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The Catchphrase Is Catching On
The picture above was twittered by Roger French with the caption "It's All On-line!". It may be, but it is so much easier to use when "It's All On-paper". Try reading that Cornwall Map on a mobile phone in bright topless sunshine!
McGills False Heritage
McGills, now proud owners of Xplore Dundee as well as operating lots of stuff south west of Glasgow, have just paraded their "heritage livery". The "heritage" is not quite what it seems.
In 1997 the much loved and long standing Paisley bus company ...
... sold out to Clydeside Scottish ...
... a privatised chunk of the former vast Western Scottish empire. Clydeside was bought by an expansionist Arriva ...
... who, like Clydeside before them, found it impossible to make a go of it. Arriva announced that it was pulling out and the dregs were bought by a local team who renamed the operation McGills. Although there was no actual connection with the original company, Arriva had kept "the company" and its licences separate.
So the new McGills was born!
A Good Scottish Read
Mrs fbb likes a good read, especially when the tales are about her ancestral home north of Mr Hadrian's long long-collapsed wall.
Alexander McCall Smith is, perhaps, best known for his stories of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency, set in Botswana and a successful TV series.
His '44 Scotland Street' storied are located more locally (for the Mrs) in Edinburgh and they are less grey and grim than fbb's much enjoyed Rebus tales.
These stories are from the present day, "a joyous and charming portrait of city life and human foibles."
Bertie is aged seven, and he is out in the town with granny, who, although Scottish, has arrived from her home in Portugal to stay a while.
They see a tram!
Nuff said!
To Blackpool Transport, one of those rare beasts, a company still owned by its Council.
Friday 2nd was the actual day, but, yesterday and again today, there is a 15 minute service of vintage buses, route number ...
... guess!
Bother With The Bookstall
The magazines are just a printed paper strip glued on. The pictures are not all that appropriate for a sales point on the private heritage railway ...
... with scantily clad women and bridal wear periodicals, so fbb has glued the strip upside down!
But all is not well with the bookstall kit. In an attempt to preserve the "magazine covers" from too much sunshine and the inevitable fade, fbb sprayed them with matt varnish. The spray, it claimed, was very effective on wood, plastic and metal.
What the can did not say was that it would react badly with Humbrol enamel, which has gone crinkly!
A rub down with fine sandpaper and a repaint will be necessary!
Hey ho!
Let's Hope There Aren't Too Many Power Cuts?
Four electric buses have arrived for Edinburgh, painted a nice shade of green to confuse the regular passengers. They are, of course, heavily subsidised by some outside agency, or Lothian Buses would not have been able to afford them.
Meanwhile in London.
The big worry has not gone away. IF electric vehicles are to dominate public and private transport then they will need electricity. Currently the supply is pretty much fixed, so where is all the extra juice to come from?
Hinkley Point C is under construction and a new mega nuclear power station at Sizewell C (on the Suffolk coast) is currently grinding through the planning process.
It won't be ready for a while, yet! If all goes well, it will be generating juice by 2031. But all won't go well, will it?
And There's a Bus
As well as a large advert in the freebie Metro not-much-news paper, Go Ahead North West have painted a bus in a similar style.
The bus is pictured outside "The Printworks", an entertainment "hub" on Corporation Street in central Manchester.
Sounds just the sort of place that fbb loves!
Earlier names of the buildings associated with publishing that were incorporated into the development include Withy Grove Printing House, the Chronicle Buildings, Allied House, Kemsley House, Thomson House and Maxwell House. Kemsley House ...
... on the corner of Withy Grove and Corporation Street was developed gradually from 1929 and became the largest newspaper printing house in Europe. The site housed a printing press until 1986. Robert Maxwell bought the property and subsequently closed it down. The building was left unused for over a decade and fell derelict.
Beautiful On Ballast?
Something different for your man cave paperweight collection?
Two class 37s are printed on a chunk of National Rail ballast ...
... and all to raise money for the Samaritans.
Remember Victoria of Wight?
Apparently Wightlink's star performer suffered a mechanical failure. One of its four engines sort of blew up. The licensing authorities insisted that the remaining three power packs be inspected and, what a surprise, a second engine was found to be on the verge of suffering the same "mechanical failure".
Wightlink confirms that a team of engineers from Turkey (where the failed tub was built) are "on site"; parts are being flown in and the Company is "fairly congfident" (only "fairly"?) that the ferry will be back on service sometime around 13th July.
Victoria of Wight, the largest ferry of the Wightlink fleet, is a trendsetter for the new comfort standards and is the most luxurious ferry of its fleet.
The vessel has a state-of-the-art diesel-battery hybrid solution which allows operation with a reduced number of generators and lower emission and vibration and noise dramatically. There are four off medium speed Wartsila 6L20 generator sets 1.200 kW each for the main power source, only three of them run efficiently when sailing. Two off 408 kWh air-cooled battery packs from Corvus Energy charging by diesel generators while operating in diesel-electric mode.
Too much "technology"?
If two engines have blown up, when will the other two "malfunction"?
No Comment?
If fbb were still a Sheffield resident, he would not be particularly enthusiastic to praise male nudity (or female nudity for that matter)! Best keep the saggy bits well covered!
Yes, a comment!
Next Cardiff blog : Monday 5th July
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