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Plantagenet Gardens, ROMFORD, RM6 6JX

Or, as I had it when I was growing up there, Station Hill.

Note the lack of a pedestrian walkway on the far side of the road, which has since been improved. The iconic London Transport RT bus was only 7 ft 6 inches wide, considerably less than modern buses at 2.50 metres (8 ft 2 inches), emphasising the narrowness of the carriageway. Hardly surprising that the fence post appear to have taken a battering (probably not from buses!). This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761 . RT1989 is operating on route 62 to Gascoigne Estate.

London Transport AEC Regent buses (RT's) parked at Chadwell Heath. They were outstationed from Seven Kings garage whilst it was being rebuilt. The post war RT's began to enter service in 1947 and over 4000 were built. The last RT's were withdrawn in 1979. Many of the more modern designs introduced in the late 1960's and early 1970's to replace the RT's were withdrawn at the same time, having failed to cut the mustard.

London Transport's iconic RT buses were coming towards the end of their working life; RT3951 is on the rather circuitous route 62 to Barkingside which would be the last to use them, in April of the following year. The station building remained virtually unchanged in 2010 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1992362 This is one of a series of views featuring buses in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=137652761

On the bridge over the railway.

The line through here was opened on 20th June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the Mile End (temporary terminus) to Romford section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. The London terminus was moved in July 1840 to Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate), and at the eastern end the line was extended out to Brentwood in the same year. Colchester was reached by 1843. Liverpool Street opened in stages from February 1874. The line was quadrupled to Ilford in 1895 and in 1899 out to Seven Kings. In 1902 the quadruple track was extended from Seven Kings through Chadwell Heath to Romford. Chadwell Heath station was opened on 11th January 1864, and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the Eastern Counties Railway built the line in the 1830s. In this photograph the original lines, now the slow lines are to the left while the fast lines dating from 1902 are to the right beyond the railings. The next station in this direction is Romford.

A Shenfield train is heading away, next stop Romford. It is nice to see original decorative valances surviving on the canopies. There is, or was, an amazing variety of patterns to be seen, even at stations on the same line, seemingly at the whim of the carpenter.

The line through here was opened on 20th June 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the Mile End (temporary terminus) to Romford section of what was to become the Great Eastern Main Line. The London terminus was moved in July 1840 to Shoreditch (later renamed Bishopsgate), and at the eastern end the line was extended out to Brentwood in the same year. Colchester was reached by 1843. Liverpool Street opened in stages from February 1874. The line was quadrupled to Ilford in 1895 and in 1899 out to Seven Kings. In 1902 the quadruple track was extended from Seven Kings through Chadwell Heath to Romford. Chadwell Heath station was opened on 11th January 1864, and is built on the site of Wangey House, one of Dagenham's oldest buildings dating back to 1250. Wangey House was partly demolished when the Eastern Counties Railway built the line in the 1830s. In this photograph these are the original lines, now the slow lines. The fast lines dating from 1902 are out of sight to the right. The next station in this direction is Romford.