摘要: |
Stuart Render encountered one of the farthest travelled ex-London Routemasters in 2019 while visiting the Japanese city of Shimonoseki, at the south-western tip of the main island of Honshu, a place best known for its locally caught pufferfish. RM1164 (164 CLT) is displayed behind a low fence in the Arukapoto Park and has apparently been there since 2007. It is one of 53 Routemasters believed to be in Japan, making this the second largest overseas territory where they can be found. Only Canada has more. Few Routemasters have the identities with which AEC and Park Royal delivered them to London Transport, and since an overhaul in 1978 this has had the body originally on RM1108. It operated in London from 1962 to 1987 when it was sold to Stagecoach which ran it in Glasgow, Nottinghamshire (where it wore East Midland two-tone brown and cream heritage livery) and Perth until 1999. Stagecoach re-registered it as NSG 636A in 1989 and replaced its Leyland engine with an AEC in 1992. |