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This week's Saturday Timewatch reveals a most unexpected find in the form of a VR Queen Victoria letter box, in situ and still in use today.
It is hidden away inside the old entrance to the current Young Offenders Institute, Portland. Then known as Portland Prison, the institution was built between 1848-57. Wall box-type post boxes first came into use for fixing into existing walls in 1857. So this could have been a very early example.
The real treat from the summer of course though, was during Goodwood Revival; where around 20 vintage buses descend on Chichester to operate shuttles into a bygone era! My stallion for the event was Stagecoach West's Bristol VR, JOU 160P; oddly the very first time I've driven a Closed Top VR, despite having done thousands of miles on Open Top ones! She is seen here operating late into the night on Serv: 902.
During May 2009 a number of ballast trains were worked by El Zorro between Dimboola and Adelaide using C501 and a smaller loco.
On this particular trip on 19-5-09, C501+16+T386 have arrived back at Serviceton after dropping ballast in the previous section.
Serviceton was the former border station between South Australia and Victoria where loco and crew changes were performed here until the start of through working in the early to mid 1980's.
Serviceton station still stands as a heritage listed building and tourist attraction.
Très longtemps que je rêvais de ce téléobjectif... Il est lourd, encombrant, mais quand on met l'oeil dans le viseur face à un animal sauvage, on oublie tout ça...
Hauts plateaux du Vercors
VR-HYO - Airbus A-320-321 - Dragonair (leased from ILFC)
at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG) in Dec. 1994
c/n 393 - built in 1993 for ILFC/Dragonair -
re-reg. B-HYO in 1997 -
current user is Iran Airtour Airlines as EP-TTA
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
VR Sverige 7192 (CPX 103)
Scania OmniLink CK270UA 4X2LB
Route 129 to Solna centrrum
Brommaplan, Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden
Taken on 24/09/2022
Copyright George Batchelor 2022
This bus was new to Arriva Sverige.
The south west is a good place for non pcv buses, almost every other month something pops onto the radar, often with a question mark attached. Some live on for years undiscovered as living accommodation or store sheds behind those Cornish or Devon hedges. This is ODL662R now someone’s home in South Devon and smartly repainted into this unusual blue & white.
VR Sr3 3317 in Helsinki with night train PYO 273 (Helsinki - Rovaniemi), aka Santa Claus Express, on October 3, 2025, 23:06. VR operates 2 daily night trains to the north, this train and an earlier, that goes to Kemijärvi, a little further north than Rovaniemi.
Back in the good old days (well from the enthusiast point of view) you could even find a gaggle of VRs in Devon away from the masses which were still in use in Cornwall.
This is Tavistock outstation in the morning after the school runs.
1201 was a Torpoint VR but was covering for shortages especially as that day it was working the 185 to Bere Alston normally the haunt of the Merc Minis!
Sadly 1201 was written off by a new Torpoint driver a few months later when it hit a low wall.
The other two VRs 1155 and 1262 survived for a good few more years the latter being one of my personal favourites.
With the annual Torbay half marathon taking place on 26th June this year, the usual diversions were in place, with buses routing via Preston Down, Ring Road & Fleet Street.
Pictured heading up Fleet Street we see Rail River Link's Bristol VR, UWV614S, with the daily 100 Torquay-Totnes service. With the fleet's Bristol VRs in their final summer this could well be the final time we see one of their fine machines making their way through Torquay town center.
Company: Rail River Link of Churston
Registration: UWV614S
Fleet Number: 1
New: 1978
Chassis: Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB
Bodywork: Eastern Coach Works CO74F
Route: 100 (Torquay, Strand-Totnes, Coronation Road)
Location: Fleet Street, Torquay
History: New to Southdown (614)
Exposure: 1/400 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 26 June 2016
VR Sverige 8317 (DLE 404)
Volvo 8900LE
Route 611 to Visinge
Danderyds sjukhus, Stockholm, Sweden
Taken on 23/09/2022
Copyright George Batchelor 2022
This bus was new to Arriva Sverige. Arriva Sverige AB was acquired by VR Sverige AB on July 1st 2022.
Tallest church spire in England, 404-feet
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Nikon D300 + Nikon Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G VR AF-S DX SWM aspherical
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These unusual longitudinal-engined Bristol VRs with double-deck ECW coach bodies were built for the W. C. Standerwick subsidiary of Ribble Motor Services for operating the express coach service from Lancashire to London. After retirement in the mid-1970s, this one, with several of its fellows, found further employment with the Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Executive, on a service between Newcastle Central Station and the Norwegian Ferry terminal. It is seen loading outside the station in 1978
Arriving into Salcombe from Kingsbridge during the annual Kingsbridge Bus Rally, Western National Bristol VR, VDV121S on a 105 service.
Company: Western National
Registration: VDV121S
Fleet Number: 1121
New: 1978
Chassis: Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB
Bodywork: Eastern Coach Works H74F
Route: 105 (Kingsbridge-Salcombe)
Location: Devon Road, Salcombe
Exposure: 1/500 @ f8 200ISO
Date: 15 September 2018
Love how sharp this turned out. I'm having more success with the close-up lens on my new Lomo' Instant Wide +. Fuji Instax Wide film + bulb setting.
Antique lock and key...a gift from my daughter. Added to a few bits of pieced-together chain, this is now a favorite necklace.
Western National flat front one man operated Bristol VR, fleet number 1054, in Glastonbury on the service to Taunton, February 26th 1977.
T R Coaches of Treorchy was still operating two Bristol VRs on school contracts for Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC as late as 2012- ECW-bodied JMB 401T, new to Crosville, and former Cardiff Bus Alexander AL-bodied CTX 396V.
The latter had been acquired in 1999 and was to see service until 2014, whereupon she was sold to the Cardiff Transport Preservation Group. I believe that this was only for spares, though I'm happy to be corrected.
This shot from June 2012 shows her sedately leaving the depot on her way to Treorchy Comprehensive School to take up an afternoon run.
A photo of JMB 401T can be seen here:
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VR depot in Helsinki Finland. Leica M4, Voigtländer Nokton 50mm 1:1.5 LTM dimmed to 1:8, Fomapan 100 developed in DD-X
D750
AF-S 105mm VR Micro
SB-910 + Westcott Apollo Orb (TTL)
Camera Left / Triggered via Built-in Commander
Manual Exposure
ƒ/18 @ 1/160th sec @ 400 ISO
I had an hour this morning on my way to show the new camera off at Samy's Camera in LA. So, a trip to the studio was in order.
I had arranged to meet a model at the studio. But that didn't work, so plan "B"! I had this peacock feather laying around and with an addition of an over sized drop of water...
The lighting was left over from the shot with my dog, Oliver. I killed the rim light and went with the single flash in the Orb.
The ISO was pushed up to 400 ISO so that the flashes were more efficient at the ƒ/18 setting. ƒ/18 was selected for the added depth of field I wanted when working this close and handheld.
VR-HYA - Airbus A-330-342 - Dragonair (leased from ILFC)
at Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport (HKG)
c/n 098 - built in 1995 for Dragonair /ILGC -
became B-HYA in 1997 - retired 09/2011 -
to Onur Air as TC-OCB -
retired and stored AYT 01/2017 - scrapped - remains used as diving site at Gulf of Saros
scanned from Kodachrome-slide