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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.
Book Synopsis London's New Routemaster by : Tony Lewin
Download or read book London's New Routemaster written by Tony Lewin and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few things are as synonomous with London as its famous red buses, thousands of which carry millions of passengers a year on hundreds of separate routes. Yet since the withdrawl from service of the much loved Routemaster in the mid-2000s, noe of its replacements has succeeded in generating the same kind of affection among the travelling public. Now, however, the stylish, Thomas Hetherwick-designed New Routemaster looks set to recapture the imagination of Londoners and visitors alike. This book tells the story of the New Routemaster.
Book Synopsis RM70 – Seventy Years of a London Icon by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book RM70 – Seventy Years of a London Icon written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Batten illustrates the story of the Routemaster, instantly recognisable as the typical London bus, as it celebrates its seventy-year anniversary in 2024.
Download or read book Routemaster Bus written by Andrew Morgan and published by Haynes Publishing UK. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routemaster bus – instantly recognizable as the classic red double-decker London Transport bus – is a British icon, and a symbol unmistakably associated with London. Now the Routemaster receives the famous Haynes Manual treatment. This book provides a unique perspective on owning, restoring and operating a Routemaster, as well as an insight into the design, development and anatomy of this remarkably resilient machine, which saw continuous service in London for over 45 years.
Book Synopsis All Aboard the London Bus by : Patricia Toht
Download or read book All Aboard the London Bus written by Patricia Toht and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come! Board the London Bus and see the London sights with us. At any time, hop off, explore! Then climb back on, and ride some more… As a family of four spend a day exploring London, fun, child-friendly poems introduce readers to our wonderful capital city, and all its secrets. Well-known landmarks like Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the London Eye, plus inescapable features like rain and taking tea, all get Patty Toht's witty treatment. Non-fiction facts provide more information about the poetry subjects, while rising star Sam Usher brings them to life with his signature style and humour. This gorgeous celebration of London will be loved by both tourists and those who call the city home.
Book Synopsis The Bus We Loved by : Travis Elborough
Download or read book The Bus We Loved written by Travis Elborough and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the withdrawal of the last Routemaster bus in London
Book Synopsis The London Bendy Bus by : Matthew Wharmby
Download or read book The London Bendy Bus written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they caught fire at the drop of a hat, they maimed cyclists, they drained revenue from the system due to their susceptibility to fare evasion, they transported already long-suffering passengers in standing crush loads like cattle and they contributed to the extinction of the Routemaster from frontline service. In short, it was often referred to as the bus we hated.rnrnThis account is an attempt by a long-time detractor of the bendy buses to set the vehicles in their proper context not quite to rehabilitate them, but to be as fair as is possible towards a mode of transport which felt about as un-British as could be.
Book Synopsis East London Buses: 1990s by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book East London Buses: 1990s written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm Batten offers a highly illustrated range of photographs looking at East London buses in the 1990s.
Download or read book Routemaster written by Ken Blacker and published by Capital Transport. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised second volume of Ken Blacker's definitive history of the Routemaster covers the final 35 years of passenger service. Ken Blacker's text is accompanied by a large number of previously unpublished pictures in colour and black and white.
Download or read book The London LS written by Matthew Wharmby and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leylands choice, LT took up an option to buy fifty more from a canceled export order and then bought further batches of 110, 30 and 140 to bring the LS class to 437 members by the middle of 1980. A year later the last MBAs and SMSs were replaced on Red Arrow services by sixty-nine new Leyland National 2s.Straightforward but reliable, the LS satisfied London Transports single-deck needs for a decade and a half, often standing in for double-deckers when needed, and then going on to help hold the fort during the tough years of early tendering, during which some innovative LS operations introduced several new liveries and identities. The type served the ten years expected out of it with few worries, only starting to disappear when minibuses came on strength at the end of the 1980s. Although the LS was formally retired by 1992, refurbishment programs gave survivors an extended lease of life, bringing us the National Greenway, the ultimate development of the Leyland National. Most of the Red Arrow National 2s thus became GLSs, and lasted until 2002.Matthew Wharmby is an author, photographer and editor specializing in London bus history. His published books include London Transports Last Buses: Leyland Olympians L 1-263, Routemaster Requiem and Routemaster Retrospective (with Geoff Rixon), London Transport 1970-1984 (with R. C. Riley), The London Titan and The London Metrobus. He has also written many articles for Buses, Bus & Coach Preservation, Classic Bus and London Bus Magazine.
Book Synopsis East London Buses: 1970s-1980s by : Malcolm Batten
Download or read book East London Buses: 1970s-1980s written by Malcolm Batten and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A terrific range of previously unpublished images of East London buses, including Routemasters, during the 1970s-1980s.
Book Synopsis My First London Bus Cloth Book by : Marion Billet
Download or read book My First London Bus Cloth Book written by Marion Billet and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully presented cloth book featuring an iconic London Bus with tactile crinkly wheels.A very soft, very cuddly cloth book for babies all about London. Beautifully presented in a gorgeous gift box, this book is perfect for small babies to snuggle.
Book Synopsis The London MB and SM Buses - A London Bus Disappointment by : Jim Blake
Download or read book The London MB and SM Buses - A London Bus Disappointment written by Jim Blake and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PURCHASED to replace London Transport's ageing RT-type fleet, and also to ease staff shortages by extending one-man operation, the MB-types were not only a disappointment, but an unmitigated disaster! Their successors, the SM-types, were if anything worse, being underpowered as well as equally unsuitable for London operation. In this new volume of his photos, Jim Blake takes a critical look at what were therefore some of the most unsuccessful buses ever operated by London Transport, operating only between 1966 and 1981, most of them however achieving only six or seven years' service - if that. Most of the pictures featured have never been published before and many show rare and unusual scenes, several inside LT's garages and Aldenham Works, now themselves no longer in existence. In addition to the buses themselves, Jim also catches glimpses of London life spanning the period from the "swinging 'sixties" to the harsh first years of the Thatcher regime. The MB and SM family of vehicles also saw service with London Country, the latter being delivered new to them - but they fared just as badly in the outlying countryside around London as in Central London. They brought to a sad end London Transport's long association with A.E.C. buses, and could not have been more different from the legendary, long-lived RT, RF and Routemaster classes produced by that manufacturer!
Book Synopsis The Last Years of London's RFs and RTs: South of the Thames by : Mike Rhodes
Download or read book The Last Years of London's RFs and RTs: South of the Thames written by Mike Rhodes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning photographs documenting the final era of these iconic London buses focusing on the South of the Thames.
Book Synopsis Whizzy Wheels: London Taxi by : Marion Billet
Download or read book Whizzy Wheels: London Taxi written by Marion Billet and published by Campbell Books. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A taxi-shaped board book with movable wheels which takes you around the different sites of London.
Book Synopsis The Last Years of London's RFs and RTs: North of the Thames by : Mike Rhodes
Download or read book The Last Years of London's RFs and RTs: North of the Thames written by Mike Rhodes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning photographs documenting the final era of these iconic London buses focusing on the North of the Thames.
Book Synopsis Getting Partnerships Going by : Stephen Glaister
Download or read book Getting Partnerships Going written by Stephen Glaister and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
