In message , at 16:27:49 on Mon, 19 Dec
2011, d remarked:
Oh dear. Not off to a good start then.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/new-routemaster...dy-photo-48777

Sounds like the battery went flat.

According to TfL it also ran out of fuel:
https://twitter.com/#!/TfLofficial/s...78421156200448

A double whammy.

Its probably why the battery went flat. I bet the driver was thinking "ooh
this is nice and quiet on the motorway" shortly before he coasted to a stop.

Very possible. So it's an instrumentation failing (both for the
underlying fuel shortage, and the fact that the battery was not being
charged at all). The more complicated you make vehicles, the more
failure modes they have.
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Roland Perry