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Colorful NGC 1579 resembles the better known Trifid Nebula, but lies much farther north in planet Earth's sky, in the heroic constellation Perseus. About 2,100 light-years away and 3 light-years across, NGC 1579 is, like the Trifid, a study in contrasting blue and red colors, with dark dust lanes prominent in the nebula's central regions. In both, dust reflects starlight to produce beautiful blue reflection nebulae. But unlike the Trifid, in NGC 1579 the reddish glow is not emission from clouds of glowing hydrogen gas excited by ultraviolet light from a nearby hot star. Instead, the dust in NGC 1579 drastically diminishes, reddens, and scatters the light from an embedded, extremely young, massive star, itself a strong emitter of the characteristic red hydrogen alpha light.
Optics: GSO RC 10" F8 2000mm - Astrograph Ritchie-Chrétien
Mount: AP Mach1 GTO on Gemini Q-Lock tripod
Camera: QSI 640 WSG
Filters: Astrodon LRGB I Series Gen II
Guiding Systems: SXV-AO-LF Active Optics - SX Lodestar
Dates/Times: 25-26-27 September 2014 / 17-28-29-30 October 2014 / 13-18-19-22 November 2014
Location: Pragelato - Turin - Italy
Exposure Details: L:R:G:B => 900:230:230:230 = > (60x15):(23x10):(23x10):(23x10) color Bin2 [num x minutes]
Cooling Details: -35°C
Acquisition: Maxim DL/CCD, TheSkyX, Voyager
Processing: CCDStack2+, PS CS5
Mean FWHM: 1.68" / 2.78"
SQM-L: 20.45 - 21.21
www.starkeeper.it/InsideMWDarkRift.htm
In astronomy, the Great Rift (sometimes called the Dark Side, Dark Rift, or, less commonly, Dark River) is a series of overlapping, non-luminous, molecular dust clouds that are located between the Solar System and the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy at a distance of about 100 parsecs or about 300 light years (2×1015 miles or 3×1015 kilometers) from Earth. The clouds are estimated to contain about 1 million solar masses of plasma and dust.
To the naked eye, the Great Rift appears as a dark lane that divides the bright band of the Milky Way lengthwise, through about one-third of its extent, and is flanked by lanes of numerous stars. Starting at the constellation of Cygnus, where it is known as the Cygnus Rift or Northern Coalsack, the Great Rift stretches to Aquila; to Ophiuchus, where it broadens out; to Sagittarius, where it obscures the Galactic Center; and finally to Centaurus. One of the most important regions it obscures is the Cygnus OB2 association, a large cluster of young stars and one of the largest regions of star formation near Earth. A similar dark band can be seen in edge-on distant galaxies, such as NGC 891 in Andromeda.
Optics: Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L II USM @F4
Mount: HEQ5 Pro
Camera: Canon 5D MkII - Baader Mod
Filters: -
Guiding Systems: SX Lodestar
Dates/Times: 28 August 2014
Location: Torre Vado - Morciano di Leuca - Lecce - Italy
Exposure Details: 14x180s @1600 ISO
Cooling Details: Air temperature @31°C
Acquisition: BYE 3.0, TheSkyX
Processing: PixInsight, PS CS5
Mean FWHM: 2.8
SQM-L: 19.72
HTM 'Ombouwer voor éénmansbediening' 77 tijdens rondrit op Koningsdag,
Lange Vijverberg,
Den Haag,
27 april 2023.
The Various 8 - 06.08.2021 - Bezau Beatz special Edition, Zugsfahrt mit Überraschungsauftritt
All Saints, Ramsholt, Suffolk
Taken with my Sony Xperia™ Z5 smartphone. A new entry on the Suffolk Churches site: www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/ramsholt.htm
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay. Ours was the marsh country, and from the strand I climb to the marsh gate, and there across the wide marshes stands All Saints. Here, thousands every year see Ramsholt church for the first time, and every time is like the first time. Now, I step out across the marshes, and in my mind I am Dickens's Pip, I am Joyce's Dedalus; signatures of all things am I here to read.
A bright, freezing day in January 2017, and a perfect day for cycling out to Ramsholt church. I caught the Lowestoft-bound train to Melton, and then cycled out along the long, busy peninsula road, the traffic quietening as it peeled off to bigger, less remote places. The fields flattened out, punctuated by wind-swept pines. The lanes narrowed, zig-zagging down the sides and along the ends of pre-enclosure strips. A sea of mud and ice caked the road surface, and soon almost every trace of human habitation had disappeared. Curlews and oyster-catchers huddled miserably in the open fields as I reached the end of the long lane which leads up to Ramsholt church.
Hardly anyone lives in this parish, but it still maintains several services a month as a result of the Anglican diocese's benefice system. Although this church is just about accessible by car, most people who visit here will come on foot. This is because, just beyond the lane that leads to the church, another lane leads down to the pub on the quayside, the Ramsholt Arms.
Today, this pub is one of the busiest in Suffolk. It hasn't always been so; When I moved to Suffolk thirty years ago you could come here on a sunny day and enjoy the silence of the shoreline as you sat behind your pint of Adnams. It was considered by those who knew of it one of the best kept secrets in the county. A peaceful, laid-back pub overlooking the wide river - what more could you want? The food was superb, and you could be assured of the friendliest of welcomes.
And then came the 1990s, and Suffolk was 'discovered'. It is hard to remember now just how unfashionable it had been before. As recently as 1986, Michael Palin could make a comedy film, East of Ipswich, about going on holiday with his parents in the years after the War to Southwold. Southwold! How absurd! Who would ever want to visit such a backwater, let alone go on holiday there!
Nowadays, it is hard to pick up a colour supplement without finding an article about some actor, or designer, or investment banker who has a holiday cottage near the mouth of the Deben or the Blyth. Foodie articles focus on Suffolk produce and Suffolk restaurants. House prices have rocketed; it simply isn't possible for young locals to live here any more. A beach hut recently exchanged hands in Southwold for about the same as my house in the middle of Ipswich is worth.
And places like Ramsholt are becoming overwhelmed. From being a quiet haven where you took your mum for lunch when she visited, the Ramsholt Arms has become a tourist pub, its large garden full on a summer's afternoon with yachting types up from London for the weekend. Does this sound snobbish? I'm sorry. But you might as well be in Southwold or Aldeburgh. I am seeing my lovely Suffolk destroyed, and it seriously pisses me off.
A large field has been converted to a tourist car park about half a mile before you reach the pub. You walk down onto the strand; although we are a good three miles from the sea, the beach is sandy, and children dig holes and build castles. The lazy river is shallow and slow, if a touch muddy, and paddling is certainly safer than it would be a couple of miles downstream at Bawdsey. The tide is very dramatic; at the turn, it retreats a hundred yards out in less than twenty minutes, leaving a vast expanse of shiny mudflats, an aerodrome for the seagulls.
You wander along the strand upstream,, taking care not to step on the samphire that grows there - I'll be along in the spring to harvest some of it, and I don't want it all trampled, thank you very much. You step up onto the level above, and through a gate onto the bridleway through the marshes. And you see the church for the first time.
From across the reeds, it rises dramatically above you. The round tower appears square at this distance, but as you come closer it begins to look oval, an illusion caused by the buttressing. A similar illusion occurs at Beyton, Suffolk's other buttressed round tower.
The bridleway winds leisurely across the flat marsh. But it is best to keep to it; deep channels snake among the reeds and gorse, and only the brown cattle that somehow find something to graze here seem sure of not falling into them.
If you have come here in spring, you are in for an absolute delight when you pass through the gate on the far side of the marsh. Here, a sunken lane winds up to the church. Until fifty or so years ago, these were so common, but most were either turned into roads, or allowed to return to nature. This one is lined by high banks, six feet or more, and they are a riot in spring of wild flowers and grasses. Poppies spangle them into the distance.
The lane climbs, and suddenly you reach the churchyard. It is about eight feet above you, and you can either continue up to the field and around to the north east, or there is a little stairway cut in the bank of the sunken lane. This takes you up into the graveyard itself.
It would be silly to call this a lonely place, because it has thousands of visitors every year, and unless you come in deepest winter as I did, you cannot be here for long without someone else turning up. But it is lonely in the sense that it is virtually all there is under the sky, apart from an impossibly pretty thatched farmhouse down in the dip beneath the church. The river stretches beyond the marshes (you can just make out the spire of Felixstowe St John on the horizon, some six miles away) and the air is empty except for plaintive bird cries and the wind in the reeds. On a hot, still day, even these are silenced, and you'll swear you can hear the distant clink of boat masts in the river, half a mile off.
This is an ancient place. There was a church here a thousand years ago, and perhaps the base of the tower survives from that time. The church is broadly Norman; the later medieval windows can't disguise this. North and south are strange sets of dumpy lancets, which could date from any time, I suppose. They allow you to see how thick the walls are.
However ancient All Saints is, the strongest resonances here are of the 18th century. This seems to be the last time the Parish was populated to any extent, and there are some superb 18th century headstones set in the wild grasses, including one with a sexton's tools. My four favourites are in a line, to the Waller family. The Wallers can still be found locally; they owned the living at nearby Waldringfield and presented their sons to the living. The last Waller rector of Waldringfield died in harness as recently as 2013. The location and pre-Tractarian character of the graveyard and church meant it provided a perfect setting for a recent BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (although the book is actually set in the north Kent marshes, of course).
Curiously, there are hardly any stones to the north of the church. This may be used as evidence for the myth that people are never buried on the north side of churches (in practice, they are - take a look at a few churchyards!) but I think it is simply that people here have chosen to be buried looking over the river - well, you would, wouldn't you.
As you step through the 19th century porch (the frontage is most unusual; bricks lining unknapped flintwork, like a seaside cottage) and into the open church (it is always open) you might be forgiven for thinking that the interior is also an 18th century survival. There are simple wooden box pews, a brick floor, a two-decker pulpit rising on the south side. It is all just about perfect.
In fact, all of this is the result of a restoration of the 1850s. In the first half of the 19th century, Ramsholt church was derelict; unused and unloved. The nave was open to the sky; the walls were 'green with damp'. It seems extraordinary that a church would be furnished in the prayerbook fashion at such a late date, although it probably reflects the predilections, and memories, of elderly churchwardens. Ramsholt is such a backwater that this was still thought to be the proper manner of furnishing a church. As you walk up to the altar, you'll notice that the seats face west, towards the pulpit, rather than east, towards the altar, a reminder that for 300 years it was the Word that was the focus of Anglican worship, not the Sacrament.
There's a nice late medieval font, which seems rather out of place here; you feel that a chunky Norman font, or one of those 18th century bird baths as at neighbouring Bawdsey, would be more appropriate. The simple Norman doorway into the tower seems to call out for the former. If you look through the cracks in the door, you'll see that the base of the tower has been furnished as a vestry.
The damp of the estuary inevitably creeps into this building still, but that is part of its charm. On a summer's day it is cooler inside than out, as if the church were holding on to the grip of winter. On a winter's day the church becomes a sanctuary, but in all seasons a serious house on serious earth... the ghostly silt not yet dispersed. There is something organic about this great oatmeal tower, and the way it and the sandy bluff merge into the reeds and pines above the Deben estuary, at one with its setting, its parish and its long generations.
And that is all there is to Ramsholt now. The pub, a farmhouse and the church, each about half a mile apart. And the marshes, and the water, and the wide Suffolk sky.
Onderweg naar het werk kwam ik eerst meet PCC 1315 tegen die zowel de bovenleiding als spoorligging aan het nakijken was.
Bij Ypenburg Centrum komt de 4033 voorbij in mooi herfstlicht in kleurrijke reclame jas voor Peppa Pig.
In Emmerich staat de Retrack 189211 met trein 49784 klaar voor vertrek naar Tilburg Industrie.
HTM GTL8-II tram 3127
Commercial: Nederlands Dans Theater
Line 17 > Wateringen
Stationsplein
Station Hollands Spoor
Den Haag (The Hague)
Disponible en H*T*M calle 53 n 27-33 local 107 cc orbicentro II (galerias) tel 2556609 tallas S M L
$ 80.000
In 2023 startte de draaistelrevisie van de 76 en een jaar later is de ex HTM 267 als GTG 41 in bruikleen naar Arnhem gekomen. In Amsterdam was men bij de EMA al begonnen aan de revisie van de rijtuigbak en deze is in Arnhem afgemaakt.
Op deze zonnige lentedag in maart zijn beide trams gepresenteerd als een soort start van het nieuwe museum seizoen. Met de vrijwilligers van de tram als getuige zijn beide trams door een papieren muur heen gereden en konden hierna de eerste passagiers weer met de tram mee.
In 2023 startte de draaistelrevisie van de 76 en een jaar later is de ex HTM 267 als GTG 41 in bruikleen naar Arnhem gekomen. In Amsterdam was men bij de EMA al begonnen aan de revisie van de rijtuigbak en deze is in Arnhem afgemaakt.
Op deze zonnige lentedag in maart zijn beide trams gepresenteerd als een soort start van het nieuwe museum seizoen. Met de vrijwilligers van de tram als getuige zijn beide trams door een papieren muur heen gereden en konden hierna de eerste passagiers weer met de tram mee.
After crossing the viaduct over the A4 motorway nearby the Den Haag Leidschenveen kwartier, the HTM Regio Citadis tram 4068 is en route to Delft Noord.
De Haagse RegioCitadis-tram 4068 naar Delft-Noord verlaat het viaduct over de snelweg A4 bij Den Haag-Leidschenveen.
Sinds deze zomer zijn er veel werkzaamheden op de Haagweg in Rijswijk; een belangrijke verkeersader die Den Haag met haar omliggende plaatsen en de oprit naar zowel de A13 als de A4 verbindt. Waar zich hier voorheen twee rijbanen in beide richtingen bevonden, heeft men nu besloten te kiezen voor een enkele baan met een verbrede scheiding tussen de zijweg, de hoofdbaan en de tram. Over de trambaan gesproken; door de komst van de Avenio's moeten de haltes aangepast worden aan alle maten en dergelijken. De tram heeft zojuist de vernieuwde halte Hoornbrug achter zich gelaten en zal haar reis naar het eindpunt Delft Tanthof vervolgen.
De afgelopen tijd laten zich steeds meer opvallende totaal reclame-trams op de Nederlandse tramnetwerken zien. In Amsterdam, Rotterdam en Den Haag ontstaat hierdoor een bonte verscheidenheid van trams in verschillende uitvoeringen. In Den Haag bevinden zich op dit moment 10 totaal- reclame trams:
- NVM, 3060
- Lebara, 3125
- Mauritsklinieken, 3105
- Mesdagjaar, 3037 & 3038
- Residentie Orkest, 3112
- Engelsman Hoveniers, 3120
- Nuon, 3001
- Nederlands Dans Theater, 3127
De hierboven zichtbare tram is de 3113 met bestickering van Hi-Fi Klubben; naar mijn mening een zeer fraaie en kleurrijke uitvoering!
HOVM HTM mw.57 tijdens een rangeeractie in het HOVM.
Remise Frans Halsstraat,
Den Haag.
27 september 2025.
Een dag later trokken we dan naar Madurodam. Het was de eerste dag dat we ook echt de tram namen en ik moest wel even wennen aan de chipkaarten. In tegenstelling tot in Brussel, moet je hier namelijk ook systematisch aangeven dat je gaat uitstappen. Enfin na de tweede keer ging het best wel vlot.
Na een meer dan geslaagd bezoek - mijn oudste zoon wil nu al terug - namen we de tram terug naar het centrum. De zon die ons die dag goed vergezelde, stond ondertussen wel goed voor trams richting Scheveningen en aangezien er net één aankwam, werd die nog snel meegenomen.
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Tram 5055 is on its way to Scheveningen as it passes the stop at the miniature park of Madurodam.
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Den Haag Madurodam, 04/04/2017
HTM 5055
Lijn 9 Vrederust - Scheveningen
Op 8 september 2018 reden de Tramweg Stichting en het Haags Openbaar Vervoer Museum een dienst Scheveningen-Frans Halsstraat vanwege open monumentendag. Buitenlijner 57 aan het eindpunt Scheveningen Noorderstrand.
ppc
Crop
Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinde
www.alemannia-judaica.de/muehringen_synagoge.htm
(see english version)
In dem bis zum Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts zum Ritterkanton Neckar-Schwarzwald gehörenden Mühringen bestand eine jüdische Gemeinde bis 1939. Ihre Entstehung geht in die Zeit des 16. Jahrhunderts zurück. Erstmals wird 1570 Baruch Jud zu Mühringen genannt.
1722 zählte die Gemeinde 19 Familien mit 47 Personen, 1744 war sie auf 50 Familien angewachsen.
Im 18. Jahrhundert erlangte Mühringen als ein religiöser Mittelpunkt für die Juden in Südwestdeutschland eine große Bedeutung. Die Gemeinde war Sitz eines Rabbinats: der erste Rabbiner in Mühringen war der aus Haigerloch stammende Elias Weil. Ihm folgten Nathanael Weil (später Oberrabbiner in Karlsruhe), Samson Feis, David Dispecker, Jacob Samuel Schwabacher, Abraham Weil, Abraham Ries, Gabriel Adler, Dr. Moses Wassermann, Dr. Michael Silberstein und Dr. Adolf Jaraczewsky, der das Rabbinat nach Horb verlegte. Zum Rabbinat Mühringen gehörten außer Mühringen die Gemeinden Stadt Rottweil , Nordstetten, Dettensee, Mühlen, Rexingen und Wankheim bei Tübingen,
(wozu auch bis um 1880 die jüdischen Einwohner von Städte Tübingen und Reutlingen gehörten!!)
Einst die größte jüdische Gemeinde in
Württemberg, neben Bad Buchau.
Zahl jüdischer Einwohner wurde um 1846 mit 512 Personen in etwa 110 Familien erreicht. Die Familien lebten überwiegend vom Handel mit Vieh, Landesprodukten und anderen Waren. Seit der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts ging die Zahl der Juden am Ort durch Aus- und Abwanderung schnell zurück, sodass 1900 nur noch 130 jüdische Einwohner gezählt wurden. Das Rabbinat wurde 1911/14 von Mühringen nach Horb verlegt.
1933 lebten noch 45 jüdische Personen in Mühringen. In den folgenden Jahren ist ein Teil von Ihnen auf Grund der Folgen des wirtschaftlichen Boykotts, der zunehmenden Entrechtung und der Repressalien vom Ort verzogen. Die letzten der jüdischen Einwohner wurden 1941 bis 1943 deportiert.
Von den in Mühringen geborenen und/oder längere Zeit am Ort wohnhaften jüdischen Personen sind in der NS-Zeit umgekommen (Angaben nach den Listen von Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, ergänzt durch Gedenkbuch Baden-Württemberg 1969*):
Hildegard Adler geb. Lewin (geb. 1910), Sofie Berlizheimer (geb. 1898), Clara Dreyfuss geb. Dessauer (geb. 1865), Salomon Elsässer (geb. 1874), Sofie (Sara) Elsässer geb. Schwarz (geb. 1882), August Eppstein geb. Schwarz (geb. 1876)*, Ludwig Eppstein (geb. 1870)*, Emma Feigenheimer geb. Schwarz geb. 1883), Heinz Feigenheimer (geb. 1916), Erna Fleischmann (geb. 1911), Berta Frank geb. Elsässer (geb. 1878), Reinhold Friedmann (geb. 1898), Charlotte Goldschmidt geb. Bach (geb. 1859), Klara Haarburger geb. Levi (geb. 1879)*, Max Haarburger (geb. 1874), Oskar Hauser (geb. 1888), Julius Josephson (geb. 1881), Moritz Kalbkopf (1862)*, Jenny (Jeanette) Kirchheimer geb. Löwenthal (geb. 1884), Siegfried Levi (geb. 1877)*, Rudolf Löwenthal (geb. 1858), Therese Löwenthal (geb. 1886), Peppi Oppenheimer (geb. 1865)*, Thekla Oppenheimer (geb. 1869)*, Philippine Reinauer (geb. 1860), Julius Rosenfeld (geb. 1874), Max Rosenfeld (geb. 1866), Max Rosenfeld (geb. 1884), Sophie Rosenfeld geb. Gumprich (geb. 1890), Rosa Schattenfeld geb. Eppstein (geb. 1872), Martha Schwarz (geb. 1897), Thekla Schwarz geb. Schwarz (geb. 1893), Karl Steinharter (geb. 1880), Jenny Stern geb. Hauser (geb. 1868), Lina Wolf geb. Rosenthal (geb. 1888), Klementina Wolf geb. Levi (geb. 1882).
Berlizheimer aus Mühringen bei Horb am Neckar, nannten sich in Amerika Berlitz.
Berlitz Methode seit 140 Jahren weltweit bekannt und bewährt.
GTL8 | 1A Voorburg Station - Scheveningen Noord
Vanwege werkzaamheden aan de Hoornbrug worden de al sinds 2010 niet meer regulier gebruikte tramsporen door Voorburg tijdelijk weer bediend door lijn 1A die bij station Voorburg keert.
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Due to maintanance works at the Hoornbrug the tram tracks in Voorburg, which haven't been in regular use since 2010, are temporarily served by route 1A which reverses in Voorburg.
HTM PCC 1186 op lijn 16 richting Moerwijk tijdens een omleiding door het centrum wegens een tijdelijke onbruikbaarheid van het vaste eindpunt Turfmarkt.
Grote Marktstraat/Spui,
Den Haag.
09 september 1975.
HTM PCC 1210 op de interlokale (intercommunale) lijn 1 van Delft richting Den Haag Turfmarkt op de Hoornbrug. De stroomafnemer passeert het bovenleidingloze deel tussen de vaste brug en het beweegbare wegdeel van de basculebrug. Hier bleven weleens trams steken,
Rijswijk,
23 maart 1975.
In 2024 vieren de HTM en het HOVM de aankomst van de eerste moderne PCC-trams in Europa en Den Haag. Ik heb zelf als kind en jongere (woonde in Zoetermeer en ging naar de bloemenvakschool in Den Haag) veel met deze trams gereisd. Zeker als we met grote bloemstukken terug naar huis gingen, mochten we deze regelmatig van een bestuurder voorin bij de voorruit neerleggen; hadden wij ruimte en zij een versierde tram ; ) PCC's hebben daarom altijd een plekje in mijn hart. Vandaar dat ik (vaak ook met mijn zoon) dit jaar er regelmatig op uit trok om diverse evenementen bij te wonen. De 2e juni reden de PCC tussen de reguliere dienstregeling over lijn 11 naar Scheveningen. Omdat (?) deze trams ook gratis waren voor publiek, zaten ze vaak afgeladen vol. Een erg geslaagde dag, ook omdat het weer uitstekend was.
n 2024, HTM and HOVM will celebrate the arrival of the first modern PCC trams in Europe and The Hague. As a child and teenager (I lived in Zoetermeer and went to a florist-school in The Hague), I often traveled with these trams. Especially when we were returning home with large flower arrangements, a driver would often let us put them in the front window; we had space to sit and they had a decorated tram ; ) PCCs therefore always have a place in my heart. That is why I (often with my son) regularly went out this year to attend various events. On June 2, the PCC ran between the regular timetable on line 11 to Scheveningen. Because (?) these trams were also free for the public, they were often packed. A very successful day, also because the weather was excellent.
Im Jahr 2024 feiern HTM und HOVM die Ankunft der ersten modernen PCC-Straßenbahnen in Europa und Den Haag. Ich bin als Kind und Jugendlicher viel mit diesen Straßenbahnen gefahren (wohnte in Zoetermeer und besuchte die Blumenhandelsschule in Den Haag). Besonders wenn wir mit großen Blumenarrangements nach Hause kamen, erlaubte uns ein Fahrer regelmäßig, sie diese hinter der Windschutzscheibe zu platzieren; wir hatten Platz zum sitzen und es gab eine dekorierte Straßenbahn; ) PCCs haben daher immer einen Platz in meinem Herzen. Deshalb bin ich dieses Jahr regelmäßig (oft mit meinem Sohn) ausgegangen, um verschiedene Veranstaltungen zu besuchen. Am 2. Juni fuhr die PCC im regulären Fahrplan mit der Linie 11 nach Scheveningen. Da (?) diese Straßenbahnen auch für die Öffentlichkeit kostenlos waren, waren sie oft überfüllt. Ein sehr gelungener Tag, auch weil das Wetter hervorragend war.
De eerste HTM Siemens Avenio met reclameuiting is de 5025 als NS Reis je Fit reclametram hier in Scheveningen Vuurbaakstraat als lijn 11 naar de Haven/Strand.
www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/ProtectedAreasofPakistan/Marga...
Margalla Hills National Park, is located in the foothills of the Himalayan range. The topography is rugged, with numerous valleys and many steep and even precipitous slopes. The area is drained by the River Kurang and its tributaries, which flow into the River Soan. This park is the most accessible park in Pakistan due to its close proximity to the national capital, Islamabad. A visitor centre is planned for Daman-E-Koh, providing lounge accommodation and an information service. Lodges, camping grounds and picnic sites are also planned and the provision of a chair lift may be considered.
Wildlife:
Margalla Hills are unique in Pakistan, being rich in Sinohimalayan fauna, some species (especially birds) of which are at the western extremity of their distribution. It is an extention of the Islamabad wildlife sanctuary, which includes the Shakar Parian Hills and the Rawal Lake. The park was setup to provide refugee to the Gray Goral, Barking deer and the Leopard. Protection to these animals have benefitted other unusual and interesting smaller animal as well. Margalla Hills Park provides an excellent opportunity for bird watching. A Cheer Pheasant hatchery has been established at Chak Jabri and Dhok Jewan to raise captive Cheer pheasants that have become extinct in the hills. These are then released in the wild.
Mammals:
Mammals in the park include--Asiatic leopard (T), Wild boar (C), Golden Jackal (C), Rhesus Macaque (V), Leopard cat (R), Gray Goral sheep (V), Barking deer (V), Chinkara gazelle (R), Red fox (C), Pangolin (R), Porcupine (C), Yellow throated marten (R) and Fruit bats (C).
Note: T=Threatened, V=Vulnerable, R=Rare, C=Common, ?=Unknown.
Birds:
Birds in the park are--Himalayan Griffon vulture, Laggar falcon, Peregrine falcon, Kestrel, Indian sparrow hawk, Egyptian vulture, White cheeked bulbul, yellow vented bulbul, Paradise flycatcher, Black partridge, Cheer pheasant, Khalij pheasant, Golden oriole, Spotted dove, Collared dove, Larks, Shrikes, Wheatears and buntings.
Reptiles:
Reptiles in the park are--Russell's viper, Indian cobra, Himalayan pit viper and Saw scaled viper.
Hoewel ik meestal tegen het moment dat het donker begint te worden stop met fotograferen is juist dit moment hét uitgelezen moment om de Kersttram nog eens af te drukken. Het nadeel daarvan is dan wel dat het statief de hele dag meegesleept moet worden maar dat nemen we dan maar even op de koop toe. Hoewel ik eigenlijk liefst had gezien dat het nog wat donkerder was geweest zag ik het niet zitten nog eens een 2.5 uur in het inmiddels ijskoude Scheveningen door te brengen voordat de tram nogmaals terug zou keren. We nemen dus genoegen met het begin van de schemering maar dit is geen ramp, de verlichting komt wat mij betreft prima tot zijn recht!
Een twee uur wachten ging hoe dan ook al vooraf aan het moment dat de feestelijke 3109 weer terug zou keren in de Haagse badplaats die al wachtende op een bankje al snel steeds minder aangenaam koud begon te worden. Mede daarom besloot ik wat in beweging te blijven en fotografeerde ik ook enkele andere trams in de lus aan het Zwarte Pad. Met de hoop dat men één van de twee rechts gelegen sporen zou gebruiken kwam de Kersttram uiteindelijk binnen op het minst gunstige spoor waardoor ik het bord en de gele bak naast de tram voor lief moest nemen. Je hebt het nu eenmaal niet voor het zeggen. Al met al werd het geluk toch nog wat geholpen door de vertraging van lijn 9 waardoor er ruimte ontstond voor dit resultaat. Relatief tevreden was het de afsluiter van een dag waarop vele verschillende trams voorbij wisten te komen aan mijn cameralens.
HTM PCC 1224 op lijn 1 onderweg van Den Haag Turfmarkt naar Delft Station.
Het weiland op de achtergrond is veranderd in een golfbaan en op het gedeelte achter de tram staan tegenwoordig bedrijfsdozen.
Delftweg,
23 maart 1975.
Even wat plaatjes van de pekeltram, de HTM heeft ze en had weinig problemen om met de sneeuwproblemen door te kunnen rijden.
Deze winter worden de wagens bij remise Lijsterbesstraat gevuld.
Na een ritje met de 3024 stond de 3011 al klaar om gevuld te worden.
7 september was ik met school in Den Haag voor de politiek. Na afloop hadden we 1 uur vrije tijd die ik mooi kon gebruiken voor trams en bussen te fotograferen.
HTM 1071 Den Haag 16:57 lijn 24 (Den Haag Mariahoeve- Kijkduin)
HTM 1181 op lijn 3 omleiding Prinsjesdag,
Jan Hendrikstraat-Grote Markt,
Den Haag,
17 september 1974.
www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/ProtectedAreasofPakistan/Marga...
Margalla Hills National Park, is located in the foothills of the Himalayan range. The topography is rugged, with numerous valleys and many steep and even precipitous slopes. The area is drained by the River Kurang and its tributaries, which flow into the River Soan. This park is the most accessible park in Pakistan due to its close proximity to the national capital, Islamabad. A visitor centre is planned for Daman-E-Koh, providing lounge accommodation and an information service. Lodges, camping grounds and picnic sites are also planned and the provision of a chair lift may be considered.
Wildlife:
Margalla Hills are unique in Pakistan, being rich in Sinohimalayan fauna, some species (especially birds) of which are at the western extremity of their distribution. It is an extention of the Islamabad wildlife sanctuary, which includes the Shakar Parian Hills and the Rawal Lake. The park was setup to provide refugee to the Gray Goral, Barking deer and the Leopard. Protection to these animals have benefitted other unusual and interesting smaller animal as well. Margalla Hills Park provides an excellent opportunity for bird watching. A Cheer Pheasant hatchery has been established at Chak Jabri and Dhok Jewan to raise captive Cheer pheasants that have become extinct in the hills. These are then released in the wild.
Mammals:
Mammals in the park include--Asiatic leopard (T), Wild boar (C), Golden Jackal (C), Rhesus Macaque (V), Leopard cat (R), Gray Goral sheep (V), Barking deer (V), Chinkara gazelle (R), Red fox (C), Pangolin (R), Porcupine (C), Yellow throated marten (R) and Fruit bats (C).
Note: T=Threatened, V=Vulnerable, R=Rare, C=Common, ?=Unknown.
Birds:
Birds in the park are--Himalayan Griffon vulture, Laggar falcon, Peregrine falcon, Kestrel, Indian sparrow hawk, Egyptian vulture, White cheeked bulbul, yellow vented bulbul, Paradise flycatcher, Black partridge, Cheer pheasant, Khalij pheasant, Golden oriole, Spotted dove, Collared dove, Larks, Shrikes, Wheatears and buntings.
Reptiles:
Reptiles in the park are--Russell's viper, Indian cobra, Himalayan pit viper and Saw scaled viper.