Travel and Transport

Here is a new route-73 "bendy bus" (yes, that's what their semi-official name seems to be) pulling away from the stop at the Angel, Islington, next to an old-style red phone box.
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(Travel and Transport): Routemaster buses replaced by articulated bendy bus 20040904 first day on London route 73 from Stoke Newington via Angel routes 19 and 38 still to go interior and exterior 5 DHD.jpg
D=2004-09-05 [Sep 5, 2004]; S=2MB, 2592x1944; T=JPEG image [MIME:image/jpeg].

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• routemaster = RM, RML, RouteMaster Lengthened, bus, doubledecker = The Routemaster is a lovely old bus; the iconic London red doubledecker in many minds. Designed in the 1950s to replace the London trolleybus fleet, it was still in heavy use more than fifty years later beyond the turn of the 21st century, regardless of many of the buses in service being 30 or 40 years old compared with a design life of 15 years! See the Routemaster Association and read "The Routemaster Handbook", Andrew Morgan, Capital Transport Publishing 2001, ISBN 1-85414-237-2, or "The Bus We Loved", Travis Elborough, Granta 2006, ISBN 1-86207-885-8.

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