Toby & John's
Local Transport History
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back in time, to when central buses were red , and Country area buses were
green, all buses had conductors.
See roads and buildings along the routes that have disappeared into the mists of time, along with the vehicles that travelled them. Some pages are listed by location, some by vehicle types. Also look at pictures of trams, trolleybuses and the tickets of the past. |
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List of local history and transport books covering the geographic area of this site.
| AFC
Buses
Automatic Fare Collection |
B15 Service
24 Euston
Experimental bus at Euston Road |
| All Over Advertisement
RM
All over advertisement routemaster in Trafalgar Square |
Biggin Hill
Air Show
A line up on Route 410 special service buses 1964. |
| Bexley
Council Tramways
Car 11 on track repairs, but where? |
BOAC/BEA
Airport Buses
BOAC Atlanteen and BEA Routemasters with trailers |
| Bus
and Tram Depots Updated AW, AM, Erith and Penhall Road, Charlton |
Bus
Garages
BX, PD, SP and TB. |
| Croydon
Horse Tram
Croydon Corporation Tramways |
Croydon
Routes
Trams & trolleybus routes which passed through Croydon |
| Croydon
Routes
Bus routes which passed through Croydon |
Decimalization
Training Bus
RT 3878 in use as decimalization staff training bus |
| DMS3
(EGP 3J)
Seen on NX forecourt when new |
DMS Daimler
Fleetline
Routes 99, 122a and 272. Plumstead High Street |
| East Surrey
Traction Company
One of the forunners of LT County Buses seen in the 1920s |
Floods
Buses in floods at Abbey Wood and Belvedere |
| FRM 1
Service 76 Waterloo
Experimental rear engine routemaster at Waterloo |
.General
Route 40
Seen as Q17 from Camberwell Garage |
| Greenline
RCL
Coaches at Aldgate and New Cross |
GS Guy
Single Decker
GS 10 in AW, GS 59 Oxted, GS21 & 56 DG |
| Illuminated
Advertisement RM
While on railway emergency service at Waterloo |
Kingsway
Subway
The Kingsway tram subway, the link from North to South |
| Maidstone
& District
Fleetline on Private Hire at Erith |
MB
151
Newly delivered to Catford Garage, and awaiting blinds |
| MB
Family of buses
MBA Red Arrow, MBS on P1 and MB 99 and 108 |
MB Routes
99 & 122a
The two MB routes from AM (Plumstead Garage) |
| .MD
(Metropolitan)
Route 53 Beresford Square Woolwich, 122a Bedonwell Road |
Metropolitan
(MD)
Routes 53 and 122 Woolwich |
| Metro
Scania Service 99
Experimental bus route 99, Woolwich and Belvedere |
Metro
Scania Demonstrator
in AW garage awaiting service on 99 from AM |
| MS2
(Metro Scania)
production type Metro Scania at Oakhampton Crescent |
Night
Buses
N82 nightbus on Woolwich Common |
| Off
Route
Buses running on one route and displaying another |
On the
Decks
See inside trams RTs and MB/MBS |
| Paying
in the Takings
AW in the 1970s |
Peckham
Local Routes
P1 at Canal Bridge, Old Kent Road & P3 at Peckham Rye |
| Platform Views
Plumsted, Greenwich & Bricklayers Arms |
Radio Control
Car
Ford Anglia control car at Abbey Wood Garage |
| Railway
Emergency Service
Seen in Dartford June 1970 |
Railway ReplacementNew at St John's in 1970 |
| Ready
For the Rush Drivers and Conductors at the ready |
Red
and Green Routemasters
Red routemaster bus and Greenline RCL routemaster coachs |
| RF Buses
Seen in Red & Green |
RLH Buses
Seen at Clapton & Oxted |
| RLH Stratford
Lowbridge buses in Stratford Broadway |
RM
180
RM 180 on Route 180 at Abbey Wood |
| RM
738
RM 738 experimental, while at AW on routes 177/180 |
Roof Advertisement
Routemaster
171a in Abbey Wood garage with roof add |
| Roofless
RT
Seen in Catford Garage after hitting low bridge |
Route
51
Last day of LRT & First day of LCBS operation. |
| Routes
99 & 163 RTs
Last day of 163 & Last RTs on 99 |
Route
177 RM's
RM's Abbey Wood, Greenwich and Elephant & Castle |
| Route
177 RT's
RTs Embankment, Abbey Wood and Elephant |
Routes
Numbered 178
Routes to West Norwood - Hacney Wick - Kidbrooke Station |
| Route
178 RLH
Seen in Stratford Broadway |
Route
180 RT and RM
Charlton, Catford and Lower Sydenham |
| Route
180a
Last day of operation. Seen in Beresford Street |
Route
185 RTs
Seen in Greenwich and Lewisham |
| Route
229 RTs
at Abbey Wood, Erith, Barnehurst, and Belvedere |
RT 1702 Festival
of Britain Bus
The last of the Festival buses seen in Bexleyheath |
| RT 2776
The USA tour bus on route 86 Stratford |
RT2912
on route 171aNew
Seen at Abbey Wood |
| RT3229New
Seen on route 177 |
RT
3911
Newly repainted on route 192 Plumstead Common |
| RT
Family
RT, RTL, and RTW in AW |
RTL1232New
LTs Last RTL |
| RTL Leyland Titan
Route 10 Stratford, 35 Clapham & Green trainer |
Single
Deck Buses GS, MB, RF, SMS
227 Crystal Palace, 160 Welling LDO 99 & 122a MB. GS staff |
| Silver
Routemasters
SRMs for the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth in 1977 |
SM AEC
Swift
SM5 & SM7 at Welling in 1970 |
| Thomas
Tilling Horse Bus
The last run of the old Blackheath bus |
Thomas Tilling
Motor Bus
Tilling Stevens petrol electric bus on service 75 at Croydon |
| Timpson's
Motor Char-à-banc in Cordite Street,Plumstead |
Traffic
Hold Up.
What happens when a crane falls in the road |
| Tramway
Conduit Changeover
Change from overhead to conduit at Woolwich and Lee Green |
Trams
in Eltham
Eltham Church, Eltham Green and Westhorne Avenue |
| Tram
Shelter Beresford Square
26 years after the last tram passed the shelter still stands |
Tram
Track Uncovered
Tram tracks in Beresford Square uncoverd during the 1980s |
| Tram
Track
A piece of track from Erith UDC tramway |
Trams
and Trolleybuses
In Plumstead Road, Woolwich. 698-36-38 |
| Trams on
BridgesNew
Southwark and Westminster on the penultimate day |
Trolleybuses
for Trams
Trolleybuses and trams in one depot, possibly Hendon |
| Trolleybuses
Colour pictures in the cetral area |
Trolleybuses
On route 630 |
| Under
the Bonnet
See under the bonnet and underside of RT, RTL and RM |
Victoria
Coach Station
is backdrop to Standerwick VFR 375 |
| VWD
451H
The Metro Scania Demonstrator in Abbey Wood Garage |
Well
Hall Canteen
Take a look inside an LT canteen |
| Woolwich
Transport Museum
The short lived bus museum in Woolwich |
XA Leyland Atlantean
Route 76, Victoria and Waterloo |
| XF Daimler Fleetline
In green country livery on route 67 from SF |
XMS Red Arrow
Service 500 Victoria Station |
| XF and XA Buses
On trial on Central and Country routes |
| Trolleybus
pictures on 696 and 698 routes. Woolwich, Bexleyheath, and Dartford
Courtesy of David Bradley Online |
| Allan
Bedford's Picture Albumupdated
Buses in Bexley and Dartford in the 1970's |
| Woolwich buses, trams and trolleybuses, a brief history |
| London's Last Tram Week |
| Trolleybuses, the South London Proposals |
| Transport
Tickets & Farechartsupdated
Bus, Trolleybus, Tram & Tube Tickets |
| The
Greenwich Line.
London's first railway London Bridge to Greenwich 1836 |
Abbey
Wood Station
Seen in 1970 |
| The
Double Decker Train
An experimental train used on the London - Dartford lines. |
Woolwich
Free Ferry
The Free Ferry at Woolwich, from paddle steamer to diesel |
| The
Bexleyheath Railway
The last of the three local railways to be built. |
The
Princess Alice Disaster
One of the greatest Thames tragedies of all time |
Provincial Transport
| Reading Corporation Trolleybus 176 | Reading Trolleybuses 180 & 182 |
| Reading Corporation Buses | Thames Valley Buses |
| Glasgow
Transport
Various routes and bus types in a Glasgow street |
Glasgow
Transport
Page two of Glasgow transport |
| Glasgow
Tram 812
Seen in the National Tramway Museum in 1969 |
Fort
William
On the banks of Loch Linnhe |
| Macbryanes
Coach tour in the Highlands |
| Eastern
National
Route 2 in Dartford. August 1967 |
Western
National
St Ives and Mousehole Cornwall. 1974. 1975 |
| Southern
Vectis
Shanklin, Isle of Wight 1974. 1976 |
Eastern
Counties
Kings Lynn, Norfolk 1974 |
| North
DevonNew
Seen in Westward Ho! |
| Trams
and Routemaster
Seen in 1991 |
| Preserved
AEC Regent FUF 63
Seen in London in 1968. |
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