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@Captain_Deltic @gceccles @Modern_Railways A very impressive array of interviewees both this month and last month

@gceccles @Modern_Railways I eàndorse Graham's view. Another of our interviews with the people creating GBR from bottom up. We can't afford to wait for top-down. Just one of this month's interviews.

South Western Railway MD Lawrence Bowman speaks on the record to #ModernRailways Editor Richard Clinnick in his first major interview with the rail press since the operator came in house - and it's FREE to read here: modernrailways.com/article/featur…

@Peter_Mugridge You might get a frosty response or two …

The honey jar knows its place... 🤣🤣🤣 ( NB Only older Twitter members will get the joke )

@YesterdaysBrit1 @Peter_Mugridge It was, at East Grinstead running day on Sunday.

The past is just a bus ride away.

@CllrJRussell46 Plus AW, A22 lay-bys

Metrobus Route 500 bus stops between Forest Row and Gatwick

@Charing_Steve Thank you … I often wondered, but have not heard that before. On the Central we had 55, 66, 77, 88 and 99. Oh, and 31 on the Eridge line from TWW - not sure how that got in!

3/. All the unused codes of 11s etc that EMUs didn’t. SE rigidly kept to this. HGS - CX became 22, HGS - Cs was 33, routes over marsh became 44, 66, 77 etc. 22 became the most recognised as the majority went to CX. (from the Steve Beck memory bank or railway trivia).

@HastingsDiesels DEMU headcodes. Here’s the thread I promised. When the SR adopted numeric headcodes on their EMUs (SUBs, BILs etc i.e. the 1936 stock) the units did not have roller blinds. They had stencils in a box in the cab. There were 10 stencils 0 to 9 only. 1/

@ovsbulleid As a youngster it was my nearest spotting location to cycle to in the early 60s. E50xx on the Arrow and continental ferry vans; EPBs, HAPs, CEP/BEP/MLVs, E60xx, D65xx, and those noisy Hastings diesels! Steam had finished though.

Class 375 at Shoreham Lane Bridge, Sevenoaks. 📷 Pentax ME-super 35mm lens 🎞️ Agfacolor 200 This is the site of the Sevenoaks accident in August 1927. The “River” class 2-6-4T loco derailed at speed and hit the bridge. The locos were all withdrawn and rebuilt as tender locos.

@gceccles @Captain_Deltic @stuartthomas @LNER I remember him as Divisionsl Manager SR Central Division in the early 70s. While working in the AMO at Vic I was once deputed to meet him off a train and carry his bag to a taxi.

@stuartthomas @Captain_Deltic @LNER Frank Patterson was General Manager of the North Eastern Region. He would visit the Regional Control each morning. He would wish the DCC Good morning and then ask the Control Clerk (the office junior) how well the 1000’s were running. Unthinkable not to have the answer.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Big News🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Flying Scotsman service - which for years has run very early in the morning - is returning to its historic mid-morning slot. There will be a number of special features on the daily @LNER services too 👇🏼 news.lner.co.uk/news/lner-rest…

@Tram2554 @ovsbulleid No Woolies now; no banks; all turkish barbers, coffee shops and charity shops. And the famous High Street bookshop of course; that's still here. If in town, pop into @engine_tap for some splendid ales.

@ovsbulleid XF3 should be recreating this image this Sunday, during the East Grinstead bus running day...

XF1 passes Woolies in East Grinstead. The XF were a small fleet of 8 Fleetlines with Park Royal bodies bought by LT in 1965 to evaluate alongside 50 Atlanteans (XA). XF1 and XF3 are preserved. 📷 me 1977

@Charing_Steve @stephen37292ML Well, there were three prototype units; this one and two 4-cars. I had a return trip CX to Dartford and back while they were briefly on the SED

@stephen37292ML Sorry. Should be …. It was the prototype …….

The shape of the future at Glasgow Central

@tms1967 @Charing_Steve @mark395625 I had a trip to Weymouth on that unit for CDL testing one day in the early 90s (probably)

@Charing_Steve @mark395625 Me too!

Something WCRC could have done all them years ago, avoiding the upheaval to the railtour market that was caused. Can we have Riviera Trains back please?

@ovsbulleid @JGourd7 It's somewhat like a QM though the front upper look is more like the Brighton trolleybuses, some of which ended up in Bournemouth. No.2 has a similar look to the M&D Bristol lowbridge DL buses

@jsamways @JGourd7 Thanks. I thought no. 3 was Bournemouth livery, but couldn’t reconcile that with the “Queen Mary” look

One for the bus enthusiasts. Who can identify the vehicles in this line up at the Southampton City Transport centenary rally? 📷 me 1979

@JGourd7 @ovsbulleid 1. Post war RTL with roof box. (Pre-war RTs had curved cab windows at the bottom). 2. Looks lowbridge. 3. Bournemouth Corp'n 1950 Leyland PD2. 4. Looks like the 8-foot RTW version. 5. Unusual for a Leyland to have ECW body! 6. LD6B Lodekka, originally with Hants & Dorset.

@ovsbulleid L - R: 1. Pre-War AEC Regent III. (Roof-box dates it to before the War) 2. Can't see. 3. Queen Mary PD3. 4. Leyland Post-War RT 5. Leyland PD2 Lowbridge. 6. Bristol Lodekka... Possibly.

@YesterdaysBrit1 That’s probably Bromley High Street. The 94 ran from Grove Park to Petts Wood station in those days (50s-60s)

A day in the past.

@compassbus Thank you for your good service for many years.

ℹ️ Important - Service 261 update. 📢From Saturday 9 May, Service 261 will be replaced by the new Service 500. ✅ From this date, the service will be operated by Metrobus rather than by us. For full details please visit the Metrobus website.tinyurl.com/4e6aw2mn

@Rob99218119 In the 60s most of the older ‘pre-war’ RTs, distinguished by the curved windows below the cab, had become driver training vehicles

Half Acre Brentford

@GordonDudman @stephen37292ML Very good! You can almost put that to the tune of ‘The Gasman Cometh’ …

@stephen37292ML Not the one I wanted - but turned this one up...

Who would have thought that in 2026 we would still be using a Tyer token machines on single lines. A token stamped with the route of line is handed to the driver giving him authority to enter the single line when signalled. Token returned into the token machine at the other end.

@CllrJRussell46 @RobertsDJ @AboutEG @METROBUS Thank you

@jsamways @RobertsDJ @AboutEG @METROBUS Have written to highways

@AboutEG did you see the new 500 Metrobus service launching soon Gatwick <> Eastbourne. Via EG. And is 24/7. metrobus.co.uk/May?fbclid=Iwd…

@SignaloftheDay Coming up from the disused Quay line

DR 196 Weymouth (Submitted by Bryan Boskett) #SignalOfTheDay

@BMLBod @MonsieurPiddly They are if they have all the pasted-in amendments, amendments to amendments, etc. etc. A work of art to stick them in the right place so you could still read the unchanged bits!

@MonsieurPiddly As if it used to look like that?! The one in the drawer of my desk in Gatwick Control Point is literally 5 times the size of that at least. 🤯

A lot has happened since 1950, because our rule book it's a bit more swollen these days.. 😂