But Not Like This! Above shows part of Drayton Manor Theme Park closed by flooding for a whole week in February 2020. On the other hand these are bottles of water on offer from Reading Buses … … part of a bit of a do in Henley, outside the town hall. A close up of the bottles’ caps may give…
fbb was “very excited” to purchase a scan of a LT Red Book for 1958 from Ian Armstrong of bus routes web site fame. He was so convulsed with awe and wonder that he bought a hard copy for 1977 to contrast and compare. For most of its life, the book was strictly for LT staff only. Much had happened…
And So, Instead, This :- Puzzle Picture Plus This rather sad trolley bus tolleying through dilapidated housing beside a tired railway line with views of some industrial hugeness opposite was originally entitled “North Woolwich’. District names are always a bit dodgy as they tend to move around a bit. So your rather overheated old bloke decided to see if recreating the…
It was just a week ago when the fbbs took a bus trip from Seaton to Lyme Regi on Axe Valley Travel’s route 378, departing at 1035. Upon arriving at Lyme Regis, most visitors would be heding for the beach and its associated grot. But not the fbbs. They were in search of a Fish and Chip lunch! Alighting at…
Fatigued Feline There is no doubt that Mr Tubbles takes his domestic duties very seriously. There are patrols to be scheduled, observation from a window to fit in and much much more. Bring crepuscular, his efforts are concentrated in two periods of the day. There is activity around breakfast, say from 0700 to 0900 followed by a short nap until…
Pad Printing : Bad Painting fbb’s 1960s Triang coach had beading which was needing some painting. fbb has always be open about hs modelling limitations, made worse by his eyesight deterioration but pretty bad before. So when he saw these advertised he was joyful at the possibilities they might present. These are fibre tipped pens but do not contain conventional…
We All Enjoy These Puzzles (?) There are only four differences on the above pair, one of which is hard to spot at this size, so fbb wll give it to you. The bus (bottom right) is showing a different route number. Now you can find the other three! From a correspondent in Cornwall, fbb has recently received a Transport…
Ferry To Bridge Once upo a time, if you wanted to go from Plymouth to Saltash, you coud take a train and cross the magnificent Royal Albert Bridge seen in part above. Or you could take a tram to Saltash Passage thn a ferry across the River Tamar. The ferry predates any recognisable form of public transport, but by the…
Well then. At the end of the last article I promised to write about the stations on HS2 phase 1 assuming that I hadn’t been too enraged by the political fallout from hopefully soon-to-be-ex-prime minister Rishi Sunak’s cancellation of phase 2 of HS2. Reader, I have been enraged. I have had to have a very […]
• Evolution of Accessibility of Transport in London (Wikipedia-James Scantlebury) • Building Transit Legacy Projects for Olympic Games – An Overview: Video (RMTransit) • Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines (The Guardian) • Electric rickshaws are finally legal in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Rest of World) • Is Turbulence Getting Worse?: Video (Mentour Now!) • Buses are key to…