London Transport Routemasters 1992-Oxford Street & Bow Garage

It's July 1992 and i'm out chasing Routemasters. On this upload we see RM & RML's at work, starting in Oxford Street. Here we see routes 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 15B, 73, 88 & 139 before finishing at Bow Garage with routes 6 & 8 running in and heading back out on service. If you liked the video please subscribe to my channel, there are lots more transport & quirky vids to upload!

[@richardskelton5119]

While I was under training we were taken past Bow Garage and I was amazed they could get a bus in there it looked so small. But I later found out you can get an RM into some very small places.

[@glenmason1876]

You cannot beat a routemaster, they have a certain atmosphere with them, I could watch them all day

[@scotsboy4957]

Like the bus driver wave at 4:15

[@fwof3347]

I really wish we could invent a Time Machine and go back in time.

[@johnbowles4754]

Me too, I'd volunteer to try it out 😊

[@AndreiTupolev]

East London RMA's and RMC's looking smart, a tradition Stagecoach kept up. Metroline had the 8 then then? I wondered what on earth a vehicle from Willesden garage was doing on it. That would be just before the RML refurbishment programme got into gear

[@markcf83]

The reason Willesden split the 8 with its traditional home was a result from 1991 and the closure of London Forest when Willesden ran the bulk of route 6. Bow took the 30 and 277 from Ash Grove,plus a share of the 6,which was one of two garages to close.

[@JW1_1]

Number 6 used to go all the way to Hackney Wick?! Amazing! Makes you think it doesn’t it? This is why passenger numbers are declining, people would prefer to go on one bus that goes everywhere rather than change to another bus to complete their journey. TfL have got it all wrong.

[@djpeekay25]

i was in Oxford Circus yesterday and only 4 routes go down Regent Street now! Two of them terminate at Piccadilly Circus!

[@benwesley1899]

The 6 was altered long before TFL came about. They split it and that part of service 6 has been 26 for 32 years now!

[@benwesley1899]

Soi! Great video as always! Love to see RM’s in action! A few engine types can be seen here! I know why you filmed this…. Just before the changes to 6, 8, 15, 15B and the withdrawal of routemasters on route 88! Rather odd seeing Metroline’s RML2285 on Route 8, did Willesden have a hand at this time on the service?

[@markcf83]

The garage code for Willesden is AC.

[@benwesley1899]

@ of course! Cheers Mark

[@djpeekay25]

@@benwesley1899 the 88 route had been totally butchered by this point, losing the western section to Turnham Green and not going further than Clapham Common to Tooting and Merton Garage.

[@paulaylesbury]

Some of those Routemasters looked decidedly tatty, even at that stage. Crying out for an Aldenham overhaul, which they wouldn’t ever get again.

[@Keithbarber]

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