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All across the Great Western territory => Buses and other ways to travel => Topic started by: grahame on December 09, 2023, 16:36:33



Title: On this day - 9th December 2005 - last Routemaster in regular service
Post by: grahame on December 09, 2023, 16:36:33
Withdrawn from London Route 159 early afternoon amongst howls of anguish from bus lovers and howls of delight from disability rights campaigners - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_Routemaster


Title: Re: On this day - 9th December 2005 - last Routemaster in regular service
Post by: Mark A on December 09, 2023, 18:05:44
Incroyable that the type of bus I caught for travel to school - and would on rare occasions receive bun pennies in the change for the fare (and on even more rare occasions pay the fare in bun pennies) - was still in service as recently as 2005.

Mark



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