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It's very easy to knock something that is new especially when it's replacing something as Iconic as the Intercity 125/HST. But when a design of the 21st Century in 2018 is in many ways worse than a design of the 20th Century in 1975 you have to ask, why?
I've now had a chance to travel on GWRs new 800 Class IEP/IET and what many people are saying about them is true. Technical flaws aside (and there are many reading the reports and reviews from people more expert than myself) the interiors look awful and the seats/passenger comfort are woeful. I've not used first class on these trains yet but the difference seems minimal compared to standard when you see it. GWR seem to have gone out of their way to decrease passenger comfort when in this day and age they should be improving it. I'd be very wary about travelling more than two hours on an 800 or basically anywhere further than Swindon. Greater comfort can found on a suburban train travelling for an hour than on these things travelling for 4 hours or more to the far west. Perhaps GWR should offer a discount to people who bring their own seat cushion? And pack your own lunch as well as the buffet car has gone too! We can only hope that the East Coast 800s when they enter service will be better than the GWR ones and that lessons will have been learned.
Perhaps I'm just being a grumpy old so and so but shouldn't it be the case that a new design should seek to improve on an existing one? Higher fares are always justified on the grounds of 'improvements to the railways' and that may be the case in terms of some services and stations. But in terms of the trains we seem to be travelling in we seem to be going backwards a lot of the time.
An improvement, some might suggest! Surprisingly hard to hold your head in your own hands in a realistic way...
For ODC: Carved
And Me Again Monday: Happy Uglyween!
Pumpkin design by Mac Jr
Textures by Alegion Stock browse.deviantart.com/?q=woodland+background#/d16i8qo
and WanderingSoul: wanderingsoul-stox.deviantart.com/art/Texture-24-48111819
The Substitutes take shelter in the dugout whilst the snow falls during most of the under twelves cup match. Everyone got a good runout during an emphatic 12-0 win, putting them through to the semi-finals.
This was only the second time during 4 years of kids football that I have been approached and asked if I had permission to take photos. A tricky subject, normally I stay with the rest of the team supporters on the side lines but everyone was huddled under a nearby shelter so I went wandering and obviously stood out.
On this occasion the"Child Welfare Officer" was pleasant enough and everything worked out.
Ulsterbus Volvo B11R SC5 Sunsundegui Fleet Number 1113 Reg XUI 2913 is Seen In Newry Traiin station on railway substitution to Belfast
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47 500 Great Western starts away from Didcot with 1C67, the 18:25 Paddington - Bristol substituting for an HST
Didcot
90025 921216 Leeds 0950 KX-Lds
Two shots, exactly 25 years apart, to show that the Class 90's were always a part of the scene on the ECML.
These were interesting times on the East Coast with the 91's falling over all over the place and there could be upto three or four 90's out in substitution.
Initially they could turn up literally anywhere from Leeds to Edinburgh but they were soon concentrated on the Leeds service as their lower speed but frankly much superior acceleration meant they could keep to the Class 91 schedules, just.
Problems did occur when it was reported that some drivers, whilst in the DVT, forgot they had a 90 on the back and flogged the poor 90's upto some silly speeds instead of the 110mph they were restricted to!, and railfreight were not too impressed when they received back a loco thrashed within an inch of it's life.
90025, having been delivered in full Intercity Swallow livery was then allocated to Railfreight Distribution and received the house colours, is seen at Leeds having worked up from London on the 0950 from Kings Cross on 16th December 1992
Northbound Metrolink train 667 waited fifteen minutes at CP Las Pulgas for an Amtrak Pacifc Surfliner.
We are situated at the west gate of the United States Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, CA.
Will BNSF AC44's remain leading Southern Cal Regional Rail sets past Halloween?
In any case, this foambot will make valiant attempts at capturing them in operation.
Here is the first of hopefully several more. Stay tuned sports fans.
4.5.98 Standard tank 80079 had failed at Shrewsbury and was taken off the train for a Res 47 that I hadn't recorded its number. The 'Malvern Tank' carried on to Worcester 47 hauled. Any help with the number would be appreciated.
Copyright Neville Wellings
These days winter is hard to find at home. It’s barely cold and snow is nonexistent. So, a suitable substitute must be found. Luckily nature provides some things that at least look alike.
The remaining members of the New South Wales ALCo 44,442 and 45 classes were withdrawn en masse in July 1994. I was lucky when a short visit in April 94 coincided with Class 44 no.4456 deputising for a failed DEB diesel multiple unit on Southern Highlands commuter services for a few days.
On 20 April 1994, 4456 emerges from Picton Tunnel with SL34 passenger at 0753hrs.
'The Cathedrals Express' run from Paddington to Stratford Upon Avon on the 1st July was originally supposed to have been hauled by 61306 'Mayflower' which became unavailable and was then substituted by 60009 'Union of South Africa' which would have been nice as well! Sadly, due to the fire risk in the current heatwave it ended up being diesel hauled by one of West Coasts rather grotty Class 47s! Here it is coming off the New North Main Line at South Ruislip onto the Chiltern Line.
When I watched it go past at my local station of South Ruislip (which rarely sees any steam activity) the train was so bereft of passengers I thought it was running as ECS! Perhaps most people pulled out of this trip when the Steam Engines got pulled or it was picking people up further up the line!? Not the best of pictures either as the sun shines London bound in the first half of the day!
"No, Stanley ... 'Accept no substitutes' does not apply to substitute teachers. You're stuck with me for the rest of the week!"
**Substitute for AP-BGZ stuck in Toronto due to a bird strike a few days prior**
Taxiway Bravo
Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport (YYZ | CYYZ)
This scene takes place at Crater Canyon, Arizona - about 42 miles up track from Fort Legoredo and 26 miles from the huge iron bridge spanning the canyon itself. This photo was taken in Summer 1976 at the railroad station just outside of town. Here we see one the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe's few remaining cab passenger loco's pulling into the depot for refueling operation for it's vintage 1949 F3 diesel loco units and for letting off / on of passengers and freight. But as Amtrak was around (and had it's own engines) by 1976, why was this Santa Fe engine hauling a Amtrak train into town?
After a bit of sleuthing I found the answer: Because the Amtrak locomotive broke down (probably a SDP40F) further upgrade, near the middle of New Mexico. Anyway, the two Santa Fe units were nearby in Albuquerque waiting for the next freight train to come by and were just cut in instead. So, these old former Santa Fe Super Chief engines got one last day in the limelight hauling the Amtrak Southwest Chief.
(If your wondering why this picture is named why it is, The Who's song "Substitute" was playing while typing this, and it fits the fictional story I told very well.)
Whilst the Bristol U1 University service awaits its own new vehicles, First have drafted in a number of their new Scanias destined for other routes locally to suffice.
Not carrying a fleet number but actually 36812 YM17FKG, this is one of the first First Scania e400s and also has dual doors, in addition to some temporary branding for the U1.
Sellafield signal box, framed - on the right - by the Sellafield pipe bridge on 25 March 2022.
Also seen is 68003 moving from Sellafields Up Sidings to the North Siding (a replacement for 68018) to head 6C21, DRS’ 1415 Sellafield North Siding – Barrow Docks empty stone hoppers.
The loco is passing the down starting signal from the bi-directional up platform. The starter from the down platform line may be seen beside the ‘box.
Running about 10 minutes late a Solo is seen having passed Frith Wood on its way to Seatoller with a Bank Holiday Monday 78 service.
Presumably this was the Keswick spare, I was expecting an open top 'decker.
47798 'Prince William', deputising for failed 6233 'Duchess of Sutherland', heads a Hull-York 'Northern Belle' working at Hambleton Jn, 30th April 2003. Provia.
My favorite cafe, Malmens konditori have closed for three weeks. Nathalia is heading for Greece. Marco will fly down to Spain and one of the waitresses have already landed on one of the Canary Islands. We tried Paus Bagarstuga yesterday, and although the coffee was great, the outdoor furniture is seriously crappy. We had better luck today as we headed for FikAnn, located across the road from the legendary Vegabaren in Handen. And I'm happy to report that the coffee at FikAnn was very good and that the meatball sandwich was delicious, and you wouldn't believe the prices here, it is too cheap if you ask me!
The much pushed and long awaited debut of the DRS class 68 didn't happen, during the week, Pathfinder Tours were advised that no class 68 would be available to head the Caterpillar Cat railtour as the entire fleet have been stopped due to a multitude of acceptance issues.
Still, a pair of 37's would sub.... oh hang on, no, it's gonna be ex-Freightliner 57/0's.
And so it came to pass as 57009 and 57008 were turned out for the Eastleigh-Crewe Crankex and 57009 leads the ECS for the return train into Crewe. Still, nice to see a locomotive on the curve from the Chester line instead of a bloody Voyager eh?
19 July 2014
BR D1935 (47805), working the 1Z52 Saphos 'Welsh Marches Express' tour from Shrewsbury to Woking, is seen passing through Bromfield at speed in dismal weather conditions. The train was supposed to be led by A4 Pacific “Sir Nigel Gresley” but unfortunately due to brake issues, the train was diesel hauled instead.
A Class 31/4 at Oxford working a very short northbound train from Reading or Paddington in late 1989 or early 1990.
47241 at Barnstaple awaiting departure time with a dmu substitute to Exeter St Davids. No run round loop here now! The bridge in the background has since been demolished.
Linda and I hope everyone had a great weekend !! This is an image that I shot at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge earlier this year. We had lots of Northern Pintails this year at Merritt and it made for some wonderful chances to get images of them !! Thanks for looking and all the comments !!
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This is two iterations of a substitution where the prototile shapes are defined by cutting a regular polygon along all of its diagonals. Higher-order polygons will involve more types of tiles; pentagons use 3 tile types, heptagons use 7 tile types, nonagons use 14.
I think the same method should be extensible to even-numbered polygons, but have run out of drawing time today. Stay tuned!
Planet 3884 in RFS livery during its return to Sandiacre covering for the absence of Sentinel 10037.
12 March 1993
Metrobus-cum-Go-Ahead-London-Metrobus 707 (YX58 DXC), a MAN 14.240/Alexander Dennis Enviro200, stands in for the more usual Scania OmniCity on the 293.
Clock Tower, High Street, Epsom, Surrey.
I am a fan of putting books online. There are parts of the country and of the world that have limited access, at best, to books, and no access to some titles. If the rights of readers and buyers and sellers and authors and publishers and libraries are protected, if publishing online does not pull existing volumes from circulation, if it increases access for all, and decreases access for none, I'm for it, subject of course, to further consideration.
Nothing, though, can replace the actual experience of real books, with covers and pages, real books that can show wear and dogears and notes.
There is a feeling of discovery in perusing the shelves in a library, bookstore, thrift shop, flea market, garage sale, or friend's home and either finding some volume that is a forgotten old friend or one that shows promise of becoming a new one.
There is something extremely satisfying about being the first to open a new book, or opening an old book that one knows others have enjoyed for decades, or more, something comforting in turning pages, feeling the mix of emotions in that part read and that, dwindling, part left to read.
I remember how it felt to sit beside my daughter's bed and read to her ("If you give a mouse a cookie... "), to turn the pages and to have neither of us want the story to end. She has a home of her own now, a career, a life, and is growing a library with her husband, a library that is home to some of those books that she and I shared.
If you give a child a bedtime story, she'll probably want a book, and if you give her a book, she'll probably want a shelf full of books, and if you give her a shelf full of books, she'll probably want...
the World
With a hospital appointment in Wrexham, I checked RTT before leaving Bangor to see if the Dee Marsh - Margam was running. It was., 1006 in General. Result. 1050 in Maelor, so just enough time for the station and down the road for the appointment . 1010 and no signal so the 1W91 Cardiff -Holyhead had to suffice! Got home to find it had been cancelled - maybe next time!
JeffSTAT (Thomas Jefferson University Hospital / Air Methods)
2005 Eurocopter EC135 T2
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JeffSTAT 2 substitute
You don't often see coaches on bus routes these days; here is Arriva the Shires DAF/Plaxton 4368 on a 150 from Milton Keynes to Aylesbury in Leighton Buzzard on 18 November 2010. I assume the yellow livery is normally used on schools duties?
The building in the background with the clock tower was the old Fire Station (and previously Market Hall), now a pasta/pizza restaurant called ASK