The hydrogen buses on route 7 were taken out of service for while because there was a safety issue, as far as I know they are back in service.

Thanks for your comment, I hope you enjoyed the video.

I quite agree, the restoration has taken awhile but the result is wonderful.

Interesting points, T448 is a 9T9 type AEC Regal with Weymann bodywork, originally these buses were on Greenline work, they were succeeded by the 10T10 type which had the same chassis but were bodied by the the LPTB at their Chiswick works, the nearside headlamp and mudguard reverted to the traditional separate design, perhaps the 9T9 combined mudguard/headlamp assembly was a Weymann design feature although I am sure that the LPTB would have had a say in the way the bus looked. When the 10T10 and TF classes of coaches came into service in 1938, the 9T9's were relegated to bus work, (the TF was the Leyland Tiger FEC underfloor engine coach, none of which survived into preservation). I agree about the similarity with the Routemaster nearside headlamp/mudguard design. Regarding the RFW, these were built in 1951, the chassis was the then new AEC Regal IV underfloor engine type, 20 were built, the first 5 were for Tilling Transport, a small coaching unit in London owned by the nationalised British Transport Commission, however they were diverted to London Transport who were desperate for coaches for their private hire fleet because of the Festival of Britain which took place in London in 1951. Another 10 were deilivered to LT in early 1951 and 5 went to Tilling Transport. Regarding the design, in 1951 the standard ECW coach body was built on Bristol L front engine chassis, although it was full front in an effort to make it look modern, ECW were also still making half cab bodies for buses on Bristol L type chassis. ECW had bodied 2 Bristol LS prototype buses in 1950 but they did not start building coaches on LS chassis until 1952, I don't think that this body looks very much like the RFW although it was probably the same design team, I think that the LS coach body owes more to the bodies built on the front engine chassis, the RFW design remained a one off, the 5 Tilling RFW's were later rebodied by ECW with MW style coach bodies. I think one of these has survived into preservation. The ECW bodies from these coaches weren't initially scrapped some of them at least were mounted on older underfloor engine chassis. 10 of the RFW's were exported to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in 1964 where they were in service as coaches for a long time, some as late as 1980. Hope this is all of interest.

It was one of 3 that went to the County Donegal Railway at Fintown where preservationists have opened about 3 miles of track for heritage trains. Sometime ago the 3 trailers were surplus to requirements, the Southwold Railway acquired one of them in 2010/11. I have read that there is another one of these trailers in Wiltshire restored to Charleroi livery, this also possibly came from Donegal. My photo was taken on 22nd May 2019 and as far as I know the tram is still at the Southwold Railway.

Thanks for the information, I looked at the Metrobus website last week and could see that 2 of the 64xx series were in service.

Thanks 😊

Thank you for your comments.

For more tracks check 'Czar' on KZbin, several people have down loaded tracks from the Czar LP, no more video unfortunately.

Thank you very much!

I hope that LCC 1 is a big attraction at the tramway museum.

I quite agree, the TMS have done an amazing job on no. 1.

RATP have mixed up the batches of buses so that you can get newer and older buses on the same route.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs no wonder why I saw a future spec e400ev on route 49 and some optare metrodecker a on 295 what the hell-

I never do voice overs on my videos, I prefer that people should hear the sounds of the buses which I feel is just as important as the pictures.

You are quite right, the tramway also does bird watching specials from time to time.

Thanks for your comments, as you probably know, Elmers End is not very near Locksbottom!

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There are several intermediate stops where you can get on or off the trams.

I have videos of the coastal tramway in 2023 which shows both the BN trams and new CAF trams in operation, plus videos of Gent and Antwerp for their 150th anniversaries in 2023 and 2024, all on You Tube.

When I filmed this the buses were being charged at the old Brixton Hill tram depot which is a sub depot to the main Brixton bus garage nearby on Streatham Hill.

Thanks very much, I tried to film in as many locations that in could in the week that I spent on the island.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Nice one Bob as i did the same on my many trips in the 90s only shooting lorries instead -but i would capture a bus as well in shot if it suited.

@@octopus680 I suppose all the old lorries have gone now, I first visited Malta in the 1990's, there were still lots of old British cars around then aswell as the old buses.

Thank you very much.

Thanks for your comments, all the different adverts on the trams are very colourful.

Wonderful buses.

I agree.

Did you expect them to be MODEL buses !!

That was a shame, I thought the programme was particularly well produced.

I thought it was a good effort at least on the Saturday when I attended, I did film Routemaster 60 at Finsbury Park, much more space there so there was a lot more movement of the buses.

I was unable to attend due to mainline engineering work - Must say it looked a bit of a shambles so maybe I didn't miss too much after all - RM's 50 and 60 were superbly organised !!

Cuando filmé esto, el túnel estaba en construcción, me alegró poder ver el video de la antigua línea junto al mar.

Yes I agree, good idea.

Some missing stars from the lineup. Didn't see RMF1254 or a Northern General example or indeed FRM1. Shame that they couldn't be there to show all examples of the truly great Routemaster family 😢

@@Hazel584 It would have been good to have seen both of these buses at the event.

The oldest buses are the Birmingham Corporation AEC and Daimler (seen in the first clip) which date from the 1930's, most of the rest of the buses date from the 1950's through to the 1990's.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks for your quick response.

The double deck fleet is almost all Dennis Tridents with East Lancs Mylleniun bodywork, there is one VDL DB250 also with East Lancs bodywork.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks

As a Londoner it was nice to see the rare sight of a Leyland Titan from outside London.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs This Leyland Titan was one of 5 operated by the West Midlands PTE and were sold to London Transport for service in London being non standard in Birmingham and the WMPTE, after ending service in London it was sold to Midland Classic buses and then preserved in their livery and look like now it has reverted to WMPTE livery at last and looks very smart indeed

@@peterwilliamallen1063 I thought it went to London along with the other Titans in the WM fleet, I agree that it looks superb in the WM PTE livery. The only other operator that had Titans as far as I can remember was Reading Corporation, I think that one is preserved out of the 12 that they had.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Yes, they were numbered 7001,7002,7003,7004 and 7005 and were purchased after an initial trial of the Leyland Titan Demonstrator was tried out and ran in conjunction with 5 Metrobuses all spread over variouse West Midlands Garages in Birmingham, the Black Country and Coventry with this Leyland Titan 7001 and Metrobus 6831 running from Washwood Heath Garage hence the detination it has on it number 93 Birmingham City Centre to Kingshurst via Saltley, Washwood Heath and Castle Bromwich originally the number 160 under the Midland Red, I travelled on this bus many times when living in Washwood Heath, Birmingham on both the 93 and 94 bus services but Park Royal were more interested in supplying London Transport, so the WMPTE turned to MCW and their Metrobus which became after the Daimler Fleetline the WMPTE's standard bus and the 5 Leyland Titans sold to London Transport and I believe were painted at Perry Barr depot into London Transport Livery and sent to run with London Transport. When London Transport started scrapping them I believe they were sold to a company called Midland Classic Buses, but it is nice to see this back in WMPTE livery, a lot of the Volvo Ailsa's you also see in this video wre sold to London Transport as well, instead the WMPTE got clapped out DMS buses in return

wrong Titan, that was 7004

The steam tram belongs to the Vicinal museum at Thuin which is near Charleroi, it is steamed there every now and then, it was great to see it in action in Gent.

Thanks Guy, the heritage tram routes in Porto operate every day from 9 in the morning to about 8pm in the evening, they are very well patronised, good numbers of passengers when I was there at the beginning of May.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs Thanks Bob. I know someone who will be on a rail tour shortkt in Portugal, visiting Porto and Lisbon so will let the family have your information.

Thank you, it was great to see the steam tram loco in action.

Thanks for your comments, very interesting.