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Track panel replacement north of Queensboro Plaza on the Astoria N/W lines on Sat., August 4, 2018, the second of three weekends of work. (G.O. 5448-18.)
Photo: Marc A. Hermann / MTA New York City Transit
View from the N of Rosendale Road railway bridge "No.2" (Herne Hill and West Dulwich, London) carrying suburban line services to and from London Bridge terminus.
The green and grey bridge has recently replaced an older one, during work carried out in the early hours of January 19th 2014. The previous bridge (1950s-1960s) replaced an even older one (1866) supported on the same cast iron columns (not visible here but see accompanying photos in this series). During the present replacement work, the columns were then also removed forever.
The railway plaque is the original one, mounted on a new concrete replacement capital. The plaque bears the coat-of-arms of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway on the L, and of the Dulwich Estate on the R. The Dulwich Estate own, or owned, much of the land in this area, including, I assume, the land on which this bridge was built. The shield in the middle of the plaque carries the date "1866", the date of construction the original bridge, though the main span has been replaced at least twice since then. The initials "AC"on the central shield stand for Alleyn College, the former name of Dulwich College (founded 1619 by the Shakespearean actor-manager, Edward Alleyn.)
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ROSENDALE ROAD RAILWAY BRIDGES
There were three railway bridges over Rosendale Road, two of which still exist. They don't appear to have names, so I have numbered them arbitrarily.
"No.1" is the most northern one, close to Brockwell Park, behind the camera viewpoint. It currently carries suburban line services of the Thameslink network between Wimbledon and Sutton and central London (and beyond).
This view shows "No.2" orignally built in 1866 for the London Brighton and South Coast Railway. It rested on brick abutments and on red cast iron columns. But the girder bridge itself, and its railings, must have been younger, having apparently replaced the older, more ornate, structure some time after 1952 (compare the photo of its more ornate predecessor in Edwin Course's article, below). The original bridge was designed by Charles Barry Junior. The large sums paid by the then railway company (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway) for construction of its line across the Dulwich Estate, with other bridges matching this one, enabled the Estate to build the present main building of Dulwich College (1857-1866). There were a pair ornamental plaques on each side of the road on this N side of Rosendale Railway bridge, each on its own pilaster - four in all. Some or all of the upper parts of the older pillasters were removed and replaced by modern concrete ones, but the old plaques were retained and remounted on the new pilasters (as here, upper R). It seems that the pilasters had to be replaced by narrower ones (i.e. as measured in the direction away from the camera) to allow for the installation of the access walkway (in grey undercoat on the L) along the outside of the bridge proper.
This view also shows the site of "No.3". This bridge was demolished some time after 1966. It was very ornate in cast iron and ran across the road here, in the background immediately beyond "No.2", supported on brick abutments and cast iron columns. The eastern abutment can just be seen through the bridge in the distance (lower L) (see also notes on the picture). The bridge carried coal trains of the former London and North Western Railway into Knight's Hill Sidings and its former coal depot. The sidings included the former bridge, which was therefore much wider than "No.2". The sidings extended to the R beyond the R side of this view behind the embankment of the nearer bridge, where they are now covered by houses of the Lairdale Estate of the London Borough of Lambeth (one of these houses can be seen upper R). Although the depot was an LNWR one, the abutments for the demolished bridge actually bear plaques (not visible here) with the coat-of-arms of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the Dulwich Estate, and the date "1866" - just as on "No.2". It is clear from the photo in Course's article that the original designs of both bridges also matched each other. However, an iron plaque on the bridge proper bore the date 1891.
--- belowtheriver.co.uk/wednesday-picture-the-bridges-of-west...
--- Course, Edwin, 1960. The foreign goods depots of South London. Railway Magazine [vol?] (for November 1960), pp. 761-766. www.semgonline.com/RlyMag/ForeignDepotsofSthLondon.pdf
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RAILWAY BRIDGE REPLACEMENT WORK IN DULWICH & HERNE HILL, JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2014 (32/39)
This bridge, and two further sister bridges carrying the same line over neighbouring streets, had been in poor condition for some time. After a period of preparation work, the replacement work happening here began in January 2014. Two neighbouring streets, one of them a busy main road, were closed to traffic concurrently for about two weeks, and another was closed for work on the third bridge shortly afterwards. To minimise disruption to train services, the main replacement work was carried out night and day in continuous shifts over two weekends. Huge hydraulic cranes had to come from Scotland (James Jack, Ainscough) to do this engineering work because there were no cranes available nearer to London capable of handling the old and new bridges.
--- belowtheriver.co.uk/wednesday-picture-the-bridges-of-west...
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for COMMUTE ROUTE set:
SERIES 1. MY USUAL ROUTE (& POINTS IN COMMON TO ALL ROUTES).
This view looks in the direction of returning to our house. (I've uploaded many other photos of this bridge replacement work, but for the 'Commute Route' set here, I have included only those that I took on the way to work.)
My standard outward commuting route:
home > (walk) > Rosendale Road > (walk) > Brockwell Park > (walk) > Herne Hill station > (National Rail suburban service) > London Victoria station > (District/Circle Line) > South Kensington > (walk) > Natural History Museum.
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Haslemere Station Forecourt, Haslemere.
Rail replacement Haslemere-Woking.
D&P Coaches YX19DXC
Stagecoach 10961 SN18KOD
Arriva 4209 YJ61CJV & 4214 KX61FHM
When the community committee had identified their needs, they needed to choose people to benefit from the programme. In Mesta, like everywhere in the country, there were a number of young healthy men who had lost everything they owned when floods took their homes and crops. In most cases, these men were chosen as the recipients of the three-wheeler cycle vans.
The benefits are immense - with one van, a one-hour walk into town to go to the market to buy or sell becomes a ten-minute cycle. The operators of these vans became the defacto delivery men, taxi drivers and lifelines for the community, carrying an amount of goods well beyond what is possible on foot. It not only benefits the person who operates the van, but also every community member, by allowing them greater access to the markets they need to diversify their incomes..
To see why I was in Bangladesh click here, or take a look at the previous or next photo in the series.
If you are interested, please view the series to see what I found and what I learned in my few weeks in Bangladesh, visiting some of the most vulnerable people anywhere on our planet.
Our journey on The Bittern Line from Norwich to Sheringham to a railway event at the heritage North Norfolk Railway with Greater Anglia was interrupted at Cromer due to ongoing engineering works between Cromer and Sheringham. So like many others across the network at the weekend, a rail replacement coach it is then.
The irony here is that this very pleasant, clean and tidy luxury coach was light years better than the Greater Anglia train we travelled in from Norwich to Cromer.. Unusually for me, I completely neglected to record in my travel notes the details of this unbranded coach, make, model, operator, year of manufacture and so on etc.
Note the British Rail 'double arrow' logo at the top of Cromer Station location marker post thingy. This logo is designed to show two arrows showing the direction of travel on a twin track line.
The British Rail logo which first appeared in 1965 with the British Transport Commission's rebrand of British Railways was designed by Gerald Burney. It is brilliantly simplistic, instantly recognisable and arguably one of the most enduring of any logo design for a United Kingdom only brand .
Despite privatisation and the end of British Rail from 1997 the double arrow remains in use on tickets, direction signs, outside stations as shown here and as the National Rail brand logo.
My Bus and Coach album flic.kr/s/aHsjJgWqCA
assumption being the mother of all f**** ups! The Technika is so handmade that the holes in the springs/screws only align for their particular place in the frame and the groundglass opening is not quite a true rectangle........ hence the somewhat less than proper lefthandside of the glass, what a pain when you are too close and it won't go in.
The screen that came with the camera was not original, the glass was too thick and I suppose whoever changed it shattered it immediately upon tightening the screws. The cut corners were very good though it keeps the bellows from drawing a vacuum when pulling them out.
Our trusty iMac on Sunday morning, as I disembowelled it to change the 5-year-old 640GB hard drive for a nice new 1TB one. The space in the middle is where the old drive was. The black thing on the right is the LCD panel.
Woking Station (south side), Woking.
Rail replacement Woking-Haslemere.
Arriva 4047 GN09AWY.
Arriva 6461 SN58EOD.
Arriva 4057 GN09AXK.
Originally designed as a prototype replacement for the previous Heavy Steam Quad-Walker (Mk. VIII), Colonel Lance ordered that a special variant be built armed with a weapon which used a newly-discovered form of energy, electricity. Despite its unperfected nature, Lance decided that this special variant would serve as his combat command vehicle during the Great Steam War. In addition to its new-fangled weaponry, the Heavy Steam Quad-Walker also boasted the latest walking tank leg technology which proved to give it greater ground clearance and mobility over difficult terrain than any previous walker before it.
When the boiler piece in the rear is replaced with a Power Functions motor, the walker can move on its own.
Seen here in Birkenhead is one of Arriva Merseyside's Wright Gemini 3 bodied Volvo B5LHs with the registration of BT66 MTV and fleet number of 4806 on the Rail Replacement Shuttle betweeen Birkenhead Central and Birkenhead North. 11/2/17
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
The Bv 316 was a tailless twin jet fighter designed by Blohm & Voss as a replacement for the Me 262 fighter. The design of the Bv P.216 was begun in the summer of 1943 and was intended as an overall improvement to the Messerschmitt Me 262. The biggest weakness of the Me 262 were its unreliable and weak Junkers Jumo 004 B-1 turbojets, delivering only 8.8 kN (1,980 lbf) each.
Whilst the Luftwaffe took the Me 262 into service, an improvement was direly needed. Messerschmitt responded with the P.1099 design, and in 1944 the High Command of the Luftwaffe came up with the Emergency Fighter (Volksjäger) Competition, which challenged engineers to invent a new, light and simple aircraft.
Nevertheless, heavier types with longer endurance were needed, too, so Blohm & Voss’ designer Dr. Vogt proposed a twin jet development of his versatile family of tailless fighter concepts (ranging from pusher propeller designs through a light fighter for the Volksjäger competition up to a heavy, three-seated night fighter design) that would fall into the Me 262’s weight class, but take advantage of the Heinkel HeS 011, a new jet engine which was being under development for aircraft of various classes and sizes and offered 150% of thrust.
The engines were mounted in a pair at the rear of a short, tailless fuselage, breathing through a bifurcated nose intake. The pilot sat above the air intake in a pressurized cockpit, with a dorsal fuel tank behind him. More fuel was carried in the wings, which were swept 40° at quarter chord and featured fins on short outriggers at about 2/3 of the wing span. A fully retractable tricycle landing gear was fitted, the front wheel turned 90° to lie flat under the air intake while the main wheels retracted inward and also lay under the engine bay. Armament consisted of four compact MK 108 30mm cannons in the nose section.
This aircraft received the internal project number P.216. Since it already incorporated advanced wind tunnel research for the innovative layout and the swept wing design, Dr. Vogt received an official Go from the RLM.
Construction of three P.216 prototypes began in May 1945, followed by extensive flight and structural tests. The first aircraft (A-0 pre-production series) made its first flight in August 1945, and after a minimal test program, the P.216 was cleared for production in October 1945, receiving the official RLM service code number 316.
The production aircraft (Bv 316 A-1) differed only marginally from the prototypes, since there was hardly any time for refinement. Most visible changes included a simplified canopy (instead of a more rounded bubble canopy), and external hardpoints under fuselage and wings for a wide range of ordnance, which made the Bv 316 eligible for fighter bomber duties, too. A plumbed central pylon also allowed the carriage of a drop tank, which extended range appreciably. Less obvious was better armor protection for the pilot and the fuselage tank. Overall performance was slightly better than the Me 262’s, the most significant advantage was the dramatically improved reliability of the HeS 011 engines and a much better turn radius due to the lower wing load.
Luftwaffe pilots were sceptical at first, but found the Bv 316 to be a trustworthy weapon platform. The first machines were allocated to bases in southern Germany and Austria, where the fighters helped to protect oil fields in Bulgaria in mid 1946.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 8,17 m (26 ft 9 1/4 in)
Wingspan: 11,40 m (37 ft 4 1/2 in)
Height: 3,49 m (11 ft 5 1/4 in)
Wing area: 29,11 m² (313,4 sq ft)
Empty weight: 5.046 kg (11,125 lb)
Loaded weight: 6.894 kg (15.198 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 18.152 lb (8.234 kg)
Powerplant:
2× Heinkel HeS 011A turbojets, each rated at 12,01 kN (1.300 kg/2.866 lb)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 1.006 km/h (625 mph, 548 knots)
Stall speed: 200 km/h (124 mph, 108 knots)
Range: 2.400 km (1,522 mi)
Service ceiling: 15.100 m (49.600 ft) at combat weight
Rate of climb: 45,72 m/s (9.000 ft/min) at sea level
Wing loading: 236.7 kg/m² (49.4 lb/ft²)
lift-to-drag: 15.1
Thrust/weight: 0,42
Armament:*
4× fixed 30mm MK 108 cannons in the nose
Underfuselage and wing hardpoints for a total ordnance of 1.500 kg (3.303 lb),
including bombs of up to 1.000 kg (2.202 lb) caliber, drop tanks or unguided rockets
The kit and its assembly:
I wonder why this conversion stunt has not been done before or more often, because it's such an obvious move?
There had been several tailless Blohm & Voss designs, ranging from a small jet fighter (an alternative to the He 162, which was chosen as Volksjäger) to a heavily armed, two engine, three seat night fighter with 14m wing span. If you take a look at sketches of these aircraft, the overall simlarity of the later F-86 is obvious, despite its conventional layout. So I thought that a whiffy B&V design on this basis should be easy - and it actually is!
The basis is the vintage Matchbox F-86A from 1976, chosen because of its simplicity and basically good fit. The major steps include cutting off the tail just behind the wings' trailing edge, as well as a part of the dorsal section and the wings outside of the flaps.
In order to create a more dynamic look and stay true to the original Dr. Vogt designs I attached the wings with a slight dihedral, while the recessed outer wings received a recognizable anhedral - mounted on slender pylons that are actually pieces of sprue.
On top of that some donation parts were added:
* The fins are stabilizers from an Italeri A-4M Skyhawk
* The F-86's bubble canopy was replaced with the canopy and cockpit section from a Revell Me 262
* An Airfix pilot was added
* The engines come from a Dougram mecha kit (a 1:48 hovercraft!)
* The landing gear struts belong to a Hobby Boss Me 262
* The main wheels come from an Italeri IAI Kfir
The new canopy was added for a more "German" and less modern look. It meant massive body work, but it blends in well. The are behind the cockpit had to be sculpted anew, too, and creating a good transition to the two jet exhauts from above and below was not easy.
The F-86 air intake was also modified: the characteristic upper lip with the radar range finder had to go and I implanted a vertical splitter inside, plus a wall of dark foamed plastics that blocks light from the cockpit and sight onto the lead that was hidden around the cockpit.
For armament I filled the original six 0.5" machine guns and drilled two pairs of new, bigger openings for MK 108 cannons in the same place. Later, pieces of hollow steel needles were added as cannon muzzles. As an extra I added an underfuselage pylon for a drop tank and attachment points for eight scratched WGr 21 launch tubes.
Painting and markings:
How to paint a Luft '46 aircraft? The color spectrum is limited, and I wanted a "different" look. Dedicated ugliness was intended. So I came, after some browsing, across an obscure and heavily debated color for the lower sides, called (more or less inofficially) RLM 84. It's a greenish grey, much like the RAF Sky, that was used on some late Luftwaffe aircraft - maybe a primer color, or a field mix? Anyway, it would yield that odd look that I was looking for, and I used a mix of Humbrol 90 with some RLM 02, slightly darker and greenish than Sky.
In order to emphasize the overall strange color effect I decided to paint the upper surfaces in a uniform RLM 81 (Braunviolett), and add field camouflage in the form of patches/mottle in RLM 81 and RLM 02 on the flanks and on the wings. RLM 02 was not in use as camouflage paint in late WWII anymore, but I am certain that it was still around, and it matches the overall greenish look of the aircraft well.
For an even more field duty look I added details in different colors/tones. The slats' undersides received a grey primer finish, while the flaps and rudders were painted RLM 76 from below and in a slightly different shade of RLM 81 from above (Humbrol 155), as if they had been replaced or the aircraft had been built from different components and jostled into service.
All interior surfaces were painted in very dark grey (RLM 66), and various shades of Metallizer were used around the exhausts, the cannons and under the wings where the WGr 21 launch tubes are located.
After a light black ink wash and some shading the decals were applied - puzzled together from various sheets and in a minimalistic style.
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Now bolted into position but needs a shim removed from the bottom hinge in order it to pull closer to the body.
After fitting and thinking it looked o.k. had a look from the driver's side and saw daylight between the door and body when it was fully closed.
Will sort it out tomorrow.
This door doesn't look the best but it's solid compared to the one that was originally there.
Will need a respray as the paintwork isn't tidy.
One of four ex Stagecoach East Scania OmniDekkas in the Seaford and District fleet on Rail Replacement in Brighton today, 19th January, 2025.
In 2012, 23 City playgrounds were completely replaced and four playgrounds received a new fall surface at a cost of approximately $2.6 million. Maintaining safe and wholesome places for children to play and families to socialize supports The City of Calgary’s goal of complete communities.
The City maintains 1,048 playgrounds and each one is inspected seven times a year. Life expectancy of a playground is approximately 15 years. Replacements are prioritized through a rating system that evaluates:
Condition of each piece of equipment
Usage of equipment
Opportunity of leveraging funds from partner organizations. Seventeen of the 23 playgrounds received funding from Parks Foundation Calgary’s Building Playgrounds and Communities Grant Program in 2012.
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Rail replacement services between Three Bridges and Brighton are usually in the hands of double deck buses, many sourced from within the Go Ahead group. London E150 (SN60 BZY) passes Metrobus Scania Omnidekka 484 (YN53 RYW) yesterday morning, October 5th, 2014.
Votivkirche (9, Rooseveltplatz, the provost parish church "To the Divine Savior").
History
Archduke Ferdinand Max after the rescue of his brother Franz Joseph I (assassination attempt of Johann Libenyi on 18 February 1853), suggested by an appeal the construction of a memory church, which was built from 1856 to 1879 according to the plans of Heinrich Ferstel (who at the beginning of construction was only 28 years old) together with the parsonage behind it in the style of French cathedral gothic of the 13th century on the Glacis in front of the (gate) Schottentor. Since the Glacis had not yet been released for development, the church had to be erected on the outer edge of this one and thus a few years later it stood distant from the Ring Road. Around the construction of the church there were a number of unrealized projects: the planned in a semicircular shape University of Vienna behind the church respectively a Hall of Fame (Viennese Acropolis, realized in the Arsenal) and the Tegetthoff monument in front of the church.
The site was definitively established on 25th October 1855; on 24th of April, 1856, the foundation stone was laid by Cardinal Archbishop Rauscher (commemorative plaque); on 18th of August, 1868, the completion of the tower was celebrated. The consecration was carried out by Cardinal Archbishop Kutschker on the occasion of the silver wedding of the Imperial couple on April 24, 1879 (commemorative plaque). The Votivkirche was in the monarchy (catholic) garrison church for Vienna (imperial decision of 1862). Here, too, all military funerals commenced. The Votivkirche is one of the most outstanding examples of historic architecture.
Roosevelt square - Votivkirche, around 1900
Exterior
Double tower facade with three figures portals and window rose.
Main portal
Main portal with rich figural decoration by Johannes Benk (Christ-King statue in the midst of the apostles, surrounded by models from the Old Covenant [Abel, Noe, Melchizedek, Isaak, Samson, Aaron, Moses]; in the gable above the Holy Trinity (by Josef Gasser), on the side four evangelists and Austro-Hungarian provincial patrons (Koloman [Lower Austria], Vigilius (South Tyrol), Aegius [Carinthia], Josef [Steiermark], Leopold [Lower Austria], Wenzel (Bohemia), Spiridion (Dalmatia), Michael (Galicia), Georg (Krain), Rochus (Croatia), St. Nicholas of Bari (Veneto), Ladislaus (Transylvania), Justus (Trieste), Hedwig (Silesia), Ruprecht (Salzburg), Johannes Nepomuk (Bohemia) by Franz Melnitzky and Peter Kastlunger) above the rosette "Coronation of Mary" by Gasser.
Side portal
Reliefs of Gasser ( "Annunciation of Mary" [below it the four prophets Jeremiah, Isaiah, David and Micah by Anton Schmidgruber], "Resurrection of Christ" (below it St Francis, Elisabeth and Sophie von Kastlunger).
Entrance portals
The entrance portals into the transept are devoted to God the Father and the Holy Spirit. There are eight prophets, or church fathers, on the arcade arrows. The church received a new roof of Eternit-plates in 1967.
Interior
Three-aisled, ribbed vaulted basilica, with four flat side chapels on each side; three-aisled transept; choir with 7/12 closing; chapel ambulatory and apse chapel. The wall and ceiling paintings stem from Joseph von Führich, A. von Wörndle, Carl Jobst and Josef Matyáš Trenkwald. On the vault of the central nave, the Christ's Family Tree by Franz Jobst and Carl Jobst. The organ (1874-1878) by E. F. Walcker & Co. (Ludwigsburg) is the only mechanical work of this size (3,762 pipes) in Europe (Anton Bruckner has also played here).
The glass paintings of the church windows, to which Trenkwald had supplied the designs, were destroyed during the Second World War and replaced by figural windows (mostly by designs by Christine Feldmann, with the exception of the "emperor window" which was renewed according to old pattern, thus in the replacement windows there are also topics that fall into the time after church building).
High altar
High altar of white marble with six Egyptian alabaster columns with figural ornamentation by Gasser, Robert Streschnak and Ferdinand Laufberger (cardinal virtues in the vault of the canopy), portrait of Mary, that was a gift from Pope Pius IX in the middle of the (constantly locked) chapel ambulatory.
Marienaltar (once the Antwerp altar)
Here stood the Antwerp altar (the most important work of the Flemish carving art of the 15th century, since 1996 for security reasons as a loan in the cathedral and diocesan museum).
The theme of the church window is the history of Christ's suffering.
"Emperor window"
Window of the city of Vienna "Emperor window"
The window was donated by the municipality of Vienna in 1877 and renewed by the latter after the Second World War.
Bishop's Chapel
The altar is dedicated to the Divine Heart of Jesus; grave of the Auxiliary Bishop Godfried Marschall (he was the first church minister).
Church windows: Bishops of Austrian church history.
Altar of the Mother of God of Guadelupe.
Church window: History of the worship of the Virgin of Guadelupe.
Winged altar
The altar made of cedar wood from Lebanon, shows Mary's engagement with St. Joseph, the proclamation with closed wings.
Church window: History of the worship of the Marienbild of Mariazell.
Barbara candle (Artillery Memorial).
Church window: History of Mary's image by Maria Pötsch.
Monument to the members of the executive who have fallen.
Church window: History of the wonderful glass window of Absam (Tyrol).
Church window: Rudolf I
Church window: Ferdinand II
Gothic chapel shrine
Holy grave for the last days of Holy Week.
Church window: 23rd Eucharistic Congress in Vienna (1912).
Church window: death in the National Socialist concentration camp Mauthausen.
Baptismal chapel
Baptismal stone of Egyptian marble; tumba by Niklas Graf Salms (Salm tomb).
Church windows: Major Austrian missionaries.
Pulpit
Pulpit of marble; On the gold mosaic of the parapet, the four church fathers and the teaching Savior; at the foot of the pulpit the bust of Ferstel by Viktor Tilgner.
Monument to the Austrian Kaiserschützen Regiments, church Window: Representatives of the Austrian Social Reform (draft by Hans Schweiger).
Cross altar
Church window: left John of God (defense of Vienna against the Turks 1529), right Franz Jägerstätter.
Votivkirche (9, Rooseveltplatz; Propsteipfarrkirche „Zum göttlichen Heiland").
Geschichte
Erzherzog Ferdinand Max regte nach der Errettung seines Bruders Franz Joseph I. (Attentat von Johann Libenyi am 18. Februar 1853) durch einen Aufruf den Bau einer Gedächtniskirche an, die 1856-1879 nach den Plänen von Heinrich Ferstel (der bei Baubeginn erst 28 Jahre alt war) samt dem dahinterstehenden Pfarrhaus im Stil französischer Kathedralgotik des 13. Jahrhunderts auf dem Glacis vor dem Schottentor erbaut wurde. Da das Glacis damals noch nicht zur Verbauung freigegeben war, musste die Kirche am äußeren Rand desselben errichtet werden und stand damit einige Jahre später fern der Ringstraße. Rund um den Bau der Kirche gab es eine Reihe unrealisierter Projekte: die halbkreisförmig hinter der Kirche geplante Universität Wien beziehungsweise eine Ruhmeshalle (Wiener Akropolis; realisiert im Arsenal) und das Tegetthoffdenkmal vor der Kirche.
Das Areal wurde am 25. Oktober 1855 definitiv festgelegt, am 24. April 1856 fand die Grundsteinlegung durch Kardinal-Erzbischof Rauscher statt (Gedenktafel), am 18. August 1868 feierte man die Turmvollendung. Die Weihe nahm Kardinal-Erzbischof Kutschker anlässlich der Silberhochzeit des Kaiserpaars am 24. April 1879 vor (Gedenktafel). Die Votivkirche war in der Monarchie (katholisch) Garnisonskirche für Wien (kaiserlicher Entschluss von 1862). Hier nahmen auch alle militärischen Leichenbegängnisse ihren Ausgang. Die Votivkirche ist eines der hervorragendsten Beispiele historisierender Architektur.
Rooseveltplatz – Votivkirche, um 1900
Äußeres
Doppelturmfassade mit drei Figurenportalen und Fensterrose.
Hauptportal
Hauptportal mit reichem figuralem Schmuck von Johannes Benk (Christ-König-Statue inmitten der Apostel, umgeben von Vorbildern aus dem Alten Bund [Abel, Noe, Melchisedech, Isaak, Samson, Aaron, Moses); im Giebel darüber Heilige Dreifaltigkeit (von Josef Gasser), seitlich vier Evangelisten und österreichisch-ungarische Landespatrone (Koloman [Niederösterreich], Vigilius [Südtirol], Ägydius [Kärnten], Josef [Steiermark], Leopold [Niederösterreich], Wenzel [Böhmen], Spiridion [Dalmatien], Michael [Galizien], Georg [Krain], Rochus [Kroatien], Nikolaus von Bari [Venetien], Ladislaus [Siebenbürgen], Justus [Triest], Hedwig [Schlesien], Ruprecht [Salzburg], Johannes Nepomuk [Böhmen]) von Franz Melnitzky und Peter Kastlunger), über der Rosette „Krönung Mariens" von Gasser.
Seitenportale
Reliefs von Gasser („Verkündigung Mariens" [darunter die vier Propheten Jeremias, Isaias, David und Michäas von Anton Schmidgruber ], „Auferstehung Christi" [darunter Namenspatrone der kaiserlichen Familie: Franziskus, Elisabeth und Sophie von Kastlunger]).
Eingangsportale
Die Eingangsportale ins Querschiff sind Gott Vater und dem Heiligen Geist gewidmet. An den Arkadenpfeilern befinden sich acht Propheten beziehungsweise Kirchenväter. Die Kirche erhielt 1967 ein neues Dach aus Eternitplatten.
Inneres
Dreischiffige, kreuzrippengewölbte Basilika, beiderseits vier flache Seitenkapellen; dreischiffiges Querschiff; Chor mit 7/12-Schluss; Kapellenumgang und Kapellenkranz. Die Wand- und Deckengemälde stammen von Joseph von Führich, A. von Wörndle, Carl Jobst und Josef Matyáš Trenkwald. Am Deckengewölbe des Mittelschiffs Stammbaum Christi von Franz Jobst und Carl Jobst. Die Orgel (1874-1878) von E. F. Walcker & Co. (Ludwigsburg) ist das einzige mechanische Werk dieser Größe (3.762 Pfeifen) in Europa (auch Anton Bruckner hat hier gespielt).
Die Glasgemälde der Kirchenfenster, zu denen Trenkwald die Entwürfe geliefert hatte, wurden während des Zweiten Weltkriegs vernichtet und (mit Ausnahme des nach alter Vorlage erneuerten „Kaiserfensters") durch Figuralfenster (zumeist nach Entwürfen von Christine Feldmann) ersetzt (daher finden sich bei den Ersatzfenstern auch Themen, die in die Zeit nach dem Kirchenbau fallen).
Hochaltar
Hochaltar aus weißem Marmor mit sechs ägyptischen Alabastersäulen mit figuralem Schmuck von Gasser, Robert Streschnak und Ferdinand Laufberger (Kardinaltugenden im Gewölbe des Baldachins), Bildnis der Maria, das ein Geschenk von Papst Pius IX. war, in der Mitte des (ständig gesperrten) Kapellenumgangs.
Marienaltar (einst Antwerpener Altar)
Hier stand der Antwerpener Altar (bedeutendstes Werk der flämischen Schnitzkunst des 15. Jahrhunderts; seit 1996 aus Sicherheitsgründen als Leihgabe im Dom- und Diözesanmuseum).
Thema des Kirchenfensters ist die Leidensgeschichte Christi.
„Kaiser-Fenster"
Fenster der Stadt Wien („Kaiser-Fenster"). Das Fenster wurde 1877 von der Gemeinde Wien gespendet und von dieser nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erneuert.
Bischofskapelle
Der Altar ist dem Göttlichen Herzen Jesu gewidmet; Grabstätte des Weihbischofs Godfried Marschall (er war der erste Propst der Kirche).
Kirchenfenster: Bischöfe der österreichischen Kirchengeschichte.
Altar der Gottesmutter von Guadelupe.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte der Verehrung des Marienbilds von Guadelupe.
Flügelaltar
Der aus Zedernholz vom Libanon geschaffene Altar zeigt die Verlobung Mariens mit dem heiligen Josef, bei geschlossenen Flügeln die Verkündigung.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte der Verehrung des Marienbilds von Mariazell.
Barbarakerze (Artilleristen-Gedächtnisstätte).
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte des Marienbilds von Maria Pötsch.
Denkmal für die im Dienst gefallenen Angehörigen der Exekutive.
Kirchenfenster: Geschichte des wunderbaren Glasfensters von Absam (Tirol).
Kirchenfenster: Rudolf I.
Kirchenfenster: Ferdinand II.
Gotischer Kapellenschrein
Heiliges Grab für die letzten Tage der Karwoche.
Kirchenfenster: 23. Eucharistischer Kongress in Wien (1912).
Kirchenfenster: Todesstiege im nationalsozialistischen Konzentrationslager Mauthausen.
Taufkapelle
Taufstein aus ägyptischen Marmor; Hochgrab von Niklas Graf Salms (Salmgrabmal).
Kirchenfenster: Bedeutende österreichische Missionare.
Kanzel
Kanzel aus Marmor; auf dem Goldmosaik der Brüstung die vier Kirchenväter und der lehrende Heiland; am Kanzelfuß Büste Ferstels von Viktor Tilgner.
Denkmal für die österreichische Kaiserschützen-Regimenter, Kirchenfenster: Vertreter der österreichischen Sozialreform (Entwurf von Hans Schweiger).
Kreuzaltar
Kreuz-Altar.
Kirchenfenster: links Johannes von Gott (Verteidigung Wiens gegen die Türken 1529), rechts Franz Jägerstätter.
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On Sunday 27th and Monday 28th December First Berkshire operated a non-stop rail replacement service between Slough and Hillingdon, to connect with Metrolpolitan Line trains to and from Central London. Trident 33179 is seen resting at Hillingdon on Monday 28th December before working the 13.47 journey back to Slough - the buses were timed to connect with a half-hourly shuttle train service between Slough and Reading.
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On Sunday 27th and Monday 28th December 2015 the railway was completely closed between Slough and London Paddington to allow various Crossrail-related works to take place.
Long-distance services were curtailed at Reading or diverted into London Paddington and London Marylebone, whilst a limited half-hourly shuttle train service was operated between Reading and Slough. A half-hourly rail replacement bus service operated between Slough and Ealing Broadway, using RATP London United Darts, Enviro200s and Optare Versas supplemented by coaches from a number of local operators - the route was single-decked because of the low bridge at Langley Station (this was supplemented by additional 'shorts' between Hayes & Harlington and Ealing Broadway, some of which were double-decked). A half-hourly service was also operated between Slough and Maidenhead to serve Burnham and Taplow, which could not be served by trains. This was nominally a separate service but was worked in practice as an extension of the Slough-Ealing Broadway service with buses pausing at Slough for several minutes.
An alternative service was provided between Slough and Hillingdon Underground non-stop for Metropolitan Line connections to Baker Street; this also ran half-hourly this was operated by First Berkshire using Tridents and a Green Line Volvo.
As well as the dedicated rail replacement buses rail tickets were widely accepted on alternative rail, Underground and bus routes in Slough and West London, and the 81 in particular was carrying good loads between Slough and Hounslow West.
For completeness, on both days Reading Buses and Horseman Coaches also operated rail replacement buses between Maidenhead and Marlow, extended to High Wycombe to connect with Chiltern Railways services to and from London Marylebone.