ROOF
Thank you for visiting the Routemaster Owner and Operator's Forum (ROOF). Please feel free to use this forum for the mature discussion of any issues of interest and relevance to Routemaster owners. Please do not use this board to publicise your feelings about individuals, National or Local Government or TFL policy. Owners of other London bus types in service during the 1950s, 60s and 70s are also welcome to contribute to this forum.
Please note, the ROOF website no longer exists. The link from the Forum does not work anymore. Useful information and links from the website has been posted to the Forum.
The long row of perfect symmetrically parked buses at the RM 60 event was certainly memorable. And similarly at other rallies in recent years. But it may come as a surprise to know that the person responsible for such meticulous parking was just as adept at doing this many years ago when he was Garage Foreman at Fulwell.
When LT bought back the redundant Airport Routemasters, they went into storage anywhere that had spare capacity. Often just singularly, sometimes more, I don`t think any garage came close to getting as many for storage as Fulwell did. Out in the back yard there were so many that it wasn`t possible to stand somewhere to get them all into a picture. It probably wasn`t long before this line up was thinned out as conversion to Staff Buses and Trainers began. The date of the pictures is April 7 1979 - a date well known in LT history. From Fulwell I went on to Barking for the last day of RT`s.
