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Female of Siberian (Asian) Stonechat bird in a paddy field near Ludhiana, Punjab.
Stonechats are named such after their call sound which is like two stones being hit together.
Long-tailed or Rufous-backed Shrike perched on a pole in a field near Ludhiana, Punjab.
Normally I avoid clicking wildlife when it is around or interacting with man-made objects. These images, I decided to click after a second thought. The results, I think, are "not too bad!"
Right in the town centre of Southend-On-Sea, Essex. Offical graffti by young children during an event at Victoria Plaza.
2003 TransBus Dart SLF (or should that be Dennis?) SN03 YCL and Scania OmniCity YN55 PWJ at a very busy Crawley Bus Station.
Grey Bushchat bird near Pong Lake in Himachal.
Grey bushchat is a himalayan bird that dwells around the mid and lower mountain ranges and foothill areas of the Himalayas.
V509 LJH in service at Old Warden Airfield. This vehicle had previously been with Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service.
716 BKK displayed at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard Chatham.
The International B-250 tractor was produced in the United Kingdom between 1955 and 1961. They were made in the Bradford factory once used for Jowett car production.
WLT 897 at North Weald Station on the Epping Ongar Railway. Did the round trip from North Weald Station to Epping Central Line Station on this iconic heritage bus.
Only about 3,000 of the original Routemasters were made, but around 1,000 still survive.
This was in High Road, South Benfleet, Essex. A major issue as this is one of the two routes leading on to Canvey Island and serving Benfleet Station and bus interchange.
At Nieuport, Belgium. The outer circle is 30 metres in diameter with 20 columns. Central is a statue of "The Soldier King" Albert I on a horse. The monument was unveiled in 1938 an has undergone refurbishments in later years. H.R.H. King Albert I led the Belgium forces during the Great War defending a small area of Belgium that the Germans did not occupy.
Photo taken in 2018.
Plenty of room for me and the ticket inspector as we pulled out of London Bridge Station on a train bound for Horsham. A couple more people did get on board further down the line.
Very modern class of train first in service during 2016. The seating is not as comfortable as on trains from the 1950's though! Fewer seats and more standing room is the order of the day here.
Impressive 180 passenger capacity for the Hess Trolleyzug from the Swiss based company. This photograph was taken in central Arnhem, Netherlands which is now the only Dutch town to operate trolleybuses. The trolleybus system in Arnhem opened in 1949. The very first trolleybus ran in Berlin during 1882.
At Sheffield Park Station on the Bluebell Railway in East Sussex.
The locomotive taking on water is Maunsell Q-Class 30541 built in 1939.
The road bridge at Nijmegen along with the nearby rail bridge were important objectives for Operation Market Garden during September 1944. Unlike a lot of the famous bridges in this area that have been rebuilt, the central span here is original. It had been blown by the Dutch Army on 10th May 1940 with the central span falling in to the Waal River. Presumably largely in tack as the Germans were able to raise it and rebuild the bridge that had originally opened in 1936. Surpringly the German forces did not detonate the explosives on the bridge in September 1944. The rebuilt rail bridge does not look anything like the original, although some element of the old bridge remain.
Photo taken in 2019.
The heroic LO41 Endeavour in a regular mooring spot at Leigh-On-Sea, Essex.
The 34 foot cockle bawley was built in 1926. The Endeavour had a scene in the 2017 Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk.
Photo taken in 2019.
A major student accommodation block for the University Of Essex-Southend Campus. Opened in 2010 and received a commendation from the Southend Design Awards. It is set around a central courtyard and has 560 student bedrooms arranged in to flats.. The rooms are offered as holiday accommodation outside of normal term time. It also contains a public car park with a dubious reputation and some retail units. Sometimes referred to as the Lego Building locally.
357 033 is from the first batch of these C2C units built between 1999 and 2001. Photographed here at Leigh-On-Sea Station heading towards Shoeburyness.
The line runs from London Fenchurch Street to Southend-On-Sea and Shoeburyness, Essex on a direct route. There is also a loop from Barking to Pitsea via Grays, which was the original route when the line was first built back in the 1850's.
CWGC cemetery containing 216 graves of British forces. Mainly from the operations of September 1944 and just after.
The tributes at the base of the cross were laid on the evening of Saturday 4th May 2019, Remembrance Day in Holland. The 2 minutes silence takes place at 8.00 p.m.. I took the photograph here the following morning which was Liberation Day.
The Gravesend-Tilbury vessel Thames Swift arriving at the Tilbury Riverside landing stage. In the background is the M.V. Sertao which is a drilling ship built in 2012.
Displayed at RAF Museum Hendon.
Weapons Mounted Installation Kit on the specialist military Wolf version of the Land Rover. Used by British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, but produced with the export market in mind. This WMIK with 24 volt electrics, upgraded axles and armoured body proved to be too expensive to create interest from overseas buyers as the more basic military Land Rover options were good enough for most requirements.
A light commercial classic. The Renault 4 range was designed during the 1950's and produced from 1961 until 1992, a couple of years later in Eastern Europe.
This van version has a detuned (for economy) 1108cc petrol engine that had been used in larger Renault models. A 747cc engine had been standard back when the range was launched in 1961. The van features the cube style load area and the giraffe upper rear tailgate door for carrying long loads.
Photo taken in 2019.
MDA 950P at the Festival of Steam and Transport 2019. Historic Dockyard, Chatham, Kent.
Looks to be a late registered MkI as the MK2 Allegro had already been launched at the end of 1975. The much maligned Austin Allegro went through a couple of facelifts in its production run from 1973 to 1982. The early models were famous for the quartic steering wheel which in effect had rounded off corners. Many people retro fitted the steering wheel from the earlier 1100/1300 range. This car also has a normal round steering wheel. My guilty confession is that I rather liked the quartic steering wheel on my own early Allegro, way back when. I also liked the Hydrolastic suspension which when pump up properly gave a very comfortable ride and handling. I know most people with experience of Allegro cars would not agree with that.
TfL Overground's 378 225 at Stratford Station in East London.
The Class 378 commuter trains have been in service since 2009 and were designed specifically for London Overground.
View from the pier head looking towards Southend-On-Sea, Essex. The low tide shows why the original pier was built. So that daytripper pleasure boats could come down the River Thames from London and disembark their passengers regardless of the state of the
tide.
Hermes Breng Direct 5439 near the railway station in Arnhem, Netherlands. The pink roof and white body livery buses are normally Nijmegen based. the signage along the roof refers to the bus running on green gas. The engine runs on bio gas.
At 205 Portobello Road is this eye catching frontage amid a very busy street market.
Photo taken in 2019.
The usual weekend rail replacement bus and coach service in place. Major overhead cable replacement has been going on for a long time now.
In the foreground is the shared space area for buses and pedestrians.
Southend-On-Sea, Essex.
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Over 70 class 317 EMU's are still in service throught the UK. They were built in two batches back in the early and mid 1980's. Refurbishment and upgrades over the years must point to the sucess of the original design I would think.