Day 76 a trip to Woolwich once more.

This trip started with a visit to my optician in Bromley to get a replacement side for my glasses. After this I caught a No 227 to Crystal Palace Parade, thereby reaching the starting point of the No 122, the first time I have been here since catching the No 3 on the first day of the odyssey.

Stagecoach 12391 AD E40H AD Eniviro400H

Crystal Palace Parade with 'Borismasters'
waiting to provide a No 3 service

Crystal Palace transmitter mast from first bus stop on route

Stagecoach 12391 approaching the bus stop from the layover point

Thus it was 1347 before I was boarding Stagecoach's 12391 in the direction of Sydenham. Whilst descending Westwood Hill towards Sydenham I noticed a blue plaque for Ernest Shackleton which is apparently where he moved to at age ten from Ireland. At Sydenham station the bus turns north for Forest Hill and after joining the South Circular for a while it again heads north up Brockley Rise. After passing Crofton Park station the bus turned east beyond Brockley and Ladywell cemetaries and finally down to reach Lewisham fire station at 1415. Once through Lewisham High Street the bus headed east along Lee High Road towards Eltham until it reached the South Circular and then the bus followed that to Woolwich. Through Woolwich the bus turned east and ran along to Plumstead bus garage or at least the bus stop before the garage as the garage is located within the centre of a large roundabout.

The final bus stop at Plumstead bus garage

Plumstead bus garage AD E40H and
 Volvo B5LH from service No 53

Two 15 year old TransBus Tridents
ALX400s used on route No 472

Crossrail industrial diesel No 2

Crossrail industrial diesel built by O and K of Dortmund No 26880
registered also as UIC 98-80 017 0012-5

This diesel seemed to be off the rails and looked at from
 a different angle I could see the rear was on two little bogies

Prior to going home I noticed the Plumstead railway yards where there were a few industrial diesel shunters. Three were painted yellow numbers 2, 3 and 5 whereas there was another obviously german looking shunter that was red.