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Dennis Trident, Plaxton President number 693 (SN04 SEG) is seen in front of the monument to Sir Walter Scott and I braved the tumbling rain to capture this Service 15 showing off its brightly lit, new digital screen - a feature being rolled out on many of Lothian's Trident vehicles.
At what was once the Eastern General Hospital Service 12 terminates at this rather neglected and dreary place. At one time there was a railway bridge here, carrying a North British branch (off the main North British South Leith goods line) which connected to the Caledonian South Leith Dock branch at Seafield Junction which was to the right of the picture here.
The Caledonian South Leith Dock branch was a phenomenal piece of engineering, leaving the Caledonian North Leith branch just west of Newhaven and running at high level over Leith Walk, then over the Capitol cinema and Easter Road, then behind St. Clair Street and under Lochend and Restalrig Roads before curving round to Leith South, passing over Seafield Place. The Caledonian were determined to get to the main part of Leith Docks somehow!
None of these lines ever had a passenger service and the steps in this picture were only for access to the railway line. The Caledonian branch was originally built as double track and platforms were built in some places but never used. It was singled after only a few years. The tram services in Leith were much more convenient.
The Caledonian South Leith Goods station was renamed Leith East in 1952 and the Eastern General Hospital was originally Leith Poor House but came into its own after the founding of the NHS in 1948 when it was the general hospital for the eastern side of Edinburgh
I am grateful to Frank Mitchell for this information
Volvo B9TL, Wright Eclipse Gemini number 846 (SN57 DDX) works more or less all the time these days on Service 12 / X12 and is usually the one decker among Dennis Darts on route between Ratho, Gyle and here at Seafield.
846 was the first double decker to test out a frontal LED screen in modern times and three years later is still the only Gemini with a front screen arrangement like this.
LED Screen MV DP8-iod beim Swatch Snow Mobile
LED Display:
Einsatzbereich: In- Outdoor
Modulgröße LxHxT: 1024mm x 768mm x 180mm
Bildfl äche pro Modul: 0,79m²
Aufl ösung: 8mm
LED pro Bildpunkt: 2R 1G 1B
Mindestbetrachtungsabstand: 8m
Horizontaler Betrachtungswinkel: 120°
Vertikaler Betrachtungswinkel: 120°
Helligkeit: >8000nits
Steuerung Helligkeit: automatisch oder manuell
Kontrast: >50/10.000lux
Farben: 16.777.216 total
Bilfrequenz: 3.000 HZ
Videoinput: SDI, Composit, VGA, DVI
Dennis Trident, Plaxton President number 690 (SN04 AED) is seen in Princes Street bound for Granton on a Service 19 and note the brightly lit LED screen destination windows.
Passengers are starting to notice a new and sharper destination screen display on some of Lothian's buses. Some of the oldest double deckers in the 650 public service fleet are being fitted with a new LED digital typeface, by McKenna, which appear more bright and clearer, both in the daylight and in the dark.
It's always been the custom for Lothian's buses to be fitted with roller blinds, and in recent years these operate mechanically through a programmer within the cab. Only Lothian and London maintain this tradition with most other companies in Britain now using digital LED screens.
Lothian, and its predecessor names ECT and LRT, has always experimented with new types of screen - the fonts, sizes and type-set lettering and this measure, being introduced on the Dennis Trident double deckers, will make clearer the location and service number detail, especially for the visually impaired.
With the Tridents being the oldest buses in the fleet the blinds were becoming dirty and sometimes a little difficult to identify. The brighter LED ident is more efficient, more quick in changing at termini and where intermediate changes are required. Roller blinds on the older buses very often become faulty, slip or jam and thus creating confusion for passengers.
T23 - LED screen truck with stage
Mobil Show mit dem LED Screen Truck -T23 bei den Mountainbike World Championships
Dennis Trident, Plaxton President number 680 ( SN04 ACX) works slightly unusually on a Service 49, seen at Elm Row. Note the LED digital screen with service number and enlarged destination. These are made by McKenna and are being rolled out on many of Lothian's Trident buses. The intermediate screen is being left as before and appears slightly insignificant in comparison.
Looking back at 2013 it was yet another fantastic year for Lothian Buses and its customers with many new initiatives being introduced:
The new Family DAYticket is now a big success with families experiencing great value travel - the initial idea was so popular it was extended from operating only on Sundays to seven days a week.
2013 also saw an expanded NightBus service in July, with Ridacard customers gaining free NightBus travel - this is now hugely popular!
Lothian's chief charity was extended to the introduction of a Pink Bus in aid of Breakthrough Breast Cancer and every autumn Lothian staff dress for one day in pink, raising thousands of pounds for the charity.
Ten new state-of-the-art Hybrid single deckers were introduced in April of 2013 amidst a blaze of publicity in Edinburgh with management staff from Volvo making a personal visit. These buses have proved to be fantastic in performance and twenty more are on order in 2014.
More new stock was introduced to diminish the use of the oldest, less eco-green friendly vehicles and, owing to popular demand, the rural East Lothian Buses service was extended.
The best ever Doors Open Day in September had nearly 4000 visitors to see an exhibition of everything that Lothian excels in - everyone and everything in prize form.
Transport Convenor for the City of Edinburgh's Council said in April 2013:"Lothian Buses is not only the best bus company in Britain, but the best bus company in the World"'
We have much to look forward to in 2014.
The LED screen display at Suntec City for the Gallery Children's Biennale 2023 : Let's Make a Better Place at the National Gallery Singapore.
In the winter twilight hour the newly applied LED digital front screens on some of Lothian's Dennis Tridents can be seen to good effect here at Leopold Place on the edge of London Road.
During the day the brightly lit service number (smaller than the usual roller blinds) and principal destination are highly modulated in brightness, but the intermediate screen remains on rollers, presumably requiring the need for two systems within the cab area. The difference between the intermediate and service / destination screens is noticeable in daylight hours but, as can be seen here, in darker hours everything appears clear and well articulated - especially for the visually impaired.
With older vehicles, like these two, the roller blind screens often become dirty and faded, and are prone to jam or slip on to the wrong detail, thus creating some confusion for passengers. This is one of the reasons this experiment is being tried out on around 30 of our older vehicles in public service.
Dennis Trident, Plaxton President numbers 676 (SN04 ABZ) and 679 (SN04 ACV) are seen working on Services 26 and 19 respectively.
Lighted pink umbrellas hanging from the ceiling of Sky Church of "Experience Music Project (EMP)" museum.
"Sky Church" is a concert venue capable of holding up to 800 guests and boasts of 70-foot ceilings, state-of-the-art sound and lighting, and the largest indoor LED screen in the world. Inspired by a term Jimi Hendrix used to describe a place where people of all ages and cultures could come to collectively celebrate musical experiences, Sky Church sits at the heart of EMP where it acts as a performance space, cinema, and dance hall for various events hosted by the museum throughout the year.
The EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music, science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle, Washington. The Frank Gehry designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building.
The EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and opened its doors in 2000.
Source: www.wikipedia.org, www.empsfm.org
July 4, 2011, Seattle, Washington, Seattle EMP museum here.
Structure supporting a large (approx. 7.5m x 5m) LED matrix display for road-side advertising. The display is seen by motorists on the Hammersmith Flyover. London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.
LED screen for visitors to watch the nightly live show from the stands at The Floating Platform @ Marina Bay for the Chinese New Year festival celebrations.
The Roots and Branches installation in Seattle's Experience Project is built from hundreds of guitars and other instruments. The massive sculpture entitled If VI Was IX: Roots and Branches was conceived by UK exhibit designer Neal Potter and developed by Trimpin and made largely out of musical instruments, especially guitars, which are played by electronically controlled devices.
The EMP Museum (formerly known as Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame or EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of popular music, science fiction and pop culture located in Seattle, Washington. The Frank Gehry designed museum building is located on the campus of the Seattle Center, adjacent to the Space Needle and the Seattle Center Monorail, which runs through the building.
The EMP Museum was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and opened its doors in 2000.
Source: www.wikipedia.org, www.empsfm.org
July 4, 2011, Seattle, Washington, Seattle EMP museum here.
The LED screen display at Suntec City for the 35th Asia Pacific Association of Cataract & Refraction Surgeons (APACRS) annual meeting at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre.
An image of Carrie Fisher (1956 - 2016) is displayed on the overhanging TELUS Garden’s digital LED screens above Richards Street and Seymour Street as a tribute to the Star Wars era of her illustrious life.
Richards Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
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