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Hitachi test Class 930 unit No. 960201 is stabled at Ramsgate.
Two Class 310 unit Nos. 310109 and 310113 were used to create the single four-car departmental unit No. 960201. This unit could operate on either alternating current (AC) or direct current (DC) lines for test purposes.
The set consisted of two driving cars, a Class 310 power car with Hitachi equipment and a modified 650 V third rail vehicle from a Class 423 (4-VEP) unit. To facilitate third rail running, shoegear was fitted to each driving car. The unit was known as the 'Hitachi Verification Train' or 'V Train' and was used by Hitachi to test and prove its traction equipment in the UK.
Ramsgate.
Whilst the images Steve Miles posted looked as if there was a hook in the diver I don't think there is. I think the "fishing line" is actually very fine netting; you can see lots of ends where it's been cut. The bird has been suffering with this for some time due to the amount of damage that can bee seen on both sides of it's mouth.
The bird was fishing and swimming strongly but I didn't see it catch anything.
Whilst I was there it swam out of the inner basin when the gates opened, did a few circuits of the life boat basin then moved into the middle of the main harbour. That's when I departed.
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Originally named Austal 102, she was launched in January 2010 at the Austal shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia and was laid up at the shipyard for four years before an owner was found. Rumours were that the ship was to enter service with Euroferries, operating a 75-minute service between Ramsgate in England and Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. She was due to be handed over to Euroferries in January 2013 and enter service in February 2013 but the service failed to materialise and the ship remained in Austal's hands. In 2014, Condor Ferries extended its agreement to run Channel Island services until 2020 and subsequently negotiated the purchase of the Austal Hull 270, which it named Condor Liberation. After being modified at Austal’s Philippines yard, it entered service with Condor Ferries on 27 March 2015 operating out of Poole on the Dorset coast.
The "Coolest" Man in Ramsgate! Sitting upon his beautiful gold Triumph all decked out in his finest leathers listening to "50's" music on a beat-box and drinking a cup of tea from a tartan flask just watching the world go by......
You take photographs, could you take some of us swimming?
So asked Ange.
Which is why we were up at six on a Sunday morning, and down on the beach at the harbour before seven, me giving them both instructions on where to swim from and to, all before the clouds rolled in from the west.
We at at the foot of the sea wall, the morning light showing warm against our faces, but with clouds in the west, the low sun made the contrast between the houses on the Prom and the incoming storm all the more stark.
First run, a float bag that Sean has, bright orange, distracted in every shot.
So with clouds gathering, he took it off, they went back out a hundred yards, turned and swam to me.
Anyway, this was the best shot out of 665 taken, with them near the shore and nearly in sync. And the light still being warm from sunrise.
The did another circuit, while I began to look at the shots, but already the clouds driven hard by a keen westerly was dropping the first spots of rain.
As it fell harder, I walked back up the the car, dried the camera off and waited for the others. After hugging and wishing each other well, as the schools go back on Monday, we leave in opposite directions, us back to Townwall Street and up Jubilee Way to home.
Back home then for breakfast and brews. The rain now was coming down hard, but only for a few minutes, and soon cleared.
The light sparkled now the dust has been washed out of it.
I sat in the garden a while with Scully, the garden quickly drying around us.
But more excitement was to come, as we were to meet another friend, Andy, in Ramsgate at two, and as I had to meet the keyholder of the church hall I will be using for the churchcrawling group at midday, we left the house at quarter to eleven, finding a place to park off The Strand in Walmer.
The service had yet to end, so thin voices sang along with the last hymn, the Victorian organ in St Saviours sounding bombastic in contrast to the voices.
The service ended, so I saw maybe 30 people in attendance, in the twin towns with so many churches, I didn't think was bad.
I met the keyholder, she made it all so simple, so we shook hands and would meet on the 10th.
I come out and try to find Jools. I see her sitting at a bench. So I go to a shop to buy ice creams, then cross The Strand to sit with her to eat the ices quick, whilst looking at the beach huts and stony beach with the Channel beyond, while above the dramatic cloudscape kept on moving.
As the main road through Sholden was closed, and had been for weeks, we drove back to Whitfield then out back along the Sandwich road before crossing the Great Stour onto Thanet and into Ramsgate, parking down near the beach, under the shadows of the huge revetments holding the chalk cliffs back.
Just along is where a branch line to Ramsgate Beach station emerged from a steep tunnel, with barely enough room for a station and turntable. That closed in the 1920s, and the tunnel made into a tourist attraction with a small train running part way up.
Then in 1940, the tunnels were repurposed into air raid shelters, new tunnels with bunks being dug, so much of the townspeople could sleep safe as the bombs dropped.
Andy was on a tour of the tunnels, and would meet us at two, so we had 45 minutes, and suddenly we were hungry, so we went to a café.
We took a table inside, as I saw clouds and rain sweeping across Pegwell Bay, glad we did as soon those at tables outside were running in to take shelter as the heavens opened once again.
The food was fine, but expensive.
We walk back to meet Andy, they had walked miles by all accounts. So we ambled back down the prom, thinking of going into the UK's largest 'Spoons, but I spy an Belgian bar opposite in one corner of the old London Restaurant building.
Two bottles of Delirium tremens had our heads spinning and feeling much better.
Stagecoach 36866 (GN13 EXZ) photographed at Ramsgate on one of its many Loops it does day in, day out.
11th April 2017
Grade II listed. Built in 1907. Formerly a pub/ hotel, now the Alexandra Ristorante Italiano. A 1901 photo shows a different building on this site called Alexandra, sitting further forward in line with the building on the left, so it seems the history of a pub on this site goes back even further.
Harbour Parade, Ramsgate, UK.
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The guard, sorry.... conductor, of the 16.50 service to Charing Cross via Dover and Tonbridge strolls along platform 3 at Ramsgate prior to departure.
The Ramsgate caves. The concrete tunnels were added for the WWII, just as well. it's estimate that the caves saved 10,000 lives during one night.
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we are taking Elsie out today after her swimming lesson. We are thinking of taking her to Tate Modern and the Matisse exhibition . . . back soon
Ramsgate.
Mostly distant but popped up close by for several seconds. It then left the harbour and went to have a look around the ferry terminal.
Stagecoach 18172 (GX54 DVP) a Dennis Trident, is seen at Ramsgate, Kent, on route 9 to Canterbury. 11th April 2017
A very similar shot to one from the same session that was one of my first uploads. I think this one is cleaner (thanks to Dfine)and makes the lighthouse stand out better (Viveza and some adjustment brushwork in Lightroom).
Thanks a lot for looking!
Preserved MLV 9002 (68002) painted in Network Southeast livery on display at the Ramsgate depot open day. 8 June 2019.