Welcome to Red-RF.com - the
site dedicated to London Transport's red RF
buses
Site last updated 10 March
2010
Dates for
your diary - event details to follow:
Saturday 17 July 2010, 80th anniversary
of Green Line coaches
Sunday 29 August 2010, Red-RF event in
north London
When life was a little
simpler than today..... Edgware's TD124 was the last TD to
operate London's last TD route, the 240A, on 9 Oct 62.
It is seen in Geoff Plumb's
wonderful shot running along Flower Lane, Mill Hill, on 2 Apr
62. The 240A will operate again on 29 August
2010.
Photo © Geoff Plumb
What's new
A little item has been added on Dalston Garage and the
1920s independent that was born opposite -
Havelock Motors. Up the road,
Finsbury Park also features in a new article,
details of the
Kenwood Express have been
added, as have more driver's memories from
Muswell Hill. Meanwhile, the end of the RF
story at Kingston is given
more
detail.
Central Area RF operations
The site contains details of the operations of red RFs by
London Transport, 1952 to 1979 - see
Red RF
routes. More detail will be added periodically, and
comments and additonal information are welcome,
please
email. In
addition, a brief
history of the RF class
and some background notes on
LT routes
and other operational matters are provided.
Red-RF events
Our
Kingston
2009 event marked 30 years since the last London Transport RF
service. Previous events were at
Worcester Park in 2008,
Carshalton in 2007 and
Hackney and
Harrow
in 2006. Each section has a photo gallery of the event.
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David Moore captured RLH23 at an earlier event,
Hackney 2006, here arriving at the Maryland
terminus of the 178.
