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Taken at Potters Bar open day Saturday 20th July 2019. A large number of vintage vehicles turned up, but I was only passing by.
Coming into Peekskill is the Schenectady - NY 'The Electric City Express'. Working it, is a third rail fitted Rhor turboliner,
RTL 1163 operated from Stockwell from 1955 to 1963 and is seen returning to it's former home in 2016
London Bus Museum RTL139, KGK803 - Route 159 | Selfridges with an Marble Arch Bound Service.
Wednesday 9th December 2015
@ Londontransport3/ Mark Mcwalter 2015
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Exakta RTL 1000 with waist-level finder, Sun Zoom 70-210mm and 3D-printet cold shoe with light meter.
The print file for the cold shoe (also fits all Praktica VLC models) can be downloaded here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6200619
The Praktica VLC models have a TTL light meter with aperture transfer. The Exakta RTL is made of metal, has an Exakta bayonet and can use the shutter release on the lens of the older Exakta lenses. There's a metered viewfinder, but it's cumbersome and doesn't have aperture transmission (but looks cool).
Exakta RTL 1000 mit Lichtschachtsucher, Sun Zoom 70-210mm und 3D-gedrucktem Kaltschuh mit Belichtungsmesser.
Die Druckdatei für den Cold Shoe (passt auch für alle Praktica VLC-Modelle) kann hier heruntergeladen werden: www.thingiverse.com/thing:6200619
Another pic of MetroCammell-bodied RTL 554, this time loading up for a southbound journey on the 19. The 'Battersea Garage' destination is a reminder that the now closed garage was in a side road just south of Battersea bridge, and right by where the route 19 bus stand is today.
In the backgroud, another RTL is entering the bus station prior to taking up another southbound 19 duty.
Only 7'6" wide buses can run on Guernsey. Which does rather limit their choice should they want a double-decker!
Thus it came to be that this ex-London Transport RTL was converted to front entrance one-man operation. I understand it was more or less all the work of just one very skilled coachbuilder. Here it is at Pembroke Bay in July 1996.
DB1268. This bus is a snare and delusion! It purports to be Barton 1049, but this a completely fictitious number and it’s really London Transport RTL 326 (KGU 284).
Although this particular bus was never part of the Barton fleet, that company did buy 25 RTLs in the 1960s, so an RTL in Barton livery is not without a historical precedent.
KGU 284 was one of the visiting buses at the London Bus Museum’s 2023 Spring Gathering held at the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge, Surrey.
Sunday, 16th April, 2023. Copyright © Ron Fisher 2023.
1950 Leyland Titan PD2 with a Park Royal body - converted to front entrance and one person operation by Guernsey Bus
Another 'Top-Box' RTL, No.73, turns at the 277 terminus at Cubitt Town on 7/11/67. The West India Docks lifting bridge is seen (closed) in the background. Note also the 'pair' of phone boxes.
Well of course, most RTLs are 'lost', in that out of 1631 built, only around 25 are known to survive. RTL55 was with London Transport for nine years, followed by sixteen with Lockeys of West Auckland. The bus was then owned by Lanarkshire Travel of Hamilton for a couple more years before going for scrap in 1977, a creditable working life of twenty-eight years.
JXN378 is seen here with it's new Scottish owners at a rally (Dunbar?) on 24 August 1975. I'm loving the little platform cameo on the bus in front!
Scanned from a slide taken by the late Charles Dean, now in my collection.