The Anonymous Widower

The Old and the New

I took these two pictures of buses on Route 15.

The first is a Routemaster on the Heritage route and the following bus is an Alexander Dennis Enviro 400H Hybrid, but it doesn’t seem to have had the leaves stuck on yet!

I don’t think they’re travelling in a pair in case the other breaks down, but perhaps as the Routemaster only goes half the way, the new bus can pick up the passengers, when the other stops. Or it could be a cheaper way of creating a high-capacity bus, as the total capacity is 64+80 or 144 passengers!

when I was a child, there was always a rumour that one London bus route, always went in convoy for protection, as once one got hit by a German bomb.

March 18, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Buses