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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.

Thanks very much, it was a very enjoyable day.

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember going to school on a trolleybus replacement Routemaster, still great buses, they have stood the test of time.

I lived in Chingford until I was 21, we used to go on the 718 Greenline to Epping to see my aunt and uncle until I was 8 years old, then my dad got his 1st car, a 1932 Morris 8!

Thanks for your comment!

Thanks very much, a very enjoyable day.

They were not disabled compliant, plus the open platform is against health and safety laws now sadly

Also, the cost of a two person crew.

Thanks very much, a very enjoyable day.

I would also add that there was never any breakdown, although it once came close. One day, from Tolworth on towards Kingston, the driver kept revving the engine hard. I was sitting near the back, so couldn't see whether the red flag in the cab was down. Anyway, just before The Railway Tavern, Surbiton, there was an almighty bang, following which the engine ran roughly and emitted clouds of exhaust. I then worked at County Hall, where I got off but the bus still pulled away towards the town and no doubt was subsequently failed. I still don't know what went wrong. Any ideas?

Thank you!

Yes, it was very interesting to see these vehicles built for foreign operators.

Yes, route 28 goes near the castle as it goes up to Graça, I think that you would have to get off near the cathedral (Sé), from memory it is still a steep climb up to the castle.

Wonderful video Bob. I never tire of seeing those trams. It’s been on my bucket list for some time to visit Lisbon, but not yet happened.

@@GuyArab Thanks Guy, I hope that you make it to Lisbon, not that there is any danger of it closing or anything, be prepared to wait for a tram though, route 28, the Graça circle, is very busy all the time, and the trams get held up in the traffic, there is timetable but it is is largely a work of fiction.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs I have heard about the long queue, so I will be prepared.

There are several steam tram engines preserved in Belgium, the country once had an extensive steam tram network most of which was either electrified or converted to diesel trams.

There are certain times when they are very busy.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, I hope they keep these tram free of adverts, they look good in fleet livery.

There will be a new video of the old trams soon.

@@bobhodgestransportDVDsLooking forward to seeing them.

It was an interesting day, a good insight into the way Alexander-Dennis work these days.

Thank you, it was worth getting up early to see the vehicles off from the museum.

Thank you, fortunately I only live about a mile away from Brooklands Museum although I still had to get up early to be there for the start of the run.

I thought they were excellent, blame Boris for their demise.

They worked best on long fairly straight routes.