rtw50

[@pamfulcher6037]

I worked on the RTWs as a conductor out of the Upton Park garage in the early 60s. Great memories for me , thanks 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚒🇨🇦

[@jamesfrench7299]

London got it's character back again!! Fantastic seeing so many running at once.

[@kelvinbremont1341]

Does anyone else besides me wish they’d bring back these rt and rm buses as tour buses for people who visit London?

[@christopherdalton9171]

Excellent event. Had the pleasure of riding on the RTW buses, Takes me back to the late sixties when as a young child, I remember seeing these as trainers, of course I remember the AEC RTs (and Routemasters) in service and along came the Merlin and Swift single deckers not to mention the DMS double deck type. Never mind! But I liked riding on these RTW buses and the narrower RTL bus, too. Good day travelling on buses!

[@suzyqualcast6269]

Remember travelling on thee and many other types to LT/red & G garages all over, in order to cabem in my Ian Allen as a dedicated spotter 69 - 73. Local garages Uxbridge and Windsor.

[@christopherdalton9171]

@@suzyqualcast6269 Well, you spent some of the best years bus spotting, it was around the time more one man buses gradually removing crew buses, thankfully RTs and RMs kept going.

[@Twittler1]

An RTL has snuck in there! I remember when I was 11/12, sometimes riding on RTWs on the old route 46 that ran between Alperton and Victoria (Ebury St). I had a choice going home between the 46 and the 52 to get to Victoria. I always preferred the 46 - those extra 6” of width mad a hell of a difference in comfort. Going to school, it was always the 52 (RTLs) though. It’s probably the different chassis, but does anyone know exactly why the RTWs had their own numbering sequence, and weren’t placed in the sequence that included RTs and RTLs together.

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

As far as I know the 500 RTW's were originally to be numbered in the same series as the RTLs, because of this the prototype RTL, delivered in 1948, was numbered RTL501, JXC20, this bus had a body originally intended for RT657, built by Park Royal, this body also had a roof route box and was for many years the only RTL with this feature. The RTL chassis type was Leyland PD2/1 and the RTW chassis type was Leyland PD2/3. I have copy of the 5th edition of 'ABC London Transport Buses & Coaches' published in 1951, the RTW chassis were described as OPD2/3, the O standing for overseas, 8 foot wide chassis were not legal in the UK, I think that the RTWs were originally operated under special dispensation from the Ministry of Transport until the law was changed, great buses though.

[@Steven_Rowe]

You simply can't beat an RTW.

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

I quite agree, magnificent buses!

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@bobhodgestransportDVDs they used them on London's longest bus route the 171. Tottenham garage to Lambeth

[@saddlebum6595]

I lived on the 171 route in Tottenham and remember the route being created during the late '50s.

[@Steven_Rowe]

@@saddlebum6595 well can only be one of 4 roads. Phillip lane, it then went into West Green Road then left into Blackboy Lane and right into St Ann's Road to the Salisbury on Green Lanes

[@saddlebum6595]

@@Steven_Rowe I actually lived off Black Boy Lane, backing onto the park. The 171 and 41 bus route were my lifeline in those far-off days. I walked to school - Downhills Central. I wonder what it is that makes London buses so attractive and addictive?

[@peterbuckley4827]

Hi, I was unfortunately prevented through bad luck of attending RTW 50 and may other events. I was after being ill for quite awhile rushed to hospital mid Jan 2016 and then on to the Royal London where I soon had to have a very rare through the knee amputation and lost my left foot and lower leg, due to Polio and Rheumatic Fever at Age 8, in turn due to infections caught having to use outside non flush unhygienic toilets at a relations place in Cheshire. I t will be many months before I am able to safely be mobile on a prosthesis after walking training from 12 may 2017bunder a consultant at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Brockley Hill Stanmore N W London. So I do hope that the route 95 RTW event and RT 75 on ex eastern end of the 22 and RT'S e c t on many routes like the 9, 11, 24 and 100 will all be on again from early on in 2018 when I am mobile again, over the next few years in my remaining mortal coil years. Does anyone have definite news please to give me hope and something to look forward to make up for what I have missed, as I am extremely depressed missing everything through no fault of my own

[@peterbuckley265]

CONTINUED FROM ABOVE. NOW LOST RIGHT LEG ABOBE KNEE. WILL THE ROTE 95 WITH RTWS RUN AGAIN HOPEFULLY, SO I HAVE MY FIRST CHANCE TO ATTEND,

[@SprattyHeath]

8:40 I thought this garage closed after the RM's & the RML's left in 2005?

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

Brixton Hill former tram depot is an outstation to Brixton (Telford Avenue) garage. For many years it was a car repair workshop but became a bus garage again when Ken Livingstone expanded bus services in London.

[@SprattyHeath]

Ah ok thanks!

[@徐雲亮-x2r]

我們的國際運輸系統觀賞，點選了人類審議能力

[@DoubleDeckerDavid]

Is there a dvd available of this ?

[@bobhodgestransportDVDs]

There will be a DVD price £12.50 available in mid January from www.bhtransportdvds.co.uk which will include this RTW50 video. The title of the DVD is London Buses, South London and this DVD is one of a series that will cover all of London.

[@jamesfrench7299]

10:52 to hear one at full sing.

[@adamhiley2308]

proper Buses the Hybrids and the Boris Buses are awful