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Sections from the October 1912 timetable and map folder issued by the Great Central Railway advertising the connections to Contiental ports through their ferry services to and fromt he East Coast port of Grimsby. The GCR had 'inherited' many of these services from the predecessor company the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway who had effectively operated various ferry services since 1864. In post-WW1 years with the Grouping of the railways these would pass to the London & North Eastern Railway.
The folder takes the form of a vast and densely detailed map of the railways of Great Britain and northern Europe showing the GCR's ferry routes between Grimsby and Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp, Esbjerg, Gothenburg, Christiania (Copenhagen) and Malmo. It also shows details of through bookings across Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark using these services along with connecting train services and fares. The inter-connectivity advertised between seemingly small towns and cities belies the commercial links of the day as well as of the highly developed nature of railway and ferry infrastructure in the days before air travel. The mapping was provided, like many others, by the Edinburgh cartographers of John Bartholomew. This section shows large sections of Great Britain with lines leading to Grimsby and routes including those to Dieppe (France), Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg and the Swedish/Danish ports served.
The GCR were also pushing the new fleet of vessels they were putting into service, named after northern towns, and delivery of which would be completed in 1914. This was not exactly as it turned out to be an auspicious date for continental travel and indeed one vessel, the Blackburn, had been lost on its maiden voyage. The others including the Dewsbury, Accrington, Bury and Stockport, along with earlier vessles including the SS Immingham and SS Marylebone, survived into the 1940s and '50s.
The timetables themselves for the workers services from various suburbs of Glasgow to South Street in 1985, the services being the 708, 742, 768 & 769.
Cover of the 1975 All-Line timetable, featuring the most recent addition to British Rail's motive power fleet, the Class 87. Reconciling memories of Class 87s in their final years on the West Coast Main Line with depictions of the locos in their infancy is akin to looking at an aged face and reminding yourself they were young once.
Whilst have a rummage through the Anchovy archives, I came across this Potteries bus timetable from March 1982.
The book is a huge 298 pages and also lists services operated by Stoniers, Berresfords, Pooles, Crosville, MIdland Red, Stevensons, Trent and Turners.
At the back are timetables of train services serving Stoke-on-Trent including the Lincoln to Crewe service.
This scan of the front cover shows Bristol VR BRF690T No.690 picking up passengers in Fountain Square, Hanley on 8th February 1982.
After arrived on a route 85, probably 0810 Westmorland Road to Maidstone judging by the timetable and its arrival time.
Rock Island Railroad suburban train schedule between Englewood and La Salle Street stations, effective October 31, 1965, inside page, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Printed schedules for Metro, Sound Transit, and Community Transit in the lobby of the Bothell Library.
Seatoller Scania.
During the summer timetable, it's nothing unusual to see a double deck bus running the 78 service from Keswick to Seatoller, though more usually this is an open top decker. During the winter timetable, the regular Solos return to the route as there probably isn't the custom to justify anything bigger. On Tuesday the 5th of November, Guy Fawkes night, Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 bodied Scania N230UD 15686 was the traction for the day and was seen here as dusk set in heading out of Keswick bus station.
This set of photos shows the finally days of the United Automobile Services operations in the most rural parts of the Yorkshire Dales in Wensleydale and Coverdale. Not long after, the new broom of Arriva vacated the area having served it for over 70 years, and then a few years later, closed Richmond depot outright so that their presence is reduced to one trunk route. I think these photos were taken c.Aug 1998 judging by the vegetation; have only just rediscovered these after 21 years!
These timetable cases were once commonplace in major villages and towns. Most disappeared in the 1970s seemingly but some did survive. The ones in Hawes and Leyburn, where this one resided, were late survivors. This was still there in 1998 but soon went - who knows who acquired this and how?
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On December 12th 1978 the road bridge over the railway line between the Coronation and Oldmixon Estates, Weston super Mare, was blown up (literally!) and a replacement, wider, bridge built in its place. Town service 105 (and to a lesser extent service 115 to Hutton) was affected, and the main 12-minute frequency was rescheduled to terminate at the Coronation Estate, with the bus released from the rescheduling being used to provide a half hourly "express" service to Oldmixon Esatate via the fast Wintersoke Road, numbered 104, A Bristol FLF stands in the High Street operating the fast 104 service, and Bristol VRT 5501 pulls out to pass it whilst operating the truncated 105 service. The VR would have been conductor operated.
Services came to an end in 1996 on the route Mikoszewo –Sztutowo on 8. September 1996, including goods in November, but in 2003 tourist services resumed on routes Prawy Brzeg Wisły–Stegna–Sztutowo und Nowy Dwór–Stegna
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The Prawy Brzeg Wisly section west of Stegna was already closed in 1992 according to the above page yet the timetable above shows a daily train running there. The page suggests trains ran to Mikoszewo, not Prawy Brezeg.
Trains also advertised to Lisewo [opposite Tczew] and ?? Ostaszewo ?
This section, Lisewo - Stutowo was the remaining route in 1996 although the line SW of Nowy Dwor had a very thin service.
The network is here
Rock Island suburban train schedule between Englewood and La Salle Street stations, effective October 31, 1965, front and back side, Chuck Zeiler collection.
The new timetable from december 2024 is seeing a big increase of offer in Rheintal region, with 12% more kilometers operated daily by Rheintalbus/Bus Ostschweiz. One of the new features is a cross-border commuter route 322, not only delivering a direct and fast link between Hohenems and Altstätten, but also serving the large industrial estate between Lüchingen and Altstätten by public transport for the first time. Seen here is Citaro 33 approaching it's terminus of Altstätten. The building in the back is the main seat of RhV, which until 1995 also operated the bus routes around Altstätten.
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Operator: BUS Ostschweiz AG, branded "Rheintalbus"
Vehicle: 33/SG 309'326, Mercedes-Benz Citaro C2, 2015
Route: 80.322 Hohenems - Altstätten via Industrie
Using their Trislander aircraft Loganair operates to Scotland’s disparate western and northern islands. Amazing that the Shetland Service can leave Sumburgh for Unst with three stops and take 52 minutes. Ground time is 7 minutes. Each of those sectors cost around £5 then.
Manchester Bus Timetable, June 1967. The 24 hour clock was being introduced in timetables at his time rather than the use of am and pm.
Pictured upstairs inside Swift Link liveried Leyland Olympian A952SAE now owned by Kelvin Amos as his display, photo stall and Badgerline history bus.
A very London Transport style folding map issued by Glasgow Corporation Transport Department and showing the city's municipal tram, trolleybus, bus and Underground services. This, issued under the name of the General Manager E R L Fitzpayne, is marked as the 'second issue' and dated October 1949.
It shows the undertaking almost at its greatest extent, primarily before the abandonment of the famed tramway services that would start in earnest in the mid-1950s as the long 'out of boundary' routes such as to Airdrie, east off the map, went ostensibly as part of the 'deal' to electrifiy the area's heavy rail services as part of the "Blue Trains" scheme. The growth, therefore, was to be in the motor bus services as they extended into new suburban housing schemes as part of the city's massive inner city slum clearance schemes and with some additions to the trolleybus network. Glasgow were the last operator to open a trolleybus system - partially driven by the unusual retention at nationalisation of the Department's own power station and the continued use of electricity - and it started in with route 102 on 3 April 1949 with the next route conversion, the 101 starting in Novemeber 1949 so just missing this map. Therefore this edition is unusual in that it shows a solitary trolleybus route.
This section lists the one trolleybus route and the night bus service routes showing the route numbers, route description and basic timetable information. It includes details of the connection at Baillieston for the Coatbridge night tram at 1.32am.
First West of England Hengrove based 37669 YJ58 RSX is seen approaching Hengrove Depot working a 75 towards Hengrove Depot, a vehicle originally loaned to Lawrence Hill from Bradford however moved to Hengrove for the PVR uplift, a temporary measure until the electrics arrive when it will return to Bradford.
A piece of memorabilia from recent history is seen here having been removed from a timetable case in Biggleswade where it had been used as a backing sheet for more recent timetables. The 'Planets' routes were a series of routes set up in 2006 by Stagecoach radiating from Bedford to Biggleswade / Hitchin (Mars), Flitwick (Jupiter), Wootton / Cranfield (Venus), Luton (Saturn), Kettering (Mercury) and Northampton (Pluto). Ultimately unsuccessful, the branding was a well publicised attempt to improve bus services on these main corridors. For some reason Uranus was not used as one of the route brandings...?!
The Lincoln Gettysburg address train and the Lincoln funeral Train both traversed this route. The PRR in 1936 ran 18 passenger trains over this track in 1936. At one point the PRR K5 Pacific was also tested on this line. At present service is disrupted by numerous everchanging economic events and we are stymied in out efforts to view the K5, The Statesman and the Liberty Limited symbol Passenger Trains because Mr. Peabody and Sherman's Way Back Machine is being repaired.
First West of England WsM based 35681 MF22 SYS is seen approaching WsM interchange working an X5 towards WsM interchange, the route was returned to original routing via the M5 and Locking Road in this timetable change as well as back to decker allocation rather than a mix of Singles and doubles.
To look at this Wolverhampton Corporation bus time issued in early 1942, there is nothing immediately obvious to show that Britain was living through some of the darkest days of WW2. The colourful cover is no different from those issued in the immediate pre-war period and there is no mention in any part of the publication about the wartime measures that were being taken throughout the Country at the time, such as the blackout, war bonds, rationing, air raid precautions, etc. Instead the normal terms and conditions for travel appear, as do advertisements for local businesses.
However, when the timetables are themselves studied, it soon becomes apparent how many extra journeys are being laid on by the Transport Department, especially for workmen’s journeys, and discounted rates for ticketing applied to them.
Right at the back of the booklet, is a set of timetables for motorbus services that carry no route numbering, but serve outlying districts that run back through populated areas to the Sunbeam factory at Blakenall, the Courtaulds factory at Whitmore Reans, and the Boulton & Paul aircraft factory at Pendeford.
Oddly, Sunbeam and Courtaulds are mentioned by name as destinations, but quite rightly, the Boulton & Paul factory producing aircraft is only mentioned in the timetable as the Canal Bridge Pendeford.
Although Courtaulds were a famous textile manufacturer that had factories throughout Britain, they were certainly producing ordinance and munitions for the war effort at their extensive Wolverhampton factory. The 1942 timetable indicates that motorbuses were provided for the transport of workers on these special services, but the Corporation did extend trolleybuses wiring into the Courtaulds main entrance to allow trolleybuses to enter the factory grounds, turn around and come back out again onto Court Road.
A monochrome picture exists of the turning circle within Courtaulds grounds, but no picture is known to exist of it being used by trolleybuses. This wiring extension was removed after the war, however, a traction pole that once supported the trolleybus wires, which stood opposite the entrance to the factory was of heavier dimensions to the rest of those on Court Road because it had once carried some of the weight and tension of the overhead junction that had served the factory. Retained for street lighting purposes, this pole survived until the late 1980s.
Incidentally, on the 1st January 1942, The Declaration by United Nations, a signed united declaration against the Axis was agreed upon during the Arcadia Conference by 26 governments. These were the Allied "Big Four" (the US, the UK, the USSR, and China), nine American allies in Central America and the Caribbean, the four British Dominions, British India, and eight Allied governments-in-exile, for a total of twenty-six nations.
Seaford & District asked if they could use my photos on their new timetable leaflets. They chose this photo of their open topper at Beachy Head.
March 2017
Copyright Steve Guess / Seaford & District MMXVII
Thought I'd go to Shalford to see the 125 and the 43.
The 125 started when Buses Excetera revised the 24/25 timetables from 12th November 2012, having taking the routes over at short notice after Countryliner went into administration in October 2012.
Surrey CC Bus Review phase 3 (from September 2012) saw the 25 diverted via Newlands Corner and Merrow into Guildford, instead of via Albury, Chilworth and Shalford.
However, confusingly, some journeys continued to take the Chilworth route, with extensions to/from Merrow for school links. I think some journeys also ran via Chilworth to provide additional services to the 32 (in particular, a last bus after the very poor last 32 from Guildford at 1740).
The 125 (Guildford - Shalford - Chilworth - Albury - Shere - Merrow - Merrow Woods (for George Abbot school) was started, covering 25 school trips, meaning all 25 journeys started to run via Newlands Corner, making things much clearer.
I had never snapped the route before, so thought I ought to make the effort. StreetLite RX12 DZA is seen here running late at Shalford station - though this is fair enough as there had been an accident at Newlands Corner!
The 43 didn't turn up, presumably because - although schools are still in - Godalming College term ended on 9th July 2015. D'oh! I did see red Caetano KX03 HZE pass through Shalford from the Godalming direction to the Chilworth direction however, so presumably it had done the 45.
Horsham Road, Shalford, Surrey.