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8107 leads the 16:15 Bray – Dublin Connolly as it passes around Killiney Hill.
2 car LHB DART units 8107/8307 have gained advertisements for use on the Dublin Bay Hopper Tour of Railtours Ireland in conjunction with Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail.
It claims to be the ‘world’s first’ hop on hop off train tour. Customers can travel on any of the 4 return trips from Dublin Connolly to Bray on a Saturday which include live commentary and get on and off at the various stops along the way. Tickets priced at €19 are also valid for any other DART service on Saturdays and Sundays.
One of the most elaborate advertising campaigns of 2011 is currently in full swing for the imminent arrival of Emirates as they launch their new air route from Dubai to Dublin in January 2012.
Managed by MediaVest & Grayling in what the Emirates Vice President for the UK & Ireland was quoted as saying " significant investment ", the use of multi media, internet & especially transportation, using bus sides & now a wraped Dart, it really is all aboard this gravy train.
Harriet Dart of Great Britain in action during her second-round match at the 2019 Brisbane International WTA Premier tennis tournament
Greenside Darter, Etheostoma blennioides. Catoctin Creek, Frederick County, MD - 08/01/20. Photo by Robert Aguilar, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Not had much chance of late to capture too much new stuff, so being going through my spring and summer archives for today's update.
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Common darters are meant to be one of the last dragonflies you can see into autumn, I've seen them in late Oct before and they can be found well into Nov. But this year I started to see them emerge very early.....my first spot was at the start of June. So will be interesting to see if the sightings of them end earlier this year. With the way the weather has been of late....it feels like autumn already.
I love this advert on the back of Dart 60, especially the flowery cartoons all looking very jolly indeed!
But the funniest thing here are these clouds around the service number 36 at the top which literally look like they've been applied with sticky tape. Infact the more I look at them the more I want to jump up and peel them off!
Barnardo's do indeed believe in children and the sunshine on the side makes
us smile.
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In Green River, Utah city park. This sculpture commemorates Green River's role in the early part of the space program when several missile systems were assembled and tested here. The Loki-dart system had to do with meteorology.
I love the missile on the right. When I first saw it I thought it was one of the missiles that failed to achieve orbit but it is actually a booster falling back to earth. The one in the middle is the whole package on it's way up and the one on the left is the payload going up. With the exception of the missiles themselves, the rest of the sculpture is made of re-bar.
This chap is a strange one!
As soon as I saw him I thought he looked different than any other darter around.
It took a lot of time..... keeping a very careful eye on him and not to lose him every time he moved, wanted to capture him from all angles.
He shows traits of a common darter ( should be a red colour ).....but he's black.....he's also more darker than a normal black darter male which normally has some yellow markings as the extra capture I've added in the comments.
If I was living in Scotland I would say he may be a Highland Darter ( very closely related to the common darter ) but I'm not in Scotland and a Highland shouldn't be here!
So If anyone would like to have a stab at an ID I will post him as a hybrid black darter for now.
GWR 2-8-0 Tank 5239 Goliath simmers at Kingswear on a glorious 1983 summer's day. These powerful locomotives were used in my home area of Gloucestershire. They were used as bankers up the gradient from Brimscombe to Sapperton on the Gloucester to Swindon Line.
For some reason Biology students at Exeter had no second year exams, so I was free to explore Devon while my colleagues were busy revising.
For a while, and Sep 2007 was part of that period, the X26/27/28 lost minibuses in the form of Metroriders in favour of Dennis Dart MPDs. Arriva NE 1798 SA52MYT was new to First Call Travel in Renfrew but was bought to update the fleet modestly in Arriva NE land, and is seen here approaching Barton.
The following year, Solos were introduced where they stayed for the next 6 years
Sydney Parade Dart (Dublin Area Rapid Transit)Station. Sometimes the mundane can look really cool in HDR. I know a lot of people hate it but I think it has its place in the art of photography and subtle is not always the correct option.
The €3bn DART Underground project in Dublin ‘will not proceed as currently designed’ but will instead be ‘redesigned to provide a lower cost technical solution’, Minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport Paschal Donohoe announced on September 22.
DART Underground is a proposed tunnel which would link the existing line into Dublin’s Connolly station from the north with Inchicore on the line running west out of Heuston station. There would be stations at Docklands, Pearse, St Stephen’s Green, Christchurch, Heuston and Inchicore.
This would form a major element of a €4bn DART Expansion Programme, which would also include electrification to Drogheda, Hazelhatch and Maynooth; an increase in frequencies on existing DART routes; four-tracking from Park West to Inchicore; level crossing removals; city centre re-signalling and depot expansion.
DART Underground received planning consent in 2011. However, the business case has been updated as part of the finalisation of a long-term transport plan for the Greater Dublin Area, and while the overall DART Expansion Programme was assessed as economically positive with a 1·4:1 benefit to cost ratio, the National Transport Authority said the business case for DART Underground prepared by Iarnród Éireann indicates that its development under the current railway order ‘is not economically justified’, with a 0·8:1 Benefit to Cost Ratio.
NTA believes that it would be possible to redesign the tunnel project to reduce its cost, while a substantial part of the benefits of the DART Expansion Programme could be derived from the non-tunnel elements.
Options for the redesign include a shorter tunnel running only a far west as Heuston rather than Inchicore; a shorter tunnel running only between Heuston and Pearse where trains would turn back; and/or reducing the number of underground stations.
Accepting the NTA’s recommendation to rethink the project, Donohoe said DART Underground remains a ‘key element’ of integrated transport plans, and funding for the redesign would be provided with a view to construction beginning after 2020. Existing compulsory purchase powers will not be activated, and new legal powers would be sought for the redesigned project.
‘As government works to further stabilise the public finances, we must continue to seek the best value for taxpayers’ money in everything we do’, said Donohoe. ‘A project of such magnitude - in the order of €4bn - has to be designed and delivered in a way that best ensures cost-effectiveness for the taxpayer and the state.’
In response to the announcement, Iarnród Éireann said it welcomed ‘support at government and National Transport Authority level that the DART Expansion Programme is crucial for national economic development and addressing traffic congestion in the Greater Dublin Area and beyond’, and the intention to fund redesign of DART Underground.