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I got to ride the 127 in full prior to the second lockdown. Pouring with rain and soaking wet throughout the run but it was an enjoyable ride passing through green spaces with trees hanging over the road prior to Mitcham Junction and Hackbridge.
Two big interchanges follow with Carshalton and Wallington usually very busy on weekends. Woodcote Road and Foxley Lane are particular highlights with some faster stretches mixed with some very pleasant scenery.
These old 2006 E400 Tridents have an old school feel to them with the rear doors taking ages to close and the iBus screen mounted at the top of the stairwell. Still pulled fairly well despite feeling slightly beaten up. This unit has now been off the road for nearly two months so I suspect it's withdrawn now.
LX56ETT (E48) is at Tooting Broadway ready to start an afternoon run to Purley via Mitcham and Wallington. Based at Croydon (C) Garage.
After seven years with Arriva South, the 333 has returned to G-Ahead's Stockwell (SW) base, this time instead of using B7TLs and E400 Tridents, this now uses ex-Camberwell EvoSeti hybrids albeit on a temporary basis until the E400ev units arrive in the summer. By that time the MHVs will probably end up either on the 89 or the 476.
Hard to tell if the difference in service is felt after one day but it looks like a promising return even though these buses have the worst upper deck seats imaginable. Anything more than a few stops and you get backache from the complete lack of padding. Hope a refurb sorts this out.
BV66VGE (MHV71) is at Elephant & Castle/Newington Causeway on its first day to Tooting Broadway via Stockwell and Streatham.
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A large title-less poster showing Barak Obama standing outside No. 10 in a zone 3 tube station (tooting broadway) in London. does anyone know what is the purpose of this?
its amazing how US politics has influenced the world and how the man making history over there, across the atlantic from Britain, is asking for a chance to become one of the most influential person on the planet. A man with an ordinary history but extraordinary dream.
In a funny way, if Barack Obama becomes President of the US, his policies and promises will have much influence here in the UK as would the policies of labour/tories/libdems or whichever party that is in power here... the poster depicting him standing outside downing street, in a ordinary tube station platform here in South West London only goes to affirm that.
it will be interesting to see how the US elections plan out... and the results are still uncertain... one thing I'm certain of - there isn't a poster of Gordon Brown in a NY subway station.
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Originally new to New Cross for the 36/436 these normal diesel E400 were loaned to Dockland Buses for the 135 due to the late running of their buses. These have started to be transferred to Croydon with some going via Wimbledon Tennis work. Some of this batch have been diverted to cover temporary PVR increases at Bexleyheath, Camberwell, Orpington, Peckham and Stockwell garages. Taken 23rd July 2015.
The 60s-inspired graphics seemed hopelessly outdated in March 1990, which is why I took this photo.
It's possible that, by then, Tooting was blessed with one of the few remaining branches of Chelsea Girl that hadn't been rebranded as a branch of River Island. I'm unsure if this one ever did.
Today, it's a Phones4U shop and the billboard is gone, so I expect the residents of the flats above have a little more light.
Other, literal, signs of the times are fly posters announcing Mandela free - is Apartheid ending?, the Tooting Anti Poll Tax Union and a billboard featuring a tobacco advert.
Canon AV-1 with FD 50mm f/1.8 and probably Fuji slide film.
Got up early and headed south to Tooting this morning, for a check up at St George's. I had a couple of tests, then waited to see the consultant - and then she told me that she wasn't the right person and the consultant I should be seeing was completely booked out. Bit of a cock up on the appointment front - and, as the consultant said to me, another example of an under-funded NHS, sadly. (Apparently, someone had flagged up that I was due to see the wrong person, but the person she reported it to was off sick with no cover.)
Anyway, it was quite nice to see Tooting and Colliers Wood again, where I used to live about nine years ago. Weirdly very little at all seemed to have changed. My old flat did look like it had been spruced up a bit though.
Got to work late morning, and spent most of the day trying to get back into my email again - when I wasn't invigilating for an exam, like you do.... Eventually, after the IT support engineer had tried everything, I spotted the problem myself and fixed it. Do I get a certificate?
Poor Tim got a puncture this morning (on my bike, which he's borrowing as his is screwed), so ended up walking most of the way to work. He got the puncture fixed this evening but then got drenched on the way home - and then blew a fuse (literally, not figuratively) when trying to turn on our electric towel rail in the bathroom. Bit grumpsome, but things got better after that.
Touring around Tooting has given me access to some new routes to snap on my feed. The first is the 131 which mainly uses refurbished B9TLs still featuring First Group interior details like the grab bars and back seat covers. Once the route gets to Wimbledon, it runs parallel to the south western rail line and loop line to the terminus.
BG59FXH (WVN30) is at the Tooting Broadway Station Stand ready to leave for a service to Kingston via Wimbledon and Rayners Park. Based at Merton (AL) garage.
An Arriva Enviro 400 City is caught here on the turn around off Tooting High Street to begin another service up north.
The metal box to the right of the bus is actually a small toilet for drivers to use while laying over.
Operator: Arriva London
Vehicle: ADL Enviro 400 City
Reg: LK66 HBB
Fleet No.: HA34
Location: Tooting Turning Circle, London
Route: 333: Tooting Broadway - Elephant & Castle
Date: November 13, 2021
How's this for some handsome cast iron street furniture from a bygone age? I imagine this five-headed gas lamp is Victorian, but I don't know. It's at Tooting Broadway, London, just meters from the Underground station.
There's a closer aspect here.
Old cast iron direction signs at Tooting Broadway. Today, of course, Wimbledon (and Tooting Broadway) is very much a part of London.
There's a wider aspect here
Garratt Lane, London SW17. November 2021 - E52 was withdrawn from service about three months later.
Sony A7II + Contax C/Y Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm f/3.4 MM
These pictures were taken some hours after a major water main burst at the junction with Haydons Road and Merton High Street in the late 1980's. Four 36" mains run from the pumping station at I believe Hampton or Portsmouth Road Thames Ditton. They run in domino style along a route avoiding houses and other sensitive buildings into central London. One or other would occasionally burst resulting in the chaos that can be seen here in Merton High Street and as far away as Tooting Broadway. The scene in Merton looks more like a bomb crater. The entire road surface was lifted with water flooding into every inspection pit including electricity and telephones.
While I already have the 131 in my portfolio, I wanted to get a shot of one at Cromwell Road Bus Station since the 57 takes a broadly similar link. The difference is that the former goes along Coombe Lane West and the 131 goes along Kingston Road.
I saw quite a few different types on this route; a Gemini hybrids, frog-faced Streetdecks and diesel B9TLs which are the main allocation despite the mixing up of types at Merton (AL).
This is a link that looks in serious demand and is certainly a good crowd buster for the 57.
BV10WWO (WVN43) is hurtling along Richmond Road bound for Tooting Broadway via Raynes Park and Wimbledon.
These pictures were taken some hours after a major water main burst at the junction with Haydons Road and Merton High Street in the late 1980's. Four 36" mains run from the pumping station at I believe Hampton or Portsmouth Road Thames Ditton. They run in domino style along a route avoiding houses and other sensitive buildings into central London. One or other would occasionally burst resulting in the chaos that can be seen here in Merton High Street and as far away as Tooting Broadway. [ See location correction July 2016]
Tooting Broadway station seen from the top deck of a London General WVL on route 280 towards Belmont. 09/01/11.
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👏EVERY #Wednesday @tootinstatram🚊
👉 Come on down and join us
✔ EVERYONE'S #WELCOME
❎ No partner required
📌 Wicked #Wednesdays
#GetOut #GetFit #Fun #Safe #Friendly #Dance #Party #Partytime #ThisIsLondon #LoveLondon #SouthLondon #Wimbledon #TootingBroadway #TootingBec #Mitcham #Merton #Balham #Streatham #WednesdayFeeling #WednesdayThoughts
DATE:
WICKED WEDNESDAYS EVERY WEEK
VENUE:
TOOTING TRAM and SOCIAL
46-48 Mitcham Road,
TOOTING SW17 9NA
TIMES:
7.30pm: Beautiful Bachata Classes (Levels 1 and 2)
8.30pm: Sizzling Salsa Lessons (Levels 1, 2 and 3)
9.30pm-Midnight: PartyTime
PRICES:
Bachata Class (incl. Party): £8*
Salsa Lesson (incl. Party): £8*
Party Only (excl. any lesson): £5
BONUS OFFER:
Bachata Class + Salsa Lesson + Party: £10
*Members Come Free each time you bring one or more new guests with you for lesson/s (excl. Party Only)
TRANSPORT:
BUSES: 44, 57, 77, 127, 131, 155, 219, 270, 280, 333, 355, 493, G1.
24 HOUR: 57, 264. NIGHT N44, N155 (all within 5 min. walk)
TRAIN: TOOTING (9 min. walk)
TUBE: TOOTING BROADWAY (1 min. walk)
PARKING: FREE SURROUNDING ROADS (1 min. walk)
These pictures were taken some hours after a major water main burst at the junction with Haydons Road and Merton High Street in the late 1980's. Four 36" mains run from the pumping station at I believe Hampton or Portsmouth Road Thames Ditton. They run in domino style along a route avoiding houses and other sensitive buildings into central London. One or other would occasionally burst resulting in the chaos that can be seen here in Merton High Street and as far away as Tooting Broadway. The scene in Merton looks more like a bomb crater. The entire road surface was lifted with water flooding into every inspection pit including electricity and telephones.
🔥 Sizzling #SALSA #Lessons ❤️ #Beautiful #BACHATA #Classes #LONDON #TOOTING. WOW VENUE!❤️ WICKED #WEDNESDAYS #LATIN #FIESTA ✔️04.04.18 with SalsaPartyTime.com @ Tooting Tram and Social, 46-48 Mitcham Road, TOOTING SW17 9NA
👏EVERY #Wednesday @tootinstatram🚊
👉 Come on down and join us
✔ EVERYONE'S #WELCOME
❎ No partner required
📌 Wicked #Wednesdays
#GetOut #GetFit #Fun #Safe #Friendly #Dance #Party #Partytime #ThisIsLondon #LoveLondon #SouthLondon #Wimbledon #TootingBroadway #TootingBec #Mitcham #Merton #Balham #Streatham #WednesdayFeeling #WednesdayThoughts
DATE:
WICKED WEDNESDAYS EVERY WEEK
VENUE:
TOOTING TRAM and SOCIAL
46-48 Mitcham Road,
TOOTING SW17 9NA
TIMES:
7.30pm: Beautiful Bachata Classes (Levels 1 and 2)
8.30pm: Sizzling Salsa Lessons (Levels 1, 2 and 3)
9.30pm-Midnight: PartyTime
PRICES:
Bachata Class (incl. Party): £8*
Salsa Lesson (incl. Party): £8*
Party Only (excl. any lesson): £5
BONUS OFFER:
Bachata Class + Salsa Lesson + Party: £10
*Members Come Free each time you bring one or more new guests with you for lesson/s (excl. Party Only)
TRANSPORT:
BUSES: 44, 57, 77, 127, 131, 155, 219, 270, 280, 333, 355, 493, G1.
24 HOUR: 57, 264. NIGHT N44, N155 (all within 5 min. walk)
TRAIN: TOOTING (9 min. walk)
TUBE: TOOTING BROADWAY (1 min. walk)
PARKING: FREE SURROUNDING ROADS (1 min. walk)