... You could possibly have seen more of a bus if it hadn't been a Lodekka!
Can't remember was it just top deck or both that were lowered ...
I thought that too. I think I recall hearing about special buses for the Botley Road Bridge in Oxford - were they VERY low deckers, or just any bus from this family? I also recall routes (and we still have them!) which are single deck only - the 227 from Chiselhurst Common to Penge and Crystal Palace via Bromley was a regular, due to the water tower (I think it was) that spanned the road with an arch to let traffic through. Hadn't seen one of those in an age until Saturday ...
Blimey, that brings back memories. I traveled on buses like that along the 227 route when I was a child. We lived a couple of hundred yards along Beckenham Road which the bus takes from the railway bridge on the line between Beckenham Junction and Birkbeck. This bridge was very low, and I always thought was the reason for the single deckers (which were always very crowded). At some stage the road was lowered, presumably to allow larger vehicles to use the road, which then formed a depression which would regularly flood.
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