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- Prototype RM1 (9/54)
- Prototype RM2 (3/55)
- Prototype RML3 (7/57) (Leyland) renumbered RM3, then preserved to RML3
- Prototype RCL4 (6/57) (ECW) into service as RMC4
- Test Rigs RM5/6/7, unbodied road test platforms, later bodied and entered service, as RM459/341/398 (original numbers re-used)
- RM8 (9/58) First production bus, used as a test bus until 1976
- The Front engined Routemaster, FRM1, the Fruitmaster
- Production buses, RM5-7, 9-879, 904-1253, 1255-1452, 1521-2217. (Total 2119)
- Appearance & Construction (see main page)
- Into service / Trolleybus Replacement 1959 - 61
- Replacing the RT family 1962 - 65
- Surviving OMO 1965 - 84
- RMs for ever?
- Re-engineering of standard RMs
- RM 1368 - the arson victim rebuilt as a single deck bus
- Open toppers for The Original Tour (LT, London Coaches, Arriva)
- ERM class - 10 London Coaches open top RMs extended in 1990
- RM795, the 'hospitality bus'
- the Marshall rebuilds - Marshal/Arriva renovations, 2001/2
- Heritage Routemasters
- The Coach RMs, RMC1453-RMC1520, Into service
- All to LT Green Line (receiving two livery versions)
- London Country, Sale to London Transport
- London Country (all eventually demoted to bus work), all painted NBC green 1973-5
- Renaissance and Continuation, Beckton Express, various further use case studies
- All bought by LT, 53 out of 68 made it to training dutes, NBC green/red with roundels, others immediately scrapped
- 7 buses used by East London LBL for Beckton Express X25 from 1989
- Survivors
- Survivor list
- Various preservation case studies
- The Long Coaches, RCL2218-RCL2260
- All to LT Green Line (receiving two livery versions)
- All transferred to London Country in 1970
- In 1972, all but downgarded to bus, dark green yellow band
- Some got NBC repaints, some never did
- 3 coaches left, only one got NBC green 'Green Line'
- 1977, sales to LT begin (20) (2 scrapped), into training fleet, NBC green/red with roundels
- Of 3 left in service by 1978, 1 still in dark green
- Revival with London Transport
- RCL2221 - converted to 'cinema bus', Shillibeer livery then red/cream/roundel
- 1978, LT buy rest, many going to store
- In 1980, all converted to buses (route 149?) - red roundel, open platform, one headlamp
- 1984 most stored, other uses
- 1986, 11 to LT Commercial for London Sightseeing/commuter service work, doors refitter in 1987. 10 converted in 1990 to convertible open top. Privatised 1992
- Survivors list
- The Long Buses, RML 880-RML903, RML2261-RML2760 first build (24) 1961, main build (500) 1965-67
- Survival of the fittest 1968, final deliveries, to 1980 - all 97 for London Country come back
- 1980s
- 1990s
- 1990-91: New engines - About 400 were re-engined in 1990-91, with very nearly all the others following on in the next two years
- Kentish Bus 19
- 1993-94: Refurbishment.
- BTS 13
- 1994 Privatisation - allocations
- 2000 Onwards: The future is bright; the future is bleak.
- Pros cons
- first major RML sales
- 2004: More than half the RMLs depart
- 2005: Finale?
- "Now the only RML that was left running in service in London was RML2760, on occasional forays on Heritage Route 15"
- RMFs - The Northern General Forward entrance buses
- RMF1254, design, touring demonstator
- Northern General, (18+32) 2xxx, 13 renumbered 3xxx in 1969
- Withdrawn, LT chose not to use them on bus work, various fates, 4 hired to LT (London Sightseeing Tours), numbered RMF2791-4, 3 to The Big Bus Company via others
- RMF2793, privately converted to open top (RMT2793), sold to Commercial Operations Unit/London Coaches