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The conductor on a local train waits for an express to pass. Cropping further could emphasize the expression, but would lose the 'feel' of the train. SP550UZ, Sinaia station, Romania (Europe).
Aside: Conductors are sometimes known as "the godfather" (Naşu) by students. Having gone on vacation and spent too much money to afford a ticket, they try to get home on the train by hiding from him. If they get caught their best hope is that he is either generous ("don't ever do this again") or crooked ("how much do you have on you?") enough to risk losing his job and let them stay on board.
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The conductor of Amtrak 121 steps onto the train for the final leg of the journey towards DC.
The train is operating in push-pull, as is evident by the ACS-64 at the rear of the consist.
To mark the end of crew operations (driver and conductor) at Catford garage, the powers that be very generously let this RM and preserved RT1702 out on a variety of routes for the final few days. RM2046 and RT1702 were both used in service on Route 75 (9th), 47 (10th), 185 (11th), 54 (12th) and the 36B on the 13th March - the final day of crew operations.
As I took time out at Shoreditch for photographs of star player RM2046 working for one day only on Route 47, the driver of RT1702 obliged by offering me a side-by-side comparison view of the 1930s/40s RT design and the 'futuristic' 1950s Routemaster :)
I had travelled up from Catford on RM2046 on the outward journey, and was looking forward to the return ride back to Lewisham. The Routemaster was looking very smart on the day, and became SELKENT's last operational Routemaster.
RT1702 was looking quite immaculate considering its 40+ years on the road! Interestingly, the bus was allocated to Catford (TL) garage from 1966 to its withdrawal in 1972. It was also one of the buses that took part in a pre-Festival of Britain tour of Europe.
RM2046 (ALM 46B)
new: 2/5RM9, AEC AV690
10/64 new to Aldenham
11/64 N into service
65-6 N
11/67 N to Aldenham repaint, and return
1968 N
from last bodyswap with B2008
PD w/d from service
1980s-90s TL allocated?
6/94 exported to Argentina
RT1702 (KYY 529) 4/50
new, body 3675: Park Royal 3RT8
upper window surrounds repainted cream, fitted with GB plate
7/50 embarked on SS Embio from Hull for visit to Europe
8/50 Tour of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, France
10/50 return to UK
1/51 AV into normal service (Mortlake)
*/51 P used on Circular Tour of London during Festival of Britain
1953 J used on 134
1957 GM (Victoria)
5/58 GM to Aldenham overhaul
5/58 GM from o/h, unlicensed, still body 3675
8/58 GM relicensed
8/59 SW transfer into store..
8/59 AP ..change store, ..and out (Seven Kings)
8/59 used on 169A
60-1 AP
7/62 AP to Aldenham overhaul
7/62 AP from o/h, unlicensed
10/62 RD transfer (Hornchurch)
63-5 RD
8/66 RD to Aldenham overhaul
8/66 TL from o/h, unlicensed (Catford), still body 3675
9/66 TL relicensed
67-8 TL
11/69 TL to Aldenham repaint, and return
1970 TL
7/71 TL into store, and out again
7/72 BX into store (Bexleyheath)
8/72 bought by R.Denton, Orpington
preserved by RT1702 Preservation Society
And more on Route 47 here: www.londonbuses.co.uk/_routes/current/047.html
As an aside, Catford garage (TL) was one of the original garages operated by Thomas Tilling:
TL - Tilling Lewisham, TC - Tilling Croydon, TB - Tilling Bromley survived into London Transport days.
Catford garage was opened on 11th May 1914 and was not very old when requisitioned for the war effort. It did not re-open until 1920 when Thomas Tilling's Lewisham operation moved there due to space constraints at his other garage.
Thomas Tilling gained an agreement in 1923 to double the size of Catford and in addition the roof has been raised twice, first in 1930 to enable double deck buses to use the garage and again in 1948 to accommodate AEC Regent III RTs. The garage was modernised again in 1970.
Taken with a Nikon F-501 SLR and 75-200mm zoom lens [Scanned from an original Kodachrome slide with no digital restoration]
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Imberbus - a one day a year service through the village of Imber in Wiltshire, on one of the few days that the roads through the Army training area on Salisbury Plain are open to the public. Every half hour, buses to and from four different destinations connect at Gore Cross Interchange (so named by the Public Transport department at Wiltshire County Council, who entered into the spirit of the day). It is otherwise in the middle of nowhere! The service was started in 2009 by a group of enthusiasts from within the bus operating business, and the scale of operation has grown each year.
Proceeds from ticket sales all go to charities, this year raising almost £25,000 shared between the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal and St Giles Church at Imber, with £2,000 going to Stagecoach's charity of the year, Macmillan Cancer care.
Imber village and great swathes of the surrounding countryside were requisitioned by the MoD in 1943, to accommodate the build up to D-Day. The villagers were evicted. Most of the original village has long gone; a small housing estate was built for training purposes. St Giles C15 church remains, and within it is a great deal of information about the history of the village, and is open to the public on Imberbus day.
Photo by David Hussey.
CN 435 Conductor rides a cut of cars at Paris west into the siding to pick up what used to be now abolished 331's lift.
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Conductor Hilton (aka that fella from Arkansas) gets back on WAMX 4243 after protecting this crossing. Who was he protecting the crossing for? Probably just me since I was the only soul around this crossing at the time. He even came over for a quick chat before protecting the crossing. He said something about "trains are stupid" and "I can't wait to get off this train and get my Braum's ice cream" or something like that.
I was chatting to this old gentleman in this tram (Tram no 66) that they had recently finished restoring.
{On 19 July, 1958, Perth #66 became the last electric tram to operate on the streets of Perth, Western Australia.}
Anyway, I asked him whether he'd be so kind to pose for me and he agreed, so voilà!
Tuesday night we attended an orchestra concert my daughter was in. There was a guest conductor from Australia who was very fiery and animated!
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A conductor on one of the local buses in Kathmandu. They hang out of the door shouting the destination and collecting the fares.
Conductor Dee Harris looks out the window at the mountains of Glacier National Park as the Empire Builder climbs Marias Pass.