What an absolutely stunning restoration! Massive kudos and thanks to ALL those involved, from machine shop and sparkies to fundraisers, archivists, chippies, upholsterers, procurement, painting and those who spent hours overcoming the challenges of modern legislation. My big time favourite shot was of E/1R 1622 from No.1's upper deck. Great to see LCC106 out and about. It is an amazing survivor. Almost like old times! Get Kingsway (half) open for use? Oh yes ... Not a snowball in hell's chance of a tram day in Croydon I s'pose? Oh well .... a chap can dream ....
I always enjoy your content and this was another good ‘un. My daughter and son-in-law live one station north of Catford at Crofton Park so, as you can imagine, I have nipped down to Catford a time or two. I have always found it to be very busy, but no always easy to capture the buses. This made up for that. Can you tell me, is Elmers End near to Locksbottom? Only joking!
One note: As far is im aware, all the tram lines and systems are considered trams, not ligh rail. In saying that, I realise that the BN trams formerly of the Kusttram and Charleroi are called BN LRV (light rail vehicle) but its always called the trams lines. Antwerpen is completely a tram system but parts of that is underground and classified as a "Pre-Metro" Ghent doesn't have any underground sections at all, and brussels has its own seperate metro i believe. Also the trams running at the coastal tram have since been retired, 3 examples have been preserved, the remainder has been scrapped.
I have videos of the coastal tramway in 2023 which shows both the BN trams and new CAF trams in operation, plus videos of Gent and Antwerp for their 150th anniversaries in 2023 and 2024, all on You Tube.
When I filmed this the buses were being charged at the old Brixton Hill tram depot which is a sub depot to the main Brixton bus garage nearby on Streatham Hill.
@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Nice one Bob as i did the same on my many trips in the 90s only shooting lorries instead -but i would capture a bus as well in shot if it suited.
@@octopus680 I suppose all the old lorries have gone now, I first visited Malta in the 1990's, there were still lots of old British cars around then aswell as the old buses.
I like the look of those trams nice colours so many diff ones ive seen on here 😮😊 ime suprised how far they go around and peple they pick up and travel with❤
A friend owns ex Devon General Atlantean open top "Earl Howe", and recently took thirty five friends and villagers from near Yeovil to Weymouth and return.
This wasn't a patch on Routemaster 60. Chiswick is such a small venue and didn't have the capacity for a big turn out. It was a pain in the butt to get there because of the closure District line beyond Earl's Court. However, I got a ride on the friendly old Routemaster and have photos to mark the day.
I thought it was a good effort at least on the Saturday when I attended, I did film Routemaster 60 at Finsbury Park, much more space there so there was a lot more movement of the buses.
I was unable to attend due to mainline engineering work - Must say it looked a bit of a shambles so maybe I didn't miss too much after all - RM's 50 and 60 were superbly organised !!
4:45 Hace unos años, se cerró ese tramo de vía para abrir el túnel de Serra Grossa, de doble vía y con mayor velocidad máxima (70 km/h), que permitió aumentar frecuencias y la creación de la línea 5.
Hace unos años, el tramo La Marina- Porta del Mar reabrió con la línea 5, con igual recorrido que la 4, pero, al llegar a Sangueta, desviándose hacia allí.
Some missing stars from the lineup. Didn't see RMF1254 or a Northern General example or indeed FRM1. Shame that they couldn't be there to show all examples of the truly great Routemaster family 😢
The oldest buses are the Birmingham Corporation AEC and Daimler (seen in the first clip) which date from the 1930's, most of the rest of the buses date from the 1950's through to the 1990's.
@@bobhodgestransportDVDs This Leyland Titan was one of 5 operated by the West Midlands PTE and were sold to London Transport for service in London being non standard in Birmingham and the WMPTE, after ending service in London it was sold to Midland Classic buses and then preserved in their livery and look like now it has reverted to WMPTE livery at last and looks very smart indeed
@@peterwilliamallen1063 I thought it went to London along with the other Titans in the WM fleet, I agree that it looks superb in the WM PTE livery. The only other operator that had Titans as far as I can remember was Reading Corporation, I think that one is preserved out of the 12 that they had.
@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Yes, they were numbered 7001,7002,7003,7004 and 7005 and were purchased after an initial trial of the Leyland Titan Demonstrator was tried out and ran in conjunction with 5 Metrobuses all spread over variouse West Midlands Garages in Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry with this Leyland Titan 7001 and Metrobus 6831 running from Washwood Heath Garage hence the detination it has on it number 93 Birmingham City Centre to Kingshurst via Saltley, Washwood Heath and Castle Bromwich originally the number 160 under the Midland Red, I travelled on this bus many times when living in Washwood Heath, Birmingham on both the 93 and 94 bus services but Park Royal were more interested in supplying London Transport, so the WMPTE turned to MCW and their Metrobus which became after the Daimler Fleetline the WMPTE's standard bus and the 5 Leyland Titans sold to London Transport and I believe were painted at Perry Barr depot into London Transport Livery and sent to run with London Transport. When London Transport started scrapping them I believe they were sold to a company called Midland Classic Buses, but it is nice to see this back in WMPTE livery, a lot of the Volvo Ailsa's you also see in this video wre sold to London Transport as well, instead the WMPTE got clapped out DMS buses in return
The steam tram belongs to the Vicinal museum at Thuin which is near Charleroi, it is steamed there every now and then, it was great to see it in action in Gent.
Thanks Guy, the heritage tram routes in Porto operate every day from 9 in the morning to about 8pm in the evening, they are very well patronised, good numbers of passengers when I was there at the beginning of May.
@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks Bob. I know someone who will be on a rail tour shortkt in Portugal, visiting Porto and Lisbon so will let the family have your information.
The 406 was one of my local bus routes from 1943 (when I occurred!) -1970, together with the 406A when that was introduced in the mid-fifties; I can remember the STLs on it. I used them to get from Tattenham Corner to go to work in Kingston from 1961 (fare 1/8) but remember when the fare from Tadworth to Kingston was less than 1/-. It was good to get on an Express 406A; the RTs could then motor on the dual carriageway south of Tolworth. I didn't recognise many of the locations though! Many thanks for filming.
I went out to Nymans that day but I'd heard about the classic bus day. Old-fashioned London Country RMs and RTs are cool but I'd have been disappointed if I'd been waiting for one of those and one of those 80s junk heaps like that Metrobus showed up. I used to ride L&C buses from Croydon to Old Coulsdon when I was at 6th form there in the early 90s and remember the post-Olympian model you shoe about 3:30 - much more comfortable than the 80s buses were and less noisy.
Unfortunately I am old enough to remember going to school on a trolleybus replacement Routemaster, still great buses, they have stood the test of time.
Got to say, that looks really great to see, Routemasters, the RF, Swifts and Leyland PD 2 plus prototype RM2, what a day. Great stuff. As a child in the 1960s used to go on RMC route 718, Camden Town to Epping. What days! The only RF route I saw in service was where my nan lived at Lambeth North, Green Line RF 701/702. That RMC is such a handsome vehicle, they don't make 'em like that anymore!!!!
I lived in Chingford until I was 21, we used to go on the 718 Greenline to Epping to see my aunt and uncle until I was 8 years old, then my dad got his 1st car, a 1932 Morris 8!
Nice 👍 to see all view that bus was so many diff styles I liked the ones with the back door where people used get on and have a conductor why not now is it because people used to jump on and of not paying when moving all times 😢😮
I would also add that there was never any breakdown, although it once came close. One day, from Tolworth on towards Kingston, the driver kept revving the engine hard. I was sitting near the back, so couldn't see whether the red flag in the cab was down. Anyway, just before The Railway Tavern, Surbiton, there was an almighty bang, following which the engine ran roughly and emitted clouds of exhaust. I then worked at County Hall, where I got off but the bus still pulled away towards the town and no doubt was subsequently failed. I still don't know what went wrong. Any ideas?
1:56 3-door LHD bus built for PostAuto in Switzerland The Enviro500EV inside was in KMB spec for Hong Kong I know that there was a Foothill Transit Enviro500EV MMC Proterra there as well.
Now you're spoiling us. Those are what I call trams. Is there still one that goes up that very steep hill towards the castle? Thank you very much.😄😄😄😄😄
Yes, route 28 goes near the castle as it goes up to Graça, I think that you would have to get off near the cathedral (Sé), from memory it is still a steep climb up to the castle.
@@GuyArab Thanks Guy, I hope that you make it to Lisbon, not that there is any danger of it closing or anything, be prepared to wait for a tram though, route 28, the Graça circle, is very busy all the time, and the trams get held up in the traffic, there is timetable but it is is largely a work of fiction.
There are several steam tram engines preserved in Belgium, the country once had an extensive steam tram network most of which was either electrified or converted to diesel trams.