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'Pullover Penguin' by Donna Newman, one of a dozen penguin statues decorating the Fleet Street area over Christmas.
Junction of Farringdon Street and St Bride Street (just north of Ludgate Circus) on Christmas Day 2024.
East London RML2286 is entering Fleet Street on 5 March 1989, the second day of operation for route 15B (East Ham to Oxford Circus). The scene here has changed considerably with the demolition of the bridge into Ludgate Hill station, Thameslink trains tunneling under the road a little further east. The Old King Lud pub of 1870 closed it's doors in 2005 (as the Hogshead). The RML was later used for spares towards RML2671 and presumably scrapped. A881UYE, the red 1984 Bedford van was active until 1998.
Scanned from a slide in my collection.
Fleet Street from the top deck
Wednesday 3 July 2024
© Copyright Steve Guess MMXXIV
(c.1944)
(2024)
Looking east up Ludgate Hill from Ludgate Circus.
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3406 LC71KWO seen at Old Kent Road working on route 63 towards Honor Oak.
Something I've not properly photographed until now is this Pride liveried bus that was wrapped earlier in 2023. The colours do look better in the wintry sunshine.
By Laura-Kate Chapman
Whew, that’s better. That long and arduous pilgrimage for the buses of route 63 is well and truly over. With the sun setting and the battery on my camera on one bar, this was all that I was able to hang around for, and even if it isn't the shot I'd have preferred (damn you N63!), it's a shot I'll be happy to come home with.
Route 63 gained a good deal of notoriety in December 2021, following it's transfer to Abellio London, by way of the ever-penniless Transport for London funding the delivery of 29 battery-electric Alexander Dennis Enviro400EVs with high-specification interiors: to quote routeone, features include "Lazzerini high-backed seats that each include a USB charging point, a mobile phone holder and (on the upper deck) a bell push; ceiling skylights; larger rear windows; wood-effect flooring; a larger wheelchair user and buggy area; [...] improved CCTV, [and] digital onboard displays". For London, high-spec buses come off as rather uncommon, but these buses were part of a post-pandemic TfL initiative named "Future Bus". See route 111 for where that initiative has been further rolled out to. Agh... missed the Electroliners by a few months!
Finally photographed for Wikipedia purposes after a long few hours walking through the City of London to get here, Abellio London's 3436, a 2022 BYD ADL Enviro400EV based at Walworth garage (WL), is seen heading up New Bridge Street on route 63 to King's Cross. Oh man, if I had a polariser back then...
The clock shows the time as T past L – it's probably stopped; it should be showing D to D.
Looking across Ludgate Circus past the ex-SECR railway bridge, and up to St Pauls, with a good selection of vintage vehicles and buses, including a battery-electric milk float..
Beyond the bridge, there were large areas of bombed-out buildings that had still not been rebuilt, and some of the basement areas were in use as car parks. Just above the 'Linen Replacement Service' van, and to the left of the red traffic light, can just be seen the curve of the shoulder-height brick and concrete wall that separated the cleared-out basements from the pavement above..
Today (2023) the buildings have all been rebuilt - sometimes multiple times - but the rail bridge and viaduct have gone, and the rail lines here are now subterranean..
Restored from a faded under-exposed original..
Original slide - property of Robert Gadsdon
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