Potpourri #1114

I think today it will be mainly buses. Let’s start with Victoria station in 1953, 1957 and 1984.

And not very far away, Vauxhall Bridge Road in the 1970s. You might have found me in the picture walking from the office to Dolphin Square to play squash.

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A Routemaster in Tooley Street. I once read that this name is a corruption of St Olafs Street. The 47 was a familiar bus route for me as a child, as it used to run all the way down to Bromley.

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Another familiar route is the 68, which I used a lot when we lived in Camberwell. This photo is outside the Roundhouse at Chalk Farm. (Photo by David Potter.)

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East Street, Bromley. I often saw the 119 route, but I think that I never used it.

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Although as a child we used the Blackwall tunnel on our way to Norfolk, I wouldn’t have seen one of these special STL tunnel buses, with a specially curved roof to fit inside the tunnel.  After all, this was 1937….

blackwall tunnel 1937

Crystal Palace Parade in 1968.

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Red and green RTs at Epsom Downs.

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Moving north of the river, Hammersmith in 1935….

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Hanger Lane in 1960….

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And a slight accident with a trolleybus in Tottenham.

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Returning to the rails, tram meets trolleybus in Woolwich in 1951…..

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And Camberwell tram depot, later bus depot.

No trains today but hopefully some ideas for your towns on the layout.

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