 Battle
of Britain 70th Anniversary
RAF Museum service, 11 & 12 September 2010
Hard on the heels of our Colindale Running
Day based at the RAF Museum, the museum is
celebrating the 70th
anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a weekend of free
events. To complement the events and to provide period
transport from nearby stations, a free bus service will operate
between Colindale Station and Mill Hill Broadway via the
museum.
A reminder of the 1943
Wings for Victory campaign on the back of RT8, one of the buses
that will be in service over the weekend.
Photo © James
Bunting
The bus service will operate every 20 minutes through the day
(11 am to 5 pm)and can be boarded at Colindale Station (Northern
Line Underground, bus stop outside to the left, same side of the
road) and at Mill Hill Broadway Station (First Capital Connect
trains, bus station stop D). Departure times of the
service are in printable form here.
The RAF Museum is 5 or 6 minutes from each station. Note that
there will be a break in the service on Sunday afternoon for the
Battle of Britain flypast (Spitfire and Hurricane) at 1505 -
weather dependent.
 All
buses planned for the service worked in London during the
Battle of Britain in 1940. Two were new earlier that year,
built to the new design that was to become London's standard bus
after the war, and one dates from 1934. These buses are
therefore at least 70 years old and are fragile; restrictions on
passenger numbers may therefore apply.
Buses planned for service are STL441 (1934), RT8 (1940) and
RT113 (1940).
Photo © Peter Boalch
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