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The much-photographed west door of Strata Florida Abbey with its unusual scroll mouldings.
This grey weather was quite exciting, being the first proper cloud and drizzle I'd seen for weeks.
Another new bus, for a new route
Our new 101 Haddington Town Service started on Monday 7th November. What we didn't tell anyone was that we bought a brand new low floor, wheelchair accessible, Mercedes minibus to run the route.
Built to our specification by Mellor Coachcraft this is their new Strata model and is only the 3rd one to enter service.
We bought it as it's ideally suited to some of the narrower streets the town service will use and being a Euro 6 model will produce amongst the lowest emissions of any vehicle on the road, this coupled to excellent fuel consumption also means extremely low C02 output.
It will also be used on our other routes at quieter times including the 110 and 111.
Nikon F80
Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-
Kodak Gold
Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.
pted Strata. © Copyright 2012 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
The fractured and bent layers of a fractured boulder in a Utah slot canyon.
This jumble of rocks sits in a Southern Utah canyon, piled on debris and the lower face of a cliff that runs along the banks of a small creek. The bottoms of such canyons are, for obvious reasons, places full of all sorts of debris that either falls from the surrounding cliffs or is washed down the canyon in periodic floods. A good part of the challenge of making progress through such terrain involves contending with this detritus.
As is so often the case in these landscapes, the initial appearance of features may mislead the viewer about their history. Rocks, of course, seem quite solid and immutable. But this little vignette of almost nothing but rock actually shows more about how much it changes than about its stability. This rock was formed in layers laid down by water a long, long time ago. Those layers were compressed, folded, upended and broken over time. Here we see a snapshot of that process. Lying atop a smoother section of the cliff, this deteriorating boulder’s layers are made apparent as they break apart and realign.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon
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A fun new ring. This one features a sterling silver core lined first with brass and then with a second layer of sterling. It has been given a patina and buffed for a nice contrast between the layers. It is a size 8.
Just outside the villages of Calvine / Struan off the main A9 road, the River Garry cuts an impressive deep gorge through the psammite rock, its strata layers exposed through thrusts along local faultlines, eroded by the water and pebbles flowing..
Following a friend's advice I explored along the river, admiring the geology; this was the first photographic scene to catch my eye - not the grandeur of the river but a small cascade trickling along to the side.
Technically slightly difficult to achieve the photo I wanted: the rain was coming on, the tripod had to be very low on the ground about 70yd away the other side of the gorge, shooting directly through a decayed clump of bracken with a tree branch swaying back and forth in the middle of the distance. With enough long-exposure data, these things leave no impression...
Prints, masks and other things are available via the website: www.shinyphoto.co.uk/photo/Small-Cascades--River-Garry-a4...
Over on the Mellor Coachcraft stand, they revealed their two newest offerings in the form of facelifted Stratas on the next-generation Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 515CDi chassis. The Mellor Strata Plus sits right in the middle of the new Strata range, at 8.1 metres long and with a passenger capacity of 27, of which 24 seated.
Euro Bus Expo 2018
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham
1 November 2018
The beauty of the formations at Senjyojiki in Wakayama Prefecture is impressive, with exposed sandstone stratum.
A trio of Mellor Strata bodied Mercedes Sprinters arrived at Reays today, a 4th one to follow.
With low carbon certified Euro6 emission engines, and an improved fuel economy, these new additions will help drive the company forward on it's environmental aims by reducing our carbon footprint further.
Registrations: LT68AOA, LT68AOC and LT68ANX. Also part of the fleet but not pictured is LT68AOB.
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PC Coaches run the Louth Nipper service using this Mercedes Sprinter Mellor Strata with minimal branding. LT68AOA is seen in Louth Bus Stn 14/06/23 at 13:54. It was new to Reays.
Although Strata Florida was 13 miles and 79 chains inland from Aberystwyth the area even to this day has a holiday appeal about it, even the name, suggests it might be a nice place to explore. The station was built by the Manchester and Milford Railway and opened to the public in 1867. Interestingly the M&MR chose to ignore the nearest village and named the station after the Cistercian abbey, no doubt a marketing strategy which over time worked very well. The abbey was a little ruin and It was not until the coming of the railways that interest in the site was rekindled. Stephen Williams, The railway engineer for the M&MR was surveying a possible route through the area when he took an interest in the ruins. As Williams was a founder member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, he invited the group to the site in 1848. Following this visit, the Association leased the Abbey site to create better displays and presentations for the public.
Williams, who was to become a leading expert on the archaeology of the Cistercian Order, was placed in charge of excavations. Over the next few years, he removed huge amounts of spoil, to uncover the majority of remains that are still on view today. Interest in the ruins brought wealthy Victorians by railway to Strata Florid.
The station was situated on the northern expanse of Cors Caron ― also known as Cors Goch Glanteifi (the red bog on the banks of the Teifi), or simply Tregaron Bog with the wind and rain blowing in off the marshy terrain the station would be one of the less appealing places to catch a train let alone watch them. The origin of the bog goes back around 12,000 years, to the time when this area was in the grip of the last ice age. When the glaciers melted they left behind a large shallow lake, which gradually filled with sediments and vegetation resulting in a waterlogged, acidic marshland and ideal conditions for the formation of peat.
For centuries Cors Caron was the main source of fuel for the local community; for the Cardiganshire gentry, on the other hand, it was a place for recreation – to engage in the pleasures of shooting and fishing.
In this shot photographed on Tuesday, the 13th of August 1963 from the 11.55 pm 'up' Aberystwyth to Carmarthen service hauled by an unidentified 4MT class 2-6-4T, 87G Carmarthen allocated 78xx class 4-6-0 No 7826 'Longworth Manor' heads the 10.40 am corresponding 'down' service. Both trains were due to cross Strata Florida at 12 36 pm and 12.30 pm respectively.