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Author: Tony Lewin Publisher: ISBN: 9781858946245 Category : Routemaster buses Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
Author: Tony Lewin Publisher: ISBN: 9781858946245 Category : Routemaster buses Languages : en Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
Author: Andrew Morgan Publisher: Haynes Publishing UK ISBN: 9781844259380 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 0
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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.
Author: Matthew Wharmby Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473869439 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 223
Book Description
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.
Author: Ken Blacker Publisher: Capital Transport ISBN: 9781854143037 Category : Buses Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Author: John Christopher Publisher: Story of ISBN: 9780752450841 Category : Routemaster buses Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the story of one of London's most famous symbols, the London bus. Full of little-known facts and figures, the book includes details of preserved vehicles and collections.
Author: Matthew Wharmby Publisher: ISBN: 9780711033146 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This omnibus edition brings together three titles to cover the history of the Routemaster bus. More than just another bus, the Routemaster was a symbol of all that was great about Britain, and in particular London, which it served faitfully for half a century.
Author: Matthew Wharmby Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport ISBN: 139906195X Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 365
Book Description
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.
Author: Tony Lewin
Author: Tony Lewin
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Author: Ken Blacker
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Author: Matthew Wharmby
Author: Matthew Wharmby