Paul wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:31:28 -0000, Dockland
wrote:

On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:39:44 -0000, Paul Corfield
wrote:

However Stagecoach has run its RML 2760
on the 15 a few times - I have seen it. It will not be allowed to run as
a substitute vehicle from 1/1/2006 without permission from TfL. This is
because it would not meet the contracted emission standards that come
into force from that date for TfL contracted services.


I have not only seen it... I was on it this morning.

Maybe I'm in the minority but how can we be commemorating the last RM
in service if there are still two routes running and even an RML from
time to time? At least when the RTs went from Barking that really was
the last day of scheduled RT service.


Because these toytown routes are not services of much real use to
anybody. Just a funfair ride. It is like going on a steam railway -
maybe good fun, and well worth doing, but nothing much like what the
railways used to be. There is no doubt that last week was the end of
proper Routemaster operation, and therefore deserved to be marked.