Reporting from London — London wouldn’t be London without its red double-decker buses. Icons on wheels, they’re as much a part of the city’s history as the landmarks and monuments they roll past, ...

2024 sees the 70th anniversary of the iconic Routemaster bus. Hop aboard for a speedy history of these legendary double-deckers. 1933: Up to this point, London has had as many as 40 types of bus on ...

Routemaster buses were not ‘sleek’ machines but angular, noisy, smelly, cumbersome, obstructive, draughty and uncomfortable behemoths that made no concessions to their users. Modern buses have wider ...

LONDON – The bus was late, but it won’t happen again. People thronged London’s streets Friday and jostled for seats aboard a double-decker Routemaster bus making its last run, 40 minutes late in ...

Google has celebrated the 60th anniversary of the unveiling of the first Routemaster bus with a Doodle on its front page. The Routemaster was designed in the 1950s to replace London’s trolleybus ...

It’s one of the most iconic vehicles on London’s roads, but the ageing red Routemaster bus, currently serving two routes, is set to be replaced by the modern hybrid “Boris Bus” entirely. The old-style ...

Buses are great starting platforms to build an RV out of. If you want something that stands out more than a school bus or an American transit bus you could buy this, a giant double-decker 1962 AEC ...

With their open hop-on hop-off platforms and face-like front bonnet they were the buses that captured the hearts of everyone who rode them. So what better way to remember the Routemaster than building ...

Passengers using London's New Routemaster buses will only be able to board them using the front door in future, transport bosses have said. The vehicles were originally designed to allow people to ...

London’s new Routemaster bus has major battery issues. The bus, thanks to its “green” diesel-electric hybrid powertrain, is meant to be “the most environmentally friendly bus of its type”—according to ...