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Rail replacement on the West Somerset Railway between Minehead and Dunster on 15th September 2021 with former Stockport Leyland Titan PD2/40 HJA 965E from the Crosville Vintage fleet.
My hybrid tea rose stopped blooming. This is the original rose it was grafted onto. Instead of a single pink blossom I get a bush full of these beauties. A welcome repacement.
On Sunday 24th October 2021, a large rail replacement operation took place in the Basingstoke area affecting the services of SWR, GWR and Cross Country. This resulted in a nice variety of vehicles turning up throughout the day - in fact 37 different operators were noted supplying 53 different vehicles!
Replacement bus services ran out to Andover, Reading, Winchester and Woking.
A bit of rail replacement on the SWML back in November 2020. Mervyn's Coaches of Innersdown Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro B45F 741UKL pauses at Winchfield Station. This bus was new to Pullman of Crofty as CN57EFD in 2007.
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The Bank Holidays over Christmas 2021 saw a large rail replacement bus operation covering services between Farnborough, Woking, Weybridge, Aldershot, Guildford and Basingstoke. As a result, a large number of vehicles were out and about and I snapped a few in Farnborough, Guildford and Woking.
Tying down where my first nightjar would drop her replacement clutch proved far from easy. In fact, I really struggled. It was only a bit of inspired thinking that lead me to her. I realised an area that I hadn't given my full focus had been next to a heavily walked path. Subconsciously, it's because in the back of your mind, it's the last place you want the bird to utilise. And so it proved to be that she was just thirty yards off the path. Two clear side on views were available and over the next ten days, bless her, she never moved an inch. Every day was the same shot. It was all academic as I knew it was going to end badly yet again for this bird. Every day two separate dog walkers, each with four springers would walk the path at different times of day and the dogs would go off piste. I saw her on two occasions flushed by a rampaging dog. No springer on flushing a bird in the same area twice would not after that point deliberately not go looking for it. It may have been the work of one individual but there is every chance that all of the dogs contributed in some way. She endured two days of relentless rain as later photos will show but with less than four days to hatching I found the eggs intact but scattered over the area. In some part, better that I witnessed that, rather than chicks. Very sad but I knew it was always going to happen.
My rewards this year photographically and video wise with the jars have fallen hopelessly short in terms of the time and effort that I've put in. I'm in no doubt about that. But to have seven weeks spent in the company of such amazing birds has been reward itself.
We're at Robbins on Metra's Rock Island District. A close look reveals that new hardware is in place to displace the dated Rock Island searchlight signals. This was May 30, 2020. Dunno when the cut-over will take place (or has). I hope never...but that is not realistic. Pentax 67 on Fuji Astia 100.
Track replacemet curently underway in Barmouth, the final stage of Network Rail's renovation project, scheduled to be finished for this weekend.
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.
TE1440 (LK13BFM) is seen having been blinded for Nation Rail REPLACEMENT - National Rail Logo.
Title mentions how Govia are just falling apart....especially Thameslink
Go Ahead London General SEN32 YX61FZR working a Southern rail replacement service from East Grinstead
2520 (LM64JNK) is seen at Seven Sisters Station while working on the London Overground Rail Replacement Service to Gospel Oak. (16/04/16)
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?
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?
SK73CNO is seen at Stevenage while on a Great Northern replacement service (despite the blinds saying LNER) to Hertford North from Hitchin.
Vehicle Details
Operator: Central Connect
Fleet Number: 347
Registration: SK73CNO
Vehicle: Enviro 200 MMC
London double-deck route 28 succumbed to midibuses under Gold Arrow branding in March 1989, initially with MA class Mercedes/Alexander 28-seaters. MA101 is in Westbourne Park on 31 July 1991. After a spell with DW class Dennis Darts, double-decker buses returned from June 2004.
Pentax MX/50mm
Kodachrome 64
Seen at Edinburgh Park on Rail Replacement duties between there and Falkirk is Ratho Coaches of Ratho Station Caetano Levante bodied Volvo B9R FJ11MJU.
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
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?
The Boeing Collection
From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. Hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age.
Lineas Aereas Paraguayas SA Boeing 707-321B ZP-CCE hiding in the Pan Am maintenance hangar at London Heathrow. An extremely rare visitor :) An unusual visitor to Heathrow, diverted in for some unscheduled maintenance - probably a replacement engine - seen in the Pan Am hangar.
ZP-CCE c/n 18841 - Boeing 707-321B was delivered new to Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) as N410PA in Apr 1965 and was named 'Clipper Argonaut'. The aircraft flew with Pan Am until 1978, and then along with sister ship N415PA was sold to Lineas Aereas Paraguayas SA (LAPSA). The aircraft flew with LAPSA until 1992, and was then stored at President Stroessner International airport, Asuncion where it gradually rotted away. The fuselage was eventually preserved at San Lorenzo, Paraguay around 2012.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and 300mm lens. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
In very wet conditions Sanders of Holt Plaxton bodied Volvo B9R SA60 YWP and Sunbeam Coaches of Norwich Jonckheere bodied Volvo B12B P27 SUN are on Rail Replacement services from Ipswich to Norwich. If it is not the South section of the GE that is blocked then it is the North. Will the agony ever end!
Wrightbus Streetdeck Gemini 3F H45/25D
new 11/17
On rail replacement between Littlehampton / Worthing and Brighton seen here in Fleet Street in Brighton on the approach to Brighton Railway Station.
40167 seen in the background of the last upload shunting the yard at Bolton Trinity Street goods warehouse. 26 July 83
The slight dark patch on the left will be the lattice steel mesh panels of Orlando Street bridge, a dreaded curse which has been resolved over the years by many people enlarging the gaps or even cutting out small sections to allow camera lenses access!!
Virtually everything in this photo is now a memory. The forties. I bought my fxxxt house on Crescent Road, where the sheds had been, just so I could watch the 40s from bed! LOL. Nearly true. Bolton East Junction signal box, and indeed the junction (for the Rochdale line) too, the semaphores, the massive LMS goods warehouse, the associated yard, the station building and clock tower, and most of the track too, and the steel traffic to Watsons.
Still remaining are Bolton Town Hall clocktower, a replacement Orlando Street bridge, Trinity Church, although no longer a church, the Railway pub in front, and the old GUS building on the left although its appearance has changed, and the old school building just visible in the distance on the right, its on Great Moor Street.
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I grabbed a shot of the James Creek diversion at South St. Vrain to show the layout from above on the south side hill. Below is the second, more serious dam cut into the banks of the South fork of the South St. Vrain River. The original diversion is just beyond the original. You can see the course of the South Fork of the original St. Vrain cut off on the left and the highly built up ditch, right. Boy, does the early light suck down in this hole. It is at least two hours early especially on a blazing blue sky day. Oh well, I was there right then and it looked interesting for the story even if it is another tough shot to edit while using multiple layers. It's a pretty crummy diversion for which all of western water law hinged, rightly or wrongly. I just as well edit these descriptive shots for the series. Maybe I could find them a beaver to work for Lefthand Ripped Water District.
Here we now at the "headwaters" of James Creek on that blue bird autumn day. Al and I trekked up to the meadow - really the original source of James. It's always worth some serious slackage after the trek. In fact, we are now above the original source of the James. It surely looks like an irrigation ditch diversion in the mountains. Who dug this ditch and why? I figured I'd fully document the landmark in this series. Now you know!
Could the beavers alone, the far and away the best engineers at preserving the Rockies watered riparian habitat, have accomplished this much pretty easily? Assuming they thought it would be a good idea and. assuming they wanted a dam right here. Phil and I sat quietly watching a young beaver working in the meadows for period of time on an earlier trek.
Maintenance was required after the big flood that nearly wiped out Jamestown. Boy did the water diversion ever pay Jamestown back bigly during the big flood a few years back! After looking over the "flaccid" ditch, I wonder where ALL the rest of the flood waters came from.
Al claimed that he intended to do an article for the Longmont Observer about the James Creek water diversion that figured most mightily into Western, Colorado and regional water law. Phil and I knew that this all had to do with the diversion at the top of James Creek a spot we visited previously and knew well. The story is well woven into our history. This is my reveal of the geography behind the story.
Here's another colorful shot up the James that fall. The trail was a mix of foliage in fallage lush color. This screams high Rockies palette while in deepest shade. It needed extra layers because of the range. Oh well, we are set for a now 90s in August record before we can escape this summer and get a few 50s for the nights. Pretty please, deniers.
The Tatra factories had survived the war quite undamaged and already in 1945 production could be restarted. Besides the traditional 57B also the streamlined T87 was offered till 1950.
As a replacement for the smaller streamlined Pre-War T97 a new model was developed: the T600 Tatraplan.
The design of this car was based on the T87 body. It shared the nose of the last T87 version, but the central rear wing was not replaced. The front wings with incorporated headlights were smoothly integrated in the body. In stead of the three-piece T87 window the T600 had a two-piece split windscreen.
The T600 was developed in 1945-46 by Josef Chalupa, Vladimír Popelář and František Kardaus (1908-86), based on the ideas of Hans Ledwinka (1878-1967) who was imprisoned by the Sovjets since 1945.
The Tatra company was nationalized in 1948. In 1951 the state planning department decided the replace the T600 production to the Škoda plants. Both Czech car producers were not happy with this decision.
In 1952 production was ended. The T600 was quite popular in Europe and 2164 items (one third) was send abroad. This pictured T600 is one of the 146 which went to Hungary.
In total 6342 T600 were built, from which 4242 in Kopřivnice (Tatra plant) and 2100 in Mladá Boleslav (at Škoda).
1952 cc air-cooled boxer rear-engine.
1170 kg.
Production T600 Tatraplan: 1947-1952 (although some sources claim till 1954 or even till 1956).
Archive: Collection Budapest Capital Archives - photos.
Without title.
Description: Closed-row, multi-storey corner building with a high roof, Spice Delicatessen, Candy Store, Leatherwork Embroidery.
Location: Budapest V, Szent István körút - Szemere utca (Old street name).
Date: early 1950s.
Original photographer and exact date unknown.
Source: gallery.hungaricana.hu
Halfweg, July 14, 2021.
© 2021 gallery.hungaricana/Sander Toonen, Halfweg | All Rights Reserved
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.
There was certainly a good variety of vehicles running through Basingstoke on rail replacement duties today (Good Friday 2023). The sun made an appearance which was good to see as well!
As the Monsoon Clouds Hit The Vindhyachal Ranges of Madhya Pradesh , A Sleeper Replacement Machine Swiftly Moves towards Budni in order to replace a Damaged Sleeper , Due to the work many trains were Held up at Hoshangabad and Train services were Hit for 2 hours. Monsoons have this time around Hit Madhya Pradesh violently triggering Flood Like Situations in all parts as all the rivers are in Spate , Narmada River Not far from this place was flowing almost 5-6 meters above danger levels. Madhya Pradesh is the most drenched State Of India this year receiving rains almost everyday.
Sullivan Buses Enviro400 E61 is pictured passing Wembley Park Station whilst working on Metropolitan Line RR (ML10)
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.
Phil. Touristers Inc.
Fleet No.: 583
Engine: Doosan DL08
Chassis: Daewoo BS120S ( PL5UX )
Bus Body: Santarosa Daewoobus BS120S Low Floor