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Former Severn & Canal Carrying Company “Motor No. 2” of 1928, latterly “Dart” of the Thomas Clayton (Oldbury) Ltd fleet. She is seen here at Puttenham, benefiting from the specialist wooden boat repair skills of Bates Boatyard. 28th March 2012.
Dart 65 looking like she's lying in a box of soft cotton wool!
Lovely to capture this scene with the snow so thick and fresh, no traffic around and just see this destination screen with it's roller blinds.
For me Lothian's destination screens are the saving grace these days and it's nice not to have neon electronic screens. There can't be too many companies left to have screens like these.
The other thing I so like about the single decker Darts is the vertical drop from top to bottom - in a world where buses are becoming more and more sloping at the front this is a refreshing joy to see.
While I stood in the snow here, virtually alone, the silence all around me was deafening as the distinctive engine of this lonely looking Dart purred towards me.
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Common Dart
Potanthus pseudomaesa, commonly known as the Indian Dart, Common Dart or Pseudomaesa Dart, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae.
Thanks to Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi for the ID confirmation
Ruddy Darter - Sculthorpe Moor Hawk & Owl Trust reserve, Norfolk. Finally getting to the end of going through my Summer holiday snaps!
A darter dragonfly visited the garden yesterday. Gave me an opportunity to try my new 5Dmk2 / MPE-65 combo. Natural light /fill flash
Arriva Buses Wales Dennis Dart MPD / Plaxton Pointer II 813 (T65 JBA) rests in Wrexham Depot, with Pulsar 2912 (CX58 EXC) in the background having just arrived from the end of its duties on route 1.
Southern Vectis 3329 (HW54 DCE), ex-Wightbus 5862, unloads at Newport having come in on a 1.
I took some shots of it as I didn't think I had any of this ex-Wightbus MPD, but it turns out I did and I was thinking of the other one!
Note the comparison in OmniCity rears to the right, with 1142 (HW09 BBU) in old style and 1104 (HW08 AOT) on the far right wearing the new application.
Newport bus station, Newport, Isle of Wight.
2014 CNG NABI Gen-III with a newly applied Red Bull bus wrap.
Engine: Cummins Westport ISL G280.
Powertrain: Allison B400R.
These two dart heads made from chert rock are believed to be over 5000 years old (circa 3000 BC).
The Chumash Indian Museum is just north of Los Angeles.
Thousand Oaks; May 2021
Christmas Eve 2009 and here's one of 50 Dennis Darts brought into service from 2002. Number 57 creeps through the slippery cobbled streets of the New Town at Eyre Place. Darts 54 to 63 (along with an earlier Dart number 188) can easily be found on service 36. Three more Darts, numbers 51, 52 and 53 are no longer in public service and are used as training vehicles in yellow livery (TB51 - 53).
Very often residents of the Georgian New Town are treated to Volvo buses as well, but the area between Broughton and the Dean Bridge often proves to be a testing experience for even the most experienced driver, such are the narrow streets often heavily congested with traffic and pedestrians. In conditions like these it's a even more tricky.
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The Cobham Bus Museum annual spring gatherings from 1992-95 took place at Apps Court Farm near Walton-on-Thames. Seen at the April 1992 event is Stagecoach Hastings Buses Dennis Dart / Alexander Dash B41F 513 J513GCD.
A ruddy darter dragonfly soaking up the afternoon sunlight on a reed leaf, at RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes.
2011 Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 Dart integral body/chassis with a Cummins ISBe 4.5 litre inline 4 diesel engine, Reg.YX61BXJ of ASD Coaches on a NHS Shuttle Bus service to Chatham Hospital at Chatham Quays, 28 October 2022.
Originally introduced in 2003 by Transbus (formed in 2000 by the merger of Alexander, Dennis and Plaxton) as a replacement for the Plaxton Pointer 2 body, the Alexander ALX200 body, and the Dennis Dart SLF chassis, the Transbus Enviro 200 Dart was effectively a semi-integral bus employing an updated version of the ALX200 body and Dart SLF chassis combination. However, available options were the Enviro 200 body with the MAN 14.240 chassis; or the Enviro 200 chassis with the Optare Esteem or MCV Evolution bodies. Production stopped in 2018.
Drivers of anything will know just what it feels like to negotiate this
tricky little twist at the top of St. Bernard's Crescent which can be a
total hazardous experience especially on wet or oily cobbles. There's a
further obstacle, just behind the camera here, as an awkward island makes it
hard to avoid slipping. This little one-way disaster was created some years
ago to either slow the traffic down or make drivers go elsewhere, except
that there's nowhere else to go to and from Stockbridge! It's a hopeless
arrangement and when crossing on foot you have to take third place to
traffic going up and down. The sooner that's got rid of and the road opened
up again the better.
However, it makes getting a nice shot of a Dennis Dart a little easier owing
to the speed control and here's 63 carefully making it's way up towards the
Dean Bridge and further onto the West End and Princes Street.
St. Bernard's Crescent and its associated terraces follow James Milne's
revised scheme of 1824, by which time the enthusiasm for New Town house
building had reached its height. Reference is often made to the crescent's
grandest Grecian Doric pillars that are to be found on the left side
(looking at this picture) and this is the most opulent part of the
crescent. Architectural detail is bold and the long horizontal windows,
reaching up from the ground floor, demonstrate beauty virtually unknown elsewhere
in Edinburgh. A central garden, with the main road running round the right-hand side of the crescent here, separates the secluded side of this Classical
masterpiece.
Indeed, Dr. Anderson of Edinburgh University has described St. Bernard's
Crescent as the finest street in the Capital. An address to aspire to
perhaps.
And once again passengers on bus service 36 can enjoy a route that seems
like it's been planned especially for visiting tourists!
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