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Workingtons new footbridge is now open....The last bridge had pillars in the middle of the river that washed away two years ago when the river flooded
Kicking off 2026 was a trip to Basingstoke on Sunday 4th January to witness the rail replacement buses running to Andover, Farnborough, Reading, Winchester and Woking. With 11 departures every hour, something interesting was bound to turn up sooner or later. Being sufficiently west of London, Basingstoke is predominantly 'coach country' rather than say, east of Woking where it's almost all buses running the rail replacement services.
Today's delights were a pair VDL Futuras from Star Tours of Wembley, a JKT International Irizar, a pair of former Excelsior Plaxton Elites now sporting Damory branding, the Barnes '100 Years' coach which has now been repainted into full fleet livery, and a pair of Mayflower Scania deckers. It was good to see the Mayflower pair back on the road again after the devastating vandal attack that crippled the fleet back in November 2025.
In total, 36 buses and coaches from 20 different operators passed our cameras in our 3 hour visit with Aldermaston Coach Lines and Barnes providing 5 each.
It was back to Basingstoke today (12/01/2025) for another look at the rail replacement operation with an impressive 13 departures an hour. A bit of a Barnes-fest certainly added brightness to an otherwise grey day.
These screen captures from the Pompeii Walking Tour 2020 video is courtesy of the POMPEII ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK and ProWalk Tours.
Note to educators: ProWalk Tours as producer of the original video footage has agreed to allow my derivative still images to be licensed with Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike so they can be freely used for teaching and research publications.
Technical notes: I have used Topaz Sharpen AI to remove the slight motion blur in screen captures as well as Adobe Camera Raw to adjust clarity, texture, highlights, shadows, and occasionally haze and white balance. I increased dynamic contrast and added a subtle vignette with On1 Photo Raw Effects and removed distracting visitors and some barriers, as well as replaced empty skies with Photoshop and its Sky Replacement feature, changing the blend mode from Screen to Multiply to avoid excessive editing of the mask layer.
You can explore the Pompeii Walk video yourself here - no special hardware is required:
Following the failure of Garratt locomotive NG129, DH5 hauls its 15 car train into Selby on its way to Lakeside 30.9.26
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
Alexander Dennis Trident ALX400 is seen at St.Mary's Place, Newcastle on Metro Replacement Service 900 to Regent Centre Metro.
From Monday 15 to Sunday 28 February, no trains will run between Heworth and Regent Centre or Heworth and Four Lane Ends. This is to allow us to replace 18,000 metres of overhead line wire. Trains will run as normal again from Monday 1 March.
When the line is closed, a replacement bus service number 900 will call at, or close to all stations in the affected area. Two Express replacement bus services X900 and X901 will also be provided and will call at just some stations.
Trains will be running between Airport and Regent Centre, Heworth-South Hylton (except on Sunday 21 February when Network Rail work takes place), St James-Four Lane Ends and Heworth-South Shields.
Stagecoach Lincoln based Solo 47462 FX07 LJA stands at Kirkby in Ashfield railway station on 17-02-13 awaiting connection with the Robin Hood Line train from Mansfield Woodhouse, the bus will then operate via Newstead, Hucknall, Bulwell, to Nottingham as a rail replacement service.
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Career
Name: Lurline
Owner: Matson Lines
Chandris Lines
Builder: Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Fore River Shipyard
Laid down: 1931
Launched: 1932
Christened: Lurline, 12 July 1932
Ellinis, September 1963
Maiden voyage: 12 January 1933
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan in 1987
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 18,163 GRT
Length: 632 ft (193 m)
Beam: 79 ft (24 m)
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) (service)
22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) (maximum)
Capacity: 715 passengers
475 first class, 240 tourist class
Crew: 359
SS Lurline was the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurline's sister ships were SS Malolo, SS Mariposa and SS Monterey. Lurline served as a troopship in World War II operated by War Shipping Administration agents serving Army troop transport requirements.[1]
Rechristened in 1963 by Chandris Lines as the MS Ellinis, the ship became one of the most important luxury cruise ships on the Australian and New Zealand services. She operated in Australasia and Oceania until 1980.
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Lurline of the Matson Line
William Matson had first come to appreciate the name in the 1870s while serving as skipper aboard the Claus Spreckels family yacht Lurline (a poetic variation of Loreley, the Rhine river siren)[2] out of San Francisco Bay. Matson met his future wife, Lillie Low, on a yacht voyage he captained to Hawaii; the couple named their daughter Lurline Berenice Matson. Spreckels sold a 150-foot brigantine named Lurline to Matson so that Matson could replace his smaller schooner Emma Claudina and double the shipping operation which involved hauling supplies and a few passengers to Hawaii and returning with cargos of Spreckels sugar. Matson added other vessels to his nascent fleet and the brigantine was sold to another company in 1896.[3] Matson built a steamship named Lurline in 1908;[4] one which carried mainly freight yet could hold 51 passengers along with 65 crew. This steamer served Matson for twenty years, including a stint with United States Shipping Board during World War I. Matson died in 1917; his company continued under a board of directors.
Lurline Matson married William P. Roth in 1914; in 1927 Roth became president of Matson Lines. That same year saw the SS Malolo (Hawaiian for "flying fish") enter service inaugurating a higher class of tourist travel to Hawaii. In 1928, Roth sold the old steamship Lurline to the Alaska Packers' Association. That ship served various duties including immigration and freight under the Yugoslavian flag (renamed Radnik) and was finally broken up in 1953.
In 1932, the last of four smart liners designed by William Francis Gibbs and built for the Matson Lines' Pacific services was launched: the SS Lurline christened on 12 July 1932 in Quincy, Massachusetts by Lurline Matson Roth (who had also christened her father's 1908 steamship Lurline as a young woman of 18). On 12 January 1933, the SS Lurline left New York City bound for San Francisco via the Panama Canal on her maiden voyage, thence to Sydney and the South Seas, returning to San Francisco on 24 April 1933. She then served on the express San Francisco to Honolulu service with her older sister with whom she shared appearance, the Malolo.
Famous aviator Amelia Earhart rode Lurline from Los Angeles to Honolulu with her Lockheed Vega airplane secured on deck during December 22–27, 1934. The voyage prepared her for the record-breaking Honolulu-to-Oakland solo flight she made in January 1935.[5]
Lurline was half-way from Honolulu to San Francisco on 7 December 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. She made her destination safely, travelling at maximum speed, and soon returned to Hawaii with her Matson sisters Mariposa and Monterey in a convoy laden with troops and supplies.
She spent the war providing similar services, often voyaging to Australia, and once transported Australian Prime Minister John Curtin to America to confer with President Roosevelt. Wartime events put the Lurline at risk. Royal Australian Air Force trainee pilot Arthur Harrison had been put on watch without adequate training. "A straight line of bubbles extending from away out on the starboard side of the ship to across the bow. I had never seen anything quite like it, but it reminded me of bubbles behind a motorboat. I called to the lad on watch on the next gun forward. A few seconds later the ship went into a hard 90 degree turn to port. We RAAF trainees received a severe reprimand from the captain for not reporting the torpedo. Anyway, it was a bad miss."[6]
Lurline was returned to Matson Lines in mid-1946 and extensively refitted at Bethlehem-Alameda Shipyard in Alameda, California in 1947 at the then huge cost of $US 20 million. She resumed her San Francisco to Honolulu service from 15 April 1948 and regained her pre-war status as the Pacific Ocean's top liner.
Her high occupancy rates during the early 1950s caused Matson to also refit her sister ship SS Monterey (renaming her SS Matsonia) and the two liners provided a first class-only service between Hawaii and the American mainland from June 1957 to September 1962, mixed with the occasional Pacific cruise. Serious competition from jet airliners caused passenger loads to fall in the early 1960s and Matsonia was laid up in late 1962.
Only a few months later, the Lurline arrived in Los Angeles with serious engine trouble in her port turbine and was laid up with the required repairs considered too expensive. Matson instead brought the Matsonia out of retirement and, characteristically, changed her name to Lurline. The original Lurline was sold to Chandris Lines in 1963.
Ellinis of the Chandris Line
The Lurline was bought by Chandris Lines in September 1963 to replace the SS Brittany, wrecked by fire earlier in the year. The Ellinis sailed under her new name from California to North East England for repairs in North Shields and was refitted with increased accommodation for 1,668 passengers in one class.
She was given new Chandris livery and a modernised superstructure with new funnels and embarked on her maiden voyage from Piraeus to Sydney on 30 December 1963. Her homeward voyages were alternately routed east via the Panama Canal to Southampton. The ship took occasional cruises.
In April 1974, cruising to Japan, Ellinis developed major problems in one engine. Fortunately, Chandris were able to buy a surplus engine from her sister ship Homeric (ex-Mariposa) which was being broken up in Taiwan at the time. The replacement was carried out in Rotterdam, finishing in March 1975.
Ellinis provided mainly cruise services from 1975 and, in October 1981, she was finally laid up in Greece after providing passenger services for nearly fifty years. Despite various plans to utilize the ship whole, she was sold in 1986 and scrapped in Taiwan in 1987. Some of her fittings were installed in other Chandris ships; her engine parts were stored against future need by her aging sister Britanis (ex-Monterey)
An architectural replacement for two floors of bay windows. Seen from Shawmut Avenue in Boston's South End.
The rather inclement weather had me pondering whether or not to venture out to Basingstoke today (05/01/2025) but in the end curiosity won again! A good few captures here for you to enjoy.
Andrews of Tideswell Optare Excel Y546DTO is seen in Sheffield Interchange, on layover whilst engaged on Rail Replacment duties between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly.
9th January 2022
Seen on DLR replacement duties is First TNA33380 at the junction of East India Dock Road, West India Dock Road, Commercial Road, and Burdett Road.
Now approaching 25 years old, 325001 leads two other sets northbound through Acton Bridge on 9th July 2019 with 1S96 1621 Willesden to Shieldmuir postal train.
I've not got too many photos of these EMU replacements for the TPOs - so by way of a change, here's one! The rear set was 325011, not a clue what the middle one was.
The blue lights indicate that the roller-shutter doors are unlocked, so presumably the postal staff know where to head for to load mail. Interestingly, these sets are actually owned by the Royal Mail and not by a ROSCO.
After nearly two years since the original building was destroyed by a tornado, this replacement Whataburger restaurant opened on July 29, 2019 at 3:00 PM. At the time of its opening, this became the largest Whataburger location operating in Oklahoma.
The Whataburger building that previously occupied this site was severely damaged by a tornado on August 6, 2017 and was demolished on August 15, 2017. The restaurant was open and serving customers at the time that the tornado hit.
The tornado-ravaged Whataburger building started out as a Burger Chef. When it was converted to Whataburger, an A-frame was added to give the building a signature Whataburger appearance.
Tulsa, OK
A second shot of Ridgways Coaches' Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE RIG 6497 as she passes beneath the low railway bridge on Mill Street in Gowerton when undertaking Rail Replacement duties for Transport for Wales between Swansea and Llanelli in January 2026.
Further details on her background can be found in my photo:
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KT's Coaches of Kendal's Volvo B11RT/Caetano Levante KTS87G is pictured outside Newcastle Central station, on rail replacement duties, on September 13th 2025.
Chester Railway Station - no trains that day between Chester and Crewe
Coach - 2013, Scania K360EB4/Irizar i4, ex-Doig's of Glasgow.
Horseheads, NY. June 2018.
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These nice Sambas are another pair gifted to me by my friend. The soles have hardened and are crumbling. Whenever I wear them, I leave a trail of pieces of sole behind me.
Since I took these photos, a large piece of the sole has fallen off of the left shoe under my arch. Most of the outsole is missing from the heel up to the midfoot, and the midsole is dangling as I walk. But they still are comfortable, and the uppers are in good condition.
I will soon have to make a decision, do these become another pair of "barefoot sneakers" like my Asics wrestling shoes, or do I fashion some kind of replacement sole? We'll see... The uppers are too good to let them go to waste, and even with much of the soles crumbled, they are quite comfortable.