On Thursday, 23 November 2017 13:30:29 UTC, Jarle Hammen Knudsen wrote:

Thank you for this interesting post.

My thoughts exactly.

On Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:15:54 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\22 17:52, Paul Corfield wrote:

There are two books on the history of London's Night Buses which are an excellent read with many photographs.


What do photographs of night buses show that you can't see in
photographs of day buses, apart from blinds with N?

Oh come on. There are literally hundreds of thousands of photos of day routes taken over the decades. Taking night bus photos, especially pre digital technology, was much harder given the constraints of film. There were also far fewer vehicles actually out and about and minimal night time transport to get around. Also there is something rather different about night time light. I've taken quite a lot of night bus photographs and they are some of my most popular snaps on Flickr [1].

If you approach bus photography on the basis of a "bus is a bus is a bus" then why bother? For me the issue is more about recording the different routes, different locations and the people using the routes. I actually like to get a bit of "life" in my photos (if possible) rather than just a 3/4s view of the vehicle. Oh and we can't get in a Tardis and go back to the 1980s so we have to rely on other people's generosity in sharing their photos for publication in the books.


[1] in case anyone is interested - https://www.flickr.com/photos/247597...57619953634241

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On 2017\11\26 11:44, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:15:54 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\22 17:52, Paul Corfield wrote:

There are two books on the history of London's Night Buses which are an excellent read with many photographs.


What do photographs of night buses show that you can't see in
photographs of day buses, apart from blinds with N?

If you approach bus photography on the basis of a "bus is a bus is a bus" then why bother?

I certainly don't think a bus is a bus, but I do think a Leyland
National in LT livery is a Leyland National in LT livery, regardless of
whether it's a 216 in sunny Sunbury or a ... (has there ever been a
single decker night bus, apart from the bendies on the N29 etc?)

On Sunday, 26 November 2017 12:44:47 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\26 11:44, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Thursday, 23 November 2017 14:15:54 UTC, Basil Jet wrote:
On 2017\11\22 17:52, Paul Corfield wrote:

There are two books on the history of London's Night Buses which are an excellent read with many photographs.


What do photographs of night buses show that you can't see in
photographs of day buses, apart from blinds with N?

If you approach bus photography on the basis of a "bus is a bus is a bus" then why bother?

I certainly don't think a bus is a bus, but I do think a Leyland
National in LT livery is a Leyland National in LT livery, regardless of
whether it's a 216 in sunny Sunbury or a ... (has there ever been a
single decker night bus, apart from the bendies on the N29 etc?)

Yes the N96 which ran from Waterloo to Chingford used Leyland Nationals as they were the only OPO buses Leyton Garage had at the time. I had one very memorable journey on the N96 which nearly resulted in a riot in the bus - nothing to do with me I hasten to add. There have also been rogue workings with single deckers over the years.

We also had bendies on the N12, N453 and N25. Currently the 214 and 108 use single deckers on their night journeys although the 108 also has double deck supplmentary late journeys to act as "O2 jam busters" between NOG and Lewisham. The 285 also used Darts on its night journeys for many years. First Berkshire use Citaros on their N7 between Slough and Heathrow.

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