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The sheer diversity of Huddersfield Bus Co's fleet is encapsulated here - and by no means all varieties are represented! At far right is unique Bluebird/Plaxton NK53TJV, previously a Go Ahead vehicle. LX51FGP is ex Stagecoach.
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This is a Raphael Tuck postcard in their “Town and Country” series printed in Holland and published in 1904. The view shows the South bank of the River Thames just east of Waterloo Bridge, the north bank and Blackfriars Bridge with the looming presence of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The photograph was taken from the Maltby shot tower on the west side of Waterloo Bridge the southern approach to which can be seen bottom centre. There were two shot towers on the south bank, the other was the middle “chimney” in the group of three shown. It was built in 1790 and was of course not a chimney but a new way of making lead shot, there was a furnace at the top of the tower which melted lead which was then poured through various sizes of sieves to drop into a tank of water thereby making the perfect spherical shot or musket ball. It is claimed that this method came to a man named Watts in a dream. The previous method relied on the water to cool the lead and the shot was often misshapen, it was the long drop in air which cooled the lead into the spherical shape which was required. At the time of the photograph the tower belonged to a company called Lane & Nesham but it was sold a few years later to “Dewar”, the whisky distillers for their London warehouse, the tower was demolished in 1934. The tall chimney on the right belongs to a Refuse Destructor which was built in 1900 by the Strand office of building works, later to become part of Westminster City Council. The plant was an early “Green” attempt to burn rubbish without the mess and pollution, it was known as the Horsfall system, six furnaces could burn twelve tons of rubbish per day. The chimney can be seen in photographs of the Festival of Britain but was demolished during the 1950s to make way for the National Theatre which was eventually built here in the early 1970s. The shot tower from which the photograph was taken was built in 1826 and was owned for most of its life from 1839 to 1949 by Walkers, Parker Co. In 1951 it became part of the Festival of Britain site, searchlights and a Radio Beacon were installed at the top of the tower. In the early 1960s the tower was demolished to make way for the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Best viewed with the zoom feature.
The rush hour is just starting as 47708 'Templecombe' awaits departure time with the 16.35 Waterloo - Yeovil.
The 'Shove Duff' lasted in traffic until May 1995.
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Monday, 28 December 2015
43088 stands at London Waterloo prior to forming 1C82 1107hrs London Waterloo to Penzance via Basingstoke & Reading GWR service. 43087 is at the rear. Earlier, the train operated 1Y75 0549hrs Plymouth to London Waterloo.
Due to engineering works between Reading and London Paddington on the 27 & 28 December, GWR operated an amended timetable with long distance services operating from both London Waterloo and London Marylebone.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Terence Cuneo's gigantic painting "Waterloo" on display at the National Railway Museum, York. 16th August 2013.
The lift for taking rolling stock down from the surface to the Waterloo & City Line at Waterloo station, 03/84. It no longer exists. Scanned slide taken with a Canon AE-1 Program.
This is a J. Arthur Dixon Ltd postcard showing a Westland-Sikorsky S55 Helicopter taking off from the Waterloo or South Bank Air Terminal with Hungerford Bridge and the Festival Hall in the background. The Terminal was opened by Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on 21st May 1953 and it utilised the site previously occupied by the Festival of Britain on the South Bank. The Terminal building was in York Road and was previously the entrance to the Festival of Britain (see below). The Terminal handled BEA passengers and other airlines' passengers affiliated with BEA. Passengers were processed and transported to Heathrow and Northolt (until late 1954) by coach for their flights. On 25th July 1955 BEA inaugurated helicopter transfers to Heathrow from the Terminal, the helipad was the foundation circle of the Dome of Discovery. The service only lasted for ten months or so, it was very expensive but carried over 3800 persons during that time.
The Terminal closed in 1957 and moved to the purpose built West London Air Terminal.
This is a Sunday School Union postcard which was sold from their premises at 57-59 Ludgate Hill, although this postcard is getting on for 110 years old, I must correct the title of the postcard. This is a photograph of Waterloo Bridge taken from the south bank and not London Bridge. It is early summer 1909 and the bus nearest the camera is advertising “The Chorus Lady” at the Vaudeville Theatre starring the famous American actress Rose Stahl in her second and final appearance on the London stage, she had appeared at the Palace Theatre in 1906 in a sketch show together with Will Rogers who had a lassoing act. At that time the sketch was called The Chorus Girl, the author expanded the sketch into the play, The Chorus Lady.
73202 "Royal Observer Corps" at Waterloo. In the background are 33208 and 33201 waiting to work the 1915 to Exeter. I have no idea of what 73202 was on. By this time, Gatwick Express EDs were quite strongly sectorised and not common at Waterloo.
Looking out of RT1702's upper saloon's back window we see Arriva's LT734 on the 59 to Streatham Hill, Telford Avenue.
Lunchtime; Waterloo bus depot and the BYD Electric buses (the ones on the right at least) are charging ready for the pm peak.
BYD is a Chinese company. As is common with bus production, BYD build the chasis and mechanics and the bodies are fitted by a specialist coachworks - here Alexander Dennis’s Enviro 200 MMC. These buses have a range of 250km in urban road conditions between charges.