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Old April 10th 21, 06:57 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Charles Ellson[_3_] Charles Ellson[_3_] is offline
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On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 20:08:22 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 23:50:21 +0100, Charles Ellson
wrote:

On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 08:01:36 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
wrote:

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 23:20:42 +0100, Roger Lynn
wrote:

On 08/04/2021 13:16, Sam Wilson wrote:
I haven’t noticed it so much recently, but Edinburgh used to have quite a
lot of dedicated buses with the route number included in the livery as well
as on the indicator blinds.

Stagecoach do that a lot (at least in some areas). At weekends it's common
to see buses on the wrong routes.

Back when it was still all London Transport, did red buses ever appear
on green (country) routes or vice versa, where the two systems
overlapped?

They used to turn up if there wasn't one of the right colour available
due to accidents, overhauls etc. although RLH low height buses seemed
to never get a repaint from green when permanently transferred to the
230 route around Harrow.


The RLH buses I remember on the 230 were all red. I grew up in Harrow
and don't remember seeing any in green.

Not often and mainly in the last few years before it mutated into the
H1. There wasn't usually more than one at a time.
There are some photographs of RLH27, e.g.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/megaanorak/8590545356
but the trouble with that bus IIRC is that by the time the 230 ceased
it had already gone into private ownership and some photographs of it
on the 230 are actually of it driving around the route on the first
day of the new route taking over.