This bus leaves at 15.35 precisely

The Swiss take time and punctuality very seriously indeed to the more laid-back visitors it would seem that urban life runs like clockwork. This Mercedes-Benz 0405 was seen at Bellevue.

Franklins smart AEC Swift

Seen in Borehamwood in it's smart blue livery Franklin's Coaches ran this former Grampian (Aberdeen) Alexander W-type AEC Swift.

Trolleybues in Arnheim

Arnheim has the distinctio of being the only town in the Netherlands to operate trolleybuses. No.147 was pictured in the early Nineties when still fairly new.

Buses & Girls: The subtle approach

I like to get people in my photos and if you haven't noticed women. Someimes though my views wouldn't work without it as it becomes part of the composition and indeed focus in this instance as I caught the otherwise humdrum comings and goings in Plymouth

Sunny Eastbourne

I rather liked these Northern Counties bodied B10D's of Southdown in their revival apple-green and cream. Indeed I took another shot without the cosmopolitan young ladies from across the Channel.

Where to draw the line?

One of the delights of transport photography for me is how the light changes depending on the time of day and season. With the low angle of the sun this looks like a winter shot and my main concern if I remember was finding the best spot to negate glare and the position across the front of the Atlantean for the shadow from the post to fall. Both buses carry East Lancashire bodywork but the Dennis Dominator across the street came from Leicester.

London Transport: South Croydon Garage in 1965

Here is one of my earliest schoolboy photos taken with a cheap Ilford Sporty camera. However one can still marvel at the thought of a whole allocation of  nothing but magnificent RT's at Croydon (TC).