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Colin Rosenstiel · December 19th 06, 08:55 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article . com, () wrote:

Depends which war you mean, young man. Certainly not pre world war
2 if this former resident is to be believed, talking about
trolleybuses - among the first routes given to Routemasters were
trolleybus replacements... THis would have been around 1960.

"They ran from either West Ham [WH] or Poplar [PR] depots, both now
demolished and housing estates built on the sites, although the West
Ham Depot site is remembered as one of the street names there is
named Routemaster Close."

Routemasters entered mainstream service on 11th November 1959 when 74 vehicles were allocated to Poplar and West Ham garages to replace trolleybuses under stage IV of the London Trolleybus Conversion scheme. Once that conversion was completed in 1962 later deliveries of RMs replaced RT type vehicles.

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Colin Rosenstiel