Last Years of the London Routemaster

Last Years of the London Routemaster
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Total Pages : 365
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ISBN-10 : 9781399061957
ISBN-13 : 139906195X
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Book Synopsis Last Years of the London Routemaster by : Matthew Wharmby

Download or read book Last Years of the London Routemaster written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade of Routemaster bus operation in London saw over seven hundred surviving RMs and RMLs divided between several new companies following the privatization of London Buses Ltd’s subsidiaries in 1994. Now operating their existing twenty routes under contract to LRT (renamed TfL in 2000), Centrewest, Metroline, MTL London Northern, Leaside Buses, Stagecoach East London, South London, London Central, London General and London United all adopted their own predominantly red liveries, but by the turn of the century these firms had clustered in pairs and generally sold out to the emerging big corporate groups. Two independents, BTS and Kentish Bus, had also won a Routemaster route each and were similarly brought under the control of larger parents. In this photographic archive, each company’s last Routemaster-operating decade is outlined in detail up to when each route was converted to OPO one by one between 29 August 2003 and 9 December 2005. The two heritage routes are then explored all the way up to their own end in 2019.


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