The days, weeks, years I traveled using this route while living in Isleworth. It brings back very good memories when life was still very simple.

@ace-paidinfull5240

4 жыл бұрын

Learn Swahili Easily i wish life was simple now boy

@andrewclack4881

2 жыл бұрын

yeah me too

Fantastic upload! Oh how I wish I could go back to those simpler times and only realised at the time how great they really were.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

I aim to please! Check out this upload here to see how (or if?) Richmond has changed much in the last 30+ years kzread.info/dash/bejne/lJ-AptCJZ8i2ZKQ.html

@andrewclack4881

2 жыл бұрын

I was 20, the best days of our lives

These were the good old days

Amazing to see the old route masters in action.... and the cars from that era... a great bit of nostalgia

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

That's the good thing about these films, its looking at what else was around then, things that have long since disappeared!

I was a learner on the RML out of Hownslow garage in 1986

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, LT did have four RMLs used as trainers back in the 70s & 80s......

Ha! lovely old things remember back in late 80's getting of train at Liverpool Street & seeing 8 of them all lined up in a row, interesting classic cars as well! 👌

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Liv Street had lots of RM routes back in the 80s......And others have mentioned all the cars in the background. All classics now but just everyday street scenes back then.....

I used to use the buses on Putney Bridge a lot especially the 93 and 85 and the 264 to Roehampton 😀

These buses look & sound better than 2days buses

The buses generally seemed a lot less clean then. And those early Metrobus' screeching brakes! Wow. 80s memories living in suburban West London. Nice vid, as usual.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.....the LT bus washing machines were so-so for getting a bus clean...you had to drive through very slow for the brushes to have time to work on all 4 sides of the bus...some of the Night Generalhands were a bit fast putting them through.....

I left London that year, and my memories of it remain as shown.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Life seemed a bit less frantic then....

Like the Putney Bridge footage.

4:12 I remember growing up with the sound of those brakes!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

The screeching brakes were a feature of Metrobuses!

I used to drive the no 88,12 and 105 out of Shepherds Bush in early 1980's . My conductor was called "Gosh".I wish I knew then how much I would miss it now. What a blast!!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

It was fun on the buses back in those days. Working as a crew was better than OPO, assuming you got on with your conductor!

Wow i drive in this area now and i just love seeing what used to be the case, I always have interests like that. Cant believe the 30 used to come up here and over the famous putney bridge lol Seems like back in the day these buses did long ass journeys! For example i drive the 14, everyone knows where it goes now, but back then im sure it said hackney on the blinds, thats crazy for example

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of routes went accoss London, the 12s went from South Croydon to Wembley! And with a vehicle allocation of over 100 buses! The 22s used to run through to Homerton which is just beyond Hackney Central. The 14s used to run to Hornsey Rise as well. Routes were cut back as the garages at each end of these long routes were in different bus operating companies when London Buses was split up for privitisation. Quite a lot of routes were split sadly.....

@ace-paidinfull5240

4 жыл бұрын

Soi Buakhao yes so i have noticed, i mean the privatisation is one thing, but i kinda wish routes stayed in some type of order per each garage also along with night routes. I think the tendering and all this competition is not needed, others may disagree, but running a service is something each company does and its hit and miss if another company or garage happen to get better results into whatever tfl expect. I saw the 14 saying hackney or something like that in another video so its weird to know that both routes i drive used to go all the way there, what about the 74 where was that, or is that a newer route? And wow the 12 used to go from croydon to wembley? That ridiculous 😂😂😂😂

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

@@ace-paidinfull5240 The 74 used to run from Camden Town to Roehamoton. Back in the 1960s and 70s some routes had a Sunday's only extension, like the 15s to Richmond or the 73s to Teddington!

@uk-martin4905

4 жыл бұрын

@@ace-paidinfull5240 The full extent of the 12 route was from South Croydon Garage to Harlesden Willesden Junction although it invariably worked in two sections - for example South Croydon to Oxford Circus and Dulwich 'Plough' to Harlesden, meaning that all the buses served the busiest section of the route between which was between Dulwich and Oxford Circus. There were occasional exceptions: whilst still at 'Junior' school near Croydon in about 1962, I remember seeing a route 12 bus with its destination screen set for Park Royal Stadium, many miles beyond the customary terminus for buses from South Croydon. During the lengthy and painful political assasination of London Transport in the 1980s, the reason for long-established routes being altered became obvious - it was not because the travelling public suddenly demanded changes after 80 years of operation but because LT - no longer serving the public but its political masters instead - hacked routes about so they were generally confined to within one operating district rather than straddling two or three of them. One example, that route 8 stopped its traditional run run to Willesden Garage and diverted to Victoria instead had nothing to do with a sudden demand by passengers insisting immediate change to the traditional routing but was done to meet a politically-driven agenda. And, at that point, I left London, rather than witness the end of what was once probably the finest public transport operator in the world.

@ace-paidinfull5240

4 жыл бұрын

Martin in the UK man what a detailed paragraph or two, wasnt that long but gives me a deep insight into the topic, politically and just generally. Would have loved to bump into you and have this talk, as im a guy who is against the government and the people in high places who run this world. A bit like whats going on now with the virus🤔 Anyways thanks for these little history lessons you gave me, means alot as i love learning things from days gone by, especially since its my job now

The 37 used to be a major trunk route from Peckham to Hounslow

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, although there wern't many journeys that ran the full length. The route used to run in two over-lapping halfs most of the day.....

Fantastic. This is my manor!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

I do have some more from this area which i will upload over time....

Happy days ❤️

4:03 nice Voith, 4:46 sound like an AEC 760 derived TL12, 5:06 Ford D series truck used to be common in Australia too, 7:49 American pick ups in an unexpected setting and 9:56 beefy 0680 engine.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Your powers of observation are remarkable! I am always amazed at what viewers find in my vids beyond the obvious point of the upload, happy viewing.....

@cidertom5140

Жыл бұрын

The leyland engines always sounded great in a Bristol RE

@jamesfrench7299

Жыл бұрын

@@cidertom5140 Never experienced those first hand but have viewed some videos and you're very right.

What a great video, thank you Peter. And, Soi, you really know your buses. Is the traffic as bad today as it was then? I'm sitting in my living room in Chicago and remembering all the good times back home. Thank you again!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure..... The traffic is worse today. More people in London plus lots of anti traffic measures from a road hating authority, forgetting the buses get caught up in it all.....

I too left in 86, this is how I remember it. Even had a Mk 5 Cortina at the time !! Strange how your impression of places remains frozen in time, almost expect it to be the same if you went back there !!

@BristolRE

4 жыл бұрын

I started on London's buses in 86, still doing it today. Nowhere near as enjoyable as it was back then.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

I'm told by Mick you are still at it. Plenty of locations to capture some modern buses on film!

@BristolRE

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Indeed, just modern buses are so boring

I remember the last day of RM running on the 14s. We lived across the street from the Green Man and went over to join the nostalgia. Lots of people sharing happy memories, I think was 2005.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

It was, i was there! Perhaps i will get the day uploaded to KZread in the near future!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

@ I used to live by the M25 in Potters Bar. Another place with plenty of fumes, joys of city living i suppose!

@markcf83

4 жыл бұрын

It was the day of a seperate terror attack two weeks after 7/7. And I was there too at Putney Heath at around 9pm......

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

@ I don't, I think I missed that period!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

@@markcf83 yes I remember filming on Putney Bridge on the last day and a cop car stopped to ask what we were all doing!

What a lovely life park your car anywhere without paying .

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Certainly a lot easier than today......

@hassankhan384

3 жыл бұрын

Yeh I agree, those were days with real freedom now days its all rules and more like penalising us people and control and just making everything though and expensive. Those were good days when you could park anywhere and was easy to drive very less speed cameras and less traffic also good cars and desgins, I would love to go back in them timez

I remember when maynes in Manchester got some DMS's always liked riding on them looked good but strange with the bustle on the back but great buses

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

I do remember seeing them but that was before i got a video camera sadly.

Didn't know Hounslow had RML's allocated.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

They were for the 37s which was booked to be RML from all its garages. But most mixed RM & RML sheds just saw them as Routemasters and allocated them as required....plenty escaped onto the 237s....

Those DMS , looked like a right old state ..... side posters hanging off the end of the poor bus. I bet these buses get washed and serviced at least once a month back then...

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

All buses were serviced as they returned to the garage each evening including a trip through the washer. Although you had to go through slow for the brushes to cover all the bus. Go too fast and it would miss bits!

Did you ever get to Clapton or Ash Grove in the '80s?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

I've got some Ash Grove shots, i will sort out an upload.

Very nice

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter. A fair bit of variety on this one.

9.47. Is that smoke coming out of the chimneys.?... and was that normal or safe?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

The light coloured exhaust coming from the DMS was a good colour for a diesel (blue is un-burnt fuel, black is burning oil!) and unusal for a DMS, they tended to be quite black smoke!

@williamwatson5871

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus wow ok, so how come other buses never did that.

am I allowed to use some of this video for my own video? I will give you credit?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

In what context do you want to use it? At the moment you do not have any videos uploaded.

@020cine

4 жыл бұрын

​@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus hey, so i took some (35mm) photos in isleworth and i would like to upload some of those pics with footage i took of the area. and i want to start the video with a v. short clip of old footage of isleworth and im going to put some text over it (eg: shooting film in isleworth). and i dont have any videos uploaded because im just starting out.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

@@020cine OK, sound good to me, i just wanted to make sure you had no plans to just direct upload the whole vid! (some people have done that with some of my vids and been knocked for it). Sounds like than interesting upload you are making, please mention my upload (or channel) on the vid, thanks. And let me know whe it's live and i'll have a look, get the views up for you!

@020cine

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus thank you so much!! this vid is really cool and i love the vibe. (and that is honestly really rude and kinda pathetic that some people have uploaded your entire video like that, i'm sorry to hear that)

@020cine

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus i also gave a thumbs up :) thanks for the content

Yo tenía 5 años

Did I just see 'Trump is innocent' graffitied on a bridge? Maybe he was - in 1986!

It's doable.

4:10 squeaky brakes!

@lucythemoggy1970

4 жыл бұрын

loved the squeaky brakes!

Noce brings back nogolstia

1:46 R. Trump?

2:46 "Trump is innocent" Is that a time traveller from the future?

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Could be!......lol Never noticed that before.....