LTSV Site News

27 site news items added in 2005.

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25/12/05	Seasons greetings to all visitors! I have taken a break from the festivities to add a further 5 pictures tonight, including 2 snow scenes. It looks like we might be able to get some more of these next week. Brrrrr! If you have sent me e-mails recently and not got a response, please accept my apologies. I will get round to them all very soon. I am also expecting a broadband connection in the new year which will make things easier.
22/12/05	12 new pictures are added today, including a couple of oldies and another Renault Kangoo (I expect a third to appear very soon!)
03/12/05	A selection of 8 recent pictures has been added today, including (at last) a Renault Kangoo!
27/11/05	A further 15 pictures are being added tonight. Nothing wildly exciting, just more of the same. I have tried to fill in some gaps of recent LBSL vehicles though. All the Focus estates are now illustrated, together with all the Transits except minibus 5540F and Stratford's 5695F. On the Movanos I am looking for a picture of 5211V, as well as Zafiras 5564V and 5566V.
21/11/05	I have decided to change the indexing of photographs so that the range specified is 100 fleetnumbers instead of 1000. For example, 4401LR would have been found under LT Leased 4000-4999 but will now be under LT 4400-4499. This should make it easier to locate particular pictures.
20/11/05	Four new pictures have been added tonight, included the second new Iveco EuroCargo, and an Astra Van seen this afternoon.
17/11/05	ERU on the TV ITV documentary 'The Tube' at 7.30 tonight features the work of the LUL Emergency Response Unit. Sorry for the short notice.
11/11/05	For a change, I have added 12 pictures of LCBS vehicles showing some of the liveries that appeared in the late 1980s. Any visitors using the Mozilla web browser will be pleased to hear that they should now be able to see all the pictures on this site. Sorry for the delay in fixing this, and please get in touch if you do experience any difficulties.
08/11/05	A couple of minor changes have been made to the site tonight. The details of vehicle data that is edited will now be recorded. To see this, click on the View latest data link, then on the More link under Most Recently Edited. On vehicle sightings, there are now slightly longer text fields for the location and comments. Also, when reporting new vehicles, there is now more space to enter details.
06/11/05	17 pictures added today, a mixture of recent items, including evidence of some Ford Transit modifications. There has also been a catch-up of recent fleet news.
15/10/05	A further 10 pictures have been added today, covering subjects both brand-new and somewhat older. The total picture count is now 1032. Quite a lot of fleet information has been received recently including more details on the latest Stagecoach vehicles. I will add most of this later tonight. Two weeks after launch, it is encouraging to see that 23 of you have registered on the site. Remember though that you don't need to register and log-in to see anything here, just if you want to contribute comments or information. The forum has not seen a great deal of use although I have posted a few items including a list of future developments. Feel free to add any suggestions or comments.
05/10/05	I have added 16 pictures tonight, covering a variety of subjects. Included is a first view of the new LBSL Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans. Fleet News will be updated very soon. Thanks for all your comments about the new site. No serious problems have come to light so far!
01/10/05	Welcome to LTSVplus.com, the new home for London Transport Service Vehicle info and pics on the web. I hope you like the new design and the greatly increased amount of information presented. Though this site has been thoroughly tested, please let me know if you come across any errors or unexpected behaviours. I have added a few FAQs to the forum section to help new visitors. The following data has been included on the site to date: - Full details of all known Service Vehicles - Basic details of all known SV locations - Allocation histories for CDS vehicles numbered from 4400 upwards (plus some others) Over the next few months I hope to add the following: - Fuller details and histories of SV locations - Tables of pre-1939 numbers and Trade Plates - More allocation histories going back eventually to 1933 (this is a long term project!) I will also be adding more topical news and lots more pictures. You can help by registering on this site and submitting your sightings and comments. Pictures and articles would also be welcomed and these can be e-mailed to tom@ltsv.com. Six interesting new pictures have been added today, including several from two new contributors. Note that a further 15 new pictures were added during the testing of this site. To see these, click on Pictures then select September 2005. The previous web site (at www.ltsv.com) will be retained for the time being but not updated.
25/09/05	I have today added 15 recent pictures which brings the total picture count to exactly 1000! This latest batch focuses on the bus company fleets, in particular Thorpes and Arriva. There has also been an update to the fleet data, additions including 2 new CDS lorries and the first '55 registrations. See the View Latest Data page for more details.
22/09/05	One week to go. The most recent changes include adding a Printer-Friendly link on the main photo viewing page. Similar links will be added to the fleetlist and fleet detail views.
14/08/05	A catch up of recent fleet news items is being posted today. After many attempts to upgrade my hosting account I eventually decided to go with a different company for the new site, which just happened to be a fair bit cheaper to boot. Further details will be posted soon.
31/07/05	The end of another month and once again I am rushing to get in an update on what I increasingly see as the 'old site'. (See the pictures page for ten new photographs). The situation with the 'new site' is that I have written the code for most of the functionality and input a large amount of real and test data. Sadly as this is sitting on my own PC rather than a server, I cannot let you access it yet. Indeed there seem to be some problems with my hosting provider such that they won't accept my request to upgrade! Hopefully this will be resolved soon and I can then upload the pages, import the data, do some testing, then launch.
26/06/05	Hello to those of you I met at Stratford yesterday. Although the sun was nowhere to be seen (perhaps thankfully), a good show was put on by Stagecoach and quite a few SVs could be found at the various bus facilities in the vicinity. See the pictures pages for a few examples. Apologies to anyone who had a wasted trip to Holloway, the open day there was cancelled and I neglected to mention this. Also apologies to those of you who have submitted news and pictures over the past month, I will get around to including it all shortly! I feel I should mention the site admin again, as I am struggling to provide one update a month. The structure of the site has become rather maintenance heavy and even a seemingly simple update such as today's can take a full day to prepare and post. The good news is that a Mark 2 of LTSV.com is in the pipeline. I have armed myself with several chunky manuals, and have installed PHP and MySQL software to enable a database driven website to be developed. So far I have created the pictures section, which will be much easier to update, and also more interactive to use, and the news pages. I will then be looking at integrating fleetlist information. Unfortunately I cannot post any of this until I have upgraded my web hosting service, which I hope to do in August. I am mentioning this now as it would be good to know what YOU would like to see included. To help with this, I will list below the features I am planning to provide. -An interactive photo gallery. By default you will see the latest additions. You can then choose which other pictures to see through drop-down selections. For example, you could go for blue liveried Bedford Motorcycles leased by LT in the 1960s (although this may not return many!). There should also be the facility for visitors to provide their own comments against each photo. -Options to extract fleet information. This could include showing the current fleet (or at any earlier date), all vehicles of a given company, make or livery, or a range of fleetnumbers. A summary table would then be displayed, in which individual vehicles can be selected to see full details (hopefully including info such as chassis numbers and allocations.) All the pictures of any selected vehicle would also be displayed. Not sure yet about providing output for printing. Again, there may be an option for visitors to add comments against individual vehicle records. Complete fleet information will almost certainly not be available from the outset but batches will be added over a period of time. -A sightings log will be provided. Visitors will be able to find out when and where each vehicle has been seen, and will also be able to add their own sightings (once they are registered - see below). There may also be a my sightings option, so you can log-on to see if you have already seen a vehicle! -A Forum will be provided as the main means for people to share information. This will be broken down into a number of subjects such as new vehicles, old vehicles, locations, events and (of course) complaints! All visitors will be able to view all comments made here, but will need to register before adding their own. Personal information (such as e-mail addresses) will not be displayed unless requested. -An Articles section will be created for all the odds and ends, with a search option to show items on a particular subject (such as modelling service vehicles). Submissions of articles will be encouraged and could be on any relevant subject. -Site news and fleet news will continue as before but should be updated more frequently. -The update subscription service (which hasn't been working for a few months) will be reinstated. Apart from suggestions perhaps visitors could also answer a few questions. -Is the picture size OK or should they be bigger? -Font size, keep as it is or would the use of smaller sizes be acceptable? -Grey backgrounds, easy to read or just plain dull? -Galleries. Thumbnails or text lists? (I'm not going to ask if you want more pictures of older vehicles! I know you do and I am working on it!) For now feedback will have to be by e-mail via tom@ltsv.com and I hope to hear from you soon.
26/05/05	5 more pictures are added today. Most are recent views of LBSL vehicles as these are the easiest to track down and photograph. Hopefully there will be some more LUL and archive views next time. Also added is a two part fleet news update. The first section repeats the information that was published in The London Bus Issue 489 (a big thanks to LOTS for putting that in by the way), while the second covers subsequent changes. A couple of upcoming events need mentioning (for details of the rest see TLB or other web pages). The Acton Museum Depot is holding an open weekend on 4th and 5th June, while a double dose of bus garage open days takes place on Saturday 25th June at Stratford (Waterden Road) and Holloway.
09/05/05	Another visit to Turnpike Lane found some new and reallocated vehicles present, most of which are shown on the pictures pages. Also added is a recent photo of an amazing survivor withdrawn from use almost 28 years ago.
02/05/05	Fifteen new pictures are being added today, including a silver Expert, an Atego artic and the first '05 reg SV picture. Fleet news is being held back for a while but the pictures include a couple of previously unreported vehicles.
20/04/05	Today's update includes five pictures that were prepared for inclusion in the SUP15B publication but not in the event used, plus a new list showing all service vehicles reported as having been preserved. The latter includes locations where known, and also covers a few vehicles that have not been seen for some time. If you have any information that updates or corrects this list, please get in touch. Site updates have been a bit infrequent of late for a variety of reasons. I would like to thank everybody who has supplied notes, pictures and information, they will all be used eventually! When I designed this site I did not take into account the amount of upkeep required. This is particularly true of the galleries where adding one new picture may require dozens of others to be moved about. I am currently looking at alternative web technologies in an attempt to introduce some automation to this process. I am also working on a forum so that your news and views can be submitted directly. Do get in touch if you have any suggestions or comments.
24/03/05	Four new lists are being posted today comprising an overview of the current CDS fleet and three registration number indexes. The latter include prefix registrations (e.g. A716AJB), revised prefix registrations (e.g. BO51FZN) and the first release of a trade plate index. Comments and updates to any of these lists would be appreciated.
13/03/05	Today's update features 15 pictures taken by various contributors over the past year or so. Among these are a red VW Golf and a silver Ford Transit, both of which have been on my most wanted list for a while. Items left on that list are Renault Kangoos, Mercedes-Benz Ategos and LUL Vauxhall Vivaros. Any offers? The allocation codes list has been reinstated, showing the three-letter codes as used in SUP15B, and there is also a little fleet news. A current fleet list showing brief details of all CDS vehicles is in preparation so news of any recent additions would be welcomed. The next update should also include some older pictures.
05/03/05	We're having major technical difficulties this week! The last update could not be published the normal way, although I eventually found a rather tedious work-around. E-mails are also affected so apologies if you have not heard from me. The problems are possibly a result of an upgraded version of AVG anti-virus software. If any bright sparks out there have a solution I would be delighted to hear from them. tom@ltsv.com
28/02/05	The service vehicle book is now complete and should be available in the next couple of weeks at the bargain price of £7.50. Published by LOTS (London Omnibus Traction Society) it has been titled SUP15B to follow on from their previous list published in 1978. See the Publications and References page for more details. The new book has a lot of updates and corrections to the lists that were available on this site. As a result, these have been withdrawn for the time being. If you have any comments, additions or corrections to the book, please get in touch. After a short break I hope to be back on track with more pictures, fleet news and some new lists. See you soon.
31/01/05	Just managed to squeeze in before the end of the month with a collection of four recent photographs. See the Pictures pages for details. Work on the service vehicle book is proceeding well, with a huge amount of research, collation and checking already done. Thanks to everyone who has helped. If all goes to plan, it should be available around the beginning of April.

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