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[cms206]

My scanning marathon has now been completed, so have a smattering more London.

[Mr Pastry]

5 hours ago, Yoss said:

So I would suggest somewhere in either Hounslow or Kingston. I can't be more precise than that but it narrows it down quite a lot doesn't it. 

Nice to see the RT on the 111 as it was my local route, long ago!  The location looks more like Hounslow or Feltham than Kingston, and Hampton Station on the blind so not going towards Kingston?  I feel I should know it, will have a think about it.   

My first thought on the RF location was Richmond Gasworks roundabout, but I can't remember whether that route went there.

Edit:  Pretty sure the RM and RT are in Hounslow High Street where it joins Staines Road, before it was pedestrianised.  It looks totally different now, but:

"Old Tilling London bus loading at the bus stop, High Street, Hounslow."

The building behind the bus, with gable end, turret, and rectangular windows, was still there in the colour photos.   .

About here:

[Zelandeth]

I've kept meaning to ask a question here but kept getting distracted and forgetting (that happens a lot).

Is there a good central source anywhere that lists when/where a lot of the running days, shows etc happen?  It's something I'd like to try to get to at least a couple of things this year but always seem to find out that stuff has happened purely when I see folks photos from events.

[martc]

Ridley Place, NuT.

[martc]

Cyprus, 2004.

[martc]

Piccadilly Circus, 1954.

[martc]

A wonderful Kässbohrer Setra S8.

[martc]

Hino Ponchos operated by Naha Bus somewhere in Japan.

[LightBulbFun]

youtube recommended this to me, quite an awesome watch to see such an old girl being driven and seeing it in detail

but what really took me was the fact that the driver took his manual PSV test in it! even 40 years ago in the 1980's that must been quite unusual i really wonder what the examiners thought of that, someone showing up to take their bus-driving test in a 1930 ST!

also check out how plush those seat cushions are!

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Leyland Olympian- ok... Leyland B45-01 footage here:

 

[lesapandre]

10 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

youtube recommended this to me, quite an awesome watch to see such an old girl being driven and seeing it in detail

but what really took me was the fact that the driver took his manual PSV test in it! even 40 years ago in the 1980's that must been quite unusual i really wonder what the examiners thought of that, someone showing up to take their bus-driving test in a 1930 ST!

also check out how plush those seat cushions are!

Lambeth Bridge - built 1932. Biggest change is the 1930's office building has been replaced by flats and a newer office tower.

To left is the Garden History Museum in a converted church (very nice teashop) well worth a visit and behind that Lambeth Palace seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. 😁

[SilverMachine]

could anyone help with finding pictures of busses/ coaches from the dover / kent area, probably possibly before 1970 but after 1940 (ish im guessing!) my great great grandfather had a small company but i never met him as he died the year i was born! all i know is that they were all painted a purpley maroon colour, as my aunt always said her wolesely was the same colour as them! the company name will either have been Reynolds or Whites. nothing to do with any current or recent companies coming up on search engines. 

i dont know what vehicles or how many he had!

should i have done this as a new thread?

Thank you in advance!

[lesapandre]

There is a Dover Transport Museum - I did not know that till I looked. 

https://www.dovertransportmuseum.org.uk/

Probably worth having a chat with them about any old bus services in the area.

There is this picture inside the Museum - and a 'WYTES' coach in preservation there.

[SilverMachine]

51 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

There is a Dover Transport Museum - I did not know that till I looked. 

https://www.dovertransportmuseum.org.uk/

Probably worth having a chat with them about any old bus services in the area.

There is this picture inside the Museum - and a 'WYTES' coach in preservation there.

thank you, ive emailed them so hopefully will have an update soon!

[martc]

This is just wonderful, an Ikarus 55 Lux. Imagine being transferred from an Ilyushin (or is it a Tupolev?) into this beauty to be wafted to the 33rd Agriculture, Iron Foundry and Fishing Canning Conference at the local Peoples Palace.

[martc]

A PAZ-3201S all-wheel drive bus built especially for operation in the far north.

[martc]

A trolleybus crossing Stone Bridge Darlington in 1955.

[Inspector Morose]

3 hours ago, martc said:

A trolleybus crossing Stone Bridge Darlington in 1955.

For those wishing for a little more detail (huh, only me then), this is Darlington 10 (GHN569) A Brush bodied Karrier W new in 1944. When the Darlington system closed in 1957, it was sold to Bradford who re-bodied it with an East Lancs double deck body. It lasted until 1971, not quite reaching the end of trolleybus operations in the UK (26th March 1972).

[Inspector Morose]

As close as "an bus" as you could possibly get.

A Vehixel bodied IVECO, if you really wanted to know.

[ETCHY]

 

[martc]

Just look at this OM Super Orione.

[danthecapriman]

On 07/02/2025 at 15:06, Inspector Morose said:

For those wishing for a little more detail (huh, only me then), this is Darlington 10 (GHN569) A Brush bodied Karrier W new in 1944. When the Darlington system closed in 1957, it was sold to Bradford who re-bodied it with an East Lancs double deck body. It lasted until 1971, not quite reaching the end of trolleybus operations in the UK (26th March 1972).

It’s funny isn’t it how we had so many electric trolly bus routes all over the UK but got rid of them in favour of diesel powered buses, presumably for their better flexibility to go anywhere and no maintenance/construction costs associated with the overhead equipment.

Another stupid decision that we could have done with keeping.

Did anywhere ever look into converting their electric trolley buses over to diesel? A lot of the buses didn’t look too bad condition when they were disposed of.

[lesapandre]

Like getting rid of trams. Apart from Croydon and Blackpool can't think of another town with them.

[edit - see below there are more]

Europe seems to get on with them fine. 

A new tram system for London was turned down on the grounds of cost.

[Yoss]

13 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Like getting rid of trams. Apart from Croydon and Blackpool can't think of another town with them.

Europe seems to get on with them fine. 

A new tram system for London was turned down on the grounds of cost.

Edinburgh, Nottingham and the West Midlands have them but your point still stands. They were all reintroduced at vast expense. Only Blackpool never got rid of them and have had them continuously. 

[lesapandre]

Thanks. Yes now I remember Nottingham. I did not know W. Mids - I must go for a ride sometime. Oh I forgot Manchester too.

Edinburgh really? Gosh.

They work really well in disaggregated towns and cities pulling remoter parts together.

Croydon trams run as far a Beckenham for example.

[danthecapriman]

Down in Waterlooville where I used to live, there was a pretty big tram system that spread from Portsmouth and Gosport up to Horndean village. Pretty sure it extended from the seafront right inland. 
I know for sure it went along the main road outside my old house to Horndean. There was a tram shed not far away and became a Waitrose then Lidel car park after it was demolished. 
There was also a tram shed in Gosport that still remains, now in use as a substation which I used to go to occasionally when I worked at SSE. 
I also found a load of very old light railway style sections of rail at an old industrial site in Gosport when working there one day. They’d obviously all been ripped up and used to build the frames of some storage sheds and reinforce the main buildings walls.

@Yoss might know a bit about being fairly local-ish? I know it was closed and removed quite some time ago, waaaay before my time!

I found these pics from bygone Portsmouth (I think!?) https://bygone.co.uk/home/

 

 

[busmansholiday]

2 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Thanks. Yes now I remember Nottingham. I did not know W. Mids - I must go for a ride sometime. Oh I forgot Manchester too.

Edinburgh really? Gosh.

They work really well in disaggregated towns and cities pulling remoter parts together.

Croydon trams run as far a Beckenham for example.

Errrm, Sheffield was the first to reintroduce trams, with proper street running, back in March 1994. I was on the first tram from Meadowhell to Commercial Street that day, I was also with my parents outside the Town Hall on the last day of the old trams in October 1960.

[lesapandre]

LOL. Sheffield- oops I did not know that either...

[martc]

It's 2005 and here's a photo that could easily have found itself in the truck shite thread. The Leyland Chieftain crane was donated to 'Asia Bus Response' after the tragic Christmas tsunami.

And here's a photo of the buses donated to the response -

I'm guessing the tow truck could have come in handy.

Lot's more photos and info here - https://www.asiabusresponse.co.uk/index.html

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 29/01/2025 at 16:42, cms206 said:

so have a smattering more London.

I can give you a couple of locations:

Hoppa is in Terminus Place o/s Victoria Rail Stn 
77 bus may be Nth end Waterloo Bridge j/w Strand
24 (Grey Green) North Side Trafalgar Sq o/s National Gallery
22B New Oxford Street 
507 - Victoria Rail Station
16 Edgeware Road almost into Maida Vale
281 & T4 - no idea, feels like Kingston Town Centre/Penrhyn Road?
74? - see below
A1 - Grosvenor Gardens
74 - Camden Town o/s the World End Pub
134 o/s Camden Town Tube
279 - no idea, East London - clueless
172 - the bus lane in Trafalgar Square o/s Canada House
53 - Camden Town (guessed based on the Tube station and the #74 buses above)
253 - same as the 279 above - clueless
3 - Whitehall j/w Parliament Square, F&C Office behind
137 = see 74 above
11 - self explanatory
55 - Victoria
9 - Westminster Bridge towards Parliament Square
16 - Victoria
159 - Nth side, Trafalgar Square. Canada House in background
88 - not sure - maybe Pall Mall, looking to cut across n side Trafalgar Sq to hit Whitehall (as with the 159 above)
2b - Hyde Park Corner, Buck House garden wall behind
22 - it's on the bus stop
14 - Hyde Park Corner
73 - Victoria
38 - Victoria Street j/w Buckingham Palace Road
Bus garage - no idea
30 - Hyde Park Corner/Knightsbridge - the old St George's Hospital behind
171 - Somewhere around The Aldwych, I thought Melbourne Place but not 100%