Rear Of The Year 2012
I took this picture of the back of the New Bus for London.
Rear of the Year 2012
I’d just ridden the bus from the Angel. TfL’s Press Officer was on the bus and he said they’d had a lot of positive comments. He said people especially liked the open platform and the conductor.
Incidentally, when I had approached the bus at the Angel, the driver had waved me to the back. So it looks like they’re developing a method of operating the bus to speed it on its way.
Update on May 25th, 2012 – In his talk last night, David Barnett described how New Bus for London had a composite rear end, which gave the whole bus trength, as well as support for the engine/generator and other gubbins inside. So perhaps it could be up for Engineering Rear Of The Year 2012 as well!
The Anonymous Widower 
Pleased to see it has an LT registration. Whatever happened to Ian Allan books? I remember taking early Red Rover tickets to go bus spotting and having to buy a new book with the advent of the Routemaster with its CLT and VLT registrations. In those glorious days LT was reserved for London Transport just as GPO was for the Post Office.
Comment by peter hoskins | March 15, 2012 |
Ian Allan is still going strong. Some of the heritage CLT and VLT numbers are still in use on new buses, but this new bus is something else.
Come down in a month or so and they’ll be eight of the new buses running on the route just round the corner from me.
Comment by AnonW | March 15, 2012 |