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a red double decker bus driving down a street next to a tall building with a clock tower in the background

London’s last tram week refers to the last full week of operation of London’s first-generation street tram system, from 29 June to 5 July 1952. By the 1950s, trams were seen as old fashioned and were gradually phased out to create more room for buses and cars 🚗

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a red double decker bus driving down a street next to tall buildings on either side

Romance of the London https://www.flickr.com/photos/48978584@N07/5349274491/ posted by https://www.facebook.com/marialardi

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a red double decker bus is parked on the side of the street in front of some trees

Several of London's iconic Routemaster buses are currently being used for afternoon tea! From Blue Badge Tourist Guide Edwin Lerner: "The Routemaster was designed in the late 1940s and nearly 3000 were built between 1954 and 1968, when production stopped. The bus stayed in service until 2005 but was then withdrawn, mainly because it was not accessible by wheelchairs. Most Routemasters, therefore, are about sixty years old. The design has outlived many of the buses which were introduced to…

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two red double decker buses driving down a street next to tall buildings with trees in the background

A version of an old photograph (just 3" x 2") hand *colourised (if you want to use it at least credit me and link to this description please!)by me, of London Transport (LT) E/3 class tram No. 1961 showing '72 - Lee Green? & Westhorne Ave - Beresford Sq' destination indicators. The service transferred from trams to buses on 05/06 Jan 1952, the replacement bus route No. 186 needing 23 buses rather than the 15 trams that had operated it. Modern day google maps street view…

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a red double decker bus driving down the street in london, england with big ben in the background

London Tests Running Double Decker Buses Partly on Coffee Grounds One of the British capital's most iconic old transport designs is the red double-decker bus. A biofuel made by mixing oil extracted from coffee waste with diesel may soon partly fuel buses like this one. Bloomberg Skift Take: Centuries ago London was the first European city to embrace cafe culture. Now it hopes to be the first to put coffee grounds to use as biofuel mixed with diesel to power its iconic buses. We admire how…

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an old black and white photo of people crossing the street

A companion piece to pic 207, this view shows the main junction at Camden Town tube station taken from a similar high position, but this time in Parkway, close to where the Jazz Cafe is now. The camera is looking towards Camden Road in the distance, with Camden High Street running across the centre. On the extreme left, a bus in Parkway sits behind a Huntley & Palmer's van. The horse and cart crossing the junction has a side board advertising "Daily Bovril" and there's a van, belonging to S…

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