Very much enjoyed watching this. Who knew so many were exported for a new lease of life.

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Beautiful

You look like the rear end of an old fat lady doesn't sound that bad after all. Enjoyed that thanks.

Thank you for creating such a comprehensive overview of the RTW .... I rode them from 1962-69 on the 11 route from Hammersmith to Kings Rd. Fond memories, and that Leyland sound!

It ain't over till the fat lady hit the dust! What a lovely story and a grand double-decker.

Very enjoyable presentation, thank you. I spent my early childhood in Chiswick and Barnes before moving further south west, and I have very fond memories of catching the 117 along Chiswick High Road to go into ‘town’ with my beloved Grandmother, my Granny asking the Conductor for one and one half fare…I think the fare was 1 new penny and half a penny for me. Always lots of fun and adventures, miss you my lovely Granny ❤

How could anyone be stressed travelling on an RT - with it's friendly reassuring design, homely interior, low revving diesel - and gloriously musical transmission. As far removed from today's high revving small engined or soulless electric buses with their hideous interiors that look as though they've been designed by a five year old using 'all' their crayons. The RT was London Transport at it's best!

Shame about the "music"!

Travelled every day on the green RT’s to school in St Albans, late 1960s-early 70’s. Loved these things. I think for many children, what they grow up with they register as ‘normal’, and they make the assumption that this must be how things have always been and always will be. But the world doesn’t stay still. The RT’s have long gone, buses are now a hotch-potch of non-descript boxes, and the domination of everything by car-traffic has become the new norm. I would have been horrified as a child if I had known this is how things would turn out!

Very interesting. I was a bus spotter in my childhood in the late 1950s when the RT family still formed the backbone of London's double deckers but had always understood the bodies of the RTWs were Weymann built to Leyland engines and the W stood for Weymann. Whether I still have my old bus spotting books I am not sure.

Thankyou, I absolutely enjoyed this. John (Australia)

Built by craftsmen and engineers who understood the task at hand for a bus. 👏🏾👏🏾 today’s buses aren’t great.

I was born and grew up in Wimbledon. I had several jobs but the job I liked most was driving an RT bus out of Sutton Bus Garage on the 93 bus route, Putney to Ewell. I made some very good work mates and my best friend and his dad, Frank Gale, came out of Putney Bus Garage. This documentary was well presented and bought back lots of happy memories for me. I was known as Johnny Booth.

We had green versions of the RT on my local route in Crawley (before conversion to single deck Merlins) in the 60's,, and in 1976, when my aunt moved to Ninefields, near Waltham Abbey in Essex, RTs were less common in London generally, but the local 217 group of routes still had them!!

I liked the back loader bus you could still catch it when it had pulled off if you could run 😊

Aldenham all gone

RT's and RM's were everywhere whe I was as a child and occasionally I saw the RF on Green Line' Loved them all, but did think as great as the RT was it did look dated. The Routemaster didn't, well not to me. I dreaded the day we would never see them on London's roads.

If I remember correctly. AN262 was based at Amersham garage in the 1980's (MA) London Country Buses NW

I think they still look great, much better looking than the one's today😊

Such a pretty bus, Way better looking than those stupid boris bus they have now. busses have lost its style.

This is an extremely well put together documentary, telling the story clearly with just enough detail and insight. For me it was a bonus to see Ken Blacker and Alan Townsin featured, as these are my two favourite transport authors. Indeed Blacker, who wrote the definitive book RT: The Story Of A London Bus in 1979, has just completed his excellent series of london bus class histories. Also a treat to see some sequences filmed at the old Cobham Bus Museum, including the walk underneath vehicles, which I enjoyed myself many years ago.

46:33 Nobel 200 in the background. Blink and you miss it.

Love the video brilliant can remember them when I went to London in the 80s fell a sleep on a night bus till morning 🚌🌃😴😬

Early 1960s

Very informative - thanks !!

Born in London and then moved out to Stevenage - where RTs abounded in both locations! Does anyone know the source of the "London Country" clips showing Stevenage busses used in this film?

'Ladies before Gents' RT.

Leyland Atlantean

Leyland no1

The UK with its narrow and congested roads chose the optimal solutions with their twin deckers Being not for profit they also provided excellent affordable public transport Used this service for many years before leaving for Australia where fuel and motoring was cheaper

Greetings from Germany from Aleksandar, Is it for sale? Or do you know where I could buy such a bus?

Cherry Cola add on front of bus at 0:34 dates this to 1959-60

New RT's to Harrow Weald, my Dad worked there most his working life, nice to see. Thank you, really intetesting.

Reminds me of Butler, Harper and Blakey. Good times.

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I was in Sri lanka for a 6 month holiday 1999-2000. I stayed in Negombo for 3 month and there it was a RT still in operation. Funny enough it was quite some time between the days of use and in between the locals always put up strings across the road with flags. The bus took all of it down in just one tour. 😂 There where several other RTs in Colombo but all of them stationary.

Rts rtw best buses ever. Loved them. When r m came out didn't like it. But now love them as well. Now . The modern London bus to ne is the ugly est thing on the planet. Along with wind turbines...?

Leyland best in volvo

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When I was a kid, the local coach operator- Smiths of Reading had about three 1940 built RTs. These were part of a fleet of double deckers that were used to ferry factory workers and other large employers' workers for various reasons. They used to come to our school and take those children who went to swimming lessons at Arthur Hill Swimming Bath up the Kings Rd. I had no desire to go- so I never went of one of these RTs but I remember seeing them- they were painted grey from memory. I don't know if any of them survived after Smiths disposed of them.

London Country didn't look after them..... They didn't have an Aldenham thats why

Wonderful film about wonderful old busses. In my 1960's London youth I loved the RTWs almost as much as the RMs. In many ways I wish they were still running, as the DMS, Metrobus, Titan and all the other boring square boxes that replaced them have never recaptured the magic. Even the fabled Boris-Bus doesn't have the same timeless charm, sadly.

Living in London at the time, I travelled on virtually every type of bus featured in this very interesting video. The only thing I would criticize is the route 22 bus being incorrectly dressed. Route 22 never went to Hackney Wick, it always ran Homerton to PutneyCommon.

The joy of London is not going their

Nice. Thanks. Here Brazil.

I was born and raised in Bradford, W.Yorks and remember well the blue double-deckers and the last of Britain's trolley buses in 1972. Moved to California by the 80s and my youngest son now attends UC Davis where he often rides the Unitrans RTs. I spoke with some of the student drivers and they take great pride in their RTs.