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Fulwell Depot 1962
RT 111, which I think may have been in green livery, lined up outside the main depot at Fulwell (FW), with other buses.
The picture was taken using a box camera, and 620 film, then developed on paper negatives by Gratispool of Glasgow. I will update this as soon as I am able, and re scan, to provide any browsers with a more worthy product.....
The black mark to the right of the print was a tear mark on the paper negative, as received from Gratispool, and I can only assume that the front of this neg, stuck to the back of another, and then tore when separated.....
Plenty of custom for Green Line RT 3228 - once one of (RE) Romford's fleet - at a miserably wet Rickmansworth station. Great ride on a spiritedly driven RT.
Watford and Garston running day.
A "never was", but the route was on the blinds, which were probably RM ones. And the driver was happy to oblige.
LITTLE STAR - A TOP SECRET SOVIET MILITARY BASE ON THE COAST OF THE BALTIC SEA
The 32m radio telescope is located in a forest 30 km north of Ventspils, Latvia, on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The whole military base included 3 radio telescopes: 32m, 16m and 8m as well as all the necessary infrastructure for up keeping over 2000 scientists, generals and soldiers with their families (i.e. a kindergarten, school, shops, technical support houses, 4 block houses with 260 flats, post office etc.) in an area over 400ha. The secret code name for this place was “Звёздочка” (a Little Star) and the road going through the town was “Набережная” (Riparian).
VIRAC
Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre currently consists of a 32-metre, fully steerable parabolic, centimeter-wave range antenna (RT-32) and a 16-metre diameter antenna (RT-16). It was built by the Russian Navy in late 1960 but the town itself dates from 1946. In 1994, when Russian army pulled out of Latvia, the withdrawing troops poured acid on the telescope's motors, cut all the cables, took away all the documentation and destroyed much of the surrounding infrastructure. Since 1994, the radio telescopes have been repaired.
The largest radio telescope in northern Europe is now used for science:
The detection, analysis and processing satellite images and satellite navigation signals,
Sun observations in microwave range,
Participation into European VLBI (Very Large Base Interferometry) Network,
The research of efficiency of electric drive control and adaptation of antenna control and data registration software of RT-32 for work in EVN,
Finding and observations of space debris,
To monitor the stars for possible signs of intelligent life outside the Solar System.
coldwarsites.net/country/latvia/secret-soviet-radio-teles...
RT 1940 - Garrett QL type (34841) 6 ton wagon new 5/1926. Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre, Old Warden on 19th September 2004
I was quite pleased with this shot, it featured as a calendar with the LBPG's magazine that I came to edit some years later. 2836 went to AP a few months later, then E a year later again, before the end came in 77. A year later 249 found itself in France!
Looking out over the rain-soaked yard at Birds, with the inevitable oil drum brazier putting out steam rather than smoke, are 2 ex London Transport AEC RT buses. The furthest is KYY 613, RT 1775 which was sold to Red Rover of Ayesbury, the nearest is KXW 382, RT 1682. It was built in March 1950 and seems to have had a fairly uneventful life until it was sold to Birds of Stratford in July 1963.
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Two days before RTs ceased on the 229, balding RT 4712 (SP) turns out of Elmwood Drive at Bridgen heading for Woolwich. Thursday 19th May 1977. 3T-12.
RT 604 waits time in Maxwell Road, Beaconsfield en route from Amersham to High Wycombe.
6 October 2013.
Although the numbers of RTs in passengers services was dwindling fast by 1970, several examples remained in service as driver trainers throughout the decade. RT1777 has been preserved as a typical example of a 1970s driver-trainer, complete with prominent advertising attempting to persuade Londoners to become bus drivers. The RTs were eventually replaced on these duties by Routemaster coaches bought back from London Country Bus Services, where they had been made redundant by the almost-universal spread of driver-only operation.
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'RT 75' is the first of the '2014 - Year of the Bus' celebrations, and marks the 75th anniversary of the entry into service of the first RT-types on route 22.
The event featured a number of runs by RT-family vehicles between Piccadilly Circus and Homerton, which was once part of the 22 route. Some buses also ran to and from Ash Grove Garage, where there was also a display of RT-family vehicles, including an ex-St Helens example which had come down all the way from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond, Fife.
A Scarborough RT train leaving Scarborough Centre station on its way to the most pointless station in the entire TTC system: McCowan. Sorry McCowan, you know it's true!
Verwoodbus operated a Friday only shopping trip between West Moors and Poole (route V1). Their regular vehicle was a rebuilt RMA Routemaster! However on 15th April 2011 this was off the road. So Roger Brown's Shaftesbury and District obliged by supplying an RT and an RF duplicate!
This shows the RT pulling away from the terminus at West Moors shortly after arrival on the return trip.