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

2012 - 60th Anniversary of the red RF

 

Site last updated 4 February 2012

Snow falls.  Here's a scattering at the Scilly Isles on 13 Jan 79.  RF502 on the 218 to Staines has been caught by RF437 on a short to Esher.

Photo © Dave Jones

 

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What's new
The pages tracing the history of LT's single-deck routes between renumbering in 1934 and the introduction of RFs are now complete (feedback and more information welcome).  The RF route histories have been refreshed.
 
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 is added periodically, and comments and additional 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 (including some tips from a professional).
 
Red-RF events
In place of a Red-RF event in 2011, we jointly organised the Brooklands Running Day.  Previous events were the Colindale Running Day in August 2010 and the Battle of Britain weekend the following month, Kingston in 2009, 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
This site is designed for Internet Explorer to be displayed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 (or higher).  If your screen is set at 800 x 600, many pages will not display correctly.  Currently there are some issues to be sorted out for viewing in Firefox and Safari.
 
Yee-ha
David Moore captured RLH23 at an earlier event, Hackney 2006, here arriving at the Maryland terminus of the 178.