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A pair of South Western Railway class 455s, with 455859 on the rear, in platform 6 at Clapham Junction, August 2024
18.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Left to right: Green Line Routemaster coaches RCL2233 and prototype CRL4, AEC Swift SM88 (originally LT red SMS88), Regal IVs RF673 / 180 / 146 / 406 / 281, and Guy Specials GS15 and GS12
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Preserved London Transport and London Country buses lined up in Arriva's Harlow garage during an Amersham & District Motorbus Society running day, May 2023
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Class 117 Pressed Steel Suburban unit L405 sits burbling away to its self at London Paddington. #Class117 #NSE #LondonPaddington #Trainspotting
18.02.2026 09:59 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1I'm also looking forward to those models being released.
I grew up with 313s in the Watford area, by that time in Network SouthEast livery and then Silverlink Metro. Also remember ones being hired in from WAGN on a couple of occasions
Various buses on the stands at Streatham station, January 2023 - when route 133 was still operated by Arriva, and ran to Liverpool Street rather than Holborn
17.02.2026 22:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Southern class 313/2 313204 at Barnham, April 2023
This was one of a handful of 313s still running in regular service on the day of the farewell railtour for the class
Oxford Bus Company low-height B5LH / Gemini 2 364 entering Fridewide Square on route 5, then in a special livery for Home Start Oxfordshire, March 2022
This bus is now Stagecoach Manchester's 13188, having been re-registered from V14OXF to OE62ZRX and repainted in Bee Network yellow
Class 319/2 319217 'Brighton' heading south at West Hampstead Thameslink, January 2017
16.02.2026 20:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A Class 455 has been preserved and is destined for a return to the main line.
www.modernrailways.com/article/sout...
New video - Buses in Enfield
Arriva, Go-Ahead and Metroline, including New Routemaster LT1 on route 313 plus more views of the W8's BD11s
youtu.be/s6p2X5EQD5w
An image captured from A HUNDRED YEARS UNDERGROUND (1963)
A HUNDRED YEARS UNDERGROUND (1963)
15.02.2026 17:58 — 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
New video - Buses at Waterloo
Filmed in the late afternoon in mid-December and including a Golden Tours B5TL converted to electric, plus an LT on the 68 with an incorrect route number blind
youtu.be/iPmCknjJTIM
Surprised these have taken so long to be sold after the 15H was withdrawn
Two of these five (RM2060/2089) were among the handful refurbished with more original interior features ~10 years ago, while the others are still as modernised in the early 2000s
At least ten former SWR Class 455s are currently at Alstom’s Derby facility, having arrived from Wimbledon by rail. They are then being moved by road to the Wards scrapyard at Ilkeston and I was lucky to see some vehicles from 5719 being roaded away during my visit today
10.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An image captured from MOVING LONDON (1983)
MOVING LONDON (1983)
11.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New video - Buses in High Wycombe
Redline B7TL / President Y703TGH, a new Thames Valley Enviro200 MMC, and many Carousel buses - including Scania / Enviro400 80208 in its air ambulance wrap and others still in old Connector and GWR liveries
youtu.be/FrhKFoGsY2I
Is it just me who feels the original front was a lot neater than the production versions?
Of course moving the radiator most likely helped make the type a success, and at least the final design was an improvement over the later prototypes with a grille added onto this version (or similar)
A red AEC Routemaster bus on the 38 route towards Clapton Pond on its last day of service on the route, 28 October 2005
#OnThisDay 70 years ago the iconic AEC Routemaster bus entered public service
08.02.2026 05:00 — 👍 45 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 3
New video - Buses at Bluewater
Arriva London's first day operating route 96, with other buses seen including a Go-Coach Rightech RB6 on the Go2 DRT service, and Go-Ahead London Enviro200 SE234 in the new Fastrack Connect livery for route F
youtu.be/n_ddGbT47tU
A train consisting of two BR blue 'Cravens' two-car disel multiple units coupled together approaches Gartson platform. The headcode reads B3 and the destination blind ST ALBANS. The driver is visible in one of the two large cab-end windows on the bright yellow cab.
#OnThisDay 60 years ago, Garston (Herts) station opened; a rare station opening at a time when they were closing by the hundred. 8 years after opening, a Cravens DMU for St Albans approaches the single platform: Cliff Beeton buff.ly/3EhKI6x Electrification arrived in 1988
07.02.2026 05:00 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A woman walks past a modern London bus shelter featuring a new design in Southwark, with wooden seating and a red-rimmed roof set against a backdrop of brick residential buildings. TfL Image
A nighttime view from inside a London bus shelter shows frosted geometric patterns and the Transport for London roundel on the glass, overlooking a dark street with Georgian-style buildings. TfL Image
A priority seat with a circular black sticker reading "This is a priority seat" is fixed to a wooden bench inside a new Transport for London bus shelter. TfL Image
⦵ Transport for London is testing new bus shelter designs at 27 London locations 🚏 over a year, with improved lighting, seating, accessibility features and CCTV at some stops 🚌. The trial aims to make waiting safer and more comfortable for passengers, alongside new shelters where none exist.
06.02.2026 11:02 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 1
Redline B7TL / President Y703TGH departing High Wycombe Bus Station on the 300 to Aylesbury. This bus was new to Go-Ahead London Central as PVL230 in April 2001.
Reading Buses Thames Valley-branded Enviro200 MMC 691, in purple livery for Windsor and Maidenhead-area routes, arriving at High Wycombe on the 20 from Maidenhead.
Red Rose Travel Mini Pointer Dart HW54BTV - new in December 2004 to Southern Vectis - departing from Aylesbury Bus Station on route 9 to Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
Redline Enviro400 MMC SN75YZC - in plain, unbranded white - leaving Aylesbury for High Wycombe on route 130.
Early 2000s and new 75-reg buses in High Wycombe and Aylesbury earlier today
04.02.2026 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I recently stopped posting on X since its algorithm means hardly anyone sees my posts there now. And obviously also all the other issues with that place
That said I know I struggle to stay active on here too
New video - Buses in Shepherd's Bush
First's new BD11s on route 31 - alongside an Enviro400H and MetroDecker - among other services around White City and Shepherd's Bush bus stations
youtu.be/T6uJLjrIlUo
Green aspect at GE47 South Greenford for gWr’s battery train 230001’s first day in service (Submitted by @driverbod.bsky.social)
#SignalOfTheDay
New video - Buses at Abbey Wood
The first day of Superloop route SL11 last weekend, with a couple of LTs along with several B9TLs covering for the ex-Stagecoach buses which weren't yet ready for service
Other buses include a plain red Enviro400EV on the SL3
youtu.be/ibONcKrHnIo
New video (published yesterday but forgot to post here!) - Buses at Baker Street
A mix of TfL services, coaches and a Golden Tours sightseeing bus around Baker Street station in late October
youtu.be/i-MHWCpXSYI
New video - Buses at Edmonton Green
BYD BD11s now in service on Metroline route W8, plus temporary changes to stopping locations due to the north-eastern exit of the bus station being closed for works
youtu.be/MHnDjNcCYtE
The @125Group have unveiled three power cars in retro liveries. 43080 in GNER, 43025 in InterCity and 43048 in Midlane Mainline. They will be seen at heritage railways and railtours during the year. Three trailers repainted too More in @railexpress issue 358.
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