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A re-model of an EFE SLF MkII Plaxton Pointer 10.7 metre Dart model to depict Stagecoach London's 34362 LV52HKO 10.2 metre Dart as worked out of Bromley Garage on route 314. This bus has now been transferred to their Training Fleet, their only Dart Trainer.
I had intended to try to shoot video of the flybys with the D810, but I soon discovered that it was impossible to see what I was doing on the LCD in the bright sun.
I guess I should add a video camera to my wish list; or a mirrorless camera that would let me look through the view finder while shooting video.
The things you learn in hindsight....
Inspired by micro fleets such as this one by Chewk, and this one by Gladius, and spurred on by my recent enjoyment with Microspace, I decided to build a fleet of my own! I've had these built for over two weeks, but I've only just managed to upload them after struhhling to get the fleet succesfully photographed. They are built to play against my friends (with fleets they will build no matter what they may think :P), and are based on this set of MicroSpaceWars rules by Spook. Enjoy, and take a look at the individual photos for info on each ship.
Inspired by micro fleets such as this one by Chewk, and this one by Gladius, and spurred on by my recent enjoyment with Microspace, I decided to build a fleet of my own! I've had these built for over two weeks, but I've only just managed to upload them after struggling to get the fleet succesfully photographed. They are built to play against my friends (with fleets they will build no matter what they may think :P), and are based on this set of MicroSpaceWars rules by Spook. Enjoy, and take a look at the individual photos for info on each ship.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Cole at the Midtown Manhattan port.
From Wikipedia: the 'blue hour' comes from the French expression l'heure bleue, which refers to the period of twilight each morning and evening where there is neither full daylight nor complete darkness. The time is considered special because of the quality of the light at this time of day.
Bristol MW6G with Eastern Coachworks body at Wensley in Wensleydale North Yorkshire July 2007, working seasonal heritage service 127 (Ripon & Hawes/Garsdale). New in 1962 to Eastern National as fleet number 548 then later changed to 1348. Behind working as a relief bus on the same route, was another also with VOS, this one a Bristol L5G/ECW new in 1949 to United Automobile Services as fleet number BLO423. It too later changed its number in this case as BG381.
Used my new Fisheye Lens for the first time today! This is one of the fishing points at Fleet Pond on a crisp frosty day.
YCC52 Wk 52
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The Parish Church of St Mary Magdalen
The fenland parish of Fleet sits in the south Lincolnshire fens just off the busy A17 trunk road and about 8 miles east of the market town of Spalding. At nearly 12 miles long but only 2 miles at it's widest, the settlement filtered northwards as land was reclaimed from this former tidal inlet. Once surpassing Spalding in population and wealth, Fleet was the focus of Templar activities in medieval times with a yearly fair and vigorous market for centuries.
The Grade I listed Anglican church, dating from the late 12th century, is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene. The 120 feet church tower with spire is like many medieval fenland churches and is detached from the nave by 15 feet. The exterior is mainly Decorated in style, with Early English arcades and a Perpendicular west window. According to Cox (1916), the church was restored in 1860, when the chancel was rebuilt, although the canopied sedilia was retained.
Returning back from Penzance, 47805 leads 47593 through Defford, with the 1Z75, Penzance-York, 47593 must be on a mission to have the highest milage count for the LSL fleet, having not to long ago been on the "Staycation" expresses up on the S&C! Sun wasnt quite round enough, but this was a nice bonus shot to end the day. The river Avon can be seen in the background that runs into Stratford-upon-Avon
Grumman Wildcat FM2 G-RUMW Fleet Air Arm JV579 Royal Navy The Old Thing
This aircraft was acquired by The Fighter Collection in 1993 and shipped to Duxford in April of the same year. This aircraft wears the colours of a Fleet Air Arm Wildcat on board HMS Tracker in 1944
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 18th April 2024
GAD_3460
Here is my current fleet of *completed* GWR locos.
Left to right.
GWR king class
GWR City class
GWR Dean Goods class
GWR 2600 class (rebuild soon)
GWR 5101 class
GWR 9400 class
For those of you who have seen my work from the beginning, you may be wondering about my GWR 5700 and 1400 classes. Long story short, they are old models, made in LDD only, so lack of parts was a thing with those builds. Thinking of going ahead and trying to reverse engineer tracepierce2592 locos, but that will be a while off. For now, my main focus is finishing off the rest of my large steam engines on the list. Containing GWR, LMS, LNER, SR and BR standards.
The last time these two were together publicly was at M&D East Kent 60th Celebrations in 2012. (A few pictures are on Flickr) Later on that year the Dominator would be withdrawn and sold to myself. A year later 5916 found its way into my collection. A long term ambition personally.
Today we see the reunion of the former fleet mates once more together... Now in preservation.
An array of single deckers has arrived at Warrington's Own Buses in the last 2 days. Seen at the depot on 23 January 2020 are Metroline Enviro 200s 1803 (YX10 BFL) and 1783 (YX10 BCU), Ensignbus Enviro 708 (SN11 FFL) and Howard's F19 HOW. Also present were Ensignbus SN11 FFJ and panther Travel Enviro YX09 AEV.
Fishing fleet at rest. When you get to a fishing pier and the fishermen are still not there – you are early. Best time of the day. Sorry for not being much around but I'm working on the slide show. I will post to YouTube as soon as I have a draft. Unfortunately Flickr has that 90 sec limit. BTW do you remember all the screaming when Flickr allow video - very quite now :-) . I always liked slide shows and I wish that they would extend the time limit.
Ah .. the image – Steveston , once heart of fishing on the West Coast , now more like a fishing village. Very picaresque , especially at that time of the day.
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See where this picture was taken, Village of Steveston , Richmond BC [?]
It's Monday ....
www.goear.com/listen/8a8a39e/i-dont-like-mondays-the-boom...
Explore Aug 10, 2009 #112
I started this fleet with the goal of keeping each ship small. I was getting a bit of size creep on some of the microspace ships I built last year. I started with the cruiser and went down in size from there. More views in my microspace album.
Orion-class Cruiser
Hecate-class Destroyer
Talos-class Missile Frigate
Triton-class Support Frigate
Demeter-class Light Frigate
LDD file can be downloaded from my OneDrive: 1drv.ms/1e76CYK
Hasting's Garage Enviro 400 Fleet 15481, GN 09 AZX, captured at Rolvenden with a service 2 from Hastings.
Excerpt from Wikipedia: An articulated bus (either a motor bus or trolleybus) is an articulated vehicle used in public transportation. It is usually a single-deck design, and comprises two rigid sections linked by a pivoting joint (articulation) enclosed by protective folding bellows on the in- and outside of the vehicle (usually of gray or black colour) and a cover plate on the inside of the vehicle. This arrangement allows a longer legal overall length than single-decker rigid-bodied buses, and hence a higher passenger capacity, while still allowing the bus to maneuver adequately on the roads of its service route.
Around the English-speaking world, articulated buses have acquired several different synonyms that allude to their articulated design, such as bendy buses, bending buses, tandem buses, stretch buses, double buses, banana buses, slinky buses, wiggle buses, caterpillar buses, accordion buses or vestibule buses. Due to their high passenger capacity, articulated buses are often used as part of bus rapid transit schemes, and can include mechanical guidance.
Used almost exclusively on public transport bus services, articulated buses are approximately 18 metres (59 ft) in length; standard rigid-construction buses are usually 11 to 14 metres (36 to 46 ft). The common arrangement of an articulated bus is to have a forward section with two axles leading a rear section with a single axle, with the driving axle mounted on either the front or the rear section. Some articulated bus models have a steering arrangement on the rearmost axle which turns slightly in opposition to the front steering axle, allowing the vehicle to negotiate turns in a crab-like fashion, similar to hook-and-ladder fire trucks operating in city environments. A less common variant of the articulated bus is the bi-articulated bus, where the vehicle has two trailer sections rather than one. Their capacity is around 200 people, and their length about 25 metres (82 ft).
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Excerpt from www.ttc.ca: The Articulated Low-Floor Diesel Buses manufactured by NovaBus, a Division of Volvo Group-Canada, in Ste. Eustache Quebec, are now on Toronto streets.
In keeping with TTC’s commitment to improved customer service, the new “Artics” are 60 feet long and will replace aging existing buses that are scheduled for retirement due to high mileage and general deterioration.
As part of the TTC’s modernization plan the accessible low-floor bus fleet will increase capacity on our busiest routes. Each bus has a capacity of 46 seated passengers and approximately 31 standing passengers. Features include LED interior and exterior lighting, automatic central air conditioning and heating, and ergonomic seating for passenger comfort.
Buses are designed to accommodate two standard wheelchairs and nine priority passenger seats, identified by bright blue upholstery. To minimize engine exhaust emissions, clean diesel engines are furnished with the latest electronic engine controls and diesel exhaust after treatment systems.
TTC’s new fleet of Articulated Low-Floor Clean Diesel Buses is being solely funded by the City of Toronto to improve customer service and replace some of TTC’s aging 40 foot buses.
Fleet Street is a street in the City of London named after the River Fleet, London's largest underground river. It was the home of British national newspapers until the 1980s. Even though the last major British news office, Reuters, left in 2005, the term Fleet Street continues to be used as a metonym for the British national press.
In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.
As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.
Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.
On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?
The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.
The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.
In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.
The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.
The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.
Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.
Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.
The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.
The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.
As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.
Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.
With the annual Torbay half marathon taking place on 26th June this year, the usual diversions were in place, with buses routing via Preston Down, Ring Road & Fleet Street.
Pictured heading up Fleet Street we see Rail River Link's Bristol VR, UWV614S, with the daily 100 Torquay-Totnes service. With the fleet's Bristol VRs in their final summer this could well be the final time we see one of their fine machines making their way through Torquay town center.
Company: Rail River Link of Churston
Registration: UWV614S
Fleet Number: 1
New: 1978
Chassis: Bristol VRT/SL3/6LXB
Bodywork: Eastern Coach Works CO74F
Route: 100 (Torquay, Strand-Totnes, Coronation Road)
Location: Fleet Street, Torquay
History: New to Southdown (614)
Exposure: 1/400 @ f6.3 200ISO
Date: 26 June 2016
Stagecoach Midlands Trident 18403 passes with a 15 service to Warwick
Vehicle Details
Operator: Stagecoach Midlands
Fleet Details: 18403
Registration: KX06 JYE
Vehicle Type: Transbus Trident 2, Transbus International ALX400
Vehicle History
New to Northampton 03/06
transferred to Rugby 10/14
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The last coach to join the fleet is ex Beavis A2ALP , Noe registered S58YKE it is a Neoplan Cityliner C48FT. It is seen in the garage. Photo taken 17/03/14
Location Hampton Court Vrow Walk, by Mega Anorak. Seems to be somewhere with no overhead cables? See commnets by JB (KK 69521) re the lack of overheads and the route numbering.
L3 – AEC/MCCW chassisless . New 1940 -Scrapped 1962.
Ref. London's Trolleybuses – A Fleet History by The PSV Circle, The Omnibus Society.
Marked as copyright by Travel Lens Photographic.
In this view, Konectbus Driver Training Vehicle, in the shape of former Go Ahead London East Lancs bodied Scania N94UB type number 9019 - YR52 VFK, is captured parked up on the layover area at Norwich Bus Station. Behind is Wright bodied Volvo B7TL type 524 - LX05 EZG, another former Go Ahead London bus which I am assuming is also now part of the Konectbus fleet.
Is anyone able to confirm my assumption that LX05 EZG is a Konect bus or advise otherwise, please?
See comments below.