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Travel Surrey ECW bodied Leyland Olympian 9982 is seen at Shepperton Station on route 400 to Staines 26/06/2008.
This was new to London Transport for the AVE trials in 1984 and happily survives in Preservation.
Here's an alternative view of this garage taken on a different day with different vehicles on the forecourt compared to the previous shot I posted.
Part of this garage still exists in the present day but the rest has been replaced by housing. In this photo you can just see behind the pole sign a pagoda type building and that is the bit that survives along with some of the forecourt as a second hand car dealer. The rest including the forecourt and original garage buildings we see in the foreground here have all gone.
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Red faces on 21 April 1982 when 508031 over ran at the terminus whilst working the 06.34 ex-Waterloo and ended up suspended above Green Lane. Faulty brakes were apparently to blame.
Scanned from a negative taken by Stephen Morris, now in my collection.
Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.
In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' senior manager. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].
Philip Harding Klimanek was also a juror for the Hong Kong judicial system, which can be found in gwulo.com, for the last time in 1941.
His grandson wrote to me: "Though he had been based in Shanghai before the war we know he was captured in Hongkong on 24th Dec 1941 during the “Battle of Hongkong”. He had been a volunteer with the “isolated Tytan [this should probably be Tai Tam, or Tytam at the time] Godows of the Food Control from November to the end of December 1941” We assume he was involved with food conservation as the Japanese were approaching."
"He was beaten up on capture and needed medical treatment. He was in and out of Stanley camp until the Japanese surrender in 1945. As he was of Austro-Hungarian descent after the war his nationality was hard to determine as his papers and all his possessions had been lost, his health was very poor as a result of how he had been treated during the war. Eventually he managed to get a temporary Czechoslovakian passport in 1948 issued in Nanking China. After a short period in the UK looking for work he returned to the HCTC and was traveling between Shanghai and Hongkong. He retired in Hongkong and returned to England 31st Dec 1950."
Gwulo.com administrator David added a comment about the Tai Tam godown shelters: "I guess he spent that time at Godowns (warehouses) that stored food for emergency use. You can see other examples of this type of godown listed at gwulo.com/hong-kong-shelter-area;
Philip Harding Klimanek was a close friend of Willem Kien, another early HCHC-employee, later to become director of the company. Willem Kien's daughter in law recalls seeing him during visits in The Netherlands, together with his wife Zoia and daughter Sylvia. Also Anneke Knüppe-de Jongh, daughter of former HCHC-employee and director Frans de Jongh, has warm memories of the family, which her family stayed closely in touch with.
This photo shows (from left to right) Zoia, Sylvia and Reginald Harding Klimanek at the family home at Lane 1355 House No 20 Yue Yuen Road, "West Park Mansions", dressed for winter. Reginald ('Reggie') wears a cap similar to J.G. Ballard on the cover photo of his autobiography "Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an Autobiography". J.G. Ballard was about the same age as Sylvia, and author of "Empire of the Sun".
In case you are wondering what it is they stand next to: the caption in the family photo album reads "Near the castle in our garden".
Courtesy Harding-Klimanek family archives
Go-Ahead Metrobus 280 SN03 YBX on the R3 at Orpington station. Friday 29th May 2015. DSCN33330.
TransBus Dart SLF-TransBus Pointer 8.8m.
October 2015 withdrawn.
December 2015 to Ensign Bus.
March 2016 to Bear Buses of Shepperton.
Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.
In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' senior manager. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].
Philip Harding Klimanek was also a juror for the Hong Kong judicial system, which can be found in gwulo.com, for the last time in 1941.
His grandson wrote to me: "Though he had been based in Shanghai before the war we know he was captured in Hongkong on 24th Dec 1941 during the “Battle of Hongkong”. He had been a volunteer with the “isolated Tytan [this should probably be Tai Tam, or Tytam at the time] Godows of the Food Control from November to the end of December 1941” We assume he was involved with food conservation as the Japanese were approaching."
"He was beaten up on capture and needed medical treatment. He was in and out of Stanley camp until the Japanese surrender in 1945. As he was of Austro-Hungarian descent after the war his nationality was hard to determine as his papers and all his possessions had been lost, his health was very poor as a result of how he had been treated during the war. Eventually he managed to get a temporary Czechoslovakian passport in 1948 issued in Nanking China. After a short period in the UK looking for work he returned to the HCTC and was traveling between Shanghai and Hongkong. He retired in Hongkong and returned to England 31st Dec 1950."
Gwulo.com administrator David added a comment about the Tai Tam godown shelters: "I guess he spent that time at Godowns (warehouses) that stored food for emergency use. You can see other examples of this type of godown listed at gwulo.com/hong-kong-shelter-area;
Philip Harding Klimanek was a close friend of Willem Kien, another early HCHC-employee, later to become director of the company. Willem Kien's daughter in law recalls seeing him during visits in The Netherlands, together with his wife Zoia and daughter Sylvia. Also Anneke Knüppe-de Jongh, daughter of former HCHC-employee and director Frans de Jongh, has warm memories of the family, which her family stayed closely in touch with.
This photo shows (from left to right) Reginald, Zoia's sister, Zoia, Sylvia and Philip Harding Klimanek at the family home at Lane 1355 House No 20 Yue Yuen Road, "West Park Mansions", dressed for winter or early spring. Reginald ('Reggie') wears a cap similar to J.G. Ballard on the cover photo of his autobiography "Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton : an Autobiography". J.G. Ballard was about the same age as Sylvia, and author of "Empire of the Sun".
Courtesy Harding-Klimanek family archives
London L Class Olympians L2 and L3 were used by Travel Surrey on route 400 between Staines and Shepperton for a period in 2008. This is L3 departing Shepperton after taking a ride on it from Staines.
29/10/2008
Only introduced to service on the South Western the previous year as a replacement for the ageing 4-SUBs the 508s operated suburban services from Waterloo before being ousted by 455s. On transferral to Merseyside as a replacement for 502/503s they lost a centre TSO car which were then added to the 455s - hence the odd change in roof profile on certain units.
I always thought the BR blue and grey colours suited these much better than the fussy NSE scheme they subsequently sported.
24/08/21 Teddington: South Western Railway Class 707 707019 & 707023 arrive with 2H42 14:11 Shepperton - London Waterloo.
The reason for doing the Kingston loop. The few remaining class 707 diagram are covering Shepperton turns
Some pictures by the late Michael Cleary. Summer 1998.
This was a Surrey CC contract, not an LRT one.
Plaxton bodied Volvo B12B with Souls of Olney - new as KV03 ZGB, a Dawson rentals hire coach and latterly with Falcon of Shepperton whose livery it still wear.
On 20 July 2024, 5868 (in retro blue/grey livery) and 5717 arrive at Sunbury on the 1012 Waterloo - Shepperton.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC Dennis Dart SLF 5 is seen here on High Street, Weybridge, Surrey whilst Not In Service.
Seen at Showbus 2021 at the Hertfordshire County Showground on 26 September 2021.
KP02PVF is a 2002 Dennis Dart SLF with Plaxton Pointer bodywork (B30D) from Bear Buses of Shepperton.
New to Armchair in June 2002 with fleet number DP1024.
5Q42 1825 Southampton Central-London Waterloo.
2H64 1936 Shepperton-London Waterloo.
701035 delivered to SWR on October 25th 2021.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC Dennis Dart SLF 5 is seen here on High Street, Weybridge, Surrey on Service 461 to St Peters Hospital.
On 17 July 2021, 707002 leaves Wimbledon on the 1112 Waterloo - Shepperton as 66713 passes on 6G13 Eastleigh - Staines pway.
4EPB 5115, new in April 1954, arrives at Shepperton on 3 February 1979. The fence to the left of the track was to protect workers who were demolishing the disused other platform at this terminal station at the time.