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Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert found after 30 years 
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/apr/11/the-30-year-hunt-to-find-the-priscilla-queen-of-the-desert-bus-my-jaw-was-on-the-ground

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Nissan Terrano is it not? Novacar did a similar one in the 90s I'm sure.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

Have we had this yet? Coming this year to a Matchbox retailer near you soon.

London is a totally different kettle of fish to driving buses in the provinces, but even that has changed since I first sat backside in a bus seat in 2008 (manual Mercedes minibuses for my stage carriage career until 2012!).
I still try to provide a smiling face on my London spells but when the warcry of today is "I ain't got no oyster what you gonna do about it fam?" - fare evasion is rife - and people won't even look at you getting on the bus, plus the mandatory spit kits, voice recording in the cab, over a dozen cameras in the bus including one pointing at your feet... yeah. Not a great gig these days.
The 87 is now Wandsworth to Aldwych and operates from Stockwell; the 87 as your father would have known it has now disappeared into the 5 and 287, the latter still running from Barking to Rainham, while the 5 covers the Romford to Barking section.

And so another London spell comes to an end; nine weeks this time, home for eleven days then... we'll see where the wind takes me; there's probably a 50/50 chance at present I'll be off to Oldham next.
Anyway, as is customary: where I am with Barking Garage... asterisks mark what I've driven, a dash and new depot code indicates a bus that has moved on.

... and a photodump of the last nine weeks or so.  Been a long old slog without the kids so looking forward to seeing what chaos they've caused.
First bus of the trip was baby Enviro 200MMC 36639 on the 462, last bus of the trip was Enviro 200MMC 36659 on the 167.
 
 

London is a totally different kettle of fish to driving buses in the provinces, but even that has changed since I first sat backside in a bus seat in 2008 (manual Mercedes minibuses for my stage carriage career until 2012!).
I still try to provide a smiling face on my London spells but when the warcry of today is "I ain't got no oyster what you gonna do about it fam?" - fare evasion is rife - and people won't even look at you getting on the bus, plus the mandatory spit kits, voice recording in the cab, over a dozen cameras in the bus including one pointing at your feet... yeah. Not a great gig these days.
The 87 is now Wandsworth to Aldwych and operates from Stockwell; the 87 as your father would have known it has now disappeared into the 5 and 287, the latter still running from Barking to Rainham, while the 5 covers the Romford to Barking section.

124 was Forest Hill Stn - Welling via Grove Park and Eltham, with M-F peak extensions to Woolwich; 124A was the Sunday variant which terminated at Eltham Well Hall Stn, and continued to Bexley Hospital on Sunday evenings only. Both were converted to DMS operation.
62 was a seven day allocation, so maybe I got my wires crossed as it didn't have daily variations or extensions/curtailments, bar perhaps the twice daily Creekmouth Power Station journies.

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My brain is not, unfortunately, as encyclopedic as I would like, or even as much as it used to be, so we'll be needing these. 

The rear of both these books are full of interesting* appendices. Appendix 4 in the second book lists every central route and dates they were operated by RMs and from which garage. 

 
So we'll go straight to the 62, which seems to confirm your dates but by my maths, which involved fingers, even the 60 directly above it appears to be slightly shorter. 

 
And the 124 and 124A are even shorter. I have no idea what the 124 was but it was run by Catford. 

 
There are 12 pages of these so I started skimming but I found an interesting one at the end. 

The 609 had Routemasters for six and a half months on Sundays only on a route that was trolleybus Monday to Saturday. As much as I like Routemasters it really is a backward step replacing trolleybuses.