Welcome to Red-RF.com - the site dedicated to London Transport's red RF buses

 

Site last updated 28 January 2010

A date for your diary:  Saturday 17 July 2010, 80th anniversary of Green Line coaches.  Event details to follow

 

Finsbury Park in its heyday.  No fewer than 45 brand new RFs entered service in February 1953 on routes 212 and 233 serving Finsbury Park, here RF434 loads for a short working to Alexandra Park.

Finsbury Park and its various terminal workings are the subject of a new article.

Photo © JH Aston, Peter Gomm collection

     

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.
 
RF486
The site also has details of the history and recent and planned activities of our RF486.
 
Computer settings for this site
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Yee-ha
David Moore captured RLH23 at an earlier event, Hackney 2006, here arriving at the Maryland terminus of the 178.