Routemaster coach RMC1453

English: Routemaster coach RMC1453 (reg. 453 CLT) was delivered to London Transport in June 1962 as the first production example of the RMC coach class. The RMC was a coach version of the Routemaster, with a closeable rear door and twin headlamps. As with all of the RMC class, RMC1453 was delivered to the Green Line express routes division of the London Transport 'Country Area', delivered in Green Line livery, a dark Lincoln Green base, with light green window surrounds and mid-level line, 'Greenline London Transport' fleetnames on the lower half of the bus, and small 'Green Line' roundels on the upper side of the bus, both positioned in the middle. As with all RMC class buses, the 1967 overhaul saw the adoption of a simplified Green Line livery, with the fleetname altered to just 'Green Line', and with larger roundels, moved to the front, and with the loss of the light green window surrounds. As with all the 'Country Area' buses, it passed ownership to London Country Bus Services in 1970, in turn as with all RMC buses, it was eventually downgraded to bus work (1972), and received the lighter NBC green livery (1973). All RMC class buses were eventually bought back by London Transport, over a phased period. Having latterly operated as a training bus, RMC1459 passed into LT ownership in January 1980. After a period of storage, in November 1980 it was repainted into LT red with white roundels and again put to work as a training bus. As part of the privatisation process, in 1994 it passed into the ownership of Cowie Leaside (which later became Arriva London North), who allocated to their Leaside Travel private hire division. By 1998 it had received the red Arriva livery and logos, replacing a Leaside Travel red scheme. Latterly with Norwood garage (code N) on special duties, in January 2008 it was transferred to the Arriva Heritage Fleet (set up in 2006), based out of Edmonton garage (code EC). During 2010 its Arriva branding was replaced with traditional London Transport gold lettered fleetnmes, but this has since been reverted back to Arriva branding.