Bus, Tubetrain, Mainline Railway Cab ~ and all on one old bus chassis. This was built to showcase the three different vehicles that Transport for London are responsible for.
Interior view of the bus garage at Hounslow
An annual event in East Grinstead is the heritage bus running day which features many ex-London Transport buses that have been lovingly restored. Well worth a visit to enjoy a nostalgic ride on the old East Grinstead routes around town.
STL2377 on route 428 drops off its passengers near Dormansland
RT3435 backing into position at Eastbourne Miniature Steam Railway, which was a special destination on an Eastbourne Bus Running Day.
RF489 at Eastbourne Railway Station, awaiting passengers.
Open top and plenty of fresh air on this uphill journey to Eastbourne
How it used to be at the beginning with a conductor wearing a Bell ticket punch and holding a rack of tickets in his left hand. Oh, how things have changed!!
An exhibit at the Acton Depot Open Day was this home-built miniature tram operating on portable 7.25" gauge track
The conductor changing the route blind on the side of a country double-deck bus
Tram 2550 at Morden Road tram stop on route 1 to Wimbledon
Built in 1912 by the Great Northern Railway who had very strict about its design criteria, one being that 3rd class accommodation must always be narrower than 1st class. Thus we have the unusual design detail that the family saloon was built narrower at one end (for the servants) than the other.
Observation Car No.41, built in 1892 is now owned by West Coast Railways and stored at Carnforth
Looking down to the west end of London Underground‘s Northfields Depot
Standing outside Ruislip Depot is L23 and L20, just two of the Transplant fleet of tube-size battery locos
Standing inside Ruislip Depot is L17 looking very pristine
Unusual coloured driving motor car languishing in the depot yard
The station was rebuilt in 1933-34 by Charles Holden, with earlier fabric at platform level dating from 1883
This is a disused Saxby & Farmer box built around 1883 which has been unused for signalling purposes since 1905 when automatic signalling was introduced on that section of line
The rebuilt station now located in the High Street was designed by Charles Holden to a striking design
The trainshed shows the unique style of the 1938 built station
Unit 5113 inside the trainshed of Uxbridge Station. Note the unusual station design.
A60/62 unit 5086 passing Neasden heading into the City.
Seen from Neasden Station platform, an A60/62 unit is on the fast line to Baker Street
Tube stock unit 96105 approaching Neasden Station.
Tube and surface stock passing the closed and later to be demolished carriage sheds at Wembley Park
Tube stock unit 96013 arrives at Wembley Park heading for London
2004 image of Finchley Central station with the Mill Hill East shuttle about to depart
A60/62 stock unit 5130 arrives in platform 1 at Baker Street
A60/62 stock unit 5099 about to depart for Aldgate
Emergency response team are in attendance to re-rail the front bogie of driving car 5506 on 27th May 2000. For some reason, it took over six-hours to get the train re-railes which frustrated many passengers.
Photographed on 28th May 1978, 5139DM and 6139T near Chorleywood Station heading for Amersham
Sarah Siddons at the back of a rail tour heading for Uxbridge. The tubestock on the right is exiting the siding at Rayners Lane ready for its journey to London.
The 1983 Farewell Tour for the R-stock occurred on 1st May 1983 and is seen at Uxbridge. Note the unusual layout where the platform is on both sides so passengers can enter/exit on either side of the train
Special train 413 operating the 1983 Jubilee Rail Tour being shunted.
Special test train comprising cars 11204, 12128, 012294, 10204 at South Ealing on 26th March 1981
Special test train showing weights spread throughout the carriage to mimic the normal passenger loadings
A new class 378 unit stands outside the depot
Two National Rail trains approaching Wimbledon Station
Unit 313101 prepares to depart for London Euston
Class 165014 unit stands in platform 1 awaiting departure for Aylesbury
Two snowploughs in the Network Rail Yard at Tonbridge West
Unusual buffers at Ealing Broadway
A partially unidentified driving car x574, badly damaged from some type of mishap, languishes at the back of the depot
Photographed in the sidings at Acton Works where they had been dumped.
An unidentified train of T-stock rounds the curve towards Croxley while the new trackwork associated with 4-tracking from this junction towards London is on the left.
One of a batch of Pre-1938 Standard Tubestock cars converted to Ballast Motors. This one was photographed at Hainault Depot and is probably 3513 before being renumbered to L73 on 18th May 1954
Constructed from two redundant driving cars (3968 and 3972) by cutting each in two, and joining together with a cab at either end to form an Electric Sleet Locomotive ~ in this case ESL109. It was scrapped on 24th October 1975.
Built in 1936 by Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Company, with Metadyne control, their complexity resulted in them becoming unreliable, and they were withdrawn in 1977 and scrapped in 1978.
Photographed in September 1951, DEL 120 was built at Acton Works in November 1940 from two halves of 1903 driving motors joined back-to-back. In 1955, due to various problems, the diesel engine was removed and DEL 120 worked for a while as an electric loco. It was scrapped in July 1958.
In October 1949, a special test using British Railways L1-class 2-6-4T number 67707 with a Westinghouse pump, was connected by means of flexible pipes, to a 1938 tubestock train in Neasden Works, to see if that system could be used between Rickmansworth and Amersham. The tests proved the idea impractical because just opening the doors on the test train used up all the available air.
Photographed in October 1951,this loco was built in 1931 and scrapped with sister loco L30 in July 1964. Photographed in October 1951
Photographed in October 1951, this loco was built in 1899 and scrapped in March 1962.