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The classic, now-iconic "RT" (last buses retired in 1979) and the "RM" Routemaster (last buses retired in 2005) are to this day the most memorable and iconic of all London buses.
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An interesting note on ex-London buses finishing their service days overseas.......

Many years back, large numbers of retired London buses were sold for further service in many areas of the world. ...

Today, India has a number of extensive electric urban rail networks, subways (metros), and monorails..........

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_rail_transit_in_India

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Here are two interior views of a new "Steel" in 1915; note, in both photos, the suburban commuter car-style window shades and frosted globes covering the bulbs..............

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More on the "Steels".........

When these "Brooklyn Battleships" were being designed, the only "large scale" rapid transit cars then in operation were the new Cambridge ...

Just imagine...........

Had the "Tee-Yay" decided to retain their remaining "Shermans" for several more years (beyond 1972), it would have been interesting, to say the least, to ...

The Mets weren't even on the scoreboard tonight (they got SLAMMED!), but the Yankees won (again)

Looks like the lackluster Amazins' are going to have another hapless, inane season........players AN ...

Cyberrider:

In my area of urban New Jersey where I grew up (Hudson County) prewar buses were still to be seen, at least through the mid-1960s.

Like the Old Looks, MACKS, WHITES, and ACF-BRILLS I ...

Late-era "Bee-oh-Tee"/early "Tee-Yay".............

Interesting to consider why, starting with the "R-10s" and "R-12s" in 1948, all future subway car orders f ...

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Here is an excellent, detailed, "in depth" page on the Chambers Street station..............

www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/chambers.html

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W.B.:

Recall, too, that when the "Steels" (aka "Brooklyn Battleships") were still the "new kids on the block", the cavernous Chambers Street station was a TERMINAL, an ...

W.B.:

From: "UNDER THE SIDEWALKS OF NEW YORK" (Cudahy)...........

".........the new Standards should have between put to work on the Centre Street Loop as soon as they arrived on ...

Here's a rare WW-1 era photo showing a group of proud "Bee-Are-Tee" men crowding the front platform of a train of gate cars at Canarsie.

Note both the "toid rail" shoe and the t ...

Cyberrider:

FACCo's 1400-series 1939 YELLOW Model 740s were indeed updated by having Old Look fronts grafted on; personally, I cannot recall seeing these buses when I was a youngster.

NYO also r ...

Florescent lighting in buses..........

The "Arnines" (IND) were the last subway cars built for New York to have incandescent lighting.

Beginning with the "Artens" in 1948, al ...