Plusbus rail ticket bus travel for Birmingham on WM travel, UK

Plusbus rail ticket bus travel for Birmingham on WM travel, UK Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

Image ID:

MJ2YDG

File size:

42.5 MB (2.2 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

4068 x 3648 px | 34.4 x 30.9 cm | 13.6 x 12.2 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

3 May 2018

More information:

. Recorded at the recorded location in 2018, the image fixes a recognisable subject and its environment at one point in time, giving later viewers a reliable basis for comparison. The image documents Plusbus rail ticket bus travel for Birmingham on WM travel, UK. Another layer of the photograph includes contemporary social history, changing streetscape, roadside stop, passenger transport, period detail, documentary photography, visual archive, changing land use, bus route infrastructure, regional identity, roadside transit, historical comparison, street-side transport, and archival record. The modern context includes continuing discussion of local connectivity, passenger information and the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense city centres. For later comparison, the photograph preserves landscape treatment and surrounding development at the recorded location, details that may look very different after changed technology. The location also brings in place identity, everyday life, public realm, before-and-after reference, public transport information, transport accessibility, local bus network, and local character. Details involving Plusbus, Birmingham, ticket, and travel make the image more specific than a generic view and strengthen its local or historical value. Around the recorded location, apparently routine details can become historically useful once businesses close, buildings change use or familiar features disappear. The setting also helps illustrate local connectivity and the challenge of maintaining reliable services outside dense city centres without losing the local specificity of the recorded location. The image also provides a reference for integrated transport and how local bus services affect access to work, education and healthcare in a form that can be compared with future views of the recorded location. The photograph keeps period character as a date-specific reference.