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When on NCT's brown line buses, I've seen on most days a Sharpes double decker (or two) parked down Haydn Road and it was only a matter of time before I had a walk down to take photos. That time came on 30.4.22 when I'd already seen there was one (despite it being a Saturday) and on my return journey towards town decided to go on foot and take a look.
Rather fortunately, the bus waiting for me was NLZ 116, an ex-Dublin B7TL which I was after a better photo of! It is pictured on Haydn Road outside Nottingham Free School, on a Saturday evening, which seems like a weird time for it to be there. What was weirder was that two days later it was still there, seemingly untouched.
Field thorns, Kefalonia, Greece
I have yet to identify these interesting prickly organics. A decent book on the flora and fauna of Kefalonia beckons...
The 50th and final Showbus took place near Redbourn in Hertfordshire on 25/09/2022 and was attended by around 245 buses and coaches from up and down the UK.
My photos show some of the vehicles that helped make the day another big success.
Fountain by the Esplanade
Chicago Botanic Garden
September 27, 2015
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Jinja, Uganda, Africa
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It was back up to Sheffield yesterday (14/02/2025) for the final Young Voices event hosted at the Utilita Arena. A healthy 94 coaches attended on this particular day with a good variety of operators and coach types on display.
The Young Voices concerts tour are held every January and February and visit Sheffield (8 days), Birmingham (11 days), London O2 (8 days), Manchester (4 days) and London Wembley (2 days).
A few hardy mountaineers brave the conditions and tackle Sharp Edge. Head for heights required. I took the easier route which was still testing in the conditions
Sharpes of Nottingham: (HJZ 113; ex P812 GBA) a Van Hool Alizee bodied Volvo B10M, painted in silver and blue fleet livery. This vehicle is captured here pulling onto the Imperial War Museum's Duxford Airfield site whilst attending the 2008 Showbus event.
Noticeable on the nearside is the mid arrangement for the wheel chair lift with the access door situated just above and in front of the rear axle, for use as an Accessible vehicle.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 28th September 2008.
Ref No. 0018446/CL.
Sharps of Batley DAF MB230 Duple 340 JIL 5660 was seen in Blackpool on 5th October, 1996. It was new to Wallace Arnold as C126 DWR one of just three DAFs supplied to that operator.
There were 3 sharpies amongst all the ducks and geese at Gatton. The stilts had a go at them at one stage and they in turn picked on the only guys smaller than them, the dotterels. Mostly they all behaved though.
It was very green all the way out to Gatton but Lake Galletly is getting very dry and Lake Clarendon Dam was totally dry. It seems there was no run off from the storms a month ago.
Recently I've had some rotten luck narrowly missing several good deckers from the coach operators (including Tiger European ex-NCT Y667 DRA), but some good fortune here meant I was in the right place at the right time to get a better photo of Sharpes Volvo B7TL ALX400 MIB 658, which is depicted here on Mansfield Road, but about to turn up Woodborough Road on 21.3.22
A textured version of this attractive (or at least attractive to male emus) female emu. She is displaying her breeding colours...as evidenced by the blue neck skin.
The emu is the largest bird in Australia, and the second largest in the world after the ostrich.
Emus have long necks, sharp beaks and small ears. They have two sets of eyelids, one for blinking and one to keep out the dust. Their feet are long, with three toes. One toe on each foot has a long talon, for fighting.
Emu feathers are soft and light-brown with dark tips. Each feather has a double shaft.
Emus can grow to between 5 to 6.5 fee) in height and weigh up to 130 pound. Males are slightly smaller than females. Males make a grunting sound like a pig and females make a loud booming sound.
Emus are found only in Australia. They live in most of the less-populated areas of the continent and although they can survive in most regions, they avoid dense forest and severe desert.
The emu belongs to a family of flightless birds called Ratites. Most Ratites are now extinct, and only the emu, ostrich, cassowary, kiwi and rhea are alive today.Other flightless birds have a keel on their sternum, but Ratites do not. This means that Ratites don’t have a strong anchor for their wing muscles, so they couldn’t fly even if they developed suitable wings. Emus have tiny wings hidden under their feathers. They hold them out as stabilizers when they run.
Emus must drink every day, and they don’t waste water. On very hot days they breathe rapidly, using their lungs as evaporative coolers. Their large nasal passages have multiple folds inside. In cooler weather they use these folds to recycle air and create moisture for reuse.
Emus pair in summer and breed in the cooler months. The female develops blue skin on her neck and her feathers turn a darker brown. She struts around the male making special noises to say that she is ready to mate.
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My husband called out from the kitchen and I came on the run, camera in hand, with no time to think. I managed 5 frames, including this, the clearest of the lot, through the window before this sharp shinned hawk continued his hunt elsewhere. This image is very tightly cropped.
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Caldwell 38 is nicknamed the Needle galaxy, because in most telescopes it looks as thin and sharp as a pin. It is a spiral galaxy, but because it is seen almost perfectly edge-on, its spiral structure is concealed. This Hubble image, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, provides a detailed look near the galaxy’s core, which is largely obscured by thick ribbons of dust in the spiral arms.
These observations were taken to search for large groupings of old stars, known as globular clusters, in Caldwell 38. Seeing the Needle galaxy edge-on provides an excellent opportunity to explore globular star clusters. While most of a spiral galaxy’s stars lie within a relatively flat plane, globular clusters tend to be sparsely distributed all around the galaxy, surrounding it like a diffuse shell. When seen face-on, a galaxy’s globular clusters easily get lost in the mix; when a galaxy is seen edge-on, however, these clusters stand out.
By conducting a survey of globular clusters in several edge-on spiral galaxies, scientists have been able to study how these clusters form and evolve. Their results seem to indicate that globular clusters form with a very low metal content, but then their metallicity grows over time through subsequent mergers with other globular clusters.
The Needle galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1785 and is also cataloged as NGC 4565. It is about 40 million light-years away toward the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy is best viewed in the spring from the Northern Hemisphere (autumn from the Southern Hemisphere), and with a magnitude of 9.6 it is fairly easy to spot even with a small telescope. With larger telescopes, a prominent dark lane can be seen crossing the galaxy’s core.
For more information about Hubble’s observations of Caldwell 38, see:
www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1228a/
Credits: NASA, ESA, and K. Ashman (University of Missouri); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
For Hubble's Caldwell catalog website and information on how to find these objects in the night sky, visit:
They are sharp .. need to be careful!
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Here we have the second transistor radio released by Sharp (Hayakawa Electric Co., Ltd.) in mid 1957.
This model sported the nickname "Peppy" in a Sharp ad from the summer of 1957. Methinks Sharp was taking the term "pet name" a bit too literally . ;-)
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A complete entry on this model will eventually appear on my site, including chassis pics, a bit of history, and more stories of spicy pet names.
Sharpes Of Nottingham Daf Van Hool TX17 Astron Reg SH15 RPE is seen parked in Belfast Titanic Quarter
All hail Fast Freight Friday! Reading & Northern's famous NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) aka "the fast freight" and later on "America's train" a moniker termed by an employee who remarked "Seems like every fan in America wants to photograph this train!"
Pretty much everyting about the Reading & Northern (RBMN) is a throwback to a bygone railroading era and this train was no exception-- Run on a strict schedule watched by everyone from the President down, every job and employee with track time along the way scattering to clear as it approached, and a big consist of EMDs blasting by when its appointed time arrived.
With modern railroading, so many good things don't last, and this appears to be one of them. A large crosstie replacement project began earlier this year and with it came the annulment of the NRFF, which was replaced by the PIFF run from Pittston, PA to North Reading and return on a 6pm call time. The tie project is history but this new operating pattern is not and seems to be working well for the railroad. A previous nighttime run lasted about two weeks before CEO Andy Muller decided he "missed his train coming by his office window every afternoon" and the daytime schedule returned. This time it seems that sentiment has faded in favor of the current nighttime schedule, which is arguably better for the railroad's operations.
Lots of words, let me get to the photo-- East Mahanoy Junction in Barnesville, PA was my absolute favorite spot to see and photograph the NRFF. The train was working up a long grade from Tamaqua. When you look at the location and sharp curve the train is entering, you expect them to be doing maybe 10 mph when they round the corner. But what you really get is however many EMDs were on the train that day in Run 8 at about 30 mph. The flanges are squealing and it is railroading at its best. And it happens well after I've gone to bed these days. Maybe someday it'll be back, who knows.
Moved this up front since it's supposed to be 100 (again) in Roanoke today...with a lovely air pollution toxin warning thrown in just to make things even more enjoyable!
I do like winter when it snows...but I only like snow when it is pristine and still clinging to everything like in this scene. That usually doesn't last long, for after the storm the wind usually picks up and blows it into an ugly mess. Here I'm hiking up Sharp Top after the season's third heavy snow. Over a foot of new snow on top of an older deep snow. It's well past my knees here, and even deeper in some places. This hike is over a mile with a 1500 ft elevation change, it's considered "strenuous" under the best circumstances, and as steep a hike as I know anywhere. I wasn't wearing snow shoes and don't even have any, who would ever need them in VA? I opted to skip the trail or road and just walk straight up the mountain to avoid any additional effort of distance. It was the most strenuous hiking I've ever done, much worse than carrying a heavy pack. I can normally hike to the top in a 1/2 hour or so, this time was almost 2 hours it seemed. Halfway up I considered turning back, but forced myself to keep going. One of those times I call a "heart-check" experience, gonna find out if it's still working well!
Second in the line of Sharpes vehicles was Gemini 2 60 YWX, carrying a registration that was formerly on a Dublin Olympian. IIRC this is an ex-Bournemouth bus, which although still a G2 has come from a city besides Edinburgh for once.
Maid Marian Way, Nottingham
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