from Home, 14th March 2026.
- bus running day, London route 38 Victoria to Clapton Pond
- and an opportunity to try out a new travel computer setup before longer journeys

Near perfectly to plan outbound journey to The Angel. On the way back, just about anything that could go wrong did go wrong. Never the less, a very much enjoyed day and huge understandings;  I had my eyes open - or perhaps they are different eyes of places which were haunts of my youth and Uni days. And I met and I saw some lovely people along the way; in parts they were sprinkled along many carriages of a train, in other parts there were too may of them crammed in. Within almost every situation, the most unlikely people will interact, helpfully, if they are in their comfort zone and we are polite to them.

B -> Melksham Station
T -> Swindon
T -> Paddington
U -> Victoria
HB -> Angel
U -> East Finchley
U -> Mill Hill East
B -> Mill Hill Broadway
T -> Kentish Town
U -> Angel
HB -> Clapton Pond
HB -> Angel
W -> City Thamelink
T -> St Pancras
U -> Oxford Circus
U -> Lancaster Gate
W -> Paddington
T -> Bath Spa
B -> Melksham Town
W -> Home

# awk '/^[A-Z]/{print $1}' yj| sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

20 "legs" - 6 on the underground, (5 of which were the tube, 1 on a subsurface line), 5 on trains part of the National Rail network, 3 on regular bus services, and 3 on the heritage buses that were there as the string that tied the day together.  And the final 3 legs were walked - totalling 6.7 miles (10.8 kms) according to my phone.  And it also says "18 floors climbed".

 
"18 floors climbed". I hope some of those were to make top deck trips!

I was amused to see a report by one journalist who got excited about seeing a "Routemaster" bus being corrected by another pointing out that it was a far more noteworthy and older RT.  Routemasters seem to get all the glory, a bit like the Spitfire over the Hurricane.

 

Here are some pictures from the day ... you can probably fill me in on what's what

 
First picture has a RM, RT and STL side by side

 
3.  Islington Tunnel, on the Regent's Canal.  We could do without the graffiti there.

 
2.  Clearly a full English breakfast - but there are too many liquids right next to the keyboard there for my liking.