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Renown Group of Bexhill-on-Sea Fleet No.6 T465 BCN.
An Optare Solo M850 B25F that was new to Go Wear Buses and later operated with Go North East.
It is seen here parked out of service in the coach park off Market Road, Battle, East Sussex.
Note: This bus has since been withdrawn from service and scrapped.
Date: 02.02.2013 15:53
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1L (1UDH) the unique 1962 Daimler Fleetline bus shortly before scrapping. Scan of photo taken in 1977 at Adderley St scrapyard, Birmingham.
Its historical importance & the value of preserving such a unique vehicle was ignored by WMPTE. Thankfully photos of it survive on the net, some showing it in its heyday in its original attractive sky blue livery as Walsall Corporation No.1. New to Walsall in 1962 it had been exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, London where it created much interest. In 1969 it was absorbed with local municipal bus operations into the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) & renumbered 1L.
This double deck bus was a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with Northern Counties bodywork H37/27F - 64 seats. At only 25ft 7in long it was the shortest Daimler Fleetline ever built, 1ft shorter than later models ordered by Walsall & 4ft less than standard Fleetlines (30, 33 or 36 ft). Weight distribution proved unsatisfactory with too little on the front axle. Later versions had a short front overhang added.
It had unique rear lights & divided rear downstairs sloping window, unique tungsten bulb "cleaners lights" as well as fluorescent interior lighting for passengers. The driver's seat was alongside the front wheel rather than above it. A long right arm would be needed for hand signals. This bus was built when most buses were crew operated. Its single doorway, seen as revolutionary, in later years made the bus unsuitable for conversion to dual door one man operation. This guaranteed its early withdrawal from service by WMPTE in 1974 at 12 years old.
The bus survived for a while at the apprentice engineering school at Moseley Road, Birmingham. "Buses" Fleet news reported that a Mr Newman of Cannock was to buy it for preservation. The plans seemingly fell through & this piece of history was unfortunately lost forever.
A special thanks to everyone who has looked at this. It was my first photo to reach 1,000 views and now over 10k.
Ex-Los Angeles County Fire Dept, 1949 General-Pacific pumper sits on the roof at 1912 E Vernon Ave ~ Vernon, CA
First Manchester (Oldham depot) MX58EAC 37451 seen parked up out of service on Oldham Street, Manchester
Florida's famous rail fan photographer Fred Clark Jr., is seen while taking some B&W photos with his not so trusty Mamiya C220 twin lens reflex camera, along an out of service track found in the Trilby area of Central Florida, 1976. At this location there was a diamond ahead in Fred's view, and many of the rails were not fastened to the ties with spikes at this point. You can see another track in the weeds behind Fred that is approaching the diamond.
Prop-less, wheel-less & wingless Beech 95 twin (thanks to TxPilot for the ID).
181 second exposure, red & teal gelled flashlights.
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Location not disclosed at owners request.
Ok, so everything including the tracks are rusty. Rusting remains of a bulldozer at a plant that manufactured a lightweight cement using shale rock in the mixture.
182 second exposure, full moon, Pink gelled flashlight.
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The offside view of Renown Group of Bexhill-on-Sea Fleet No.52 G542 VBB. A Leyland Olympian with Northern Counties Palatine bodywork that was new to Kentish Bus as No.542 and later operated with Arriva London as No.L542.
It is seen here parked up out of service at Hastings Station,
East Sussex.
Note: This bus has since been scrapped along with sister buses G525 VBB, G540 VBB, G543 VBB and G556 VBB.
Date: 25.01.2013.12:21
Coach CR 101 | 320 former colonial Dutch SSS - Staatspoorwegen Sumatra's Westkust / State Railways of Sumatra's West coast. When I came here not only steam abandoned also passenger service though the latter was more than compensated by several rides on a locomotive pulling / pushing a coal train. A few years earlier and this type of coach would have been my part.
Hams Travel of Flimwell BU5 7 HAM.
An Alexander Dennis Enviro 300 B45F is seen here parked up out of service on a lay-by outside Hams London Road depot, Flimwell, during heavy sleet.
Note: BU57 HAM has since been repainted into Hams newer gold with black roof, livery.
Date: 05.04.2013 11:52
34 second exposure, green gelled flash and way more sodium vapor lights than you can shake a flashlight at.
US Airforce KC-135E on display at the Kansas Avaition Museum. Thanks to them for giving me permission to burn a little midnight oil.
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You should check the place out, they have an impressive array of aircraft. www.kansasaviationmuseum.org/
Newcastle Central Station - opened in August 1850, as part of the then Newcastle & Carlisle Railway and York, Newcastle & Berwick Railways. Now a Grade 1 listed building, it is located in the city's Grainger Town area, to the west of the Castle Keep.
Original "Soo Line" main to Rhinelander went straight, original Wisconsin and Northern main to Crandon and Neenah went off to left. Compare to this shot taken 18 years earlier www.flickr.com/photos/32431640@N03/11776681736/in/album-7...
Stagecoach Manchester "Magic Bus" (Sharston depot) MX08GNN 19253 seen on Altrincham Road, Wythenshawe returning back to the depot.
1974 Cadillac Miller Meteor ambulance conversion
Miller-Meteor started building these car-ambulance conversions in 1973, just as new laws went into effect that would make them illegal. Not many were built before production stopped in 77, because car-based ambulances were obsolete. This vehicle started out as a 74 Fleetwood Seventy-Five commercial chassis
5 minute 8 second exposure, red, blue & natural gelled flashlight.
1967 Mack R-600 truck.
181 second exposure, Pink, teal & yellow gelled flashlights. Another hunk of metal sitting around Mr Krone's place. Location not disclosed at owners request.
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an der Sonnenallee in Berlin Treptow/Baumschulenweg
Die einstige Esso-Tankstelle, in der DDR von Minol genutzt, ist heute leider ein Schandfleck. Das hängt damit zusammen, dass sie Bundeseigentum ist und der Bezirk keine Handlungsmöglichkeiten hat. Das Gelände der Tankstelle ist kontaminiert, alte Tanks befinden sich noch im Boden. Ein Um- oder Aufbau kommt dadurch den Käufer sehr teuer.
Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) Greenwood Yard celebrates its 50th anniversary as part of Doors Open Toronto. The maintenance facility and rail yard repairs and services subway vehicles on the Bloor-Danforth line (Line 2). Previously the site was a brickyard and Toronto’s largest landfill site.
One of many stored aircraft...Tatoi Air Base 06/11/14
See more Greek military photos at www.flickr.com/photos/gsairpics/sets/72157648901282488
188 second exposure, blue, purple, red & yellow gelled flashlights.
1965 Chevy school bus. Retired many full moons ago from it's origional duties.
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Cogwheel steam locomotive E 10.13|59|04|55|63|08|57|54|19|56 waiting to be taken apart and sold as scrap. Type: 0-10-0T former SSS - Staatsspoorwegen Sumatra / State Railway of Sumatra. Series 1001-25 build by SLM-Winterthur (Switzerland) and Machinefabrik Esslingen (Germany) between 1920-1928. The series 1051-67 were ordered by the PJKA and build by Machinefabrik Esslingen and Nippon Sharyo (Japan) between 1964-67.
Burned out remains of a gas station/diner. The closest town to here is Houstonia, this is pretty much all that remains of the entire place. There is/was a truck service area that is still visible to the right of the frame, it is pretty heavily vandalized.
182 second exposure, protomachines set to orange.
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During our AZAD-2012 National Conference, we took a side trip to the Santa Cruz Island to see the endangered Island Fox. There were a few other sights besides the wildlife. This is an old rusted out tractor or truck (?) left behind for many years after the island was no longer privately owned by a rancher.
The island is now a National Park. There are no vehicles allowed. (except of course for the minimal number of maintenance vehicles.) Visitors who come to the island for swimming, hiking, camping, must take everything they brought with them to the island back to the mainland when they leave. There are NO trash containers on the island. This should be a given in all public places. In most camping areas, you must hike in your water.
Santa Cruz Island was the largest privately owned island off the continental United States, but is currently part-owned by the National Park Service (NPS owns 24%, and the Nature Conservancy owns 76%). The island, located off the coast of California, is 22 miles (35 km) long and from 2 to 6 miles (3.2 to 9.7 km) wide. It is part of the northern group of the Channel Islands of California, and at 61,764.6 acres (249.952 km2) is the largest of the eight islands in the chain.
Santa Cruz has many species found nowhere else on earth, including for instance the Island Scrub Jay and the Island Fox.