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Seen on the old A2 trunk road at Rainham Mark in Kent; this country area RT class AEC Double decker is on training duties and is probably returning to Dartford garage.
The bonnet number of AEC Regent III (RT) bus, RT3228 (KYY 957) is seen whilst the bus is parked at North Weald Station.
North Weald, Epping Ongar Railway,
10th May 2014
Route 21 used to be an RT stronghold, and worked by New Cross (NX) and Sidcup (SP) garages. I suspect this is one of Sidcup's because it looks well cared for (I've checked and it was an SP bus); NX used to run what must have been the scruffiest fleet within LT.
RT 1586 is at the junction where Ropemaker Street and Eldon Street meet Moorgate; it's destination, Moorgate (Finsbury Square) is about 250 yards away. The other side of the road is empty of traffic owing to roadworks - see the adjacent pic of RT 3141 diverted down the City sidestreets.
The building with the globe on top is now part of the City University but years ago it used to be the offices of Cable & Wireless (where my dad started work as a messenger boy, aged 14).
1976.
I just loved RTs (still do really...) and was seriously saddened at the time that their days were very much numbered. So I took relatively uninteresting pictures just for the record. Which is why this is the somewhat battered rear of Barking's (BK) RT 1983 which, while working route 87, is waiting to turn right from South Street into Western Road, Romford.
1977/8.
Standard AEC RT1702 lined up with Leyland PD2s RTL1076 and RTW185 at the 'RT 75' display of RT-family buses at Ash Grove Garage on Saturday 12th April. The RTLs had Leyland PD2 chassis and engines, but their bodywork was to the same specification as the AEC RTs - the most noticeable visual difference being the Leyland radiator.
The RTWs were equally very similar to the RTLs, but here the difference was that they were built to an 8' width following a change in regulations to allow wider buses. 500 entered service during 1949 and 1950.
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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.