Routemaster Last days - Part One

[@MikeGMcDermott]

I was a conductor on the RMs and I still am with a company which provides these icons for weddings and school proms. Best job in the world working with the best bus in the world.

[@jamesfrench7299]

The early to mid 80s was the best. The white roundel, Routemasters with their perfect British engine sounds, Leyland National single deckers as well as the Leyland Titans, Olympians and MCW Metrobuses.

[@acceptableandbornind80s32]

Sadly times Change and 2004 and 2005 onwards was a shame and sad to loose all of these Machines on Routes they were great

[@derekantill3721]

I traveled on Routemasters from their early days of trolleybus replacement until 2005. Good that you could hop on, hop off, in traffic, but it’s days were numbered due to ‘elf & safety, as well as becoming difficult to get parts after so many years.

[@hjp1hjp22]

Front engined double deckers were the Leyland Titan, Guy Arab, Daimler CVG, Bristol LD (Lodekka), and AEC Regent that operated outside London. The AEC Routemaster had a unique front that is iconic of London. LT Routemaster withdrawals started in 1982, and over half of the 2760 built had gone within a decade.

[@davidmace3716]

Not forgetting Crossley Foden and Dennis

[@stevedoubleu99B]

Even the name is cool...'ROUTEMASTER' and to me, even today they don't look dated.

[@dashcam26]

The 'last days' were the first days for a lot of them and looking better than the day they left the factory.

[@Steven_Rowe]

Routemasters were in my blood, they replaced the Trolleybuses in Tottenham, I went to school on them the 41, went everywhere on them. A handsome bus , a classic bus that still looks fresh in 2016. Funny how a country that started the industrial revolution and could design and build a bus without equal anywhere seems to have given up on excellence. The boris masters will not go the distance like the RMs and all there derivitive did. as an ex pat living in Sydney the only colour for a London bus is RED, no fancy colour schemes, no hints of other colours just RED

[@sobelou]

RED!!

[@subhranshuganguly9150]

i last saw the last real double decker in Calcutta in early 1990s. The articulated version at least some of them survived till 2000.

[@сергейсерый-к8и]

потрясающе изящны эти старые автобусы !!!

[@ZJS0113]

I used to have a toy routemaster bus with service 159 on the front haha

[@occamsrayzor]

I emigrated to New Zealand in 1974, so I was fortunate not to see the demise of these beautiful buses. They're still travelling the streets in my memory, especially my regular ones, the 101, the 15, and the 272 routes.

[@kd84afc]

They still on London streets, a lot of private companies, still operate them for private hire work.

[@spiccybaby]

They were getting Volvo engine replacements by the end.

[@kenesufernandez1281]

❤️

[@johnrider5701]

Took me to school and brought me home. Took me to work and brought me home. Today I go to work by a box on wheels and go home by a box on wheels ..

[@delboytrotter8806]

No 3 ....Brixton to Dulwich......school ..1969-1974......

[@dansmith4601]

Most of this footage is taken from the nine road, which filmed the daily journey of a number nine between mortlake and dalston

[@carltonslaine7756]

Why get rid of London history and heritage those buses was built for the job you can not beat them they even Look the part London will never be the Same without them that's a fact

[@windbag45]

One thing they couldn't do was carry wheelchairs and prams. That forced their demise

[@fin57]

Not wheelchair accessible, couldn't carry enough people, cost more to run as had to employ 2 people per bus etc etc

[@Digitaldogbag]

as a driver I loved driving them on routes 77,77a,192,37,88 and I was fortunate to drive the last one fitted at Aldenham depot with a new steering box, drove like a Rolls Royce, they got rid of them due to money not heritage no one said they couldn't run them side by side with the newer stock.

[@Theoobovril]

They can flog the point of open desk buses being dangerous as much as they like. But the main reason from switching away from this type design was so that customers would have to get on the new bus by passing the driver first. This way the driver could take the fare money so doing away with the conductor hence saving a huge amount in the cost of wages.

[@rabd9881]

There’s also RMs being completely inaccessible if you are in a wheelchair or have a buggy

[@michaelhannah7189]

So sad I Iive in Oz and my mate has a 1968 routemaster but with a front door not a platform at the back converted to a mobile home/ Been round Australia twice and still painted red

[@TheDonMagicWon]

36 bus to Victoria everyday

[@marcot9634]

Am i the only who think that the real london busses are RTs and not RMs?

[@RoryTV1]

yes

[@evanmorris1932]

BUT THERE IS A NEW ROUTEMASTER FROM 2013

[@vincentdeguard4726]

no more hop-on/hop-off though...

[@fin57]

Trash tho

[@malo66]

New routemaster cost : £330,000 per bus!

[@alfiewhittaker3763]

bendy buses are death traps

[@carstenhemel2574]

Only for people like you. For a hot cup of coffee is mostproably also huge problem...

[@sanchoodell6789]

But Uri Geller loved them!

[@vincentdeguard4726]

they gone now too

[@rabd9881]

BS made up by the media and people angry that their favourite buses were being replaced by them

[@alfiewhittaker3763]

@@rabd9881 so the fires fare evasion and awful road manners weren't a factor then

[@nuhaalogaili6398]

How is the route master the king is of the world???????

[@gregbouchard7935]

See good