RM 1563 & Mortlake Garage
A rare moment of considerable snowfall captured here at Barnes on 11 December 1981. RM 116 has, by this time, overcome the early problems with its hydraulic suspension system trialed in service at Mortlake Garage but, by coming late in Routemaster life, was destined to stay unique.
The `in-house` advertising promoting the fares fair policy was applied widespread across the fleet as the almost immediate success of the scheme took many by surprise when vastly reduced bus fares achieved a huge uplift in bus travel and an equally huge drop in car traffic. Those of us who worked through the before, during and after of the scheme saw an interesting chapter in LT`s history never to be repeated in such a meaningful way as the journey speed attained by Routemasters would not be replicated by doored buses.
The insignificant turning (Queen Elizabeth`s Walk) to the right of RM 116 was at the time of the photo almost twenty years away from becoming the main access into the now highly successful London Wetland Centre created out of a vast complex of soon to be redundant reservoirs when the London ring main was completed in the late 1980`s.
RM 1563 & Mortlake Garage
A rare moment of considerable snowfall captured here at Barnes on 11 December 1981. RM 116 has, by this time, overcome the early problems with its hydraulic suspension system trialed in service at Mortlake Garage but, by coming late in Routemaster life, was destined to stay unique.
The `in-house` advertising promoting the fares fair policy was applied widespread across the fleet as the almost immediate success of the scheme took many by surprise when vastly reduced bus fares achieved a huge uplift in bus travel and an equally huge drop in car traffic. Those of us who worked through the before, during and after of the scheme saw an interesting chapter in LT`s history never to be repeated in such a meaningful way as the journey speed attained by Routemasters would not be replicated by doored buses.
The insignificant turning (Queen Elizabeth`s Walk) to the right of RM 116 was at the time of the photo almost twenty years away from becoming the main access into the now highly successful London Wetland Centre created out of a vast complex of soon to be redundant reservoirs when the London ring main was completed in the late 1980`s.