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According to David Bradley Online - London Trolleybus on Route 654 at the "Robin Hood"

It's here:

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Which I think checks out. In 1947 there was a park on this corner

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There is still a fragment of the concrete wall outside the new housing at Trinity Mews.

Yes definitely, i was looking at pics of the old Robin Hood pub in fact

 

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Yes definitely, i was looking at pics of the old Robin Hood pub in fact

Tramway Close, off Oak Grove Road just round the corner, was site of a tram depot - 654 trolleybus replaced the trams and the tram depot was sold off before the 1939 war.

The depot was still there (was a warehouse or something) in the late 80s and there was a bit of track visible in the pavement outside.

Not sure if the electric sub station was originally for trams

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Saturday 18 March - 1940 RT 8 will be running as an extra between Ilford and Aldgate on route 25 for comic relief



this particular bus came back from america as pretty much a basket of bits in 2006

 

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last call for tomorrow's event based on romford / dagenham, (saturday 24 march) routes 174 / 175 - buses every 5 - 10 minutes on the north romford - dagenham bit from about 10 am to 5 pm, but a few buses will be out until after 8 pm.

30+ buses expected, mostly 1940s to 1960s RT and Routemaster generation, a couple older, a handful newer.

 

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Sad because I'm working.

 

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some from today



1954 bus seen from similar (slightly older) bus, somewhere near romford



1945 bus and what's left of 1930s cinema, dagenham



1937 bus, harold hill



1954 bus, at what was dagenham town hall

(yes the bus does have weird marker lights on the roof - it went to canada in the 1970s for sightseeing on prince edward island - it (and a number of others) came back to england a few years ago.)



1967 routemaster and ex-cinema, collier row. (this was one of a smallish batch with doors at the front - they were built for the express service from west london air terminal to heathrow, and a handful of them ran on route 175 in the mid 1970s when there was a shortage of buses.

 

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and pre sex discrimination act advert inside one of today's buses (bus was withdrawn from passenger service in 1973)




ETA - a little bit of research shows they had an 'equal pay' strike in 1977

 

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one of someone else's from yesterday - quite a bit of luck in managing not to have any modern buses in view somewhere as busy as that

 

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this weekend

saturday 1 april - south east bus festival at kent showground, detling (bit of a bugger to get to by public transport, but there some special excursions to / from the event being run)

sunday 2 april - bus running day in high wycombe

 

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Update - the event at Kent showground on Saturday has been cancelled as the car and bus parking areas are waterlogged

 

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Puddy_Tat I think you need Brooklands to give yourself some cheer tomorrow

Brooklands Museum :: London Bus Museum Spring Gathering 2023

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@Puddy_Tat I think you need Brooklands to give yourself some cheer tomorrow

thanks - had an invite to go with a bus, but haven't quite got the time and energy

in other news, the alton event this year is off

Welcome to the Alton Bus Rally & Running Day website

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one of someone else's from yesterday - quite a bit of luck in managing not to have any modern buses in view somewhere as busy as that

I love these green single deckers

 

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thanks - had an invite to go with a bus, but haven't quite got the time and energy

in other news, the alton event this year is off

Welcome to the Alton Bus Rally & Running Day website

sadtht.co.uk

Very sad news; we had a great day out at Alton last year

 

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Sorry Puddy_Tat it's a glorious day today

 

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Mrs tag bought a bus

 

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Sorry Puddy_Tat it's a glorious day today
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that's had another restoration in the last year or two.

i remember it had an evening out in central london to mark its 50th birthday in 1986...

there is another one of the batch in captivity, but it's with someone who won't do anything with it and won't sell it, so it's rotting to bits

 

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ambient south london busses

 

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Sweet AEC Regent 486: a life of service | Classic & Sports Car
( the museum Transport Museum Wythall ).


"BCT’s requirement ‘never to have a bus break down’ – and this despite operating continuously for up to 18 hours per day and racking up 800 miles each week."

 

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Sunday 11 June - London Bus Museum organised event on routes 65 / 71, Ealing - Kew Bridge - Richmond - Chessington - some journeys to Leatherhead. Historic buses are on free travel basis. More here.

35 - 40 buses expected - seems a bit more varied than some events, with a few non-London buses and a few 'modern' preserved buses (as in anything built 1980s onwards, but there's low floor buses that are now 20 years old and in preservation) - looks like the buses not old enough to have London LEZ exemption will be on the Leatherhead - Chessington end.

Main service every 10 minutes or better on the Ealing - Kingston bit.

May be an updated timetable / bus list issued before the weekend, and usual disclaimers about step entrance and lack of space for push-chairs etc.

 

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I had a ride on this yesterday evening

(Festival shuttle bus)

 

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Imberbus on 19 August. Quite a trip from town

Imberbus Returns: Take trips in old buses through the Salisbury military firing range

If you fancy spending a very special day riding a load of old buses through a military firing range, then reserve a date in August as Imberbus is returning.

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Want to drive a bus?

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Imberbus on 19 August. Quite a trip from town

from one or two reports, sounds like it was over subscribed this year with very long queues.



next London area event is Saturday 16 September - route 38 (Victoria - Hackney - Clapton Pond) will have about 20 Routemasters and earlier generations of bus running a free service alongside the regular TFL service between about 10 am and 5 pm.

Seems to be every 10 minutes Victoria - Hackney, 10 - 20 minutes to Clapton, and occasional journeys further east (the route has run as far as Leyton / Chingford at earlier points in time.)

More here. Includes links to timetable and list of buses, although there will probably be a final version put up next week.

Usual disclaimers about buses not meeting modern accessibility standards and so on.

 

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Not Routemasters, but another old buses outing in Winchester next weekend.

Vintage buses to return as part of Heritage Open Days

Friends of King Alfred Buses (FoKAB) has confirmed that it will be running bus services as part of the Winchester Heritage Open Day.

www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk

 

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Not Routemasters, but another old buses outing in Winchester next weekend.

a few places have buses as part of heritage open day (which now covers two weekends) - oxford and northampton often do.

 

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gentle reminder for this saturday's thing on route 38 (clapton / hackney - islington - victoria) - see above. may be worth checking back towards the end of the week for an updated timetable / buses list.

couple of things on the following weekend on the south eastern edge of London -

Saturday 23 September - Open Day event at Go-Ahead London's Orpington depot (Green Street Green - nearest rail station Orpington.) Not sure if there will be any older buses on the road - if there are, it may be 1970s / 80s generation, Orpington came to Go-Ahead from independent operator Metrobus, which got going in the 80s, although operations from the site started in the 70s if not the 60s with a few previous independent operations - back then, there were very few non London Transport operators in London, only operating on routes that London Transport didn't want to touch, the Orpington - Forestdale - Addington - Croydon routes have evolved from something quite small scale. No actual website for the event, posts on Tweeter and Farcebook

Sunday 24 September - running day event based on Dartford / Ebbsfleet / Gravesend, with mix of London Transport / London Country / Maidstone + District buses (Gravesend was one of those places where the boundary between two operators was, so broadly, M+D ran services east of Gravesend and there were two separate bus garages until the 1970s. More (third party site) here. This is a new event, and I've not heard of the organisers before. It's also not entirely clear where in Dartford or Gravesend buses will run from...

 

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gentle reminder for this saturday's thing on route 38 (clapton / hackney - islington - victoria) - see above. may be worth checking back towards the end of the week for an updated timetable / buses list.

On my way to Victoria and then to Victoria Park.
I gather about every 10 minutes.