Camden Town Vintage Bus Running Day brought to you by NLTE - a consortium of retired TfL Bus and Tube Staff raising money for Charity.

All rides are FREE, and all monies go to BBC Children in Need.

We will be covering parts of some of Londons most historic routes that go back to the start of London Transport in 1933, some earlier than that, the 24 being the longest running unchanged route in London.

ROUTES OPERATING TODAY:
24: Warren Street to Hampstead Heath.
29: Finsbury Park to Mornington Crescent (Feeders from Palmers
Green 1008 1045.)
68: Feeder from Waterloo only 1005 to Camden Town with RT1702
(Return to Waterloo at end of event)
134: Muswell Hill to Camden Town (Feeders from Potters Bar Station
0900, Pimlico 0954 1052.)
214: Parliament Hill Fields to Kings Cross.
Bus Allocations (subject to usual Caveats with old buses)
24: XF1 RM848 RM1933 RML902.
29: RT2177 RM848 Two LBC RT buses.
68: RT1702 Feeder journey only
134: RT1702 RT4779 RM1400 RM1962 RML903.
214: RF486 RML2660.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE
First ever RF on route 214.
XF1 on the 24 - a route in the 1966/67 Bus trials with Fleetlines XF, Atlanteans XA and Routemasters on certain routes that eventually saw ordering of the DMS class (Fleetlines).

POTTED HISTORY OF THE ROUTES
24: 1933 Pimlico to Hampstead Heath in 1958 converted to RTW then 1963 RM, in 1965/66 comparison trials with XA / RML then 1966 to RML.
1975 to DM then in 1979 swapping buses with route 18s RMLs.
1988 to M OPO and in 1988 to Grey Green with Volvo B10M buses, the first major Central London route tendered.
1998 Arriva with new VA Olympians, then 2002 Low floor VPs and finally to LTs in 2013.

29: Originally Victoria to South Mimms, being cut back to Hadley Wood with a separate Turnpike Lane to South Mimms section. When Cockfosters station opened on the Piccadilly line this replaced Hadley Wood as the northern terminus.
WW2 saw journeys in peak hours to Borehamwood trading estates (and an Express service Turnpike to Victoria for couple of years).
After WW2 extended to Clare Hall Hospital in 1953 which had expanded in WW2 as a General hospital.
North section renumbered 29B with also a 29A to Oakwood station.
In 1968 29B became 298 and 29A became 298A with the main 29 terminating at Southgate.
DM conversion in 1975 then in 1977 diverted at Palmers Green to Enfield Town to replace 123.
1988 OPO conversion with part CF allocation bringing Titans with withdrawal north of Wood Green in 1992 replaced by a new 329, Bendibus conversion in 2006 then back to Double deckers in 2011.

134: 1933 Victoria Coach station to Potters Bar then in 1940 diverted to Pimlico Dolphin Square.
1970 withdrawn south of Warren Street on opening of Victoria line with DM conversion in 1973 with an extension to Tottenham Court Road.
1983 withdrawn north of Barnet and replaced by 263, OPO

Filmed on: 17/11/2024

свернуть