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  • LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON METROBUS
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    LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON METROBUS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Mainstay of London Buses Ltd’s fleet into the 1990s, London’s MCW Metrobus fleet of M class remained almost completely intact by the time of privatization in the autumn of 1994. In the hands of seven new companies thereafter, there followed multiple new liveries and new identities, but it wasn’t until the end of the decade, when this account takes up their story, that withdrawa...

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  • THE LONDON ENVIRO400
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    THE LONDON ENVIRO400
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Developed by Alexander Dennis in 2005 as an all-encompassing replacement for the Dennis Trident and its two bodies, the Plaxton President and Alexander ALX400, the integral Enviro400, immediately sold in large numbers, not least to London operators, which in the next eight years bought over 1,500 of them. Late in the production run, the hybrid E40H was introduced and also made ...

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  • LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON TITAN
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    LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON TITAN
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    The author of The London Bendy Bus memorializes the end of the Leyland Titan era in "a must for all London bus fans of the 1980s" (West Somerset Railway Association).   Already depleted by withdrawals in the London Buses Ltd era, the Leyland Titan fleet of T class was divided upon privatization between three new companies: London Central, Stagecoach East London and Stagecoach S...

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  • THE LONDON BENDY BUS
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    THE LONDON BENDY BUS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Between 2002 and 2006 six of Londons bus companies put into service 390 articulated bendy buses on twelve routes for transport in London.rnrnDuring what turned out to be a foreshortened nine years in service, the Mercedes-Benz Citaro G buses familiar on the continent and worldwide earned an unenviable reputation in London; according to who you read and who you believed, they ca...

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  • LONDON TRANSPORT'S LAST BUSES
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    LONDON TRANSPORT'S LAST BUSES
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    The Olympian was Leyland's answer to the competition that was threatening to take custom away from its second-generation OMO double-deck products. Simpler than the London Transportcentric Titan but, unlike that integral model, able to respond to the market by being offered as a chassis for bodying by the bodybuilder of the customer's choice, the Olympian was an immediate succes...

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  • THE LONDON DMS
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    THE LONDON DMS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see nationwide possibilities and savings in legislation that was about to permit do...

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  • LONDON BUSES, 1970–1980
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    LONDON BUSES, 1970–1980
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    The 1970s were among London Transports most troubled years. Prohibited from designing its own buses for the gruelling conditions of the capital, LT was compelled to embark upon mass orders for the broadly standard products of national manufacturers, which for one reason or another proved to be disastrous failures in the capital and were disposed of prematurely at a great loss. ...

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  • THE LONDON LS
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    THE LONDON LS
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Dissatisfied with the reliability of its AEC Merlin and Swift single-deck buses, London Transport in 1973 purchased six Leyland Nationals for evaluation. Liking what it saw of this ultimate standard product, where even the paint swatch was of Leylands choice, LT took up an option to buy fifty more from a canceled export order and then bought further batches of 110, 30 and 140 t...

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  • THE LONDON VOLVO B9TL & B5LH
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    THE LONDON VOLVO B9TL & B5LH
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    A comprehensive look at Volvo’s innovative, 21st century double-decker designs and how they transformed busing across London. Volvo’s successful B7TL low-floor double-decker bus enjoyed a successful six-year run until increasing noise problems in London curtailed demand. The company then developed a leaner and quieter update which it dubbed the B9TL, and orders resumed in stren...

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  • THE LONDON DENNIS TRIDENT
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    THE LONDON DENNIS TRIDENT
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    Propelled towards the end of the 1990s by accessibility imperative requiring low floor buses both in London and the rest of Britain, Dennis developed a tri axle Trident double decker for Hong Kong and then adapted the design as a two axle version for Britain. Orders came thick and fast between 1999, when the first Tridents for London entered service with Stagecoach and 2006, wh...

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  • LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON ROUTEMASTER
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    LAST YEARS OF THE LONDON ROUTEMASTER
    MATTHEW WHARMBY
    The last decade of Routemaster bus operation in London saw over seven hundred surviving RMs and RMLs divided between several new companies following the privatization of London Buses Ltd’s subsidiaries in 1994. Now operating their existing twenty routes under contract to LRT (renamed TfL in 2000), Centrewest, Metroline, MTL London Northern, Leaside Buses, Stagecoach East London...

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