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Thanks to a creative femal bus driver from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG), there was a special surprise for passengers on 1 Advent!
Ãœberraschung am 1. Advent
Dank einer kreativen Busfahrerin der Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) gab es am 1. Advent eine besondere Überraschung für die Fahrgäste!
Berlin-Neukölln, Britz
stagecoach 47034
KX03KYY
Optare Solo M920
Stagecoach 34804
PX55EGZ
Alexander Dennis
Dennis dart Pointer 2
Awaiting there fate on the back wall at Gillmoss garage.
ARRIVA Merseyside
Alexander Dennis Enviro 400’s
4650 - SK15GYG
4691 - SK15HAX
Seen at Bootle bus station Merseyside.
Set up by Aberdeen Corporation on the 10th January 1921 this old bus shelter has served as the Footdee Bus Terminus serving the fine folk of Fittie and visitors to the area for many many years, it had a lick of paint and re roofed back in 2015 , hence its maintained appearance .
Today it is only one of three such shelters set up by Aberdeen Corporation that still exist within the city.
Aberdeen City Council moved the terminus to the new beach retail park in 2010 hence the shelter now serves solely as a bus stop, and as a reminder of times gone by .
Footdee is an area of Aberdeen, Scotland known locally as "Fittie". It is an old fishing village at the east end of the harbour. The name is actually folk etymology. Far from being "Foot of the Dee/Fit o the Dee", it is actually a corruption of a former dedication to a "St Fothan".
The area has had a settlement as far back as the Medieval times and the first recorded reference to the area of Fittie was in the year 1398. This village was slightly further North than where Footdee is now located. It would have been near to where the St Clement's Church is located.
Footdee is a particularly interesting example of a planned housing development purpose-built to re-house Aberdeen's local fishing community. Laid out in 1809 by John Smith, then Superintendent Of The Town's Public Works. Smith went on to establish himself as one of Aberdeen's key architects. Occupying an isolated spit of land to the SE of Aberdeen's city centre, its regimented squares have been described as a cross between the neo-classical aspirations of Aberdeen and the close-knit fishing communities of the north-east.
The two squares of 'Fish Town' (known as Footdee), originally contained 28 single-storey thatched houses although this increased when the later Middle Row (circa 1837) and Pilot Square (circa 1855) were added. The entrances on each of the North and South squares were filled in the 1870s by William Smith (son of John and architect of Balmoral Castle). He also added additional storeys to the East and West sides of South Square creating a tenement feel. This was an attempt to ease crowding resulting from an influx of fishing families from other less prosperous areas and to help try to enforce the 'one-house-one-family' rule.
The Town Council decided to start selling the dwellings to occupiers in 1880, beginning a period of incremental development and reconstruction. Additional storeys and dormers were added piecemeal by the new owners as funds allowed. The result is one of individuality expressed within the constraints of a strictly formal plan and is a contributing factor to the special architectural and historical interest of Footdee as a whole.
Throughout the 19th century, 'tarry sheds' were added to the communal land within the squares opposite each dwelling and now every dwelling has its own shed. Originally constructed from drift wood and other found materials, the sheds have been built and rebuilt in an idiosyncratic manner over the years in a variety of materials with rendered brick now predominating slightly (2006). Some timber built sheds remain, predominantly on the North side of North Square.
North Square Mission Hall occupies the central area of the North Square, reflecting its significance as an integral part of village life. The building is plain, with simple detailing throughout, and as such, responds sympathetically to its setting and context. Known locally as 'the schoolie' the hall was built for general as well as religious purposes and continues to operate as a multi-purpose meeting space.
The entire Footdee village was added to the statutory list in 1967 as a single entity. The village was subsequently given Conservation Area status in 1968. At resurvey in 2006, each building within the Conservation Area was re-assessed separately. Key examples, demonstrating both individual architectural interest and representing the history and development of the village as a whole, were selected for listing.
On an 1828 map, the new housing squares were specifically labelled 'Fish Town'. 'Footdee' referred to the larger area from St. Clement's Church to 'Fish Town'. Later, the name 'Footdee' was erroneously used to refer specifically to the housing squares, with 'Fish Town' becoming forgotten.
On Tuesday 25 September 2012, Footdee became covered in foam from the sea after experiencing strong wind and rain conditions. The effect was like a blanket of snow and this made the UK national news.
Seen Here Is Me At The Wheel Of Arriva Midlands Optare Solo M950 Fleet Number 2532 YJ11OHY Aka "Frequenta" Whilst Working The Staff Shuttle To Coalville
"D'you know the Radstocks?" asked the foreman.
He was referring to the highly permutated group of bus services which then linked Bristol to the former Somerset mining towns of Radstock and Midsomer Norton.
"No", I said.
"Well here's your chance to learn", he replied, grimly and, I thought, with a touch of relish.
The foreman, a former wartime sergeant and a member of the Burma Star Asssociation, was an old sweat then nearing retirement. I was a new boy, then in my mid-20s but looking considerably younger, who had lately transferred to "country" services from a city depôt. To such a man I must have represented a new generation of young whipper-snappers who didn't know what the job was "all about". I had never been to Radstock and had only a very slight idea of where it was. That morning I was the bus station's 0430 Spare, whose function was to "cover" for any driver who overslept or reported sick. It was now 6am on a filthy February morning and the scratchy sound against the window-panes told me that the rain was lashing down in the empty streets outside.
Beyond Whitchurch (Black Lion) the sickly orange glare of the city's street lighting receded in the wing mirrors and I was in pitch blackness. The bus I was driving was a Bristol MW-type. As will be seen from the photo, these had a horizontally divided windscreen. The demisters, as they were fancifully known, consisted of two lengths of coiled reistance wire, like miniature electric fire elements, which ran across the bottom of the windscreen's upper section. Their effect was to clear about one inch of the base of the windscreen. In practice you used your sleeve. The wipers reciprocated sluggishly from side to side with a monotonous whirring sound. They had been cunningly positioned not to sweep that part of the windscreen which the driver looked through. The tiny wing mirrors, partially eclipsed on the nearside by the upper part of the folding entrance door, were fogged up and flecked with particles of mud drawn up from the road in the bus's slipstream. It was all seat-of-the-pants stuff. I hadn't a clue where I was supposed to be going and had not yet picked up any passenger whom I could ask. In any case I always felt embarrassed when I had to do this ...after all, I was supposed to be the driver. It looked so unprofessional. When uncertain of a route I preferred to run the slight risk of looking a complete fool if I took a wrong turning to the certainty of looking a partial fool if I turned around to ask for directions.
I cannot now remember the details, but I recall several panic-stricken reversals after I had shot past turnings, and the ommission of a peak-hour deviation from the normal route in Paulton. I also abandoned the attempt to do a school run, being unable even to find the terminus from which the route commenced. Subsequently there was a telephoned complaint from the headmaster. It was not my finest hour.
Yet, in time the "Radstocks" became favourites of mine. There were basically three services, with peak-hour, school and weekend variants. Usually buses worked out on one service and returned on one of the others. One took a certain pride in one's knowledge of the various permutations. I even came to love the MW-type, execrated by almost every bus driver for its heaviness, sluggishness and general recalcitrance.
Here one of these execrated vehicles makes its way into Bristol on the 365 service from Radstock via Midsomer Norton, High Littleton, Farmborough and Keynsham. Bath Road curves away into the distance under the heights of Totterdown. As extensively detailed in the Bentos photostream, the lower parts of Totterdown, in the middle distance of the photograph, had been destroyed in 1973 in readiness for a new road interchange. Only three years later the scheme has already been abandoned. Perhaps the City Council had enough vistigial decency to feel embarrassed, for the ruins which might have reminded passers-by that a lively and vigorous community once thrived here have been landscaped and seeded with grass. The steep valley-side site meant that the houses on the right-hand side of Bath Road had elevated front gardens, reached from the pavement by flights of steps. In the foreground one such flight of steps remains, together with railings and a flagged yard. Not a bad place to live and watch the world go by. The road is now about three times this width. The photo was taken Monday 5th April 1976.
I've been taged by Bildverlust, NUSAKAN and Tenoot
sorry...I took my time...
1.I try to be human and a woman at the same time :)
2. After 9hours of sleep, I drink about one liter of black tea with milk and honey
3. What I like in Paris? busdrivers! nearly always, when you've missed the bus and you can catch it at the crossing, they let you in! or if you've missed the stop, they let you out on the way!!
4. What I don't like in Paris? the weather!!!!!!!!!!!London is no more the capital af rain and clouds..it's Paris now..:(
5. I appreciate tolerance and open minded people
6. I love to discover other countries, learn about other nationalities without beeing a tourist
7. I'm an operasinger
8. I like Bruce Gilden, Vladimir Birgus and Glen Gould's interpretation of Goldberg's Variations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7LWANJFHEs&feature=related and the rest of it on youtube..
9. I was a gothic-punk-metal girl in my past :)
10. I'm sick, when in the parisian metro, I hear accordeonplayer without sense of rythme and harmony in their left hand!!!!
11. I like flickr, but I would appreciate more courage to reflect and criticise pictures of others and less running after comments and awards..
12. I think that polish politics are quite sad...espacially our president Kaczynski..
13. I've grown up in Germany and I like a lot the german language(shocking for the most of my polish and german sister and brothers ;) )
so for my german friends - Scheibenwischer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVbiNYf67o&feature=related
and for my polish friends - Kabaret Moralnego Niepokoju:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIDWzt4HHx8 and
www.youtube.com/watch?v=el2yqsszK5Q
14. Asterix and Obelix are genious!!!! and my two cultfilms are : OSS 177 and Monty Pathon's "Life of Bryan"
15. This saturday I've started to realize my dream: Kung Fu!!! and I love to dance Salsa :)
16. All this seems to me like an contactannoncement, but it is not one!! ;))
17. thank you all for the nice time I passe here with you and all this to be continued...
My colleagues of the Belastingdienst AIX/Linux Midrange Systems team and myself went on a teambuilding exercise. I took my camera of course. We went to Dorhout Mees for skeet shooting (kleiduivenschieten) and we were transported by Havi Travel in one of their luxurious coaches used primarily for transporting the SBV Vitesse football players.
The coach is equipped with an onboard kitchen, two refrigerators, multimedia system, wireless internet access and power outlets per passenger. An onboard generator provides all the electronics with power and is probably also used to either charge the flux capacitor or energize the dilithium crystals.
This picture was taken at the exact moment we exited from hyperspace.
The driver didn't want to use the Infinite Improbability Drive partly because of all that dangerous mucking about with Improbability Factors, but also because the kitchen was all out of strong Brownian Motion producers.
Cannes, Cote d'azur. Shot on Kodak Portra 160 with the Pentax 67ii and the 105mm 2.4. DSLR scan converted with Negative Lab Pro.
Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/29129
Local call number: RC05806
Title: Georgia-Florida Motor Lines bus at station - Miami
Date: April 28, 1930
Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&w - 8 x 10 in.
Series Title: Reference Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com
Cardiff bus 258
Alexander Dennis
Enviro 200
CE63NZO
Cardiff bus 612
Scania N94UA
OmniCity "Bendybus"
CN06GFG
SN04 AEW, SN04 AAZ, SN51 AYH, SN51 AYK, SN04 AEV & SN04 ABF are the fleet of Ex Lothian Transbus President bodied Trident's still in service with Marbil Coaches at their depot in Beith.
The fleet is still going strong and are still planned to be in service on school runs for a few more years.
The story behind this picture is what makes it so grand to me. After riding maybe a mile or two to the old abandoned house I pass anytime I go out, we stop. A car is parked outside. This doesn't seem so unusual, but after the Fourth of July the house was burnt down, yet nobody saw the fire, and rumors of a meth lab spread. So, the idea of a car being there brought us to the decision of NOT getting closer to the house. Instead... we took the tracks of a car towards this old bus. However, there was another car parked near it. We were scared but we really wanted to make our bike ride worth something. We held hands and walked towards it. I began trembling. There was glass all through the bus and a whole colony of bees nests. The whole set up really did seem like a horror film but we were just being silly. Who knows, maybe someone watched us take this?
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Seen Here Working The Late 16s Loughborough - Coalville Is...
Arriva Midlands VDL SB200 Wright Pulsar 2 Fleet Number 3803 TUI 7934