Going, Going…

… Almost gone. The Routemaster bus from London, that is. The red double-decker Routemaster bus, with its open platform at the back is an icon, but it is being removed from service in London. Today, it vanishes from route 38, leaving just one route left on which these buses are used. That too will lose its Routemasters by the end of the year.

 

I’ll admit to a feeling of nostalgia about this, when I was 17, I had a summer job working on the buses as a conductor, and liked the Routemaster buses most of all. Another link with the past vanishes…