LT/LCBS Bus Garages
Doesn`t seem possible but we`ve reached the fortieth anniversary of the first scheduled withdrawals of RM`s from front line service. A landmark day in Routemaster history for being the unfortunate - and some would say unjustified - result of a policy designed to promote greater use of public transport being undermined by a minority.
The schedule changes of 4 September 1982 removed over two hundred RM`s and caused a massive cascade of vehicle transfers (of all types) all around the fleet. I spent so much of my spare time in the preceding weeks attempting (and succeeding) to capture on film every one of the Leyland RM`s destined for withdrawal and many of the other RM`s that moved location such as here at Leyton Garage where I visited forty years ago today - 3 September 1982 - and found RM`s 541 and 375 de-blinded and ready for transfer to Peckham.
LT/LCBS Bus Garages
Doesn`t seem possible but we`ve reached the fortieth anniversary of the first scheduled withdrawals of RM`s from front line service. A landmark day in Routemaster history for being the unfortunate - and some would say unjustified - result of a policy designed to promote greater use of public transport being undermined by a minority.
The schedule changes of 4 September 1982 removed over two hundred RM`s and caused a massive cascade of vehicle transfers (of all types) all around the fleet. I spent so much of my spare time in the preceding weeks attempting (and succeeding) to capture on film every one of the Leyland RM`s destined for withdrawal and many of the other RM`s that moved location such as here at Leyton Garage where I visited forty years ago today - 3 September 1982 - and found RM`s 541 and 375 de-blinded and ready for transfer to Peckham.