Two return Heritage trips were made by the 1938 Stock on the Jubilee Line on this date, unusual for a mid-week outing, between Stratford and West Hampstead. These photos are at Stratford, West Hampstead and Finchley Road

Two return trips from Edgware to Kennington on the London Underground Northern Line were made by the preserved 1938 tube stock on this day. These photos at Edgware, Colindale and Golders Green record the event

Love them or loathe them, their existence does need to be recorded so that they can take their place in London's transport history and show future generations what we had to put up with at the start of the 21st Century

Saturday 28th June 2008 was a glorious summer's day, just right to celebrate the centenary of Bow Garage in the East End and to see some much loved vintage vehicles out on the road again, glinting in the sparkling sunshine.

Chiltern Trains operate services out of Marylebone to such affluent towns as Gerrard's Cross and Beaconsfield and onto High Wycombe, Banbury and Birmingham Snow Hill while the Aylesbury line parallels the TfL Metropolitan Line as far as Amersham.

To celebrate the completion of the upgrade of Cricklewood Garage, a public Open Day was held on this date and, as always on these occasions, included some nostalgic rides round the streets of north-west London in several preserved vintage vehicles, as recorded here.

South London's exciting tram system, opened in May 2000.

The innovative DLR with its unique driverless computer-controlled trains, first opened in 1987 and much extended and rebuilt since

A collection of photos of Routemasters on the Heritage sections of routes 9 and 15

The end of RMs on route 12

The last day of RMs on route 19

The last day of crew-operation of route 38

The RM Finale celebrations on route 159 were spread over one-and-a-half days from 8th December to noon on 9th December 2005. These photos were mostly taken on those days with a few from earlier that week.

As a native of north London, here are some pics taken during my visits to "the other side"

South London has few Underground lines, apart from the absurdly named Northern Line to Morden and the District Line branches to Wimbledon and Richmond. The East London Line is now temporarily closed for incorporation into the London Overground. In South-east London, three routes bear down on the Kent town of Dartford, the original North Kent Line via Woolwich Arsenal of 1849, the Dartford Loop via Sidcup of 1866 and the much later Bexleyheath Loop of 1895.

A collection of photos of lines served by South-West Trains

A selection of my bus photos from north of the river

A collection of bus photos from my too infrequent visits to the south side of the river

As the title suggests, some freight locomotives caught while out in north London

Similarly, a collection of freight locos seen while on my wanderings in south London

A variety of station pics from north of the river

London has a wide variety of stations, some retaining their splendour from bygone days while others leave a lot to be desired. Here is a selection of my station photos from south of the river.

The name "Bakerloo" is a corruption of Baker Street & Waterloo Railway, the line's original name as opened in 1906 before extension to Queen's Park to link with the Watford Junction local line. Bakerloo trains once ran all the way to the latter but now terminate at Harrow & Wealdstone while the Stanmore branch was taken over by the Jubilee Line in 1979.

The Central Line originally opened as the Central London Railway between Bank and Shepherd's Bush in 1900 and has been much extended both east and west, incorporating ex=LNER tracks to the east and tracks opened during 1947/48 built alongside the ex-GWR main line to West Ruislip.

The nucleus of today's District Line was the Metropolitan District Railway opened from South Kensington to Westminster Bridge (renamed Westminster 1907) on Christmas Eve 1868. Today the line extends to Upminster in the east, Wimbledon in the south and Ealing Broadway in the west while the Hounslow West and South Harrow branches were taken over by the Piccadilly Line during 1932/33 although a few District Line trains continued to parallel the Piccadilly trains to Hounslow West until 1964. This particular branch has since been extended to Heathrow.

The East London Line as Londoners have known it for decades ceased to exist from 22.12.2007 when it was closed for reconstruction and incorporation into the new London Overground system which will see brand new trains of main line stock running from Dalston Junction over the old North London Railway Broad Street viaduct via the East London Line to Croydon from 2010.

This line extends from Hammersmith to Barking via the northern side of the Circle Line, renamed from sections of the Metropolitan Line.

The Jubilee Line runs from Stratford in the east to Stanmore in the north crossing the river several times on its extension route opened in 1999 when the Charing Cross terminus opened in 1979 closed. North of Baker Street, the line took over the former Bakerloo Line's Stanmore branch which itself took over the Mettopolitan's 1932 Stanmore branch in 1939.

With its semi-fast trains on its Extension Line, the Metropolitan still has the atmosphere of a main line about it as it wanders into the Chilterns. I can only hope that my photos do as much justice to this line as did the late great Sir John Betjeman's 1973 t.v. documentary "Metroland".

The Northern Line is one of the most complicated on the Underground, incorporating the City & South London Railway of 1890, the world's first deep level electric railway, and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway of 1907. Both were linked in the 1920s at Camden Town in the north and Kennington in the south and eventually extended to Morden in the south and to Edgware in the north as well as taking over the LNER (ex-GNR) lines to High Barnet and Mill Hill East.

The Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway opened between Finsbury Park and Hammersmith on 15.12.1906 and was extended in new tunnels from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters during 1932/33 while, at the same time, it was greatly extended over the tracks of the former District Railway to Hounslow West and South Harrow and from the latter to Uxbridge over former Metropolitan Railway tracks. The Hounslow branch has since been extended to Heathrow.

A selection of my photos of the remains of lines and stations, main and Underground, in north London

Abandoned lines and stations in south London

On a gorgeous sun-kissed autumn Sunday, Sarah Siddons and the 1938 stock made several trips up and down the outer limits of the Metropolitan Line to and from Harrow-on-the-Hill and Amersham and also on the Watford branch. My photos record the day for posterity.

The brand new Class 378 units for the London Overground electrified routes (the Gospel Oak to Barking Line remains diesel operated) entered service on 29th July 2009 and are currently running in conjunction with the older Class 313 units which will gradually be withdrawn.

First proposed more than ten years earlier, the new London Overground station at Imperial Wharf finally opened on Sunday, 27th September 2009. It is situated on the north side of the Thames a few hundred yards from the West London Line bridge across the river and about a quarter of a mile south of the site of Chelsea & Fulham station which closed in October 1940 and where its derelict platforms are still "in situ" when the former Southern Railway withdrew their service between Clapham Junction and Kensington (Addison Road), now Kensington (Olympia). Imperial Wharf is served by TfL London Overground services between Willesden Junction and Clapham Junction and also by Southern services between East Croydon and Milton Keynes Central. These photos were taken a week after its opening on Saturday, 3rd October 2009.

These pics were taken in that part of London I know best, north of the river

Scenes from the Potters Bar Bus Garage Open Day on Saturday, 5.7.2008 where, coincidentally, my brother is employed, a driver on various Metroline routes that are based here though he was nowhere to be seen on this occasion.

Vintage and Other Buses on Rail Replacement outings

The upgrading of the DLR continues apace with stations enlarged and platforms lengthened to take longer trains. The position of the original South Quay station on a tight reverse curve meant it was unsuitable for platform extensions and so it has been re-sited 100 yards to the east. This opened to the public on 26th October 2009 and these photos were taken five weeks later on the afternoon of 5th December 2009.

The Regent's Canal was one of the earliest forms of transport in the Capital, opening in 1820 to link the Grand Junction Canal at Paddington with the Thames at Limehouse. The two concerns were amalgamated in 1929 to form the Grand Union Canal.

The famous icon of London, the faithful Routemaster, in regular service just before the end

In connection with a Transport Collectors Fair at the Hythe Centre on Thorpe Road, Staines, on this day, a vinatge bus service in the capable hands of preserved RT 3228 operated a shutlle service from Staines station to the event. As the bus cruised through Staines town centre and infiltrated the bus station, looking like a lone visitor from another planet amongst all of today's modern vehicles, people turned and stared as if the aliens had landed! How short some people's memories are.

The London Overground was formed in November 2007 when Transport for London took over the North London, West London and Gospel Oak/Barking lines previously operated by Silverlink Metro. These pics were taken before, through and after this period of transition.

The town of Staines is just outside the London area in Middlesex and is unusual in that, although situated south-west of the Capital, is on the north side of the Thames. These photos were taken during a two hour visit on a very cold day

The motor and pedestrian ferry across the Thames between North and South Woolwich, the only FREE public transport in the Capital which otherwise has the most outrageously expensive public transport fares in the world. There is also a foot tunnel, opened in 1912.