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Operator: Anglianbus Ltd
Fleet No: 353
Registration: MX60GXA
Body/Chassis: Wright StreetLite WF9.5
Chassis No: SA9DSRXXX10141018
Seating: B37F
New: December 2010
Ex: --
Livery: AnglianBus
Date: Thursday 7th May 2015
Location: Bungay Road, Hempnall
Route: 84 (Norwich)
The sole example of an ALX500 in the Network Buses fleet represents an unusual acquisition.
This is a very large bus with real crowd-shifting ability. Its appearance in red livery would suggest it will not be assigned to either the C16 or C20 college routes (the preserve of buses in a blue variant of the main fleet livery and current haunt of most of the fleets other tri-axle buses) so it may be earmarked for the imminent reintroduction of the limited stop 8X service.
This follows much the same route as the all-stops route 8 and was discontinued in 2009 due to low patronage.
Its expected to reappear in early July and this dual door, aircon bus with high-back seats and good legroom should appeal to the business customers the 8X targets.
Its photographed in Innistoige village at the terminus of the 48, presumably out on test in advance of receiving an allocation and still sporting its Hong Kong number blinds, despite being in full NB livery.
Bristol VRT with convertible Eastern Coachworks body on Shanklin Esplanade Isle of Wight September 1990. New in 1977 to Hamts&Dorset as fleet number 3374.
Between 2009-2010, close photography friends and I found ourselves monomaniacally obsessed with documenting the last days of the Suisun Bay Mothball Fleet (which is now largely scrapped). These trips were not officially sanctioned. In fact, we received a lot of grief because of it. Despite that, it was one of the proudest moments of my life. Countless volunteers, museums, and small organizations had made efforts to save these maritime time capsules to no avail - despite their monumental efforts. The ships' contribution to bay water pollution didn't help in their preservation cause.
Thousands upon thousands of seamen and women remember these ships, but only a small fraction of the ships remain to be remembered. Pictured here is the mess hall floor of the U.S.S. Glacier. The Glacier was an improved icebreaker, but only larger and more powerful. Its bow had the characteristic sloping nose, enabling the ship ride up heavy ice and break it with the weight of the vessel. When built, Glacier had the largest capacity single armature DC motors ever installed on a ship and could break ice up to 20 feet thick.
We were almost apprehended on this ship, but she protected us at a critical moment. I will always miss this majestic ship's hidden nooks and crannies, its crows' nest and the numerous hand-painted murals designed by the Coast Guard crew.
We lose things constantly. At the very least, society should allow us to document them, but that - too - rarely happens quickly enough...
Fleet Street is a major street mostly in the City of London. It runs west to east from Temple Bar at the boundary with the City of Westminster to Ludgate Circus at the site of the London Wall and the River Fleet from which the street was named.
The street has been an important through route since Roman times. During the Middle Ages, businesses were established and senior clergy lived there; several churches remain from this time including Temple Church and St Bride's. The street became known for printing and publishing at the start of the 16th century, and it became the dominant trade so that by the 20th century most British national newspapers operated from here. Much of that industry moved out in the 1980s after News International set up cheaper manufacturing premises in Wapping, but some former newspaper buildings are listed and have been preserved. The term Fleet Street remains a metonym for the British national press, and pubs on the street once frequented by journalists remain popular.
Fleet Street has a significant number of monuments and statues along its length, including the dragon at Temple Bar and memorials to a number of figures from the British press, such as Samuel Pepys and Lord Northcliffe. The street is mentioned in several works by Charles Dickens and is the home of the fictional murderer Sweeney Todd.
Fleet Street is named after the River Fleet, which runs from Hampstead to the River Thames at the western edge of the City of London. It is one of the oldest roads outside the original city and was established by the Middle Ages. In the 13th century, it was known as Fleet Bridge Street, and in the early 14th century it became known as Fleet Street.
The street runs east from Temple Bar, the boundary between the Cities of London and Westminster, as a continuation of the Strand from Trafalgar Square. It crosses Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane to reach Ludgate Circus by the London Wall. The road ahead is Ludgate Hill. The street numbering runs consecutively from west to east south-side and then east to west north-side.[1] It links the Roman and medieval boundaries of the City after the latter was extended. The section of Fleet Street between Temple Bar and Fetter Lane is part of the A4, a major road running west through London, although it once ran along the entire street and eastwards past St Paul's Churchyard towards Cannon Street.
The nearest London Underground stations are Temple, Chancery Lane, and Blackfriars tube/mainline station and the City Thameslink railway station. London Bus routes 4, 11, 15, 23, 26, 76 and 172 run along the full length of Fleet Street, while route 341 runs between Temple Bar and Fetter Lane.
Early history
Fleet Street was established as a thoroughfare in Roman London and there is evidence that a route led west from Ludgate by 200 AD. Local excavations revealed remains of a Roman amphitheatre near Ludgate on what was Fleet Prison, but other accounts suggest the area was too marshy for regular inhabitation by the Romans. The Saxons did not occupy the Roman city but established Lundenwic further west around what is now Aldwych and the Strand.
Many prelates lived around the street during the Middle Ages, including the Bishops of Salisbury and St Davids and the Abbots of Faversham, Tewkesbury, Winchcombe and Cirencester. Tanning of animal hides became established on Fleet Street owing to the nearby river, though this increased pollution leading to a ban on dumping rubbish by the mid-14th century. Many taverns and brothels were established along Fleet Street and have been documented as early as the 14th century. Records show that Geoffrey Chaucer was fined two shillings for attacking a friar in Fleet Street, though modern historians believe this is apocryphal.
An important landmark in Fleet Street during the late Middle Ages was a conduit that was the main water supply for the area. When Anne Boleyn was crowned queen following her marriage to Henry VIII in 1533, the conduit flowed wine instead of water. By the 16th century, Fleet Street, along with much of the City, was chronically overcrowded, and a royal proclamation in 1580 banned any further building on the street. This had little effect, and construction continued, particularly timber. Prince Henry's Room over the Inner Temple gate dates from 1610 and is named after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I, who did not survive to succeed his father.
The eastern part of the street was destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666, despite attempts to use the River Fleet to preserve it- Fire damage reached to about Fetter Lane, and the special tribunal of the 'Fire Courts' was held at Clifford's Inn, an inn of Chancery at the edge of the extent of the fire, to arbitrate on claimants' rights. Properties were rebuilt in the same style as before the fire.
During the early 18th century, a notorious upper-class gang known as the Mohocks operated on the street causing regular violence and vandalism. Mrs Salmon's Waxworks was established at Prince Henry's Room in 1711. It had a display of macabre and black-humoured exhibits, including the execution of Charles I; a Roman lady, Hermonie, whose father survived a sentence of starvation by sucking her breast; and a woman who gave birth to 365 children simultaneously. The waxworks were a favourite haunt of William Hogarth, and survived into the 19th century. The Apollo Society, a music club, was established in 1733 at the Devil Tavern on Fleet Street by composer Maurice Greene.
In 1763, supporters of John Wilkes, who had been arrested for libel against the Earl of Bute, burned a jackboot in the centre of the street in protest against Bute. It led to violent demonstrations and rioting in 1769 and 1794
Tanning and other industries declined sharply after the River Fleet was routed underground in 1766. The street was widened during the late-19th century, when Temple Bar was demolished and Ludgate Circus was constructed. The headquarters of the Anti-Corn Law League were based at No. 67 Fleet Street, and a blue plaque marks the location.
Printing and journalism
Publishing started in Fleet Street around 1500 when William Caxton's apprentice, Wynkyn de Worde, set up a printing shop near Shoe Lane, while at around the same time Richard Pynson set up as publisher and printer next to St Dunstan's Church. More printers and publishers followed, mainly supplying the legal trade in the four Inns of Court around the area, but also publishing books and plays.
In March 1702 the first issue of London's first daily newspaper, the Daily Courant, was published in Fleet Street. It was followed by the Morning Chronicle. The publisher John Murray was founded at No. 32 Fleet Street in 1762 and remained there until 1812, when it moved to Albemarle Street. The popularity of newspapers was restricted due to various taxes during the early 19th century, particularly paper duty. Peele's Coffee-House at No. 177–178 Fleet Street became popular and was the main committee room for the Society for Repealing the Paper Duty, starting in 1858. The society was successful and the duty was abolished in 1861. Along with the repeal of the newspaper tax in 1855, this led to a dramatic expansion of newspaper production in Fleet Street. The "penny press" (newspapers costing one penny) became popular during the 1880s and the initial number of titles had consolidated into a few nationally important ones.
By the 20th century, Fleet Street and the area surrounding it were dominated by the national press and related industries. The Daily Express relocated to No. 121–8 Fleet Street in 1931, into a building designed by Sir Owen Williams. It was the first curtain wall building in London. It has survived the departure of the newspaper in 1989 and was restored in 2001. The Daily Telegraph was based at No. 135–142. These premises are both Grade II-listed. In the 1930s, No. 67 housed 25 separate publications; by this time the majority of British households bought a daily paper produced from Fleet Street.
In 1986 News International owner Rupert Murdoch caused controversy when he moved publication of The Times and The Sun away from Fleet Street to new premises in Wapping, East London. Murdoch believed it was impossible to produce a newspaper profitably on Fleet Street and the power of the print unions, the National Graphical Association (NGA) and the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades (SOGAT), was too strong (an opinion endorsed by the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher). All Fleet Street print staff were sacked and new staff from the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union were brought in to operate the presses at Wapping using modern computer-operated technology, rendering the power of the old unions obsolete. The resulting Wapping dispute featured violent protests at Fleet Street and Wapping that lasted over a year, but ultimately other publishers followed suit and moved out of Fleet Street towards Canary Wharf or Southwark. Reuters was the last major news outlet to leave Fleet Street, in 2005. In the same year, The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph announced they were returning to the centre of London from Canary Wharf to new premises in Victoria in 2006.
Some publishers have remained on Fleet Street. The London office of D.C. Thomson & Co., creator of The Beano, is at No. 185. The Secretariat of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association is at No. 17, as is Wentworth Publishing, an independent publisher of newsletters and courses. The Associated Press has an office in Fleet Street as did The Jewish Chronicle until 2013 when it moved to Golders Green. The British Association of Journalists is based at No. 89 while Metro International are at No. 85.
Though many prominent national newspapers have moved away from Fleet Street, the name is still synonymous with the printing and publishing industry. In the adjacent St. Brides Lane is the St Bride Library, holding a specialist collection relating to the type and print industry and providing courses in printing technology and methods. On the wall of Magpie Alley, off Bouverie Street, is a mural depicting the history of newspapers in the area.
The last two journalists to work for the Dundee-based Sunday Post, left in 2016, as the paper closed its London offices.
Modern history
Despite the domination of the print industry, other businesses were also established on Fleet Street. The Automobile Association was established at No. 18 Fleet Street in 1905. Since the post-Wapping migration, Fleet Street is now more associated with the investment banking, legal and accountancy professions. For example, The Inns of Court and barristers' chambers are down alleys and around courtyards off Fleet Street itself and many of the old newspaper offices have become the London headquarters for various companies. One example is Goldman Sachs, whose offices are in the old Daily Telegraph and Liverpool Echo buildings of Peterborough Court and Mersey House.
C. Hoare & Co, England's oldest privately owned bank, has been operating in Fleet Street since 1672. Child & Co, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Bank of Scotland, claims it is the oldest continuous banking establishment in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1580 and has been based at No.1 Fleet Street, adjacent to Temple Bar, since 1673. The law firm Freshfields moved to No. 65 Fleet Street in 1990.
Cultural references
The barber Sweeney Todd is traditionally said to have lived and worked in Fleet Street in the 18th century, where he would murder customers and serve their remains as pie fillings. An urban myth example of a serial killer, the character appears in various English language works starting in the mid-19th century. Adaptations of the story include the 1936 George King film, the 1979 Stephen Sondheim musical, and the 2007 Tim Burton film based on the musical, all titled Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Fleet Street is mentioned in several of Charles Dickens's works. The eponymous club in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, more commonly known as The Pickwick Papers, is set in the street, as is Tellson's Bank in A Tale of Two Cities. The poet John Davidson wrote two works in the late 19th century titled the Fleet Street Eclogues. Arthur Ransome has a chapter in his Bohemia in London (1907) about earlier inhabitants of the street: Ben Jonson, the lexicographer Doctor Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt and Lamb; and about Temple Bar and the Press Club.
Fleet Street is a square on the British Monopoly board, in a group with the Strand and Trafalgar Square. One of the Chance cards in the game, "You Have Won A Crossword Competition, collect £100" was inspired by rival competitions and promotions between Fleet Street-based newspapers in 1930s, particularly the Daily Mail and Daily Express.
(Wikipedia)
Fleet Street ist eine Straße in der City of London, England. An ihrem westlichen Ende befindet sich der Grenzpunkt zur City of Westminster, die Temple Bar, an dem die Fleet Street zum Strand wird. Benannt ist die Straße nach dem Fluss River Fleet, der unterirdisch kanalisiert wurde.
Fleet Street war seit dem 18. Jahrhundert traditionell die Heimat der britischen Presse. Bereits die erste Tageszeitung Englands, der Daily Courant, hatte ab 1702 ihren Redaktionssitz in einem Gebäude in der Fleet Street. In den nächsten fast 300 Jahren gesellten sich viele weitere Zeitungen und Nachrichtenagenturen hinzu. Dies änderte sich erst, als der Medienunternehmer Rupert Murdoch 1986 mit dem Umzug seiner Pressegruppe nach Wapping begann. Heute sind in die Gebäude vor allem Anwaltbüros und Gerichtskanzleien eingezogen. Obwohl die meisten großen Tageszeitungen und Nachrichtenagenturen unterdessen weggezogen sind, wird Fleet Street immer noch als Synonym für die britische Presse benutzt.
(Wikipedia)
Wondering what happened to the old fleet of carts? I was, too. Luckily, a couple of carts poking out beyond the left edge of the building caught my eye. Driving over there, what do we find but the entire old fleet, hanging out along the store's left-side exterior wall! I didn't take the time to count these, but suffice to say, there's a lot :P
I suppose I could have taken one home, but 1) we weren't in our truck at the time, 2) that would likely be highly visible as well as frowned upon, and 3) even though the carts did sit out here for a few weeks and I could have taken one at a later time, I simply wouldn't have had a place to put one. Nevertheless... I did still entertain the idea for a moment or two, just because XD
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
2012 saw a major change in the way DCA (Double-crewed ambulances) would be delivered to Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
The DCA fleet has been very heavily dominated with Ambulance bodies being placed onto the chassis, however 2012 saw the end to this concept in Yorkshire and a start to van conversions. Cartwright converted a number of Mercedes-Benz Sprinters in 2012-2013. Showing one of the models is 1655, YC12VMJ.
Fleet No. - 1655
Reg. No. - YC12 VMJ
Chassis - Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 519 CDI (4X4)
Bodywork - Cartwright Tarus
Type - Ambulance
Please Note:
1 - All images are copyright and must not be used without full permission from myself. All images published on here are my own work and taken on public property unless full permission has been given to enter a premises.
2 - I always try to include some information about the bus or the route in picture to the descriptions, however sometimes information may be listed incorrectly, if so I would be grateful if you could let me know what amendments need to be made.
I think this may be nearly unique with the colour and spec, and as a fan of black in general, a car which is almost entirely black is very appealing.
Model : Brianna Fleet
Makeup & Hair : Ivy Kim
Designer : Mauro Brito
Photographer : Matt Moore
Sculptor : Michelle O'Michael
Strobist info :
AB1600 w/ octobox, camera left
AB800 w/ umbrella, camera right
Flota/Fleet: Guaguas Municipales (BT1)
CarrocerÃa/Bodywork: Wagon Union VOV
Chassis: MAN SD200
Lote/Batch info: 1/1 - 4 total (BT1-BT4)
Matricula/Plate: GC-6441-CL
Longitud/Length: 2m
Servicio/Service: 2000 - 2010
Info (SP): Cuando el concepto de guagua turÃstica llego a Las Palmas, lo hizo de la mano de Guaguas Municipales. Concretamente se adquirieron 4 unidades de dos pisos del mercado aleman, y se trato de unidades MAN Wagon SD200 que comenzaron su vida util en Alemania en 1984 (concretamente en la empresa BVG donde tenian la numeración 3308, 3319, 3367 & 3382). Sin embargo tras perder el contrato de explotación de las rutas turÃsticas a la empresa City Sightseeing en 2010, se procedió a retirar estas unidades de circulación. Se desconoce que ocurrió con ellas.
Info (EN): When the concept of a tourist bus arrived in Las Palmas it was brought by Guaguas Municipales. Specifically they purchased 4 MAN WagonSD200 double-decker buses from the German market. These units had beed serving in the Berlin-based BVG, where they served as 3308, 3319, 3367 and 3382 since 1984. Nevertheless after losing the contract to exploit these routes to the City Sightseeing company in 2010 it was decided for these to be withdrawn from service. It is unknown what occurred to them after that.
Company: Go North East
Reg.No: MA75CSO
Fleet No: 6384
Chassis and Body: Wright StreetDeck Ultroliner
Seating: H43/26F
Unbranded in 2026 Fleet Livery
Depot: Washington
Year in Service: 2026
Location: High West Street, Gateshead.
Service X1: Newcastle to Peterlee.
5/3/26
Prior to the arrival of a fleet of new E400mmc's in Spring 2016, The fleet of Scania E400's used on the North Ayrshire Express services were transferred to Blochairn/Cumbernauld whilst the smaller B7/Profiles went down to Ardrossan.
There seemed to be a rule at Bullock's that the BUI 1484 plate had to go on an oddball vehicle - first it was the Duple Caribbean Dennis Dorchester, then it was this re-bodied Tiger, and finally the Hong Kong tri-axle Olympian. Now, there is nothing in the fleet of sufficient interest to justify its re-use, so it is on retention.
I did see this Tiger once in 1986, when it was new as C33 EVM, but it was parked inside the garage at Stockport Road, and given that I would have years ahead of me to get a decent photo of it, I had nothing to bother about - except that the following week, it caught fire ! The body was totally gutted in a blaze on the M1, and a rebuild and rebody looked like being the outcome, but then they came across another Plaxton 3500-bodied Tiger that had been involved in an accident on the M1, crossed over the central reservation, and suffered a terminally twisted chassis. So SMU 991Y arrived from Harold Wood Coaches in London, and its 1983 body was knocked back into shape and fitted to the chassis of EVM after its repairs, with the resulting vehicle back on the road in 1988. It must have been all the more sad for Ralph to see his one and only Gardner-engined Tiger go up in smoke like this - Gardners are renowned for smoking, but not in this way !
It became BUI 1484 in 1992, and reverted to C33 EVM in 2016. It has had periods out of service - as so often happens in this fleet - and although now officially retired, its future in preservation is assured. Most of the web pictures of it show it in its later state, with an updated front panel and newer livery, but this is how it looked in its post-rebuild state, on a rail replacement job over the Easter weekend of 1996.
Stockport rail station, 8 April 1996
Cruiser Strike Group "Firpo" of the Seventh Fleet of the SFAN (Solar Federation Astral Navy). The latest deployment of the CSG "Firpo" during the Kuiper Conflict, was in the region of Uranus and its moons, to protect preferred trade routes in the area. During its deployment the Strike Group has participated in many open military engagements and by overpowering the combined 1st and 5th Task Force of the Final Frontier's navy, it quickly became the most praised military unit of the Solar Federation, since this victory resulted in the beginning of the peace negotiations, making the Conflict come to an end.
Special thanks to: Ryan Olsen, for his fleets were such a huge inspiration to me (I hope you don't mind the tag)
FIIINALLLYYY!
I finished the "strike group" at least two months ago, but it was a pain getting around to finally upload these pics. First of all I had to do at least 4 separate photoshoots and even after all that some of the pics are horrible, so sorry about that (not-so-fun fact: it was probably this shot that caused the most frustration to me, since I had to take at least 50 pics of this arrangement alone, because I could never get the angle right. (I know, I suck at this whole photographing thing)). I have a second fleet laying around, not to mention some freighters and what-not, but hopefully with all this experience I can deliver some pics of those more quickly. Also, though I like developing stories in my head, I'm not sure I'm actually good at telling(/writing) them (not to mention my difficulties with translating them, despite my somewhat fluent-ness in English), so pardon me if the lore sucks/is confusing. I tried hard. If you all got any questions, I'd be more than glad to answer them, also if you've got any ideas on how I could improve my ships, feel free to share them with me.
Aaannnyways people, hope you'll like my creations.
Keep it brilliant fellas.
- Fleet: 35224
- Reg: KX56 JZF
- Operator: Stagecoach North East
- Route: 12
- Depot: South Shields
- Livery: Stagecoach
- Type: Dennis Dart SLF
- Bodywork: Alexander Pointer 2
- Livery New In: Stagecoach
- New to/ Year: Stagecoach Midlands / 2006
- Location: Keppel Street, South Shields
Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy docked at the Lonsdale Quay in North Vancouver, BC for Fleet Weekend 2023. HMCS Ottawa and HMCS Nanaimo along with three Orca class boats.
Fleet No: 4294
Reg Plate: BU51 RXZ
Vehicle: Alexander ALX 400 / Volvo B7TL
Route: 302 Lower Farm via Bloxwich
Location: Walsall Bus Station
Garage: Walsall
Former Fleet Coaches Ford R1114 / Duple Dominant II C53F YBM931S is seen in Guildford in April 1987. Crawt (Antennae) of Guildford had purchased the coach in 1986 and it would later pass to Stonestreet (Steve's Coaches) of the same town, still in Fleet Coaches livery.
The coach was new to Whites of Camberley and passed to Fleet Coaches along with 6 other coaches in 1984.
Steel and glass Art Deco design by Ellis & Clark; the former home of the Daily Express and still the most beautiful building on Fleet Street after 81 years
- Fleet: 5213
- Reg: NK54 NVH
- Operator: Go North East
- Route: 35
- Depot: Deptford
- Livery: Black Cats
- Type: Scania L94UB
- Bodywork: Wright Solar
- Livery New In: Go North East
- New to/ Year: Go North East / 2004
- Location: Park Lane Interchange, Sunderland
Arriva London DAF DB250/Alexander ALX400 DLA150 (V650LGC) on training duties in Selsdon. It looks to be training or route learning a new driver on route 64.
This type is sadly no longer in passenger service. DLA150 was based at Enfield Garage for route 121 but was withdrawn in 2013 following the arrival of new DW's as part of the new contract. It was however sent to the training fleet, however it is expected to be replaced by younger 52 reg DLA's which were formerly used on route 340.
Fleet mates Wilfred Sykes and Edward L. Ryerson at the ore dock, Escanaba, MI (Spring 1997)
With Cliffs announcing that the Empire Mine will be closing, the future of Escanaba as a ore port is unknown. CN could still rail ore from Minnesota, just speculation.
Ships of the Royal Canadian Navy docked at the Lonsdale Quay for the Navy's Fleet Weekend. The ships docked were HMCS Winnipeg, HMCS Vancouver, HMCS Brandon, and HMCS Edmonton as well as three Orca class patrol boats.
NCT fleet news Facebook page have been announcing when most (although not all) of the 22 plates have been entering service... well, the orange ones, at least. On the 11th of August, 529 'officially' entered service, although it'd already done half a day on the 10th. An absolute lack of clouds meant it was basically a choice between shooting into the sun or just missing it altogether, and like some idiot I chose the former.
Here's 529 on its real first day in service!
Field Lane, Chilwell, 10.8.22