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Direct Rail Services Class 37/0 No. 37069 leads a five loco convoy through Clay Cross on the 0Z23 Crewe Gresty Bridge to Barrow Hill loco move on 8th April 2011.
Sister locos 37259, 37409 "Lord Hinton" and 37688 make up the quartet of 'Tractors', along with Class 57/0 No. 57010 which was collected from Derby en route.
L249YOD was a Mercedes 709D / Plaxton Beaver B25F new as Plymouth City Transport number 249 in August 1993. Ten years later it passed to Travel Direct, and is seen in Paisley. The combined Hill/Hutchison Group fleet comprised of 31 vehicles which were broken down as follows:-
Ann Hill t/a Fairway Coaches 5 buses
Raymond Hill t/a Fereneze Travel 8 buses
William Hutchison t/a Travel Direct 6 buses
Pheonix Buses 12 buses.
The actual vehicles could move from fleet to fleet as required.
Direct Rail Services Class 20s 20303 "Max Joule 1958 - 1999" and 20305 working 3s14 1113 Grimsby Pasture Street - Bridlington,passing Former Hatfield Colliery on 10/12/2018
Soldiers of the Givati Brigade cooperate with the IAF helicopter squadrons
Photo by: Hagar Amibar
לוחמי חטיבת גבעתי מתרגלים שיתוף פעולה עם מערך המסוקים של חיל-האוויר
צילום: הגר עמיבר
Direct Rail Services Class 88 88008 is pictured leading Class 68 68016 at the head of the Mossend Down Yard to Daventry International containers as they join the slow line at Newcastle Central on May 1st 2021.
Selena Day Lowrider Cruise, Mission District, San Francisco, CA. April 20, 2024.
Kodak Portra 800, processed at Underdog Film Lab in West Oakland, scanned at home.
BGSU Band director works with the BGSU Marching Band on the last practice before their home debut. [Day 5 of week long photo challenge]
Direct Rail Services Class 66 locomotive 66429 approaches Rugeley Trent Valley station with a Crewe Basford Hall to Cliffe Hill working.
Ex Direct Rail Services now Freightliner owned Class 66 No. 66413 passes a snowy Whitley Bridge train station enroute to Drax Power Station
A spell knew the direction,
but distance? Not a clue.
The airship wasn't flying,
so what were they to do?
They gathered round the map awhile,
with magic, books and lore.
One guessed a mile. One guessed a hundred.
Someone muttered, “Maybe more.”
Hope's Book offered possibilities,
then promptly changed its mind.
Her necklace gave a little glow—
which wasn't very kind.
The clever ones looked thoughtful.
The warriors studied routes.
The dragon watched the clever ones.
Nobody moved their boots.
Snowy glanced toward Lynx and sighed,
“They'll figure it out... when?”
Lynx looked down at Ruckus.
“I'm still betting on him.”
Rest day for me today. As per 99% of rest days in the last 3 months the weather was ess aitch eye tee.
The worst of the rain was forecast after lunch so a nuclear working round the coast on a VAR path from Sellafield to Crewe at around mid-day tempted me out.
This would be a red box for Berkeley as 6K74.
I sallied forth to Parton to try and set up some sort of shot in the murk.
Unfortunately high tide had been some two and a half hours previously so there was no chance of any breakers crashing over the sea wall in today's brisk onshore winds.
Turned out that the ISO container, with 37609 & 37069 on point, had 37401 tagged on the rear.
401 was apparently to be detached at Bog Jn. for Kingmoor.
We see the train skirting Tanyard Bay having just passed the 10.54 Carlisle to Barrow Northern service.
Direct Rail Services Class 37401 ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ fires up at Crewe Gresty Bridge depot during the grand finale of the 2022 open day, which I imagine the entirety of Crewe would have heard, with a generous amount of clag filling the air. 16/07/2022
Direct Rail Services Class 88 88008 Ariadne working 4S43 Daventry Int Rft Recep to Mossend Euroterminal
Al contrario de lo que se cree, sentido y significado nunca han sido lo mismo, el significado se queda aquí, es directo, literal, explícito, cerrado en sí mismo, unívoco, podríamos decir, mientras que el sentido no es capaz de permanecer quieto, hierve de segundos sentidos, terceros y cuartos, de direcciones radicales que se van dividiendo y subdividiendo en ramas y ramajes hasta que se pierden de vista, el sentido de cada palabra se parece a una estrella cuando se pone a proyectar mareas vivas por el espacio, vientos cósmicos, perturbaciones magnéticas, aflicciones.
Todos los Nombres,
Jose Saramago
DIRECT DIGITAL LEASING LLC
(2008) Citation 680
PNE - March 08, 2021
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Copyright 2021
Paul Kanagie
Direct Rail Services no. 57312 screams through Nuneaton, working 1Z57 Liverpool Lime Street-Wembley Central, full of more Liverpool FC fans for the game against Man City. Northern Belle stock was used, with 57310 "pride of Cumbria" bringing up the rear.
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The vast majority of my Fruits and Veggies are made by Re-ment. If the label doesn't have a brand listed, please assume it's Re-ment (because I am too lazy to write Re-ment 403 times for all these pictures). Other brands include Mimo, Orcara and Megahouse as well as a handful of misc brands and sources.
All of these items come from many different collections and I can't possibly list them all, but I'll list a few places to find things.
~~Re-ment's official website:
www.re-ment.co.jp/products/index.html
~~Re-ment and Megahouse: Renatta has wonderful pictures on her Re-ment Checklist site.
~~Mimo: Mimo erased most of their pictures from their website a few years ago, but I managed to copy many and have them in a Mimo Set here on Flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/24617799@N06/sets/72157634678173613/
~~Orcara: I have compiled a Gallery of Orcara pictures from here on Flickr.
www.flickr.com/photos/24617799@N06/galleries/721576355475...
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Top left: A corniform above a rectangle, with four thin lines stretching away as if the legs of a cow. This may be an attempt to add detail to the description of cow, or a visual description of a raw-hide pelt being stretched. An alternative might be that the rectangular body is a hut with the 'legs' as tethering ropes and the horns are entrance fencing delimiting and protecting from wind and sun - a 'farmyard' work area.
Top right: one of Mont Bégo's most enigmatic petroglyphs comes from Fontanalba's 'Voie Sacrée' and seems to defy analysis. The lines are thought through, and with so much lifestyle description assigned to the Mont Bégo petroglyphs, one feels that there must be a slot for the image in a pastoral context: Stretching leather? A hut with guide ropes? And so on. One of the problems here is the 'boundary line' that goes through the design and appears to be part of the image rather than a superimposition.
Possible explanations:
1. A fridge. There is a simple mountain structure of the Pyrenees called a 'houn'. Here, a cold spring of mountain water flows through a dark stone hut, and any heat inside is transferred to the flowing water. Naturally, the environment inside the hut becomes cold enough to preserve milk products, often as they are assembled prior to transformation into curd, butter and cheese. The principle of heat transfer is similar to that at the back of a fridge and indeed 'houns' are archaic fridges. The pilgrims of Mont Bégo had cows in their lifestyle and transforming their milk into cheese would be within the date range. Just such a proto-houn might assure quantities necessary for cheese production during hot periods, and the stone steps or ledges aside the directed spring water may be pictured here covered by a stretch of taught leather attached to two long poles.
2. A ceremonial space. It seems safe to say that Mont Bégo's largely Bronze age population were walking into the barren non agricultural zone around Mont Bégo to show the mystical mountain the proud qualities of their life and culture - in effect asking for blessing and 'dialogue'. Today we see the zone's favoured rock surfaces ornamented with a diverse array of schematic images. With the weather shutting down the area for seasons of snow and storms, it becomes possible to suspect that there was a preferred period of pilgrimage - lets say at the time of the golden larch trees around October. Tools and people might all wish to be 'seen' and blessed and one of the mankind's traditional means of blessing is with water. Might this be the image of a temporary shrine for seasonal pilgrims? Here the image may be of a natural spring directed into a ditch and made to pass through a very simple roofed building. It is possible that there are two long poles and that an attempt was made to describe 'uprights' - here drawn vastly before the rules of perspective as flattened right angles. Flat representations of dimension can be verified from an Iron age site to the north (rock 23 Naquane) which depicts an early cart and as the wheels are easy to identify and less ambiguous than straight lines, the principle of 'flat' depiction of height is observed. With this interpretation, the roof is held-up by six posts aside a second smaller building, away from the stream, which would in turn be held up by four posts.
With 'pilgrims' leaving very little outside of the petroglyphs, there is also a possibility that a sacred water spring was located away from Mont Bégo, and that the element was in truth as far away as the described field systems and tools and simply 'taken' to the sacred site as an image idea. Tools, children, young animals might all have been offered sacred water aside rites and ritual.
3. Tanning. Cattle can be used for reserves in extreme conditions, they can be used for their meat, they can be used for their manure (manure cob etc), they can be used for their horns (drinking goblets and measuring devices), and they can be used for their pelt - probably the largest readily available. A large pelt can be one trimmed cover without seams, or a source for multiple smaller products apt for the lifestyle of the whole clan. Leather cord, leather ornament, leather cloths, leather coverings and full leather covered huts can all be envisaged by crofters as they look after even a small number of domesticated cows.
I only saw a small selection of the petroglyphs of Mont Bégo, and in the literature there are discussions of subsets of glyphs that may show stretched pelts. With this image, the stretching, if that is the case, is not as one might expect. The classic image is of a hide stretched evenly on a frame or with multiple pegs (Roberto Rosselini recreated a prehistoric village for one of his films where the stretching leathers were integrated onto hut roofs). If huts were covered in leather, and many of the corniforms are in fact depictions of huts with fence 'farmyards', then cow leather will have been used at its maximum size. Tanning requires large quantities of water, a product (urine, salt solutions, lime) and plenty of repeated 'lissage'. Here a large pelt may have been made temporarily manageable for one 'tanner' by being temporarily sewn into a cylinder. Two long poles could thread through the cylinder and be pulled taught. With this interpretation a drainage ditch or 'rigole' passes under the pelt so that fresh water can constantly be scooped.
Here, the canal here would have been a straight line with a right angle and this does not seem immediately logical. I have seen drainage canals on mountain slopes doing just this. A spring feeds the ditch rather than making the field generally boggy. The ditch then cuts perpendicular across the slope, and in so doing, it catches additional ground water that can be riddling down the slope. Before it overflows the ditch turns back down the slope at an angle and drier pastoral land is preserved within.
Of the three options, the 'fridge' needs data on ancient cheese production in the area. The ceremonial holy spring needs data on this potential representation of vertical posts, and the tanning loop is weakened by depictions of central 'ropes' that seem difficult to explain.
Lower left. Hyperbolic horns, a square body shape, legs like guide ropes and an apparent 'farmyard' where there might be a tail, all suggest that the abstract form of a cow might have been employed as a hut archetype. My work on 'transport dragons' explains how pelts over frames might have helped man navigate the extremes of the ice age. That these mobile structures took on the character from fauna and myth is also to be expected. Culture is not genetic and can survive as a memory even after waves of migration. Sedentary populations holding onto the traditions of a collective consciousness may feel that it is quite natural for their practical huts to resemble an animal. Domestication also added the mind of man to the animal, and was a lifestyle that required constant training and reflection. The cow/hut symbol may have perfectly reflect this inter relation.
Lower right: The closest of the four images to the pelt of a cow - but there are still differences: the horns, the tail and even the general shape do not alight to an image of a pelt. The argument here is that the image is not descriptive but instead communicates the principles of 'cow', and this may well be the case. An alternative explanation may seem idiotic, but needs to be considered, and is that the square of the 'cows' body is once again a small building, but this time for the distribution of feed for young calves or winter hay, and that the legs and tails are calves feeding with their heads tucked into the building's sweet smelling feed, in what may have been at the time an amusing image from the cycle of life.
AJM 6.2.19.
Direct Rail Services Class 57 No. 57308 "Jamie Ferguson" at Carlisle station on Thunderbird duty.
24/02/22
A Scottish vibe on display during the 2015 Direct Rail Services open day at Carlisle Kingmoor depot, as Class 37 loco 37401 'Mary Queen of Scots', and Scotrail blue stripe liveried Class 47 loco 47712 stand side by side at the depot
Fukuoka City JAPAN / Sony A7R.2 × Summilux-M 35mm F1.4 / mokuu.cc/2015/11/post-1817.html / JS J1 25 014
This picture was shot from Tramway Plaza, the Manhattan location of the Roosevelt Island Tramway, on Second Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets.
Direct Rail Services' 68009 is seen at Princes Risborough (with DVT 82302 on the rear) working Chiltern Railways' 1U61 1750 London Marylebone to Banbury on Tuesday 6th October 2015.