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The Bank Holidays over Christmas 2021 saw a large rail replacement bus operation covering services between Farnborough, Woking, Weybridge, Aldershot, Guildford and Basingstoke. As a result, a large number of vehicles were out and about and I snapped a few in Farnborough, Guildford and Woking.
Doing a little catching up with photos while waiting for the washing machine to finish before heading into work.
Remember I had the dress issue the one that ripped while I was dancing! well this is what I changed into. I always take a spare just in case something untoward to happen, something like your dress falling apart lol.
This was taken when I got home at the end of the evening hence the shinny makeup and dodgy hair
Davies Coaches of Cwmgwili maintains a small Rail Replacement fleet of five vehicles - a Ford Transit, a pair of Volvo B7RLEs fitted with Plaxton Centro and Wright Eclipse Urban bodywork, an Optare Solo and an Optare Versa. All carry a smart, though anonymous, grey, white and red livery, and RRxx WAL registrations.
The Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE - RR56 WAL -was acquired from the Transpora Group in September 2024 and is from a large batch new to West Midlands Travel, previously registered BX56 XCM.
This shot from January 2026 shows her in Swansea's High Street when operating a Transport for Wales Rail Replacement service between Swansea and Llanelli, which passes under the low railway bridge in Gowerton. Hence the need for a service bus rather than a customary high-floor coach.
Stagecoach have 5 vehicles on loan to First Glasgow to help out on the Subway replacement service which was extended by 2 weeks. ALX300 bodied MAN 22386 is seen here leaving Govan with a part route to St Enoch's via stations north of the River Clyde.
TE1440 (LK13BFM) is seen having been blinded for Nation Rail REPLACEMENT - National Rail Logo.
Title mentions how Govia are just falling apart....especially Thameslink
Various buses photographed on Rail Replacement duties between Keighley and Leeds. York Pullman 69641 and 69642 BV22 HFA / HFB and West Yorkshire Travel BT11 UWJ
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
YR10BCF is seen on Chiltern Rail Replacement at Amersham Station.
Vehicle Details
Operator: Masons
Fleet Number: 5070
Registration: YR10BCF
Vehicle: N230UD Scania OmniCity
Connecting the historic centre of Amsterdam, a
replacement bridge was built for the Walter Süskindbrug drawbridge in Amsterdam, which had been there since 1972, as it was in need of replacement.
The bridge tells a special story; the Jewish businessman Walter Süskindbrug, after whom the bridge is named, destroyed the records of hundreds of Jewish children during the Second World War so that they would not be sent to the concentration camps. Therefore, preserving the history and the story behind the old bridge was a very important aspect to take into account, in addition to the fact that the bridge should last a lifetime.
In order for the bridge to meet these requirements, a wooden superstructure was chosen that was transported over water. This wooden superstructure consisted of Accoya wood, which was used partly for the façade and partly structurally, making the bridge appear to be made entirely of wood. Accoya wood was processed into large inner arches and sections of approximately 7 metres in length, after which the parts were prefabricated. The wooden parts were painted with a white epoxy coating.
The new double drawbridge makes it possible to reconnect pedestrians and other commuters to the historic centre of Amsterdam. (Wikipedia)
In the late 1950s, Wolverhampton Council proposed a controversial and costly project to build a ring road around the town, to divert ‘through traffic’ away from the town centre. As with most towns in Britain, the huge increase in private car ownership was becoming a headache for the town’s planners.
As part of the town’s future road planning, it was decided that the building of the ‘Ring Road’ would also force the abandonment of the town’s trolleybus system, as the council wanted ‘no trolleybuses or trolleybus infrastructure’ to encounter the new Ring Road! This commitment would become a huge finical burden on the local rate-payers, so budgetary restraints were made where possible. Construction of the Ring Road began in 1961, but took almost three decades to complete.
Between June 1963 and March 1967, Wolverhampton Corporation Transport purchased 146 new double-deck motorbuses to replace the post-war trolleybus fleet. The financial enormity of funding the conversion program impacted on the quality of the new motorbus purchases, with savings having to be made. From 1965 – 1967, the Transport Department’s budget constraints forced them to opt for cheaper bus bodies to be fitted to the locally built Guy Arab V motorbus chassis that the council were duty-bound to purchase. Strachan (Coachbuilders) Ltd of Hamble, Hampshire became the new bus body supplier, but these budget built bus bodies for the Guy Arabs would soon prove to be sub-standard, resulting in short service lives due to structural fatigue.
On the demise of the town's last trolleybuses in March 1967, came the news that twelve high-capacity single-deck buses had been ordered. In July 1967, the ‘Transport Department’ took delivery of six AEC Swifts (708-713) and six Daimler Roadliners (714-719), all having Strachan built dual-doored bodies. This may have been seen as an extravagant purchase in lieu of the tax payers money recently spent on the trolleybus replacement fleet?
The buses appeared very modern looking, with large windows and spacious high-roofed interiors, being very similar in design to London Transport’s Strachan bodied ‘Red Arrow’ buses that had been new to the capital in 1966. The intension from the outset was to trial the concept of ‘pay-on-entry’ buses, with passengers paying the driver on boarding the bus.
The new buses were initially put to work on the No1 Tettenhall service to gauge public reaction to 'pay-on-entry, and assessing operational issues. However, after a few weeks the experiment was ended and crew-operated double-deckers reinstated to the route. Against all expectations, the costly experiment hadn’t been a success, having been met with mixed reactions from the travelling public who were not used to paying the driver on boarding, much preferring bus conductors to take their fares. It was also found that the ‘Cummins V6’ engined Daimler ‘Roadliners’ in particular, didn’t like the intense ‘stop and start’ work on this short urban service. Therefore a decision was made to redeploy these buses to rural services, such as the lengthy No17 and No31 routes to Bridgnorth in Shropshire. In this setting, the stops were fewer and the average speeds were higher, but as a cost saving measure the buses continued to be used as ‘pay-on-entry’ vehicles.
In October 1969, 708-719, along with the rest of the former Wolverhampton Corporation bus fleet, became part of the newly formed West Midlands PTE, whereupon they were renumbered 708N - 719N.
The first victim to early withdrawal was Roadliner 714N, which was lost to fire when working the No17 Bridgnorth service in November 1971. The following year, AEC Swifts 708, 711 were withdrawn and sold to Northampton Transport for further use.
The remaining buses continued to be allocated to Wolverhampton’s Bilston Garage, their duties staying much the same until the loss of the rural bus network in December 1973. The Midland Red taking over these services from WMPTE as part of a wider operational agreement between the two concerns.
Being relatively modern buses and suitable for one-man-operation, WMPTE continued to use the remaining Roadliners and Swifts, but with an eye to disposing of them when the opportunity arose as they did not fit the general fleet profile. Despite the Roadliners continuing to be mechanically troublesome, 716-719 received repaints into WMPTE livery in 1972 and 1973, and may have received body strengthen modifications in preparation? However, the AEC Swifts were never repainted out of their Wolverhampton colours.
Following the premature exit of 708N, 711N (pictured) and 714N, the next to go was Roadliner 715N in July 1973 suffering structural faults to its Strachan built body. It was sold for scrap in May 1974 still wearing WCT green and yellow.
The remaining AEC Swifts came out of service between 1973 to 1974, and the last Roadliners were finally withdrawn between the end of 1974 and January of 1975. Some of these buses found new owners, but all eventually ended up being scrapped with the exception of 719N. Today, 719(N) survives at the Transport Museum Wythall, restored into WCT livery.
The picture taken by the late Dave Everitt, show AEC Swift 711N pulling out onto Railway Drive, as it departs Victoria Square Bus Station for Cheslyn Hay in July 1970.
As for the previously mentioned ‘Ring Road’, that has further relevance to this picture, as part of its Eastern section runs right through the location where this picture was taken.
Image scanned from the original 35mm colour slide.
Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
Railway Replacement on LT 155 (LTZ 1155) Abellio London Wright New Routemaster is seen with a “Taylor’s Latte” wrap on Saturday 17 July 2021.
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My hybrid tea rose stopped blooming. This is the original rose it was grafted onto. Instead of a single pink blossom I get a bush full of these beauties. A welcome repacement.
Klarners Coaches based in Colchester were running this Wrightbus Eclipse Solar on rail replacement work when I visited on the Easter weekend.
This vehicle started off with First PMT, branded for route 1 from Liverpool to Chester, and has been through few operators en route to this Colchester operator.
There was certainly a good variety of vehicles running through Basingstoke on rail replacement duties today (Good Friday 2023). The sun made an appearance which was good to see as well!
As the Monsoon Clouds Hit The Vindhyachal Ranges of Madhya Pradesh , A Sleeper Replacement Machine Swiftly Moves towards Budni in order to replace a Damaged Sleeper , Due to the work many trains were Held up at Hoshangabad and Train services were Hit for 2 hours. Monsoons have this time around Hit Madhya Pradesh violently triggering Flood Like Situations in all parts as all the rivers are in Spate , Narmada River Not far from this place was flowing almost 5-6 meters above danger levels. Madhya Pradesh is the most drenched State Of India this year receiving rains almost everyday.
Sometimes dolls are missing their neck joints, which can make proper repair difficult. This is my technique for making your own doll neck articulation in the event you don't have access to a factory replacement. This should work for any doll that has a standard ball neck joint that is placed inside the neck and inside the lower head for pivoting rotation.
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Grey Cars AFJ742T waits outside Exeter St Davids station on 15th October 1988 as part of a fleet operating rail replacement services
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Ex-London United TLA17 SN53KHR seen at Twickenham working on South West Trains Rail Replacement towards Staines.
There was certainly a good variety of vehicles running through Basingstoke on rail replacement duties today (Good Friday 2023). The sun made an appearance which was good to see as well!
It was down the A3 to Portsmouth & Southsea Station for some rail replacement action today (14/02/2026) with services running 3 times per hour from Portsmouth Harbour to both Barnham (Southern) and Petersfield (SWR) and back again.
As with my last visit here, the variety of bus liveries seen today was excellent with around 12 operators noted in the 3 hours we were present. Top picks today were Compass Travel's pair of 75-plate ADL E400 MMCs; 4 coaches from the BM/Mercian/Linburg fleets; and further E400 MMCs from Brighton & Hove, Tomorrows Travel, Wheelers Travel and Xelabus.
Another good morning and this time in some very rare sunshine!!
The rather inclement weather had me pondering whether or not to venture out to Basingstoke today (05/01/2025) but in the end curiosity won again! A good few captures here for you to enjoy.
There is much still to be sorted out across GHA's vast operational area, but Howard's Travel have picked up a couple of Cheshire routes, and had them up and running within a day. This is the 289 between Altrincham, Knutsford and Northwich, a route which recently has been generally run with a tatty Solo, and has probably never seen anything as large as an Enviro 300 ! F15 HOW was heading away from Pickmere, bound for Knutsford and Altrincham.
I grabbed a shot of the James Creek diversion at South St. Vrain to show the layout from above on the south side hill. Below is the second, more serious dam cut into the banks of the South fork of the South St. Vrain River. The original diversion is just beyond the original. You can see the course of the South Fork of the original St. Vrain cut off on the left and the highly built up ditch, right. Boy, does the early light suck down in this hole. It is at least two hours early especially on a blazing blue sky day. Oh well, I was there right then and it looked interesting for the story even if it is another tough shot to edit while using multiple layers. It's a pretty crummy diversion for which all of western water law hinged, rightly or wrongly. I just as well edit these descriptive shots for the series. Maybe I could find them a beaver to work for Lefthand Ripped Water District.
Here we now at the "headwaters" of James Creek on that blue bird autumn day. Al and I trekked up to the meadow - really the original source of James. It's always worth some serious slackage after the trek. In fact, we are now above the original source of the James. It surely looks like an irrigation ditch diversion in the mountains. Who dug this ditch and why? I figured I'd fully document the landmark in this series. Now you know!
Could the beavers alone, the far and away the best engineers at preserving the Rockies watered riparian habitat, have accomplished this much pretty easily? Assuming they thought it would be a good idea and. assuming they wanted a dam right here. Phil and I sat quietly watching a young beaver working in the meadows for period of time on an earlier trek.
Maintenance was required after the big flood that nearly wiped out Jamestown. Boy did the water diversion ever pay Jamestown back bigly during the big flood a few years back! After looking over the "flaccid" ditch, I wonder where ALL the rest of the flood waters came from.
Al claimed that he intended to do an article for the Longmont Observer about the James Creek water diversion that figured most mightily into Western, Colorado and regional water law. Phil and I knew that this all had to do with the diversion at the top of James Creek a spot we visited previously and knew well. The story is well woven into our history. This is my reveal of the geography behind the story.
Here's another colorful shot up the James that fall. The trail was a mix of foliage in fallage lush color. This screams high Rockies palette while in deepest shade. It needed extra layers because of the range. Oh well, we are set for a now 90s in August record before we can escape this summer and get a few 50s for the nights. Pretty please, deniers.
J31KNS is pictured on the Great West Road about to serve Brentford Station whilst working on South Western Railway Rail Replacement between Virginia Water and Barnes
The rather inclement weather had me pondering whether or not to venture out to Basingstoke today (05/01/2025) but in the end curiosity won again! A good few captures here for you to enjoy.
LT 999 (LTZ 2199) Abellio London Wright New Routemaster is seen on “Rail Replacement Duties” on Saturday 17 July 2021.
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Well, the long anticipated "Woking Weekender" finally arrived and delivered a magnificent array of vehicles operating rail replacement services out to Weybridge, Guildford, Aldershot and Basingstoke throughout both days. No less than 34 different operators provided in excess of 70 buses, coaches and minibuses across both days including three 75-plates. And Burrows Coaches had "both" their East Lancs Darts out - EDIT - STOP PRESS! On Saturday it was LK55ADX and on Sunday it was J8UFX - first with the news!!
Now then, Woking is not the photographer's friend at this time of year due to high-rise office blocks surrounding the station area. Saturday started wet, eased off but remained rather gloomy all day, and Sunday was almost a write-off with clear blue skies and low sun. The one sunny spot we found came with a time limit as a ruddy great big lamppost shadow edged its way into shot therefore limiting use of that corner. All in all though, it proved to be a belter!! Maybe have it in the Spring next time please Network Rail?
I walked along the beach from Littlehampton to Bognor this afternoon 7th May, 2021. The footbridge over the Arun is currently closed so I had a ride on the bus replacement service. Compass Bus provided YX67 VGL, one of several Enviro 200s currently on hire from Mistral to cover extra COVID services. This example had previously operated for White Bus Service,
The fourteen week contract for Rail Replacement on the Inverness line is worth a sizeable sum to First, although due to a significant number of drivers leaving Aberdeen depot on the back of the new contract being implemented in the next week, First have been forced to bring drivers up from England again much to the Douglas Hotels gain.
20307 at the depot ready to depart on replacement duties.