Welcome to Red-RF.com - the site dedicated to
London Transport's red single-deck
buses
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last updated 31 January 2019

East-end route 236 was London's last crew-operated
single-deck bus route, in April 1971. In another of Fred
Ivey's shots, RFs 484 and 335 are in Rock Street, Finsbury Park, on
the peak-hour extension to Stroud Green, just before the end.
Fred will present another series of his pictures to
LHRG in summer 2019.
Photo © Fred Ivey
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Events
2019 marks 80 years since RT1 went
into service and 40 years since the RT and RF classes finished
service with LT.
The first event to mark the RF
anniversary will be a Kingston event organised by our friends at
Amersham &
District, on Sunday 24 March 2019.
This will be followed on Saturday 30
March (the actual RF anniversary) by an RT and RF event at Barking
Garage and River Road Garage, organised by London Bus Museum and thanks
to Stagecoach London and Go Ahead London. This will include
free RT operation on routes 62 (with thanks to TfL) and 23C plus
many more delights. More nearer the time.
The actual RT anniversary is Sunday 7
April, the day of the London Bus Museum Spring Gathering at
Brooklands, which has an RT and RF theme. Any RT or RF
family owner wishing to attend any of these events is invited
to e-mail us.
A further event will take place in
August, details to follow.
Meanwhile, reminders of the
celebrations five years ago for RT75 are here and here, ten
years ago here.
What's new
The long-awaited article on Kingston termini is now up, featuring diagrams of
the complex run-in and run-out at the garage, kindly provided by
Ian Hogben. In addition, further research has added more
detail on the special Kenwood
Express service.
Central Area single-deck operations
The site provides 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.
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David Moore captured RLH23 at our first
event, Hackney 2006, arriving at the
Maryland terminus of the 178.
Photo © David Moore
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