[Source: London Evening Standard]
Only two passengers have suffered accidents requiring medical treatment on London’s two remaining Routemaster bus routes during the past three years.
The official figures show that during the same period, more than four million people travelled on the buses, giving an accident rate per passenger of only a fraction of one per cent.
Transport [...]

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Having spent the whole of Saturday in and around Bow Bus Garage for the Centenary Open Day, I would like to give my personal thanks to everyone involved in organising, planning and running what turned out to be the best event I have attended this year.
The ethos of Bow certainly rubbed off and I can [...]

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The third and final part of my collection of photographs captured at East London Bus Group’s Bow Garage Centenary Open Day are a set depicting the engineering displays on show in the garage.  The main displays were of an Alexander ALX400 up on jacks to show the chassis and engine arrangement and there were mechanics [...]

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Part two of my collection of images captured at the East London Bus Group Bow Garage Centenary Open Day is concerned with vehicles operating on special services X15, X25, S2 & 8A.
Vehicles for the special services were provided by Blue Triangle (London Bus Company Ltd.), East London Bus Group, Ensignbus, London Bus Preservation Trust, Transport [...]

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Saturday June 28th 2008 saw East London Bus Group throw open the doors of Bow Bus Garage in East London in celebration of the Garage’s Centenary and also the 75th anniversary of the formation of London Transport.
East London Bus Group and it’s staff once again threw themselves at this event with a huge amount of [...]

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