I would love to go back to finchley as it was for 1day say in the 70s..the gaumont..open air pool..the bus terminus and lots more..happy days!😊

@mickfoskett6629

3 жыл бұрын

not forgetting Owen & Owen.. Woolworths.. the record shop in the arcade😓

My old family owned bus RML2271 is in this near the end of the video, being driven into Finchley Garage. She was under the ownership of the Laurie family from December 2004 until July 2011. I was her driver and registered keeper during this time.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

Жыл бұрын

Interesting to know..... Happily a lot of RMLs have survived... well, those that made it to 1980 did, some London Country ones got the chop in the 1970s.....

@colinwest8885

11 ай бұрын

​@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus😢 ❤\\😊😊😊

@2271graham

10 ай бұрын

My profile photo is taken from 2005 and is of me sitting in RML2271's cab.

1986 - the year I started at MH, and stayed there until it's closure in 1990. This video is an absolute gem.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

And that's when you went to PB i take it? Did you work on crew at MH? If so did you do the 73's on Sunday's? MH had it for a while after the 134 went OPO as there was no Sunday crew work as the 43 wasd a Mon-Sat route only in those days. I have some MH 73's on vid, taken at the Angel one Sunday when i was out doing the 279A around 88 time if i remember correctly?

@BristolRE

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes, I went to PB when MH closed. I did indeed drive the crew 43 and 73 on Sundays, the 43 went OPO in June 1987, so that's when we lost the 73 workings, so your video must have been prior to June 1987. Would be interesting to see it.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

@@BristolRE When i'm back from PB i will sort it out as the next bus upload. That will be around the end of July. Could well have been early 1987, i remember finishing my days videoing at Enfield garage having filmed at various places all the way from Liverpool St. And it got dark early and was bloody cold! I seem to remember being picked up at E by Micky Martin in his car and heading off to his place, it was all filmed 30+ years agao now, how time flies.....

@BristolRE

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Such happy and less stressful times too.

I was 17 in 1986. Ah, I miss the old world!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

I was 19 when I filmed this, I'd go back in an instant! Now where's that DeLorean.....

@theguaable

4 жыл бұрын

I was 2 but I know the feeling

@plumduff3303

3 жыл бұрын

I joined the fire brigade at 18 a year after this was made all I remember were the IRA bombs scary times

@jamesfrench7299

3 жыл бұрын

I was 19 in 1992 and Sydney had a privately run free bus shuttle using a 1968 AEC Reliance with 505 engine and mono control gears. It was stabled close to the city centre.

Wow, this footage is AMAZING...Finchley was my old stomping ground, I grew up there, and have very fond memories of the area, which has changed ALOT. This brings it all back - remember both garages well, I think they both closed at around the same time in the early 90s. You've managed to catch several other buildings in the North Finchley/Kingsway area which have also long since gone - most notably, the Gaumont Cinema, the Ford Perrys dealership & a small enclave of buildings right on the corner of Kingsway/Ballards Lane, one of them being Mann Egerton car dealers, which was defunct in the very year this was filmed - 1986. Of course, great to see all these lovely AEC RM/RMLs plying the 13, 43, 134s...thank you so much for sharing this. Anything from this area is of significant interest, especially from the 80s.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

I have a lot of RM vids from this period as they were being withdrawn fast and i wanted to capture as many as i could. I tended not to film more modern buses apart from some local stuff around the East End, wish i had now of course!

@Barison82

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Very happy that you were there to catch these RMs before they went. Looking forward to seeing more footage from that goldmine of yours!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

There is rather a lot more to come. So you'll have to pull up a chair, grab some nibbles and enjoy the uploads!!!! lol

@Barison82

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus LOL! Sounds like a plan! Luckily I stocked up on goodies today ;)

Finchley is where the late great Terry-Thomas came from. RIP Terry, and also Bob Grant and Reg Varney from On The Buses. Thanks for the laughter.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

I believe Reg Varney was an East End lad and came from Manor Park.....

@euanelliott3613

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yes you're quite right. I included Bob Grant and Reg Varney because of the buses rather than the location, but thanks for clarifying. Best wishes to you.

Great video, - brings back so many memories! .... my sister-in-law was the first woman bus driver in North London, and the 43 to London Bridge was her regular route. I grew up in MH so used 134 and 43 buses a lot....

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure....i'm pleased you found it interesting.....I can't believe it was over 30 years agao i fimed it, i can still rememeber the day well, having walked along Friern Barnet Lane filming the 134s!

@travisbickle5447

3 жыл бұрын

I was a driver at Muswell Hill Garage from 78 to 88. Before I became a OMO driver I worked with a clippie a few times named Helen. She got her PSV licence to drive a bus before she had a licence to drive a car. Strange but true.

I love these videos! Thanks for having the wherewithall to have done them!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! I had seen a bus enthusiast's cine films he took between 1964 to 68 and took inspiration from them. I too started with cine but it cost a fortune (around £5 for 5 min of silent film, quite a bit back in 1984) but moved on to video the moment i saw the Panasonic M1 camera which took full sized E180 3 hour tapes. The tape cost the same as a cine film in 1985 but not only lasted 3 hours but came with sound! And being a normal sized VHS tape meant no copying what you had filmed unlike the smaller video tape systems, so kept the quality up. While not as good as today's high quality it's not bad, plus uploading to YT does loose a bit of quality i find....

@jamesfrench7299

Жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus It actually looks like old film here, so effectively cine film with perfectly synchronised sound at a far cheaper rate per minute of footage.

I used to live in the block of flats at 3:43 on hampden Road N10, and have Great memories of the buses leaving the station. It’s now a housing development but has the old wooden fence running along still and the white steel gate which bars Sydney road. Amazing video.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's surprising what old bits of garages survive. There is a bit of wall at Hornchurch, the rear wall at West Ham (Greengate St) and part of the frontage at Addlestone in the country area.....

Use to live in finchley back in the 80s in squires lane and caught routemasters every day to barnet great memories and content!!!!!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, i'm pleased you enjoyed it.....

@mickfoskett6629

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus ..thankyou so much for bring back my childhood for me..so many wonderful memories..i used to hang about the terminus where the cricketers pub was and wimpy bar😃😃..happy in north Norfolk now but thankyou🐳🐠

I loved the sound of the Routemaster as well as it’s stunning design, but another thing is the smell of the interior was always of sweets and tobacco!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

And that was just the conductors!

@djpeekay25

Жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus 😂

grand old buses remember them 😀

I used to ride these to school and back every day between 1974-77 :)

That shot near the end with the buses coming in brought a smile to my face.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Finchley Garage is now a Homebase, not many Routemastrs puling in now!

I've lived in Archway for 30+ years now, and this is golden footage. Many thanks!

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

Your welcome. Maybe i'll get around to uploading film of RMs running along Junction Road......

@djpeekay25

5 жыл бұрын

There were many routes that used the RMs in Archway such as 4, 27, 41, 45, 134, 19, 137 and later on the 135.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

I have video of all those routes except the 4 & 45 which lost RMs before i got a vid cam in 1985.

Thank you so much for posting this. It's provided me with valuable information as i'm taking my Routemaster over the 43 this Sunday as it used to operate this route out of Finchley garage between 1983 - 1985.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. Just don't try going parking up in what was the garage, it was a Sainsbury's Homebase and i believe is still some sort of similar shop!

Another good film. I lived briefly at Muswell Hill in the mid 70's and there were still RT's about. Have to say the external condition of the RM's had by this time deteriorated. Reminds me of the last days of RT's in London service.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, there was a general air of neglect in the mid to late 80s. Aldenham Works shutting did nothing to help matters either....

Used to live in Woodberry Gardens so remember the bus garage really well, thanks for that

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure.....all housing now i assume?......

Great vids. Brings back memories of those jump on-jump off buses, getting you there a lot quicker...

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yes, the traditional style of British bus with half cab at the front and open platform at the rear were a lot quicker than slow and lumbering OPO buses. That's why Routemasters survived in Central London for so long.....

Back then you can hear birds cherping not any more

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Well, we can now as the world has stopped spinning.......

Whats interesting is the rear number blind in latter years had the destination via points as well

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, it was the other way around! The side & rear blinds had numbers & via points but in mid 1970s onwards LT changed the rear blind to just large numbers. But as these blinds (coded LL side, and VV rear) were both the same size it was possible to mix them up especially if you ran out of one type, i've seen RMs with large numbers in the rear and side!

There was an event last week which commerorated the closure of Muswell Hill garage, and a couple of years ago the same thing for East Finchley. Its a shame really :( wonder if some of those routemasters in the video have been preserved. Nice video too, nice to see them in public service as i am too young to have riden on them in public service myslef.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

2 жыл бұрын

I know RM 2023 seen on here is preserved, i have even had a drive of it at a rally one day.....

@UKTransport232

2 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus oh wow that's nice, can't remember which one i went on..

Nice

Do you have any more photos or Videos of MH and any fleet lists run sheets, schedules, plates, bus parking plan perhaps?

1930s stock at the end. I remember a couple of them being used on the northern line in 1986 for some strange reason.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

The Underground was short of stock so they re-instated 5 traisn of 38 stonk while new trains were being built.

@jamesfrench7299

Жыл бұрын

38 Stonk never heard of those. Heard of 38 Stock though.

Good video of old RMs on 43 and 134 it's a shame both those routes had good buses like presidents and older tridents e400s untill recently replaced by cardboard plastic and soon electric BYDs and optares

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

A marked comedown in vehicle quality over the years. I have video of Metros on these routes as well so in time i will get them up as well.

@DanielsUKT

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus unfortunately that's the case with ULEZ but at least 15H still has RMs

@BristolRE

5 жыл бұрын

@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Now that I'd like to see as well

No hi vis jackets either; I wonder what they thought they were doing with the buses if you haven’t read it already; Privatising London’s Buses is written by a former manager.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

The engineering side started to get donkey jackets with a railway style orange hi Vis back (probably were same as Underground track workers) in 1983. Operating staff had only their uniforms in these days.

Got any of the routemasters working for United Counties in Bedford and Corby, would like to see some footage.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

5 жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, i do. I will sort something out for a future bus upload....

They sound very health

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

3 жыл бұрын

The old AEC engines could tromp on forever, even with various faults they would keep going.....

I can see that meter in the garage, you don’t see that anymore. At around 1:49

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

It's on the fuel bay area, i not too sure what it's for. Possibly recording the amount of fuel that goes intoi each bus? I seem to recall that was logged down from my days as a General hand on night shift.

Any more MH stuff? 😊

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

Жыл бұрын

Sadly not..... This footage is all I have from times past.......

When PUBLIC transport was run for the benefit of the traveling public.Not for profit.

@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus

4 жыл бұрын

Well, in London TfL still control the bus network setting fares, timetables and even type of vehicle to be used! Private companies have to tender to win the right to operate the route but that's there only income, farebox revenue is TfL's. Outside London of course you commen is sadly very accurate.....