Kingston 2009 RF Event

Sandown Park 22 March 2009

Thanks to all the photographers who have taken the trouble to submit photos

for the gallery - at least 30 of you. Here are some highlights.

Two 201s pass in Ewell Road, Long Ditton for the first time in many a long year.

RF672 is Kingston-bound and photographed from RF429. Green RFs worked

from Kingston garage in the early 1960s.

Photo © Peter Larkham

RF406 turns towards Hersham and Walton at Esher High Street.

Photo © Kevin Smith

The road run to Fulwell provided the opportunity to line up four RFs on the famous

forecourt, with the tram track numbers still borne above the doors. Three of the

four were going home, having worked from Fulwell over the years - including RF354,

which started work there on 9 May 1962, the day after the last London trolleybus

entered the gates.

Photo © Geoff Ragg

RF366 comes through East Molesey on a short-working of the 206.

Photo © Dave Simmons

RF534 waits time at Dorking North Station for the 470 feeder service to Esher.

Photo © Mike Nash

The RF may be timeless, but the MB looks positively modern. It's hard to remember

it is over 40 years old. MB90 leaves Esher on the 416.

Photo © Mark James

RF534 in timeless surroundings runs down Portsmouth Road, Surbiton.

Photo © Peter Larkham

RF421 on the 219 to Weybridge passes RF486 laying over on the 206^A.

Photo © Graham Smith

On its feeder service over the 406 from Reigate (but displaying 215 blinds), RF429

pauses on the traditional stand in Epsom.

Photo © John Edwards

Peter Larkham supervises the terminal working of the 215^A at Downside, revised due to uncontrolled Sunday parking at the proper turn.

Photo © Peter Zabek

RF457 works through Esher town centre.

Photo © Dave Rayment

Two generations on the 218 liven up the street scene outside Kingston's Guildhall.

RF534 in the final RF livery passes TD95, which was only at Kingston early in its life

in around 1949.

Standing in exactly the spot where Alan Cross photographed our RF486 in the early

1960s, at the Dittons Winters Bridge trolleybus terminus, RF429 is running the 201

which crosses the main road at this point. Funny, what happened to the traction poles?

Route 216, being remote from Sandown Park, was not as well photographed - but

here is a nice shot of RF673 heading through Hampton.

Esher bustle - RF429 heads for Ripley on the 215 passing RTW75 which has

terminated on the 72. A Transdev Dart looks on.

Tango, by the Self Preservation Society.

Evening shadows lengthen as RF491 awaits its last departure from Hersham Green.

Earlier in the year, a route training day covered the routes in RF486, here seen

arriving to pick up in Dorking.