London Buses Winter 1992

These scenes of buses in London were taken by Fred Ivey during the Winter of 1992 , a time of transition in bus operation in the capital. Most routes were still operated by London Buses but those that had been contracted out were obvious as there was , at that stage, no restrictions on liveries.
Fred filmed mainly in the Wood Green area featuring Grey Green on rotes 141 and 298, City Bus on route 123. He travelled to South East London to film RMs on route 36B and an RT on route 75 during the last week of conductors in London. He also visited Victoria Bus Station complete with roof, and Moorgate , Finsbury Square, where many routes terminated, a hang over from trolleybus days.

[@jack253]

How I would love to go back in time.

[@eddisonfoncette9103]

Me too, I loved taking a routemaster bus to central London . I miss those days.

[@gregestee9099]

I remember 80s London. The sights and smells,a friendlier time.☘️

[@rababali940]

Me too 😊😂

[@paulturner8372]

In the 90s there were privatised buses all over London.

[@shirleyellis9708]

I love the old buses.i remember the 1960s.😩

[@stuartthegrant]

I never took much notice at the time but now they have gone I really miss London Transport, conducters and Routmasters. Dont even get me started on the Railways..

[@MikeFairman]

My dad was a bus driver for Midland Red in Worcester & we both love watching these videos. Thanks for sharing :)

[@alexanderdahoola8188]

People lived and worked well at the times without smartphones.

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

Lovely to see Victoria bus station as it was. Miss that little Italian cafe along from the arcade.

[@elbownesdam4024]

Definitely colder back then,,,,

[@clarky2356]

Ahhh the good old days good veriety of buses and so much character

[@dtb4394]

Left the buses in '92 to do more coach work Just as the company got taken over for the second time in as many years. Rarely had an Atlantean where the brakes didn't screech. SNBs were an absolute pleasure to drive. At that time semi autos (doubles) were slowly being replaced by fully auto. London Country became Luton and District (uniform change) and then Arriva. Happy days and some amazing, hilarious memories, stories.

[@sundayakpan2663]

Great memories of the throwback of the Old Buses Video

[@voiskumbeaver3285]

This reminds me of the days when I used to moan about how much better the old days were.

[@bonkeydollocks1879]

See what you did there

[@bunnystuart3808]

The years are just numbers it's the ageing process that makes it seem all those years ago

[@NextSound170]

Such a creative period of time from the 70s right through until the late 90s and since then. Every bus looks the same, Wrightbus carrying on some weird traditions but I miss proper engines

[@chrisvachos1589]

I drove these buses in the eighties from Tottenham bus garage 73 to Hammersmith 76 to Victoria 171 to Forest Hill 243 to Holborn 41 to the Archway great to see all these places again

[@CRSmusicproduction]

Did you know Stelakis Vachos?

[@chrisvachos1589]

@@CRSmusicproduction He is my son

[@CRSmusicproduction]

He was my boss at Veolia. Lovely guy.

[@chrisvachos1589]

@@CRSmusicproduction Thank you Alan

[@NextSound170]

The 171A was my favourite, caught it from Lordship Lane to Waterloo

[@jamesfrench7299]

17:03 That's beautiful. A lineup of shorter RMs.

[@lianekerr650]

You can’t beat old route masters with conductors

[@euanelliott3613]

Butler!!....Get that bus aaaht!!!

[@azores91]

I was born in 92, making me feel old!

[@A60stock]

Fred, who filmed this was born in 1926! He is still filming.

[@vincentdeguard4726]

+Beulah22 Wow, that is some feat!

[@wakawaka12328]

+azores91 lol same...in fact i was born in the very first place in the clip. Woodgreen..crazy to see how much it has changed

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

you should see it now! or perhaps, better not. Packed solid with people using the whole world's languages - and feeling like strangers in your own place of birth. Sad.

[@bunnystuart3808]

1992 is edged in my mind always

[@ALANSWEETIES99]

Alan's Dad: My grandmother love this buses history isn't... It's so awesome these buses memories!!!

[@mikefreeman3641]

Wonderful to see Titans invading Metrobus territory. Until the late 80's the T's were allocated on the east side of the Lea Valley, M's on the West with only a handful of routes taking those allocations over the border. I lived deep in Titanland in Barking and rarely saw the exotic, very different-sounding Metrobuses.

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

Imagine the 298 going down wood green high rd nowadays lol

[@MightyFreakRider]

My dad use to drive bus those days...

[@MarmiteCrumpets]

@ 6:42 those monstrous east lancs rebodies of volvo coaches. Absolutely grotesque!

[@NextSound170]

They were weird, no one builds weird these days

[@RazSux]

Great video, many thanks!

[@TheKonga88]

I especially liked the part where the lady was eating fish and chips. 🏦🏦🐸🚺🚺👵🐠🐠🐟🐡🐡🍟🍟🍟🍟🍟🐟🍟🐠🍟🐟🍟🐟🍟🐠🐟🍟🐟🐠🍟🐟🍟🐠🍟🐟🍟🐟🍟

[@judethat]

Used to get 171 and 73 during that time to work

[@vincentdeguard4726]

At least now London buses are (mainly) red...what were "they" thinking!

[@myristicina.]

Vincent de Guard it’s arivaa fault

[@benbob7996]

most people will still be alive its only been 21 years wait 21 years god how time flies by

[@Isleofskye]

It's 30 years,surely. Another 9 years have flown by,my friend..

[@gyrovague]

Farkin 'ell it looks like the seventies! Nice liveries and weathering/corporate stinge dirt.

[@VICTOR-pf9eg]

You're making me feel old stop it

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

lolololol - we've ALL got a lot older together - at least!

[@johnmills7716]

Ugh, I remember this period so well. London so famous for it's red buses, was seeing buses from the provinces pushing the red buses out. The first part of this video had me wodering if it was actually London. What a shambles with private operator colours and liveries. The buses seem to be a rag-bag assortment of vehicles bought together in a last minute rush. Different models on same route, some with London spec two sets of doors, others from who knows where with front doors only. Great confusion for passengers wanting to get off the bus in busy rush hour. Absolutely dreadful. If that wasn't enough, Routemasters were being sent off for scrap to make way for these substandard vehicles. Best front loading bus for me was the London Metrobuses. Loved seeing them again. Today; hooray, back to all red buses, with exit doors at centre, and white roundel on the sides.

[@bf2404]

BRING BACK THE ROUTEMASTER NOW!!!!!!!!

[@video47]

Excellent video!

[@irelandbloke]

Great video

[@MikeFairman]

7:06 I bet he would have knocked that door mirror off if you had not been filming :)

[@djpeekay25]

73 from Victoria to Oxford Circus? What is that? A 15 min journey??

[@urbanpulsewalks]

How dirty and shabby everything looks.

[@jamesfrench7299]

Glorious isn't it?

[@harmlessdrudge]

11:30 is Perry Vale

[@juliesmith5567]

Love the video the thing if is I've seen diff col ones then red but now odd green can you put odd blue numbers not no all busses are looking good

[@julien23lastchristmas2]

I wish can be over there and sweep the streets by my hands.

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

Extended Bodies for Most of the Buses Much as I am not comfortable to ask the depot why they stopped running the London Suburban Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW’s on routes N26, 30, 121, 230, 271, 349, N279 And 158 why can’t we make the same make of the Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW Buses but Modernise the insides of these Buses. Also make it low floor up and down and also extend the middle body part of these vehicles a little bit more so there will be more space for the wheelchair users. By the way, if you could remake and Modernise these vehicles could they also make it into a Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW Version’s that if it will be possible and to Modernise the insides of these Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW’s make it low floor up and down and also extend the middle body part of these vehicles a Little bit more so there will be more space and even a London Suburban Scania N230UD Enviro 400 MMC and also extend the middle body part of these vehicles a little bit more. Why couldn’t we have those London Suburban Buses Pale red on the top roof Pale red again on the top middle Milk Chocolate brown on the middle Creamy white on the Bottom Middle and Milk Chocolate Brown again on the Bottom on most of those kind of those Particular Double Decker Vehicles. Could you put the Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox in the Scania N230UD Enviro 400 MMC and also put the Loud 3-Speed Voith Diwa Gearbox in the Volvo TD102KF Engine East Lancs Olympus and also extend the middle body part of these vehicles a little bit more and also turn most of them to a London Suburban Buses. By the way could you also make the routes N26, 349, 121, N279 and 271 into a London Suburban Buses and have a mixture of a Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Scania N230UD Enviro 400 MMC and Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW Version’s. Could they also transfer the Arriva Bus Depots from Hackney to Stagecoach company so they can replace all the Arriva buses so that all of them can go to Birmingham and Leeds and they can be replaced by Stagecoach Loud 3-Speed Voith Diwa Gearbox Volvo TD102KF Engine East Lancs Olympus and also Extend the Middle body part of these Vehicles and that includes A Mixture of a Stagecoach Loud 3-Speed Voith Diwa Gearbox Volvo TD102KF, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 6LXCT Engine Northern Counties Palatine One and that Includes a Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Scania N230UD Enviro 400 MMC Vehicles A Little Bit More. Can Arriva London Bus Company’s Replace Most of their Wight Buses so they can also transfer them to Birmingham and Also Manchester so they can be Replaced by Loud 3-Speed ZF Ecomat Gearboxes Volvo D10A Engine East Lancs Olympus and also Extend the Middle body part of these Vehicles A Little Bit More Thank You Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Much. Oh buy the way could the bus Factory Companies also Make More of Those Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel engine Olympian ECW Vehicles And that also includes Those Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Cummins L10 Enviro 400 MMC And also Extend the Middle Body part of those Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel Engine Olympian ECW Vehicles and the Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Cummins L10 Enviro 400 MMC Vehicles and that also includes The Loud 3-Speed ZF Ecomat Gearboxes Volvo D10A Engine East Lancs Olympus A Little Bit More And Paint Those 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Cummins L10 Enviro 400 MMC Vehicles and also those Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Gardner 6LX and Gardner 6LXC Diesel engine Olympian ECW Vehicles and that also includes The Northern Counties Palatine One with a Volvo TD102KF, Gardner 6LXC and Gardner 6LXCT Diesel engines with a Loud 3-Speed Voith Diwa Gearboxes and The Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Scania N230UD Enviro 400 MMC Vehicles and also The Loud 4-Speed Leyland Hydra cyclic Automatic Gearbox Cummins L10 Enviro 400 MMC Vehicles to the Grey Green Colours Just Like The Other Original Scania Grey Green on the Bus Route 313 and the 103, If all The Leyland Titan B15’s are Fully Red and even Mostly Red, could they also Repaint All of The Leyland Titan B15’s into Grey Green Colours Just Like The Other Original Scania Grey Green on the Bus Route 313 so they can Reuse them for Only Every 5 and a Half Months and also Reuse them on those Rail Replacement London Bus Routes if that will Be Alright for Only Just Every 5 and a Half Months and also Reuse Those Buses Only on the London Bus Routes witch are The 341, N41, 34, 123, N29, 149, 221, N73, 121, 86, 30, 262, 147, 396, N26 so Please make sure that the builders can do as they are told!!!!!!!!!! And Please do something about these Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Important Professional Ideas Please Please Prime Minister and also Includes the Mayor of London.😉😉😉😉😉😄😄

[@SimGuySilver]

141 still ruining the same route to this day.

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

.......there was a 171 too!

[@saeedurrahman2056]

Boris Johnson would be 28 years old back then

[@KEIRFerretUpGammonTrowzaaah]

Me too

[@moonstar21868]

I wanna go back

[@TESCOSGRESHAM]

THE 362 IS THE BEST BUS ROUTE

[@cannadineboxill-harris2983]

Hi Guy's it is Mr C. T. Boxill-Harris again I was thinking, Why couldn't you find other more 18 nice fresh Shiny Leyland Titan B15's and repaint them Also into a Imperial Cream and Green like the Essex East London Bus route H1 and 100 so they can Share a chance to run on the London Bus route such as the N6, 230, 41 and that includes the bus route Number Four, if you guy needed that interesting idea's to let us know on the comment's down below so you can reuse those Imperial Cream and Green Leyland Titan B15's on those interesting London bus Route, Please Please can you reuse them within the Begining of Every November within Every Five and a Half Months Thank You Very Very Very Very Very Very Very Much Guy's😉😉😉😅😉😉😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😉😉😉😅😉😉😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😀😃😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃😅😀😀😃😅😀😃😀😃😀😀😃

[@bodienutt1]

I think it was a bit earlier then 1992 as Capital Citybus had the 298 then

[@robtyman4281]

This video may be from the beginning of 1992, rather than towards the end of it.

[@carlwakefield889]

Phantom still going strong in London

[@michaelcarlos8686]

I wonder if the bloke at 1.50 knew how close to pizza he was

[@lennonpolo]

I think this as the year John major privatised the buses?

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

........The Conservatives were "in power" in Enfield at the time so could have been Major Government who started the horrible ball rolling with "Privatising" our whole Transport System.

[@trevordance5181]

@@elizabethsheffield6609 Bus deregulation started in the UK under the Thatcher government in 1986 although I don't think it applied to London until a few years later. At the time many towns and cities had their own "corporation" bus services run by their respective local council and were therefore accountable to the local electorate. Once deregulation occured this was no longer possible. Many councils set up arms length companies to comply with the law, but over the years big groups of private companies bought out these concerns and the ethos of running a transport service as a public service using profitable routes to subsidise the less profitable ones and also using the revenue from the busy times to subsidise early and late lightly used services was replaced by one of mainly greed and profit for shareholders at the expense of the travelling public. There are only a handful of towns and cities left now that still have a vestige of their old "corporation" bus services still running.

[@elizabethsheffield6609]

@@trevordance5181 ........thanks for that info Trevor - can tell you're a True-Bus-Buff!! Have a Happy New Year.

[@madunwagbo4769]

Tendered routes were horrendous

[@saeedurrahman2056]

Queen Elizabeth would be 66 years old back then

[@Firewertyhn6817]

7:06 -too close!!!

[@josejorgeperez3062]

1:50 WTF???

[@ace-paidinfull5240]

221 to holborn you know wow lol Did it always go as far as edgware then the other way?

[@piercelidseveraltime]

epic !

[@freedobear4588]

@7:50 HOLY SHIT BEAST

[@diggerpete9334]

No jihadists. No third world ghettos. No Sadiq Khan.

[@nikolaki]

Instead we had the IRA still active, plenty of deprived areas where ethnic minorities (and poor locals) had their homes (no change there) and we were in between London wide authorities after Thatcher disbanded the GLC to get rid of Ken Livingstone and the Labour militants. We'd just has the poll tax riots a couple of years previous. So all told, not much different. I liked Boris as London Mayor at the time but looking back I realise he was actually quite ineffective and wasted our money.

[@jamesfrench7299]

@@KEIRFerretUpGammonTrowzaaah everybody is racist. It's hard wired in the brain. You can't defeat it.

[@jamesfrench7299]

One of those that only believe a white western person can be.

[@Isleofskye]

@@jamesfrench7299 Tru Say,Mi Bredda. Tru Say,Mi Bredrin...

[@myristicina.]

Old buses

[@julien23lastchristmas2]

BRITAIN is the real civilisation .

[@TheKonga88]

julien23 lastchristmas Britain is a shithole 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@isaywhatilikeandilikewhati1117]

I drove buses out of the now defunct London Northern FY garage in the 80s and Grey green Route 125 drivers at North Finchley were dummies! Just look at this example 1:19 of a Grey green driver in another area!

[@scottsimpsom6624]

How would you be able to use a Oyster card on a routemaster

[@nickjung7394]

Swipe the card on a reader?

[@nikolaki]

The new routemasters initially had conductors walking around with mobile card readers but deFeffel didnt factor in the extra wages correctly so they didnt last long. The heritage routes that still run old routemasters have conductors with card readers. I haven't been on one in years but they may have card readers dotted around on the bus too.

[@jacksugden8190]

Poor collection of dirty old buses from Grey Green back in the day.

[@tx41979]

Everything was still working without technology v have now. Think was better life now v like robots