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Fifteen years of momentous capital changes
| 题名： | Fifteen years of momentous capital changes |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | ALAN MILLAR |
| 摘要： | This is an illustrated history of London Transport's last 15 years as a public sector bus operator, a period of great change when politics played a big part in the provision of a vital public transport service. They began with the adoption of London Buses as London Transport's trading name for its bus services and devolution of day-to-day operational management to eight districts named Abbey, Cardinal, Forest, Leaside, Selkent, Tower, Wandle and Watling. They ended with the sale of what by then were ten companies - CentreWest, East London, Leaside, London Central, London General, London Northern, London United, Metroline, Selkent and South London - to four management/employee buyouts and four outside buyers. There was high political drama from 1981 when the Labour-controlled Greater London Council cut fares, then fell foul of the courts and had to raise them again, leading the Conservative government to bring London Transport back into state ownership in 1984 and start opening up parts of the route network to competitive tender. For several years, it also raised the prospect of deregulating London's buses. The last of the huge fleet bought in the immediate postwar period, the RT double-deckers and RF single-deckers, finally departed in 1979, but the Routemasters that followed them between 1959 and 1968 went on and on, their numbers increased by the reacquisition of those no longer required by London Country before serious withdrawals began in 1983. Of the companies sold in 1994, all but Selkent still ran Routemasters. Much newer and less loved Fleetlines and Metropolitans had been sold since 1980. London Buses continued to buy new double-deckers in bulk until 1987 - Leyland Titans and MCW Metrobuses mainly - and began a high-profile evaluation of four double-deck types in 1984 before, placing its last bulk order in 1985 for 260 Leyland Olympians. |
| 出版年： | 2022 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 74 |
| 期： | 804 |
| 页码： | 94-94 |
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