MY PHOTO COLLECTION

This website contains photos that I have taken during my main photographic years between 1973 and 2001. Included are photos of buses of London Transport, London Country, Green Line coaches and many operators around the UK, along with photos of some bus garages, trains and railway stations. As I didn't own a car until 2003, the vast majority of photographs were taken using public transport. All the photos on this website are saved as low resolution files to save on storage space and bandwidth. If any are required for publication, I can supply hi-res images.

 

So far I have scanned over 66,000 colour transparencies, and I am also adding photos recently inherited from the late Colin Taffel although this is a very slow process owing to the number of slides and the time taken to scan and clean them up. My thanks must go to Martin Ruthe for assisting in checking and correcting information of some of the other operators' photos where my memory has failed me, and also to Alexander Zalicks for maintaining this website.

 

I hope you will enjoy looking at some of the photos, not only for the buses but also for the street scenes, cars and lorries, buildings, shops, signs, fashions etc. You can use the search facility to find individual operators, registration numbers, fleetnumbers or locations, and if you click on any category, the ten most recent albums to have photos added will be shown at the top of the page. You may add comments to individual shots and thanks to those of you who have already done so, they're most interesting.

 

How do I scan my collection?
For those that are interested the scanner that I am using is the Epson Perfection V550, along with Epsonscan software which gives considerably better and sharper results than the VueScan software I originally used. I am using Photoshop to 'clean up' the images.

 

Please note that all the photographs are my own copyright and none of them may be reproduced or shared elsewhere, either digitally or otherwise, without my personal permission. For this reason access to my website is available only to people known personally to me and by invitation or recommendation as I am limiting access to reduce copyright infringement. All existing viewers will retain access to the site.

 

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Rhymney Valley District Council5 views15 Mar 2025
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Weardale Motor Services (County Durham)8 views15 Mar 2025
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Clayton Jones (Pontypridd)5 views15 Mar 2025
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Dualway Coaches (Rathcoole, Eire)6 views15 Mar 2025
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GoCoach (Swanley)5 views15 Mar 2025
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Silcox (Pembroke Dock)8 views15 Mar 2025
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Turners (Brown Edge)5 views15 Mar 2025
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The Colin Taffel Collection
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The Colin Taffel Collection


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London Transport & London Buses
Routes 1 - 49
Routes 50 - 99
Routes 100 - 149
Routes 150 - 199
Routes 200 - 249
Routes 250 - 299
Routes 300 - 349
Routes 350 - 399
Routes 400 - 449
Routes 450 - 499
Routes 500 - 549
Routes 550 - 592
Routes 600 - 649
Routes 650 - 699
Routes 700 - 750X
Routes 800 - 855
Routes 906 - 991
Prefix Routes A-H
Prefix Routes K-Z
Night Routes
Special Services
Railway Replacement Buses
Miscellaneous Vehicles
London Transport Works
Bus Garages
London Country
Routes 44 - 291
Routes 300 - 349
Routes 350 - 399
Routes 400 - 449
Routes 450 - 499
Routes 500 - T5
Miscellaneous Vehicles
Green Line
Routes 700 - 734
Routes 735 - 799
Blue Triangle
Capital Citybus
County Bus & Coach
Crosville Motor Services
Eastern National
Ensignbus
London & Country
Luton & District
Metrobus
Southend Transport
Sovereign Bus & Coach
Thamesway
Ireland Operators
Scotland Operators
Wales Operators
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Clayton Jones (Pontypridd)


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Rhymney Valley District Council


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Silcox (Pembroke Dock)


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Other Operators
Operators A
Operators B
Operators C
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Castleways (Cheltenham)


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Operators D
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Dualway Coaches (Rathcoole, Eire)


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Operators E
Operators F
Operators G
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GoCoach (Swanley)


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Operators H
Operators I
Operators J
Operators K
Operators L
Operators M
Operators N
Operators O
Operators P
Operators Q
Operators R
Operators S
Operators T
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Turners (Brown Edge)


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Operators U
Operators V
Operators W
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Weardale Motor Services (County Durham)


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Woods (Dewsbury)


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2 albums on 1 page(s)

Operators X
Operators Y
Operators Z
Bus Running Days
Preserved Vehicles
Light Railway & Trams
Blackpool Transport Trams
Railways
Closed Stations
Cambrian Coast Line Stations
London Underground Stations
Stratford Station
Other Stations
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