been as many as 20 vintage cars visiting Bothwell, participating in the Peter Waddle 2016 Woolnorth to Cockle Creek rally. The oldest was reported to be a 1904.
Right time, right place.
The background was so important to this photo. I just did not want a modern background.
Persepolis, Iran: 25 December 1971
The almost 600 mile journey from Tehran down to Persepolis took two days; the first day we got to Isfahan in the early afternoon and spent the night there. An early start on Christmas Day enabled us to have a few hours looking round the spectacular ruins of the ancient city of Persepolis. Rather surprisingly, the place was deserted, not a soul to be seen – we had the whole site to ourselves. That night we stayed in Shiraz before heading back north towards Tehran, with another night in Isfahan on the way.
Considering that the giant stone blocks in the main terrace had laid there over two-and-a-half thousand years they were in remarkable condition. The joints between each block were so well made that you couldn't have slid a piece of paper into the gaps. Sometime in the first part of the fourth century AD the city had been sacked by the invading armies of Alexander the Great. Today can be seen evidence of the destruction and damage, but even so there is still a lot left to see.
The enormous bazaar at Isfahan had been very quiet; it was quite different to the one at Istanbul where you can be endlessly pestered to buy this and that. In Isfahan there was also snow on the ground; I hadn't expected to see it this far south in Iran, but the city is on a plain at over 5,000 feet elevation.
The Overland sits at Adelaide's Keswick Station
Probably April 1986. Scanned from slide. I suspect this was the evening departure .
a former new to overland and county malmesbury optare seen with greater manchester ? highly unusual for a large concern to buy from a small independent company. who knows more ?!
Turkey: October 1971
This notorious stretch of road from Horosan to Agri in eastern Turkey has now been abandoned as a new route was opened up later in the 1970s that bypassed the old Tahir Pass. Being a dirt, or gravel road it was never a good surface to drive on — in summer it was hard to see where you were going because of the dust; in the rain it became a river of mud, and in the winter it was under snow for months on end. This road was part of the so-called Eurasian (or Euro-Asian) Highway, yet a lot of it was little more than a farm track. There were more heavy trucks using this road than cars or buses as it was the main trunk route from Europe, eastwards to Iran, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent.
Later in 1971, when I was driving the same bus from London back out to Kabul on this road, it was essential to use snow chains on the rear wheels, from Erzurum to Agri. The landscape is hostile and barren; the climate can be extreme – during that 1971/72 winter the temperature fell to around -40° C. This caused problems with diesel fuel 'icing up' so it was common practice to add a small amount of petrol or paraffin (kerosene) to the diesel tank – not something to be recommended, but sometimes you had no other option. A common sight in the winter was to see a truck stopped, and the driver had lit a small fire under the fuel tank to thaw the diesel.
The City of Overland Park is located in Johnson County, Kansas. In 2010 the city had a population of 173,372 making it the 2nd largest city in Kansas and the largest suburb of Kansas City.
Turkey: October 1971
The AEC bus (YRC 45) off the road between Agri and Horosan, in north-eastern Turkey. The bus had an underslung AEC AH470 horizontal engine (7.7 litres) and five-speed gearbox. From new it had been part of the Burton-on-Trent Corporation bus fleet in England, before being sold to Safaris Overland for use on the route(s) out to India and back. The main problem with these particular AEC horizontal engines were the 'wet' cylinder liners which made them prone to overheating, and blowing cylinder-head gaskets, when worked hard or in very hot weather – or both. In the hard winter conditions the engine ran perfectly.
Not far from the road is the Aras River; at this spot it is still a relatively young river since it rises in the Erzurum region, but over a thousand kilometers later it empties into the Caspian Sea.
Composer: Charles D'Albert (1809-1886)
Publication Information: London : Chappell, [ca.1850?]
Catalogue ref: 781.4 DAV
Artist: J. Brandard
Technique: colour lithography
Overlander - Yutong TC9 - YE18 FMA seen on Emerson Way, Newton Aycliffe on September 12th 2018.
This has since passed to Primrose Coaches of Hexham
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Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. We were waiting, in Lahore, for the usual few passengers who were nearly always late for a departure. From left to right are: Mike, Marie, Sylvia, Hillary, Alan, Dennis and Delicia.
Our first campsite in Tanzania, near Mbeya.
Note our long wrap skirts. We had just come from Malawi where all women had to wear long dresses and men had to wear stove-pipe trousers, narrow enough that a beer bottle couldn't fit up the trouser leg near the ankles. This was the era of flares, so the guys had to pin/sew jeans so that they were narrow. We bought our wrap material at the Lusaka markets. There were some interesting choices including the face of the Zambian president, Kenneth Kaunda, which I didn't choose!
NB: Thanks to Philip Watson for the ID of the truck.
At the other end of Elko Yard: UP #1965 with five tank cars. Behind it is a westbound stacker stopped for a crew change.
On Scene of a HOUSE FIRE at 10915 West 109th Street in Overland Park on March 8, 2015 at 1457 hours.
Picture ID# 1137
A hot summers Saturday morning sees 6MA8 Overland cruising up the Callington curve with CLP8 on the front on 12-1-1996
4 cylinder engine
3 spd transmission
140,000 produced in 1916
Fords main rival
Willys-Overland Company Toledo Ohio
Petersen Automotive Museum, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, USA
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