Routemaster - R.I.P.
December 9th, 2005 at 2:41 pm
So today is the last ever day. The 159 left Marble Arch this lunchtime on it’s final journey. The Routemaster bus was actually discontinued in 1968 but has been refitted and repaired ever since. The 159 and several other Routemaster buses are being decommissioned just down the road from me in Brixton, in fact they are expected to start arriving at the depot in the next few minutes.
I’m very glad that I moved to London just before this happened, and I’m told that many of them are being sold on for other uses, so I guess we’ll see them again.
UPDATE: I’m reliably informed by me friend George that the routemaster buses will still run on a couple of services, one of which is specially created as a kind of moving museum. Hooray!
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