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On this day - 9th December 2005 - last Routemaster in regular service
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Re: On this day - 9th December 2005 - last Routemaster in regular service
Posted by Mark A at 18:05, 9th December 2023
 
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

On this day - 9th December 2005 - last Routemaster in regular service
Posted by grahame at 16:36, 9th December 2023
 
Withdrawn from London Route 159 early afternoon amongst howls of anguish from bus lovers and howls of delight from disability rights campaigners -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

 
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