On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article . com,
(Roy Stilling) wrote:

Colin Rosensteil wrote:
So will Friday mark the end of Routemaster service by buses with
their original registration marks?

No, as not all RMs lost their original registrations. I work off
Piccadilly and haven't seen any RMs on he 9 bearing non-original marks
yet.

You surprise me because I haven't yet seen any 9s or 15s _with_ their
original registration marks. Nor have I seen any RMLs on the heritage
routes.

*All* 20 RMs allocated to the 9 and 15 retain their original
registrations.

First
1204/1218/1280/1562/1627/1640/1650/1735/1776/1913

A look at the fleetlist in the enthusiast section on:
http://www.firstlondontimetables.co.uk/
confirms that the First vehicles carry original numbers.

Stagecoach
324/652/871/1933/1971/1968/2050/2060/2071/2089

A quick search through the 2005 LOTS fleetbook shows that the
Stagecoach ones do as well.
--
Thomas Covenant
Please observe Reply-to address.

In article ,
(Thomas Covenant) wrote:

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article . com,
(Roy Stilling) wrote:

Colin Rosensteil wrote:
So will Friday mark the end of Routemaster service by buses with
their original registration marks?

No, as not all RMs lost their original registrations. I work off
Piccadilly and haven't seen any RMs on he 9 bearing non-original
marks yet.

You surprise me because I haven't yet seen any 9s or 15s _with_
their original registration marks. Nor have I seen any RMLs on the
heritage routes.

*All* 20 RMs allocated to the 9 and 15 retain their original
registrations.

First
1204/1218/1280/1562/1627/1640/1650/1735/1776/1913

A look at the fleetlist in the enthusiast section on:
http://www.firstlondontimetables.co.uk/
confirms that the First vehicles carry original numbers.

Stagecoach
324/652/871/1933/1971/1968/2050/2060/2071/2089

A quick search through the 2005 LOTS fleetbook shows that the
Stagecoach ones do as well.

How strange. I could have sworn the two I saw near Trafalgar Square
earlier this week both had non-original registrations.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
says...
In article ,
(Thomas Covenant) wrote:

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:56 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article . com,
(Roy Stilling) wrote:

Colin Rosensteil wrote:
So will Friday mark the end of Routemaster service by buses with
their original registration marks?

No, as not all RMs lost their original registrations. I work off
Piccadilly and haven't seen any RMs on he 9 bearing non-original
marks yet.

You surprise me because I haven't yet seen any 9s or 15s _with_
their original registration marks. Nor have I seen any RMLs on the
heritage routes.

*All* 20 RMs allocated to the 9 and 15 retain their original
registrations.

First
1204/1218/1280/1562/1627/1640/1650/1735/1776/1913

A look at the fleetlist in the enthusiast section on:
http://www.firstlondontimetables.co.uk/
confirms that the First vehicles carry original numbers.

Stagecoach
324/652/871/1933/1971/1968/2050/2060/2071/2089

A quick search through the 2005 LOTS fleetbook shows that the
Stagecoach ones do as well.

How strange. I could have sworn the two I saw near Trafalgar Square
earlier this week both had non-original registrations.


Guess you saw two 159's

Jim Brittin wrote:
In article ,
says...

How strange. I could have sworn the two I saw near Trafalgar Square
earlier this week both had non-original registrations.

Guess you saw two 159's

I wonder if First have been substituting other buses while they're
getting the allocated buses restored to the original livery. I saw
(IIRC) RM1562 on the 9 earlier today and it was still in unrelieved
Sovereign red with yellow flettnumbers. No fleetname of any kind, just
Firstgroup legal ownership.
--
Roy

In article .com,
(Roy Stilling) wrote:

Jim Brittin wrote:
In article ,
says...

How strange. I could have sworn the two I saw near Trafalgar
Square earlier this week both had non-original registrations.

Guess you saw two 159's

No, definitely not. I can count.

I wonder if First have been substituting other buses while they're
getting the allocated buses restored to the original livery. I saw
(IIRC) RM1562 on the 9 earlier today and it was still in unrelieved
Sovereign red with yellow flettnumbers. No fleetname of any kind,
just Firstgroup legal ownership.

I saw that one or another like it earlier this week. There was an RM in
Silver Jubilee livery on the 9 this morning. I have a picture to prove it.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Indeed, I too saw it this evening at both Strand and terminating at
Royal Albert Hall - SRM3 (I think! - my camera battery was out by then,
having been on the 159 last Routemaster - yes I managed to get on RM
2217 - there was a real scrum at Marble Arch!) this evening.

An amazing day.

Peter Hendy being interviewed by Nick Owen for TV on top of RM2217 as
it neared Brixton, justifiying the unjustifiable, whilst a whole school
stood in the road and flag-waved and cheered us along!

Luckily for him, that ghastly dehumanised moron, Mr. Livingstone, was
nowhere to be seen!

A big Thank You to all the staff that made this such a memorable
occasion (and Thursday too, of course), and good luck to all those
losing their jobs today.



Marc.

On 9 Dec 2005 12:58:56 -0800, " wrote:

Indeed, I too saw it this evening at both Strand and terminating at
Royal Albert Hall - SRM3 (I think! - my camera battery was out by then,
having been on the 159 last Routemaster - yes I managed to get on RM
2217 - there was a real scrum at Marble Arch!) this evening.

You must have had your elbows specially sharpened to make it onto that
bus! They'd certainly done an excellent job in smartening it up for its
special role.

An amazing day.

Yes indeed.

A big Thank You to all the staff that made this such a memorable
occasion (and Thursday too, of course), and good luck to all those
losing their jobs today.

Certainly was memorable. I said good luck to the conductor on the 159
that I made a special effort to travel on on the way to work this
morning.
--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

In message .com,
" writes
An amazing day.
A big Thank You to all the staff that made this such a memorable
occasion (and Thursday too, of course), and good luck to all those
losing their jobs today.

I've just returned to the West Midlands after four days in London
combining business with pleasure (if pleasure is the word at seeing the
end of "regular" RM operation).

Can I echo that big "thank you", to all the crews for such good humour,
to the people at TfL and the operating companies, to the owners of the
visiting special vehicles and to volunteers at LOTS for all the
information they've given on this and all previous "last days", which
allowed us all to enjoy them so much.

Major memories of the day?

Ordinary people taking such a special interest in the Routemasters
serving their neighbourhoods.......

A ride on an LD along Whitehall.......

Being surrounded in the dusk by an RT, the STL and what seemed like a
whole host of RMs in Parliament Street.......

The queue for the limited edition models at the LT Museum shop on
Thursday morning (an hour's wait but I did get them). Great company in
the queue there, too. (Has anyone else noticed how much friendlier
staff are in the shop since the temporary move to the Market proper?)

The "carnival" atmosphere in Oxford Street on Friday morning.......

Seeing final buses arrive at Streatham and still being in time to hot
foot it to Brixton Garage to witness the festivities there.......

Patting RM2217 as it turned into the garage.....

........and finally, my wife correcting me by saying "it's an RML,
actually" when I announced that an RM was coming on Thursday
evening.....


It was like being in "The Elephant Will Never Forget"!
--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk