Jeez, need to do away with that awful music! 👎

kzbin.info/www/bejne/foGxqWivmddrjKs 16:40 Stoneleighesque

Wery nise buss

Good stuff 👍 from age 11 I was 441 from Farnham Royal to Slough and then walk from the Station to SGS then at 16 to Windsor for East Berks College

Why was the 67 stock running through Barons Court?

1972 mk ll stock en route to Watford Junction, very rare, normally it was 1938 stock sent there.

Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto (used for Brief Encounter) is very apt for this lovely cine compilation - thank you for sharing this video with us all.

I was born in and lived in Crockenhill (on the 477 Dartford-Orpington route) from 1954 until 1972 and was known by all the Conductors on the 477. When the final 477 Routemaster ran, London Country searched for me (I then lived in Sevenoaks) and asked if I would travel on the very last conductor operated LCBS bus, as the 'clippie' (Gertrude) wanted me to be with her for the final run, which was Dartford garage to Swanley garage. The bus was loaded with press and bus enthusiasts and it was a very emotional journey. Gertrude then presented me with her 'clippies' licence badge, which I still treasure. RIP dear Gertie.

What a ordered civilised country we was back then...mostly due to the people in charge who had fought a world war and knew how to make things work properly with out no silly nonsense of non binary and scared of offending people.

Wow takes me back,the 406 used to run from Reigate to Kingston I think.

AT THE START I THOUGHT I WAS WATCHING ONE OF THEM OLD BLACK AND WHITE SILENT FILMS

When i was very young my local bus routes were run by Thames Valley buses, which were red. But, at Slough station you could catch these exotic and exciting green London Country buses - going to far off, glamerous places like Chorleywood or Uxbridge - i never did get to travel on one 😢

Great film images, great memories, but had to turn off the sound! Completely inappropriate and awful quality music, I'm afraid. If you have any more, please no music!

Does anybody know what that single Victoria line (or possibly Northern or Bakerloo) car is doing sandwiched between two 1938 motor cars forming a three car train is about ? I would be interested to know.

The days when you could get on a bus and feel safe. I wonder why that changed? 🤔

Lambeth Bridge palm tree has moved onto my estate next to Shelly house

Interesting images, but music irritatingly loud and completely out of tune. Please don't feel compelled to play your old warped LPs. We can live with silent pictures in preference. By the way, some of these images are from the 1970s, as the 1938 tube stock was withdrawn from the Northern Line in 1978. They kept running g on the Bakerloo much longer.

Lived in Erith. For a birthday present, probably third, 1942, I wanted a ride on green bus from Belvedere. Father took me and we caught trolley bus back home. 698 or 696. Probably cost my father 9d borh rides. Remember the ride. Felt no different to red bus.

Very nice selection, John.

A must have been brand new S reg (1977/8) Ford Granada, in lovely metallic green,16:27!

As a boy, my fun trip was the 370 to Tilbury Ferry. I can't remember if I boarded at Romford or Hornchurch but it was great fun to do. I think it was an RT bus at the time.😊

I was married during the 1970s & familiar with this sight in the Guildford area, there was a Country depot there. But further back during the 1940s/ 50s in the Woking area. Used to travel on the Q class single deckers, Woking station to Kingfield Green. Double deckers, Kingfield Green to Guildford via Clandon Cross Roads or to Ripley then transfer to a Red just up the road to Kingston. Loved it all, great sport. From the Green mentioned one could go via Sutton Green to Guildford on the Aldershot Traco that veered off via Loop Road & Westfield. Great excitement for me as I was a bus & train enthusiast from Reading, where it was all Corporation, Thames Valley & Kemps, later Chiltern Queens.

My Local Bus route.

A time sadly missed in this country Look at the state of the country now😢

Green Routmasters, brilliant. 😊

I caught the 406 or 714 to school.

Wonderful pictures, thanks very much. As well as the lovely buses, it’s great to see all the old cars of the time - Maxi, original mini, Cortina’s and even an old Rover. By the time these views were all taken, however, the damage had already begun with the separation of the Country Buses from London Transport to the National Bus Company and its repainting of its LT fleet into the hideous light green we see in most of these shots. But this was almost at the end of the wonderful London Transport era where Central and Country areas were properly run with beautiful buses and a thoughtful route network right through, across and around the capital. This was also when the powers that be decided to do away with most of the Green Line network - another great loss to London and its suburbs. Happy times! And thanks for sharing.

I still can't believe the 84 bus disappeared from Barnet for a couple years and even now is split in 2 at Potters Bar as the 84 and 84B, all because no one could agree who would fund it! Regardless of county, people need to travel and I don't think our politicians understand that.

Why did this have to be broken up and sold off?! This is long before my time but I have a map of the network in 1971 and it covered a huge area around London and the home counties and it made so much sense. The Greenline routes especially would be so useful today, only the 724 (Harlow-Heathrow) really survives in a meaningful way today. The whole region around London operates as one place socially and economically and transport needs to be treated this way again, the current fragmented buses are seriously holding us back and creating so much unnecessary traffic. I live in Cheshunt, so just outside of London and the buses today here are embarrassing and fragmented, even getting to somewhere like Chingford is a mission now as there is no direct bus from Waltham Abbey or Waltham Cross. Thankfully the trains are good but many journeys can't be reasonably served by them in the way London Country used to. It feels like there is a hard border around London today in terms of buses and that urgently needs to change. Buses need to be integrated again. I really enjoyed seeing the Green Routemasters in so many familiar places.

Back in the days when the name Khan didn’t exist 😢

What a wonderful treat, thank you. I would suggest the film footage to be around the mid-seventies onwards based upon the white NBC logo was superseded by the red/blue on white square NBC logo from around 1977 and that the Routemasters had all been sold to LT by 1980.

Wonderful footage! I did intend to shut the music off but it seemed to fit somehow! What a well-ordered world it seemed back then - red buses for Town, green ones for Districts. Swinging inn-signs, High Street banks and primary-coloured Cortinas - I would feel more at home in the unfamiliar streets of Seventies Guildford than I ever will in today's home town.

These were a great way to travel for so many they only stopped at a few locations getting the destinations very fast we need them again. Regards

Looks like the Harlow footage was 1978 or later, as (long defunct) Advice Centre can be seen, which opened that year, also spotted an 'R' plate dustcart. I have no recollection of RM's doing the Town Service routes in Harlow in the late 70s - I thought they went straight from RT's to Atlantean's in late 1972

What was the year?

Wow, what a memory jerker. I was a driver at Tring (TG) and Amersham (MA) garages, and the clips done around High Wycombe (Castlefield Estate, Micklefield Estate, The road up to The Morning Star, which I can`t remeber the name of now, Penn Pond and Uxbridge Station, terminus of the 305) brought so many memories of my time on LCBS and it`s successors. I haven`t been in that area now for so many years as I`m long retired. Shame there weren`t more clips from the areas covered by Tring and Amersham garages, as most seem to be down south.

Very appropriate soundtrack ! 😢

Not a foreign vehicle to be seen...

My Grandad was an Inspector on the London Country, based at High Wycombe. He passed away in the mid 50's unfortunately before I was around but I would have loved to have met him.

Fantastic, I really enjoyed that. Thank you! Although I am old enough to remember the Green Line buses I unfortunately never had a reason to use one. Nevertheless, I recognised some areas I used to live in there. I am feeling strangely old now. Can't think why....

Took me back to the 1950's, when I travelled on a 725 from Sidcup to Croydon and then on a 701 (I think) to Guildford and returned on the same day for a family reunion. I would not like to try it today.

I remember in 1975 on a visit to Windsor it was green RMLs everywhere, just a couple of years later, only two left on the 407 route (Langley Village to Cipoenham, with most of the other routes having been converted to single deck Nationals. Another 10 years on, and the bus network was virtually unrecognisable.

Those were the days,before bean counters,and politicians,and bankers got involved, and demanded their cut of the pie! The transit passengers always lost,as the debt spiraled out of control! Every British,or American government sees transit as a milch cow,to be used,abused,and misused,till the destruction is complete! They forgot the old maxim,"If it ain't broken,don't fix it",so the downward spiral has been unimpeded! They never learn! Thank you,for your attention! Thank you 😇 😊!

Half a Grays VR 18:40 !

The terminus at the start was West Croydon before it was altered. I ran the alteration project must have been early 80’s. Remember the old tarmac was really heavily tracked where the buses ran but really well compacted. As a kid the 407, 408 and 725 ran past the end of the road my parents lived in as well as numerous Red buses.

Remember the 715 to Hertford used to get on it in Palmer Green and go to stay with gran and grandad in Hertford q luxurious inside

I used to live in a small village in Kent, Cudham. I’d walk from there to Farnborough Kent & catch a bus to Shoreditch without changing buses, this was back in the 1960’s. Then there were the Green Rover & Red Rover tickets, happy days!

Love the dents inthe roofs! And great to see so much spirited driving, bus was king back then.

lovely

Marvellous. Great to see the 'old' Crawley pre County Mall construction.