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I believe that Mainline held a minority shareholding in Northern Bus at this time (something in the region of 15%, if I recall correctly), hence the reason for the appearance of this in the Northern fleet for a while.
She would later return to Mainline and ended up as a driver trainer under First ownership.
Sheffield, Transport Interchange, 27/03/1998.
Alexander bodied Dennis Dominator 2165 NKU165X alongside Alexander bodied Volvo B10M 616 G616NWA, both receiving bodywork attention at Greenland Road garage.
10-2-2002 Draycott
43083 & 43064 head towards Trent Jct on an unidentified passenger working
time 12:15
On hearing the news that former Mainline B10BLE 790 R790WKW had entered preservation i thought i had to produce a model of it.
Standard EFE Wright Renown complete bare metal respray with added decals, she is seen in the final stages of completion.
This latest Sheffield upload begins in Beeston – it’s not exactly South Yorkshire, but by sheer fluke last week I happened to see preserved Mainline ALX400 2717 there! Freshly MOT’d after being inactive for a time, here it is on Middle Street, about to pay a visit to the interchange.
Of course this happened to be one of the rare times I didn’t have my DSLR with me, because I’d just gone shopping with family, but even in the dull lighting the Panasonic compact SOMEHOW pulled through to get an acceptable photo! I didn’t even have a chance to alter the settings yet got minimal blurring at 1/80, and the camera auto-set itself to ISO 250, so not too grainy either. Considering the Panasonic turns 9 next year, this ain’t half bad!
Considering the selection of buses Beeston regularly gets these days, an ex-First B7TL ALX400 is far more interesting than the vast majority of them! The coincidental timing is also on-point, not only for me to have been in the right place at the right time to see it in the first place, but the fact I already had this set of photos ready to upload, that contains two other Mainline buses. It also makes up for the fact that earlier in the week I went to the A52 on two different days, looking for B7TLs etc on school work, and was left mostly disappointed.
Best thing I’ve seen since October.
6.12.24
First Mainline Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7L 900, Y 900 FML is pictured at Sandtoft Trolleybus Centre near Doncaster. This bus was later re-registered Y 661 UKU and was renumbered 60703 in the First Group national numbering series.
On 'The Fellsman' from Chester to Carlisle and return via the S&C. Seen at Long Marton. I ran out of time looking for a shot and had to go with this straight into the sun.
CSXT paints indicators between the rails when there are multiple tracks in a crossing (three at this location, a main and two sidings) to cut down on mistakes by the employees that could get someone killed if they got clearance to work on the wrong track.
Mainline
Volvo B7TL/Alexander ALX400
WU02KVV (2717)
South Yorkshire Transport Trust, Rotherham
3 October 2021 (SYTT Open Day & Rally)
Mainline steam is always a big deal, worldwidely. Same in Jitong line 7 years after it ceased steam operation in 2005. If you could bring back mainline steam, nothing to blame about the diesel then. QJ7119, Xinmiao Bridge, Reshui, Inner Mongolia, China. 12.31.2012.
Chiltern Railways Class 168 no. 168111 at Princes Risborough with a service to Marylebone, 16/05/2015.
The full gallery from this trip can be found here: mkttransportphoto.smugmug.com/2015/May-2015/PrincesRisbor...
Catching a mainline train on a branch line is always an interesting and exciting catch! Here, a long grain train bound for Foster Farms in Turlock, CA slowly rolls down the old Tidewater Southern line.
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Skip forward a few years to April 1993 and the Mainline identity had been well and truly adopted across the fleet. Marshall bodied Atlantean (complete with cigarette advert) is just about to pass a refurbished Volvo B10M of the G-NWA batch. I'll have to find that picture...
66741 Cromer Lifeboat gains the mainline at Mexborough with 6E51 Peak Forest to Selby and passes under the delightful station footbridge.
UP 1214 is acting like a hot intermodal train, speeding along the line at 60 MPH. This train would encounter trouble with its reverser at Biggs, OR, about two miles to the east.