London Buses 1986-Isleworth/Richmond/Putney RM/L, DMS, M buses 

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I aim to please! Check out this upload here to see how (or if?) Richmond has changed much in the last 30+ years ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bkLDnP7eP4A.html

I was 20, the best days of our lives

Yes, Liv Street had lots of RM routes back in the 80s......And others have mentioned all the cars in the background. All classics now but just everyday street scenes back then.....

That's the good thing about these films, its looking at what else was around then, things that have long since disappeared!

Yes, LT did have four RMLs used as trainers back in the 70s & 80s......

Life seemed a bit less frantic then....

Thank you.....the LT bus washing machines were so-so for getting a bus clean...you had to drive through very slow for the brushes to have time to work on all 4 sides of the bus...some of the Night Generalhands were a bit fast putting them through.....

The screeching brakes were a feature of Metrobuses!

Yes, although there wern't many journeys that ran the full length. The route used to run in two over-lapping halfs most of the day.....

I do have some more from this area which i will upload over time....

It was fun on the buses back in those days. Working as a crew was better than OPO, assuming you got on with your conductor!

Lots of routes went accoss London, the 12s went from South Croydon to Wembley! And with a vehicle allocation of over 100 buses! The 22s used to run through to Homerton which is just beyond Hackney Central. The 14s used to run to Hornsey Rise as well. Routes were cut back as the garages at each end of these long routes were in different bus operating companies when London Buses was split up for privitisation. Quite a lot of routes were split sadly.....

Soi Buakhao yes so i have noticed, i mean the privatisation is one thing, but i kinda wish routes stayed in some type of order per each garage also along with night routes. I think the tendering and all this competition is not needed, others may disagree, but running a service is something each company does and its hit and miss if another company or garage happen to get better results into whatever tfl expect. I saw the 14 saying hackney or something like that in another video so its weird to know that both routes i drive used to go all the way there, what about the 74 where was that, or is that a newer route? And wow the 12 used to go from croydon to wembley? That ridiculous 😂😂😂😂

@@ace-paidinfull5240 The 74 used to run from Camden Town to Roehamoton. Back in the 1960s and 70s some routes had a Sunday's only extension, like the 15s to Richmond or the 73s to Teddington!

@@ace-paidinfull5240 The full extent of the 12 route was from South Croydon Garage to Harlesden Willesden Junction although it invariably worked in two sections - for example South Croydon to Oxford Circus and Dulwich 'Plough' to Harlesden, meaning that all the buses served the busiest section of the route between which was between Dulwich and Oxford Circus. There were occasional exceptions: whilst still at 'Junior' school near Croydon in about 1962, I remember seeing a route 12 bus with its destination screen set for Park Royal Stadium, many miles beyond the customary terminus for buses from South Croydon. During the lengthy and painful political assasination of London Transport in the 1980s, the reason for long-established routes being altered became obvious - it was not because the travelling public suddenly demanded changes after 80 years of operation but because LT - no longer serving the public but its political masters instead - hacked routes about so they were generally confined to within one operating district rather than straddling two or three of them. One example, that route 8 stopped its traditional run run to Willesden Garage and diverted to Victoria instead had nothing to do with a sudden demand by passengers insisting immediate change to the traditional routing but was done to meet a politically-driven agenda. And, at that point, I left London, rather than witness the end of what was once probably the finest public transport operator in the world.

Martin in the UK man what a detailed paragraph or two, wasnt that long but gives me a deep insight into the topic, politically and just generally. Would have loved to bump into you and have this talk, as im a guy who is against the government and the people in high places who run this world. A bit like whats going on now with the virus🤔 Anyways thanks for these little history lessons you gave me, means alot as i love learning things from days gone by, especially since its my job now

My pleasure..... The traffic is worse today. More people in London plus lots of anti traffic measures from a road hating authority, forgetting the buses get caught up in it all.....

Your powers of observation are remarkable! I am always amazed at what viewers find in my vids beyond the obvious point of the upload, happy viewing.....

The leyland engines always sounded great in a Bristol RE

@@cidertom5140 Never experienced those first hand but have viewed some videos and you're very right.

It was, i was there! Perhaps i will get the day uploaded to RU-vid in the near future!

@ I used to live by the M25 in Potters Bar. Another place with plenty of fumes, joys of city living i suppose!

It was the day of a seperate terror attack two weeks after 7/7. And I was there too at Putney Heath at around 9pm......

@ I don't, I think I missed that period!

@@markcf83 yes I remember filming on Putney Bridge on the last day and a cop car stopped to ask what we were all doing!

I started on London's buses in 86, still doing it today. Nowhere near as enjoyable as it was back then.

I'm told by Mick you are still at it. Plenty of locations to capture some modern buses on film!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Indeed, just modern buses are so boring

Thank you Peter. A fair bit of variety on this one.

Certainly a lot easier than today......

Yeh I agree, those were days with real freedom now days its all rules and more like penalising us people and control and just making everything though and expensive. Those were good days when you could park anywhere and was easy to drive very less speed cameras and less traffic also good cars and desgins, I would love to go back in them timez

I do remember seeing them but that was before i got a video camera sadly.

I've got some Ash Grove shots, i will sort out an upload.

In what context do you want to use it? At the moment you do not have any videos uploaded.

​@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus hey, so i took some (35mm) photos in isleworth and i would like to upload some of those pics with footage i took of the area. and i want to start the video with a v. short clip of old footage of isleworth and im going to put some text over it (eg: shooting film in isleworth). and i dont have any videos uploaded because im just starting out.

@@020cine OK, sound good to me, i just wanted to make sure you had no plans to just direct upload the whole vid! (some people have done that with some of my vids and been knocked for it). Sounds like than interesting upload you are making, please mention my upload (or channel) on the vid, thanks. And let me know whe it's live and i'll have a look, get the views up for you!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus thank you so much!! this vid is really cool and i love the vibe. (and that is honestly really rude and kinda pathetic that some people have uploaded your entire video like that, i'm sorry to hear that)

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus i also gave a thumbs up :) thanks for the content

The light coloured exhaust coming from the DMS was a good colour for a diesel (blue is un-burnt fuel, black is burning oil!) and unusal for a DMS, they tended to be quite black smoke!

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus wow ok, so how come other buses never did that.

They were for the 37s which was booked to be RML from all its garages. But most mixed RM & RML sheds just saw them as Routemasters and allocated them as required....plenty escaped onto the 237s....

All buses were serviced as they returned to the garage each evening including a trip through the washer. Although you had to go through slow for the brushes to cover all the bus. Go too fast and it would miss bits!

loved the squeaky brakes!

Could be!......lol Never noticed that before.....