Brought a tear of nostalgia to me. At the age of 19 I was a conductor of the 22 (Putney to Homerton) from Battersea Garage.. They were great days. Sydney where I now live has two RMs in a museum. They are coming out tomorrow for a "London Bus Day" and now aged 66 I will conduct one again...something I never thought would ever happen. It will turn back time for me!

Nostalgia at it's finest - I came to London in 1974 as a youngster and saw the last part of the 'London era'.

I have the pleasure of owning one of these wonderful buses. I've been all over the country in it plus Ireland & France. But, whenever I take it into London it seems to know it's home. It fits in so well with the traffic etc. even after all these years.

We had a brilliant day filming the Oxford Street scenes with producer Paul Wooding. All great characters who loved working and travelling on the Routemasters. Me included; Julie Bramwell Model.

SADLY MISSED YES ABSOLUTELY GREAT BUS AND MEMORIES

3 are running in Dublin with vintage tea trips
Jean-RM654
Kitty-RM 2078
Pauline-RM811

Worked at aldenham  bus garage 1978 to 1986. Best days of my working life......

Ah,, the friendly face bus, I used the number 12 quite regularly when I lived and worked in London many happy memories 😎

19:13 That old Routemaster that went off the edge of the cliff, landed on it's wheels!… Surely that means something!

And the Routemaster has (just about) survived another 30 years since this was made - there was even one shipped down to the Falkland Islands to shuttle tourists along the front road in Stanley but Bessie is now retired!

Best bus ever!

The three symbols of Great Britain. The Red Phone Box, the FX4 Black Cab, and the Routemaster Bus.

We had the perfect bus and we stoped using it.

The RM is now more than twice as old as they were when they were talking about them here!

Super charming bus and sadly missed. I hate to see these iconic buses being scrapped and dismantled because they could have gone on indefinitely. Also, the bus conductor was a feelgood security factor, which is one reason why many people no longer travel by bus in the evenings on one-man operation models.

In 1933 Kowloon Motor bus was also established..back in the former British colony of Hong Kong. They bought the same AEC Regents back then.

I remember this being a great series, can't remember if it was repeated.

Crazy to have got rid of them.

Trying to remember my school journey: 3 from Croxted Road -> Crystal Palace. Then the 49(?) 149 all the way to Wandsworth Common.. Prime seat was upstairs front right Window.  
Was on an Australian Bus in Sydney yesterday - noisey,  fumes, seemingly no attempt to soundproof the engine bay at the rear, seats to small in width and too close together for even the average persons legs, wheel arches in the floorspace between 4 seats, and even no room for prams or bags on some of them.
A really BADLY designed bus! Nothing like the Queen of the roads, the Routemaster.

Another example of 'progress' actually meaning a backwards step