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I'll clarify that it was part of the mix involving the 124/A, as the 126 was extended beyond its Eltham terminus to Welling on Sundays from 1963 to 1968 I'm not sure I can be bothered to get in to a bad tempered and bad mannered argument about it all.

post deleted. the hell with it.

This page (Southern Railway e-group) includes 2 photos of 2 / 4 EPB units with oil tail lamps. And fairly sure I have seen similar photos of SR DEMUs carrying tail lamps. Although fairly sure both were in the era before yellow ends (I personally don't remember that time) 4 SUB units certainly...

York Road is in an area that has seen a lot of development over the last few years...

Indeed - some bus routes are a very good fit for some garages, or just don't fit at any other (although passing the door is no guarantee of winning the next contract, as - for example - Metrobus's foray on to route 54, or Go Ahead picking up the 5 show) Sometimes a garage at (or just off) one...

tendering started in 1985, but not sure how late it was that the last route went from 'block grant' to tendered. Routes 80 and 124 (as mentioned above) have the distinction of having been operated by one garage only since they started operation (route 80 in or before 1934 and route 124 in 1938)...

If they aren't open about it, you probably don't know they are gay...

Thanks - I do have some involvement with it all, but would rather not say just quite what / where... as i said, it does vary, but most operators / garages have separate rotas for each route - this is pretty much how it has been since the (original) London General Omnibus Company did it (London...

That is my understanding - and the DLR of course. And I think that Crossrail will be included when it opens. You can also nominate a second person (does not need to be a relative or in a legally recognised relationship, but they do need to prove they live at the same address) for a similar...

In terms of TFL buses, this TFL page says This implies that concessionary passes issued outside London are not valid on Croydon trams, and I am quite sure they are not valid on rail / Overground / Underground / DLR services inside London. Councils (including the 'London Councils' consortium...

On reflection, you're right - I remembered coming out of the main station, in a straight line across a pedestrian crossing to cross the (current) cab road, and straight ahead to the bridge to Waterloo East (or vice versa) but street view shows this wasn't the same arch as parcels vans (etc) went...

I assume by 'trains' you mean a tractor unit and line of BRUTEs A few generations ago, what became the cab road at Waterloo (and roadway through the arch somewhere opposite platform 11) was a rail line with a connection to Waterloo East (the bridge under what's now the pedestrian link to...

Unfortuately, buying a bus for preservation tends to be the easy bit... Don't think the London Bus Museum has a lot of space for other peoples' vehicles as well, and in general, most bus operators don't have much unused space especially in London and the south east where land is at a premium...

Possibly stating the obvious, but you will need to 'beep' your oyster card on the pink oyster reader at clapham junction (and if changing at willesden junction, doing the same there won't do any harm) so the system knows you have not travelled via zone 1.

As others have said, originally taxis but later mainly used by parcels / mail / newspaper vans. There's a recent Railway Magazine article (here) with a few photos of it in action for newspaper trains. Yes - before the Eurostar station, there was a wide roadway between (then) platforms 11 and...

The London and Greenwich initially opened (in 1836) only between Deptford and Spa Road Again, neither is a terminus any more (and Spa Road hasn't been a station since 1925) Deptford has one early piece of infrastructure (1856 according to listed building info), the ramp built so that the first...

All of the above - the difference between running light and in service - as well as costing a few minutes on the driver's paid time (which may be offset by a few additional fares, or may just abstract revenue from the regular service) might make the difference between the duty fitting in...

yes - selection of pictures of Glasgow here

there are and have been quite a few metre gauge tram networks out there - (list on wikipedia here) metre gauge wasn't really a thing in the UK, but there were a number of systems on 3 ft 6 gauge - Birmingham was the largest, but there were quite a few others.

i do hope you're not the guard... ;)