please empty your brain below

I got a 14 on Tuesday. Swung myself on and up the stairs then clattered back down to swing off when stuck in traffic just before Piccadilly Circus. Didn't realise they were about to retire forever on that route (although it was a modern bus on the way back out).

Thanks to the Stockwell shooting yesterday, I hopped on (well, OK, squeezed myself on) to the 159 from Kennington to Oxford Circus yesterday. It was kind of lovely. People were talking to each other, although I can't quite decide whether that was the effect of the Routemaster surroundings or the © 'Blitz spirit' manifesting itself.

Erm, minor pedantic note (sorry): the 390 was previously the number 10 Routemaster until a couple of years ago, when TfL then divided the route into two.

Still, it was a loss of a Routemaster however you look at it - sad all round really.

I cannot imagine the 38 as a stupid bendy bus - it'll be an entirely different experience travelling on that route from October...

That's it? Really? By 10 Dec, all the Routemasters will be gone?

I saw a Routemaster in Helsinki, of all places, doing service as a tourist tour bus. The pamphlet actually advertised Helsinki tours as being on a 'famous London double decker bus'. I think we should demand them back.

My goodness, how bizarre - the best bus route from my home to my office is the very last Routemaster.

And they're removing it on 9 December, when I am being sent to Coventry, against my wishes...?

oh, here's another 2-days-late comment that nobody will read.

Just wanted to say that one of my favourite children's books (Me and my Millions by Clive King) featured the 14 in a starring role. Near the beginning, the boy gets on the 14 instead of a 41 (cos he's illiterate and can't tell the difference) and his adventure starts from there. The only problem is, being a Southfields boy, I knew where the 14 terminated in Putney (Oxford Rd at the time), and knew that the shops round there were not as described. I was a little too young to know about poetic licence...











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