Fleet Histories

Find out about the varied histories of individual buses from the following downloadable fact sheets, in Portable Document Format (PDF) where hyperlinked.

Open Platform Routemaster type

Current Fleet

RM 29 (PDF updated 2007-08)
RML 2263 (PDF updated 2009-09)
RML 2310 (PDF updated 2007-08)
RML 2389 (PDF updated 2009-09)
RML 2442 (PDF created 2008-12)

Former Fleet Vehicles

RM 378
RM 479 (convertible open top) (PDF created 2007-07)
RM 1394
RM 1571
RM 1871 (aka SRM 7) (PDF updated 2007-03)
RM 2156
RM 2180
RM 2198
RML 2404 (only ever kept as a spare, in store) (PDF created 2017-03)
RML 2527 (PDF updated 2009-09)

Routemaster Express type

Current Fleet

RMA 9 (PDF created 2009-07)
RMA 37 (PDF updated 2007-06)

Former Fleet Vehicles

RMC 1477 (PDF updated 2018-12)

Other types

Current Fleet

RF 491 (PDF updated 2018-06)
RM 450 (static hire only) (PDF created 2016-09)
RCL 2221 (static hire only) (PDF updated 2014-05)

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With thanks to the London Omnibus Traction Society (LOTS) for provision of London operations dates.