POTM December 2025

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For Photo of the Month, December, the bonus category will be Woden Temporary Interchange. Since it will be (eventually) closing, time is running out to acquire photos of the site.

So photos of the interchange, or buses within the interchange, will be the bonus category.

Full rules later.

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Photo nominations may now be posted.

The rules:

● two* photographs may be submitted by each member, provided they have not been submitted before

  ◦ * this month we are seeking photos of Woden Temporary Interchange^[1]. If you submit a photo (or two) meeting this criterion, you may post up to three photos but you may only submit a maximum of 2 photos of the same bus or at the same location.

● photos must be "owned" by the person submitting it (if not, you must have the permission of the photographer to submit the photo - and identify the photographer)

● photos must be have taken legally - ACT Bus does not encourage or condone trespassing

● submitted photographs must prominently feature:

  ◦ public transport infrastructure (such as bus stop, bus station, bus depot, Light Rail line, tram depot) within the ACT / Queanbeyan region (location must be specified)

and/or

  ◦ a bus, tram or support vehicle from the ACT or Queanbeyan (taken within the region or a former ACT/Queanbeyan bus) where-
    ▪ the vehicle is in focus
    ▪ the fleet or registration number is identifiable (or supplied by photographer if not visible in photograph)

● photos narrower than 640 pixels (for landscape aspect) will not be accepted

If possible, please supply date or month of photo.

Refer here for full ACT Bus photo submission conditions.

Photos can be submitted by replying to this forum topic and attaching the image; to ensure consistency, photos must be displayed with a width of 640 (or height of 640 if a "portrait" aspect) - photos larger than 640 are required to use the option width=640 or height=640 in the image tag. For example: [img width=640] instead of [img].

To submit photos from Instagram, you must post a reply with a caption and paste the URL of the Instagram image. Photos not publicly visible cannot be submitted. We will not accept unhosted photos - they must be stored on a photo hosting site (including Flickr, Facebook or photo sharing sites such as imgbb.com).

Submissions close midnight 26 November 2025, Australian Eastern daylight time (unless fewer than 6 photos have been submitted, in which case a further 24 hours will be allowed).

Voting will commence on 27 November. Voting will take 4 days and close 1 December.

The winning photo will be loaded to the actbus.net website and posted to ACT Bus on Facebook and Instagram. The winner and runner(s)-up will also be included in the Photo of the Year vote. By submitting a photo, you are giving permission for it to be loaded onto the ACT Bus Gallery, and Facebook and Instagram pages.
1 - photos of, or taken at, Woden Temporary Interchange

[CBRFlyer]

BUS 476 at Woden Temporary Interchange operating a late night R5 back in September 2024
 

BUS 840 on Shepard at in Hume operating a route 902


BUS 837 at Campbell Primary School operating a route 55

[L94UBbusfan]

BUS 373 at Gungahlin Place after completing an R8 (4/11/25)


BUS 351, currently the oldest bus in the TC fleet, on London Circuit (12/11/25)

[Bus 524]

Going through my archives for this month. The first 2 photos are from various points in 2024.


(Now Withdrawn) BUS 354 laying over at the National Museum after completing a route 53 from Dickson.


BUS 387 at Old Watson Terminus (Antill St) opperating a route 50 to Watson.


*BONUS PHOTO - Woden Temporary Interchange*
BUS 376 departing Woden Temporary Interchange. (Taken July 22nd 2025)

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Buses 397 & 556 at Cohen St Bus Station


Bus 879 travelling on Cohen Street

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Voting now open.