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Colin Rosenstiel · June 30th 05, 02:46 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Colin McKenzie) wrote:

Bill Hayles wrote:

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 23:49:24 +0100, Colin McKenzie
I believe there was a time when a few route number suffix letters got
up to and beyond H.

Not since the Bassom era. Certainly, post-war, the highest was
406F, and that only ran on Derby Day. Plenty of D suffixes, a few
"E" and that single "F".

I was probably thinking of the Bassom era.

But there were enough suffixes in the early RM era for suffixes to be
more appropriate than prefixes for these routes.

My recollection from the early days of RMs was that suffix letters were
for old-fashioned routes running RTs and the like and not for modern RMs.
Very few trolleybus routes had suffixes.

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Colin Rosenstiel