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Not long before the absorption of the GB&W into the Wisconsin Central, three C424 units (313….) lead a westbound freight over the WCL "Shawano Subdivision", with its Soo Line (actually Wisconsin & Northern if you want to go back to the '20s) depot in background. This is probably Train #1, which normally left Green Bay in the afternoon and headed for East Winona and its interchange with BN. A connection track ran behind the depot between the WCL and the GBW; starting with the creation of Lake States after Soo Line's purchase of Milwaukee Road, this connection was used by the Soo to access GBW trackage rights into Green Bay. The Milwaukee Road's mainline south of Green Bay towards Milwaukee had deteriorated to such a point that this was viewed as a more practical solution for serving Green Bay from the south. Wisconsin Central continued this arrangement for as many as six trains (three each way) each day, until the GBW and Fox River Valley railroads were acquired in 1993 and the FRVR's former C&NW provided a more direct access to Green Bay to/from the south. Once CN acquired the WCL, most of the GBW from Green Bay to New London was on its way to oblivion, and the track on which this train is riding is now gone. (Thanks to John Leopard and his VOL.1 of Wisconsin Central Heritage - published by Four Ways West - for keeping this information accessible in my library!)
The Hague
April 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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When we visited the current GOMA art works which profiles art by Australian artists, we were totally in awe of an animated work by Deborah Kelly - Beastliness.
These two girls were similarly affected, and the moment needed capturing.
This work is described as:-
The second work, Beastliness 2011, is a fast-paced animation. Taking aesthetic cues from MTV as well as early twentieth-century collage, Kelly’s characters are uncanny fusions of animals, insects and women in a world of frenzied dancing. Kelly re-mythologises femininity, avoiding the stereotypes that constrain and demonise people for their difference.
Kelly’s strategy is to embrace diversity: these creatures represent many female forms, thoughts and experiences, and celebrate acceptance and freedom of expression.
I tried to figure out how to use the Canon 60D movie mode, but couldn't find it in the dimmed lighting. I know it is there, just needed to find the beast.
(Looked just now and found the movie mode button which has obviously been installed on my camera since Saturday while I was sleeping)
I am sure these girls had a story to tell later over coffee about what they interpreted from the display.
Speaking of movies, look at this music video with a DIFFERENCE
Story in a Picture Challenge
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
This shot hopefully concludes my momentary lapse of weakness ;)
It gives you guys a nice impression of how some of my shots are taken.
I've been enjoying the sun for a few days, will get back to my books the day after tomorrow!
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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June 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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I was just pleased to get any sort of shot of this Neath & Cardiff Reliance / Cavalier, but I was less pleased to open the slide box and find a hole in the slide where the mould had eaten through it ! Luckily, it only touched the top of the roof, and I have done a reasonable repair on it - good enough for me.
Amazingly, it only had an 11-year service life, seeing virtually no use after N&C's absorption into South Wales Transport. It entered preservation in 1972, so has now spent nearly five times as long with various owners as it did earning a living ! Some of its owners, such as GM, who had it from 1986 to 1992, may have used it for bits of commercial work, but never on a full-time basis.
Depot, 18/6/86
The Hague
April 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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June 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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The Moon as a comet with a tail of sodium
Credit: Giuseppe Donatiello
The phenomenon, known since 1988, requires specific conditions:
1. Very clean atmosphere to avoid the diffusion of dust and water vapor.
2. Very high moon to reduce atmospheric absorption.
3. Moon close to first or last quarter.
4 - Use of selective filters capable of passing the line at 560nm.
Finding these conditions all together is not easy, but in March 25, 2026 I had them all, with mild weather around 14°C.
The first quarter is desirable because a sort of shadow is visible tangential to the direction of view.
More precisely, it is a tunnel in the fluorescent sodium tail because photoerosion does not occur on the non-illuminated side, being protected from solar radiation. This favors the recording of a darker trail, approximately the same diameter as the Moon. It's a test.
To have a good signal/noise ratio I performed the stack of 10 30s-shots at 3200 ISO and processed with PSP X8. I performed the alignment on stars.
Unfortunately, there is no way to avoid the reflections produced by optics and filters: it is the Moon!
A rich discussion of the lunar exosphere is in this paper:
Leblanc, F., Schmidt, C., Mangano, V. et al. Esosfere comparative di Na e K di Mercurio e della Luna. Space Sci Rev 218 , 2 (2022). doi.org/10.1007/s11214-022-00871-w
The information and annotations in the image are of scientific utility because they identify the subject and place it in a specific moment. They also indicate the subject of interest. The absence of such information makes the images useless.
Leiden
May 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Scheveningen/The Hague
May 2012
The Netherlands
Beachlife in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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The tight framing of the ill-postured, tightly wound young woman makes a compelling image of readerly absorption.
789, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Ricoh GR Digital IV
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Zaahr - in Black * Zaahr - Facebook
SOOC image.
Raganuga - Absorption in Pure Love
Gracias a todos por los amables comentarios, mi amigos/as!
Thank you for all your kind comments, my friends!
National Museum, Beijing
July 2012
China
Urban life
Ricoh GR Digital IV
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This large fresco of an epic battle is by Giuseppe Cesari, aka Cavalier d'Arpino (circa End 16th/Beginning 17th Centuries).
The painting depicts the Romans under Tullus Hostilius, third king of Rome, in violent battle against two neighbouring Etruscan cities. It was part of the wars that led to the absorption of Etruria into Rome.
At the Capitoline Museum, Rome; July 2019
Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (CB2, MT2) filtered images taken by Cassini on November 9 2007. Map projected.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
Maximum light absorption.
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LEVELS OF ABSORPTION, 2004 by LAURA MAYOTTE
36”w x 20 1/2”h x 16”d
Handmade flax paper, handspun and dyed linen yarn, indigo dye.
Artist’s Statement
Levels of Absorption holds many meanings for me. Literal meanings, such as the actual absorption of the indigo dye on the pages and watermarks, and abstract meanings, such as (being a book form) how much knowledge we absorb over a lifetime, the fact that we never make use of our entire brain, that there is always room for more knowledge, learning and growth, and that also the tree-like shape adds to this idea of growth over time. All the sewing reflects the pathways of the brain and how we think; how everything is connected, how odd things can remind us of seemingly unrelated things, but they are all there and accessible. This sewing is also rather electricity-like in appearance, and metaphorically, referring to how fast our thoughts can be, our natural reflexes or responses to stimuli, and how knowledge gained over time can be instantly accessed once learned.
The Hague
March 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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FOV: 6" wide.
This experiment was an attempt to recreate the fluorescence of chromium activated corundum (aka 'ruby'). Aluminum hydroxide was mixed with 1-4 drops of Cr(III) oxide in a basic solution. This was placed on a small amount of aluminum sulfate in an aluminum foil container and a bit of water was added.
The sample was then heated, first with a propane torch until the water was removed and then with a MAPP gas torch until the aluminum sulfate expanded into foam, trapping the aluminum hydroxide which was calcined into aluminum oxide by the torch's flame. (at least that was the plan)
Shown also is a natural ruby from Mysore, India.
See ruby excitation spectrum here (0.03% Cr):
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Contains:
Ruby (FL Red >GR,BL/UVa)
Ruby Foam (FL Red >GR,BL/UVabc)
Shown under UVa light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
BL = 450nm, GR = 532nm
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Ruby2
24 Dec 2016
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Sprinter Leiden CS - The Hague CS
February 2013
On my new blog thecovertphotographer.wordpress.com i will be providing some background to some of my pictures. Here is the story that goes along with this particular shot: thecovertphotographer.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/rush-hour/
Candid shots in and around Public Transport
Ricoh GRD IV
“Light and dark, dry and wet, reflective and absorptive, these qualities give the different multiples of the painting a distinct visual rhythm. (…) The rhythms change with the light and with the position and movements of the viewer.”
Winston Roeth
In the summer of 2021, I had J-131, a radioactive iodine isotope with a half-life of eight days in my body. For the duration of its absorption by the body, or more precisely, the targeted destruction of parts of it and the excretion of the material by it, I was in radiation quarantine. Such, I had enough time to capture this for me probably unique moment of being in direct contact with radioactivity. Visualising this invisible phenomenon fascinated me. The result is a limited series of Polaroids that visualise the half-life and radiation of the material in the intensity of the respective results. I did not take photographs or paint with light (deriving from the greek wtó, Ypáeiv (photós graphein), photography initially means “light” and “to paint/write/draw” and refers to both the process and the result). I only shot with body fluids.
(this is a photograph with my mobile during an exhibition with a reflection of myself in the framed work)
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exposed without camera | Polaroid Type 52
The name "Red Forest" comes from the ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986. In the post-disaster cleanup operations, the Red Forest was bulldozed and buried in "waste graveyards". The site of the Red Forest remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today.
789, Beijing
July 2012
China
Nothing like a giant transformer to lay your head to rest against when tired
Ricoh GR Digital IV
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"Date: 2019. Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Medium: Marble stucco on plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera, gold foil.
The statue type known as Small Herculaneum Woman has survived in dozens of ancient marble replicas. This reconstruction is based on studies of the extensive color preserved on a replica found in Delos, which has been examined in ultraviolet, infrared, and raking light as well as with X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy. Decorative elements on the undergarment were painted with a light Egyptian blue, and iron-based pigments in shades of red and brown were used for the hair and facial features. Green malachite survived in large areas of her mantle, blackened through fire.
"The Late Classical prototype of the so-called Small Herculaneum Woman is lost, but dozens of copies of the Hellenistic and Roman periods are preserved. The young woman, her hair composed of several strands woven together into a severe bun, wraps herself in a mantle that she draws tightly around her body with both hands. Beneath the mantle she wears a finely pleated undergarment and sandals with thick soles. The reconstruction was made in 2019, as part of a project financed by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, "The university collection as living archive. Teaching and research at the intersection of materiality and communication." It is based on studies of the polychromy of a copy found in 1894 on Delos (National Archaeological Museum, Athens, inv. 1827). The cast was taken from the Roman copy that gives the statue type its nickname, discovered in 1706 in Herculaneum (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden inv. Hm 327).
The polychromy of the copy from Delos has been investigated on several occasions since 1982. The best-preserved colors are a light blue (Egyptian blue) for decorative elements of the under-garment and a whole palette of iron oxides in shades of red and brown, especially on the hair and face. The excavators at the end of the 19th century had already observed traces of a rich pink and violet. Traces of gilding and of a violet color, the result of corrosion, are preserved on the borders of the mantle.
Yellow pigment containing lead, as well as lead white and malachite that had been burned to a grey-black powder, could also be detected with the use of intensive scientific investigation. In ultraviolet light, bands of wave and ray patterns can be seen on the mantle. The reconstruction brings together all the colors that have been detected since the statue was excavated. The application of paint on the mantle makes especially clear what the sculptor's intentions were: the fine, greenish fabric is transparent wherever the garment is pulled tightly around the body. Thus, the flesh color of the arm and elbow, as well as the violet of the undergarment, shines through at the belly and right thigh.
The decoration of the dress hem with sea monsters and the pomegranate branch on the mantle hem are designed in analogy to robe depictions in vase painting of the 4th century BC and on Hellenistic sculpture."" - info from the Met.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on March 30, 1880. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
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Explore #496—my first photo to make Explore! Thanks guys!
My favorite Ansel Adams photograph is "Clearing Winter Storm," and so I was desperately hoping for a storm when I visited Yosemite (even though I knew I'd never get a photo as good as Ansel's as I'm not that talented!). Luckily, on the third day, this storm rolled in and brought a ton of fog with it. The fog was pouring down El Capitan like waterfalls and spiraling through the trees on the valley floor. The view was so amazing I shot five rolls of film of the changing views, plus a few shots with the digital camera for some instant gratification. This is one of the digital shots; the film shots will be scanned over the next couple of days as there are a TON of rolls of film from the trip and developing and scanning them takes awhile...
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This photo is really just meant to be informative and educational for those that are curious about the Universe, and want to know how things work. As photographers we capture Photons after all, so here is a bit of the Physics behind the light that we love to capture.
This image shows the Electromagnetic Spectrum of light from the Sun, after traveling through Earth's blue Nitrogen rich skies (photographed through a Quantitative Spectroscope).
The nanometer scale in the Spectroscope shows the wavelengths of visible light, that range from 400 nm - 700 nm. Invisible light at shorter wavelengths (beyond violet) include Ultraviolet (UV), X-Ray and Gamma Ray. Longer wavelengths of light (beneath red) include Infrared, Microwave and Radio Waves.
About the Sun:
The Sun is a G-type Main-Sequence Yellow Dwarf (G2V) Star. Through the process of fusion, the Sun burns approximately 600 million tonnes (metric tons) of Hydrogen each second, turning it into 596 million tonnes of Helium. As the Hydrogen nuclei fuse, Photons are emitted, which in short is why the Sun shines (and all the other stars). The Hydrogen Atom is the simplest and most abundant element in the Universe (with only 1 Proton and 1 Electron).
Through the process of fusion, more complex elements are made at different stages of a star's life and death cycle. This is what Carl Sagan meant with one of his well known quotes from Cosmos, “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”
The Sun is roughly 150,000,000 km from Earth. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec (186,000 miles/sec), which means that the light took just over 8 light-minutes (8 minutes and 26 seconds) to reach the Spectroscope in front of my camera lens.
Here is a very simplistic explanation of Spectroscopy, and how the Electromagnetic Light Spectrum is used in Astrophysics:
This image was photographed through a basic "High School Science Classroom" Quantitative Spectrometer (100 line resolution). With higher resolution Spectrometers on Telescopes, Astronomers can determine what chemical elements Stars and Planets are made of, as each chemical element has a unique light absorption fingerprint, that shows up as dark lines in the spectrum.
The amount that the absorption lines are shifted to red or blue (redshift and blueshift), is due to the Doppler effect and gives an indication if the celestial object is moving towards or away from us, and at what speed. This is how Scientists and Physicists know what the observable Universe is made of, and that the Universe is expanding.
More Info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
www.space.com/25732-redshift-blueshift.html
science-edu.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
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The absorption of Robson’s into the United Glass Group in 1980 saw a strong phase of buying Scanias, a marque favoured by the United Group. A121 JLS Border Rebel was the first three-axle tractor unit in the Robson’s fleet. This tag-axle 6x2 was used on short-haul tipper work carrying ten loads a day of specialist silica sand used for glass-making. It may have been fitted with a day cab rather than the sleeper version depicted here (25-Oct-18).
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The Hague
May 2012
The Netherlands
Urban life in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Processed using calibrated near-infrared methane absorption band (CB2, MT2, MT3) filtered images of Saturn taken by Cassini on November 27 2012.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill
"Date: 2010. Artist: Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann. Medium: plaster cast, natural pigments in egg tempera.
As early as 1762, art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann used the well-preserved colors on the statue of Artemis from Pompeii as evidence that ancient marble sculpture was colorful. The wide range of pigments represented on the reconstruction was identified through ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy, ultraviolet-induced visible luminescence, and visible-induced infrared luminescence. These include Egyptian blue; pink madder; kaolin mixed with lead white; orange and red ocher; hematite; cinnabar; umber; and two yellow pigments made from lead and ocher." - info from the Met.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, paintings, and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.
The Fifth Avenue building opened on March 30, 1880. In 2021, despite the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, the museum attracted 1,958,000 visitors, ranking fourth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over 300.46 square miles (778.2 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. The city is within the southern tip of New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area – the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous megacities, and over 58 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the city. New York City is a global cultural, financial, and media center with a significant influence on commerce, health care and life sciences, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, dining, art, fashion, and sports. New York is the most photographed city in the world. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy, an established safe haven for global investors, and is sometimes described as the capital of the world." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
April 2012
The Netherlands
Candid shots in and around the Public Transport in The Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Scheveningen/The Hague
June 2012
The Netherlands
Beachlife in the Netherlands
Ricoh GRD IV
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Cumberland MS, ex Kelvin Scottish
Leyland National
218 (OLS 809T)
Whitehaven depot 8/88
BKP
Painted in Yeowart's livery for use on former Yeowart's services, after absorption of that operator by Cumberland MS.
Although carrying its Greater Manchester Transport legal lettering following the absorption of the Lancashire United fleet just under two months earlier, not a great deal else had changed by the time of this May 1981 shot of ex-LUT Leyland Fleetline / NCME 497, having just set out on the long run from Manchester to Liverpool. It had still to be renumbered 6913 in the GMT series and its eventual repaint might have also been some way off.
This was one of a pair from this batch that saw further service with Chesterfield Transport after their sale by GM Buses.
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