London Buses 1987-Routemasters in West London at Hounslow, Sunbury Village & Shepherds Bush Green 

growing up It was common to take the piss out of people that waited at bus stations with their note pads and cameras. But now. years later all these beauties have disappeared and I for one am very glad they preserved a little of it.

The joys of being able to jump off whenever you wanted 🤣🤣

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Another good upload. Route 49 would be of interest here. In November 1960 when it was RT/RTL- operated, London Transport introduced a new RM operated route 207A from Hayes Station via the basic 207 to Shepherds Bush. From there it provided support for the 49 to Chelsea, Stanley Arms. No Routemaster availability for the 49 right through the sixties, using the RT buses only and the 207A along with the 207 itself both of which were upgraded to RML operation in 1967. May 1971. London Transport withdraws the 207A and that route s RML s went to Leyton for the 48. At the same time, the 49 received the standard RMs and once more becoming the sole bus route between Shepherds Bush and Kensington and also cut back from Crystal Palace to Streatham Garage. In other words standard RMs again running between Shepherds Bush and Chelsea Stanley Arms, this time as route 49 buses.

Superb footage. Thanks for sharing!

I am thinking that the stand at Shepherds Bush is now part of Westfield Centre. Also recognise the brick buildings which I think were electricity buildings for the Underground. On the other side of these is White City bus station where all the routes terminate now, they go under the Westfield centre via a crazy underground road, drop off, and then back to a stand, then back to the bus station to pick up . The 228, (Maida Hill to Central Middlesex Hospital) serves it but then goes out towards Wood Lane. London United Wood Lane Midibus base was more or less where the bus station is now.

I was driving RM2121 on Sunday.

Love this channel.

Brilliant as usual.

I like old school cars,buss,cabs🤗🤗🤗

Great memories growing up as kid in shepherds bush early 80s. Shame we didn't see more Rms 207 and 105 might gone opo by time you filmed.

Great camera work ,well before my time but still a great watch

Why was someone filming buses back in 87! They must of known that one day nostalgia nerds like us would be watching the footage sometime in the future, 35 years later........time has flown

I used to be an Inspector at Caxton road S Bush back in the 80's

Routemaster heaven in 1987! A shame a few whiny M's crashed the party. Another great slab of nostalgia, thanks for sharing as usual Soi. Incidentally, what is the name of the road the buses turned down to get to the Shepherds Bush stand? Are any of the buildings there still standing?

33 years before the covid 19 pandemic the uk was a free country

Don’t know what’s happening with RU-vid but I didn’t get the alert for this brilliant nostalgic video! Btw Soi I saw a photo on Flickr of a 73 terminating at Shepherds Bush. Would that have been an odd garage journey?

Among your best RM stuff yet. Loved the lineups and hearing one start up as the camera was away from it. Almost like an animal documentary.

At 6:40 was that RM 1676 that later became Leyton garage show bus in the 90s

Couldn't have been long before the 207 was OPO'd.