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Rail Replacement between Eastbourne and Hastings attracted Worthing Garage's Enviro 400 MMC 10962, SN 18 KOE, passing Westham Church on route to Hastings.
Yorkshire Tiger are running the 800 Dalesbus this year from Leeds to Hawes and hence a re-route via Draughton and Skipton By Pass onto the Grassington road. I've never known deckers go north of Grassington so this is somewhat interesting. First day Dennis Trident V313GLB was in use, although I have been told the usual bus maybe a Scania decker. Here it makes a right onto Valley Drive, Ben Rhydding near Ilkley.
A new pier under construction in the waters of the Roanoke Sound near Duck, North Carolina in the Outer Banks
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.
Rear end comparison shot of the two Hong Kong Olympians currently garaged at Rennies. 13618 (furthest) has the original two piece folding bonnet, 13624 (nearest) has the replacement fitted by Western to many Olympians which has an opening top half only. Note they both retain the original flank panels with inset BMAC lights replacing the orginal, wider units supplied with the chassis.
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.
It was back to Basingstoke today (12/01/2025) for another look at the rail replacement operation with an impressive 13 departures an hour. A bit of a Barnes-fest certainly added brightness to an otherwise grey day.
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?
New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R77 locomotive no. 885 (GE SL50, 1983) pauses with its train at Lorimer St station on the BMT Jamaica Line, as one of the two trains working a track panel replacement job here. These jobs typically use two work trains: one to move old panels to a location where they can be lifted down to the street below, and one moving new panels into position for installation.
Kicking off 2026 was a trip to Basingstoke on Sunday 4th January to witness the rail replacement buses running to Andover, Farnborough, Reading, Winchester and Woking. With 11 departures every hour, something interesting was bound to turn up sooner or later. Being sufficiently west of London, Basingstoke is predominantly 'coach country' rather than say, east of Woking where it's almost all buses running the rail replacement services.
Today's delights were a pair VDL Futuras from Star Tours of Wembley, a JKT International Irizar, a pair of former Excelsior Plaxton Elites now sporting Damory branding, the Barnes '100 Years' coach which has now been repainted into full fleet livery, and a pair of Mayflower Scania deckers. It was good to see the Mayflower pair back on the road again after the devastating vandal attack that crippled the fleet back in November 2025.
In total, 36 buses and coaches from 20 different operators passed our cameras in our 3 hour visit with Aldermaston Coach Lines and Barnes providing 5 each.
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.
RedRoutemaster.com ex Go Ahead London General PVL281 PJ02RBZ working the SWR rail replacement service to Epsom
Kicking off 2026 was a trip to Basingstoke on Sunday 4th January to witness the rail replacement buses running to Andover, Farnborough, Reading, Winchester and Woking. With 11 departures every hour, something interesting was bound to turn up sooner or later. Being sufficiently west of London, Basingstoke is predominantly 'coach country' rather than say, east of Woking where it's almost all buses running the rail replacement services.
Today's delights were a pair VDL Futuras from Star Tours of Wembley, a JKT International Irizar, a pair of former Excelsior Plaxton Elites now sporting Damory branding, the Barnes '100 Years' coach which has now been repainted into full fleet livery, and a pair of Mayflower Scania deckers. It was good to see the Mayflower pair back on the road again after the devastating vandal attack that crippled the fleet back in November 2025.
In total, 36 buses and coaches from 20 different operators passed our cameras in our 3 hour visit with Aldermaston Coach Lines and Barnes providing 5 each.
VR Travel of Merthyr Tydfil bought four Alexander PS-bodied Volvo B10Ms from East Yorkshire in 2010 and 2011. These were new to Stagecoach's Ribble fleet for competitive services in Manchester against GM Buses, but passed with the services to Manchester-based Finglands prior to Stagecoach buying GM Buses South. East Yorkshire subsequently acquired the Finglands business and the Volvos ended up in the main East Yorkshire fleet on Humberside.
VR sold on two of the Volvos within a few months, but M427 RRN, which took up fleetnumber 103, stayed until the business passed to New Adventure Travel in September 2013. NAT sold her on to John's Travel of Merthyr Tydfil in December 2013 for use on school contracts, where she operates alongside former Stagecoach 20698 (P318 EFL), and still retains her attractive East Yorkshire colours.
In this April 2011 shot, she was operating "Rail linc" Service 901 between Blackwood and Ystrad Mynach, which VR had acquired after the sudden demise of Clarkes of Tredegar, and was arriving at Ystrad Mynach Railway Station on the first day of the contract.
Wonderful Machines.
The LSRC's predecessor Detroit & Mackinac was historically home to a fleet of Alco diesels. The LSRC carried on that tradition into the 2000s until the fleet (minus the 469) was scrapped in 2011. All that remains of the once proud Alco fleet are the trucks in the foreground. Now, the 4300 series GP40-3 Alco killers sit stored, having proved themselves unreliable, alongside the Saginaw roundhouse, much like the retired Alco fleet did. Photo taken with the permission of the Lake State Railway.
Went to Salve Mater this weekend. A lot of buildings are renovated and sold as luxe appartments. But we managed to find a building they did not start with :)
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!!
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?
Here is Arriva Buses Wales Wrightbus VDL SB200 Pulsar CX14 BYF 3168 is seen photo taken at Bangor station stop outside the station while this was working on Rail Replacement. 15/04/18
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Continuing the Rail Replacement theme, Lloyds Coaches of Machynlleth returned to providing the non-stop Cardiff to Bridgend service in place of Arriva Trains Wales and GWR services on 2nd January 2017, in the same way that the service was provided on 27th and 28th December 2016.
The company again provided two of the Alexander Dennis Enviro400-bodied Scanias that had been new to GHA Coaches for "Traws Cymru" Service T3 (Wrexham-Llangollen-Corwen-Bala-Dolgellau-Barmouth), and which Lloyds recently acquired from Ensignbus to continue the contract until a new lon-term contract is awarded.
SN15 ETD is captured at speed on the A4061 in Litchard heading for Bridgend, where she would connect with the onward GWR service to Swansea.
Kicking off 2026 was a trip to Basingstoke on Sunday 4th January to witness the rail replacement buses running to Andover, Farnborough, Reading, Winchester and Woking. With 11 departures every hour, something interesting was bound to turn up sooner or later. Being sufficiently west of London, Basingstoke is predominantly 'coach country' rather than say, east of Woking where it's almost all buses running the rail replacement services.
Today's delights were a pair VDL Futuras from Star Tours of Wembley, a JKT International Irizar, a pair of former Excelsior Plaxton Elites now sporting Damory branding, the Barnes '100 Years' coach which has now been repainted into full fleet livery, and a pair of Mayflower Scania deckers. It was good to see the Mayflower pair back on the road again after the devastating vandal attack that crippled the fleet back in November 2025.
In total, 36 buses and coaches from 20 different operators passed our cameras in our 3 hour visit with Aldermaston Coach Lines and Barnes providing 5 each.
Event: Cross processing C-41 as B&W
Location: Home
Camera: Pentax ME Super
Lens(s): Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 M42 mount
Film: Agfa Vista 200 (expired 2017)
Shot ISO: 200
Light Meter: Camera
Lighting: Mixed (mostly overcast)
Mounting: Hand-held
Firing: Shutter button
Developer: Ilfotec HC (1+31) for 5.5 mins
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)