Southend Olympian B557 ATX in Knightsbridge

A damp Autumn day in the late Eighties and things had certainly changed since my bus heyday in the Sixties. Then the only real change year on year was an influx of new vehicles but everything else more of less remained constant and so who would have believed that Southend Transport who were then operating Massey bodied Leyland Titans plus Lowlanders and Reading with Dennis Lolines would be a couple of decades further on be running double-deck buses on limited stop services right across the Capital once the tightly regulated domain of London Transport.. In the Southend fleet this East Lancs bodied Leyland Olympian had come from Cardiff and was pictured stuck in early- evening traffic along Knightsbridge.