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Carshalton 2007
Notes on the buses operated - part 3
Four other double deckers ran in service at Carshalton:
STL 2377 was one of two buses provided for the
day by Cobham Bus Museum. The
bus was the only pre-war bus in service and was rightly very
popular. It celebrates its 70th year this year, having been
delivered to London Transport in November 1937 and allocated to
Holloway garage. Although many of the EGO 331-EGO 489 registered
batch were painted green for country area use in World War 2, STL
2377 remained red. Final allocation was Hornchurch garage until
withdrawal from service in December 1953.
Whilst running over route
77B, the route was known as the 77 when STLs operated
from Victoria Gillingham Street garage up to 1953.
Photo © Peter
Rogers
DM1052 was delivered
new in 1975 and first went into service at Brixton Garage, followed
by West Ham (where it was driven by its current guardian), Highgate
and Stockwell. After only 7 years' service with LT, it was
sold and worked for another 13 years before being purchased for
preservation by Paul Brophy. It is now operated by Blue
Triangle.
Showing the development of
the OPO bus format over 30 years, DM1052 is passed by PVL280 on the
151 (does Sutton's use of a former Camberwell bus still with London
Central decals suggest the vehicle allocation on route
151 still hasn't settled down?).
Photo © Jimmy
Sheng
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RLH48 was built in
1952 and started service at Amersham garage on route 336 (Chesham
to Watford). It then moved on to 5 other garages in its 13 year
life with London Transport. The bus holds the record of any
RLH for having operated on the maximum number of routes which
actually required lowbridge vehicles (9 out of 12), including short
spells relieving red vehicles on 2 of the Central area routes at
Hornchurch and Dalston garages, remaining in green livery
throughout this time. RLH 48 was withdrawn from LT service in
1964. The present owner, Mr. Richard Proctor, purchased the
bus in 1984 and completely restored her to 1960 condition.
RLH48 passes through Carshalton High Street
before returning to Windsor and Amersham at the end of the day.
Photo © Peter Osborn
DM 2646 was the last
Fleetline delivered new to London Transport, in 1978, and first ran
from Brixton. In 1979 whilst at Cricklewood, it was painted
in Shillibeer livery as part of the commemorations of 150
years of London buses. The DM was the the crew version of the
DMS, with no automatic fare cabinets. Many including 2646
were converted for one-person operation and reclassified
D.
D2646 arrived at Sutton in 1986, where
it was fitted with a new Iveco engine. It stayed at Sutton
through the SuttonBus era, until becoming the last DM in service
there in mid-1992.
Used after sale by other operators, it
was bought for preservation by Eddie Knorn in 1998 and refitted
with a Leyland engine. It is now owned by Ensignbus and has
been repainted into the Shillibeer livery.
A rear view of the B20
Fleetline in Carshalton Road.
Photo © Peter Larkham
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