London bus routes revisioned
A considerable number of London bus routes were revised on the 29th of April. It was said this was due to the need to comply with Government demands in terms of continued emergency funding for TfL. The changes didn’t sit too well with many for the routes in question were…
Whatever happened to Minifornia?
From 5th to 7th March 2020 at London’s Waterloo station the only public appearance of an unusual exhibition known as Minifornia took place. It had made its appearance on the public stage as COVID ravaged its way across the world. Countries were entering lockdown and people’s movements were being limited.…
London Bus Photos – Route 8a, 35 & 37
Route 8a – Old Ford to London Bridge; Route 35 – Clapton Pond to Clapham Common; Route 37 – Hounslow to Peckham This summer, thirty-five years ago, the London bus routes 8a, 35, and 37 were converted to one-person operation. Route 2 was also converted at the same time, and…
London’s first purpose built coach station for demolition
London’s first ever purpose built coach station will soon face the wrath of the rubble merchants – their task will of course be to bring the historic building right down to ground level and make sure its presence is removed from an iconic London setting for ever. This is a…
London Bus Photos – Route 16
Route 16 – Victoria to Neasden The previous post in this series featuring the 237 was published in January 2018 – thus it seemed about time another was published! The other posts have been about central/south bus services thus this is the first to feature a route to the northern…
Minifornia
At London’s Waterloo station during the second part of this week there was a miniature landscape model advocating the many picturesque locations in America’s Sunshine State, colloquially known as ‘Minifornia’, and extolling the British to take road trips there. The landscape model has now gone back to ‘Minifornia’ – where…
A Euston station era ends #2
This is the second part covering the Euston station underground taxi rank – and features some more stuff that has now been ‘lost’ since the old taxi rank closed nigh on a year ago. The above picture shows the intersection where the various routes from the taxi ranks and public…
A Euston station era ends
They haven’t closed Euston station – not yet! The HS2 machine is still marching on relentless however as reported sometime back it all depends on the Oakervee report. They were not actually planning on closing the station completely! Nevertheless things have met their end regardless and one of the bigger…
Shop Linker
Forty years ago one of London’s short lived bus routes was seen on the capital’s streets for just a few short months. This was Shop Linker with its red and yellow buses. The idea of the service was to provide an easy and convenient link between the West End and…
LT’s last RT services 1989
Eighty years ago the first RT bus entered service with London Transport. This was RT1, formerly ST1140, a temporary hybrid of a bus allocated to Hanwell garage on the 18c route. By April 1939 it had a new body and after evaluation was allocated to Putney (Chelverton Road) for Route…