London Bus Photos – Route 8a, 35 & 37
Route 8a – Old Ford to London Bridge; Route 35 – Clapton Pond to Clapham Common; Route 37 – Hounslow to Peckham This summer, thirty-five years ago, the London bus routes 8a, 35, and 37 were converted to one-person operation. Route 2 was also converted at the same time, and…
London Bus Photos – Route 16
Route 16 – Victoria to Neasden The previous post in this series featuring the 237 was published in January 2018 – thus it seemed about time another was published! The other posts have been about central/south bus services thus this is the first to feature a route to the northern…
Shop Linker
Forty years ago one of London’s short lived bus routes was seen on the capital’s streets for just a few short months. This was Shop Linker with its red and yellow buses. The idea of the service was to provide an easy and convenient link between the West End and…
Golden Jubilee Buses #2
This is the second part of the Golden Jubilee Buses feature and specifically covers RT4172, mainly working the 6 route. For the Golden Jubilee, RT4172 worked the 6, 38 and the 73 plus the Jubilee bus parade. Several Jubilee Bus Tours were undertaken too covering various London bus routes and…
Golden Jubilee Buses #1
The Queen’s Golden Jubilee was in February 2002, and for a period of three years from 2002 to 2005 a number of London’s buses were painted in gold to commemorate the occasion. Most however worked 2002-04 thus this month would be roughly halfway between those points in time, this being…
London Bus Photos – Route 237
Route 237 – Shepherd’s Bush to Sunbury Village Another bus route scanned from my photograph albums compiled many years ago. The 237 went from Shepherd’s Bush to Sunbury Village for just nine years. Its Routemaster services finally ended in February 1987. The 237 and its sister route 37 (as well…
London Bus Photos – Route 150
Route 150 – Aldgate to Victoria Bus Station This really should have been a 30th anniversary post in the summer of 2017 – however these pictures were found over xmas! The bus route concerned is not the 150 which runs between Becontree Heath and Chigwell Row (which didn’t run on…
London Bus Photos – Route 47
Route 47 – Shoreditch to Downham (unofficial Routemaster route.) I was in Shoreditch today (15th August 2017) and thought to myself, its time for the next post in the London Bus route series. And that’s the 47! This was worked by a small number of Routemasters from Catford Garage that…
London Bus Photos – Route 2
Route 2 – Baker Street to West Norwood (Rosendale) This is an occasional new series, featuring scans from the many photobooks I patiently compiled on London’s Routemaster routes in the eighties as they were converted to One Person Operation (OPO.) I start with Route 2, which ended Routemaster operation thirty…