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Post by superteacher on Jan 30, 2021 11:50:05 GMT
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Post by Colin D on Jan 30, 2021 21:50:40 GMT
That was the year before I joined the UndergrounD. Sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday.
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Post by geriatrix on Jan 31, 2021 10:57:16 GMT
And buses, and a BEA Vanguard. Wonderful stuff, thanks for posting.
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Post by selbiehouse on Feb 2, 2021 22:42:39 GMT
Quite ridiculous to change onto the Piccadilly at Earl's Court to go to Gloucester Road. Nice to see the 4RF4 on the airport coach service. At this time the coaches were flight specific. Once you boarded the coach the connection to the flight was assured.
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Post by geriatrix on Feb 3, 2021 9:51:35 GMT
Indeed. In the mid sixties I worked for an airline in London's West End. I had to take the company mail to be sent to our European HQ to the West London Air Terminal. There I would put it on one of the airport coaches, and nip upstairs to our check-in desk to send a telex to our Heathrow office to tell them the Airline and Destination on the front of the coach. They would then meet the coach, collect the company logo'ed suitcase with the mail inside for onward transmission on one of our flights. I would then collect the suitcase with the incoming mail, which had been retrieved by the Air Terminal clerk from an earlier coach, and wend my way back to Gloucester Road Station, board the lift to the Platform and travel back to Oxford Circus, changing at Piccadilly. One of my colleagues once left the suitcase full of mail on the train, which caused no end of problems, especially for him.
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Post by norbitonflyer on Feb 3, 2021 12:31:57 GMT
Quite ridiculous to change onto the Piccadilly at Earl's Court to go to Gloucester Road. Nice to see the 4RF4 on the airport coach service. At this time the coaches were flight specific. Once you boarded the coach the connection to the flight was assured. Indeed- it would actually be quicker just to walk from Earls Court, as the air terminal was roughly halfway between them. Or just stay on the No 30, which got almost as close. And his sense of direction is rather confused if he thinks the Air Terminal was further west than Putney. Maybe the Midland Pullman (still running in early 1966) would have been quicker? |
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