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I Think RT 4353 with RF 518s REG, I know there is a tail about this but I am not shore if its right. This is not one of my photos I found it in a shop and will remove it or add a name if asked to do so
A close up of RT 2000 waiting in the sunshine at Norwood Garage having been transferred from Turnham Green.
I couldn't have imagined being able to buy London bus models like this when I was a bus spotter in the seventies.
This is (appropriately) the 2000th item in the London Model Transport group.
Very many thanks to all those who have provided what must be the best collection of 'London Model Transport' photos!
St Andrews Drive in Orpington was the terminus for route 94, where RT 562 (TB) waits at the stand in readiness for its next run to Lewisham. Saturday 20th April 1974. N-5.
Note the swan neck lamp post and what now would be classic cars!
Leatherhead running day. I chanced upon this event on returning from photographing the steam train special from Waterloo marking the 50th anniversary of the end of Southern steam.
A line-up of RT-family vehicles on display at Ash Grove Garage during the 'RT 75' celebrations. Inclulded in the line-up is former St Helens no. 67; although many operators bought second-hand examples from London transport, St Helens Corporation was the only operator to buy them new. No. 67 is preserved at the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum in Lathalmond, Fife, and representatives brought to bus all the way down to London to participate.
Nearest the camera, RT2688 is blinded up, rather appropriately for the event, as route 75; it also carries 'RT 75' garage code and running number plates, although in reality there has never been a garage coded 'RT'. Route 75 was for most of its life operated by Catford Garage, which coincidentally celebrates its centenary in 2014 and will stage an open day on Saturday 10th May. Route 75, which has been operated by Metrobus' Croydon Garage for the past five years, returns to what could be considered its spiritual home, two weeks before that date.
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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.
Former trainer with LT and one of the last RTs in LT ownership. Open topped by LondonBus France in May 2007 after repairs to platform area following jack collapse accident damaged platform area and N/S. Pity painter wasn't told about what colour mouldings to do on colour band!
Ready for a promo in Paris for the Rolling Stones Bigger Bang Tour, it nearly became the Bigger Ban tour when we saw the vinyl was blocking the fuel outlet!