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Couple of months ago a friend of mine who owns a couple of East Kent vehicles invited me to join them on a trip to Kent County Fairground at Detling. The journey up was on the Sealink livery Regent:

 

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and the journey home was on his Duple coach:

 

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Also present at the show was Stagecoach East Kent bus in special livery celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the creation of the East Kent Road Car  Company:

 

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Later I'll dig out some more pics taken at Detling

 

Keith

I was fortunate to ride the single decker back in August 2015 as part of the Herne Bay event - here its is posed for a quick photo stop at Reculver

And here is the upper deck interior of GJG739D on the same day  - the upholstery had just recently been refurbished

The impressive signal gantry at Cootamundra, New South Wales, seen on 2 February 2007 - it was decommissioned in October that year.

RT2608, allocated to Harrow Weald garage, had only three months left in service when seen in Station Road, Hayes on 26 February 1977. It was placed into store in May and disposed of to Wombwell Diesels in June. Route 140 continued with RT operation until July the following year - observant viewers might twig why I was at Hayes and Harlington on this day?

Kingston bus station/garage on 7 May 1977. The RFs survived on the 218/219 until March 1979.

Already 30 years old Class 455/8 455822 slows for the stop at Kingswood with a Tattenham Corner bound service on 7 December 2013

455806 arriving at Sutton off the Epsom Downs branch - 28 April 2012

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Some images taken at the third Bus of Yesteryear Rally held at the Somers Town goods yard, St Pancras on 21 May 1972, organised by the London Bus Preservation Group. 

OK 24hrs and still nothing. I'm surprised there was nothing to see.

Lets open it up into:

Something unusual on narrow gauge in Mainland Europe

 

Keith

Metre-gauge East German Railways 0-4-4-0T Mallet, 99 5902 rests in between duties at Alexisbad on 4 August 1977.

Rail - but with at least one other form of transport

First three wagons of this train - 27 February 2005, QJs 2-10-2s 7030 and 6850 combine to lift a westbound freight near Yuzhodi on the JiTong line.

Clapham Jct - May 1983

The only real DMU I saw on the Newcastle-Carlisle line on this particular day (all the rest were 'Pacers') and it failed, turning up behind coal sector (nuclear fuels sub sector) 31120 - Haltwhistle March 1989

The two pics posted earlier were the only two decent shots I got of East Kent buses at work. It was over 40 years later before I got another chance to photograph them, obviously by now in preservation. Regent Vs at the Herne Bay - 9 August 2015.

Yes - back in my days as Track SM at Clapham - ISTR there was indeed very little ballast to be found amongst the mud in Plat 2. Indeed I also closed Kensington sidings because of their poor condition. Proposed for early renewal but superceded by the very welcome upgrade brought about by the OvergrounD schemes.

Yes tidied up a bit these days. Having seen a 4MT tank on the Kenny Belle c1966, ridden Q stock on the East London Line and started my spotting days on the platform at Honor Oak Park, I find the whole concept of the Overground fascinating....

Clapham Junction - 14 March 2013

Queens Park - 6 March 2013

Honor Oak Park - 4 April 2012

A couple of East Kent Park Royal bodied AEC Regent Vs taken at Birchington sometime in 1971

Those concrete gantries are one of the few things remaining in use from the 1955 resignalling.  There are also the uprights from some of the 1955 scheme gantries erected between Clapham Junction and Balham still in use as signal posts.  Probably most remarkable of all though is one of the signal gantries between Clapham Junction and Pouparts Junction which is an original ole gantry from the LBSCR ac electrification scheme.

I'm rather ignorant of such matters so was wondering where this gantry at Raynes Park, taken in June 2014, fits into the overall scheme of things?

If  it  had  been  Dapol  I  would  have  given   them  a  wide  berth!!!

I rest my case.

I see you managed to capture one of the old concrete arm signal posts in the second photograph. These were mentioned in a signalling thread a year or so ago and they are still there...passed that very site about 10 minutes ago!

Lived in Honor Oak Park from 1964-1971 - my local station.

Those signal posts take me back to my very early spotting days.

A ten car formation, made up of two former Wessex 442 electric multiple units, passes Salfords at speed with the 1536 hours London (Victoria) to Brighton service on Saturday 14 April 2012.

Trains from 3 different operators - TfL Overground, Southern, First Capital Connect (FCC) - take up capacity on the four track 'racetrack' between Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park. Nearest the camera is 319379 on a Brighton to Bedford service - 4 April 2012.

Perhaps post this in the Hornby thread. Arnold is part of Hornby, not Dapol.

Yeah, but from reading many of these threads, its always Dapol's fault 

Mine was always Arley when I lived in brum and had the chance to drive over for a few hours to watch the trains go by, aren't we fortunate in having so many lovely well-maintained preserved stations to choose from and enjoy, long may this continue. Hats off to all the volunteers over the years who've made it all happen.

 

Cheers,

 

Keith

Arley in 2006 and 2015

Horsed Keynes on a winter evening looking across to platform one from platform five can be very evocative especially when you can hear a locomotive working up towards the station. I have to say that I often feel a bit sad about the necessary development – I'm not convinced it's always done that well but that has to be down to cost of course.

 

I want the heritage railways to have hidden storage sidings!

The only real problem is the non heritage gricers on the platforms.

For some inexplicable reason I actually have a soft spot for the 319s.......

Network South East's 319025 speeding past Salfords on what is probably a Bedford to Brighton service during February 1989.

You can imagine standing on the platform at Tulse Hill..............This is how blues band Nine Below Zero used to intro their rendition of Riding on the L & N back in the late 70s. The comparison is missing a lot as NSE's 319022 silently glides into the station with a Wimbledon loop to Luton service in early 1989.