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Old LT Garages
IanB wrote:
"Nick Hewitt" wrote in message Hi people. This is a bit long, so please bear with me. I am trying to track down a number of past & present ex-LT bus garages. They are :- 1) The original Kingston garage in Richmond Road. Where on Richmond Road was it? I remember a bus garage by the railway station in what I think is called Wood Street. It was there when we went in hunt of some of the last RFs in (LT) service which would make it mid 70s. The entrance faced the railway line and the exit faced west so buses leaving would go past the entrance! there was some additional parking (bus) in a yard between Wood Str & the railway and the garage entrance I am thinking of had some sort of restriction on it, ban on DMS class or similar (either too wide or high) which would explain why it was disposed of There may possibly have been an earlier garage, but in the 60s and 70s Kingston Garage had a wide exit on Clarence St and a narrow entrance on what seems to be Cromwell Road. Unusually, passengers could board buses within the bus garage. There was also a bus terminus in front (south) of the station, mainly for green buses, and I think some sort of overflow bus park by the railway east of the station - where the present bus station is. What you've forgotten is that in those days Clarence St was one way southbound, and Wood Street one way eastbound. Buses reached the garage from the west or north and departed south. Clarence St was very busy even then, and I've got film somewhere of an RF taking a very long time to push out into the traffic. Colin McKenzie |
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