The Starlings are ready to roost, just enough light to catch a Swift

Well actually London Transport called it's AEC Swifts the Merlin but who cares about the name because it was good to see one working into Portsmouth in 1992, one of a small number famously operating with Hants and Sussex. In mid-winter it is already going dark in the afternoon and as Pompey has not been a regular haunt since the Sixties I was more than pleased with the result. I lived in the Victoria area of London for about nine-months in 1969-70 and I remember this Metro-Cammell bodied MBA well as it was then a new Red Arrow.