Kingston 2009 RF Event

Buses attending

RF line-up at Sandown Park 22 March 2009
 27 of the 28 RFs attending lined up at lunch time.   Photo © Peter Osborn
 

'Private Hire' RF13 newly restored in Hampsons of Oswestry livery.  More details here.

Photo © S Newbold

  

RF28 provided a busy feeder service between Gravesend and Kingston.

Photo © John King

         

Unmodernised Green Line RF226 displays the early style of Green Line blind.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

 

RF280 represented the original Green Line RFs that were converted for bus work.  Note the fixing bolts left after removing the route board brackets.

Photo © John King

         

Modernised Green Line RF281 was a welcome late entrant.

Photo © Martin Wills

 

Newly repaired RF308 gleams in the sun.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

         

Up from Bournemouth for the day, RF319 spent its last 8 years with LT at Kingston and will often have passed the gates of Sandown Park.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

 

RF326 at the traditional Hampton Court Station stand, joined by a Transdev Dart on the 411, related to the one time SMS-operated 211.

Photo © John Parkin

         

New to the scene after many years off the road and a painstaking rebuild, RF354 is seen at Hersham Green at the end of the 264.

Photo © Chris Lewis

   

Almost permanently resident in Kingston through its working life, the bus that is now RF366 works the 218 into Kingston.

Photo © Peter Osborn 

         

Cobham's doorless RF395 has been restored to a high standard - of course.  It is seen here on the 264 at Hersham Station.

Photo © Dave Simmons

 

Uxbridge RF406 on loan to Kingston worked the 218 and is seen at Walton The Bear.

Photo © Stephen Bidey

         

Another long distance entrant, Shaftesbury RF421 ran to Ashford Station on the 216 in the afternoon, and is seen here at Dittons Winters Bridge on the return.

Photo © Peter Osborn

 

A Kingston RF after its last overhaul, RF429 returned for the day to work the 215.  It is seen here somewhat off-route at (apparently derelict but still open) Tadworth Station, running a feeder service.

Photo © Bob Lear

         

RF433 displays the blind from an earlier visit to Sandown Park, showing that the 206A circular was not an original idea.

Photo © John Hinson

 

One of several RFs being worked on in the week before the event, RF453 gives some idea of the work involved by owners in displaying the line up seen at Sandown Park.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

         

RF457 never worked in the Kingston area, although this bus did briefly, in 1961/2 when it was RF456.

Photo © Stephen Bidey

 

Our RF486 lays over on the 206A while TD95 continues to Kingston.

Photo © Graham Smith

 
         

RF489 is quite likely to have worked the 201, both when based at Norbiton and at Kingston.  Here seen at Hampton Court, the new paint sparkles.

Photo © Mark James

 

RF491 approaches Weybridge Station on a working through to BAC Works.  The bus last worked the route in the late 1960s, when it was RF387.

Photo © Geoff Ragg

         

Never a Fulwell bus, RF503 is likely to have worked the 206 (if not the 206A) when the route was worked by Norbiton.

Photo © S Newbold

 

One of the furthest travelled for the event was gold RF504 from Norwich.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

         

The only RF preserved in the 'white bullseye' livery of the final batch refurbished for the 218 and 219, RF534 has also been fitted with an extra foglamp in memory of RF314, the former staff-bus which retained its foglamp when returned to service.

Photo © Graham Smith

 

Visitor from north of the river, RF539 sits centre stage while some blind adjustments are made.

Photo © Derek Reynolds

         
Recently restored and repainted RF644 in London Country livery.

Photo © Stephen Bidey

 

RF667 emerges from the gates of Sandown Park coach park to run a 218 to Kingston.

Photo © Stephen Gillett

         

Former Cobham resident RF672 worked in service in the morning and took a Tour in the afternoon.

Photo © Peter Osborn

 

RF673 stands next to RF672 after both returned from morning service.

Photo © Martin Wills