Prepared in Notepad by Ian Smith, updated 8th May 2013.
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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: Harlow Running Day, 5th May 2013 Special Reports Archive East Grinstead, 14th April 2013 RF Routes 234A, 234B: March 17th 2013 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 DAF s/d 1990-00s: Dennis Lances Dennis Dart Volvo B6 MV MM 1990-10s: Dart SLFs Optare Excels Scania SLFs Links to other L.T. sites The sources used About the bus-stop COUNTRY BUS RALLIES GS62 Garages RF673 on 393 at Hoddesdon, 5th May 2013 Photo: Ian Smith. What's New: 8th May 2013. I visited the excellent Harlow Running Day on 5th May, and have started a report. More to follow. 22nd April 2013. Photos have kindly been contributed to illustrate the East Grinstead Running Day report. Many thanks. More partial RT histories have been added: RT4400-4499 and RT4500-4599. 16th April 2013. Disaster struck on my way home following the East Grinstead Running Day in that I lost my camera with all my pictures of the day. In case you want to read the abbreviated report anyway, it is here. If kind souls want to send me appropriate pictures to flesh it out, please do. 18th March 2013. I have started a report on the 234 group mini running day on 17th March. More to come. 13th March 2013. The 2012 major updates have been uploaded. I am currently working on more RT histories: coming soon. 21st February 2013. I am still plugging away at this year's updates, which I will upload when done. Meanwhile, here is a report on the excellent visit to routes 212 and 233 by red RF486 on 17th February 2013 (with a surprise addition). If anyone is still suffering problems accessing my pages, I don't know what the problem is. I have checked my site using Firefox (preferred), Google Chrome and even Internet Explorer, and cannot find any problems: everything is where it should be, and accessible. But if you do experience problems, please let me know what browser you are using, and where in the world you are trying to access from. I suspect that enduring problems may be due to browser caches somewhere. 2nd February 2013. Back! My apologies for the interruption of service. It seems it was my fault - or yours: so many people had visited the site that the access logs had exceeded 7.9GB in the last three months since I last cleared them. That knocked off access. I couldn't find the way to clear them, and succeeded in changing the fileserver name to a wrong setting, which gave the error messages that you saw! Eventually I fathomed out who was hosting what where, and after a couple of very expensive phone calls to the USA I found the right person who knew what the settings SHOULD be, and I could reset things so that it worked. My apologies. 21st January 2013. I am in the middle of this year's updates, which will appear once I've done them. To prevent withdrawal symptoms (and stop me dying of boredom), I have added several more Dart SLF pages as I have gone along: White Rose, S.M.Travel and Olympus/Roadrunner, Bear Buses and Ashford Luxury Coaches. I had a quick dash to Bromley in January, and on my way home spent a half hour in Bromley, looking at the current scene. 23rd December 2012. I have put up more compilations of RT history, for RT4200-4299 and RT4300-4399. Also Dart SLF pages for Golden Boy and Grant Palmer. 10th December 2012. I did not manage to get to Bromley yesterday (unwell), but I have produced a report on the Sutton Running day, with RFs on 200, 213, on 2nd December 2012. 5th December 2012. I have started a report on the Ensignbus Running Day, 1st December 2012. More to Follow.. 4th December 2012. I found more DAF saloons with Plaxton Prestige bodies, with Arriva Kent Thameside/Arriva Kent & Sussex, and with Leaside Buses/Arriva London North (briefly). 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.