LT/LCBS street scenes
The upheaval caused to routes 65 and 71 by the hole in the road at Petersham must have been one of the greatest re-scheduling challenges ever attempted. Logistically, everything was against an easy diversion around a problem that was likely from the outset to go on for weeks. It was actually months as it turned out.
Unusually, there were no adjacent and/or parallel road that could be used. Instead the River Thames and associated flood plain to one side and the largest urban park in England to the other side. Worse still, both routes were effectively north/south progressions and the operating garages were both on the southern section making out of service positioning trips lengthy and time consuming to cover the northern section.
Here on 4 December 1979, RM 1649 has just arrived close to the former Dysart Arms pub with its journey now interrupted with a walk required past the works taking place to join a bus on the other side. Not great in rain.
I have several more pictures to upload in due course showing the other side of the blockage and the rather improbable reversing required.
LT/LCBS street scenes
The upheaval caused to routes 65 and 71 by the hole in the road at Petersham must have been one of the greatest re-scheduling challenges ever attempted. Logistically, everything was against an easy diversion around a problem that was likely from the outset to go on for weeks. It was actually months as it turned out.
Unusually, there were no adjacent and/or parallel road that could be used. Instead the River Thames and associated flood plain to one side and the largest urban park in England to the other side. Worse still, both routes were effectively north/south progressions and the operating garages were both on the southern section making out of service positioning trips lengthy and time consuming to cover the northern section.
Here on 4 December 1979, RM 1649 has just arrived close to the former Dysart Arms pub with its journey now interrupted with a walk required past the works taking place to join a bus on the other side. Not great in rain.
I have several more pictures to upload in due course showing the other side of the blockage and the rather improbable reversing required.