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Thank goodness I kept records as this would be a really frustrating picture!
From L to R. (Unknown DMS), DMS298 (with lamppost in the way), DMS1621, DMS364 (note side blind in the rear!), DMS1628 (long out of service with a defect) and a damaged DMS which was DMS1495. A quick check on the records and this bus was indeed out of service from 03/77 - 10/77.
Don't know what the RTs were, sorry! (the far right hand one looks like 959, so NLE959, RT4295 perhaps?).
*** Retouched again 09/05/2023
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Although the numbers of RTs in passengers services was dwindling fast by 1970, several examples remained in service as driver trainers throughout the decade. RT1777 has been preserved as a typical example of a 1970s driver-trainer, complete with prominent advertising attempting to persuade Londoners to become bus drivers. The RTs were eventually replaced on these duties by Routemaster coaches bought back from London Country Bus Services, where they had been made redundant by the almost-universal spread of driver-only operation.
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'RT 75' is the first of the '2014 - Year of the Bus' celebrations, and marks the 75th anniversary of the entry into service of the first RT-types on route 22.
The event featured a number of runs by RT-family vehicles between Piccadilly Circus and Homerton, which was once part of the 22 route. Some buses also ran to and from Ash Grove Garage, where there was also a display of RT-family vehicles, including an ex-St Helens example which had come down all the way from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond, Fife.
As the light fades the lights of RT 1334 shine brightly. The bus is from Barking garage (BK) working a 148 to Leytonstone - the route was operated mainly by Seven Kings (AP) but Barking had a handful of duties (during the week at least).
I don't know where this shot was taken. Can anyone help? Casidy2 can - see below.
RT 3705 and some of her sisters at Chiswick Works in August 1974
Taken on the same day as my last post during a public visit to Chiswick in 1974
A line up of RT's near the Bollo Lane entrance, close to the Experimental Shop as was
Another reminder of London transport's substantial Country Bus Division operations, which included the Green Line network of (mostly) cross-London limited stop services. RTs often operated 'relief' journeys on these to provide extra capacity where needed. Some RTs even appeared in Green Line livery, although internally they were standard buses. RTs 3254 (in Green Line livery) and 4779 are blinded at reliefs on the busy 716 route which in its entirety ran from Hitchin to Chertsey. 3254 also carries a slipboard advertising the usefulness of the route as a way of getting to Hatfield House, the former home of Queen Elizabeth I and the place where she learned of her accession to the English throne in 1558.
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'RT 75' is the first of the '2014 - Year of the Bus' celebrations, and marks the 75th anniversary of the entry into service of the first RT-types on route 22.
The event featured a number of runs by RT-family vehicles between Piccadilly Circus and Homerton, which was once part of the 22 route. Some buses also ran to and from Ash Grove Garage, where there was also a display of RT-family vehicles, including an ex-St Helens example which had come down all the way from the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond, Fife.