Red-RF home page

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

RT4779 first entered service from Windsor Garage. 35 years after its last day in passenger service, it returned to service, again from Windsor, and is seen here on the Windsor running day in Fulmer.

(1978 photo by John Parkin. The driver then was George Gamblin, who was driving RT2177 at Windsor in 2013)

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What's new

The winter of 2012/3 saw the 60th anniversary of the introduction of red RF buses in London. Many of the route anniversaries were marked by special operations, the details and photo galleries for which are summarised here. The 208 and 202 event also celebrated the centenary of London's first single-deck route.

RF486 is now undergoing overhaul.

Central Area single-deck operations

The aim of site is to provide details of single-deck services operated by the Central Area of London Transport, up to 1968, and in particular those operated by RFs (1952-1979) - see Red RF routes. We are pleased to include memories and comments from crews and others that remember RFs in operation. More detail is added periodically, and comments and additional input are welcome, please email. There are also a brief history of the RF class, some local history and some background notes on LT operations.

Red-RF events

From time to time, we organise running days and commemorative events - the 2012-13 60th anniversary events are detailed here. Previous events are listed here.

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Pages updated in 2013 now show the date of the last change.