Prepared in Notepad by Ian Smith, updated 13th June 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: Stevenage Weekend, 8th, 9th June 2013 Special Reports Archive Harlow Running Day, 5th May 2013 East Grinstead, 14th April 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 RT3254 on 801 at Stevenage (White Lion), 8th June 2013 Photo: Ian Smith. What's New: 16th June 2013. I had a really good weekend at Stevenage on 8th/9th June, starting with a morning on the special 801 shuttle for the Saturday Farmers Market. Reports on the Hitchin Routes Recreations on the Saturday afternoon, and the Sunday Running Day, are to follow. 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. 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.