Prepared in Notepad by Ian Smith, updated 17th May 2012.
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The BUS-STOP is an outsider's view of London Transport buses, mainly in the 1930-1980 era.

Whats at the bus stop: Bus of The Week What's New Special Report: Sevenoaks Running Day, 13th May 2012 Special Reports Archive East Grinstead Running Day, 15th April 2012 LONDON BUS CLASSES: 1920-30s: O NS LS R CH DE 1930-40s: LT CC ST LTL T CB DL DT DA GF DC 1930-40s: TD TR STL STD BD MS C Q LTC TF CR 1940-50s: B G D TD 1950-70s: RT RTL RTW RTC SRT RF RFW BEA GS RLH 1950-90s: RM RMC RCL RML RMF RMA FRM RX RW RC EC 1960-70s: TT XF XA MB SM SMW SMA RP DMS DMO FS FT 1970-90s: AF AN MS LN LNB SNC SNB LS GSN GLS 1970-90s: BL BN BS BL MD PD3 LS LR BT P,D RN 1980s: RB RS DV DL PL TL TD TP TPL LRC BTL 1980-00s: T M A V H DD DDN L LR C DA LE1 1980-00s: Volvo Citibuses Scanias Lynxes midibuses 1990-00s: Leyland Olympians Volvo Olympians DAF d/d 1990-00s: Dennis Lances Dennis Dart Volvo B6 MV MM 1990-10s: Dart SLFs Optare Excels Links to other L.T. sites The sources used About the bus-stop COUNTRY BUS RALLIES GS62 Garages RT3183 at Sevenoaks, 13th May 2012. Photo: Ian Smith. What's New: 17th May 2012. The Sevenoaks report is going up. As usual, more as I write it. I have added two more Dart SLF pages: those for Reg of Hertford, and Regal Busways of Chelmsford. Another year (1958) of the RTL histories has been added too. 18th April 2012. I have started to put up a report about the East Grinstead Running Day. More will follow over the next week or so. 11th April 2012. Also by way of a change from Dart SLFs I have spent a couple of weeks doing a suite of pages on the Optare Excels, that were used by Metrobus, Capital Logistics, Tellings Golden Miller, Travel London, Travel London (again), Limebourne, Connex, Thorpes, London United, Harris Bus, East Thames Buses, Town & Country, Tillingbourne, and Safeguard. 24th March 2012. The post-war T-class Regal histories have been fleshed out somewhat. That's the 14T12s and 15T13s. The 9T9s and 10T10s have been updated somewhat more too. To show that I have not totally forgotten about Routemasters, an almost random page of histories has occupied a few hours. Thats the histories of RM700-RM799. Whilst doing the winter updates I also produced a page on the Ensign bus Volvo Olympians. 11th March 2012. The updates for 2011 have taken even longer this year - perhaps because the efflux of SLF Darts from the major companies to the peripheral ones has been in full spate, these popular buses now being ten years old or more in many cases. In between bouts of slogging through updates I have reviewed many of the earlier pages. In particular I have added a fair bit to the histories of the pre-war AEC Regals. 22nd December 2011. First page of a report of the Bromley Fun-Run Day. More to come next week. Return to Contents list. About Ian's Bus Stop: Dreadful warnings! Ian does not pretend to be an expert: any corrections, additional information, flattery or news gratefully welcomed. Rivet-counters can make their own web-sites! Most BUS-STOP pages contain: drawings or photos (when I can get them) of a class of London bus; a potted class history; some history of individual buses; a list of photographic sources, and a bibliography. The histories are not complete. They are assembled from data from a variety of sources, that do not always agree with each other. In some cases I have much more data than I have displayed, and just need time to fill in the gaps. They are are offered as a help to your own researches, not as a complete entity. I do not attempt to keep the histories up-to-date. If you want the latest information, there are plenty of special interest groups on the net. For comprehensive monthly updates, subscribe to LOTS to get "The London Bus". The plan drawings by Ian Smith are NOT scale drawings from originals, but based on a few known dimensions and (usually) a variety of photographs. In places inferences have been drawn where the photographic evidence is poor. In particular adverts shown on buses may have incorrect colouring where I have guessed wrongly from black & white pictures, or may be inappropriate to the livery worn by the bus. They may be of use to modellers if printed at an appropriate scale. You'll have to experiment to find the right printer settings. Pages are designed for use on the Firefox browser, on 800*600 resolution. Other resolutions may give odd results. If a display ratio is not 4:3 the photos and drawings may be distorted. Using other browsers may also give odd results at times, especially if they do not follow the rules, like Microsoft's Explorer, which does its own thing. I am trying to amend pages so that they show properly on 4:3 ratio pages other than 800*600, but this may take some time, and you may need a good pair of reading glasses. Return to Contents list.